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Hello! It's 30 Dirty Dying, I'm Clarissa. I'm

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Courtney. And we're your favorite six sad millennials

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who are just trying to have a good time, get

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through our 30s, and... Come to terms with the

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fact that nobody really knows what the fuck they're

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doing, so let's just stop pretending that we

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do. Agreed. Yeah. That's just how I feel right

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now. Yeah. It's just like, I'm here. Um, today

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we're just gonna have a chill, a chill, fun episode.

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Yeah. Right? Yeah. Just chillin', relaxin', all

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cool, shootin' some b -ball outside the school.

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I got in one little fight and my mom got scared.

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It says you're moving with your auntie and uncle

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in Bel Air. So we're just gonna chill and talk

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about books. Yeah, we're look one of the things

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we like to do with our spare time is Read we're

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both we're both readers and we often in our regular

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life as BFFs Hashtag biffles. OMG my BFF Jill.

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Yeah as Jill and Courtney Just kidding. My name

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is Clarissa We often just talk about the books

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we're reading and and talk about them and share

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them sometimes and so what what's what we're

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gonna do today We're having a book club Yeah,

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this is the 30 dirty and dying book club. Watch

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out book podcast. No, you guys are good. You

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guys do better than us. Because normally we do

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like judge a book by its cover and like game

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related to books. Yeah, we're just gonna we're

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just gonna talk about the books we've been reading.

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Yeah, exactly. So it's like we've we've set our

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yearly goals. We're a few months into the new

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year. So and I'm only nine away Courtney is winning.

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It's not a competition. We don't but you're doing

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great. You're really tearing it up and We're

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gonna do that right here, right now. We're doing

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it live. Yeah. But first... We gotta go back

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in time. Hell yeah! Back in time. Alright! 92.

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I was not here. I was... Uno. Dos. Tres. Catorce.

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Quatro, cinco, seis. I know, they say it in a

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YouTube song. Oh. And it's wrong. Yeah, well,

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YouTube sucks. I had a beef with YouTube. Listen,

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they don't suck. They made one really horrific

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decision. And I got a beef with them ever since

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then. So does everybody else. That album sucked,

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too. Yeah, that's because that's why they not

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a good. There's like this probably sucks. Let's

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just blast it onto all iPhones. Yeah. For free.

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It sucks. I don't dislike YouTube. Is it still

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on my phone? Because I don't use Apple Music.

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Me either. But the other day, I like. I had closed

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Spotify accidentally. So in my car, it connected

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to my Apple Music like the songs I bought on

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iTunes and what was on there and that was on

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there. And the Les Mis soundtrack. I have some

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I have some stuff in here. Got some Waka Flaka

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up in here. I got some Waka Flaka up in here.

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Hang on. Let me see. I got T .I. What you know

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about that? No More Mr. Nice Guy and the Ballad

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of Dwight Fry by Alice Cooper. Couple Bastille

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songs. Pompeii, Bad Blood. I don't have you two

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on here. Did I delete it? Can I delete it? I

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don't know, because I never did, but I wanted

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to. I got Avenged Sevenfold, Hail to the King.

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I got David Bowie. Capital City, Safe and Sound.

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I can leave you up! Because You Loved Me by Celine

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Dion, Locked Out of Heaven by Bruno Mars. Why,

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I have more songs than I thought on here. Tighten

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Up by the Black Keys. I have like the whole AWOL

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Nation album. I've got several Florence and the

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Machine songs, obviously. I've got Mumford and

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Sons. I have Iggy Azalea's whole album. I got

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Pink, her Divorce albums. I got some Red Hot

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Chili Peppers. Yep, I got the whole, there it

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is. I don't have it. I'm not listening to a single

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one of these. Led Zeppelin, Stairway to Heaven.

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Wow, way to go. Yeah. I've got some Three Days

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Grey, some Tom Petty. I've got the entire, on

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purpose, the entire Great Gatsby soundtrack.

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I love that. Yeah, I love that fucking soundtrack.

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I've also got some Young the Giant, Lose Yourself,

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and three songs from the Les Mis soundtrack.

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I Dream to Dream, On My Own, and the Red and

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Black. Read the blood of angry man. I have something

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strange that I never knew I did. I have the entire

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soundtrack for 13 reasons why. That's my 13th

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reason. I have 21 pilots first album. Okay, that's

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a Macklemore and some maroon five. I've got two

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songs that I did not choose. I know where they're

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on here. I can only imagine by Mercy Me and a

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rendition of Amazing Grace. I love that for you.

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I was in charge of the music for My Grandmother's

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Not Funeral. That's also why the Celine Dion

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song is on there. I also have an Elvis song on

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here that I picked for her. Mama Like the Roses.

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Soldier Boy Tell 'em. Hell yeah. I have two versions

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of Rihanna's Birthday Cake. Okay, I have the

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original and then the birthday cake remix a turtleneck

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and chain sipping on a light beer Okay, should

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we do back in time? We should do back in time

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Although I'm just I'm surprised about my entire

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Iggy Azalea album that I have on here Okay, so

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1992 you want to have some TV shows that came

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out? Yeah, okay Batman the animated series on

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Batman Dateline started. Oh shit Sailor Moon

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Yeah, 92 to 97 are we talking like the og sailor

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moon not in English or the one that's gonna be

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like in English I don't know Barney Ben Stiller

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had a show called the Ben Stiller show no way

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Jose it came out 92 three years good for him

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the real world came out 92 yep Wow oh fuck me

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up the big comfy couch The big comfy couch I

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wanted to do the clock stretch so bad, but I

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should have done it never have I ever been able

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to do that at any age. I have a feeling that

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my sacrum wouldn't be so tight. Yeah. But here

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we fucking are. Here we fucking are. Jeffrey

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Dahmer went to prison in 92. That's good. That's

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that's solid. That's good stuff. The Mall of

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America opened in Bloomington, Minnesota. Wow.

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Good for them. Minnesota. Hell yeah. That Peter

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Rabbit show. The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends.

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I know what you're talking about. I never watched

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it. Well, they were books too. Yeah. And then

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so they made a show about it. I remember the

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show. I think I feel like I watched it. I might

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have, I don't know. Bananas in pajamas. Bananas

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in pajamas. They're coming down the stairs. Bananas

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in pajamas. Going everywhere. That's not right,

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but it's close. I never watched it, but I can

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see it in my head. I watched it. I had a toy

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banana. They're blue striped pajamas. Absolutely

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they are. I had a toy one that sang the song

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when you pressed the sneakers. And I also had

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a banana in pajamas slippers. Love that for you.

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Yeah, I was I was cool kid. I was a little bananas

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and I love pajamas me too I feel medium about

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bananas actually, but you know, whatever IBM

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developed the first smartphone in 1992 that seems

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too soon AT &T introduced the video phone Guts

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came out guts guts Nickelodeon guts you Ricky

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Lake she had a talk show Pepsi co began to test

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market crystal Pepsi good times. It's true. I

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really liked the Pepsi blueberry blast flavor.

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I don't remember that it was blue. It tastes

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like berries. I said I bet it it bet it did.

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I bet it did it the cost of a 32nd Super Bowl

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ad was $850 ,000 seems like nothing which is

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sad. Okay, well in Well, yeah, so 850 ,000 for

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a 30 second, right? Okay. In 2022. Okay. A Super

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Bowl commercial cost 223 ,000 per second. Last

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of the Mohicans. Death Becomes Her. You know

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that Sabrina Carpenter video that came out for

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Taste with Jenna Ortega? Yes. It's based on Death

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Becomes Her, which is a movie with Meryl Streep.

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Okay. Yes. Aladdin. Okay. There we go. The Mighty

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Ducks. Speaking of Mighty Ducks, NHL players

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went on strike for the first time. Wow, good

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for them. In their 75 -year history. Well, Candyman?

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You ever seen that? Nope. Oh, you should. It's

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a good horror movie. Solid. I had to watch it

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in college for feminist horror movie, film, fucking

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whatever. The class was called Scream Queens.

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I love that. But it was about like film analysis

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with a feminist curve to it. I like that. Yep.

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Ferngully! The last rainforest. Oh, I fucked

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up FernGully. You've never seen FernGully? No.

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Hang on, sure you have. I sure haven't. Sure

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you have. Hang on, let me show you the bat thing.

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You'll know. You'll know when you see it. You'll

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know. That guy. I've never seen that. Are you

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fucking... Serious? I'm serious. Oh my god, they

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saved the rainforest! Good for them! You should

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watch it. You should watch it. I probably will

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not. If you guys want us to relive Ferngully,

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The Last Rainforest, you better tell me right

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fucking now. I'll make it happen. Oh my god.

