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Two Gomers Podcast
Anthony Georgeson and Steven Grahmann
4.9 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
It’s our very first episode of the Two Gomers Podcast with a one-word title, but here’s the really interesting part: it’s about the health benefits of reading books, and books have LOTS of words in them! See? Really interesting!
Join us as we talk about our histories of reading, all the ways reading can be healthier than watching TV (even though we love TV and recorded an entire Bonus Disc ep about TV immediately after this one), cognitive reserve, theory of mind, empathy, bibliotherapy, stick-to-it-iveness, focus, and whether you can read while snacking. Also we say teat a lot – but that’s not our fault, it’s Stephen King’s. Happy reading!
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| 0:00.0 | I just want to talk about reading. |
| 0:02.8 | I love it. |
| 0:03.4 | I'm extremely excited about this. |
| 0:06.3 | Great. |
| 0:11.0 | You're listening to the Two Gomer's podcast, a show about two regular guys in their 40s |
| 0:16.5 | embracing midlife, chasing healthy aging, and inviting a nation along for the run. |
| 0:22.8 | This is the sixth episode of Season 13, Read, for September 12th, 2025, 18 weeks to the race. The |
| 0:40.3 | The Welcome, everybody, to this, the sixth episode of season 13 of the two gomers podcast. |
| 1:05.4 | This is Anthony speaking, one of those two aforementioned gomers coming to you from Atlanta, Georgia, with my friend Steven all the way out in Flagstaff, Arizona. |
| 1:14.0 | Hey, dude. |
| 1:14.9 | Hey, dude. |
| 1:15.9 | So just for clarity's sake, this is about reading, not making reeds. |
| 1:22.6 | I never even made that connection. |
| 1:24.3 | I thought people might read the title as Red, R-E-A-D. Because I can't remember |
| 1:32.0 | that my English major is failing me. I can't remember the name of that. Spelled the same, |
| 1:37.2 | pronounced two different ways. I know. We do this with our fourth grade and we were just talking |
| 1:41.3 | about this a few weeks ago. Not a homonym. All right. I'm here with my fourth grad, and we were just talking about this a few weeks ago. Um, not a homonym. |
| 1:45.4 | All right. |
| 1:49.6 | I'm here with my fourth grader, Ila, with her friend Addie also. |
| 1:50.3 | Hello. |
| 1:57.3 | Okay, what is it when a word is spelled the same but has two different pronunciations? |
| 2:06.7 | That, I'm pretty sure, is a homograph. Ah, okay. Like, you know, read a red, |
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