Hey, everyone. I just wanted to drop a surprise mini episode on my birthday today, September 9th,

and you need to know I'm not a big birthday guy at all. I keep it pretty quiet. I've taken the

alerts off all my social media so I don't get the attention. So between you and me, I turn 41 today, and I know I don't sound a day

over 36, so thank you for thanking that. If you couldn't figure out what to get me for my

41st birthday, here's what I want more than anything, even more than world peace. That is for you to

join my Patreon for the book pile. Even if it's just

for a month, at just $6, it'll be the cheapest birthday gift you buy this year. Unless you go to one

of those birthday parties for one of your children's friends that you don't really care for,

you know which kid I'm talking about. So you can go to patreon.com slash the bookpile and

subscribe. Or you can just click the link in the description for this episode on whatever podcast

app you're listening to right now. Like I said, even if it's just for a month, I'd love for you

to try it out and see what you think. We've got mini episodes that come on every Thursday.

I'm going to play part of one of those following this.

Also, we call them mini episodes, but they're pretty much full half episodes, and there are four out so far.

With a Patreon, you get to participate in group chat with me and Dave and other Bookpile fans.

And also, in November, we will have our first

live stream hang out altogether. So really, it's more like I'm giving you a gift for my birthday.

On our Thursday bonus episodes so far, we've covered topics like how many books each of us

has read so far this year. Hint, Dave has read just a few more than me.

We've got a previously unreleased segment from our Transformers roast,

and also we've posted a very disturbing photo of Dave's haircut.

So speaking of all this, now here is half of our most recent Patreon Thursday bonus episode.

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