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Beethoven? You hate that movie, right? I do.

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I tried to rewatch it not even that long ago,

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and it gave me so much anxiety, I turned it off.

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Not a big dog fan. No, he was everywhere. Well,

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yeah, he's a fucking safe Bernard. As he was

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drooling and fucking shit up, and I'm like, I

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hate dogs. And I turned it off. I'm just like

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and then I think I watch a risk of cats. Oh my

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god Why did I almost start singing the bare necessities

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though? That's jungle book, which I also love.

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I've never watched. What is it? Everybody Everybody

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wants to be your cat eggs 93 cents a dozen yikes.

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Okay. Yeah hit me with some costs Okay, let's

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get sad. Um So bread 99 cents for a 16 ounce

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loaf. Okay butter for a two pound package three

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dollars Wow. Fuck. For Lando Lakes. Fuck. Um,

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Oreos? $1 .59. Oh my god. Eggs? $0 .93. Ugh,

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this is horrific. Uh, half gallon of ice cream?

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Yeah. $2 .99. Oh my god. Heinz ketchup? $0 .99.

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I'm getting sad. I was right. Milk? $2 .78 a

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gallon. I hate the way you say milk. Milk? Shut

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up. I hate it. I'm slashing out, I'm sorry. You

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can get five Campbell's soup cans for two dollars.

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Oh my god, build a time machine, someone, please.

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Send me some soup. Send me some, he needs some

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soup. I love soup. For some reason they have

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a ham on here, 79 cents per pound. That seems

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pretty good, I guess. I don't know. It's been

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a while since I bought ham, but. I like ham.

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Did what I say I like ham I like eggs beef for

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an eye round roast $2 .99 per pound beef sauteed

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with peas and onions Sorry, yeah oranges for

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oranges for 99 cents. Oh, man. Now it's like

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99 cents per orange and give me your liver while

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you're at it peanut butter skippy for a 64 64

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ounce jar $5 .99 Okay. That's the big boy, I

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think. That's the biggin? I think that's a biggin.

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Oh, shit. I'm gonna Google that, 64 ounce jar

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of Skippy. And I'ma tell you. I'll tell you what.

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You sound like me. Ounce jar. After a couple

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beers. I'ma tell you what, boy. Skippy. Yeah,

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it's a big boy. Wow. It is $10 .44 at Walmart.

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Let's go over some billboards. Let's do some

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billboards. Yeet. So this is the Billboard Hot

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100, End of the Road, by Voice to Men. So now

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we've come to the end of the road. I can't let

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go. It's so natural. Okay. You belong to me.

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I belong to you. Sorry, guys. I love that. Thanks.

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You're gonna need to do that again for me sometime.

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Okay, whenever you want. I'll serenade you. The

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other night I started singing like non -stop.

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I was just at... Justin just add him and he was

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like, please stop and I was like people love

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to be serenaded There are thousands of movies

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like this. You should be so lucky, but he's like

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Nothing good Nothing good. Don't shut up. Probably

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baby got back. Oh sir. Mixed me a lot sir Mixed

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me a lot. You know what? I mean my loving you're

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never gonna get it never gonna get never gonna

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get it. Yep Under the bridge red hot chili peppers

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another one it came out 91 but again still killing

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it smells like teen spirit by nirvana I like

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nirvana. I do too love nirvana and it does smell

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like teen spirit always. Um, so the reason I

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chose 92 Because we're doing books today. We're

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just talking about the books that we've been

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reading Yeah, and one of the first like sets

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of books that I remember like reading Yeah, was

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Junie B Jones fucking love it. And I what you

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know, it also came out 92 what? Goosebumps. The

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books are the show. The books. Nice. Arl Stein.

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Good stuff. So both 92 Goosebumps and Junie B.

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Jones. The big books that I - big. The small

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kids books that I remember. Well, I read Goosebumps.

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I didn't really read Junie B. Jones. I feel like

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I read one or two of them, but I don't remember

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- I don't remember much about them. I don't remember

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much about them either, but I do remember reading

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a lot of Junie B. Jones. Yeah. Okay, so Junie

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B. Jones series has faced challenges and bans

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due to concerns about the characters perceived

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mouthiness, poor social values and grammar with

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some viewing her as a negative role model. Banning

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books is stupid. Yeah. Read the banned book.

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Yeah, read the banned book. Read the banned book.

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We read some books that are probably banned.

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I know some of your shit. It should. It's hardcore

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porn. Whatever. Okay. Okay. Tell me it isn't.

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You're right. I know. Look, I don't hate smut.

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I don't have anything against you and your team.

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I just, it's porn. Which is fine. Fine. Well,

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just speaking of it, should we hit play on that

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Now back to the show. Let's start. So you've

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read how many books so far this year? I know

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it's way more than me. I have not read very many

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at all. But go ahead. 41. My goal for the year

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is 40. My goal for the year is 50. That's pretty

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good. Yeah. I set it low because I want to meet

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it and then exceed it. You seemed really happy

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when you did that last year. So year 20. Let's

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go back. The year is 2023. Okay. I told myself

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because that's when I first started reading books

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again. You did. I was like, I'm gonna read a

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book a month. Yes, I recall. So I'm gonna read

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12 books and I read 15. You did. I'm like, fuck

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me up. I love that for me. So then I set my book

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to I think my goal for 2024. as 25 books. I'm

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like, I can probably do that. I read a hundred,

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a hundred and four books. Because I started reading

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romance. But quick fun reads. Just a roll in

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the hay. Yeah. Quickies, if you will. Well, they're

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not quickies in the book. I'm telling you that

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much. Okay. Um, no, that's I think that's a good

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goal. I think you can do it. Yeah. So I set 50,

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which I'm already so close. Yeah, because right

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now I am in the middle of three other books.

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Okay. Because I physical, digital audio. Okay,

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so you trifecta it? Yes. Okay. So right now I'm

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listening to a book about this girl who's like

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a bridesmaid for hire. Oh, interesting. Okay.

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Yeah. So she, like, People hire her not necessarily

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to be a bridesmaid but to like help with the

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bridesmaids so there's like not drama and like

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the bride has less to worry about so she's like

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Not as much as like the wedding planner, but

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she just like herds like a meteor type person

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essentially I got you and just make sure everything

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is like as it needs to be I'm sure that's helpful

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and then So if the book starts with she's being

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hired to be The maid of honor. Okay, and she

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doesn't the bride doesn't want people to know

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that she's hired to do it So she has to like

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pretend to like be her like best friend Okay,

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but then she Has the hots For the best man. Oh

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appropriate and the best man's like who's this

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bitch? Okay, Sherlock Holmes, what do you care?

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He well, that's where I'm at right now Okay,

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so he's like a very cynical like marriage is

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stupid type of guy. Is it me? But he's like,

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I need to be there for like my best friend, like

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he's doing this, but he doesn't like the girl

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that he's marrying, because it was like a very

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quick engagement, like, he doesn't really know

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anything about her. And like, everything's changing.

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And he's just very upset about it, right? Like

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Sean was when Cory and Topanga got married. Right

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without well no because like he's never met her

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like he just met her he met her when they got

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engaged oh so like it like he went I think it

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was like Brian Brian's the guy the best friend's

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name like went to Paris and met this girl and

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they like got engaged and I came back oh like

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some wild thing he was like I don't trust it

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yeah it was weird and now she's hiring this like

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bridesmaid cuz like it ended up coming out kind

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of like in the middle of the book, that she did

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like hire her to like be a bridesmaid. Okay.

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So they the the main character girl, her name

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is Randy. Oh, Randy, baby. So Randy's just like,

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well, have you ever been to a wedding before?

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And he was will wills the guy's name. I'm going

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to say names right now. So wills wills just like,

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well, now that you think Now that I think about

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it, no, I've actually never been to a wedding

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before. So she was like, Okay, so I am part of

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this wedding. This coming up weekend, you're

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going to come with me as a date. So you can like

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figure out like what a wedding like flow is.

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So you can be there for your best friend day

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of right know what to expect. Right. So he enjoys

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his time, and then they just kissed and they're

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going back home. Oh, and that's where it has

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ended for me so far. Okay, fun stuff. So that's

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the one you're reading. That's what I'm listening

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to listening to. So that's the audio book. Yes,

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the one that I'm reading is called fracture.

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Okay. It is a taboo romance. Okay, content warnings

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ahead the content warnings ahead there is a step

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sister, step brother. Okay. Ex boyfriend. Okay.

