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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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Simon nearly passes away immediately, Jai talks about his run-in with a television thief, and they get in to the best way to shake up the video game industry, make a butt-tonne of cash and make everyone mad at the same time.

Come party.

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