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Book Riot - The Podcast

But What Day Is It

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News, Books, News Commentary, Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Jeff and Rebecca talk about Barnes & Noble closing hundreds of stores, James Patterson riding for indies once again (though also being wrong about some important stuff), heroes of the week, and much more. This episode is sponsored by: Libro.fm TBR Book Riot Insiders My Way to You by Catherine Bybee Links discussed in this episode: Barnes & Noble temporarily closes 400 stores Indigo Closes all 199 Stores Powell’s hires back some staff to handle online orders James Patterson spearheads fundraiser for indie bookstores PubWest’s open letter to Amazon Dolly Parton reading bedtime stories And LeVar Burton reading to everyone See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.4

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0:19.7

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0:26.2

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0:29.6

Welcome to the Book Ride Podcast. This is episode 367,

0:37.0

recording on April 2nd, 2020. As expected, things are worse now things were weird and they're only getting weirder

0:46.6

I think that's one of those tricks that feels like it should work that doesn't like you know it's

0:50.2

it's like you know it's going to be bad and then it's bad and in your past self is like I told you it was going to be bad and then it's bad and your past self is like I told you it's going to be bad and your future

0:55.0

self is like yeah but it's still bad pass.

0:57.0

Yeah, I don't think it mitigates the badness at all.

1:00.0

Maybe you're just not surprised by it, being surprised by the badness would be worse but

1:03.6

getting the badness you expected is just still bad yeah like if someone says you know

1:07.8

what next week you're gonna have the stomach flu you're still gonna feel as

1:09.8

crappy during the stomach flu even though that you knew it was going to happen.

1:13.0

Anyway, I hope you all out there are taking care of yourself.

1:17.0

I had a couple nice emails as part of following up to things saying,

1:20.0

thank you for continuing the show and doing everything.

1:22.0

Well, thank you for continuing the show and doing everything.

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