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A lot of people. So the the stepbrother and ex

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boyfriend went to jail. Okay, because they killed

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the girl's father because he was abusive. We'll

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just go with that. We'll just go with that. Okay.

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He got out 10 years later. They're apparently

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these rich people. I don't even know, whatever.

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So they all come from money. Okay, can't relate.

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I know, right? So they come out and the girls

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just like stay with me until you like get your

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shit together. Right? Like you just came out

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of jail, you got to like, you know, get your

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inheritances back. So the boyfriend, ex boyfriend,

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boyfriend, it's boyfriend. Okay. Bisexual. It's

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all starting to come together. The step bro realizes

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that he loves his best friend, who is the boyfriend.

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So they fuck. Of course they do. Duh. And they're

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just like, whoa, I can't believe. Just friends

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being friends. Just bros being bros. Bro has

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a thing for step sis, right? Cool, yeah, it wouldn't

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be the same without incest. Step sis loves step

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bro. It's not incest, they're steps. They're

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not even related. We're not gonna have this fight

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again, Courtney. We're not gonna have this fight

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again. Step bro, step sis, love each other, right?

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Okay. Well, they got together, like, well, they

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became step siblings at like teenage years. It's

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not like they grew up together. Okay. Yeah, okay.

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Whatever. Whatever. Just keep talking. Um, so

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they they love each other, right? Yeah. Um, step

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sister, boyfriend, love each other, right? Boyfriend

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step bro love each other, right? Seems perfect

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triangle. Now they're all fucking Yeah, together.

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Well, in what I've gotten so far, like that you

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made a circle with your hands. Well, because

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they're doing something. Okay. Um, what part

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I'm on right now is they're talking about a threesome

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for the first time. Oh, So they're taking it

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slow? Well, they were all doing things separately.

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And then they finally came together like we've

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been doing this all separately. Maybe we should

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get together. Wow. I want to be inside your head

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when you read these books. I feel like it's like

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and I'm enjoying myself thoroughly. Okay, so

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that's what you're physically reading. Like there's

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it's you holding your handbook. It's my ebook.

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Okay, what are you holding your handbook right

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now? Um, I haven't started it. Okay. But it's

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the second. Something it was it something in

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Lark. It's the Lark. No, it's the Butcher and

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Blackbird second one. Leather and Lark. Leather

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and Lark. Okay, so you read the Butcher and Blackbird.

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I did and I liked it. Good. And I gave it to

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my Aunt Mary Jo. Wow. Well, I'm glad I was talking

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to her about it. She was like, I would love to

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read this. Okay, I'm glad. I actually I bought

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that. And then I gave it to Courtney because

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I did not care for it. It wasn't about it being

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smart. I just wasn't into the story. Like I hadn't

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even gotten to the sex yet. nobody was like oh

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it's a sloper yeah i was like and there's barely

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anything honestly i would say it's more just

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uh it's a romance yeah like i skimmed it it's

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not sexy time yeah it's very popular um so that's

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why i got it because i was like this will be

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interesting and then it wasn't that i did skim

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it after i decided i was not gonna keep reading

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it but it wasn't like i hated it or anything

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i just wasn't interested so i was like i'm not

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gonna power through this and i know you might

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like it so i'll give it to you and i do like

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it and now it's it's out there in the world yeah

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and harry joe has right now book close Look at

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us. Look at us. So I only this is where we're

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very different. I read one book at a time. The

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only exception is sometimes I will do an audiobook

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while I'm listening or while I'm reading a physical

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book. But if I decide to do that, I have to finish

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one first. I don't know why I'm like this, but

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I am I've just whatever your brain does Yeah,

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like people ask me how how am I keeping track

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of these things? Like because I just pick it

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up and I know where I left off Yeah, like I get

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how people can do it my friend Shannon who's

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a big reader She's always reading like four or

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five things at a time. Um, so I just last night

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I stayed up way too late and finished reading

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night bitch by Rachel Yoder. Okay, this book.

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They made it a movie. It's on Hulu right now.

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Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. My dog. Yeah. She turns

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into a dog or something. Yeah. So I mean, I didn't

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I didn't it didn't sound interesting to me to

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watch. I'm not gonna watch it. Um, I've never

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tried to watch it. Look, it was it was weird

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as hell. I'm not gonna lie to you. It was very

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weird. So it's basically the point of it is she's

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a new ish mom. And it's it's very like feminist

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commentary on motherhood. and how women are kind

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of just expected to be moms and be super great

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at it and give up their careers. And so she's

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having a really hard time with that. And she

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begins or so she believes to turn into a dog.

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And it's like, you'll be reading it. And it's

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it's very just like Don't know it seems just

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like stuff. She's thinking which makes total

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sense about the motherhood stuff. Yeah, and then

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it's like and then I ate a rabbit It just it's

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a lot. I I so I probably wouldn't like it. I

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didn't love it I didn't hate it the beginning

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was very slow and then like once that stuff started

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happening because I was like what the fuck's

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going on though like are you actually a dog or

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do you just think you're a dog and Because you

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don't know Don't know about in the movie like

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maybe in the movie. It's very obvious that she

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is where mom but like The whole book it's like

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she could be turning into a dog or she could

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just have a psychotic break Yeah after having

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a child and she's running around like shitting

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in people's yards and killing animals and shit

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And it's like you're you're thinking of it like

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a dog within you're like this could just be a

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woman Running around in the dead of night and

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I was like, I need to see what happens. You don't

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get a clear answer It doesn't really matter.

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It's more about what's happening. It's more about

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the themes. Okay. Um, it's not bad It's just

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the only thing I had a real problem with was

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there was a lot of animal killing I don't like

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I like to avoid that when I can but but I knew

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there would probably be some yeah because of

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what the fuck it's about like I get it it got

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Excessive like I started just be like this is

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a fucking lot. I don't know But it's not bad.

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It's a pretty interesting take on like the whole

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motherhood and being a working mom and nobody

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says working dad and everything you have to give

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up and it is interesting. It's just, it was weird.

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It was weird as shit. So I literally just finished

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that one last night. I just finished the Mindfuck

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series. Okay. So, okay. It's not, I wouldn't,

00:25:44.920 --> 00:25:48.880
there's romance element. Okay. But what it's

00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:57.079
about is a serial killer and a FBI profiler.

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Oh, so wheels up in 30. So the serial killer

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is a girl. Okay, the profile is boy. Mr. Hutch.

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So she is killing so her her Her dad and her

00:26:16.779 --> 00:26:21.039
brother were murdered. Okay, it's like this small

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religious town that she grew up in right and

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The town essentially pinned like these murders

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on her dad, even though he had nothing to do

00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:35.299
with it okay, and he went to jail and then was

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murdered and Then like this group of like 12

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like teen boys, okay like Did things to her and

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her brother so like assault yes, okay to Real

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fuck like to death. Oh my god. Okay. Yeah, so

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really bad He died and she Somehow lived right

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but like she had to do like facial reconstruction

00:27:07.970 --> 00:27:12.410
like oh my god crazy like Fucked up really really

00:27:12.410 --> 00:27:17.440
fucked up shit And so she and her like best friend

00:27:17.440 --> 00:27:20.920
ended up like, I guess at the same the same night

00:27:20.920 --> 00:27:25.000
that this assault happened. Another like girl

00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:28.539
had like a car accident and she she died. Okay,

00:27:28.579 --> 00:27:32.160
so this the main character girl like took her

00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:34.799
identity identity, because they were at the same

00:27:34.799 --> 00:27:37.279
hospital same time. Oh, there's an episode of

00:27:37.279 --> 00:27:39.380
house like this. And so she and that the girl

00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:45.380
was rich. So she took her identity and then ended

00:27:45.380 --> 00:27:47.660
up changing the name like when she was like,

00:27:47.799 --> 00:27:50.700
I forget how old she was at the time. But then

00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:54.119
she waited 10 years like she like took like martial

00:27:54.119 --> 00:27:56.279
arts classes like she was preparing to murder

00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:58.819
these guys. I love that. It's very I spit on

00:27:58.819 --> 00:28:03.440
your grave. Yeah. So as she's, you know, murdering

00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:09.200
these guys, the profiler is on this case, and

00:28:09.200 --> 00:28:14.640
they meet each other. At like a cafe and he like

00:28:14.640 --> 00:28:17.819
she's like not about it right so like he's busy.

