If you thought for a second there were only four parts here, wrong! This is the fifth post taken from the Second Book of LSE, aka LSE2. This is a continuation of LSE1, or The First Book of LSE. LSE2 is rather important.
Tibor says you should enjoy. 🙂
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Michael, I can tell you for a fact that they will all say yes and be absolutely on board. You know I love you, and I can’t imagine any problems because they okayed me asking you about going to the show.
Franklin, this keeps morphing into something different every time we speak. That’s why I was trying to keep everything in focus. But even I can go on weird tangents.
And I said, “Hey, Puniverse! If you don’t shut up, I will stab the brain with a Q-tip. Get your shit together, I need you here with me. I don’t know what the fuck you’re doing, but get here with me now, let’s go!”
Franklin, I am so happy I just thought of this. I put him on hold, and I dialed up a FaceTime call with Robert A. Smith. Just get this over with. Two rings and Robert A Smith picks up
Michael, it’s so lovely to see you. How is everything? Robert, it’s lovely to see you, and I appreciate that you can take this call. I’m bringing Franklin back in. I might do that before; I’m just not sure yet.
Robert A. Smith says, “Franklin, it’s also wonderful to see you, Sir. We’re totally not screwing off rather than recording an album today, and you can hear people in the background laughing pretty hard.”
In short order, Marvalious, Arturius, and Megaton came to a frame with Robert A. Smith. I had low self-esteem or LSE on video here, and it’s so wonderful.
Gents, I hope everybody is well. Franklin and I were just discussing a project I came up with. It will be called Tales from the Jessica Files—The First Book of LSE.
I can see them all gasp and give a collective whoa.
Gents, if you agree, I will read this and y’all can read it before hand, first published, or I blame Franklin for this.
I will respect if any of you wish not to do it. I will respect that I will not do it. You’re mean waive more than a handful of books that will never sell. I laughed pretty hard.
Robert A. Smith sits in the studio chair, and Marvalious, Arturius, and Megaton are behind him. The three of them put their right hands down onto Robert’s shoulders.
Robert says if they’ve spoken, we’re doing this. Robert says something better than that, but I’m currently dealing with that.
I was a bit blown away because of the rapidity with which they said where in. And that’s what Robert A Smith fucking says.
Gents, Franklin and I will start on this project. When I have finished, edited, and proofread it, I will give you the only copies, and I would be grateful if you could read them.
If you like them, you will publish them; if you don’t, they will go in the shredder, just like other things in our world that have been destroyed and given.
Robert knows I’m talking about the vinyl by just smiling.
OK, gents, I promise that you will get to read it first.
Robert A. Smith chimes in, Michael, there is no reason for us to read it first. We trust you with our lives, families, and livelihoods.
Michael, you are so incredibly important to us. It’s unfathomable to calculate.
Robert, I do appreciate that. I do appreciate that. Now, what are you doing in the studio?
Well, Michael, Franklin knows this, but we haven’t discussed it with him. We want to do a single electric front-side and back-side acoustic.
It’s called memorable, and we want you to write the lyrics.
And then you hear my mug fall from my hand, hit the ground, and splash everywhere.
“Robert, da fuck?”
Robert, I am so honored, but I… I mean what… I just…
Michael, we hoped you could write about Jessica and your books in the Tales From The Jessica Files series.
“Everybody in our family knows just how important that experience was in your life, and without that, the four of us aren’t here. We’re not on FaceTime with Franklin. We’re nothing.
Michael, that is part of why I think you write anything on album covers on stage. We all love you and know that this is because of you.
But, Michael, there is no doubt that you would never take that away from us.
Robert, cut it out, or y’all make me cry.
High five over to Franklin.
Franklin, is my sister there? Is she there? And my sister pops into frame and in near unison. The boys say good afternoon, ma’am. It was wonderful to see you. And
My sister feigns a swish at them. “Oh, stop.”
Sister, I’m not making this an emotional conversation; they did it first. They started to chuckle
Michael, cut it out. And I got that look. Do you know the look that you get from a sibling or parent when they’re annoyed with you and they want you to stop fucking around? That look
Got it, sister, got it
Michael, I didn’t mean to make this emotional, but it really is emotional for us because we know how hard it is for you to write.
If you could have the strength and courage to write that song, it would be the highlight of our career. And we might just call it quits at that point because.
And I cut Robert off, “the fuck you say! How the fuck am I going to write the second book of LSE or even the third book of LSE if there’s not an LSE?
Arturius chimes in with what you say is.
