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Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Reading is Magic, Part 2

Armstrong & Getty One More Thing

Armstrong & Getty

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4.8815 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Joe has more of the story about the significance of reading...

 

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.5

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.3

Part two of reading is magic.

0:06.4

It's one more thing.

0:08.1

Armstrong and Getty.

0:09.6

One more thing.

0:12.9

I love reading practically more than just about anything on Earth.

0:19.3

And at this point in my life.

0:21.2

And I came across a good thing on why literature is good for your brain.

0:25.6

I haven't brought it on the air because I don't know if anybody cares, but there are claims.

0:29.1

And it kind of fits into with what you were talking about yesterday and today, that literature

0:34.8

does things to your brain that are good for you overall.

0:38.0

But most people don't read literature and they do fine in the world and did before literature

0:43.0

came along and well after it's gone.

0:45.4

So I don't know.

0:46.8

I don't know what I think of that.

0:48.0

You got to define your terms, do fine and stuff.

0:50.7

Well, it depends on your personality type of thing.

0:52.6

But anyway, if you missed yesterday's one more thing podcast, just grab it and listen to it now.

0:58.9

And then this is part two of that discussion.

1:02.0

Long story short, absolutely brilliant piece of writing by a fellow by the name of Sam Chris with a K-K-R-I-S, who's talking about scientists from the Soviet Union who went to a remote village that was completely illiterate,

1:15.3

and found to his shock that the people had a tremendous problem thinking abstractly at all.

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