00:28:18.680 --> 00:28:20.180
She's busy so she's sitting there like drinking

00:28:20.180 --> 00:28:23.700
coffee or whatever and the profilers like buddy

00:28:23.700 --> 00:28:26.279
like comes like hit on her and she was like walk

00:28:26.279 --> 00:28:28.819
away dude I don't like because she's obviously

00:28:28.819 --> 00:28:30.140
because everything that happened in her past

00:28:30.140 --> 00:28:32.240
very cynic like does not believe in love like

00:28:32.240 --> 00:28:34.279
she was like my goal is to murder these people

00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:36.119
and I'll probably end up dying at the end like

00:28:36.119 --> 00:28:40.480
that is sounds like a great goal right but then.

00:28:41.699 --> 00:28:48.299
the profiler like ends up buying her like drinks,

00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:51.220
and then just like leaves. So like she has no

00:28:51.220 --> 00:28:54.119
I like, she finds out when she goes to pay her

00:28:54.119 --> 00:28:56.079
bill that it's already been paid by like that

00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:58.240
guy. So she runs up to him was like, why would

00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:01.160
you do that? Like, fuck you. I can do what I

00:29:01.160 --> 00:29:04.500
want. Like I can pay my own bill. Okay. And he

00:29:04.500 --> 00:29:07.720
was just like, Ends up giving her his card and

00:29:07.720 --> 00:29:09.920
was like if you ever you know when I have coffee

00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:12.920
again leaves and she was like the fuck just happened

00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:16.099
But like then they end up falling in love and

00:29:16.099 --> 00:29:19.279
she's like trying to keep like her murders Secret

00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:23.579
duh, and he's trying to find her I love this.

00:29:23.900 --> 00:29:27.000
It's it's a great series. It sounds good. Yeah,

00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:29.000
I would recommend and they're all so it's five

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.359
books, but they're all pretty short. They're

00:29:30.359 --> 00:29:33.339
like about 100 some pages each. Okay. So how

00:29:33.339 --> 00:29:36.180
how severe I know the the assault is probably

00:29:36.180 --> 00:29:40.200
there. But like, how porn is this? It's not it's

00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:42.579
not not really. No, that's great. We just play

00:29:42.579 --> 00:29:44.980
what it's called the mindfuck. I really assumed

00:29:44.980 --> 00:29:48.079
it would be heavily pornographic. Nope. It's

00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:50.619
just like you're trying to figure out like, because

00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:53.500
You don't know like all the things that are happening

00:29:53.500 --> 00:29:56.299
like who's doing what like from the past. I got

00:29:56.299 --> 00:29:58.720
you. So like you're figuring all these things.

00:29:58.759 --> 00:30:00.700
It's just like a mindfuck. Well, damn, I might

00:30:00.700 --> 00:30:03.059
read me this. It's good. It's on. It's on Kindle

00:30:03.059 --> 00:30:08.920
Unlimited. St. Abbey or Stabby. Ah, oh my god.

00:30:09.039 --> 00:30:12.460
St. Good call. St. Abbey. I love that. Yep. So

00:30:12.460 --> 00:30:15.740
it starts with the risk. The risk. Okay. This

00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:17.940
I'm assuming this is all on your Goodreads to

00:30:17.940 --> 00:30:19.759
yes find them there. Okay, cool. Yep. So that

00:30:19.759 --> 00:30:21.519
was the one that I just that series I just finished

00:30:21.519 --> 00:30:23.500
that I really enjoyed. That's cool. See, I'm

00:30:23.500 --> 00:30:25.539
not much of a series person. You're almost always

00:30:25.539 --> 00:30:27.160
going to catch me reading a standalone book.

00:30:27.740 --> 00:30:30.079
It's not a big series. I prefer standalones.

00:30:30.319 --> 00:30:33.660
Yeah. And my friend Melissa gets really pissed

00:30:33.660 --> 00:30:36.660
at me that I'll read one single book in a series

00:30:36.660 --> 00:30:38.720
and I don't finish it. Yeah, she was like, how

00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:40.500
the fuck do you like you need to read the rest

00:30:40.500 --> 00:30:42.700
of it? And I was like, it was I like the first

00:30:42.700 --> 00:30:45.720
book. I do the same thing. I did that with the

00:30:45.720 --> 00:30:47.980
you series that the show is based on, right?

00:30:48.019 --> 00:30:50.980
Like I read the first one. And it was fine. It

00:30:50.980 --> 00:30:53.619
was good. But I know there are like three or

00:30:53.619 --> 00:30:55.140
four more or whatever. And I'm just like, I'm

00:30:55.140 --> 00:30:58.099
good. I don't need to do this anymore. One of

00:30:58.099 --> 00:31:02.559
the like hockey romances that I read. Yeah, like

00:31:02.559 --> 00:31:06.039
I read What is it called? Pucking something?

00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:07.940
Pucking around? Yes. Pucking around. You talked

00:31:07.940 --> 00:31:11.619
about it on books by their covers. Yeah. So that's

00:31:11.619 --> 00:31:13.640
the first of this. I think there's gonna end

00:31:13.640 --> 00:31:16.880
up being five. And I haven't read any of the

00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:18.940
rest of them. And I think the third or fourth

00:31:18.940 --> 00:31:21.380
one just came out. And Melissa just like you

00:31:21.380 --> 00:31:24.000
need read the next one. I was like, I liked the

00:31:24.000 --> 00:31:27.099
first one. I'm good. And there were There's like

00:31:27.099 --> 00:31:29.779
700 pages. I remember that was a thick boy. It

00:31:29.779 --> 00:31:31.720
was a thick boy. Well, I read it on my phone,

00:31:31.759 --> 00:31:34.079
didn't realize that it was like a thousand pages

00:31:34.079 --> 00:31:35.759
long. Yeah, but you told me you like showed me

00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:38.119
a picture of the actual book. Yeah, it was a

00:31:38.119 --> 00:31:42.019
thick boy. Wow. You know, so right before Night

00:31:42.019 --> 00:31:45.019
Bitch, I read actually my, well, not my first,

00:31:45.319 --> 00:31:49.460
my second, I've only done two five star reads

00:31:49.460 --> 00:31:52.740
of the year so far. Because I have not read 40

00:31:52.740 --> 00:31:55.869
some books. I've read like five. I didn't read

00:31:55.869 --> 00:31:58.250
anything in February because I was writing a

00:31:58.250 --> 00:32:00.910
book, but I read I just finished before night

00:32:00.910 --> 00:32:04.789
bitch the bog witch You heard of this? No, okay,

00:32:05.170 --> 00:32:08.130
so it's so good I was I didn't know if it was

00:32:08.130 --> 00:32:11.089
gonna be very good because it's it's an Appalachian

00:32:11.089 --> 00:32:14.769
like folktale thing but it started to seem like

00:32:14.769 --> 00:32:17.029
maybe it was gonna be about incest and I don't

00:32:17.029 --> 00:32:20.349
like that because not just because of gross,

00:32:20.750 --> 00:32:25.130
but it's a stereotype about West Virginia and

00:32:25.130 --> 00:32:27.349
Appalachian people. And it's not fucking true.

00:32:27.609 --> 00:32:29.970
Correct. And it makes me mad. And the author

00:32:29.970 --> 00:32:31.890
is not an Appalachian person either. So I was

00:32:31.890 --> 00:32:34.630
like, this is extra party foul. But it didn't

00:32:34.630 --> 00:32:38.349
end up being that she's cool. I just I was ready

00:32:38.349 --> 00:32:40.369
to be disappointed, like always, because, you

00:32:40.369 --> 00:32:42.230
know, people people fuck around with that a lot.

00:32:42.289 --> 00:32:44.730
I don't get it. But anyways, it was a West Virginian

00:32:44.730 --> 00:32:47.710
family. And basically what it was about was these

00:32:47.710 --> 00:32:50.369
this family of like, they were like four siblings.

00:32:50.970 --> 00:32:54.390
And they live with their dad. on this like, they

00:32:54.390 --> 00:32:57.470
had like a bog, like a swamp on their land. And

00:32:57.470 --> 00:33:02.410
he said, hell yeah. And the bog basically gives

00:33:02.410 --> 00:33:05.890
the firstborn son of the family, a wife, like

00:33:05.890 --> 00:33:08.630
it creates a woman. Like, I don't know, like

00:33:08.630 --> 00:33:12.309
a mer person almost, but like a woman. And if

00:33:12.309 --> 00:33:14.210
they take care of the bog and they do everything

00:33:14.210 --> 00:33:16.250
like ritualistically, they're supposed to do,

00:33:16.809 --> 00:33:20.430
the bog will continue to provide, right? So but

00:33:20.430 --> 00:33:23.799
their mom, weirdly like disappeared when you

00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:25.660
don't fully understand what happened to her as

00:33:25.660 --> 00:33:29.440
you keep reading it, you do find out. But they

00:33:29.440 --> 00:33:31.579
have to follow all these rituals. And then it

00:33:31.579 --> 00:33:34.079
comes to when the dad is dying and one of the

00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.640
sisters has left. And she comes back because

00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:40.559
they all have to be there for and it doesn't

00:33:40.559 --> 00:33:45.740
work. Like the oldest brother is he had a tree

00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:48.960
fall on him. So he's like His pelvis he's like

00:33:48.960 --> 00:33:51.359
partially paralyzed and it fucked up his penis

00:33:51.359 --> 00:33:54.859
Yeah, just take your penis. Well, the thing is

00:33:54.859 --> 00:33:56.900
when the bog which comes out like when the lady

00:33:56.900 --> 00:34:01.319
comes out You have to bang her like right there.

