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Hello and welcome to the human struggle bus show we are your human struggle bus hosts. Oh

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Good lord. It is. Hi Hannah who doesn't have a phone and Caroline whose commute took two hours this evening

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Yeah

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So we're doing great and you said I think it's do you say it's like the hottest day of

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For someone on forever says the hottest day in New York

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Some I didn't on the forever socials. Maybe it was Dana. I was probably Dana. Oh cuz she got her Christmas book arcs

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Oh, yeah, that's something about it. It is hot. It was like 80 degrees

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Which back home

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Not crazy for some reason here. I don't know if it's just because it's been so lovely and cold for so long

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But god, it was horrible

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Yeah

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I can everyone in the subway station was so sweaty. I'm not excited for that

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It was a nice day out despite me having to go to Best Buy and have them tell me that my phone

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More issues than they've ever seen

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I'm like, what do you mean?

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like it's a catas like it's a catastrophic failure, I'm like

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So if you don't know and Caroline doesn't know much now do I honestly

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Because this is this is all we're processing in real time

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Yesterday I went to record a video on tik-tok because that's where I do my daily book chats now because Instagram sucks and

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The camera wouldn't like it would not record and I was getting so angry because it was a book chat about the book that came out

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Yesterday so I was like I need to get this I was so mad

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So it wasn't working. I made sure tik-tok was updated major Instagram was updated said it wasn't like loading it finally worked

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But then Instagram wouldn't load the video. So I think that file was corrupt. I don't know. Um, and

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and then I

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Updated my phone because it was out of date and then I updated every app and all that and then I was still having issues

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Tik-tok and then my phone just decides to like shut down and like restart and I'm like, well that was random

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And then I proceed to do it 20 times in the next day

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So yesterday probably did it 10 times and today I did it like 10 times

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Like no matter what I was doing it could just be sitting next to me completely unbothered and it would just turn off and restart

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And I'm like this can't be good

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So I went to Best Buy today and

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because I had I have AppleCare and

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She runs a diagnostic and the first one she's like I have never seen this issue before and apparently, you know in the iPhone 15

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There are like three cameras

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Apparently two of them just didn't function and they couldn't be found in the diagnostic test and I was like, what do you mean?

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And it's fun. Like I can take pictures. I

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We had the Northern Lights and I took pictures of them. What do you mean? She's like, I don't know

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I have never seen this before and I'm like, is that causing these issues? So she's like, I don't know

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So then she did another test

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Got so big

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Like I have never seen this many instances of like a failure report or something and I was like well

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that tracks

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Because it was getting real annoying

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so she imports like all of the

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issues to Apple and she thought it was gonna be like they were gonna have to like change out like parts of the phone and

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They came back with the addis unfixable. We have to give you a new phone and

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I just was wholly unprepared for that on a Wednesday night. So

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That's right, I have an iPhone 11

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Have more problems than anyone has ever seen I

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Was like I identify as a catastrophic failure also

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So like she still doesn't even know what's wrong with it like we don't know

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But I get a new phone content. Mm-hmm. We don't know what's wrong. We just know there are many things wrong

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So, yeah, I have to like restore for my iCloud after this podcast

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And figure that out which if you I don't I don't know how to do so we're gonna figure that out

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Yeah, so that's been fun having a lot of issues my like bosses boss

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Mmm, actually, it was like my

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Bosses bosses boss. He's like

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Hi higher up right? Yeah, he doesn't know who I am

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He knows where I belong. He knows who I belong to because it's really obvious

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Who the forever people are but he definitely doesn't know my name

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I've been in many meetings with him. Definitely doesn't know who I am regardless. Dana has

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Candy out at her desk because she's on the end and I'm next to her

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And my parents had sent me Easter candy including some jelly beans and I like sour jelly beans

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But not regular jelly beans. So I had brought them to work and was like here

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Candy for your desk

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She had left the jelly beans on the desk. Yeah

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the boss guy

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Came by he was like, oh i've been eating your jelly beans all day

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Dana's like, oh, well, you know, they're actually carolyn's he might know my name now, but probably not

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There are other problems there. They're actually carolyn's but you know, neither of us are really like jelly bean

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Fans and he he's he's kind of an awkward guy

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He's not like a jokester, but he looks at us and he goes really what's wrong with you guys?

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And I responded

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In true like my dad would be so proud and in fact he was he thought this was hilarious when I told him the story

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I said

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That's the least of the things that are wrong with me

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Didn't really respond. He just kind of walked away

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And I was like, okay, well

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This was just my gut response

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He didn't think it was funny, yeah, I guess me with any human interaction post-covid

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I feel that I just can't do that. I thought I thought it was pretty funny

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You know like jelly beans is wrong with you guys that's what I thought

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I thought it was pretty funny. You know, like jelly beans is wrong with you guys. That's the least of the things wrong with me

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Come on now

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I'm a silly goofy gal. I took a stand-up comedy class in college

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You have one of those remotes you should have brought it too. I don't know where it is actually, but I do have one of those remotes

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I found it. Don't worry. That's the least of the things wrong with me. I

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Should have had this with me at work you should have you should just bring it

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Yep. Yeah to our like full department meeting. I'll say one thing and then just

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I just don't stop it. Yeah. Yeah, just keep hitting it over and over again

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Yeah, so we are struggle busing that's the vibe

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life and the podcast just because we

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Were gonna do a theme and then I was like I have not thought about said theme. I also haven't thought about said things about the ups

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That's not us. That's for sure. That's very very cruel fairly functioning in my daily life

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I'm less than functioning

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Opposite of functioning we're catastrophic. Failuring. We are catastrophic failures

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I have managed to read some books. You one book

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I've read a lot of books read more but if if we're gonna say like

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Pitch me a book you've read recently. I've got one that I would want to do

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One historical romance anyway, I haven't been on a big historical

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In a big historical mood of late

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It's just tricky with like finding things to read that aren't I don't know like new releases or something

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I'm fine. Everything's fine

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Do you agree

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Yes, that is I

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And you

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And you us we

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Okay, um, let's get into it so that we can stop doing this and making everyone suffer

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Let's start so that we can stop stop

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I'm trying to like remember any book I've read

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This is just pick one become it's becoming a challenge

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I'm gonna pick I'm gonna pitch you a book and you're gonna pitch me a book and we're gonna call it a night

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Okay, you listeners if you wanted more recommendations

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You should be subscribed to our newsletter because we just gave you so many

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Did it go out?

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Several days after it was supposed to yes. Don't worry about it. You have to keep you guessing

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Schedules never let you we never let you know our next move

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No, I don't think we will ever

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Syllabus out the window. How are the cool professors? Oh

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Oh, it's like a pop quiz but for us that I just get the answers we are scrambling

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That's very accurate and

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Yep makes me sweaty we signed on to this call tonight not knowing what it was gonna be about

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I sent caroline the weirdest message from my apple watch because I could

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Have for you

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Okay, so I am on my apple watch and I forgot to text on this thing so i'm having to speak i'm done

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I can set up right now. I don't think I have enough like I don't know rex spelled like wre

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Cks for the richardson pipeline. I haven't really thought about it. Do you what this is no punctuation?

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I've really thought about it. Do you want to do like I don't know

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I don't know if we can get on the phone and just figure something out to do shortly like a simple if we've been reading

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Or something maybe that'll be easiest. Okay, i'm gonna figure out how to send this

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A follow-up text that says i'm realizing that did not make sense rake to sam pipeline not sam simp whatever help

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I mean it's so real because I couldn't figure out how to use that watch. I hadn't used it since I needed it in new york for directions

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It's just been sitting on my my desk

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And then like I forgot you had to like write to type

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I was like i'm not using my finger to like spell out words and I couldn't figure out how to do a space

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So then I just decided to do voice, but then I don't know how to do voice punctuation

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You have to say the punctuation

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I'm not using my finger to like spell out words and I couldn't figure out how to do a space

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Punctuation you have to say the punctuation. Oh, well, that's not gonna happen

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It has to be like I am saying a sentence period but if you are going to do that comma

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You have to spell out all the punctuation exclamation point

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I am familiar. Yeah, so that didn't happen

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Um, and I don't know I didn't know how to edit it

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So you just got that and honestly, it sounded better as I was speaking it than what you read out because

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This is yep. I'm surprised you even responded

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I'll be

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I could not answer she's been abducted by aliens. I'm gonna let this one i'm gonna let it ride

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No, I did I did warn you before that we may have to take to email

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You did so I knew this was coming. Although I wasn't expecting the apple watch voice noting

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No, I didn't know how to get to my email on that phone. So I was like, okay while i'm wearing my watch

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Why don't we try and we failed?

