January 9, 2024 • 48 mins
Hey Nerds, brace yourselves for a splash of newness with our snazzy rebrand to "Fiction Fanatics," complete with our own candid shots in the logo! The show's evolution promises more than just new visuals; it serves up a heaping helping of comedic genius, heartfelt acknowledgments, and aspirations to delve into future bookish discussions and author interviews. Are supporting characters the unsung heroes of our beloved tales? We're tipping our hats to them, diving into the essence of their wit, and how it intertwines with the fabric of narratives like "You Again" (our January book of the month).
We wrap with a heartfelt shoutout to everyone who's hopped aboard our 2023 podcast train. From the laugh-out-loud moments, to the cherished feedback from folks like Justin, we're traversing this wild literary landscape together. And we can't forget the fanfic throwbacks, our burgeoning romance with rom-coms, and the page-turning tropes that have us all heart-eyes. So, embrace the quirky, the heartfelt, and the sheer joy of story-loving camaraderie as we share our passion for fiction with you, our dear listeners.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I mean, I love a slow burn.
I know you do.
It's the best.
It's like it's the best and theworst at the same time.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's like you're that frog in the pot that's dying
you don't know.
They just keep slowly turningthe heat up, that Chanel.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I smell something cooking.
What's good?
It's me.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Am I on fire?
My loins are on fire.
Hi, I'm Chanel.
Hi I'm Stacey.
Hey nerds, this is Ashley.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And this is Fiction Fanatics.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And we're live Well, not live Jesus.
Sorry, I thought what's thatmovie where they hit to make the
toast and the glass breaks.
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh no, I thought you were talking about.
She's the man.
They're like teetee, teetee,teetee, and then she's like she,
like you're holding the secret.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I know you're talking about that, though there's a
movie where they went to do atoast and they hit the sun and
the glass just breaks.
What an idea.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That was not a very intelligent.
It almost broke my glass.
Hi, everyone, hi.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Happy new year.
It's January.
I hope it's going great foreveryone.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Is it not going great for you?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
No, it's been okay so far.
Okay, it just makes me think ofthat Friends episode when he's
just like it's just not my yearor whatever, and they're like
it's January 8th, no Are you,friends, I forget.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, well, I like it .
Yeah, it's like Ross and hecomes in, it's January 2nd and
he's like and I'm still a loser.
Then he comes in because he haslike a paste in his like
leather pants.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I swear guys, some of the best episodes of television
ever.
When he's trying to pull him upand it smacks himself in the
face, he's like it's formingsome kind of paste.
That's what it's like to be awoman.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's why it's funny .
You're right, that's like sucha funny episode.
He's stuck in like his date'sbathroom.
Yeah, he's like waddle out.
How embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And like I'm pretty sure it's Joey, that's like
coaching him.
Yeah, yeah, put some like babypowder down there.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Who's listening to Joey, by the way?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Now put some lotion.
It's like why would you thinkit would come out?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
To dry it out and then put the lotion to like,
loosen it up or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's like also, why would you wear leather pants?
That's already like one, likeno?
This is a tangent.
They love New York.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, this will be a short tangent this time because
we're not going too long.
But I swear, leather pants onlylook good on select people.
I tried to make leather pantshappen for me.
I bought it there.
It's not real leather, it'slike faux leather.
It looked terrible.
I was like how do people wearthese?
Anyways, I was Ross.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Only if you were like Michael Jackson could you pull
that off His size.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Anyways, we hope your year isn't like Ross and
friends with leather pantspasted in his pants pasted in
his pants, oh man.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So our book of the month this month is you Again,
by Kate Goldbeck.
If you didn't get the memo lastepisode, we're super excited,
I'm super excited, so excited.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Just started it.
I have lots of thoughts socan't wait to finish it To talk
about it.
Ash Chanel, I think, said lastepisode it gives when Harry Mutt
Sally vibes, which Ashley haswatched.
I have watched.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now we watched it on New Years I'll have what she's
having.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
When I tell you so, I've never actually.
I mean, I've heard of thatscene, obviously, and seen clips
of it, but I've never seen thefull scene of her faking this
orgasm in this restaurant.
It's amazing, it's incredible.
And Billy Crystal is juststaring at her like doesn't know
when to do.
The movie is amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think after that scene you were like what?
You were like what happened,what?
What's going on?
It just kept going.
And then we were also just likeno, no, this is what you said
after that scene.
You were just like imaginebeing close people in the
restaurant.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Because how did they not laugh?
And then would you not be somad if you were Meg Ryan and
somebody was laughing whenyou're trying to get this done,
like this couldn't have beenthat fun to film, like you know,
like it's probably I mean notembarrassing because it's your
job or whatever Just like youknow.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To like keep in scene .
Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine.
And even like Billy Crystal,he's just like looking at how is
he not laughing?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And it's yeah, that scene Always.
Do you guys watch Seinfeld?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, that scene always.
I haven't finished it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The episode where Elaine tells Jerry that she
fakes it all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh, yeah, and.
Jerry's like the glass ceilinghas broke from it, like fake
orgasms and he's like did youfake it with me?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And she's like all the time it ruins his life.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I know like it was.
It's like what Meg Ryan sayswhen she's like all women, or
majority of women, say they fakeit and all guys are convinced
that no women ever with them hasever ever been so she's like
you do the math.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I mean I can safely say that I would say like at
least 85% of women in their 20s100% faked it.
Yeah, like there's no way.
They didn't Right With theseguys.
There's no way.
And all these guys are sothey're like oh, I'm so much.
Oh I got the magic dick.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
No, we just want to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Personally, for me was like I'm drunk and I want to
go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh my gosh, so funny, anyway, so, anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So this is the book because it's kind of like when
Harry met Sally.
I've.
I've just started at.
The banter is great.
I love banter like this andbooks and it's excellent so far
and I can't wait to see whathappens Now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You said it's kind of like roles reverse, though
right, yeah, because Josh,you'll find out, is like he's
like real prickly and stuff likeyou know in general, but he's a
relationship guy.
Yeah like Sally is, whereas Ari, who is like, bisexual, she is
like this comedian and superfunny and outgoing, but she is
(06:20):
not a relationship person Like.
She just hops from person toperson.
Yeah, that's all I'm going tosay.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'm so excited I just started.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm not very far in, so I will also say that which is
kind of like when Harry metSally.
Be on surrounding cast memberslike the friends and Josh's
sister are the fate.
Are your like favoritecharacters like I?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
mean, I felt that way with Harry Metzali like their
friends were my favorite thewagon wheel coffee table.
What about when they're attheir wedding, when they're like
?
Can you imagine if we were evenremotely attracted?
To them and they're juststanding there like that's their
toast.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Everyone's like, yeah , so you definitely love them.
You obviously love Ari and Josh, the main characters, but like
you love their friends and hissister is what and the mom and
stuff too.
I love a good supporting castyeah, it can like me.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, it makes you think of like, forget me not.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The supporting cast yes, and you know, it was really
great too well, we can segueright into that.
What are our favorite books?
And and fix that we covered,which we covered.
Julie Soto's debut novel,forget me not this year, and
well wait, well, wait, before weget too far into yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, we have to make a big announcement.
Look, we're so distracted andthen we will definitely, but we
have to write who wants toannounce we should very
passionate about our books.
Okay.
I know because I already have abunch of like side characters
from stories I want to bring up.
But I'll come back to it so ourbig announcement to all of our
listeners out there we havedecided to change up our look a
little bit.
(07:54):
We've always loved our avatar,but we're gonna change our
podcast like logo theme and it'sactually to be pictures of us.
So we're really pumped about it.
And then don't want to talkabout the name change Chanel so
we are gonna now be calledfiction fanatics.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
If you haven't already seen, on our social
media, we're doing just a littlebit of rebranding, and so it
just means that we're gonna becovering a little bit more of
books now instead of just solelycovering fan fiction.
It doesn't mean that we'retotally going away from the fan
fiction world we'll still bedabbling in our love of fan
(08:35):
fiction, obviously, but we wantto focus more on authors and
books that we love and doing alittle bit more author
interviews and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So, yeah, we're fiction fanatics now yeah, we're
just growing, changing a littlebit, but what did you say
earlier?
Say see yeah, growth, you'relike New Year.
Oh yeah, new Year, new, newnames, same us same bullshit,
but we like it, especiallybecause we love our fan fiction
(09:06):
authors.
A lot of them have transitionedinto published.
Yeah, we like having them onand so we just think opening up
more just gives us we just hopeit's limited.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, we just don't.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We never want to set the limits we are.
We're shooting for the moonhere guys and if we miss, we can
land amongst the stars wow, youguys are so late a cliche
cliche.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I was all over.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I was swear, I was thinking it was all over.
Our middle school posters,those, yeah, but I mean because
we've already done a couplebooks and we're like, well, if
we're gonna keep doing books and, like Chanel said, we still
love our fan fiction, we'restill gonna cover some of those,
any kind of fiction we love.
We just wanted to be able tohave more options.
Yeah, because who doesn't loveoptions?
this girl likes options, that'sright so we can't wait for you
(09:54):
guys to see our new logo and ourphotos that we had taken by our
friend Cole, who's amazing,amazing photographer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So yeah, we're excited we hope you're excited.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh, a new music.
You cry her music when youstarted this episode.
A nice new intro.
I just feel like we're elevated.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's what it is, that's what it is we're on
another level yeah, we're justgonna keep on growing guys.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, we're glad that you could be here from the
beginning, where we couldn'teven hear ourselves in the audio
to the moon that was literallylike two months ago, I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I was talking about last year.
Okay, yeah, that was last year.
That was last year.
It's couple two weeks ago, soyeah that's what's happening.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
A little update in our world.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Let us know you think yeah, if you like it or not, or
if you hate it let us know Imean don't let me know, I can't
take it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean we might cry, and it's staying this way you
can let us know that, if it'sactually emotional to know if it
sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, now now now we're good, we're taking a look
back, yes, yes, when we werefanfic and what we did all last
year our favorite.