00:34:01.339 --> 00:34:04.619
Oh, she's not graphic So don't get excited, but

00:34:04.619 --> 00:34:07.460
it's it's part of the ritual like she and you

00:34:07.460 --> 00:34:10.340
have to immediately consummate the Partnership

00:34:10.340 --> 00:34:12.920
and he can't I mean he can't because he has no

00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:22.409
dick He can still use his mouth. No, you can't

00:34:22.409 --> 00:34:25.210
you gotta you gotta cuz the penetrate it's for

00:34:25.210 --> 00:34:30.829
procreation babies, you know, but he had a testicular

00:34:30.829 --> 00:34:35.750
rupture. But they live like really was removed

00:34:35.750 --> 00:34:38.530
from society. So once they realized that it's

00:34:38.530 --> 00:34:41.550
not gonna work. And the one came back and she

00:34:41.550 --> 00:34:43.690
had tried to like live a life out there and it

00:34:43.690 --> 00:34:46.889
did not go so hot. Um, she tried to get married

00:34:46.889 --> 00:34:49.489
and she's, you know, she was completely and they're

00:34:49.489 --> 00:34:52.750
all real fucked up. Um, but once they realize

00:34:52.750 --> 00:34:54.510
it's not going to work, they're all trying to

00:34:54.510 --> 00:34:57.989
figure out the way out of this because for generations

00:34:57.989 --> 00:35:00.190
or so they've been told, it's not necessarily

00:35:00.190 --> 00:35:02.170
true, but for generations, they've like, this

00:35:02.170 --> 00:35:04.150
is the only way our family lineage survives.

00:35:04.269 --> 00:35:06.150
What do we do now? Yeah. So like the one that

00:35:06.150 --> 00:35:09.550
left was like, we need to sell the land, sell

00:35:09.550 --> 00:35:12.179
the house. We can all go out on our own. The

00:35:12.179 --> 00:35:14.280
one the older brother who doesn't have his penis

00:35:14.280 --> 00:35:17.659
anymore. It's like I should kill myself. The

00:35:17.659 --> 00:35:19.619
second brother his dad literally told him as

00:35:19.619 --> 00:35:21.219
he was dying like you should kill your brother

00:35:21.219 --> 00:35:25.800
because it should you can do it and he can't.

00:35:26.320 --> 00:35:28.579
So, you know, fuck him. Yeah. And then the youngest

00:35:28.579 --> 00:35:30.579
one is like I just want everybody to get along.

00:35:30.739 --> 00:35:32.599
I have so many feelings just like that bitchy

00:35:32.599 --> 00:35:35.989
mean girls. And then the other's daughter is

00:35:35.989 --> 00:35:38.469
like the hard ass of the family. And she goes

00:35:38.469 --> 00:35:41.789
out has lots of random sex with people out there

00:35:41.789 --> 00:35:44.769
to try and have an air herself. She's like, if

00:35:44.769 --> 00:35:47.269
they can't do it, I will. And it's just them

00:35:47.269 --> 00:35:49.050
all kind of figuring it out. And they realize

00:35:49.050 --> 00:35:51.829
that their their family history was like, kind

00:35:51.829 --> 00:35:54.170
of fabricated. And then they find out what happened

00:35:54.170 --> 00:35:58.849
to their mom. And it's they all at the end, they

00:35:58.849 --> 00:36:02.550
all kind of like, go their own way and handle

00:36:02.550 --> 00:36:05.030
it. as they wanted to handle it separately like

00:36:05.030 --> 00:36:07.489
they're able to leave it all behind and be like

00:36:07.489 --> 00:36:10.230
fuck this thing and make their own fuck this

00:36:10.230 --> 00:36:13.329
shit i'm out yep basically and the the one with

00:36:13.329 --> 00:36:16.429
no penis he he lives and he leaves he's like

00:36:16.429 --> 00:36:19.989
i need he says like i need to be someone else

00:36:19.989 --> 00:36:23.329
okay i loved it it sounds interesting it's really

00:36:23.329 --> 00:36:26.250
good and if you like like fantasy type shit because

00:36:26.250 --> 00:36:28.150
i'm not a big fantasy reader i'm not i don't

00:36:28.150 --> 00:36:30.750
read like any fantasy me neither but it's it's

00:36:30.750 --> 00:36:33.090
like a good line because obviously there are

00:36:33.090 --> 00:36:35.329
like fantastical kind of elements like with the

00:36:35.329 --> 00:36:38.389
Bogwitch and rituals and stuff. I mean, I did

00:36:38.389 --> 00:36:40.670
read a book about Mothman. There you go. But

00:36:40.670 --> 00:36:42.989
like it's got all that kind of ritualistic stuff

00:36:42.989 --> 00:36:46.070
that I think is popular in fantasy reads. And

00:36:46.070 --> 00:36:47.989
there is some elements but it's more about the

00:36:47.989 --> 00:36:50.269
family and them. Also, the youngest daughter

00:36:50.269 --> 00:36:53.030
has a pet possum. I love that for her. Yep. He's

00:36:53.030 --> 00:36:56.309
an albino possum with three legs named Buzzy

00:36:56.309 --> 00:36:58.769
Lumpkins or something. Oh, he's great. Buzzy

00:36:58.769 --> 00:37:01.679
Lumpkins. Buzzy Lumpkins. Nice. So that was a

00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:04.460
good one. Yeah, my other five star read, I think

00:37:04.460 --> 00:37:06.119
I already talked about it. So I won't go too

00:37:06.119 --> 00:37:08.320
deep into it by Nick Medina was called Indian

00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:11.320
Barrel Ground. He's a he's an indigenous author.

00:37:11.320 --> 00:37:14.699
And he was writing about basically this like,

00:37:14.719 --> 00:37:17.400
series of crazy hauntings that was happening

00:37:17.400 --> 00:37:22.320
on the reservation. And like people are it's

00:37:22.320 --> 00:37:25.059
it's scary, dude, I was like, a little freaked

00:37:25.059 --> 00:37:27.139
out that people are sitting up in their coffins

00:37:27.139 --> 00:37:29.969
and saying shit. And I'm just gonna read this.

00:37:30.030 --> 00:37:32.670
Yeah. And like, there's a little boy and he like

00:37:32.670 --> 00:37:35.550
tries to pull people into a fire. Kids am I right?

00:37:35.590 --> 00:37:37.650
Yeah. And then this other lady tries this older

00:37:37.650 --> 00:37:40.030
lady like tries to pull her own daughter into

00:37:40.030 --> 00:37:43.989
like a like a sewage drift or whatever. It's

00:37:43.989 --> 00:37:46.190
like people start going nuts and trying to kill

00:37:46.190 --> 00:37:48.610
people. And it's like this curse that's that's

00:37:48.610 --> 00:37:50.510
kind of been reawakened or whatever. Sounds interesting.

00:37:50.710 --> 00:37:53.050
It's really good. I would recommend it. Okay.

00:37:53.469 --> 00:37:55.969
It's that that and the Bogwitch were my only

00:37:55.969 --> 00:38:00.380
so far like five star. ratings thus far this

00:38:00.380 --> 00:38:02.500
year. I do have a five I think I have two but

00:38:02.500 --> 00:38:05.380
the one that I know the other brother. Okay,

00:38:05.639 --> 00:38:08.960
I rated as a five by Tierney page. Okay, so she

00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:11.099
this is her first book. Nice. Like I found her

00:38:11.099 --> 00:38:13.659
on TikTok. She did like she was a part of book

00:38:13.659 --> 00:38:16.139
talk. Okay. And she like rated a bunch of books

00:38:16.139 --> 00:38:18.400
and like I trusted her judgment. So like I read

00:38:18.400 --> 00:38:20.300
a lot of books that she read because I really

00:38:20.300 --> 00:38:22.980
liked her. Yeah. So this is her first book, the

00:38:22.980 --> 00:38:25.579
other brother. And the reason why I gave it a

00:38:25.579 --> 00:38:27.880
five star something that you see in romance a

00:38:27.880 --> 00:38:30.300
lot. There's really bad like communication. Yes,

00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:34.059
just Speak. Yeah, just speak the miscommunication

00:38:34.059 --> 00:38:38.179
trope is infuriating. It's so I get so pissed.

