Hey there Jackpotters, we are one week shy of the first anniversary of the jackpot.

What started out as an off-the-cuff idea has become one of our most listened to and beloved podcasts.

I'm a long time on point listener.

I've always looked forward at the times you have Mr. Beatty on the program.

But these Jack Beatty podcasts are the absolute best.

After years in journalism, I can tell you, hardly anyone gets incredible feedback like this, about how Jack Beatty's singular mind challenges

you, electrifies you, and teaches you.

My vocab improves each week. The Oxford dictionaries must pick

defenestrated. Defenestrated as word of the year.

I totally agree.

Jack's vocabulary is huge.

Who else could correctly use words like Shibylith,

Cropuscular, and Metanoia in casual conversation.

Oh, and speaking of dictionaries, Jack's mind is also a treasure trove of literary quotes,

like this one that he remembered.

It's an utterance from the creator of the first modern English

dictionary, Dr. Samuel Johnson.

Dr. Johnson has this one liner.

He said, such and such is boring himself and the cause of

boringness and others.

Now look I could go on and on about how special Jack is, but I don't have to because you tell

us yourselves all the time.

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