Hello, everybody. Welcome back to a new year of 372 pages. We'll never get back.

The Bad Book Podcasts where we read books that we don't think we're going to like, Mike, this is 2026. I don't even know what year of the podcast it is, but it is book 37. We're

about to start right now. Well, then I assume we started 37 years ago. I don't know how to

count any different than that. Wow, we've been doing this for 37 years. I was in middle school.

That might have been great school.

We hadn't met for years, so that was tough.

My parents were concerned why I as a 10-year-old was talking to this man in his 20s on the dial-up internet we had at the time very strange uh yeah no

i'm excited new year new book uh all is good all is good right all is good this is good

look at this face it's not going to change at all during this announcement.

Well, I mean, last year had some, I think we pretty much covered every little genre we have on the podcast. We tackle Dan Brown books by people who have written books read by millions and made into movies by Ron Howard.

We tackle weird books by authors who sued major books, the muggles.

We did self-published, cozy mysteries, and we must have done one other.

We did Colleen Hoover.

Colleen, oh, I mean, the biggest book in the world.

I just, there was a movie on that was like recommended to me on one of the, I have streaming platforms, you know.

And it started and it was like Colleen Hoover's something, something.

And I was like, Colleen, oh my God.

Of course shut it off, but, my God. It's like, of course shut it off.

But it was, so she's like above the title?

You know, Meredith Wilson's music man?

Who's Meredith Wilson?

I don't know.

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