00:38:38.179 --> 00:38:41.500
Yeah, and there was no miscommunication the first

00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:44.809
time that they like didn't like Meet eye to eye

00:38:44.809 --> 00:38:47.849
they talked about it and it is actually not rated

00:38:47.849 --> 00:38:49.809
great because of that. They're like, where's

00:38:49.809 --> 00:38:53.090
the drama? I'm like, fuck your drama. I hate

00:38:53.090 --> 00:38:55.030
that. Give me communication and give me love.

00:38:55.090 --> 00:38:57.630
See this is the thing I don't mind a book that's

00:38:57.630 --> 00:38:59.610
like people call them like quiet books or like

00:38:59.610 --> 00:39:02.670
there's not a lot of like gasp Oh my god, I'm

00:39:02.670 --> 00:39:04.829
okay with that. I actually kind of prefer books

00:39:04.829 --> 00:39:07.349
like that Especially if they can kind of delve

00:39:07.349 --> 00:39:09.730
deep into whether it's the characters or whatever

00:39:09.730 --> 00:39:12.860
the like storyline is Um, I think it's a fine

00:39:12.860 --> 00:39:14.679
line like you need to make it exciting like one

00:39:14.679 --> 00:39:16.000
of the things with the night bitch book, like

00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:17.860
I said, it's a great interesting commentary.

00:39:18.219 --> 00:39:20.199
There's a lot of that thematic stuff going on.

00:39:20.300 --> 00:39:22.320
But there were parts I was like, fuck, I don't

00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:24.920
care. Yeah. Whereas like the Indian burial ground

00:39:24.920 --> 00:39:29.239
book, it was it was a really thematic book. Like

00:39:29.239 --> 00:39:31.639
there was a lot of a lot of different commentaries

00:39:31.639 --> 00:39:35.900
and like symbolism and a lot of a lot of issues

00:39:35.900 --> 00:39:38.519
were kind of raised. But it was still a really

00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:41.150
interesting read and exciting. But nothing that

00:39:41.150 --> 00:39:43.289
just felt like we're just throwing shit on top

00:39:43.289 --> 00:39:46.449
of. Yeah, you can still have a really deep dive

00:39:46.449 --> 00:39:49.469
of a book and a really, you know, societal, whatever

00:39:49.469 --> 00:39:50.969
you're trying to say, you can definitely say

00:39:50.969 --> 00:39:52.630
it. And it's still interesting and exciting.

00:39:53.130 --> 00:39:55.789
Like, without just throwing stupid shit, like

00:39:55.789 --> 00:39:57.909
the miscommunication trope is so dumb. But what

00:39:57.909 --> 00:40:00.730
I also like, so like, what happened in the other

00:40:00.730 --> 00:40:04.230
brother? Obviously, two brothers. Yeah. But so

00:40:04.230 --> 00:40:07.590
the girl, she's engaged to the one, one of the

00:40:07.590 --> 00:40:10.110
brothers, right? Okay. He's cheating on her.

00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:15.440
Oh, and like she figures it out. I forget when

00:40:15.440 --> 00:40:17.800
it's I mean, it's this was one of the first.

00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.260
Yeah, within like the first month of my reads

00:40:20.260 --> 00:40:24.920
of January. But anyway, but she like figures

00:40:24.920 --> 00:40:27.619
herself out. Yeah. Okay. And I really appreciated

00:40:27.619 --> 00:40:29.239
that. Like she didn't just like delve into a

00:40:29.239 --> 00:40:31.079
new relationship with the with his brother. I

00:40:31.079 --> 00:40:33.539
love shit like that. So like it's like months

00:40:33.539 --> 00:40:36.320
have gone by before they even like speak. nice

00:40:36.320 --> 00:40:38.880
and I like that she like figures herself out

00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:42.320
in that time and he like lets her like be her

00:40:42.320 --> 00:40:44.519
and then they like they talk about it and then

00:40:44.519 --> 00:40:47.539
they fall in love it feels realistic it thank

00:40:47.539 --> 00:40:50.119
you and that's why I really liked it tyranny

00:40:50.119 --> 00:40:52.840
page if you're listening to this I love you and

00:40:52.840 --> 00:40:55.519
I can't wait for your next book way to go I don't

00:40:55.519 --> 00:40:57.880
read a ton of romance I read some not a lot and

00:40:57.880 --> 00:41:01.659
I it's it's usually like there's romance happening

00:41:01.659 --> 00:41:04.480
with other stuff it's hard for me to read a straight

00:41:04.619 --> 00:41:07.400
like that's all it is because I do feel like

00:41:07.400 --> 00:41:10.219
a lot of time I know it's like it gets unrealistic

00:41:10.219 --> 00:41:12.179
and I know it sounds like well you're reading

00:41:12.179 --> 00:41:13.900
stuff about people sitting up their coffins and

00:41:13.900 --> 00:41:15.800
shit of course it's on but I mean the way people

00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:18.340
interact right unrealistic I don't mean like

00:41:18.340 --> 00:41:21.099
ghosts or what because fuck me up throw as much

00:41:21.099 --> 00:41:23.559
of that I love the ghost shit at me right I just

00:41:23.559 --> 00:41:25.639
mean like the way people talk and interact with

00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:27.800
each other in them and relationships are formed

00:41:27.800 --> 00:41:30.960
it doesn't always feel realistic so it's hard

00:41:30.960 --> 00:41:33.219
for me to get attached and then there's also

00:41:33.219 --> 00:41:37.030
like in a lot of the books that I read, the romances

00:41:37.030 --> 00:41:40.269
and smuts, whatever. Yeah. They're adults. Yeah.

00:41:40.710 --> 00:41:43.389
But they act like they're in high school. Which

00:41:43.389 --> 00:41:46.489
is so dumb. And it bothers me so much. I'm just

00:41:46.489 --> 00:41:50.989
like, just talk. Yeah. Just talk. Yeah. Like,

00:41:51.170 --> 00:41:53.289
oh, you're afraid that he's going to do this?

00:41:53.670 --> 00:41:55.900
Tell him that. Yeah. like why are you hiding

00:41:55.900 --> 00:41:58.280
it and it's gonna blow up and it's a third act

00:41:58.280 --> 00:42:01.179
break up and i'm fucking tired of it yep you

00:42:01.179 --> 00:42:03.239
know what totally because like i'll read ya sometimes

00:42:03.239 --> 00:42:04.940
and there's stuff like that and then i'm expecting

00:42:04.940 --> 00:42:06.280
it though because they're teenagers i'm like

00:42:06.280 --> 00:42:08.179
okay well you don't have to make sense they don't

00:42:08.179 --> 00:42:10.000
know how to i didn't know how to yeah i get it

00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:12.570
totally right there with you yeah That was one

00:42:12.570 --> 00:42:14.670
thing though with the it's a I mean kind of different

00:42:14.670 --> 00:42:17.230
but with the Bogwitch book that I read was really

00:42:17.230 --> 00:42:19.170
interesting is that they all except for the one

00:42:19.170 --> 00:42:22.309
that left. They all seem I felt like I was reading

00:42:22.309 --> 00:42:24.869
about like kids and teenagers, they were all

00:42:24.869 --> 00:42:27.309
grown. Yeah, because they've been like trapped

00:42:27.309 --> 00:42:30.090
there. Yeah, so they were really stunted, you

00:42:30.090 --> 00:42:32.289
know, and it was I think it's interesting when

00:42:32.289 --> 00:42:34.409
you can do something like that, but make it purposeful.

00:42:34.809 --> 00:42:36.929
Like they seem stunted some of them, but it was

00:42:36.929 --> 00:42:39.889
very much on purpose to kind of communicate how

00:42:39.889 --> 00:42:42.449
isolated they had been. Right. They hadn't had

00:42:42.449 --> 00:42:46.789
a real, like regular development emotionally,

00:42:47.030 --> 00:42:50.349
mentally, whatever. So I think in that way, it

00:42:50.349 --> 00:42:52.230
can be like, that's a good time where you can

00:42:52.230 --> 00:42:55.889
like age characters. Not necessarily the age,

00:42:56.030 --> 00:42:59.659
but like mentally aged. Yeah. But Otherwise,

00:42:59.659 --> 00:43:02.480
I don't love it. Yeah, that's so this isn't part

00:43:02.480 --> 00:43:06.380
of the reads that I've had this year. But little

00:43:06.380 --> 00:43:08.900
stranger. It's like, it's huge on book talk.

