And if you are shy, just not much of a talker

Don't impress the people, huh, that you meet

Man is where I'll be, I don't let walker

In a lonely town, I'm not long let's dream

Good morning and welcome to episode 1524 of Effectively Wild

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I'm Sam Miller of ESPN

Ben is not here at the moment, later in this episode

Ben will be talking to Jared Diamond about his new book Swing Kings

Which I have not read

But first, I'm going to be talking to Eric Nussbaum about his book Stealing Home

Which Ben has not read

So we're doing it this way

Two great books, I assume, two conversations

But split up, so Eric hello

Hey Sam, how's it going?

It's going well, you know, I mostly the reason that I wanted to have you on

Is just because I wanted to just rave and rave and rave about this book

I know most people probably have not read your book yet

I would like to tell them about it, I would like to ask you a few things about it

But mostly I just want to just continually make the pitch for it

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