Hello, everybody, and welcome back to another season of 372 pages.

We'll never get back.

The Bad Book podcast where I, Connor Lestoka, read a bad book along with you, Mike Nelson, and our loyal army of jackals.

And Mike, it's the most exciting time of 372.

It really is. It's Christmas Arbor Day and free waffleaffle Day all rolled into one exciting package.

It's the time when we reveal the new book.

Yes, New Book Day.

The seer, the village seer has taken a bunch of chicken bones and has cast them onto the ground and

we'll now read them in a pattern and be like, yes, this is how the next two months of your life are going to go.

You're going to be immersed in a world of omnipresent pork chunks and flying high school boys down in South America.

And we say, and then we go to the temple where the oracles are moving in slow motion

and we say, what phrase will we think is very common in about six months? And we'll use it

and people who listen to us will nod. They might even make a t-shirt. What phrase will that be?

Oh, dear, sweet oracles? Thus of which my son.

No, no, we're asking, now that's a common phrase we all know. What I want to know is what will

we say? Will you ruin a septuagenarian author's life by discovering she plagiarized a cozy mystery

that no one had ever read before, yes.

Will a character have two names because the sisters pass off the chapters to one another and

don't notice? Perhaps my son. That's the question I was looking for. Oracle, does anyone else come in here and ask these type of questions? Because this seems like a weird niche that you've followed. Like, you have these great abilities, but do you... Yeah, we've been here for 100 years. We're getting pretty low rent. We'll take all comers. Guess your weight for a dollar. Like, oh, Oracle. You can't predict the Super Bowl. Come on.

How's Nvidia stock going to do next week?

Well, the Oracle this time has cast their bones around and has decided for us that, I don't think it's unfair to say we've been reading a lot of garbage, you know?

Kind of the premise, but yes. But like a lot of, you know, a lot of things where you know? Kind of the premise, but yes.

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