00:43:09.000 --> 00:43:11.940
It's like a dark romance. I feel like I've seen

00:43:11.940 --> 00:43:14.820
the spider. Yeah, I've seen it. But yeah, yeah.

00:43:15.019 --> 00:43:17.820
So my problem with that, like, everyone's like,

00:43:18.079 --> 00:43:20.500
love this book. It's so good. So I hated it.

00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:23.500
Because so like, it starts because it's a stepbrother

00:43:23.500 --> 00:43:26.579
step sister situation. Of course. But they meet

00:43:26.579 --> 00:43:29.780
at a very young age like they're like they grew

00:43:29.780 --> 00:43:32.840
up together. So like I'm already not okay with

00:43:32.840 --> 00:43:36.579
it. Yeah. It starts when they're young. So it's

00:43:36.579 --> 00:43:38.860
written in a way of which they are children.

00:43:39.219 --> 00:43:41.340
So like it starts where she is like six years

00:43:41.340 --> 00:43:44.679
old. Oh, and so it's written. with that young

00:43:44.679 --> 00:43:47.360
undertone, which is fine. But as they're aging,

00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:50.480
it doesn't stop being that young undertone. And

00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:52.960
I really don't like that. See, that's what I'm

00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:54.800
saying. If you're gonna do that, you need to

00:43:54.800 --> 00:43:56.679
like if you're gonna have me grow up with a character,

00:43:56.820 --> 00:43:59.239
they grow up the tone. Yeah, yes. Because I need

00:43:59.239 --> 00:44:01.139
to be like that was I think that's what bothered

00:44:01.139 --> 00:44:03.280
me the most because like they were still very

00:44:03.280 --> 00:44:06.199
childish. Yeah, even though they were like 18

00:44:06.199 --> 00:44:09.380
years old, and I no longer liked it. And then

00:44:09.610 --> 00:44:12.230
He also like killed her dad and like fucked her

00:44:12.230 --> 00:44:14.070
on the dead body. And that was like not a cool

00:44:14.070 --> 00:44:16.449
thing. I mean, that's a lot. That is a lot. No,

00:44:16.730 --> 00:44:18.630
I did not. I did not like the book. And everyone's

00:44:18.630 --> 00:44:20.170
like, Oh my gosh, it's such a good dark romance.

00:44:20.329 --> 00:44:22.690
It's not. It's a horrible dark romance. Some

00:44:22.690 --> 00:44:24.869
of these things that that I've heard from you

00:44:24.869 --> 00:44:27.590
or that I see out if I'm saying it's not good.

00:44:27.670 --> 00:44:30.309
It's probably not fucking good. I'm down to clown,

00:44:30.530 --> 00:44:34.519
right? I've read some fucked up shit. I've read

00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:37.019
some really fucked up shit. What's that? What's

00:44:37.019 --> 00:44:40.980
like the? Oh, there's like a it's like a it's

00:44:40.980 --> 00:44:43.300
extreme horror, but they call it something. While

00:44:43.300 --> 00:44:45.539
you look for that, what I was gonna say was like,

00:44:45.539 --> 00:44:47.360
I see a lot of things that are like the dark

00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:50.400
romance. And when I think of that, I think of

00:44:50.400 --> 00:44:53.719
something very different, you know? But from

00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:56.260
what I've learned from you, and digging into

00:44:56.260 --> 00:44:58.219
like what I see on Instagram or book talk or

00:44:58.219 --> 00:45:01.510
whatever. um some of this dark romance splatter

00:45:01.510 --> 00:45:04.449
splatter punk yeah okay something like i think

00:45:04.449 --> 00:45:07.530
that's what the genre is called okay yeah i'm

00:45:07.530 --> 00:45:09.230
not super familiar but i feel like i've seen

00:45:09.230 --> 00:45:12.110
the word um the dark romance thing is so like

00:45:12.110 --> 00:45:15.570
a lot of what you describe or what i see as dark

00:45:15.570 --> 00:45:20.530
romance it literally is just like an abuse But

00:45:20.530 --> 00:45:23.269
it's hot I guess I don't know if that's where

00:45:23.269 --> 00:45:25.550
there's a big disconnect for me cuz I like man

00:45:25.550 --> 00:45:29.050
I understand shit happens, but this seems like

00:45:29.050 --> 00:45:32.230
It's it's fetishizing stuff like that. Yeah,

00:45:32.250 --> 00:45:34.269
which it's if that's what you're into whatever

00:45:34.269 --> 00:45:36.230
I'm not I'm not trying to hate on anybody, but

00:45:36.230 --> 00:45:39.250
that's where always like, how bad is it when

00:45:39.250 --> 00:45:41.550
you suggest stuff to me? Because if we're getting

00:45:41.550 --> 00:45:43.710
into that, and they're calling it just like dark

00:45:43.710 --> 00:45:46.130
romance, it's I've learned that's a very loaded

00:45:46.130 --> 00:45:49.670
genre. Yeah. So and when people say like, when

00:45:49.670 --> 00:45:54.349
I say dark romance, I'm gonna say that, like

00:45:54.349 --> 00:45:56.090
Butcher and Blackbird's kind of dark romance,

00:45:56.289 --> 00:45:57.769
because they're like murdering people. Yeah.

00:45:58.510 --> 00:46:02.389
When when I'm thinking what you're describing,

00:46:02.510 --> 00:46:05.250
that's pitch black. But people say there's some

00:46:05.250 --> 00:46:08.329
that are dark romance that are way not. Yeah.

00:46:08.550 --> 00:46:11.230
And they're also saying that are just like, it's

00:46:11.230 --> 00:46:13.309
just romance. When I would hear dark romance,

00:46:13.369 --> 00:46:15.150
I would think like what you're saying, like the

00:46:15.150 --> 00:46:16.530
Butcher and Blackbird seemed like it would be

00:46:16.530 --> 00:46:18.869
dark romance. There's a dark story. And there's

00:46:18.869 --> 00:46:21.150
also a romance like a gothic romance or something.

00:46:21.469 --> 00:46:24.130
That's what I'm but then I realized, Oh, no.

00:46:24.489 --> 00:46:27.849
That y 'all mean something else. Yeah, so people

00:46:27.849 --> 00:46:29.809
say that the ritual which is the Lord series,

00:46:29.849 --> 00:46:32.610
which I love you talked about it Yeah, is dark

00:46:32.610 --> 00:46:34.650
romance. I would almost say that's closer to

00:46:34.650 --> 00:46:37.730
pitch black romance. Okay, because there's some

00:46:37.730 --> 00:46:42.050
fucked up shit. Yeah, like if someone's Getting

00:46:42.050 --> 00:46:46.070
raped that's not just dark romance. No, that's

00:46:46.070 --> 00:46:50.590
not good Not good not good if there's dubious

00:46:50.590 --> 00:46:53.820
consent happening. It's Probably not just I hate

00:46:53.820 --> 00:46:57.300
that everything in me hates that I know. Well,

00:46:57.880 --> 00:47:01.659
um, I thought it'd be fun to try to round out

00:47:01.659 --> 00:47:03.579
the conversation. Okay, I've enjoyed this. I

00:47:03.579 --> 00:47:06.420
love book club. But I like I said, I just finished

00:47:06.420 --> 00:47:09.519
a book last night. Yeah. And I know you're always

00:47:09.519 --> 00:47:11.380
going through multiples. So maybe it would be

00:47:11.380 --> 00:47:13.539
fun if we showed each other some books that we're

00:47:13.539 --> 00:47:16.590
thinking about reading next. Okay, and we just

00:47:16.590 --> 00:47:18.369
I mean, if you don't want to do it, you don't

00:47:18.369 --> 00:47:20.170
have to use the one I pick. But like, what do

00:47:20.170 --> 00:47:21.929
you think I should be next kind of deal with

00:47:21.929 --> 00:47:24.730
each other? Well, I have my Kindle. I'll show

00:47:24.730 --> 00:47:27.710
you my library and you can look at everything

00:47:27.710 --> 00:47:29.250
that I have in here. All right, I'm gonna bring

00:47:29.250 --> 00:47:32.829
up my fable and it has my what I want to read

00:47:32.829 --> 00:47:35.409
on it. Well, I just bought four books today.