We're gonna start with ourfavorite fanfic slash books that
we covered.
Okay, what are the ones thatyou liked, remembered?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
my favorite, my favorite for me personally was
forget me.
Not by Julie, because what youguys know, I'm not like a yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, first of all, she's just her writing.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'm not a huge rom-com like.
I love rom-com movies.
I don't know what it is aboutreading them sometimes.
Yeah, romance wrote it, justit's not like my first pick and
so when we did that one I knewI'd like it, cuz I love her
writing.
Yeah, but I thoroughly enjoyedit.
I thought their banter washilarious and I like the side
(11:46):
characters and a lot which isimportant to me.
So I think that was like one ofmy most memorable months that
we did.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I think you're totally.
That's so funny because I feelthe same way.
Like I am not a romance greatlike I would.
I mean I like it.
I don't pick romance books offthe shelves, which is funny of
why I picked you again as mybook, a rom-com.
It's a rom-com, but actually Igot an arc of it and so I was
like you know what, let me justtry it.
(12:13):
And I was like, anyway, but butI loved, forget me not.
Obviously I read it cuz, cuz ofJulie and we love the auction,
we love, yeah, all the wrongthings, the right thing to do,
blah, blah.
And it was so funny because Imean, clearly she has a romance
in all of her fan fix.
(12:33):
But you know Harry Potter'sfantasy and everything, but she
like transitioned so well tojust just romance.
Right, that's it's so it's very.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It just shows how talented she is.
Yeah, but I think you're right.
I think me and Chanel are thesame like this.
I know we both enjoy fantasybooks a lot and I like the
romance components we're likethey're fantasy.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Romance is what we like.
That's what we like and lots ofsmut yeah uncomfortable amounts
sometimes yes, like I justfinished fourth wing last night,
I'm dying, and so that was likea great mixture of it was
fantasy with like a subplot ofromance, you know, and so.
But I mean, when you do romancejust by itself, well, like you
(13:19):
said, you have great, a greatcast, you have a great plot from
A to B and like a good dilemmagoing on.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Julie just hit the nail in the head and she's yeah
and the doughnuts were importantpart in that book and I love
that aspect of it, that scenewhere she wouldn't, she kisses
him and there was peanuts in thedoughnut and she, like is
having an allergic reaction,like passes out.
When I tell you that's one ofthe favorite things I've read
this year, that whole thing, youknow, no, no no, no, no, no no
(13:53):
no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
The best scene is when they have sex on his bench
and flowers and dirt areeverywhere.
That is the scene.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean, that is the scene, but funny wise.
Oh okay, him on the phone with911 and be like I killed her.
He's like she's a stranger.
I know you're in doubt he saidI heard I killed her and I was
like no, no, no, um, mine isFrostbite, because we covered it
this time last year yeah and Ilove Loki that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Stacey's he's.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
She's wearing it right now that's one of my
favorite books that you've foundStacey Chanel's frostbite book
I think I was a picture of it.
I think it's like the mostbeautiful one.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I've done for sure um .
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I love it.
Actually, I loved when we didthat one, but ever since I
watched the season 2 of Loki, Ilove it even more now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Frostbite oh really, I think I'm just more obsessed
with Loki's character yeah, yeahhis arc in the season 2 of Loki
.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's just like one of the most powerful things that
I've watched all year.
I think, yeah, so I'm reallyfeeling my my Loki love.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I just love it because it's just like a
different side of him, likeobviously seeing him in like
yoten form and being blue and Iwant to be a blue dude and I
would bang him.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I wish, I wish we were a video recording this and
I could see my face.
Like what do you even mean?
You don't think it'd be cool tomake someone who is blue okay?
Do you think he's cold?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, this is what's running through my head right
now.
One it's like paint would beeverywhere.
Stacy and a blue man for theblue man group.
That's what I'm thinking about.
I'm just thinking about themess.
Then I'm thinking Stacy, and isit Tobias from Arrested
Development, the romantic ex,and him like blue all the time,
the never nude, the never nude,and him in his little shorts,
his shorts.
(15:39):
That's what I was thinking.
I'm like, wait, what do youmean?
A blue?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
dude Like I don't, a tall blue looking alien.
What do you think?
Pieces of skin blue.
He's cold to.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're like that.
I think that's stereotypical.
Well, yeah, because he's fromYo-N-D, he's a guy.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's probably got an accent in his Yo-Tin form too.
I don't even know what to say.
We need to clip this.
I just want to beg a blue dude,clip it.
I don't even know what any ofthis means.
You guys, clip it, blue dude.
I am cut it out.
Full house, that was full housejokes.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You can do that, cut it out, Get it oh.
God, that's hilarious Anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Anyway.
But yeah, I would agree,frostbite was, like, definitely
one of the best aspects we'veever had.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, I thought it was just such a great storyline.
You got to like she built upthat world so well and the side
characters in that again.
Yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You guys are forgetting the best fake that we
covered last year.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I know what she's going to say.
I know what she's going to say.
What am I going to say?
Draco Malfoy, the mortifiedordeal.
I have multiple ones.
I have multiple ones.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
When I tell you that book, that book.
When I tell you if you're eversad or in a time mood.
Yes, if you read Theo's partychapter the framed the hole in
the wall he punched it.
There is no way you could behaving a bad day and read that
passage when they're talkingabout and be sad.
(16:58):
I was at work reading that.
For some reason.
I forget why I was reading thatpart, but it was like months
after we did that and I wasreading it and I was crying,
laughing Because her mind islike there seems like there's a
lot of aggression and it was.
My drink was so pissed so Idon't even know how this got
brought up at work.
(17:18):
But somebody was talking aboutthe dog that his patronus is,
and then he gets turned into.
What is it?
The Brazilian?
Brazilian is the Borzua BorzuaSomebody was talking about it
Borzua Linguine, linguine,cristal, and I was like, so I
just brought the fic back towhen they're talking about this
dog.
And it was a longer fic.
(17:39):
I never felt like it was toolong.
I loved everything about it.
I laughed, I cried, I mean, Ifelt every emotion.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The freaking skull.
That's like talking and tryingto hit on Draco and stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The nuns, that's the Mary Magdalene I'd want to know.
The one who would hit on DracoMalfoy was a skull.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
OK.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They have to silence it.
It's so good.
I loved everything about thatfic, but even the chapter titles
are great.
I went through when I waslooking at it, when I read
Theo's Party.
The chapter titles are greattoo, and the banter is great.
The author notes are great.
The author's going to bepublished.
Did you see her announcement?
No, I did see.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Because she changed her.
We love you Is the self care.
She changed her name onInstagram.
I was like, oh, something'shappening.
She put her real name.
I would literally read anythingthat she wrote.
I can't even imagine how it'slike.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Julie Soto, I would read anything that they wrote,
because you know it's going tobe very well written, like
researched, researched.
You know that the relationship,the communication, the banter
is going to be on level on par,because just the banter between
Hermione and them, everything,even the little parts, I think,
(18:52):
when he evaporates, notevaporates but just shows up in
her mini Cooper, yeah, and she'slike what is this?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
She's driving down the road.
I know All of her research,everything that she did, all the
different holidays that she wasgoing in scavenging and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, it was amazing.
She brought the Muggle worldwith Hermione and with Draco
being an or, and it all feltvery believable and true to the
characters that were alreadythere that Hermione would be
this overachieving doctor,amazing person and Draco's just
this moody or talk-in, top-pageshit.
Yeah, what about the scene whenshe's doing yoga and he thinks
that something's wrong with herand he busts down the door or
(19:32):
something and she's just tryingto do this really hard yoga pose
or something.
I could go on about it forever,but that was my favorite thing
that we did last year.
That's a great one.
I'm sorry, I'm just laughing.
Tell your cat, I said the less.
Oh, cat, daddy, cat, daddy, cat, daddy.
Honorable mention.
We didn't cover it and it'sreally short.
(19:54):
What did they call it?
Just, it's like a drable almost, but it's like a chapter long
right yeah, Did you ever read it?
Chanel.
No, I still haven't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm sending it to you again.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I can't believe you ever read Cat Daddy?
I know it's all throughInstagram post.
It's great, yeah, shout out toDanny and her Amazing Farah and
Farah, yeah, oh yeah.
Those were two great guests wehad this year they wrote that
together.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, daddy.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Did you see that Farah launched her clothing
stuff and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, danny, to order .
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I want that crew neck , the one that says not all days
are Sunshine, and Five Starreviews she talked about.
It's very cute.
Danny got her really cute.
Love another historicalaccidents tattoo and it's
beautiful.
Love you guys.
Yeah, I love you, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
One of my favorite books was the Ballad of
Songbirds and Snakes.
That was top five read of theyear.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, like outside of the stuff we read for the
podcast, just stuff I've beenreading, you know, I could go on
and on.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I know Especially yeah, like even I know we talked
about it like obviously themovie was so good too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I love the movie it was yeah, I just think it has a
special place too because it'svery.
We get to see each other whenwe record, but we don't do a lot
of stuff, honestly.
Yeah, we have a lot of time.
Just, you know, ashley's busywith like work and drill.
You're busy because you're allover the place with your job and
then I have that child, and sothe fact that we got to see a
movie together this year too wasreally fun too.
(21:17):
Yeah, yeah, and we had Lindsaycome with us, which was great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That book was great.
You know, what's funny is thatI was really resistant to
reading that book for somereason.
When it came out, I rememberthinking that I thought maybe it
was just a money grab orsomething for the Hunger Games.
I don't know why.
I thought that I was just likeI'm not going to read it.
(21:38):
I'm not joking.
It's probably out of the wholeHunger Games series.
It's probably my secondfavorite book in the series.
