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<v Speaker 1>Hello everyone, and welcome to a very special season promo

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<v Speaker 1>episode A Mean Book Club.

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<v Speaker 2>We can call these episodes.

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<v Speaker 3>A minisode perhaps, you know. Buckle up, a buckle, a

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<v Speaker 3>little something to pump you up, get you prepped, get

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<v Speaker 3>you ready.

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<v Speaker 1>Thirsty for season twenty one, where we give you the

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<v Speaker 1>book list, right, what what do you want?

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<v Speaker 4>Water?

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<v Speaker 3>Thirsty for books?

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<v Speaker 4>Because you drink for water, everyone drink, I drink words.

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<v Speaker 2>I would say we've gone on the wrong kind of

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<v Speaker 2>at tangent.

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, sure, don't.

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<v Speaker 3>Make me spit my water out.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, let's talk about some of these books

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<v Speaker 1>we got this season, so they can you know, our

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<v Speaker 1>listeners can get started.

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<v Speaker 3>Yes, wet their appetite.

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<v Speaker 2>Never too late to get started. As a Mean Book

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<v Speaker 2>Club podcaster, let me tell you, it's never too late

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<v Speaker 2>to start a book.

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<v Speaker 3>You can start it the day before it's due. You

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<v Speaker 3>can ever read it.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's fine. Actually, just listen, you know what. That's

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<v Speaker 1>actually fair. You don't have to talk, so it's true,

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<v Speaker 1>it doesn't matter.

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<v Speaker 3>But here we go. We got Rose in Chains by

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<v Speaker 3>Julie Soto.

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<v Speaker 4>Ooh ooh Cheney, Yes, like Dick Cheney.

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<v Speaker 1>Yep, it's about Dick Cheney. What else?

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<v Speaker 3>What else do we got?

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<v Speaker 4>We have a book I'm really excited about everybody. It's

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<v Speaker 4>the book that is the TV show that everyone.

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<v Speaker 3>Is watching this fall except for Johanna. It is Heated.

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<v Speaker 4>Rivalry by Rachel Read. And we had a guest in

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<v Speaker 4>that episode, James Cocher.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he's an F one influencer, so it really fits sports.

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<v Speaker 2>Then we have Ninth House by Lee Bardugo. And now

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<v Speaker 2>I'll take a little shot at Sabrina. For some reason,

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<v Speaker 2>out of nowhere, everybody's reading this book except Sabrina.

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<v Speaker 4>Well that's not true. I read the book, but you

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<v Speaker 4>scheduled she missed it for a time. I preemptively said

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<v Speaker 4>I couldn't do this is for anyone.

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<v Speaker 3>Shot yourself. You have powerless? All right? Fine?

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<v Speaker 1>Next we have Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown. Is

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<v Speaker 1>this our third, Dan Brown?

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<v Speaker 3>Our third?

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<v Speaker 1>Isn't it?

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<v Speaker 4>Angels in America and the bookst Angels?

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<v Speaker 3>What are they called? Angels and Demons?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>In America. We've done a few Dan Browns. That's all

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<v Speaker 3>I have to say. Yes, And we have a guest.

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<v Speaker 3>Can we say that? No, it's Jonathan Bernandez.

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<v Speaker 1>He's background last n he's back, the actor the the brilliant,

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<v Speaker 1>the fernandoah the writer.

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<v Speaker 4>Then after that, what do we got remarkably bright creatures? Bye?

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<v Speaker 3>Shall be van Pelt. Here's what I feel.

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<v Speaker 4>Like, what I like about it. It's like both parts

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<v Speaker 4>of her name are animal houses or for like a

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<v Speaker 4>shell a pelt.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, okay, that Shelby shell is a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>Reason.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it sounds like.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like if a turtle married a fox. Yeah, the

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<v Speaker 2>baby Shelby van Pelt.

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<v Speaker 1>And that's a remarkably bright creature. All right, I'm scared

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<v Speaker 1>of that one. Next we have sometimes I Lie by

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<v Speaker 1>Alice Feeney.

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<v Speaker 3>Ooh, naughty, I lie?

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<v Speaker 4>Did she write that book about the authors on the

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<v Speaker 4>island and the men who kept not being able to live?

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<v Speaker 2>From that description I knew, not know, you know, beautiful ugly?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>Did she write that?

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<v Speaker 4>Oh she did, perfect description of that book.

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<v Speaker 3>It got me there. It took me a second, but

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<v Speaker 3>I got it at all, all right. And then finally

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<v Speaker 3>what do we got bill a bomb?

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<v Speaker 2>No?