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We failed so hard

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God I need to remember this book. So yeah, that's been my life and I have to go to Verizon

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Tomorrow morning and hopefully they could like turn on my cellular

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Because without that this thing is just a brick if I leave the house

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Because it's not easy being green I would know

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I don't I don't have any

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Listener if you don't know my last name is green. That's why I would know

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And it's not easy being green

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It's also very not sweet

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It's true only salty

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It took me so long to explain that out. No, i'm one of them you are

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I thought it was obvious evidently. No, not to me. I mean, i'm very obtuse

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I think not not to many people because i've had to explain it a lot and sometimes i'm like isn't it funny that people don't know and people go oh

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I didn't know that there was a reason behind it. Of course. There's a reason

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I think we have this verbatim on the podcast probably probably

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Very clever. God bless you long-time listeners

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I don't know why you're still here

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All three of you

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You're here longer than my brain cells have been and tell you that

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Well, I don't know that that's true. I mean, I guess some of them are here like generating new cells

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Yeah, they've just all regenerated to the point of having nothing in there

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That's just a fresh baby

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No thoughts, no grooves on this brain. Just hard-boiled egg

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brain rattling around in there

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Shave me down make me round

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I'm gonna picture it

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Never mind. We're signing off. That was that's the end of that

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Thanks for listening everybody

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Have a wonderful weekend

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That's all i've got. I'm gonna pitch you a book. Okay, please that I have read

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And we're gonna ignore the fact that you've already started it. So clearly you're also gonna read it

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Yeah, but i'm excited to hear what you have to say about it sharks. I offer you a queer historical romance

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I tried what if that was my entire pitch it actually might be my entire pitch because the thing about cat sebastian is that her books

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Are so good that you know when you're like, I I can't say things about this book because I just feel very incoherent about it

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I felt that way about what you could be so lucky

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It's hard to talk about that

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It's hard to talk about that book

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Because it's just like this is just really good

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I think my review is half crying emojis

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I would say like a word cry word cry

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No, exactly

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this one

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Similar vibes the thing that okay. Okay. I had a conversation with dana at work the other day where I was like

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Have you noticed now I am not a cat sebastian pro there?

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Especially her backlist books. I've only read a handful

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However, have you noticed that cat sebastian writes the exact same relationship over and over again?

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I'm always starting to see it. Yeah, it's grumpy sunshine

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It's like a sunshine kind of ditzy blonde usually

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Uh, and then a dark haired kind of caustic

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Dramatic background like very sarcastic, but very charmed by the kind of ditzy

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Blonde i'm going through like all the ones i've read

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marion haze is unique because it's uh

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not same sex they're bi but

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Man and woman pairing but he is the sunshiny character

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And she is the she's she's writing golden retriever black cat relationships over and over and over again

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Like all of them so this book is basically we could be so lucky in a different font

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Or we could no

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I'm confusing the titles. We could be so good. It's we could be so good. Yeah, okay

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Yes in a different font, but in this one instead of two journalists

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It's a journalist who knows the first two journalists

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Because andy

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Was one of the main characters in book one, right? Because we already met him on like page one or so of this

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Yeah, i've got so there's 17 guys. I think this is uh

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The god the like book reviewer guy that gives andy that we saw that the books in the for that would make yeah

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That's him and i'm blinking on his name. Is it mark and oh mark is the mark? Yeah

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So and the journalist that andy knows mark

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Is our black cat?

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And he has been assigned to write

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Um journal entries so kind of ghost writing but like basically writing diary entries for this newspaper from the perspective

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of

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um

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Our our golden retriever eddie oleri who is a baseball player

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Who's in a rough situation?

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It's really good. Um

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he

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Essentially he got traded away from home and found out when the press sprung it on him and he had a bad reaction

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On tv and said some regrettable things about the team he was being traded to

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And now his swing has entirely disappeared and he can't hit a ball to save his life

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And also his entire team is giving him the silent treatment

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So he's just like alone and having a terrible time in new york. And now this random really hot journalist is like

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Hey, i'm gonna write about you. Um, let's go to dinner

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And it's so i would love that to happen to me. The thing is there's like no plot

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It's again like we could be just a day in the life. Yeah, just kind of like watching things happen writing this

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Yeah, newspaper column about him and

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They're both

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Mark is also grieving his last like partner

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Had died a year and a half ago and he's still living in the apartment

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That has been left to him with the dog of the deceased partner who by the way

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He doesn't sleep in her bed. She sleeps by the door because she doesn't understand that he's not coming back

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And he thinks that she hates him because he's here and the other guy's not

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Cat why would you do this to me? Um

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But it's very dog of you

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Like eddie's trying to get his swing back and not be in a terrible slump and all the new york baseball fans hate him

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But also are kind of rooting for him

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So like there is a plot but it's mostly just like these two guys being very charming

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And like slowly falling. I don't know how she does it. It's so slow that you almost can't see it, but you can see it

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Well, that's what was so interesting about we could be so good

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different

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Yeah, like he fully so

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Andy is fully in like a committed relationship by like the middle of the book and he's like proposes

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And then like but i'm still like rooting for them even though like i'm rooting for

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The like the main like it was a whole thing. I was like, this is nothing

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How I expected this to be going and I didn't expect to just be like so enamored by the whole process

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It was I was also so enamored. You're just thinking it

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I also i've been really struggling with reading generally but specifically with audiobooks

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Like just finding the urge to put on the audiobook and I did not I read this one in like a day and a half

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I love I know you can't because of the the present third or whatever

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But if that is not listen or something that bothers you

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I love that Joel Leslie that narrator. I love I do love him

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He's phenomenal

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I know makes me sad. I

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Whipped this out in best buy because I was smart enough to bring it when this phone brick thing was updating

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And I was like, oh, it's just so char and so atmospheric. It's like

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1960 new york in like the journalism and also baseball sphere

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There are all these side characters that are just so real and like tangibly a part of their world

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And there's like a whole side plot with this like poor baseball team who's doing terribly

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It's a bunch of like misfits people who aren't ready to be in the major league and like old

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Yeah, I guess because they said it was an expansion team. So those are all the players who yeah

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Like the bearded mishmash of people

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And you're like traveling with the teeth that makes me so happy. Yeah, i'm very excited. I've already I didn't want to put the book down

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But I had to eat dinner and she does it cat sebastian

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How do you write the exact same relationship over and over and over again? And somehow I am still so charmed

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It's five stars every time I was like five minutes into the audiobook and I was like, this is five stars

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She's done it again by god

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Like i've already i've just got the setup of like him and him like both and i'm just like, yep

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I'm ready to be ruined. Yeah, sign me up. We've got a golden haired baseball boy

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And a growth reporter like I just

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I can just picture. I don't know what after I was picturing

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Mark ass, but there was it was like very visceral

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And i'm just like i'm so ready for me. He's like a uh a gregory peck as atticus finch type

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My god, but like I think a little bit sharper than that. Like that's not the exact image

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But that like kind of dark hair suit glasses

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He walks around reading books

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And I love how they were both like you're so pretty even though they neither of them said it

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I'm just like, yeah, oh my god. Yeah, I am very excited. I tried so

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I rarely buy books physically because either you know

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I'm sent them or i've read the arc or i'll buy the audiobook stuff like that

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And so like I went to barnes noble because it said it was like the

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The weekend after it was released it said it was in stock and I was like, this is my moment to shine

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I can buy a book

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And I go there and I literally look in every like every book that I read and I'm like, oh my god

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I'm like, it's not by the cats of bastion. It's not not by the seas

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It's not like randomly in the queer section because they had like like different queer end caps for pride month coming up

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They had a separate historical section, but it wasn't there either because those were all like mass markets

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It was on any end caps and I was like, where is this book? I just want to buy it. Did you do that?

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Yeah, so I checked fiction and then I went to them and I was like, please help me and they were like we don't have to buy

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Like after they try to look up like they've they followed the route that I took right now. Yeah, i've already I did check

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Like it's not here. I'm like, is it still in the back?

