and so somebody said you should take some of your favorite stories from the podcast and put them in a book, which i did. then my mother read it and she said michael, this is a very lazy way to write a book. you should intersperse these true stories of famous people that you ve never met with true stories about your own miss spent youth that in some way rhymes with the aforementioned telling so i said mom, you ve never steered my around. she is a best-selling book on the new york times list. she asked about you all the time. the point is, this book, echo s autobiography, biography, back-and-forth, back-and-forth. part mystery, her memoir. it s an accident on the more but a good-natured look at some fascinating people i ve never met but like pretend i know. tucker: but you wrote it. you got famous doing the show about blue-collar jobs, then you do a podcast and you actually write the podcast yourself. it s not just living it like