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This is episode 228. We're recording on Thursday, September 21st. I'm

Rebecca Shinsky here with Jeff O'Neill and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.

I'm under the weather, Rebecca. I know my friend. I'm sorry it's been a it's been a rough week we had all these forest fires here

because literally the world is burning apparently and I thought it was just you know being irritated and it was being irritated but by

malevolent virile instead of just mother nature likes her metaphors literal

yeah just instead of ashen trees it was you know of us

It was you know microbial organisms that want to kill me. So here I am I've got T I'll mute my cough as best I can

But here we are it wouldn't you know wouldn't be a good time for me to do

Litchat right and it's not see my segue it's just I'm off I don't know what to do I don't

I apologize to the universe to our listeners everyone involved you have your tea do You have your mug warmer thing?

No, because that's at the office.

I'm at home because Rowan is sick too and I'm just, I'm just...

I just don't like this.

I'm wearing a sweatshirt's too small small just nothing's going on right here.

So you need a snuggie first of all what are you even doing over there?

But you see what most people use as a snuggie is just a regular hoodie for me

because I'm enormous. That's true. Like yeah it's just like is that a. That's just like you know that's

my Kansas sweatshirt that's just what it is. So we talked we did it we did some

fun we played a little bit of the Litchak game which you specifically under the Aegis of

Book Riot developed with Abrams. It's a 50-card game discussion game, right?

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