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And so I still I don't know if someone stole it, which if you're gonna steal a book, I guess

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You picked a good one root of you though, if you stole it whoever you are

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But they had to order it in for me and then their email didn't send to me so I was like, okay

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And then I had to go in and check now. I finally have it. There's a whole saga, which apparently is just my life now

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many trips

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And catastrophic failures

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Just I mean her eyes bugged out. She had I was like, oh

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I mean, that's never good. No, I was like it's at least validating

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Because like when the first diagnostic only brought up the camera on the first day of the first day of the first day

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It's at least validating because like when the first diagnostic only brought up the camera

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I'm like, well, that's not the issue I was having so this is a surprise to both of us

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And then she was like, well this will track if it's like tracked any like shutdowns

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I'm like, well, I hope it's gonna track it because there have been many

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And then like five seconds later, she was like, oh my god

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And I was like that doesn't look like a good face

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um

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And then she was like, yeah, we can probably fix it and then it progressed to yeah

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No, we cannot ever fix this

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So I still don't know what I just wish I know what's wrong. I feel like it was just busted from the start

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Like it's only eight months old like I feel like because it had randomly like shut down before

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But it was never like the apple logo coming on. It was always like the little like circle like

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Buffering thing like it would like yeah, like it would turn black buffer for a second and then just go to my like login page

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But it didn't I didn't require like a passcode, but this time it was like fully restarting every time

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And like I have to type in my passcode every time like everything was lagging

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I was like, I don't because I had like 200 gigabytes of space left

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So like it's not a space issue, but also my laptop wasn't air dropping to my phone. Like it was cancelling. So i'm like, I don't know

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I'm just happy i'm getting a new phone because apparently that thing was just fucked from the start. But

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Yeah, now I get to relearn how to have an iphone 11

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So at least at least there's no button I feel like if there was a button again, I would forget how to function

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entirely, so

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There's that

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Wow, I wish I was in the historical romance book with no cell phones

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and only

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A very hot baseball player standing in front of me

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Not when I talk. I mean I would know how to function in a world without that kind of technology

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That is very true. Unfortunately, I would get so lost

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Yeah, so that was fun

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Oh god, okay. Well

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Now I get to pitch you this book that I loved but do I remember?

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I don't know. I'm gonna try. Look all I told you about the cat Sebastian is like the premise and that it

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I had a lot of feelings

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I'm trying to find my my inner zen to

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If there's one thing I know that I know

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If there's one thing I know from book marketing, it's that you don't always have to know all the details

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You just have to know what's gonna get them to pick it up

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That is very true. This one it it's like the i'm trying to think of like another book

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The um when a scott ties the knot by tessa or tessa dare

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Where she like writes like fake letters and assumes they're not being delivered delicious and then all of a sudden

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Shows up at her door and he's like hello. It is I

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So that's this

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but she's been engaged to a vi account since childhood because she like found

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a like a will or something in their attic and she

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Pretended that it meant that she had to like be engaged to this guy because she didn't want to be like

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like in society or whatever and so she's been using him as a distraction and like a

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An excuse for not doing things

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And so she's been like writing letters and stuff. Um that are like fake

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And her brother I think is the only one who knows that it's not real

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Um, and then all of a sudden this vi account that she's supposed to be engaged to shows up into town

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And she's like, what do you mean? I don't want to marry you

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He is fully like he knows

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That she knows that he's not who he says he is because this person that no one knows

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Person that no one's seen in like years the vi account is technically alive, but no one's seen him

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They don't know where he is. So he's like claiming that he's like part of this family

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But she knows he's a schemer

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because she like dealt with him before and then he shows up and so

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um

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Like they have to basically pretend

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To be engaged while pretending that he is who he says he is because he's gonna blackmail her because they met

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This is so convoluted

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Oh my god, they met when she was masquerading as a man at a paris club. Sure

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He went there. It's all coming back. He went there to gamble and make the two thousand pounds that he was owing this villain

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She goes to gamble because she's dressed as a man and wants the freedom

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She wins. Yes. She wins the two thousand pounds

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He loses and he's angry about it. And so he finds her in the alley and he knows she's a woman

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And so they make out. Oh, so they make out in the alley, of course

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Yep. Yep. So um

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They make out in the alley and he tries to like

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Get her to give him the money. It doesn't work. So then he goes away

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And he's frustrated because he's this guy is like still after him

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She goes back to her life

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And then he shows back up. She recognizes him. He knows it's her but he's pretending that he doesn't know

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It's her just like piss her off

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um, and

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So he's blackmailing her

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With the knowledge that she was out in a club in paris

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To pretend they are engaged

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Because he needs um the

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He needs like something from the estate

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Because the estate doesn't really have any money

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Um, but he needed like some I don't know something from it to be able to pay this dude off. Um

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And so it's just a big

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Romp like the entire thing is that i'm just like trying to convince everyone in the town that they are engaged and they like each other

402
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And everything is official. Um, and it was it was so good. Her family is hilarious. This is book two

403
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Um, so you meet her like her family and you meet the sister in book one

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um, and then

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There's a scene I think I mentioned it in our last episode

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um

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where

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The mother is trying to teach sex ed to the daughters because there are like several daughters and she has like a lord turgid puppet

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A lord flaccid puppet and a lady contempt puppet and it's just the best running bit

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And I'm so excited for it to be in book three

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um

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And so that was it's a very funny book

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It reminded me a lot of loretta chase because this is the one that I was reading while I was also reading

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Like a loretta chase series

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And I was getting them confused because they just felt very similar and

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the third act

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was so fun

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I i'm not gonna

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Explain it because it would be a spoiler

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but like they're just red herrings you don't there are things you don't know and you're guessing at and

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A whole family drama because then like the family that he's pretending to be a part of you start to like them

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And like he just needs a family because he's lonely and of course man. Yeah, of course

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It was it was so good and in the ending I I had no clue how it was gonna end and it was just

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So unserious and I was like

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I am very happy with this

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um

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So yeah, that was a lot of words

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To talk about the trouble with inventing a by count by vivian lorette

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again

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It all came back to me as I was speaking which did not make for a very pleasant summary

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but

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Take away

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I don't know how you would give a summary for that

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um, I don't either

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I mean it would help to start the beginning which I did not because I didn't remember the beginning but then I remembered it

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so

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I mean, it's all coming back to me. Simply so silly

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It was the comparison to one of scott ties and not um is honestly all you really need to know

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Um, because he basically like moves into her life

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And he's giggling because he knows it's pissing her off and she's angry about it

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But then she's also like he doesn't remember our kiss. It was so hot

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How could he not remember like she's pissed that he doesn't remember?

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And uh, it was so good book one is fabulous as well

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um

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She also

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Said that she was engaged to that duke

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To like get back at this

448
00:31:37,460 --> 00:31:39,460
um like bitchy girl

449
00:31:40,020 --> 00:31:41,380
and

450
00:31:41,380 --> 00:31:48,020
Then the rumor mill spreads and so this duke is like I literally like any other book normally

451
00:31:48,420 --> 00:31:52,260
You would expect the person who's like caught in this like fake thing would just like go along with it

452
00:31:52,340 --> 00:31:53,540
He was so mad

453
00:31:53,540 --> 00:31:57,140
He was like I literally this is the worst thing that you could have ever done to me

454
00:31:57,220 --> 00:32:01,700
I hate you so much. This is ridiculous. Like why have you done this and she's like I did not mean to

455
00:32:02,260 --> 00:32:03,860
She was it was a whole thing

456
00:32:03,860 --> 00:32:07,860
But that one is really good. You see them in this book and they're like having like a marriage

457
00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:09,860
um tussle

458
00:32:09,860 --> 00:32:11,460
And it was very entertaining

459
00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:16,660
So I would definitely read in order just so you can like get the full feels but you don't need to read in order

460
00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:19,060
But this is also an art when does it come out?

