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.

We're going to talk about your travel adventures,

what we're going to talk about. Because we're not talking about that time,

my kitchen blew up again. It's like that right now.

I got snowed in in the airport. That's what happened.

That's never happened to me before. It's never happened to me before either.

Apparently, like, I don't know, it's this whole boring thing. Travel stores are boring,

but a long story short is I had to lay over in Chicago and apparently winter had just

grabbed Chicago by the throat and squeezed until its eyes popped out of its head.

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

Craig. Call me Andrew. Oh, I see what you did there. Why were you in Chicago, Andrew?

It was a layover. Where had you been? Las Vegas. What is your favorite thing about Las Vegas?

Leaving. Leaving Las Vegas. Why do you hate sin city so much? It's just trying so hard, but it's

like if you talk to any of the cab drivers who are who are ferrying you from place to place,

it's like obviously the only stuff that goes on there is big conventions. Like the town has been

dying a slow, protracted death for a while. But there are still all these like giant mountainous

hotels everywhere, including one that they built most of and then they ran out of money and then

they just left it. But do you get a room there? No, it's a giant empty, mostly hotel. I would have

figured they would have like just gotten to floor 47 and be like, all right, close it up. Let's turn

this thing into a working hotel. I think that's how buildings work. And I also don't think that you

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