It's like Hunger Game being one, and then I think it would have
to be that one.
I think it's so well written.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I really liked it I really liked it, so good.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Thank you Corio, you dumbass.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
My second.
This is like a guest.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We've talked about a few guests, but, like I,
favorite guest, but then also myfavorite book was Hurricane
Wars and then having to pay onto, because that was sorry,
Steve she said she'd be back onfor her second book though I am
so sad I didn't get to.
I was like sick when we record.
Yeah, I can't wait till we didto have her on again.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
She was so great to have on.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hurricane Wars was epic.
Epic Talk about really goodbanter.
Yeah, and really good likeworld building.
Very different kind of world.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That was just such a good book and again coming from
the fanfic world, her debut.
She obviously stayed more inthe fantasy world but I mean
still has romance in her.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think it's the kind of thing where it'll slowly
bloom into more romance Sarah JMoss's Aqatar series.
It's the kind of thing that waslike it's sprinkled in there
and then you get towards.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, she was just an amazingdebut author that, but it's just
like Julie and Ally Hazlewood.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And then if you have read any of the fanfictions,
they're incredible.
Her Star Wars knowledge and herthings are insanely detailed
and insanely researched and good.
So you just kind of know, ifyou've read her published stuff,
that reading this book is justgoing to be amazing.
(23:24):
Yeah.
Anytime I'm in Barnes and Nobleand I see like Hurricane Wars
there, or even, forgive me, I'mlike I know a thing You're my
friend, I just stare at thebooks, even though I own them
already.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I know them.
These are my friends.
People are like sure Sure.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's so funny.
Yeah, those are my top.
But then also I mean I know wewere talking about Hunger Games
I really liked doing Pita'sgames.
Yeah, that was like, I feel,like the best version of his
point of view.
I'm sure there's a lot of otherpoints of view, but I love Pita
so much.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I just forever my Pita era and, like you said, she
has the whole set done.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
From his point of view, I was going to ask Dushy,
I couldn't remember if she.
I need to read the whole thing.
She did all three, yeah, andthat was yeah getting into our
Hunger Games.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Now she needs to do the ballad of songbirds and
snakes from Lucy's point of view, Lucy Grace's point of view.
I love that.
I really hope that SuzanneCollins writes more books.
I think she could write.
I guess Lucy wouldn't be inthem, but it would still be
interesting to see yeah, See,choreos climb to power even more
(24:34):
.
Or I mean she could come outand say that Lucy's alive, Lucy
Grace alive, and she could writemore books from her point of
view too.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
about what happens?
Just do like like Tigris, likewhatever, yeah her life story or
something, I don't know.
Just like something, or Sina,there's so much more story there
, like that world.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, I loved getting the backstory about
where he came from, but there'sstill so much story about how he
became like president from fromthe student.
In college.
Now I guess, like I went and Igot really invested in some of
the capital characters that werethere, too, that he knew, so
like I want to know more.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Mm-hmm, that like.
It's kind of like what you guysdo not know, but like the
Grisha verse, like Lee Bardugo,she has the three books which I
want you to read Shadow and Boneand there's the three Books
that she built this whole world.
But then my favorite, which isthe Six of Crows and the Crooked
Kingdom, which is the duology.
(25:33):
It's still in the same worldbut it's like totally new cast
of characters.
They aren't even kind ofrelated.
It's a different time periodand it's so well done that Me
personally, a lot of people,they like the duology even
better than the original series.
I've heard that about thatseries but because the world is
(25:55):
so amazing that she's built fromthe Shadow and Bone series like
original series, like she didsuch a good job without world
building, like she knew that.
Oh, I still have something totell here in this world and like
it's kind of like what you weresaying, like so it's Suzanne
Collins built such an amazingworld if she could like done.
(26:17):
Did any spin-offs from these?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Characters, people would read it, you know, even if
it's just like a random asscharacter, yeah, even like
district, like Annie orsomething.
Yeah, her character Like peoplewould read about her in Phinic
and how they met or somethinglike that.
You know, like just randomly,or even Annie giving birth after
Phinic dies, like we would readabout what happens to them, or
(26:40):
so yeah, I don't know I was,yeah, I don't know, I feel like
she could really capitalize onme make money, but yeah, I don't
know.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I also really enjoyed Reading.
This is like away from HungerGames, different world, but the
we did the love hypothesis.
Oh yeah, early early last year,like yeah, march I think, and
that was.
That was really great, greatrom-com.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
That was.
We did a lot of romance.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm here for it.
I am too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I loved Adamand that he's great.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, I was.
That was a cute story like thatwas.
I'd never read Ally hazelwoodbefore that and I so looking
forward to the bride.
I I just ordered it.
I'm excited.
Exclusive edition which one didyou get the?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Barnes and Noble one it looks it's like all cool and
shiny.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I know I'm so excited I'm so maybe I'll go and order
it with the gift card you gaveme for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's what I did.
I kind of like.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So, like it, really I'm excited cuz it got me into
her, cuz I'd never read herbefore and obviously she, like I
, never even read her fan fix,so that was the first time I
read her too.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, she's really researched in her work too.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, well, she's a stem.
Oh wait, that's right, so yeahshe is an expert already.
It makes sense which is why Iloved it probably just all
seemed very authentic rightright.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, she's amazing, she's so brilliant and it's just
interesting because I didn'teven know what a stem scientist
was.
And then it's just that wholesociety thing.
I think she had said somewherethat like 80 to 90 percent of
stem scientists are male, letalone like any kind of like
woman of color in it and stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
So it's, yeah, it's great.
It just goes to show like and Ithink maybe you had said this
Actually like you can really seeit in her, in her writing, just
how like, thorough andknowledgeable she is.
Like it really comes out, butnot like in a like, I don't know
, preachy or like it goes out ina passionate way, yeah, but
(28:45):
like, also not like like atextbook kind of way.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
You know what you mean.
Like it's analytical.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah right, right, it's like a very it's still like
a book, romance, romance bookkind of way, you know.
I mean like, so, yeah, it was.
Just I thought it was reallygood and obviously that makes me
want to read her other books.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah, I likedit.
I'm glad we got to read one ofher books.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
This wasn't really.
This wasn't a book that wecovered.
It was a wreck that I had hadthis year, though, and this book
reminds me of that one, butlessons in chemistry is also.
The female character is achemist, and it's great too, so
I just I love reading books likethat.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, you did like that book, did you watch?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
the show yet on Apple TV.
It's amazing I haven't finished.
I have one more episode.
It's great to good, but it it'snot so much of a love story
like love hypothesis is, but itit does show the same, and this
takes place like, I think, inthe 50s, so it shows the
struggle of women and sciencethen and, whereas love
(29:48):
hypothesis is current and stillstruggle Slowly but surely.
So funny.
We had such a good year, likeso many good books and.
Authors and artists and fanfictions, and just thinking
about all of this, there's somuch it's hard to even, I know I
know pinpoint it all down.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Do we have?
Do we want to do maybe like ourfavorite tropes, or do we want
to do like what we're lookingforward to next year, like is
there any tropes that we want toread next year, or is there any
book predictions that we wantto like Possibly read?
Do you want to like throw somestuff out there that you're like
this is what I want to read?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
well, I Well.
I always want to read enemiesto lovers always like forever
yeah my favorite, and I thinkI'd said before I've been
listening to remain nameless onFor me Tia Loco.
It's amazing to talk about sidecharacters that you love.
This is the first not the first, but like I Feel like a fanfic
where Hermione's friends andDraco really kind of like hang
(30:54):
out a lot and like kind ofbecome friends and it's so Funny
to listen to it and justamazing.
So I guess I would.
I like love books like that toothat have great side characters
in them.
So I love that we're doing youagain this month because they
have strong side characters.
I guess it's something that I'mlooking forward to.
And then I think I had alsosaid that I started the aqatar
(31:16):
series finally, so I finishedthat first book.
So here we go with this ride.
I did like jump on that.
I was gonna say this year I'mlooking forward to I just have
this too.
We're gonna cover a lot morelike fantasy driven books.
Yeah, different kind of worldsand magic, and so I'm excited
about that.
Can our fantasy.
Yeah, not to give too much awaybut we have definite really
(31:37):
great fantasy books on thehorizon that we've talked about,
we wanted to do Even once we'rejust reading on the side that
we want to talk about I've beenreally into like last year and
this year, I love the wholefaded mates, faded bonds trope.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's why I want to read bride.
I mean, yeah, it's kind of likein the alpha Omega, kind of
yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I would like that, because I've never read anything
like yeah before, so I would.
That would be something fun andnew to try next year.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
There's this year.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, there's something about faded mates
soulmates, stuff like that Ireally enjoy more.
Love it, yeah, just eat it up.
They touch on soulmates in thebeginning of this book that
we're doing this month you again.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I won't ruin it, but I loved that whole yeah, it was
very interesting to hear that inthe beginning of you again when
they talk about soulmates.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
It was yeah, I like that a lot Mm-hmm, the Greek
mythology of it all.
Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What about you, chanel?
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I mean, I love a slow burn.
I think it's the best.
It's like it's the best and theworst, that the same time
you're that frog in the potthat's dying.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You don't know if they just keep slowly turning
the heat up, that Chanel.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It smells good, it's me.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Am I on fire?
My loins are on fire.
I'm sorry I've been watchingyour pulse drag race.
They're always like my pussy'son fire.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So that's all I'm thinking about right now.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Keep your pussy on fire.
You better step your pussy up.
Yeah, that's all the time.
That's like a good life motto.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Elevate.
So, yeah, I always love Just aslow burn, because even Like
again, I'm just gonna put thisout there I just read fourth
wing and that was like a slowburn enemies to lovers, kind of
thing and I'm telling you like Imean it was obviously hot when
they got together, but likeafter they got together I was
(33:26):
like, okay, this is just likeit's the buildup and pressure
there to.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm telling you it's, it's, it's the, it's the
buildup.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
For me, I'm telling you it's all about the buildup.