461
00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:23,220
People do september 24th. So yeah, i'd set all that

462
00:32:24,180 --> 00:32:26,180
So that you can read it in september

463
00:32:26,580 --> 00:32:28,420
But read book one

464
00:32:28,420 --> 00:32:34,900
Between now and then or request the arc from avon on neck alley. I don't think it'll be disappointed. Um

465
00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:38,020
But yes

466
00:32:38,020 --> 00:32:39,700
words

467
00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:42,980
And the cover is really good, too. It's got a pretty red dress and it's like an outdoor

468
00:32:43,940 --> 00:32:46,100
Outdoor scene with the rain that was in the book

469
00:32:48,020 --> 00:32:52,200
What tropes did I have on story graph i'm so technology

470
00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:57,140
He's not my friend it's my enemy actually

471
00:32:58,340 --> 00:33:00,340
No, i'm not you at the train instead. I

472
00:33:00,740 --> 00:33:02,180
Honestly, they're not that bad

473
00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:06,500
The problem is just when you've stood there for 40 minutes and your train hasn't shown up and you're like, okay

474
00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:08,500
I guess I have to take a different train and then

475
00:33:08,500 --> 00:33:13,860
You find you get off at the stop where you think your transfer is but then you have to leave the station to transfer

476
00:33:13,860 --> 00:33:18,260
And then you go the wrong way for a block and then you have to go all the way back two blocks to get to the other

477
00:33:18,260 --> 00:33:20,740
Entrance to the station because everything is under construction

478
00:33:21,220 --> 00:33:27,540
See and this is why I simply wouldn't survive if I were with eddie and mark in 1960s new york because they are just

479
00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:32,820
Well, they actually were taking a lot of taxis because mark was like the office is gonna pay

480
00:33:34,580 --> 00:33:36,900
Because this is work and I was like that's

481
00:33:36,900 --> 00:33:38,900
Honestly relatable. Um

482
00:33:38,900 --> 00:33:45,540
We love charging into the work card. That's not true. We don't do that that much but when we do get to it's like, ah charge it

483
00:33:47,300 --> 00:33:48,260
Yeah

484
00:33:48,260 --> 00:33:52,900
Okay, i'm looking at the tropes that I listed on story graph. So we're just gonna go down the line

485
00:33:54,180 --> 00:33:56,420
Um one there was a duck

486
00:33:57,220 --> 00:34:02,500
I'm remembering that there was a duck two. They were caught in a rainstorm. I don't think for the record

487
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:04,500
There was a duck counts as a trope

488
00:34:04,500 --> 00:34:09,380
Not necessarily tropes just circumstances that I like to keep track of because I'm on my brain is like I need a book with

489
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:12,100
A duck and I can't remember so I have to be very meticulous

490
00:34:12,420 --> 00:34:16,100
Sure, there was a duck they were caught in a rainstorm set of rainstorm

491
00:34:16,420 --> 00:34:24,020
Led to a tryst in the woods in a deserted, you know cabin shed, whatever. I just read the alexander vasty. Um

492
00:34:24,820 --> 00:34:28,420
Yes, the chemist one where there was also a tryst in a shed

493
00:34:29,220 --> 00:34:30,260
Exactly

494
00:34:30,260 --> 00:34:33,140
Love a tryst in a shed me for a kid

495
00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:35,140
I love conniving

496
00:34:35,700 --> 00:34:41,620
Rainstorms to just really make everyone have sex happens in scandal in spring. Just my favorite my favorite

497
00:34:42,100 --> 00:34:44,100
Um, obviously it's a ment of fake suitor

498
00:34:44,740 --> 00:34:46,740
uh near-death experience

499
00:34:46,740 --> 00:34:52,260
Enemies to lovers bananas plot fake relationship hurt comfort jealousy 16 romp

500
00:34:53,140 --> 00:34:58,500
Women in pants. Oh 16. I thought you said 16. I was like 16 what?

501
00:34:59,540 --> 00:35:01,540
Is this like 16?

502
00:35:01,540 --> 00:35:03,540
169's

503
00:35:03,620 --> 00:35:05,380
weirdly

504
00:35:05,380 --> 00:35:09,220
Well, if you look if you if you read it do a 16 so you have a one and then a six

505
00:35:09,300 --> 00:35:11,300
That's what i'm trying to figure out

506
00:35:12,820 --> 00:35:14,820
You're missing something

507
00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:20,340
The tales of the person just laying there not reciprocating to explain this to me

508
00:35:22,180 --> 00:35:27,960
They're just laying there, um, they're not reciprocating which is so rude of them. Uh, no 16

509
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,560
And I don't remember but I do remember

510
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,640
That I remembered that there was a 16-year-old death experience situation

511
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:41,000
I just need to reread this book. I think is what i'm convincing myself sounds like to me. Yeah

512
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,680
I was having such a good time reading it though. I think my brain has just been

513
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,320
I read a lot

514
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:53,720
Since that one a lot of like historical so they're all kind of like melding together a lot of that was brevley jenkins, which was fantastic

515
00:35:53,720 --> 00:35:58,840
Have you read her on destiny series destiny's embrace destiny surrender?

516
00:35:59,320 --> 00:36:03,640
destiny's captive the latter two the pirate one and the

517
00:36:04,520 --> 00:36:07,880
Prostitute one. Yes, the first one I have not

518
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,360
The first one was good. I think I like so I liked two then one then three

519
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:14,280
um

520
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:16,440
So far that series has not been my favorite

521
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,640
Yeah, I think

522
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,600
I really enjoyed book two. Um book

523
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,720
Book one and three are on the lower end for me

524
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:28,280
Of ones that i've read. Um

525
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,060
But they were still very good slump busters

526
00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,560
Because like I didn't have a bad time in either of them

527
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:39,240
But I really enjoyed destiny surrender

528
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,440
That was the one where I was like barely jenkins has single-handedly answered the bear versus man debate

529
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,240
She shoots the bear and kills the man

530
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:53,960
I have no memory of this. I believe you. I just do not remember it

531
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:59,160
Yeah, there was like a bear harassing the town and I sincerely thought that the bear was going to eat the villain

532
00:36:59,240 --> 00:37:01,080
Which I was excited about

533
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:07,160
Um, she ends up saving the town from the bear and then brutalizing the villain just alone

534
00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:13,720
He kidnaps her obviously there's kidnapping. Sure, and then she just goes to town. She goes to town on him and i'm like, yes

535
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,360
Go get it. I was

536
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,640
It was beautiful. If it wasn't a bear i'm happy it was billy

537
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:21,960
because

538
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,960
That man suffered

539
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,760
So oh that's all I can ask really

540
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,080
Which one is this?

541
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,840
destiny surrender

542
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,680
I know what's the premise?

543
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:33,880
um

544
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:35,880
so she's his like

545
00:37:36,340 --> 00:37:41,880
Mistress basically because he like basically pays her not to sleep with anyone else, but she's like a prostitute and then she gets pregnant

546
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,480
Yes. Yeah, she gets pregnant. I was thinking that we were talking about the pirate one

547
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:51,960
Oh, I thought one wasn't my favorite. No, no mine either. I did like I did like that one. I do not remember the bear

548
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,360
um

549
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,000
The bear deserved really vaguely but yeah

550
00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:59,960
I deserve to kill a villain but

551
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,760
You know, it is what it is. No the this one the premise is that

552
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,200
Um, she is a prostitute, but he's basically had paid it for like two years. You just like be his

553
00:38:10,740 --> 00:38:14,680
exclusively and then the book starts literally with them banging

554
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:20,600
And then the sponge rips in half. She doesn't tell him she ends up pregnant at the beginning of the book

555
00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:29,080
He then at the same time that I think like the kid is like I think like 16 months old or something he is um

556
00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:37,560
Very close to getting engaged or like being engaged to this like heiress diamond to the first water or whatever

557
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:42,600
And then billy storms into the engagement party. So it's very close to a speak now moment

558
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,400
She storms into the engagement party and it's like here's your kid

559
00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:51,960
Um surprise i'm gonna leave because this villain is chasing me and both of us like I want us to be separated

560
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,640
And this guy was so not having it. He was so angry. He was a definitely a dick at the beginning, but

561
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:00,360
He reformed

562
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:05,960
He rode the rake to simp pipeline. Um, no, I no I wrote woo to love pipeline

563
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,600
Um, he wasn't a rake. He was ready to settle down

564
00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:11,320
He just didn't want to settle down with her but then his mother was like, yeah

565
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,360
But then his mother was like you are getting married. This is a disgrace

566
00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:20,200
I can't believe you weren't gonna get married to her. Um, so the mother is a real like the real queen there

567
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,360
And then she gets her own romance

568
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,520
And then you see that through like all the books which was great

569
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:31,080
Um, but the woota love pipeline is where the hero falls first or it falls second basically

570
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:32,520
but

571
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:38,040
He has to work for the rest of the book to convince her that he actually loves her and that she can like trust him in that

572
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:39,480
love

573
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:40,920
because

574
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,640
Before he was not able to love or whatever

575
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:49,960
um, so she was always in love with him and then once he fell in love he was like way harder and

576
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,160
Had to had to show her

577
00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:58,520
So different pipelines than the rake to simp one. There was another one that was rake to simp, but oh that was book one

578
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,560
So there we are

579
00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,200
Many pipelines. Yes

580
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,760
Yes

581
00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:10,760
Wow, okay

582
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:17,000
Again, i'll tell you. Yep. Um, cool. Uh f1 update

583
00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:21,400
Uh

584
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:25,960
I don't really have one last week was super boring except for the last five minutes of the race

585
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:28,760
Uh lando almost won, but that didn't

586
00:40:29,640 --> 00:40:31,640
He was really close though. So

587
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,080
He was really really close and I was like, why did I even watch this race at this point?

