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Now here's your host, Andy Trobb.

Hello, everyone. I am your host, Andy Trob. You can call me AT. And welcome again to In the Loop, where Andy Andrews shares powerful

yet simple principles that once applied will change your life forever. On today's show, we're

going to talk about the roles books have played in Andy's past, as well as what role they play

today and his role as a dad, husband, a speaker, and an author. So let me welcome again to our

show, Andy Andrews.

Hey, hey, T. How are you doing? I'm great. I'm really excited to talk about this topic with you because I've read about, and not everyone has, but I've read about what role books have played in the formation,

a real pivotal point in your life, but you continue to read, and we get a lot of listener

feedback asking about books. So we're going to talk about a whole episode based on reading

habits and the power of books. Okay. So the first one is I want folks to know the role of books

in that pivotal moment of your life. So if you could just kind of frame that,

talk about how books played a role, and then we'll kind of jump to the present.

Well, when my parents died, my mom died of cancer, my dad was killing a car accident, and I ended up

within a couple of years, literally sleeping under a pier on the Gulf Coast. And I met this old guy,

who many of you know as Jones. And Jones was the guy we called the Noticer. And Jones started

me reading with specific intent. I had always been kind of a sports

illustrated person. I grew up not really liking biographies, but

especially because in school they made us read biographies. And I

remember the night that Jones gave me three biographies. They

were orange. I don't know why I remember they were orange, but they were orange.

They were hardbacks, but the dust cover was gone, and the material underneath them was orange.

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