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Bibliophage, noun, one who devours books, a bookworm, an avid reader.

Every good writer is probably a better reader, and bibliophage is the podcast that proves it.

New York Times bestselling author Gwen Laithland invites authors from every genre and walk of life to discuss the thing they love the most,

books and the stories they contain. From independent authors to bookstore blockbusters,

the Bibliophage podcast is the podcast where we devour books, one author, at a time.

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Hello, this is Matt from the Explorers podcast.

I want to invite you to join me on the voyages and journeys of the most famous explorers in the history of the world.

These are the thrilling and captivating stories of Vigelin, Shackleton, Lewis, and Clark,

and so many other famous and not so famous adventures from throughout history. Go to Explorespodcast.com or just look

us up on your podcast app. That's the Explorers Podcast.

A couple of times each year, I reach into the backlog to an age when microphones were cheap and know how about them sorely wanting, and reproduce an old episode in higher quality, and make it available ad-free to patrons.

There are a lot of old, not great-sounding episodes, so choosing one is always a little difficult.

This, as you suspect, is one of those remakes, and I'll tell you why I chose it.

It is the single, most popular episode in the entire Constant Catalog.

I have no idea why that is.

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good episode.

But when I say that it's the most popular one ever, I don't mean by a little bit.

I mean by like an order of magnitude.

Maybe one of my semi-famous listeners tweeted about it or something,

or some capricious algorithm reached out its gifting hand and blah blah blah. I don't know.

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