588
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,320
I didn't actually I slept through most of the middle of it

589
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:42,520
Um, because it was so boring that I slept through the whole middle chunk of the race and then I woke up and lando was

590
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:45,000
Closing in on max for stopping and I was like, whoa

591
00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:52,120
Did I miss anything and everyone was like no and I was like, okay, this is the most boring race of all time

592
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,760
Did he get like second or third or just like not? Yeah. No, he came in right behind him

593
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:00,120
So max won only like a few seconds rather than a few seconds

594
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:02,360
So we're closing the gap. We're getting there

595
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:10,600
Max for actually the most important update is that charlotte claire adopted a little um, dachshund puppy a while ago and

596
00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:13,160
leo leclerc san mu

597
00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:15,240
San mu is his girlfriend's last name

598
00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:19,480
And he has a little paddock pass with a little head shot of his full government name

599
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:24,520
Which I may have spoken about on the podcast before now that i'm saying it but leo leclerc san mu

600
00:41:25,160 --> 00:41:28,360
Is um the people's princess? He is the people's princess

601
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:31,400
He has usurped his father's throne because the way

602
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:37,320
That he just like trots around the paddock on his tiny little legs and sometimes flops down and refuses to move

603
00:41:37,320 --> 00:41:40,920
So his mom has to go like pick him up and carry him because he won't move anymore

604
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:46,280
But the way that everyone in that paddock is obsessed with that tiny little dog. He comes up in press conferences

605
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:48,840
The journalists will ask about him

606
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:54,920
There was one like sky sports commentator guy who was talking about the goodest boy in the paddock leo leclerc san mu

607
00:41:54,920 --> 00:42:02,840
Going for walkies. This is a direct quote going for walkies around the paddock. I was like you are a professional commentator

608
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,080
Yeah, that feels like a ted lasso like side plot. It could be

609
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:10,920
The way that his they're okay. So on like race week

610
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:17,320
The f1 account will post like photos of the different drivers coming into the paddock like as a carousel post

611
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,960
Of whatever drivers they have some pictures of

612
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:25,720
And the last one they did for that weekend. It was like driver driver like swiping through the carousel driver driver

613
00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:28,360
Here's a picture of charlotte claire's girlfriend and dog

614
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:35,240
And then driver driver driver like just her normally the wags are in there if they're coming in with the driver

615
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:39,960
Yeah, not this time. They said here's a shot of just alexandra and leo

616
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:45,240
And then I don't know if you shared it or if I saw it on tiktok or somewhere but

617
00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:49,640
The dog pooped somewhere. He did someone was like filming it. Yeah

618
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,000
They didn't know what to do because charlotte's like leo not in the paddock

619
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,960
So how big will that dog get I have no idea not that big though if it's a little dachshund

620
00:43:01,240 --> 00:43:05,240
He's so small and he's like out on yachts living a better life than me

621
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,080
That dog is richer than both of us combined. No, exactly

622
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:14,280
He's so wealthy and he's so small. He's so small. He's so small. He's so small

623
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,280
He and he's just trotting around

624
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:20,520
Knowing that everyone is obsessed with him. I know he does. Yeah

625
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,040
Yep, just being like I'm so cute

626
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,480
And he's right

627
00:43:27,720 --> 00:43:31,400
He's adorable. He's so cute. I will never recover

628
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:35,960
That's actually the biggest update is that he is just the prince of the paddock currently

629
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:43,640
Every time he walks in the camera, there are like shots of the cameraman down there like squatting to get good angles of him

630
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:44,640
It's amazing.

631
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:45,640
The paddock prince.

632
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:46,640
I was like, this is what we needed.

633
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:47,640
I mean, Lewis Hamilton also has a dog, Roscoe.

634
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:55,880
He's like a big bulldog, but he also only comes to the European races.

635
00:43:55,880 --> 00:44:01,880
So Ferrari is going to be lit next year with Lewis and Charles with their dogs.

636
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:03,360
I'm so ready.

637
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:08,120
Well, when is Max Verstappen going to bring his cats to the circuit?

638
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,520
Of course he has cats.

639
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:10,520
Yeah.

640
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,720
That really makes a lot of sense.

641
00:44:12,720 --> 00:44:15,520
I think he claims to like dogs better, but he has cats.

642
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,440
That's what they all say.

643
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:19,440
So true.

644
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:29,520
If my mom had balls, she'd be my dad.

645
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:30,520
Surely I...

646
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:31,520
Okay.

647
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,040
Did I not tell that part of Max Verstappen?

648
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:35,040
No!

649
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:36,040
Yes, I did.

650
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:37,040
I feel like...

651
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:39,040
Because that was after Lando's win.

652
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,360
In the press conference, they were like, oh, like you only won because of the safety of

653
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:43,360
the car, blah, blah, blah.

654
00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:46,640
And Lando was like, oh, you know, if there hadn't been a safety car, like if this, if

655
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,960
that, I would have had to have overtaken blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

656
00:44:48,960 --> 00:44:52,720
And Max interrupted him to go, ah, if, if, if, if my mom had balls, she'd be my dad.

657
00:44:52,720 --> 00:45:01,840
But I'm just like, okay, it's my favorite thing he's ever said, possibly.

658
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:02,840
Max Verstappen doesn't care about PR training.

659
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,520
Well, I'm happy that you didn't just come up with it.

660
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:05,520
Oh, no.

661
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:12,160
He doesn't care about PR training anymore because he's so good at his job.

662
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,120
Like who's gonna stop him?

663
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:15,120
No one.

664
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:16,640
So he just says things now.

665
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:19,000
I love that for him.

666
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:24,760
I also love that I get to go and read a book about an un-PR trained baseball player.

667
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:25,760
So true.

668
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:26,760
He is un-PR trained.

669
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,680
I'm so ready.

670
00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,240
He's just a goofy guy.

671
00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:35,640
He's just a guy who thinks that he's stupid, but he's not stupid.

672
00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,400
And he's like a little self-conscious that Mark is writing and he's gonna make him sound

673
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,080
stupid.

674
00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:45,360
And Mark is like, I would never do that to you because I'm in love with you.

675
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:50,560
Not that he says that or admits it for a long time, but it's true.

676
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:52,000
I am fully prepared.

677
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:56,640
Literally the 17 pages I have read have been so good.

678
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,360
They're so good.

679
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:04,040
As soon as you start, you're like, ah, she's done it again.

680
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,560
And I just read the Amelie Howard one, which is really fun.

681
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:11,560
Did I read something else, I don't know what I just read, but I have to write that review.

682
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,800
But I'll procrastinate that with Kat Sebastian.

683
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:19,920
Actually, I've read three books that I have to write reviews for.

684
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:21,280
Oh no.

685
00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:25,760
I hate when I do that to myself.

686
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:26,760
My worst trait.

687
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:31,080
It's being like, oh yeah, I'll write the review tomorrow.

688
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,040
She says not writing the review tomorrow.

689
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:38,720
Okay, well, congratulations.

690
00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:41,440
You have listened to us talk.

691
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:44,560
You deserve a medal, a cookie, a treat, a little treat.

692
00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:46,560
A little treat.

693
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:47,560
Treat?

694
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:48,560
Treat?

695
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:52,360
So maybe that's buying a book or might be.

696
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,680
I don't know.

697
00:46:55,680 --> 00:47:02,240
So yeah, subscribe to our newsletter because that's at least coherent.

698
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:07,280
Coherent might be a stretch.

699
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,760
It does have recommendations in it, though.

700
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:12,160
That is very true.

701
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:14,040
And they are in nice little sections.

702
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:15,040
Nice little sections?

703
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:19,000
You get some bad puns.

704
00:47:19,000 --> 00:47:22,080
Every time I set up a newsletter, I'm like, maybe Hannah will have something better to

705
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,920
name this or make the subject line.

706
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,760
And then every time it goes out, I'm like, nope, she didn't change it.

707
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:28,760
Nope.

708
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:29,760
Nope.

709
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:33,880
I had fun with the Ghostbusters one, but that was just to say that.

710
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:34,880
That one was excellent.

711
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:35,880
That was all Hannah.

712
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:36,880
That cracked me the fuck.

713
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:37,880
Because I didn't know you were sending out a newsletter.

714
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,960
And I was like, oh, what's this?

715
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,600
I was having a very good time.

716
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:46,000
I learned how to make a gif.

717
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:48,000
I saw that.

718
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:50,440
Yeah, I had to do it.

719
00:47:50,440 --> 00:47:51,440
Because I was editing.

