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#224: Dan Brown Goat Yoga

Book Riot - The Podcast

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🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Jeff and Rebecca spend most of the episode gawking at one of the strangest book-world stories they've yet covered.    This episode is sponsored by Book of the Month.    Links discussed in this episode: YA Author Briefly Scams Way Onto NYT Bestseller List Celebrity Instagrams Sell Books...Don't They? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This is episode 224.

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This is the Book Riot Podcast, a weekly news and talk show about what's new, cool, and worth talking

0:09.0

about in the world of books and reading.

0:11.0

This is episode 224.

0:12.0

We're recording on Monday, August 28, 2017. I'm

0:16.1

Rebecca Shinsky. I'm here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you from Book Riot.

0:19.4

com. A little late this week I was traveling had some stuff going on but it's kind of good

0:25.6

because I think we're gonna spend some time on our main story which I think was Friday

0:29.2

afternoon or something it was I think it started on Thursday and then it went into Friday and even

0:35.2

then I was like oh good we're delaying the podcast because I'm gonna need time to

0:38.7

follow this completely banana-pants story and it just kept going, on a normal cycle we wouldn't have got it because we recorded on Thursday mornings generally.

0:47.9

And so it would be old pizza by the time.

0:49.8

Already it's a little bit, it's kind of come and gone, but it's interesting story, but it's... We got a little bit it's kind of come and gone but it's interesting story but we got a

0:54.0

little break it's definitely it's definitely a strange a strange pie we'll

1:00.1

get that in the second so follow-up on apparently I don't did someone you put this in the agenda do you know where did you get this one of either one of the contributors of one of the insiders I think it was book write insiders was following up with us about the Laver Burton Reading Rainbow beef

1:14.6

and said that on his latest podcast episode Laver Burton reads he said that he's going

1:19.6

to leave Reading Rainbow behind and the quote is one of the things I've realized is every

1:25.0

ounce of energy I invest in a brand that I will never own is an ounce of energy I

1:28.4

invest in a brand that I will never own and so he's to step away from reading Rainbow, I guess presumably also leave

1:35.6

behind the catchphrase, you don't have to take my word for it, which was the most recent

1:40.4

beef and he's going to focus on his own new brand which is Laver Burton

1:44.4

kids. So that's real end of an era kind of announcement. Yeah.

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