Hey, I'm David Kern.

I'm Heidi White.

I'm Tim McIntosh.

And I'm Sean Johnson.

And this is Closer Reads, a podcast for the Incurable Reader on which we are here to discuss

Arnon Diaz's trust, a book that three of us like a lot and one of us is reading for the first

time and we don't

know what he thinks of it yet um we are here uh the gang's all here the team is all together

we were talking early three minutes ago before we hit recording about how tim is the closest

of all our names to the word team and it's it's just goes to show that when Tim's not here the team is incomplete but Tim is

here so therefore the team is complete Tim welcome back it is so wonderful to have you a part of

this team and present on this episode it's really nice to be back especially for a book as

remarkable as this one.

Sean, how deep are you into this?

Yeah, that's a great question.

I am into, I'm almost halfway into part two.

Okay, so you didn't stop.

So we're, we are discussing this in four,

all four sections will correspond to the four episodes, which means that today we are going to discuss part one.

So you've read a little further.

Yes.

And I don't think I'm going to stop.

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