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>> Hi, ho, truckers.
It's time for season 17 of "Mean the Cross."
>> What the hell is this energy?
>> Did you say even the right season number?
>> 17.
>> Okay, I heard 15, I heard 15, but maybe I was drunk off of high-hook.
>> Before we launched into it, Sarah literally said,
I wanted to script it, but I didn't have the time, but it'll be okay.
>> Hi, ho, truckers.
>> Who are you talking to?
Who are the truckers?
Is it us?
Is it our loyal fan?
>> Our loyal fan.
>> Is it our Patreon?
>> What the fuck is high-hole?
Where did the hand come from?
>> It's from the old land.
>> It's from high-hole.
>> Snow White in the Seven Dwarves?
>> Yeah, that's the one.
>> Yeah.
>> It's the only association I have, and it's not one I've thought about.
>> I'm in a three-deckity.
>> Anyway, we're me book club.
We read books.
>> Just to go from, I thought.
>> I thought we should have scripted it.
>> Wow.
>> The car accidently screwed me into the microphone.
>> Is this better though?
>> We haven't even gotten to who we are.
What we do?
>> Fresh trade.
>> Well, we've demonstrated it.
>> We haven't told, but we've shown.
>> And that is something that a lot of these books fail to do.
We read New York Times bestsellers that probably shouldn't be.
It's shit that your book club made you read and you were like, I was drowning.
Nobody agreed with me.
This was trash.
Please, please read it.
And then we read it for you.
>> And we agree or sometimes disagree?
>> Yeah.
>> And we also importantly, we start every episode.
And this is the exact cadence.
Hello everyone and welcome to Mean Book Club.
>> That's creepy.
It sounds like AI is hosting a podcast.
>> Okay.
>> Which probably made you start.
>> You're just mocking me now.
>> And this week, we read.
>> We read.
>> And this week, we read this.
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>> What?
>> I know.
>> This is not at all how I did the intro.
>> I love this stuff.
>> These are horrible impersonations.
>> Okay, I think you know that my impersonation is really good because often people
don't know which one of us is with.
>> That's just so.
>> Our voices are similar.
>> That's not in impersonation.
Our voices are just similar.
God damn it.
>> Right, but then I set it in your exact way.
>> Hello everyone and welcome to Mean Book Club.
This week, we read.
>> We're gonna try to.
>> We're gonna try to make it through season 17.
But right now, I don't know how I feel about these people.
>> But why don't I just tell you what the books are?
Maybe we can all tell you?
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> I thought it was a group effort,
but I can come in with the authors as I remember them.
>> Great, you can't wait.
>> That would be good because I don't have that.
>> Okay, I don't have it, but I think I have it in my mind.
>> Okay.
>> Okay, go ahead.
Sarah, you say title, I'll say author.
>> No, we have to part.
>> Okay, we're on the--
>> I'll get put on the book to be honest.
>> All right, sure.
>> This is--
>> Ooh, I wanna do that.
>> Okay, the first book, Happy Place.
>> Bye.
I don't know this one.
>> [LAUGH] >> Clara, you pick up the slack,
where Johnna doesn't know.
>> Emma, why Emily Henry?
>> Okay, I think that that book is probably about--
>> You should know, you're a betterist.
>> Okay, all right, sure.
>> Okay. >> You know what?
Okay, I see the game.
All right, Divine Rivals, bye.
>> Rebecca Ross.
>> God damn it, Johnna.
All right, what is that about, Sabrina?
That one is about God's who hate each other and fuck.
>> Okay, all right, great, great, great, great.
We've also got Just the Nices Couple, bye.
>> Mary Cubica.
>> [LAUGH] >> Finally, huh?
I think there was just about a couple of nice people.
There, not necessarily a couple.
>> Okay, she's the nicest couple.
The next book is The Paper Palace, by Miranda Cowley-Hellar.
>> We're gonna get it, Johnna.
>> I assume that that is a book,
"Spin off of the episode of The Brady Bunch"
where they spend a lot of time building a card house.
>> Okay, okay.
>> And then Oliver, the cousin?
>> All right, you--
>> Sabrina, we've heard enough of this.
>> You're gonna be disappointed by all of these books.
>> Thank you for going, Clara.
We're also going to be reading Eleanor All-Affent is completely fine.
>> "By Gail Honeyman."
>> Wow.
>> Okay, well that's about a sexy elephant, clearly.
>> [LAUGH]
>> That's the best one, okay.
>> The Bodyguard.
>> We picked the same one.
>> Oh, cute, by a woman.
Catherine Center, that's right.
>> The Captain.
>> [LAUGH]
>> I assume that that's the Whitney Houston movie.
>> Yeah, we're reading the script movie.
>> Whitney Houston movie, you're absolutely right.
>> We should read more script.
>> The dichotomy of leadership by Charles Minton.
>> No.
>> Is it? >> This is a harder one.
Jocco, Willink, and Leif Bobbin.
>> Yes, that's right, Leif.
I forgot the second author.
>> Oh yeah, and Leif Bobbin.
>> I assume that is about the war between frozen yogurt and ice cream.
>> Okay, okay.
Um, Clara?
>> A man called Oh, by Thomas.
>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH] >> [LAUGH]
>> That's back then.
And that one I assume is just a mass produced typo.
It's supposed to be a man called Love.
And that's obvious what it's about.
>> Sure.
>> All right, so those are our books.
Start on them if you want to read along with us.
But it's okay if you don't want to because we'll give you the summary.
And it's pretty fun.
>> And some reading just summarized them.
>> Yeah, pretty much.
>> She got it.
>> You get it, you job.
>> You get it.
>> We're, I mean, book club, you can find us on all the socials.
Please, you know, become a patron during our Patreon.
We send you cool things like photos and I don't know what we do.
>> I don't know what we do.
>> We do bookmarks once.
>> Okay, well, don't tell people about the bookmarks now.
>> It was one.
>> We could do it again.
>> Yeah, we could do it again.
>> One more time.
>> Let us know, let us know.
>> You're into it.
>> Let us know what you want, you know?
>> And if what you want is to give us an all expenses paid trip.
>> To do a live show in you hometown.
>> Wow, that would be huge.
>> That would be amazing actually.
>> Even if it is an all expenses paid, if you could just set it up.
>> Yeah, honestly.
>> I think we would pay our way if someone else would just do the work of setting it up.
>> Cut ourselves off at the knees here, Clara.
>> Okay.
>> All right, okay.
>> I'm sure we have a wealthy listener out there.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Ooh, a dad just- >> Would you rather have all expenses paid?
>> But you have to set it up.
Or just pay for it and someone else would do all the setting up.
>> I guess if I put it on a credit card, that's not real money.
And I wonder if I guess I would rather pay my way because-
>> Setting it up, I can't just-
>> I can't do credit card doing that.
>> Okay, yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> All right, well this is fun.
This is just a little taste of what you might get if you haven't listened and,
you know, you're wondering.
But really, we're super fun.
We have fun guests sometimes.
I can't make it a problem.
>> We're friends.
>> We're enemies, we're friend of me.
>> Yeah, we are.
>> We are just friends.
>> It's adorable, honestly.
Yeah, but we'll see you in two weeks with our first book.
Again, which is Happy Place by Emily Henry.
>> Emily Henry.
>> All right.
Sorry.
But that's what it is.
See you then.
>> [LAUGH]
>> Bye.
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