The Glitch: Are Imaginary Friends Mysteriously Coming To Life? (Impossible Things is Out Now!)

We Can Be Weirdos

Global

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.9 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dan's new book, Impossible Things, is available now! It's the perfect book for young curious minds who love to ask WEIRD and WONDERFUL questions.

Want to impress your friends and family with some BANANAS but TRUE facts? Then discover the world of impossible things with Dan Schreiber. This book will give you the answers to all of your big questions, no matter how silly! From discovering if monsters are real to seeking out haunted sausage rolls, exploring the world's strangest curses to finding the truth about time travel, this book has everything!

With hilarious illustrations and comic strips in every chapter, you won't want to put this book down!

Available from all good book shops, and online. Check it out on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/04XKIkuf

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1:10.2	The Cosmos is a Global Player Original podcast. Hey everyone. Welcome to The Glitch, the show that should not exist. It's neither we can be weirdos or the rough corner. Yet somehow,
1:28.6	here it is. On today's glitch, we are celebrating the release of my new book, a book for kids
1:35.6	aged eight and above called Impossible Things, Unbelievable Answers to the World's Weirdest
1:41.3	Questions. It came out on Thursday, just in time for the summer holidays.
1:46.1	And so on today's glitch, we have secured an entire chapter from the audiobook of this,
1:52.2	which is read by me, and we're going to play that for you. But before we get into that,
1:57.1	I'm just going to quickly tell you a bit about the book. It is 10 chapters in which I went
2:01.8	off on little investigations to try and get the answers to some of the biggest questions
2:06.1	that kids and adults have been asking for millennia. For example, do ghosts ever get bored of
2:12.6	haunting us? Are time travelers bad party guests? Do I need glasses for the eyes in the back of my head?
2:19.8	Is it rude to gift someone a cursed item? And are we all actually living in a giant video game
2:26.3	simulation? There's more questions in there from this book, you know, are rock stars secretly aliens?
2:31.6	Stuff like that. And in each chapter, I use that question as a starting
2:35.1	point, and then I just go off on a fun investigation, packing it with interesting facts, historical
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