Episode Transcript: #1397 - S.C. Gwynne
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Three, two, okay.
So very nice to meet you and your book is fantastic.
I really, really loved it.
And it's kind of hilarious how this conversation came about.
You said you got a call from your publicist because your audiobook spiked.
It spiked like crazy.
It was like, what cosmic dust in the outer bands of Jupiter just did that?
Because we didn't figure out what it was.
It just spiked like crazy.
Went nuts.
I think it went to number one briefly.
So what did that anyway?
And it was from an Instagram post.
It was.
And you were, see, my friend, Steve Rinella, wrote a book called American Buffalo.
And I had put on Instagram how great the book was and he did the audio version of it.
And a friend of mine on Instagram, he goes by the name of the Jackalope.
He's a fellow Hunter S. Thompson enthusiast.
He said, you got to read this book.
And so he tells me to read your book and Empire of the Summer Moon.