It's what I tell you.
It's the looks, it's a touch.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
We didn't hear from Chanel for days because she was
reading this book.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I know what happened to Chanel Chanel.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Group text.
We've been put on red and likelike 10 30 on a Wednesday, she's
like it was cuz I was textingmy friend Sarah.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I would like randomly text her.
And then I texted her, but it'smidnight.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
The other night I texted her, it's for menaces of
when she finished me, and it was.
She's like I'm crying and it'slike 3am.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It was last night.
I texted her at midnight.
I said oh, this is a spoiler.
Sorry if if you haven't readfourth wing, turn this off.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I said oh, actually, hold your ears.
Yeah, plug your ears.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Hold on, this is a major spoiler.
Hey, I said her brother is alaugh.
I Won't page it.
I said it was.
I said that's literally all Itext my friend, and she
responded to me.
It was like literally.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I like I wish everybody could have seen, like
Chanel when she was talking, tohear her.
My ears, but she's so excited,she's just like using her hand
so much.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I haven't heard from her, like you said, in like days
.
That's that was my.
She knew I finished the bookshe's like, so you're done.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
That's how you know you.
It's a good book when you justcan't even.
Yeah, yeah, it consumes you itconsumes me.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
So a good slow burn.
I want to read more of those.
The other thing is I like youknow, a good fake dating.
We, oh, we haven't done that awhile.
Yeah, we haven't done.
Fake dating is great.
I just love some of you thinkdating was love hypothesis.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Bodies reacting Classic.
What was that fanfic?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That was another Ray Lowe.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That was a little, yeah, I was like but but they're
like it's just body.
Well, what that was, such agirl, and that was two years ago
was them.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's like a really long name.
They were a fake dating.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah it's just bodies reacting.
I think the author was like.
It was like a salad shooter.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, all the shooter .
I was like it was a funny nameI could I almost said toss.
But yeah, fake dating isanother really one betrope yeah
another class when they show upthe end and there's only one bed
so I just want some like goodclassics like that, and and I
(36:09):
mean, I mean, I really just wantsome good slow burn.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I think that this year is gonna be epic.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think every, every year is gonna get better and
better for us Mm-hmm, it's booksand all the things in the
horizon and but yeah, I likethat word diving into like a
little bit of like fantasy, likeMaybe that I know science
fiction II maybe a.
I don't even know what elsewe're gonna do, but we'll have a
variety of things for thispalette.
(36:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And if you guys, have anything that you want to hear
a lot of snow any good booksthat everybody's read.
If you anyone needs anyhandball recommendations, let me
know, so you say.
I hope that you have no oneneeds that I.
Love that.
You know that's it, but I don'tknow, like the eating people, I
just don't know how I feelabout it.
I mean, I know how I feel aboutit, I don't know how I feel
(37:00):
about reading it.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You know, I mean, I feel, how do you feel about it?
I don't think it's good.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I don't think it's gonna freak me out.
I still have nightmares aboutHannibal, the movie.
What it was sexy you can dothat thing that he does, that I
can't do it.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You didn't do what he does, that actually eats people
.
No, he doesn't.
The movie.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
That dude again in the movie.
Oh yeah, he's like yeah yeah,through the, through the mask.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah sorry, I thought this is.
I was like, wait, he like itslurps up a person.
When does Mads do that?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I'm so confused.
That's a good one, but I lovethat.
You love it.
You got to read what you like.
That's my catchphrase.
That's Stacey's goal for 2024to make that into every episode.
It is going to be in everyepisode.
It's my catchphrase.
Oh my god, I was thinking ofthat today, that Stacey has made
this her catchphrase and Itried to say, you know, like
Haydnert's a lot and I wasthinking of Chanel and like
(37:58):
Whatever the heck, that's whatit is.
Like her catchphrase is whateverthe heck.
And I couldn't figure out how Iwas making this post, I
couldn't figure out how to putit in your post, but I really
wanted to feel like it's yourcatchphrase, it's perfect.
Because you were like I don'tsay that.
And then you asked your otherfriend.
They're like yes.
I remember when you said that Iwas like am I crazy?
I swear to God.
She says it so much.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
It just comes out.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I love it so much.
Whatever the heck, I say it now.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I say it all the time Copyrighted, copyrighted.
This is Chanel.
This year's going to be greatwith you guys.
Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I'm excited.
Do you guys have like book NewYear's resolutions, like not for
the podcast, but do you guyshave like just in general for
yourself, like, oh, I want toread like 20 books for the year
or something like that, justpersonal ones for yourself?
If you don't, it's fine.
I just was curious.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
My main goal is to, because outside of the,
especially last year, I mainlyjust read what we were reading
for the podcast.
And I want to read more outsideof that and watch less reality
TV.
That's a great goal.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Seriously, that is.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I just constantly watch, like RuPaul's Drag Race
or like something on Bravo, andI'm like I could be reading
instead of.
I can just watch one episodeand then read instead of
watching.
Then, jane, three episodes in arow instead of I know.
So that's.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
it's not really like a number I watch so much too,
but it's nice to just have onein the background.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I have it on a lot and then I then I just get
sucked in, but Vanderpump rulesstart soon, oh God, anyways,
anyways, that's my goal.
What about?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
you guys.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Michael, I don't like a set number of books to read.
I want to finish all Sarah JMass's books that are out this
year.
That's like on my to-do list.
That's so many what have youread so far?
I am on Queen of Shadows onThrone of Last Year, so I have
four books left in that and thenCrescent City will have three
books out by then.
So, that's like my main goals.
I want to read all those.
(39:58):
I think Nice, I see why peoplelove her writing.
Yeah, that guitar was amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Amazing, you're all done.
You liked it.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Skyler kept trying to talk to me.
I'm like listen, I got 10 pagesleft for this book.
You got to stop talking to meLike I cannot concentrate.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
It shows the kind of person where so much happens.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah like the last, like 20 pages.
It's like the most excitingpart of the book.
Oh my god, I'm not going toruin anything, but the end of it
I was like I know, I know thewhole book is highlighted.
I'll say that.
Oh my god, you've got to betaking notes.
That's so funny.
Wait till you start.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I know everybody says it, the Port of Mr.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Fury.
Is that the third one?
That's the second one.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
People swear it's the best book of the series Mike
hasn't said the third one iswhen it gets steamy.
She's on the third one.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
The third one, I don't know.
I heard the second one issteamy.
Where's the smut?
Because I felt misled in Aqatarbecause there was like one
scene of smut.
I knew the first one hadnothing, all the smuts and the
last book was out in the series.
The last book in the series.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
There's a decent amount.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
And three, and there's a decent amount in the
one you're going to read, butnone in two, two, oh, I'm like
I'm being misled again.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Why don't you?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
chill over there.
Why don't you take a chill pill?
Slow burn, OK Good.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I'm not.
This is why I'm not even like.
This is why I never rush toread it, because I'm like it's
not even finished the series isnot even finished.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Why isn't finished, chanel?
How many books are going to bein Aqatar?
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Because it's not finished.
It's not finished Is CressenSiddy.
Is that the last one of theseries?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
No, Are any of her series complete?
Throw in a glass.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Which is why we should have started.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
But everyone says you start Aqatar and then throw in
a glass.
I heard the opposite.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Whatever, I'm not the authorityon this.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Also, I got to stop.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I got to get off the book talk thing because the
whole series is almost ruinedfor me because I can't stop
watching it when people aremaking things, I'm like I got to
stop.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, that's why I say I'm on Bookstagram, but
whenever people post stuffthankfully Fourth Wing has not
been wasn't spoiled for me atall.
I didn't know anything, becauseevery time I saw stuff I was
like scroll fast and then Idon't know anything about it.
I just know the characters fromAqatar.
I've heard of Nesta and Fairyor whatever.
(42:25):
Pharah, pharah, whatever thefuck her name is, I've ruined.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Throw in a Glass in parts for me and I think it's
fine.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
I was already three books into Throw in a Glass so I
knew she's.
Whoever she is.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Don't ruin it.
I've read it.
You're going to read thoseeight books.
Yeah, I am.
Eight massive books.
I got a list.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I got a list.
Yeah, you ain't going to do it.
Oh, you're going to watchRuPaul.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I'm new season started on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
New season.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Oh yeah, you're not, I haven't watched it yet, but
I'm going to.
You're not going to do it?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
RuPaul's so good.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
I can't.
You're funny, you're funny.
Anyways, anyways, yeah.
So cheers to 2023.
And 2024 is going to be amazing, yeah we're excited, I mean for
us.
Maybe not for the world, butbook-wise it's going to be great
.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And you need to make some good books out.
I'm excited New year New us.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
No, no, yeah, that's what you said New year, new us
Same bullshit, yeah, samebullshit.
Ok.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Chanel doesn't like it.
Chanel is not a thing.
Oh, I just think you guys arefunny.
Let's do kudos.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I'm going first.
Ok, I call it so you guys,because I'm doing like a year
kudos.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
OK, well, I did wrap up Kudos last episode, so you're
behind.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yeah, you did.
I know we kind of did, butanyways, well, first I have to
start with you guys, becausewe're the podcast and you made
2023 amazing for me and, likewe've talked about before,
what's nice about this podcastis that Stacey, she literally
(44:02):
just randomly headbutted her micfor no reason, I don't know why
.
I think it's because I didn'ttouch it.
The whole episode Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Oh, so she's got to get a touch in 2024.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
I don't know what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Oh, you guys, I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
We have to hang out because we've got to record and
it makes me so happy.
All of the guests that we hadon were just truly amazing and
like took time out of theirschedules to hang out with us A
bunch of weirdos, which is sonice.
And then our friends and familythat have been really
supportive.
Like Stacey's got all thesepeople from work listening to it
.
