A listener has kindly brought to my attention that a portion of the episode appears to be missing from the file we uploaded today. I listened to the episode myself and, sure enough: the audio jumps from “Let’s talk about this email” right to “and now it’s time for book ranking!” Listening even further revealed that it happens a second time toward the end… We jump right from the fourth books on our banned list right to a moment or two before the end of the recording. I checked the original file and the original file has the same flaw. Our only answer to this is that we might have inadvertently paused our recording somehow while taping.
This is an embarrassing blunder on our part, but the only way to address it is to apologize for it and move on or remove the episode entirely. We’re opting to just admit that we’re imbeciles and be extra careful to prevent this in the future.
For those who can’t handle the accidental cliffhanger, we’re going to reprint our banned books list here. The books we discussed and mentioned were as follows:
The Kite Runner
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Prayer For Owen Meany
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Satanic Verses
Fahrenheit 451
The Sun Also Rises
The Catcher In The Rye
We also made special mention of The Call of the Wild and Les Miserables. The two books we discussed that somehow got excised from the recording were To Kill A Mockingbird (Rodney) and Maus (Aaron).
We’ll address the email that got purged in a future episode.
We apologize sincerely for this mishap on our part.
The episode with our discussion on Solitude will drop on October 18.
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