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<v Speaker 4>Whoops? Gettick silver?

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<v Speaker 2>I did get it by Callie Hart, a book that

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<v Speaker 2>I like keep forgetting the name of. And when I

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<v Speaker 2>see it in my stack of books I have to read,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like it's not for mean book clubs. So something

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<v Speaker 2>about it is leaving my brain in a really bad way.

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<v Speaker 3>It bodes badly for the book, all right, But yeah,

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<v Speaker 3>we're going badly for the book. But I think that

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<v Speaker 3>means it's going to have a great break.

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<v Speaker 4>I just looked cover for that and yeah, Wow, we've

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<v Speaker 4>really got a theme this season, don't we?

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<v Speaker 1>Look we do? And we went hard. We'd picked some

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<v Speaker 1>things from book talk. We picked some things you guys

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<v Speaker 1>were recommended screaming at us for to do them, and

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<v Speaker 1>we're and we also picked some long ones. We made

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<v Speaker 1>some mistakes. We picked some long ones, and we're not

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<v Speaker 1>that happy about that, but we're dealing with it. Okay.

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<v Speaker 3>At least they're all New York Times bestsellers this time.

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<v Speaker 4>JOHNA and Sarah picked this list without consulting me.

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<v Speaker 3>Certainly.

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<v Speaker 4>I can't say if Clara was consulted.

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<v Speaker 3>She was certainly not consulted.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm going to assume.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I do think we maybe overdid it because I'm

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<v Speaker 2>reading the description of Quicksilver. It's yeah, Sarah's Faine, a

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<v Speaker 2>thief with hidden powers, is pulled into a magical world

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<v Speaker 2>of Fay Warren alchemy.

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<v Speaker 3>A lot of.

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<v Speaker 2>Powers, a lot of secrets, a little more am I

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<v Speaker 2>like the driving balance force in the planning call?

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<v Speaker 1>How can.

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<v Speaker 3>Cast you are?

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<v Speaker 1>I think if you want any nonfiction, we need for

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<v Speaker 1>you to Yeah, I'm not going to pick it.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not going to pick it without your insistence.

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<v Speaker 4>And also, like I have to stress that diversity is

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<v Speaker 4>not just in fiction versus nonfiction. It's in eighteen hours

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<v Speaker 4>versus eight hours. We use a little more eight hours.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, we'll work on it.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay. I think we were leaning into popular books, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's maybe where, well, where we went wrong.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know or what right you guys tell people

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<v Speaker 4>are nerds these days, they're actually.

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<v Speaker 3>Still recording the promo. Did you guys know that?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>You know what I think Sarah and I did this

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<v Speaker 2>is that feigned incompetence thing, like when you ask some

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<v Speaker 2>one to unload the dishwasher and they do such a

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<v Speaker 2>bad job you don't ask them again. I think that's

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<v Speaker 2>what we've done to encourage you to get more involved.

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<v Speaker 3>In maybe next season.

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<v Speaker 4>It's Claire exphercise enough that you did not remotely invite

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<v Speaker 4>me to a plan meeting that would have involved picking books. No, no, no, no, no, no, listeners.

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<v Speaker 4>You need to know that the day before they were

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<v Speaker 4>having a meeting that did not seem to include picking

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<v Speaker 4>the books. They said are you available? And the answer

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<v Speaker 4>was no, And I could have I could have told

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<v Speaker 4>them that everyone's invited a week before.

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<v Speaker 2>Sabrina, you need to lean in, take your seat at

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<v Speaker 2>the table.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, right.

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<v Speaker 1>Look, Also, you are notoriously hard to schedule, so I

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<v Speaker 1>listen to blame us for that.

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<v Speaker 4>Well, but you didn't say that it was picking the books.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean I would not have been available that day

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<v Speaker 4>that you chose without consulting me.

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<v Speaker 3>Look a day again.

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<v Speaker 4>I even remember earlier I was trying to offer every

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<v Speaker 4>other day next week.

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<v Speaker 3>You know what, I'm being everything they could listeners.

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<v Speaker 1>Way in, does that those books seem like a great

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<v Speaker 1>season of books? Or are you mad like Sabrina weigh in?

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<v Speaker 1>Are you mad and wrong like Sabrina? Oh?

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<v Speaker 3>Wow, wrong? Okay? So are we doing a little fucker

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<v Speaker 3>of the promo because we're not in vogue to dole

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<v Speaker 3>out of the proo. This is just a promo. Let's

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<v Speaker 3>end it boost my stats in that way. My child

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<v Speaker 3>is screaming my name behind me. I should go Okay,

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<v Speaker 3>b