Welcome back to the Book Riot Podcast.

It's a work.

It's a news and talk show Rebecca about what's new cool

we're talking about the world of books and reading.

This week we have things that are not

new or cool but are worth talking about. Sadly, it's kind of a sad episode of the

Book Riot podcast here. I'm Jeff O'Neill, she's Rebecca Shinsky. We're

recording today, which is Thursday, April 1st, 2021,

you and I, maybe the two biggest anti-fans of April Fool's I think out there maybe Michelle's not on the

podcast Michelle got a got here April fool is animical to everything that Michelle

stands for in a lot of ways I don't I don't I don't talk about her

personality but if I can give you one

sentence description is imagine the person who appreciates April Fool the least and you

will get a sense of her and basically a cookie fortune version of describing her I think.

Yeah we are definitely on the team of people who do not appreciate April

fools. She might be the Joan of art carrying the banner but we're we're right there with our little French swords trying to die for the cause.

Absolutely, and especially after the last year that we've all experienced, I don't need any performative jokes that are never that funny anyway.

Can we just not?

Like, the only one that I have tolerated today is one of the dog accounts I follow on Instagram, because that's where we are in the world

featured a silver retriever which was you know just a golden retriever I think

probably photoshopped to look silver and because it was early in the morning and I had forgotten it was April first I had a moment of like huh I wonder what the genetic situation is there that made him silver and I was like wait. Yeah I can't get too bent out of shape about dog Instagram accounts playing some games because we're not you know we're not looking for we're not looking for world geopolitical info here.

Right, that's exactly the level of gentleness I'm

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