720
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:58,720
Neither of us said, like, we said some busters, but we never made the connection to Ghostbusters

721
00:47:58,720 --> 00:48:00,120
in the episode.

722
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,920
So I just fully ran with the fact that I was watching the new Ghostbusters that night.

723
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,960
And I was like, what if?

724
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,920
Because then it gave me the little paragraph to write that I didn't have to think of any

725
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:16,040
words and just and then I was like, well, that was so funny to me that I want to do

726
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:21,480
a newsletter to add this gif and to just fully commit.

727
00:48:21,480 --> 00:48:24,600
You're so real for that.

728
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:25,600
And it made me chuckle.

729
00:48:25,600 --> 00:48:27,040
Who are you going to call?

730
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:32,400
And then this most recent one, if you haven't read it, was Wallflower Rex, basically.

731
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,920
I think they're all Wallflowers.

732
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:41,160
Not necessarily like Wallflower Rake or like Best Friends Brother, but I feel like all

733
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:46,400
of the Rex felt like they could be a really good lead in or lead off or whatever from

734
00:48:46,400 --> 00:48:47,400
Bridgerton.

735
00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,120
Because you haven't watched the season.

736
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:54,000
No, but I've seen enough about it.

737
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:57,440
And I've also read the book and unfortunately, I remember too much about it.

738
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:00,000
It's very different from the book.

739
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:04,160
That's like I feel like I just know like I'm not really scared of spoilers.

740
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:07,120
So like I don't I'm not like keeping myself from like seeing things.

741
00:49:07,120 --> 00:49:14,440
So I'm like, I do know that Lord Devlin is a vegetarian that he cannot love.

742
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:15,440
It's true.

743
00:49:15,440 --> 00:49:17,640
I need to find wherever it was.

744
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:18,640
I saved it.

745
00:49:18,640 --> 00:49:19,640
Was it Instagram?

746
00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:27,160
So like, tell your betrothed if he has beef with me.

747
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,280
It took me out.

748
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:36,560
Tell your friend that if he has beef, beef, I pay no heed for I am a vegan.

749
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:39,640
And I ain't fucking scared of him.

750
00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:40,640
Exactly.

751
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:45,160
No, my problem was I have like one off Rex where I'm like, oh, this is a good like he

752
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:50,000
agrees to help her get married and then falls or like this is a good childhood friends to

753
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:55,120
lovers or this is a good like wallflower rate, whatever.

754
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,840
But I don't I don't have enough of each of those things.

755
00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:01,920
Yeah.

756
00:50:01,920 --> 00:50:03,180
Like more than one or two.

757
00:50:03,180 --> 00:50:10,220
So we went with wallflowers, which at first I was like in New York or romance.

758
00:50:10,220 --> 00:50:11,920
That was very interesting that you have put that in there.

759
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,700
And I was like, you're so right.

760
00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:22,440
I think it's because, well, I wouldn't necessarily like I understand why an author of color,

761
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:27,320
like specifically writing a character of color would lean away from the wallflower thing.

762
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:28,640
Yep.

763
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,760
Yep.

764
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:33,280
I think that makes sense.

765
00:50:33,280 --> 00:50:41,520
But then also, so the trend right now is so like women in STEM, women who are like the

766
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:45,200
powerful do it all, be it all heroine, which isn't a bad thing.

767
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:46,800
I sound very tired as I'm saying it.

768
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:48,280
It's not a bad thing.

769
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:54,240
But I do love a classic old school wallflower because some of us.

770
00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:56,000
Our wallflowers are wallflower.

771
00:50:56,000 --> 00:51:00,760
We're just like awkwardly on the sidelines being like.

772
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:03,500
This is bumping.

773
00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:07,520
I did know literally interview with the the actress who plays.

774
00:51:07,520 --> 00:51:16,000
Oh, my God, Eloise and they her and like the Francesca Hatcher, somebody else.

775
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:17,000
I don't know.

776
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,000
But they were like, would you rather type games?

777
00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:23,120
And they asked about if there was a ball and she was like, oh, no, I wouldn't show up.

778
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:24,120
I don't have FOMO.

779
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,080
I have fear of being involved.

780
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:32,280
And I was like, yeah, phobia felt.

781
00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:33,280
That is very true.

782
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,480
That is very true.

783
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:43,160
Yeah, I all I did was type in a wallflower into Goodreads and story graph to see like

784
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,160
what popped up.

785
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,880
And then like I saw like what I had read, I was like blanking.

786
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:48,840
I was like, suddenly I've never read a wallflower before.

787
00:51:48,840 --> 00:51:54,520
Like I knew one that I even include like Lenora Bell has a whole wallflower verse rogues series

788
00:51:54,520 --> 00:51:56,800
that I put book one in our beauty and the beast.

789
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:01,000
So I felt fine not including it for this.

790
00:52:01,000 --> 00:52:04,800
But I had to I like completely forgot about so many of them because you're right.

791
00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:08,680
Like I haven't read a true wallflower like in a new book in a long time.

792
00:52:08,680 --> 00:52:13,760
Like if if the heroines like aren't wanting to be on the marriage market, they're not

793
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:15,680
like actively going to balls.

794
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:19,800
I feel like I feel like they're like off, like you said, like being in STEM, doing things

795
00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:24,040
or like living in the country, defiantly a spinster.

796
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,160
They're not a wallflower.

797
00:52:26,160 --> 00:52:29,800
The way that a true like wall like clay this wallflower is.

798
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:33,720
Yeah, there was like who are also off doing things, by the way.

799
00:52:33,720 --> 00:52:36,760
I know I was like, is I was like, is Daisy really a wallflower?

800
00:52:36,760 --> 00:52:39,360
And I was like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm keeping it.

801
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:41,720
Lillian Bowman identifies as a wallflower.

802
00:52:41,720 --> 00:52:46,840
But like I had that exact thought because I was like, I mean, Daisy is pretty much doing

803
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:50,000
whatever she wants and like.

804
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:52,160
Pretty go getter.

805
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:55,600
But she wasn't married, so I guess that's what a wallflower is.

806
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:59,000
So I was like trying to because I had like one that was like a she was an accidental

807
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,440
wallflower because she was like the popular girl until she sprained her ankle and then

808
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:04,440
she gets with the doctor.

809
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:06,960
That one was really fun.

810
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:11,320
And I had one that she was literally a wallflower because she was invisible.

811
00:53:11,320 --> 00:53:12,320
She made a wish to be.

812
00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:15,360
Yeah, I was like.

813
00:53:15,360 --> 00:53:17,680
That one beat out a few because that was one of the last ones.

814
00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:18,680
And I was like, I have to.

815
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:19,680
That's a fun twist.

816
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:23,680
I mean, the Samara Paris that I threw in there, yes, the wallflower.

817
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:24,680
Yep.

818
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:29,400
Yeah, there was an evil one that I felt like he could also kind of be the wallflower.

819
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:30,880
I didn't include that one because you had yours.

820
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:36,240
I was like, I think that one is a good a good version of that.

821
00:53:36,240 --> 00:53:41,520
But yes, I have like more wallflower racks, but I have more than I thought I was going

822
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,480
to have because at the beginning I was like, I don't know what.

823
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:44,480
So I just went to bed.

824
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:49,240
I didn't think I thought I was right.

825
00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:52,920
And then this is where I found myself being like modern historical romance leans away

826
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:53,920
from the wallflower.

827
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:58,040
Yeah, because all the ones that I was finding were from like twenty eighteen or twenty seventeen

828
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:01,600
or like earlier, you know, like more classic ones.

829
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:05,200
Or there were ones that I was like, oh, I bet Tessa Dare has a bunch, but I haven't

830
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:06,200
read them yet.

831
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:07,200
You know?

832
00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:11,560
Yeah, I did include the wallflower wager because I had thought about that one was that one

833
00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,040
was easy just because it says it there.

834
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,080
I was like, oh, yes, I guess she's a wallflower.

835
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:19,440
Also, I just love that book and I've been fighting the urge to reread it.

836
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:21,840
So I was like, I'm just going to talk about it.

837
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,520
But it was a very fun newsletter.

838
00:54:24,520 --> 00:54:28,160
I read it like I read what you put last night and I was laughing.

839
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:30,040
Look, I am to please.

840
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,440
And by that, I mean I get very sleepy.

841
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,880
I open up my laptop on a Tuesday night when I was supposed to have written this on Friday

842
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:37,880
to go out.

843
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:39,560
I go, damn it.

844
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:40,840
I forgot the newsletter again.

845
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:42,920
I should write this before I go to sleep.

846
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:48,600
And then just words come out and I go to the boards while pollinating wallflowers.