Like our friend Justin I didn'tthink he actually listened to
(44:39):
it.
He doesn't read any of thisstuff.
No, he actually listens to ourpodcast and takes notes.
It's amazing.
He's an amazing person and thentells us what he thinks, what
could be better, tips and tricksand stuff.
It's like maybe I say like alittle too much like and I need
to cut it out.
Oh my god.
So just everybody has been sosupportive and I love it and
(45:01):
yeah, just we have the bestsupport, I feel like, for this
podcast.
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I'm going to piggyback off that because I,
yeah, all of our friends whohave been guests on the show,
like this past year, and evenour people who have been on, who
have been guests, who aren'tour friends, like the great
authors or artists, and I meanwe've had so many great guests
(45:28):
and people who, like you said,have just supported us and have,
you know, helped make thispodcast what it is.
It's just all the people in thefanfic community, in the book
community and, yeah, and peoplewho have listened.
So thank you for listening.
So that is my first kudo.
Like you said, everyone who'sjust made this podcast what it
(45:50):
is.
My second kudo is obviously toyou guys, because you make this
podcast what it is as well.
So I just appreciate everythingthat you guys have done this
past year, whether it's justcoming to record or bounce ideas
off of, or, yeah, just likebring your energy and your
knowledge of fanfics and books,and I love making this with you
(46:14):
guys.
So so, yeah, yeah, thank you.
This year has been great andthe unhinged energy.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
That's like a big yeah yeah, we've been a little
unhinged this last year.
We're going to rain it in alittle bit.
I'm not elevate, elevate it.
I'm going to elevate it, but Iain't raining it in what is it.
Um, what does Rapal say?
This pussy's on fire.
Is that what?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
he says Step your pussy.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Step your pussy.
I swear he said she definitelyconfused this girl's on fire and
RuPaul with step your pussy.
At least she keeps it.
Be proud, she's been on theshow.
I know she always.
Yeah, my kudos.
As far as support systems thatwe've had, they've been epic.
All these authors, you guysFucking lucky.
(47:03):
I love you.
So he's like I gave my longkudos last episode.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
just listen to that.
Um, can you please go back andlisten, but also, but no,
seriously, like, like, like,sorry, justin, I'll stop by, but
yeah, just like people who'vebeen listening.
She said it.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I know I need to.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Um, but Jen our producer producer this year
she's been so supportive, yeahCole with his photos and being
so great taking them of us andoh, miguel watching here, but we
got to get them back on too forthat.
Miguel, introducing us toLindsay.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah, Even when we went to like Comic Con, like oh
yeah, think about like that wasin January.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
Yeah, and Miguel went to that.
Yeah, he's so supportive.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
Amber, like they all came out, like they didn't have
to come to that.
You know, Ashley was there,right, amber was there, amber,
and.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Ashlyn were both there.
Ashlyn was not pushing.
Yeah, yes, at Comic Con.
Wait, it was just Amber.
No, it was just you.
But Ashlyn, like the next week,was on an episode with us.
That's what it was.
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I was like, okay, so many people on, but um, but yeah
, it's just, it's just beengreat.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Just been great.
That's just what we're going tokeep saying.
It's just been great, yeah, solike you said.
So get ready for this year.
Yeah, and don't forget to readwhat you like.
We have to be able not to laugh.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Don't laugh at them.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Bye.
I mean, I love a slow burn.
I know you do.
It's the best.
It's like it's the best and theworst at the same time.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
It's like you're that frog in the pot that's dying
you don't know.
They just keep slowly turningthe heat up, that Chanel.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I smell something cooking.
What's good?
It's me.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Am I on fire?
My loins are on fire.
Hi, I'm Chanel.
Hi I'm Stacey.
Hey nerds, this is Ashley.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And this is Fiction Fanatics.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And we're live Well, not live Jesus.
Sorry, I thought what's thatmovie where they hit to make the
toast and the glass breaks.
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh no, I thought you were talking about.
She's the man.
They're like teetee, teetee,teetee, and then she's like she,
like you're holding the secret.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I know you're talking about that, though there's a
movie where they went to do atoast and they hit the sun and
the glass just breaks.
What an idea.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
That was not a very intelligent.
It almost broke my glass.
Hi, everyone, hi.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Happy new year.
It's January.
I hope it's going great foreveryone.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Is it not going great for you?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
No, it's been okay so far.
Okay, it just makes me think ofthat Friends episode when he's
just like it's just not my yearor whatever, and they're like
it's January 8th, no Are you,friends, I forget.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, well, I like it .
Yeah, it's like Ross and hecomes in, it's January 2nd and
he's like and I'm still a loser.
Then he comes in because he haslike a paste in his like
leather pants.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
I swear guys, some of the best episodes of television
ever.
When he's trying to pull him upand it smacks himself in the
face, he's like it's formingsome kind of paste.
That's what it's like to be awoman.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
That's why it's funny .
You're right, that's like sucha funny episode.
He's stuck in like his date'sbathroom.
Yeah, he's like waddle out.
How embarrassing.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
I can't even imagine.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
And like I'm pretty sure it's Joey, that's like
coaching him.
Yeah, yeah, put some like babypowder down there.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Who's listening to Joey, by the way?
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Now put some lotion.
It's like why would you thinkit would come out?
Speaker 2 (02:26):
To dry it out and then put the lotion to like,
loosen it up or whatever.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
It's like also, why would you wear leather pants?
That's already like one, likeno?
This is a tangent.
They love New York.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, this will be a short tangent this time because
we're not going too long.
But I swear, leather pants onlylook good on select people.
I tried to make leather pantshappen for me.
I bought it there.
It's not real leather, it'slike faux leather.
It looked terrible.
I was like how do people wearthese?
Anyways, I was Ross.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Only if you were like Michael Jackson could you pull
that off His size.
Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Anyways, we hope your year isn't like Ross and
friends with leather pantspasted in his pants pasted in
his pants, oh man.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
So our book of the month this month is you Again,
by Kate Goldbeck.
If you didn't get the memo lastepisode, we're super excited,
I'm super excited, so excited.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Just started it.
I have lots of thoughts socan't wait to finish it To talk
about it.
Ash Chanel, I think, said lastepisode it gives when Harry Mutt
Sally vibes, which Ashley haswatched.
I have watched.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Now we watched it on New Years I'll have what she's
having.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
When I tell you so, I've never actually.
I mean, I've heard of thatscene, obviously, and seen clips
of it, but I've never seen thefull scene of her faking this
orgasm in this restaurant.
It's amazing, it's incredible.
And Billy Crystal is juststaring at her like doesn't know
when to do.
The movie is amazing.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
I think after that scene you were like what?
You were like what happened,what?
What's going on?
It just kept going.
And then we were also just likeno, no, this is what you said
after that scene.
You were just like imaginebeing close people in the
restaurant.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Because how did they not laugh?
And then would you not be somad if you were Meg Ryan and
somebody was laughing whenyou're trying to get this done,
like this couldn't have beenthat fun to film, like you know,
like it's probably I mean notembarrassing because it's your
job or whatever Just like youknow.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
To like keep in scene .
Yeah, yeah, I can't imagine.
And even like Billy Crystal,he's just like looking at how is
he not laughing?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
And it's yeah, that scene Always.
Do you guys watch Seinfeld?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, that scene always.
I haven't finished it.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
The episode where Elaine tells Jerry that she
fakes it all the time.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Oh, yeah, and.
Jerry's like the glass ceilinghas broke from it, like fake
orgasms and he's like did youfake it with me?
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And she's like all the time it ruins his life.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I know like it was.
It's like what Meg Ryan sayswhen she's like all women, or
majority of women, say they fakeit and all guys are convinced
that no women ever with them hasever ever been so she's like
you do the math.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
I mean I can safely say that I would say like at
least 85% of women in their 20s100% faked it.
Yeah, like there's no way.
They didn't Right With theseguys.
There's no way.
And all these guys are sothey're like oh, I'm so much.
Oh I got the magic dick.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
No, we just want to go to sleep.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Personally, for me was like I'm drunk and I want to
go to sleep.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Oh my gosh, so funny, anyway, so, anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
So this is the book because it's kind of like when
Harry met Sally.
I've.
I've just started at.
The banter is great.
I love banter like this andbooks and it's excellent so far
and I can't wait to see whathappens Now.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
You said it's kind of like roles reverse, though
right, yeah, because Josh,you'll find out, is like he's
like real prickly and stuff likeyou know in general, but he's a
relationship guy.
Yeah like Sally is, whereas Ari, who is like, bisexual, she is
like this comedian and superfunny and outgoing, but she is
(06:20):
not a relationship person Like.
She just hops from person toperson.
Yeah, that's all I'm going tosay.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
I'm so excited I just started.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
I'm not very far in, so I will also say that which is
kind of like when Harry metSally.
Be on surrounding cast memberslike the friends and Josh's
sister are the fate.
Are your like favoritecharacters like I?
Speaker 2 (06:44):
mean, I felt that way with Harry Metzali like their
friends were my favorite thewagon wheel coffee table.
What about when they're attheir wedding, when they're like
?
Can you imagine if we were evenremotely attracted?
To them and they're juststanding there like that's their
toast.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Everyone's like, yeah , so you definitely love them.
You obviously love Ari and Josh, the main characters, but like
you love their friends and hissister is what and the mom and
stuff too.
I love a good supporting castyeah, it can like me.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Well, it makes you think of like, forget me not.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
The supporting cast yes, and you know, it was really
great too well, we can segueright into that.
What are our favorite books?
And and fix that we covered,which we covered.
Julie Soto's debut novel,forget me not this year, and
well wait, well, wait, before weget too far into yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Yeah, we have to make a big announcement.
Look, we're so distracted andthen we will definitely, but we
have to write who wants toannounce we should very
passionate about our books.
Okay.
