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Good morning, Brew Daily show. I'm Neil Fryman. And I'm Toby Howell. Today, Netflix just had its best year ever,

which means, yeah, prices are going up again. Then it's been just about a hundred days since the

Olympics ended, but athletes' medals are already falling apart. It's Wednesday, January 22nd. Let's ride.

Good morning. Kind of rocks that it's already Wednesday, right? I got to start thinking of some Neal's numbers for tomorrow. Anywho, the author John Green, who wrote The Fault in Our Stars and Other Books, posted this pretty interesting

video on YouTube yesterday where he posed the question, do audiobooks count as reading? Green said

a decade ago he probably would have answered, no, but now he says that audiobooks are not only

definitely reading, for many people, they're the best kind of reading. Toby, do you agree

with John? I have some thoughts about this, and I'm going to tell a quick story to illustrate them.

My mom recently added me to her Audible Premium account. Shout out mom. But then she was snooping

on some of the books I downloaded, and she was roasting my choice to listen to The Odyssey. First, I had to explain to her

that I wanted to brush up on it ahead of Christopher Nolan adapting it into a movie. But also,

technically, I am participating in the long oral tradition of the retelling of The Odyssey. The

story was originally passed down through generations through listening.

So it kind of is the OG audiobooks, if you think about it. So all that to say, I think that

stories are stories, no matter which medium you are consuming them in. So yes, I am team

audiobooks count as reading. What about you? And you're listening in the in the original ancient Greek,

right? Oh, of course I am. No, I picked, I was going through some of the translation. I can't

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