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Good morning. This is Laura.

Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

Today's episode will be a slightly longer one, part of the series

where I interview fascinating people about how they take their days from great to awesome and any

advice they have for the rest of us. So today I am delighted to welcome A.J. Jacobs to Before

Breakfast. A.J. is the author of books, such as The Year of Living Constitutionally,

the Year of Living Biblically, and The Puzzler.

He is the host of the podcast, Hello Puzzlers.

So, AJ, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

I'm so thrilled to be here.

I am a fan, and you have made my life better with so many of your tips, so I'm hoping that I can repay by giving some helpful feedback on your show.

I am sure you will.

So why don't you tell our listeners a little bit about yourself?

Sure.

I am a writer.

I mostly do nonfiction writing. I've written several books where I

try to take on a weird, admittedly an odd lifestyle for a year and then write about the lessons I've

learned. So I spent a year trying to live by all the rules of the Bible. So that included the Ten Commandments,

but also growing a huge beard. So people would cross the street to avoid me. I tried to be the

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