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This is episode 291. We're recording on Thursday, December 13th.

Actually, it's Friday, December 14th. I just didn't update the agenda. I'm Rebecca Shinsky and I'm here with Jeff O'Neill and we are coming to you from bookriot.com with the 2018 year in review.

It is that time of year where the days just sort of smear into a December paste,

like you know, it's just from now until the end of the year.

It could be the 18th, it could be the 29th,

you know, no one really knows until we roll the calendar over.

So I sprung this format on Rebecca literally 90 seconds ago where

we knew we were going to do the year and review show today we talked about the big

stories from the year but I said well, well, wouldn't it be, would it be interesting if we didn't know what the other person was going to pick and we kind of do a draft of the biggest stories of the year and we can talk about why we picked one

versus the other and you know inject a little surprise into it rather than running down the

list of wins which we could do., one of us is surprised.

Well, I'll be surprised by what you think.

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