Short Stuff: What's the oldest book?

# Summary

This episode digs into the surprisingly complicated question of what actually counts as the world's oldest book, exploring everything from the mysterious 2,500-year-old Gold Orphism Book made of gold sheets to ancient clay tablets and biblical manuscripts. Josh and Chuck debate whether a book needs to be bound, printed, handwritten, or just tell a story, getting increasingly frustrated with how curators seem to intentionally keep this question unsettled by constantly moving the goalposts. It's a fun deep dive into how defining something as simple as "a book" turns out to be way trickier than you'd think, with plenty of tangents about printing history, scrolls, and one curator who might be deliberately keeping the debate alive just for fun.