I know because I already have abunch of like side characters
from stories I want to bring up.
But I'll come back to it so ourbig announcement to all of our
listeners out there we havedecided to change up our look a
little bit.
(07:54):
We've always loved our avatar,but we're gonna change our
podcast like logo theme and it'sactually to be pictures of us.
So we're really pumped about it.
And then don't want to talkabout the name change Chanel so
we are gonna now be calledfiction fanatics.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
If you haven't already seen, on our social
media, we're doing just a littlebit of rebranding, and so it
just means that we're gonna becovering a little bit more of
books now instead of just solelycovering fan fiction.
It doesn't mean that we'retotally going away from the fan
fiction world we'll still bedabbling in our love of fan
(08:35):
fiction, obviously, but we wantto focus more on authors and
books that we love and doing alittle bit more author
interviews and stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
So, yeah, we're fiction fanatics now yeah, we're
just growing, changing a littlebit, but what did you say
earlier?
Say see yeah, growth, you'relike New Year.
Oh yeah, new Year, new, newnames, same us same bullshit,
but we like it, especiallybecause we love our fan fiction
(09:06):
authors.
A lot of them have transitionedinto published.
Yeah, we like having them onand so we just think opening up
more just gives us we just hopeit's limited.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, we just don't.
Speaker 2 (09:17):
We never want to set the limits we are.
We're shooting for the moonhere guys and if we miss, we can
land amongst the stars wow, youguys are so late a cliche
cliche.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
I was all over.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I was swear, I was thinking it was all over.
Our middle school posters,those, yeah, but I mean because
we've already done a couplebooks and we're like, well, if
we're gonna keep doing books and, like Chanel said, we still
love our fan fiction, we'restill gonna cover some of those,
any kind of fiction we love.
We just wanted to be able tohave more options.
Yeah, because who doesn't loveoptions?
this girl likes options, that'sright so we can't wait for you
(09:54):
guys to see our new logo and ourphotos that we had taken by our
friend Cole, who's amazing,amazing photographer.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
So yeah, we're excited we hope you're excited.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
Oh, a new music.
You cry her music when youstarted this episode.
A nice new intro.
I just feel like we're elevated.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
That's what it is, that's what it is we're on
another level yeah, we're justgonna keep on growing guys.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, we're glad that you could be here from the
beginning, where we couldn'teven hear ourselves in the audio
to the moon that was literallylike two months ago, I mean.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
I was talking about last year.
Okay, yeah, that was last year.
That was last year.
It's couple two weeks ago, soyeah that's what's happening.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
A little update in our world.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Let us know you think yeah, if you like it or not, or
if you hate it let us know Imean don't let me know, I can't
take it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I mean we might cry, and it's staying this way you
can let us know that, if it'sactually emotional to know if it
sucks.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Okay, now now now we're good, we're taking a look
back, yes, yes, when we werefanfic and what we did all last
year our favorite.
We're gonna start with ourfavorite fanfic slash books that
we covered.
Okay, what are the ones thatyou liked, remembered?
Speaker 2 (11:14):
my favorite, my favorite for me personally was
forget me.
Not by Julie, because what youguys know, I'm not like a yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Well, first of all, she's just her writing.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
I'm not a huge rom-com like.
I love rom-com movies.
I don't know what it is aboutreading them sometimes.
Yeah, romance wrote it, justit's not like my first pick and
so when we did that one I knewI'd like it, cuz I love her
writing.
Yeah, but I thoroughly enjoyedit.
I thought their banter washilarious and I like the side
(11:46):
characters and a lot which isimportant to me.
So I think that was like one ofmy most memorable months that
we did.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I think you're totally.
That's so funny because I feelthe same way.
Like I am not a romance greatlike I would.
I mean I like it.
I don't pick romance books offthe shelves, which is funny of
why I picked you again as mybook, a rom-com.
It's a rom-com, but actually Igot an arc of it and so I was
like you know what, let me justtry it.
(12:13):
And I was like, anyway, but butI loved, forget me not.
Obviously I read it cuz, cuz ofJulie and we love the auction,
we love, yeah, all the wrongthings, the right thing to do,
blah, blah.
And it was so funny because Imean, clearly she has a romance
in all of her fan fix.
(12:33):
But you know Harry Potter'sfantasy and everything, but she
like transitioned so well tojust just romance.
Right, that's it's so it's very.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
It just shows how talented she is.
Yeah, but I think you're right.
I think me and Chanel are thesame like this.
I know we both enjoy fantasybooks a lot and I like the
romance components we're likethey're fantasy.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Romance is what we like.
That's what we like and lots ofsmut yeah uncomfortable amounts
sometimes yes, like I justfinished fourth wing last night,
I'm dying, and so that was likea great mixture of it was
fantasy with like a subplot ofromance, you know, and so.
But I mean, when you do romancejust by itself, well, like you
(13:19):
said, you have great, a greatcast, you have a great plot from
A to B and like a good dilemmagoing on.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Julie just hit the nail in the head and she's yeah
and the doughnuts were importantpart in that book and I love
that aspect of it, that scenewhere she wouldn't, she kisses
him and there was peanuts in thedoughnut and she, like is
having an allergic reaction,like passes out.
When I tell you that's one ofthe favorite things I've read
this year, that whole thing, youknow, no, no no, no, no, no no
(13:53):
no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
The best scene is when they have sex on his bench
and flowers and dirt areeverywhere.
That is the scene.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I mean, that is the scene, but funny wise.
Oh okay, him on the phone with911 and be like I killed her.
He's like she's a stranger.
I know you're in doubt he saidI heard I killed her and I was
like no, no, no, um, mine isFrostbite, because we covered it
this time last year yeah and Ilove Loki that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Stacey's he's.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
She's wearing it right now that's one of my
favorite books that you've foundStacey Chanel's frostbite book
I think I was a picture of it.
I think it's like the mostbeautiful one.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
I've done for sure um .
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I love it.
Actually, I loved when we didthat one, but ever since I
watched the season 2 of Loki, Ilove it even more now.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Frostbite oh really, I think I'm just more obsessed
with Loki's character yeah, yeahhis arc in the season 2 of Loki
.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
It's just like one of the most powerful things that
I've watched all year.
I think, yeah, so I'm reallyfeeling my my Loki love.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
I just love it because it's just like a
different side of him, likeobviously seeing him in like
yoten form and being blue and Iwant to be a blue dude and I
would bang him.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I wish, I wish we were a video recording this and
I could see my face.
Like what do you even mean?
You don't think it'd be cool tomake someone who is blue okay?
Do you think he's cold?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Okay, this is what's running through my head right
now.
One it's like paint would beeverywhere.
Stacy and a blue man for theblue man group.
That's what I'm thinking about.
I'm just thinking about themess.
Then I'm thinking Stacy, and isit Tobias from Arrested
Development, the romantic ex,and him like blue all the time,
the never nude, the never nude,and him in his little shorts,
his shorts.
(15:39):
That's what I was thinking.
I'm like, wait, what do youmean?
A blue?
Speaker 2 (15:42):
dude Like I don't, a tall blue looking alien.
What do you think?
Pieces of skin blue.
He's cold to.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
You're like that.
I think that's stereotypical.
Well, yeah, because he's fromYo-N-D, he's a guy.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
He's probably got an accent in his Yo-Tin form too.
I don't even know what to say.
We need to clip this.
I just want to beg a blue dude,clip it.
I don't even know what any ofthis means.
You guys, clip it, blue dude.
I am cut it out.
Full house, that was full housejokes.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
You can do that, cut it out, Get it oh.
God, that's hilarious Anyway.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Anyway.
But yeah, I would agree,frostbite was, like, definitely
one of the best aspects we'veever had.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yeah, I thought it was just such a great storyline.
You got to like she built upthat world so well and the side
characters in that again.
Yeah, it was amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You guys are forgetting the best fake that we
covered last year.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
I know what she's going to say.
I know what she's going to say.
What am I going to say?
Draco Malfoy, the mortifiedordeal.
I have multiple ones.
I have multiple ones.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
When I tell you that book, that book.
When I tell you if you're eversad or in a time mood.
Yes, if you read Theo's partychapter the framed the hole in
the wall he punched it.
There is no way you could behaving a bad day and read that
passage when they're talkingabout and be sad.
(16:58):
I was at work reading that.
For some reason.
I forget why I was reading thatpart, but it was like months
after we did that and I wasreading it and I was crying,
laughing Because her mind islike there seems like there's a
lot of aggression and it was.
My drink was so pissed so Idon't even know how this got
brought up at work.
(17:18):
But somebody was talking aboutthe dog that his patronus is,
and then he gets turned into.
What is it?
The Brazilian?
Brazilian is the Borzua BorzuaSomebody was talking about it
Borzua Linguine, linguine,cristal, and I was like, so I
just brought the fic back towhen they're talking about this
dog.
And it was a longer fic.
(17:39):
I never felt like it was toolong.
I loved everything about it.
I laughed, I cried, I mean, Ifelt every emotion.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
The freaking skull.
That's like talking and tryingto hit on Draco and stuff.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
The nuns, that's the Mary Magdalene I'd want to know.
The one who would hit on DracoMalfoy was a skull.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
OK.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
They have to silence it.
It's so good.
I loved everything about thatfic, but even the chapter titles
are great.
I went through when I waslooking at it, when I read
Theo's Party.
The chapter titles are greattoo, and the banter is great.
The author notes are great.
The author's going to bepublished.
Did you see her announcement?
No, I did see.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Because she changed her.
We love you Is the self care.
She changed her name onInstagram.
I was like, oh, something'shappening.
She put her real name.
I would literally read anythingthat she wrote.
I can't even imagine how it'slike.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Julie Soto, I would read anything that they wrote,
because you know it's going tobe very well written, like
researched, researched.
You know that the relationship,the communication, the banter
is going to be on level on par,because just the banter between
Hermione and them, everything,even the little parts, I think,
(18:52):
when he evaporates, notevaporates but just shows up in
her mini Cooper, yeah, and she'slike what is this?
Speaker 1 (18:59):
She's driving down the road.
I know All of her research,everything that she did, all the
different holidays that she wasgoing in scavenging and stuff.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, it was amazing.
She brought the Muggle worldwith Hermione and with Draco
being an or, and it all feltvery believable and true to the
characters that were alreadythere that Hermione would be
this overachieving doctor,amazing person and Draco's just
this moody or talk-in, top-pageshit.
Yeah, what about the scene whenshe's doing yoga and he thinks
that something's wrong with herand he busts down the door or
(19:32):
something and she's just tryingto do this really hard yoga pose
or something.
I could go on about it forever,but that was my favorite thing
that we did last year.
That's a great one.
I'm sorry, I'm just laughing.
Tell your cat, I said the less.
Oh, cat, daddy, cat, daddy, cat, daddy.
Honorable mention.
We didn't cover it and it'sreally short.
(19:54):
What did they call it?
Just, it's like a drable almost, but it's like a chapter long
right yeah, Did you ever read it?
Chanel.
No, I still haven't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
I'm sending it to you again.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
I can't believe you ever read Cat Daddy?
I know it's all throughInstagram post.
It's great, yeah, shout out toDanny and her Amazing Farah and
Farah, yeah, oh yeah.
Those were two great guests wehad this year they wrote that
together.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
Yeah, daddy.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Did you see that Farah launched her clothing
stuff and it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Yeah, danny, to order .
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I want that crew neck , the one that says not all days
are Sunshine, and Five Starreviews she talked about.
It's very cute.
Danny got her really cute.
Love another historicalaccidents tattoo and it's
beautiful.
Love you guys.
Yeah, I love you, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
One of my favorite books was the Ballad of
Songbirds and Snakes.
That was top five read of theyear.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Yeah, like outside of the stuff we read for the
podcast, just stuff I've beenreading, you know, I could go on
and on.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
I know Especially yeah, like even I know we talked
about it like obviously themovie was so good too.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I love the movie it was yeah, I just think it has a
special place too because it'svery.
We get to see each other whenwe record, but we don't do a lot
of stuff, honestly.
Yeah, we have a lot of time.
Just, you know, ashley's busywith like work and drill.
You're busy because you're allover the place with your job and
then I have that child, and sothe fact that we got to see a
movie together this year too wasreally fun too.
(21:17):
Yeah, yeah, and we had Lindsaycome with us, which was great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That book was great.
You know, what's funny is thatI was really resistant to
reading that book for somereason.
When it came out, I rememberthinking that I thought maybe it
was just a money grab orsomething for the Hunger Games.
I don't know why.
I thought that I was just likeI'm not going to read it.
(21:38):
I'm not joking.
It's probably out of the wholeHunger Games series.
It's probably my secondfavorite book in the series.
It's like Hunger Game being one, and then I think it would have
to be that one.
I think it's so well written.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I really liked it I really liked it, so good.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Thank you Corio, you dumbass.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
My second.
This is like a guest.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
We've talked about a few guests, but, like I,
favorite guest, but then also myfavorite book was Hurricane
Wars and then having to pay onto, because that was sorry,
Steve she said she'd be back onfor her second book though I am
so sad I didn't get to.
I was like sick when we record.
Yeah, I can't wait till we didto have her on again.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
She was so great to have on.
Speaker 2 (22:23):
Hurricane Wars was epic.
Epic Talk about really goodbanter.
Yeah, and really good likeworld building.
Very different kind of world.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
That was just such a good book and again coming from
the fanfic world, her debut.
She obviously stayed more inthe fantasy world but I mean
still has romance in her.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I think it's the kind of thing where it'll slowly
bloom into more romance Sarah JMoss's Aqatar series.
It's the kind of thing that waslike it's sprinkled in there
and then you get towards.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, she was just an amazingdebut author that, but it's just
like Julie and Ally Hazlewood.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
And then if you have read any of the fanfictions,
they're incredible.
Her Star Wars knowledge and herthings are insanely detailed
and insanely researched and good.
So you just kind of know, ifyou've read her published stuff,
that reading this book is justgoing to be amazing.
(23:24):
Yeah.
Anytime I'm in Barnes and Nobleand I see like Hurricane Wars
there, or even, forgive me, I'mlike I know a thing You're my
friend, I just stare at thebooks, even though I own them
already.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
I'm like.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I know them.
These are my friends.
People are like sure Sure.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
That's so funny.
Yeah, those are my top.
But then also I mean I know wewere talking about Hunger Games
I really liked doing Pita'sgames.
Yeah, that was like, I feel,like the best version of his
point of view.
I'm sure there's a lot of otherpoints of view, but I love Pita
so much.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
I just forever my Pita era and, like you said, she
has the whole set done.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
From his point of view, I was going to ask Dushy,
I couldn't remember if she.
I need to read the whole thing.
She did all three, yeah, andthat was yeah getting into our
Hunger Games.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
Now she needs to do the ballad of songbirds and
snakes from Lucy's point of view, Lucy Grace's point of view.
I love that.
I really hope that SuzanneCollins writes more books.
I think she could write.
I guess Lucy wouldn't be inthem, but it would still be
interesting to see yeah, See,choreos climb to power even more
(24:34):
.
Or I mean she could come outand say that Lucy's alive, Lucy
Grace alive, and she could writemore books from her point of
view too.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
about what happens?
Just do like like Tigris, likewhatever, yeah her life story or
something, I don't know.
Just like something, or Sina,there's so much more story there
, like that world.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
I mean, I loved getting the backstory about
where he came from, but there'sstill so much story about how he
became like president from fromthe student.
In college.
Now I guess, like I went and Igot really invested in some of
the capital characters that werethere, too, that he knew, so
like I want to know more.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Mm-hmm, that like.
It's kind of like what you guysdo not know, but like the
Grisha verse, like Lee Bardugo,she has the three books which I
want you to read Shadow and Boneand there's the three Books
that she built this whole world.
But then my favorite, which isthe Six of Crows and the Crooked
Kingdom, which is the duology.
(25:33):
It's still in the same worldbut it's like totally new cast
of characters.
They aren't even kind ofrelated.
It's a different time periodand it's so well done that Me
personally, a lot of people,they like the duology even
better than the original series.
I've heard that about thatseries but because the world is
(25:55):
so amazing that she's built fromthe Shadow and Bone series like
original series, like she didsuch a good job without world
building, like she knew that.
Oh, I still have something totell here in this world and like
it's kind of like what you weresaying, like so it's Suzanne
Collins built such an amazingworld if she could like done.
(26:17):
Did any spin-offs from these?
Speaker 2 (26:19):
oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Characters, people would read it, you know, even if
it's just like a random asscharacter, yeah, even like
district, like Annie orsomething.
Yeah, her character Like peoplewould read about her in Phinic
and how they met or somethinglike that.
You know, like just randomly,or even Annie giving birth after
Phinic dies, like we would readabout what happens to them, or
(26:40):
so yeah, I don't know I was,yeah, I don't know, I feel like
she could really capitalize onme make money, but yeah, I don't
know.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
I also really enjoyed Reading.
This is like away from HungerGames, different world, but the
we did the love hypothesis.
Oh yeah, early early last year,like yeah, march I think, and
that was.
That was really great, greatrom-com.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
That was.
We did a lot of romance.
Speaker 2 (27:12):
I'm here for it.
I am too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I loved Adamand that he's great.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, I was.
That was a cute story like thatwas.
I'd never read Ally hazelwoodbefore that and I so looking
forward to the bride.
I I just ordered it.
I'm excited.
Exclusive edition which one didyou get the?
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Barnes and Noble one it looks it's like all cool and
shiny.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
I know I'm so excited I'm so maybe I'll go and order
it with the gift card you gaveme for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
That's what I did.
I kind of like.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
So, like it, really I'm excited cuz it got me into
her, cuz I'd never read herbefore and obviously she, like I
, never even read her fan fix,so that was the first time I
read her too.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Yeah, she's really researched in her work too.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Yeah, well, she's a stem.
Oh wait, that's right, so yeahshe is an expert already.
It makes sense which is why Iloved it probably just all
seemed very authentic rightright.
Speaker 2 (28:06):
Yeah, she's amazing, she's so brilliant and it's just
interesting because I didn'teven know what a stem scientist
was.
And then it's just that wholesociety thing.
I think she had said somewherethat like 80 to 90 percent of
stem scientists are male, letalone like any kind of like
woman of color in it and stuff.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
So it's, yeah, it's great.
It just goes to show like and Ithink maybe you had said this
Actually like you can really seeit in her, in her writing, just
how like, thorough andknowledgeable she is.
Like it really comes out, butnot like in a like, I don't know
, preachy or like it goes out ina passionate way, yeah, but
(28:45):
like, also not like like atextbook kind of way.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
You know what you mean.
Like it's analytical.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah right, right, it's like a very it's still like
a book, romance, romance bookkind of way, you know.
I mean like, so, yeah, it was.
Just I thought it was reallygood and obviously that makes me
want to read her other books.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah, I likedit.
I'm glad we got to read one ofher books.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
This wasn't really.
This wasn't a book that wecovered.
It was a wreck that I had hadthis year, though, and this book
reminds me of that one, butlessons in chemistry is also.
The female character is achemist, and it's great too, so
I just I love reading books likethat.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Yeah, you did like that book, did you watch?
Speaker 2 (29:27):
the show yet on Apple TV.
It's amazing I haven't finished.
I have one more episode.
It's great to good, but it it'snot so much of a love story
like love hypothesis is, but itit does show the same, and this
takes place like, I think, inthe 50s, so it shows the
struggle of women and sciencethen and, whereas love
(29:48):
hypothesis is current and stillstruggle Slowly but surely.
