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Do audio books count as reading? | Topic Thunder

Do audio books count as reading? | Topic Thunder
Do audio books count as reading? | Topic Thunder
50% Facts with Silent Mike & Jim McD
Do audio books count as reading? | Topic Thunder

Joe Stanek (@joe_gameday) sat in as guest host on this one, along with Mike, Nico (@nicoflores83kg), and Elexa (@nanoo31).

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Is listening to a book on audio the same thing as reading the words with your eyes? Is there a downside to only listening? There’s more disagreement on this than you might think.

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0:08 How Jim will want to get involved with this one. Sadly, I can feel it. I can feel it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to topics. You that was pretty good. You were like start a host that hasn't been started for a year. That's what you sounded like. I think mine sounded better to be. You just gotta get the SoundBite from a CDC. Just I'm here with the Nursy Nano and the Game Day boys, and uh, we'll say, we'll say good companies, very own Nano. That sounds good. Huh, dab on them all right, it's gonna get weird here. I don't know, because Nico's dumb like me. No, you're just stupid like me. Listening to an audiobook does not count for reading a book, that's the case. I'm not sure I've ever read a book in my life. Yeah I have. I haven't read a book in a while.

1:00 Then, shit, I've actually never listened to an audiobook before. Yes, you read casually? Yeah, okay, so you're smart. Are you lying as articles now? And like um articles or books? Articles? Yeah? I read fucking Instagram captions? Fuck me, what are we talking about that we're talking about? Okay? But I've never listened to an audiobook. Why don't you just read? Because I you're lazy? That's no. Whoa, it's really hard to write a bicycle going twenty miles per hour with a book in my hand. Maybe that's fucking what the other thing, you're fucking dick. The other thing is a lot of people, UH learned through different passageways, and some people read greatly and can absorb all that information, and some people do it better visually, and some people do it more auditorially. How about you smart one of the group. Well, I have to read textbooks?

1:52 Yeah? For fun? No? Is that just because you're tired from textbooks? Or what about what a hypothetic? Weren't in school times where you had breaks? Would you ever read for frenzies? Um? I thought about it a bunch of times because recently I think a lot of good books have been coming out, But since my nursing textbooks or at least one hundred something pages per chapter, I'm okay, I got a good book for you. Now, have you ever read attached? No? I have? How about how about this? I'll record myself reading it to you all. Listen. It's about your good FaceTime me or call me and I'll put you in my pocket and riding my bike. Can you get read it to me? Basically, this book teaches you about like love attachment styles. Oh, I know that's bullshit. No, hey, it's a really good book. I don't think you guys think I can't be loved? Is that what you guys are all attacking me? If you read the book, then i'd find love.

2:46 You might. I think you're gonna word more one and you hear my voice reading it to you, though you have a decent voice. If I write a book and it goes to New York bestseller, you'll do the audio for me. I don't like my voice. I love reading it. People can't even read? Are you stupid? What else can I do? You have a good voice? Yeah, I hate my voice. I like I like reading to it. Just I don't really have the time to read right now. Yeah, to make the time? No, probably? I like sleep though, I know. But you could also probably just organize your shit and probably make the time. Yeah. No, I gotta be honest. I would much rather these days. I would much rather just listen to an audiobook than just actively read, which is kind of sad because I love reading. I have like six or seven books. You think it was major by the way, I was, I was, I have I have like six or seven books that I like, really enjoy. I just never I'd never get time to actually put any like work towards him. I do like ten pages a day on the toilet, and that's kind of it. It's pretty good.

3:38 Alright, long, that's a long shit. Yeah, I just read fast all right from the English major himself. Then does an audio book count as reading the book? I think it does. Yeah, what do you got nano? No? No, I like the physical copies. Okay, well let's try to like say that you read the lyrics to a song. Did you listen to the song? Oh that's deep. No. But because music has more elements than just words, books don't. Yeah, books are words? Got your ass? Got your ass, bitch? Suddenly audio books are music because you're listening to audio books for music. I'm trying. If you saw the movie disaccount as the book, dude, Yeah, never read Harry Potter bro the video game came out. Oh yeah, I almost.

4:24 I was called in sick today Kyles that he wanted to go home for a little bit ling versus like nothing. Yeah, I was called the stake. Yeah. I might have never read a book in my life, and audio books weren't a thing when I was a kid. Yeah, but like high school and stuff. Nah, what do we know? No, he's just naturally gifted. He just knows. He touches it like ye already, I am pretty smart. He didn't read like of Mice and Men. Dude, I breathed it. There's no way that was actually a really good book. All right, bro, I can't focus for longer than ten minutes. Why do you think these episodes or ten minutes? Scarlet The Scarlett Letter was the only book that I was like, Okay, people over hate on this book. I definitely breathed in one of those two watch that movie or something, read that ship. I have no brothers Kara mals Off English major apparently brothers Kara mals Off. Shouldn't you know this, Joe? See go google fucking brothers. Devil may Cry. That's basically the same thing. Make Care was my favorite I Place Mythology video game. Right. Yeah, definitely might cry.

5:27 I read the book exactly exactly. I think the audio book fucking counts. Yeah, I don't think it counts. I don't think. I think, how does it not? It's you literally are absorbing. Wait, if you're blind, I have to make account. You have to make it because like, yeah, yeah, you're discriminating account. To me, it's more like how you absorb it. If you don't absorb the book, then you didn't read the book neither I could read. I'm not I'm not braill reading. I'm listening. I mean they do. But yeah, the audience with it? Where can I find you? Go listen audiobooks, kids, screw Nano. You can find an instagram at Nano thirty one with two ohs and on YouTube at Nico Flores. We're gonna find Nano. You can find my instagram at Nico Flores eighty three KG. Thanks JOm, a new episode every Wednesday and Friday. Thanks so much for listening. Three as dotco for all your clothing needs. And I am Joe sand I got all forms of social media, particularly the tiki talk is this has been fifty percent facts worth fifty percent as a number and percent is just a word. Oh fifty percent Facts is a speaker pime podcast in association with my Heart Radio on the obscure celebrity network. That was the best one to four. I was getting there kids, Oh yeah,