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Jai Ashman and Simon Giacomin are two buddies that can read, but choose not to.

Each week they talk shop, unwind, solve problems that they, themselves, created and have a ball. Several of them.

At it's core, Book Club is a comedy podcast and absolutely no books were read in the making of it.

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New Year, New Us.

It's the exact same, but we have new socks on from Christmas, so our confidence is through the roof.

Stop being bored at work or operating heavy machinery and listen to Jai and Simon talk nonsense for an hour.

We're talking golf and sucking at it.
Good shopping etiquette.
Elon Musk still sucks.

This is a special episode because Simon sings a thing.

Come and check it out

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