While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,

they will not shy away from spoiling specific storybeats when necessary.

Plus, these are books you should have read by now.

Hi, let's just get this thing started. Thanks for listening. This is overdue. It's a podcast about books that you've been meaning to read. My name is Craig.

Hi, I'm Andrew.

And since this is our first episode, I guess we should kind of go into why we're doing this, right, Andrew?

Yes.

So the idea for asking.

No, I'm trying to include you in this conversation.

What else on the call? I'm not talking to no one.

Tell me, Craig, tell me why we are doing this podcast.

I would be happy to, Andrew.

So I got a lot of books. I think you have a lot of books too, right?

Yes.

Great.

And I realized I haven't read most of them.

Like I've read some of them. I've accumulated them over the years.

But maybe it's a latent New Year's resolution or whatever.

I wanted to start a project where I start going through some of the stuff that I own and, you know, really take it in.

And it's part of a larger like that would benefit me creatively, you know, to just kind of have a larger pool of.

I don't know what I'm saying.

Yeah, I know what you mean, because like whenever, you know, with my reading habits and my like video gaming habits and all kinds of different stuff, what I'll do is I'll buy things.

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