Hey, listeners, it's Zibby. I just have a few quick announcements and things to tell you. So I thought I would take a minute between three podcasts to give you a couple announcements. One, I'm changing the format of the show a bit to three episodes a week from five episodes a week. But I'm going to continue interviewing the same amount of authors to expose you to basically the same amount of

books, but I'm going to group a lot of them by theme. So if you are having a day where you want

to focus on grief, you can listen to a grief episode or graduation or, you know, books that make you

tremble, things like that. So I'll have maybe one, two, or three. Some will be solo episodes. Some will be panels.

Some will just be a couple in a row with the highlights. I hope that it continues to help you

and expose you to books that I think are awesome and that I think collectively will help shape

your life and inform you and give you all the inside scoop on the books coming out

in the literary world and also even the nonfiction things that like I just finished a book

on resilience by Tara and Arula. These things are important how to help us live better lives.

Anyway, so I wanted to let you know that that was happening.

And second, I just wanted to mark you this moment because it's been almost exactly eight years since I first sat literally in the same spot, in the same chair, my elbow on the same desk with the same microphone, and have been doing this podcast religiously for eight years now.

And some of you have been listening the whole time,

some of you come in and out occasionally. I welcome you all at any time for any of it.

And I just want you to know that by your listening or authors, by your participation in this

podcast, you have completely changed my life. You have given my life

a level of meaning and purpose that I am so grateful for. I have learned so much. I have grown so

much. I have built because of this show. And I have changed. My very DNA has changed as a result of the 2,300-plus conversations that I've had sitting here.

I might not have left my desk for these conversations, although many I've had elsewhere,

but the ones I've had here on Zoom or sitting next to me and author sitting next to me

have been like the biggest

master class ever. It's like I somehow have designed a university of information that I've

gotten. And if you listen, or I hope you've listened to some or perhaps all, You get a medal if you've listened to all of them.

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