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Emergency Podcast: On Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 [Teaser]

Book Riot - The Podcast

Riot New Media Group, Inc

Arts, News Commentary, News, Books, Tv & Film

4.3965 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A preview of the first-ever EMERGENCY bonus episode for Patreon subscribers. Obama released his favorite books of 2024. Let's just say there were surprises. Join us on Patreon for access to early, ad-free listening and all bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/bookriotpodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to a teaser for Book Riot Podcast premium content. If you want to hear the rest,

0:07.5

join us at patreon.com slash bookriot podcast. For just $10 a month, get access to our full library

0:14.7

of premium content in addition to receiving early ad-free access to the regular episodes you hear in the show.

0:21.6

Here we go.

0:23.9

Rebecca, we've never done this before.

0:25.4

For the first time ever, it's an emergency Patreon episode.

0:28.2

I feel like we need a siren sound effect.

0:31.0

We do.

0:31.7

The claxon is firing.

0:33.2

Part of this is we're not going to have a new show for a while, and by that time it'll be a little old, but people have actually emailed us. We put it on Instagram and people are like,

0:40.9

there's the first thing I thought of was you guys when I saw this. Yeah, this came out last Friday.

0:45.6

Late in the day, Barack Obama dropped his favorite books of 2024. Friday afternoon,

0:51.2

not the time for big news, my friend. And it was, as I wrote in today in books,

0:56.1

there were gasps heard around the bookternet because this is not the Barack Obama end of

1:00.6

year list that anyone was expecting based on how he's done it in the past. So we're going to do

1:06.2

20, 25 minutes on the Barack Obama. Right now, if you're listening in the feed as a preview,

1:11.9

it's going to cut out. This is it. Thank you so much for listening to the show writ large.

1:15.5

If you want to hear the rest of this, you can do Patreon. There's a bunch of other stuff there.

1:19.3

The winter draft is coming out. I'm going to try to crash this to be out, you know,

1:22.4

really soon after I'm recording it. Thank you so much. But to hear the rest, it's Patreon time. Here we go. And at Patreon, you can also

1:30.1

hear us predict what Obama's list was going to be. So you'll be able to really see. Because that was

1:34.8

prescient in all kinds of ways. How wrong we were. Thanks so much for listening. Join us at

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