847
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:51,600
I don't know.

848
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:55,640
Look, why are there rakes?

849
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,120
I kept trying to be like rake in some wallflowers.

850
00:54:59,120 --> 00:55:01,640
Why are there so many gardening related puns available?

851
00:55:01,640 --> 00:55:02,640
You're so right.

852
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:09,200
And then I wanted to add that I wanted to add that Daisy's literally a flower.

853
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:10,200
Oh, my God.

854
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:11,200
She so is.

855
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:14,680
Yeah, but I just I could there were so many words already that I had written that I was

856
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:15,680
like, rake.

857
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,760
Oh, correct.

858
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,880
I just like what?

859
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:25,640
Sowing their seeds, their wild oats.

860
00:55:25,640 --> 00:55:27,920
Why is it all gardening?

861
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:31,560
I really wish there was like a hose emoji.

862
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:35,400
I really had wanted to send that to you, but there wasn't one.

863
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:36,400
That's tragic.

864
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:37,400
I just did it.

865
00:55:37,400 --> 00:55:38,400
It's really upsetting.

866
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:39,400
I really was.

867
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:41,120
I was like, why isn't there a hose?

868
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,480
Justice for farmers.

869
00:55:43,480 --> 00:55:45,360
Justice for farmers.

870
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:47,000
Like God bless him.

871
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:48,000
West Ravenel.

872
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:49,000
Daddy West.

873
00:55:49,000 --> 00:55:54,000
I'm literally I'm reading Cold Hearted Rake right now because I had nothing else to read.

874
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:57,920
I was like, I need to go for the classics.

875
00:55:57,920 --> 00:55:59,640
And it wasn't it.

876
00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,240
Well, it was interrupted by my phone shutting off 20 times.

877
00:56:02,240 --> 00:56:06,520
But in between the stints of it shutting off, I was having a good time.

878
00:56:06,520 --> 00:56:09,160
I was getting so angry.

879
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:14,880
So Daddy West, my hot, hot stepdad farmer.

880
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:22,160
Honestly, he's so good.

881
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,640
And it's just I love seeing him at the beginning and like where he ends up.

882
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:29,560
Just how Kathleen just like yells at him.

883
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:35,760
He's just like, I have messed up.

884
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:36,760
I love that man.

885
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:40,160
Is it all right if I call you dad?

886
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:53,280
I'm crying just thinking about West and his stepchild.

887
00:56:53,280 --> 00:56:55,160
I'm embarking on that journey again.

888
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:58,680
Good for you.

889
00:56:58,680 --> 00:56:59,680
Thank you.

890
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:03,040
I unfortunately am really stuck on this F1 romance thing and I'm not going to be able

891
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:08,160
to go back to reading my normal scheduled programming until I have read all of the F1

892
00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:09,160
romance.

893
00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:11,800
Well, I've already DNFed a whole bunch.

894
00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:16,800
There's like six left on my list or something to actually read as opposed to read the first

895
00:57:16,800 --> 00:57:20,400
few pages and go, oh, no, absolutely not.

896
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:24,000
I started one that I was like a little worried it might be bad because it's a new one, a

897
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:27,680
new author to me, indie published, which can be hit or miss.

898
00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:28,680
I didn't know.

899
00:57:28,680 --> 00:57:31,360
But so far I am quite charmed.

900
00:57:31,360 --> 00:57:34,120
I love a fake dating setup when it's well done.

901
00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:35,120
Me too.

902
00:57:35,120 --> 00:57:36,120
Me too.

903
00:57:36,120 --> 00:57:38,120
Fake dating had a minute there where people were hating on it.

904
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,200
I'm like, you know what?

905
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:41,200
It's one of my favorites.

906
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:46,440
I think it's bad if it's like stupid, but that's true of literally any trope.

907
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:48,840
If it's like there's no reason for you to be doing this.

908
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:49,840
Yeah.

909
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:53,360
Like I haven't encountered too many fake datings where I just haven't had a good time because

910
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:54,360
they were faked dating.

911
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:56,840
Like I do not honestly care what the reasoning is.

912
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:58,080
I just like the situation.

913
00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:02,880
The only one I had an issue with was that I mean, I probably had more, but they kept

914
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,640
they told everyone in their life that they were fake dating except for like two people

915
00:58:06,640 --> 00:58:07,640
that they had a trick.

916
00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:09,480
And I'm like, but where's the fun in that?

917
00:58:09,480 --> 00:58:10,480
Right.

918
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:14,400
Like, and the people were like, yeah, they like weren't even like in their like main

919
00:58:14,400 --> 00:58:15,400
life.

920
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:21,440
So like there was no, I'm like what, why you've told everyone now I'm not interested because

921
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:23,440
I love like having to fake it.

922
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:24,440
Yeah.

923
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:28,920
So that one was weird, but most of the time it works for me contemporary.

924
00:58:28,920 --> 00:58:30,800
I love it in historical.

925
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:33,720
It's just so good.

926
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:37,680
So that one I realized last year when I was like doing all my like end of year stuff that

927
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:42,900
I read a lot of fake dating and then I had a lot of like five star and four star books

928
00:58:42,900 --> 00:58:45,400
in there because they're just so fun.

929
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:49,680
I love the time we have sufficiently talked.

930
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:51,680
We have God.

931
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:52,680
Okay.

932
00:58:52,680 --> 00:58:55,680
Well, there you go.

933
00:58:55,680 --> 00:58:56,680
Hopefully you pick up.

934
00:58:56,680 --> 00:59:01,160
Well, you can only go pick up one of those recommendations actually pick up book one

935
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,880
in that Vivian Lorette series.

936
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:07,440
What is the technology?

937
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:08,440
Okay.

938
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:14,040
So the store or the series is called the liars club and book one is called it had to be a

939
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:15,040
Duke.

940
00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:17,160
It's the one with the pink dress and then this is the one with the red dress.

941
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:18,440
There you go.

942
00:59:18,440 --> 00:59:23,400
Or yeah, or pick up some Beverly Jenkins, any Kat Sebastian.

943
00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:26,640
I've been meaning to reread the rune of a rake and that whole Kat Sebastian series because

944
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:27,640
that one was so good.

945
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:35,400
I loved all those books, so many books, but then I also just don't want to read sometimes.

946
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:39,480
And then I'm like, yeah, you're right.

947
00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:42,560
Audio books have been a little bit harder of late.

948
00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:47,160
It feels really nice to pick up like a solid book and like be reading that.

949
00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:49,920
Been having a lot of luck on my Kindle lately.

950
00:59:49,920 --> 00:59:52,920
I got a new Kindle case, which is very fun for me.

951
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:56,880
I love buying accessories.

952
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:58,360
One of my simple pleasures.

953
00:59:58,360 --> 01:00:01,360
That's so valid.

954
01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:04,280
Yeah, it made me very happy.

955
01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:08,600
So there was a span there for a while where I knocked out like 10 arcs just because I

956
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:09,600
had a new Kindle case.

957
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:11,920
So if you're in a slump.

958
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:16,600
You buying like a new pair of gym shorts and suddenly going to the gym multiple days a

959
01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:22,320
week because I'm like, oh, yeah, get out of any slump by just treating yourself to a little

960
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:29,280
treat and accessory or two, something to make what you don't want to do enjoyable.

961
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:31,920
And then suddenly you'll want to do it.

962
01:00:31,920 --> 01:00:32,920
And it really did work.

963
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:36,880
I got I had like I had a lot of arcs I had to read and then I read them all.

964
01:00:36,880 --> 01:00:37,880
Now I think only have like two.

965
01:00:37,880 --> 01:00:38,880
Why doesn't mine do that?

966
01:00:38,880 --> 01:00:39,880
Oh, did it do that again?

967
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:40,880
Yeah, I gave you a thumbs up.

968
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:41,880
Wow.

969
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:42,880
Oh my fireworks.

970
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:45,880
Before it just gave you a little thumbs up.

971
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:46,880
Mine won't do it.

972
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:49,880
Mine does it on like my phone when I FaceTime.

973
01:00:49,880 --> 01:00:52,480
That's so weird.

974
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,920
I don't know.

975
01:00:54,920 --> 01:00:58,720
Maybe because my computer is old.

976
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,720
Oh, that could be.

977
01:01:01,720 --> 01:01:07,720
Well, a short moment of fireworks over this sad empty town.

978
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:10,720
Yes, thank you.

979
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,720
Well, yep.

980
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:22,800
Oh, I'm still going to bully you into doing a torture poets rec thing, but I have to bully

981
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:23,800
myself into finishing it.

982
01:01:23,800 --> 01:01:28,800
I don't have any recommendations for the torture poets department.

983
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,800
We need to.

984
01:01:31,800 --> 01:01:35,680
I don't have any.

985
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:40,320
Just take just imagine that you were in love with Maddie Healy and making really poor decisions.

986
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:43,320
Well, first of all, and then you simply would never.

987
01:01:43,320 --> 01:01:46,320
I know I can make decisions more relatable.

988
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,920
Being in love with Maddie Healy, not relatable.

989
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:57,000
Making poor decisions over a terrible person who will never be good.

990
01:01:57,000 --> 01:02:01,560
But apparently, I don't know.

991
01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:02,880
He doesn't look scary up close.

992
01:02:02,880 --> 01:02:03,880
I don't know.

993
01:02:03,880 --> 01:02:09,880
He's but I don't have book recommendations for that.

994
01:02:09,880 --> 01:02:13,600
I'm going to bully you.

995
01:02:13,600 --> 01:02:21,840
Well, I'm going to watch and drive to survive and then it's over for you, bitches.

996
01:02:21,840 --> 01:02:23,120
I don't I'm not opposed.

997
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,680
I'm just.

998
01:02:25,680 --> 01:02:30,960
Opposed to any show, but not specifically draft to survive.

999
01:02:30,960 --> 01:02:32,880
Like it was good when we were watching it at Steamy Lit.

1000
01:02:32,880 --> 01:02:36,040
Like I know it's because it's good.

1001
01:02:36,040 --> 01:02:37,040
It is.

1002
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:39,240
I just have a very hard time watching things.

1003
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,840
I will say if you have you watched Ghosts?

1004
01:02:41,840 --> 01:02:46,360
No, there's like the British version, the American version.

1005
01:02:46,360 --> 01:02:48,200
Very good show.

1006
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:52,400
Like basically this woman gets hit on the head and can now see the ghosts that have

1007
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,320
been living in this mansion that she inherited.

1008
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,200
And they're like all from different time periods and they're hilarious.

1009
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:00,560
And like it started off as a British show, so you know, it's going to be funny.

1010
01:03:00,560 --> 01:03:02,000
And then it came to the American one.

1011
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:04,760
And I don't know if it's like sacrilegious or whatever, but the American one is just

1012
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:05,760
as funny.

1013
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:08,000
Like they're both very different and I love them both.

1014
01:03:08,000 --> 01:03:11,160
But like I also very much like the American one and it's still going.

1015
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:13,800
The British one ended.

1016
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:19,120
And the episode that I watched last night, it was so funny.

1017
01:03:19,120 --> 01:03:25,080
There's this ghost from the Revolutionary War and apparently he loves dinosaurs.

1018
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:28,160
And then he was getting married to another ghost.

1019
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:31,920
But then they like had a bachelorette party and the one got lap dance.

1020
01:03:31,920 --> 01:03:33,520
Then the other one felt bad.

1021
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:38,360
So then the human hired a stripper for him to have a lap dance.

1022
01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:40,120
So she was like just stripped to this empty chair.

1023
01:03:40,120 --> 01:03:43,560
And he's like, you like I'll do whatever you're paying the bills.

1024
01:03:43,560 --> 01:03:47,800
And it was the funniest thing I've ever seen because he also knew dinosaur facts and he

1025
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:49,120
just started talking about them.

1026
01:03:49,120 --> 01:03:54,320
And then the ghost was like so turned on that this guy was doing a lap dance, but also had

1027
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:56,320
abs, but also was fighting dinosaur facts.

1028
01:03:56,320 --> 01:03:59,760
And then he was like, can you make the sound of this dinosaur or can you roar?

1029
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:01,960
So then the human was like, can you make that sound?

1030
01:04:01,960 --> 01:04:03,800
And he's like, actually, they don't roar.

1031
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:05,400
There's no evidence of roaring, but there is clicking.

1032
01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:11,960
So he just like is like clicking like while doing a lap dance to like an empty chair.

1033
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:18,520
When I tell you I was guffawing, never have I ever guffawed.

1034
01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:20,040
I was losing my mind.

1035
01:04:20,040 --> 01:04:22,640
My dad rarely laughs at things.

1036
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:26,280
He was like, it was so funny.

1037
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:30,160
God, it was a good time.

1038
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,600
For a good time, call some ghosts.

1039
01:04:32,600 --> 01:04:33,600
Wow.

1040
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:37,240
Well, it's the opposite of Ghostbusters.

1041
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:39,280
It is.

1042
01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:41,280
It is.

1043
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:43,280
Yeah.

1044
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:50,080
Maybe we should do some paranormal rags or something because I'm suddenly so into ghosts.

1045
01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:51,080
Suddenly.

1046
01:04:51,080 --> 01:04:52,080
That's so true.

1047
01:04:52,080 --> 01:04:53,560
I have been eight years ago.

1048
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,160
We had the nothing gets us going like a ghost.

1049
01:04:56,160 --> 01:04:57,440
Oh, my God.

1050
01:04:57,440 --> 01:04:58,720
You are so right.

1051
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:03,160
And then I saw there's one going around on Twitter by Ann Mallory.

1052
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:05,320
Interesting.

1053
01:05:05,320 --> 01:05:06,640
There's another one with another ghost.

1054
01:05:06,640 --> 01:05:08,240
It's like an older, old school one.

1055
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:09,240
Ann Mallory with a ghost.

1056
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:10,240
Uh huh.

1057
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:11,240
Uh huh.

1058
01:05:11,240 --> 01:05:14,960
I don't know if I can go on Twitter on this iPad, but I will.

1059
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:20,200
I mean, you can just Google it for the earl's pleasure.

1060
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:21,200
Yes.

1061
01:05:21,200 --> 01:05:26,040
Apparently, he like gets her off at like a horse derby or something, like in the middle

1062
01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:29,440
of broad daylight, but he's a ghost so no one can see him.

1063
01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:33,760
I think the reformed rakes podcast did an episode on it.

1064
01:05:33,760 --> 01:05:34,760
And it's on Kindle Unlimited.

1065
01:05:34,760 --> 01:05:35,760
That's what I could check.

1066
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:41,040
You know what's interesting is nothing in the description of the book says anything

1067
01:05:41,040 --> 01:05:43,560
about a ghost.

1068
01:05:43,560 --> 01:05:44,640
Yeah.

1069
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:49,920
But the longer I'm on this here earth, the longer I realized that I just want more fantasy,

1070
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:53,160
magical, paranormal, historical romances.

1071
01:05:53,160 --> 01:05:56,120
Yeah, for the earl's pleasure.

1072
01:05:56,120 --> 01:06:00,000
So I have it on Kindle Unlimited and I will be partaking because it seems like a very

1073
01:06:00,000 --> 01:06:01,000
good time.

1074
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:04,320
And I've got a few like time travel.

1075
01:06:04,320 --> 01:06:08,760
I feel like a few other ghost ones during the independent bookstore day that I'm excited

1076
01:06:08,760 --> 01:06:09,760
to read.

1077
01:06:09,760 --> 01:06:14,200
So maybe that's what I should do rather than do some audiobooks.

1078
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,480
So alright, ghosts.

1079
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:21,000
It's time for the struggle bus to park, I think.

1080
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:23,360
Give us a few hours peace.

1081
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:25,280
Yes, we need peace.

1082
01:06:25,280 --> 01:06:28,800
I need to go update this phone.

1083
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,440
Wish me all the luck on Friday when you're listening to this.

1084
01:06:32,440 --> 01:06:34,200
Hopefully I will have a phone.

1085
01:06:34,200 --> 01:06:38,120
I won't be a dinosaur because honestly when I was thinking I didn't know they could do

1086
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:41,880
loaner phones, I was like, I don't know how I'm going to survive weeks without a phone.

1087
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:43,760
Like I was a little panicked.

1088
01:06:43,760 --> 01:06:45,920
But here we are.

1089
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,520
She's eluded.

1090
01:06:48,520 --> 01:06:52,520
You will see us in print sometime next week.

1091
01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:56,280
It's still going.

1092
01:06:56,280 --> 01:07:00,320
It's still going.

1093
01:07:00,320 --> 01:07:04,960
It goes a really long time, unfortunately.

1094
01:07:04,960 --> 01:07:07,280
Sounds like a historical romance hero.

1095
01:07:07,280 --> 01:07:08,280
It does.

1096
01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:09,280
It does.

1097
01:07:09,280 --> 01:07:11,160
Like, alright buddy, let's wrap this up.

1098
01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:18,800
Stamina is not our issue.