Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

I am Karen Hunter, and while yes, I am awesome, this podcast is about people and the things

that they have to offer to you, I believe, and speaking things into existence.

So it is with that, I offer you these amazing

people, these awesome topics, and sit back and enjoy. So I'm listening right now to Stolen

Focus by Johan Hari, and I've been listening to it on my walks, which is another kind of exchange.

Listening is different than actually reading on the page, different

process, but there's some power in listening and walking in nature. So I'm listening to this book,

and I had a caller last week, woman in her 70s said she had never read a book cover to cover

until recently. And no judgment, but the majority of Americans, almost 60%.

Now, I imagine that we're at 60% now because we've got two more years after this Gallup poll.

I've never read a book.

Never read a book.

No judgment, but what does it say?

And you said this, Dr. Black, when you don't read, you can be enslaved so easily, so,

so very easily. And I don't care what language, but the non-reading allows somebody to plant

into you words and thoughts and ideals. And so I think about all of the lost genius. I think about

even myself, but it starts with the book.

It starts with the, in the beginning was the word and the word became flesh.

I experienced this on a regular basis.

I'm reading multiple books and listening to at least one book every single day.

And when I come out of my walk, I'm like heading to write stuff down that I want to make sure that not just I codify,

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