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In this week's P.O. Box:
Our Next Book
Stream roundup: First drafts of 2025
Book Club: Finished The Heart In Winter
One of the nice things about pacing the PO Box Book Club at a slower speed this year is it gives me more opportunities to stumble upon solid selections in an organic way.
After writing about Say Nothing last week, multiple people recommended the author/investigative reporter Patrick Radden Keefe, who wrote the book that the show is based on.
When Dom mentioned Empire of Pain, I thought it sounded familiar. Then I remembered that my college buddy Cam listed it as his favorite book he read last year in our annual “Listmas” email thread.
Here’s how he described it:
Tyler Cowen refers to a book that shakes your worldview as a quake book, and in theory, should decrease as you age, thus making each one more valuable. Empire of Pain was the first book I read in 2024, and it stayed with me the longest. A fully fleshed out biography of Purdue Pharma’s Sackler dynasty, it starts from the humble roots of a hard-working genius, to a growing family tree, and eventually, the opioid epidemic they engineered. I was viscerally angry during the entire second half of this book, and was the living embodiment of the Natalie Portman meme, staring blankly each time I thought the better angels of our nature would intervene. Quake, indeed.
And there you have it, our March selection for The P.O. Box Book Club. I picked it up last night and am already hooked from the prologue alone.
As always, if you want to discuss with us further, hop in the Deposit Kingdom Discord and scroll down to the #book-club channel.
I also just finished The Heart in Winter—more on that below.
Programming note: now that it’s the offseason and I don’t have a bunch of Friday shows/content, I’m going to shift back to dropping these in your inbox on Friday mornings as opposed to Saturday.
☕️ BEST BALL BREAKFAST: Someone Gave My First Draft A D-. Here we go again…
drafted my first 2 teams of 2025*
*at gunpoint
— peter overzet (@peteroverzet)
8:39 PM • Feb 18, 2025
☄️ An asteroid has a 3.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032…so I put that in perspective via NFL and fantasy football scenarios.
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💪 THE SWOLECAST: No Days Off. We get political and also talk about A.I. The usual fare.
☣️ LOLZ: w/ Guest Youdacao. One of the best DFS players in the world reveals his biggest edge.
🚢 SHIP CHASING: The Year 2 WRs To Target & Fade. Marvin Harrison Jr. spooks me.
⏰ OFF & ON THE CLOCK: Becoming A Baseball Bro. Got a crash course in MLB drafting on Underdog from the Badge Bros.
👑 GUEST SPOT: Big Board Draft w/ Davis. Bullied him into fixing some of his rankings.
DFS After Dark returns tonight with special guest Jordan Cooper aka BlenderHD. We’ll talking sports betting and why he’s done making educational DFS content…
🚂 Book #1 for February (FINISHED): The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
I thought this was an enjoyable read once I got a grasp on the writing style, although I never felt fully gripped by the story or invested in the characters in a way that had me racing to my Kindle every night.
Still, there were plenty of entertaining moments and enough gems to keep me engaged.
Anyhow the past it shifts around all the time. The past is not fixed and it is not certain and this much she has learned if nothin else. The past it changes all the while every minute you’re still breathing and how in fuck are you supposed to make sense of it all.
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