Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the most electrifying man in sports entertainment so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read

The Rock Says by The Rock and Joe Layden. Joining us to discuss this very 90s biography is Trace Dean,

an author and comic creator from New York, whose first book, for your consideration,

Dwayne The Rock Johnson, is out on October 15th. Hello, Trace. Hey, guys. Welcome. Thanks for having a show. I'm so glad he could join us. Not to brag. I read an advanced copy of For Your Consideration, Dwayne The Rock Johnson. Oh, no. I enjoyed it so much. Thank you very much. I'm very glad. I really did.

I think everyone who listens to this show, if you enjoy The Rock as Kate and I do, as is evident in every episode of our book podcast, weirdly.

I think if you appreciate The Rock the way that we do, you will enjoy this book and you should

read it. But enough about that, because we've got to talk about this other book now.

True.

Which is, of course, the Rock, you know, you may not, if you're a younger listener, you may

not even remember that the Rock used to be a professional wrestler. You may only remember him as the charming, commercially successful actor that we know and love

today.

But you're missing out, question mark?

On this.

And so, of course, he was a professional wrestler, a, well, the most electrifying man in sports

entertainment, self-styled, printed on the cover of this book.

And so this is the Rock's biography, starting from childhood and going up until, I would say,

probably, like, at the peak of his W.W.E. days.

Yeah.

Which is really interesting because obviously like, believe it or not,

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