Today, you're going to hear an eloquent and vivid description of anxiety.

If you have dealt with anxiety, I don't think it will make you feel more anxious,

but I hope it makes you feel seen.

Okay, on with the show.

I get books at my house.

Sent to me at my house.

I work from home.

I step out the front door, There's a book on the front

step, usually in a padded envelope. Often it's a book by an author I'm going to interview.

Sometimes it's a book that a publicist or someone just thought I would find interesting.

Steady stream of books. Steady stream of padded envelopes.

Then one day, a few weeks ago, there was a box on my front step.

Pretty big box, too.

So I hauled inside.

My wife and my daughter wanted to know what was in there

because it looked like the kind of box that would ordinarily contain

something from a sponsor of the show,

frozen dinners for me to try out and talk about

maybe, or something large like that. But no, I could see this was from a publishing house,

so I knew it was a book or had to be books. Open it up, and yeah, books, plural. All novels,

all by the same author, Jason Pargin, New York Times bestselling author.

Here, I have all the books at my desk.

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