Goddamn do I love him. From the second I met him on my first day on boarding he has this masterful skill for speech. It’s just so amazing and I’m so happy for him to have this. It’s a wonderful gift.
Arturius, I understand. And that was the end of what I had to say because I listen when all of them speak, but her treatment doesn’t just say things to me.
Arturius, I get it. Thank you. I’ll start working on my rendition, my lyrics for memorable. Just know that it better be a death metal song because this one’s going to hurt.
And the boys bust out laughing. Franklin busts out laughing, and I can hear my sister cackling, I mean laughing, in the background. That was really funny. Shit
It’s funny.
I really don’t want it to be a warm and sappy song, but I also don’t want it to be disparaging, mean, rude, hurtful, or disgusting. So this is going to be a stretch for me. And I started laughing really, really hard.
I got a good Laugh out of everybody, and I took my phone, my iPad, and I went into the kitchen to make myself a drink that I had dropped on the floor when Robert had made a comment.
Megaton comments to me that it’s so wonderful that I have both of his brothers’ books in my cabinet. How wonderful and loving that is.
Megaton, you know my feelings for you are very old, and your brother and I are just absolutely wonderful friends. I’m so glad to have worked with him, and I’m so glad that he’s still working on his next book.
I don’t know what to say other than that. From the first shipment of books that I got of The Other Side and Tales From The Jessica Files in both the regular covers and their alternate ones, they’ve always been in there because they are one and the same, they are family. Just like us.
And Megaton, please tell your brother you saw that because sometimes, even when I send him pictures, he doesn’t believe it.
I hope that whatever you compose makes you happy, and please know that that will make me happy.
Robert says we’ll get back to writing the instrumentals and constructing the song. Since we’re here in the studio, we might as well.
Franklin, now you know what we’ve been doing. And it’s not meant with any disrespect, but Robert trails off.
Franklin comments, “It’s all good, my friends, it’s all good. I’m so happy for y’all. It’s just awesome, and I don’t mind because I’m not a micromanager, and you all know that. I’m not like Michael.” And he starts laughing pretty hard
“Franklin, right on the edge.”
Franklin is still laughing, and then the boys are laughing, and I just…
Everything is copacetic. I said to myself, “Wow, I don’t recall the last time I heard that word, let alone said it.”
“Gents, get back to it and know that we all love you because we’re family. Oh, also”
Apparently, Franklin has talked me into going to a certain wife’s YouTube channel, which has a live stream.
And Marvalious comments, “Michael, they came to us and asked, but we didn’t want to ask you.”
“I’m glad that our family shows so much respect to one another. I can’t say I appreciate it enough, and I can’t tell you how amazing it is enough.
Y’all are the best. I have never doubted any of you. And you know this to be true.
“Franklin, I’ve done it twice now.” And Franklin laughed hard.
“Michael, you are already an embarrassment to the family.” And I hear the two of them laugh really strongly.
“Fine, y’all win. I can’t top that one today.”
“Franklin, we love you, and you know Misty adores you. I know she will take on that project when you are ready. Presuming I know what it is—and I’m pretty sure I do—I don’t want to talk about it.
Michael, it would just upset me.
Franklin, 24 seven. I’ll talk with you later, my friend
Franklin says Thank you, Michael. We all love you.
Michael, that’s the funny shit.
I think I will have a wonderful time on their show because they’re wonderful people and married to even more wonderful people. And you know this to be true.
Everybody just give her head not to that one, and Will will talk with you later, and the boys hung up. Franklin, goddamn, these are hard.
Do interviews ever get better? They took so much out of me. I don’t know how people do this.
Michael, you should start working on your interview skills for this demographic and familiarize yourself with its content, flow, and…
Franklin, yes, I will note and pick out their idiosyncrasies in their speaking, and I will give them to you if you ever want to tell them so to increase their capacities.
Michael, I think you’re back in the lead now.
I laughed.
Franklin, thank you for contacting me about this opportunity, helping me understand it, and giving me the opportunity.
I do appreciate it, my friend, and I know you know that. But it’s also nice to know sometimes, and I hear him in the background
Yes sister.
Franklin, thank you. Go spend time with your wife and say hi to Misty. I know that I have a project that I want her to take on, but I’m not ready to give it to her. I don’t know if she’s ready yet.
Sorry, Franklin, I don’t mean to make that heavy, and I don’t want my sister to come through the phone and bitch slap me.
Franklin, I will take the time to study up on them so that I know that I will be able to represent our family and who our family is in a public setting, and I do not want to embarrass the family if you will.
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So there you go folks, a raw version of LSE2, or The Second Book of LSE. We fully expect LSE2 to sell like hotcakes.
