Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it, is there?

Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Hi there.

I'm Jason Gots, and you're listening to Think Again, a Big Think podcast.

Big Think shares bright ideas from the world's most creative thinkers and doers.

Since 2008, we've shared over 10,000 of them.

For the Think Again podcast, our producers spunk deep into our digital vaults and surprise me and my guests with unexpected ideas that spark unscripted conversations.

Today, I'm quietly but definitely geeking out to be joined by one of my literary superheroes, Salman Rushdie.

His dizzying, dystopian, post-athist new novel is crammed, so full of amazing stories that it threatens to burst out of its binding.

It's called Two Years, Eight Months, and Twenty-Eight Nights.

Welcome to the show, Salman.

Hello, how are you?

I'm doing well.

Are we living in the time of the strangenesses?

I think we are.

I mean, I think that was the reason for writing the book in that way.

I was trying to express, I think, a feeling that is pretty general,

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