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Ben Blacker talking, riding with writers.

Yeah.

I would not say I'm an auto book aficionado, though I have a few that I really love. Of course, the, the legendary

one is Robert Evans reading The Kid's Days in the picture, which is extraordinary.

But when I got the audiobook of Catcher in the Rye, I was like, oh, I haven't read Catcher in the

for a while. The guy's voice, the first paragraph was like, I can't listen to this.

Same thing with on the road. The guy was doing sort of a slangy. I was like, I can't do that. I just can't do that. I don't want to hear that guy's voice in my head. But some of them are great. Like, Ron Silver reading the Plot Against America, the Philip Roth book, is extraordinary. Like, it's a real performance. And so they're really fun. Yeah, I've never done it either. When I was on Madman, he wanted us to read Cheever. And so I got this audio book of like, it was

like, Merrill Streep reading a story. And I kept like making it, because it was a pretty short

commute, so I'd make it like almost to the end of one story. But not, so then I'd start it again.

I never made it past the first story. Oh, man. Like, in that, it seems to be what would be hard to me about it.

Because even when I read at night, sometimes I go back a few pages.

So I would just keep going over the same territory.

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