00:47:36.210 --> 00:47:40.690
Two were John Green. Oh, yeah. I love Okay, so

00:47:40.690 --> 00:47:47.110
I did read Let me go back to my Goodreads. Early

00:47:47.110 --> 00:47:50.329
on, I read Paper Towns. Yes. Because I've read

00:47:50.329 --> 00:47:52.969
Turtles All the Way Down. Loved it. I read that.

00:47:53.030 --> 00:47:58.630
You gave it to me. And then what's the one everyone

00:47:58.630 --> 00:48:03.449
knows? Fault in Our Stars. Yep. So I have that

00:48:03.449 --> 00:48:05.230
book. I forgot that I read it a long time ago.

00:48:05.250 --> 00:48:07.710
Yeah. And because I love Turtles all the way

00:48:07.710 --> 00:48:10.429
down, I'm like, let me read Paper Towns because

00:48:10.429 --> 00:48:13.449
I know it's a movie. I'll watch the movie. It

00:48:13.449 --> 00:48:16.550
took me long to read it. It took me a while because

00:48:16.550 --> 00:48:19.389
I just didn't... I really like his writing style

00:48:19.389 --> 00:48:22.210
for the most part. It catches my attention and

00:48:22.210 --> 00:48:25.730
it's an easy read for me. But this was a struggle.

00:48:26.309 --> 00:48:28.769
I didn't like it that much. I'm sorry, John Green.

00:48:28.869 --> 00:48:31.250
I love everything that you write. I honestly,

00:48:31.610 --> 00:48:35.099
I'm not into nonfiction. But I might read his

00:48:35.099 --> 00:48:37.199
book about tuberculosis. It's on my want to read

00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:39.579
right now. I really want to read it. Okay. I

00:48:39.579 --> 00:48:42.239
read also Yeah, I don't read any nonfiction,

00:48:42.300 --> 00:48:44.480
but if it's John Green, I'm gonna read about

00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:46.940
tuberculosis. Well, I've heard it's a really

00:48:46.940 --> 00:48:56.539
good But I just bought Looking for Alaska and

00:48:56.539 --> 00:49:01.099
an abundance of Catherine's Oh, I've heard of

00:49:01.099 --> 00:49:05.360
that one. Okay, so I'll let you know about those.

00:49:06.480 --> 00:49:09.940
But everything is tuberculosis is I probably

00:49:09.940 --> 00:49:13.340
will end up reading that or if he narrow it narrow

00:49:13.340 --> 00:49:16.880
narrates it. I will not sure if he has I'll listen

00:49:16.880 --> 00:49:19.079
to the audiobook if he does that because I could

00:49:19.079 --> 00:49:20.820
listen to him all day talk about tuberculosis.

00:49:21.179 --> 00:49:23.119
Every single tick to because I follow him. Yeah,

00:49:23.159 --> 00:49:25.659
me too. Every single time he talks about tuberculosis.

00:49:25.679 --> 00:49:30.599
I am in it. I will listen to him. You what's

00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:34.980
this piece that fits Can't see it. It's got a

00:49:34.980 --> 00:49:37.840
microphone. I don't remember. Okay, you've not

00:49:37.840 --> 00:49:40.380
read it. Mm -hmm Okay, is there a way I can see

00:49:40.380 --> 00:49:44.519
like the about yeah You might have to just go

00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:47.639
and search it and then it should tell you okay

00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:54.199
Okay, yeah, I want you to read this one Since

00:49:54.199 --> 00:49:57.260
that haunting accident years ago, Avery Fox has

00:49:57.260 --> 00:49:59.840
always followed her head, not her heart. Good

00:49:59.840 --> 00:50:02.199
grades, a future career in medicine, and a boyfriend

00:50:02.199 --> 00:50:04.800
ready to take the next step, it seems like she

00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:07.400
has everything she could ever want. But soon,

00:50:07.980 --> 00:50:11.699
the facade of her flawless life fades, and she

00:50:11.699 --> 00:50:14.199
questions every decision she's made. With nowhere

00:50:14.199 --> 00:50:16.820
else to turn, Avery is forced to move in with

00:50:16.820 --> 00:50:19.360
her brother and his bandmates of a quiet peril.

00:50:19.699 --> 00:50:23.119
Brother? Yep. The band they started in high school

00:50:23.119 --> 00:50:25.699
that is now touring across the nation. Falling

00:50:25.699 --> 00:50:28.599
her head is a lot easier said than done before

00:50:28.599 --> 00:50:31.539
Liam Lockwood enters her life again, because

00:50:31.539 --> 00:50:33.880
when deep -rooted anger and hatred for her brother's

00:50:33.880 --> 00:50:36.219
best friend turns into growing affection and

00:50:36.219 --> 00:50:39.699
burning desire. She wants nothing more than to

00:50:39.699 --> 00:50:41.719
follow her heart, but there's a reason she's

00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:43.980
always made that controlled choice, and when

00:50:43.980 --> 00:50:46.260
her heart takes the lead, the secret of what

00:50:46.260 --> 00:50:48.739
really caused that accident all those years ago

00:50:48.739 --> 00:50:52.230
is revealed. threatening to shatter her life

00:50:52.230 --> 00:50:58.389
to pieces. I'm looking at My Darlene Deadful

00:50:58.389 --> 00:51:01.409
Thing. Dreadful. I was gonna say, I don't think

00:51:01.409 --> 00:51:04.110
that's right. My Darlene Dreadful Thing. Okay.

00:51:04.829 --> 00:51:08.590
I wanted to read that one. Spirits are drawn

00:51:08.590 --> 00:51:12.949
to salt, be it blood or tears. Ruse Beckman has

00:51:12.949 --> 00:51:18.150
a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth. Strange.

00:51:18.590 --> 00:51:21.579
Corpse -like. and dead for centuries is the light

00:51:21.579 --> 00:51:24.219
of Rue's life. That is, until the wealthy young

00:51:24.219 --> 00:51:30.159
widow Agnes Noop - Canoop visits one of Rue's

00:51:30.159 --> 00:51:33.619
backroom seances and the two strike up a connection.

00:51:34.119 --> 00:51:38.800
Education connection. Connection for free. The

00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:41.260
content warnings sexual assault, abuse, death,

00:51:41.519 --> 00:51:43.239
child abuse, and self -harm. I'm okay with all

00:51:43.239 --> 00:51:45.800
that, it's fine. Mean it's bad. But I mean I

00:51:45.800 --> 00:51:48.539
can read I say my darling dreadful thing. Okay,

00:51:48.559 --> 00:51:51.719
I'll have to give me a copy See how they went.

00:51:52.179 --> 00:51:54.239
Yeah, but I have fun. I like doing this. Yeah

00:51:54.239 --> 00:51:56.400
me too. And then there are some in here I don't

00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:59.619
know if you notice that are not romance. I I

00:51:59.619 --> 00:52:02.260
didn't know what each one would be I just picked

00:52:02.260 --> 00:52:04.559
I liked the cover of that one. So I picked it

00:52:04.559 --> 00:52:07.340
because of music Yeah, I love stuff like that

00:52:07.340 --> 00:52:10.239
So I hope you enjoy it if you read it and we

00:52:10.239 --> 00:52:11.880
hope you guys have enjoyed this episode and being

00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:13.840
a part of our book club And if you want to see

00:52:13.840 --> 00:52:15.320
more stuff like this, or I don't know, maybe

00:52:15.320 --> 00:52:17.239
start an actual book club. I would love to start

00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:19.280
a book club. We'll look into it. You know what,

00:52:19.639 --> 00:52:22.599
I just subscribed to Book of the Month. Oh shit,

00:52:22.739 --> 00:52:25.769
you did? I did. Fantasmic. not sponsored but

00:52:25.769 --> 00:52:28.050
it could be it could be book of the month i love

00:52:28.050 --> 00:52:30.829
you i mean i've only you know subscribed once

00:52:30.829 --> 00:52:33.909
so far so good so far so good i'm about it and

00:52:33.909 --> 00:52:35.230
you can keep up with everything we're reading

00:52:35.230 --> 00:52:37.849
courtney's on goodreads i'm on goodreads and

00:52:37.849 --> 00:52:40.130
fable i mostly use fable but i do try to keep

00:52:40.130 --> 00:52:41.989
my goodreads updated at least with what i've

00:52:41.989 --> 00:52:45.469
read and and stuff so find us on there okay bye

00:52:45.469 --> 00:53:02.530
guys Talk to me It's talk dirty Wow