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Hey, everyone. It's Cal Penn. I'm inviting you to join the best sounding book club you've ever heard with my podcast, Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. Every episode I nerd out with amazing guests and dive into the best new audiobooks available on Audible. It's the book club for your ears. Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.

What would you guys say you miss most about the 90s? The music. Oh yeah, for sure. The best songs and TV shows, of course. Agreed. That one hits close to home. How about the outfits? Baggy jeans, scrunchies, flannels? Oh wait, no, I have the best one. The snacks. Oh, absolutely. The taste of our childhood can't be beat. Well, our friends at Simple Mills agree. So they've brought back the golden age of snacking. They are totally off the hook with Cheddar Pop'ums, the nostalgic flavor of mini crunchy chocolate chip cookies and the familiar crunch of honey cinnamon sweet thins. Except now they're made with real ingredients like watermelon seed flour, almonds, cashews, flaxseed and organic coconut sugar. Fancy. It's the taste that the 90s kid inside you loves, but with the ingredients your grown-up self can appreciate. Available in snack packs that are easy to toss into lunchboxes, backpacks or your own bag. Simple Mills snack packs are simply the coolest. Simple Mills. Throwback taste, grown-up ingredients.

Hey, everyone. It's Cal Penn. I'm the host of Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club. This week on the podcast, I am sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary, a massive sci-fi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from Earth. I really had to make a decision because I caught myself getting that frog in my throat and starting to get teary as I'm narrating some of these sections. And it's like, okay, is this indulgent? And I really thought about it. I was like, no, at this point it would kind of be betraying the trust the author and the listener have in telling this story if I don't go through it. But there's places in this book that deeply emotionally affected me, and I left it on the mic. That's great because it served the story. People will say like, oh my God, I cried at the end. It's like, yeah, dude, me too. Listen to Earsay, the Audible and iHeart Audiobook Club on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts.