Hey everyone. Today's fantasy books snowballed into six other massive hit books that inspired unprecedented millions of kids to read books, many of whom were otherwise uninterested in reading at the time, and then nothing else has done that sense. So, at least all those dumb kids read seven books.

Today we discuss Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the second time.

And this is the book pile.

A podcast about the best of books and the worst of books.

If this is your first time on the podcast, welcome.

And may we suggest checking out our back catalog of over 180 episodes with as many books. I'm Kellan Erskine.

I'm a comic, a father, and as a good father, I would never send my child away to a school

to not see them for 10 months out of the year, starting at the age when they've barely lost their baby tea.

And I'm David Vance, Kellan.

I connect with Harry's story because when I was a skinny white teen with glasses living in South

America, you'll never guess what nickname the kids all screamed at me.

Just everywhere.

They would see me from a block away and go,

Ari Potter, Arie Potter.

I didn't know if they coordinated it.

I didn't know if they all just came up with it right then.

I still don't know if they were mocking me or just excited.

And by the way, at the time, I was bright blonde.

At least that's more interesting.

I lived in Brazil for two years.

And no joke, the thing that kids yelled at me was, hey, German.

I do think it's funny that there is such a relatively large German population in South America,

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