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.

Hello and welcome to Overdoop. It's a podcast about the books that you've been

meeting to read. My name is Craig. My name is Andrew. And we're all about the books,

books and books and books. Books are good. Actually, I read a book, not for the show.

Whoa. I don't know if it would be very fun to talk about. There's a new, there's a new biography

of Phil Hartman out. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And kind of timely considering all the like Simpson

Paloza that's happening lately, right? Not that he was like the biggest part of the Simpsons,

but it's memorable. He was around for the entire time that the Simpsons was good. Like, you could

I'm not going to say that they were directly correlated because there are a lot of factors. Sure,

I think. Sure. But yeah, he is strongly associated with like the good years of the Simpsons.

That seems a fair assessment. I don't like I thought that the book was interesting, but

one, there wasn't I don't think there was a whole lot in it that I didn't already know,

at least like as far as his career stuff went. Okay. Because you know, he lived to, you know,

he did stuff pretty much in public. So yeah, yeah, yeah, there are not secret SNL episodes

that nobody saw. And then the second thing is that, you know, because he had such a tragic

death. Yeah. The whole thing is just kind of laden with foreshadowing of that the whole time,

which is I don't know. It's hard to avoid, right? It's hard. Yeah, I guess, but like,

I don't know. I was expecting the book to be a little bit funnier than it was, but and it was

really exhaustive, but it was kind of dry. Which is a shame because he's such a colorful, wonderful

character. Yeah, he's like, he's a really, really funny guy. But the book kind of makes him into

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