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 story beats when necessary.

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

I'm often surprised by the specialization of food publication. Laura was given a magazine by a

co-worker that's just a bacon magazine. Just all about bacon. Well, yeah, that's the internet's

falto. The internet has baconized everything. It's fetishized bacon. Yes. 50 shades of bacon.

50 sides of bacon. Remember that time I made bacon? I failed at your apartment.

Oh, yeah, because, okay, here's a fun Craig cooking story. He's progressed beyond this point.

Yes, I have. But this was not too long after college. I'm going to say this is maybe

three or four years ago, four years ago. Yeah. And you were still living with your mom. Yep.

Not cooking all that often. Now you're at our house and you're going to make some bacon.

And you're like, why isn't this bacon cooking? And it was because you weren't flipping it.

You're just trying to cook it all the way through from the one side.

Welcome to Overdo. This is a podcast about the books you've been meeting to read. My name is Craig.

My name is Andrew. I like how I'm interested in it. I'm eager to not talk about bacon anymore.

He's trying to cover up your, what, I don't need your failings. Yeah. To be honest,

I still do the thing where I make food and then wonder if I'm doing it right the whole time.

That's just, that's just who I am. Maybe you can eat it and not get sick. You've done an okay job.

Yeah. Everything else is just gravy. Well, especially gravy.

So, as we mentioned at the end of last week's show, this week we're going to try something a little

bit different. Normally we are reading fiction for this podcast, whether it's like a short story

or a novel or a play. This week, Craig is going to try something a little different and we don't

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