So funny.
We had such a good year, likeso many good books and.
Authors and artists and fanfictions, and just thinking
about all of this, there's somuch it's hard to even, I know I
know pinpoint it all down.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Do we have?
Do we want to do maybe like ourfavorite tropes, or do we want
to do like what we're lookingforward to next year, like is
there any tropes that we want toread next year, or is there any
book predictions that we wantto like Possibly read?
Do you want to like throw somestuff out there that you're like
this is what I want to read?
Speaker 2 (30:30):
well, I Well.
I always want to read enemiesto lovers always like forever
yeah my favorite, and I thinkI'd said before I've been
listening to remain nameless onFor me Tia Loco.
It's amazing to talk about sidecharacters that you love.
This is the first not the first, but like I Feel like a fanfic
where Hermione's friends andDraco really kind of like hang
(30:54):
out a lot and like kind ofbecome friends and it's so Funny
to listen to it and justamazing.
So I guess I would.
I like love books like that toothat have great side characters
in them.
So I love that we're doing youagain this month because they
have strong side characters.
I guess it's something that I'mlooking forward to.
And then I think I had alsosaid that I started the aqatar
(31:16):
series finally, so I finishedthat first book.
So here we go with this ride.
I did like jump on that.
I was gonna say this year I'mlooking forward to I just have
this too.
We're gonna cover a lot morelike fantasy driven books.
Yeah, different kind of worldsand magic, and so I'm excited
about that.
Can our fantasy.
Yeah, not to give too much awaybut we have definite really
(31:37):
great fantasy books on thehorizon that we've talked about,
we wanted to do Even once we'rejust reading on the side that
we want to talk about I've beenreally into like last year and
this year, I love the wholefaded mates, faded bonds trope.
Speaker 1 (31:51):
That's why I want to read bride.
I mean, yeah, it's kind of likein the alpha Omega, kind of
yeah, yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
I would like that, because I've never read anything
like yeah before, so I would.
That would be something fun andnew to try next year.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
There's this year.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Yeah, there's something about faded mates
soulmates, stuff like that Ireally enjoy more.
Love it, yeah, just eat it up.
They touch on soulmates in thebeginning of this book that
we're doing this month you again.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I won't ruin it, but I loved that whole yeah, it was
very interesting to hear that inthe beginning of you again when
they talk about soulmates.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
It was yeah, I like that a lot Mm-hmm, the Greek
mythology of it all.
Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What about you, chanel?
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
I mean, I love a slow burn.
I think it's the best.
It's like it's the best and theworst, that the same time
you're that frog in the potthat's dying.
Speaker 2 (32:38):
You don't know if they just keep slowly turning
the heat up, that Chanel.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
It smells good, it's me.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Am I on fire?
My loins are on fire.
I'm sorry I've been watchingyour pulse drag race.
They're always like my pussy'son fire.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
So that's all I'm thinking about right now.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Keep your pussy on fire.
You better step your pussy up.
Yeah, that's all the time.
That's like a good life motto.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Elevate.
So, yeah, I always love Just aslow burn, because even Like
again, I'm just gonna put thisout there I just read fourth
wing and that was like a slowburn enemies to lovers, kind of
thing and I'm telling you like Imean it was obviously hot when
they got together, but likeafter they got together I was
(33:26):
like, okay, this is just likeit's the buildup and pressure
there to.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I'm telling you it's, it's, it's the, it's the
buildup.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
For me, I'm telling you it's all about the buildup.
It's what I tell you.
It's the looks, it's a touch.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
We didn't hear from Chanel for days because she was
reading this book.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
I know what happened to Chanel Chanel.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Group text.
We've been put on red and likelike 10 30 on a Wednesday, she's
like it was cuz I was textingmy friend Sarah.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
I would like randomly text her.
And then I texted her, but it'smidnight.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
The other night I texted her, it's for menaces of
when she finished me, and it was.
She's like I'm crying and it'slike 3am.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
It was last night.
I texted her at midnight.
I said oh, this is a spoiler.
Sorry if if you haven't readfourth wing, turn this off.
Speaker 2 (34:18):
I said oh, actually, hold your ears.
Yeah, plug your ears.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Hold on, this is a major spoiler.
Hey, I said her brother is alaugh.
I Won't page it.
I said it was.
I said that's literally all Itext my friend, and she
responded to me.
It was like literally.
Speaker 2 (34:40):
I like I wish everybody could have seen, like
Chanel when she was talking, tohear her.
My ears, but she's so excited,she's just like using her hand
so much.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
I haven't heard from her, like you said, in like days
.
That's that was my.
She knew I finished the bookshe's like, so you're done.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
That's how you know you.
It's a good book when you justcan't even.
Yeah, yeah, it consumes you itconsumes me.
Speaker 1 (35:07):
So a good slow burn.
I want to read more of those.
The other thing is I like youknow, a good fake dating.
We, oh, we haven't done that awhile.
Yeah, we haven't done.
Fake dating is great.
I just love some of you thinkdating was love hypothesis.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Yeah, oh yeah.
Bodies reacting Classic.
What was that fanfic?
Speaker 1 (35:29):
That was another Ray Lowe.
Speaker 2 (35:30):
That was a little, yeah, I was like but but they're
like it's just body.
Well, what that was, such agirl, and that was two years ago
was them.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
It's like a really long name.
They were a fake dating.
It was great.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Yeah it's just bodies reacting.
I think the author was like.
It was like a salad shooter.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Yeah, all the shooter .
I was like it was a funny nameI could I almost said toss.
But yeah, fake dating isanother really one betrope yeah
another class when they show upthe end and there's only one bed
so I just want some like goodclassics like that, and and I
(36:09):
mean, I mean, I really just wantsome good slow burn.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
I think that this year is gonna be epic.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
I think every, every year is gonna get better and
better for us Mm-hmm, it's booksand all the things in the
horizon and but yeah, I likethat word diving into like a
little bit of like fantasy, likeMaybe that I know science
fiction II maybe a.
I don't even know what elsewe're gonna do, but we'll have a
variety of things for thispalette.
(36:38):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And if you guys, have anything that you want to hear
a lot of snow any good booksthat everybody's read.
If you anyone needs anyhandball recommendations, let me
know, so you say.
I hope that you have no oneneeds that I.
Love that.
You know that's it, but I don'tknow, like the eating people, I
just don't know how I feelabout it.
I mean, I know how I feel aboutit, I don't know how I feel
(37:00):
about reading it.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
You know, I mean, I feel, how do you feel about it?
I don't think it's good.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I don't think it's gonna freak me out.
I still have nightmares aboutHannibal, the movie.
What it was sexy you can dothat thing that he does, that I
can't do it.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
You didn't do what he does, that actually eats people
.
No, he doesn't.
The movie.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
That dude again in the movie.
Oh yeah, he's like yeah yeah,through the, through the mask.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah sorry, I thought this is.
I was like, wait, he like itslurps up a person.
When does Mads do that?
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (37:36):
I'm so confused.
That's a good one, but I lovethat.
You love it.
You got to read what you like.
That's my catchphrase.
That's Stacey's goal for 2024to make that into every episode.
It is going to be in everyepisode.
It's my catchphrase.
Oh my god, I was thinking ofthat today, that Stacey has made
this her catchphrase and Itried to say, you know, like
Haydnert's a lot and I wasthinking of Chanel and like
(37:58):
Whatever the heck, that's whatit is.
Like her catchphrase is whateverthe heck.
And I couldn't figure out how Iwas making this post, I
couldn't figure out how to putit in your post, but I really
wanted to feel like it's yourcatchphrase, it's perfect.
Because you were like I don'tsay that.
And then you asked your otherfriend.
They're like yes.
I remember when you said that Iwas like am I crazy?
I swear to God.
She says it so much.
Speaker 1 (38:22):
It just comes out.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
I love it so much.
Whatever the heck, I say it now.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
Yeah, I do too.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
I say it all the time Copyrighted, copyrighted.
This is Chanel.
This year's going to be greatwith you guys.
Oh yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
I'm excited.
Do you guys have like book NewYear's resolutions, like not for
the podcast, but do you guyshave like just in general for
yourself, like, oh, I want toread like 20 books for the year
or something like that, justpersonal ones for yourself?
If you don't, it's fine.
I just was curious.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
My main goal is to, because outside of the,
especially last year, I mainlyjust read what we were reading
for the podcast.
And I want to read more outsideof that and watch less reality
TV.
That's a great goal.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
Seriously, that is.
Speaker 2 (39:06):
I just constantly watch, like RuPaul's Drag Race
or like something on Bravo, andI'm like I could be reading
instead of.
I can just watch one episodeand then read instead of
watching.
Then, jane, three episodes in arow instead of I know.
So that's.
Speaker 1 (39:18):
it's not really like a number I watch so much too,
but it's nice to just have onein the background.
Speaker 2 (39:24):
I have it on a lot and then I then I just get
sucked in, but Vanderpump rulesstart soon, oh God, anyways,
anyways, that's my goal.
What about?
Speaker 1 (39:37):
you guys.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
Michael, I don't like a set number of books to read.
I want to finish all Sarah JMass's books that are out this
year.
That's like on my to-do list.
That's so many what have youread so far?
I am on Queen of Shadows onThrone of Last Year, so I have
four books left in that and thenCrescent City will have three
books out by then.
So, that's like my main goals.
I want to read all those.
(39:58):
I think Nice, I see why peoplelove her writing.
Yeah, that guitar was amazing.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Amazing, you're all done.
You liked it.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Skyler kept trying to talk to me.
I'm like listen, I got 10 pagesleft for this book.
You got to stop talking to meLike I cannot concentrate.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
It shows the kind of person where so much happens.
Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah like the last, like 20 pages.
It's like the most excitingpart of the book.
Oh my god, I'm not going toruin anything, but the end of it
I was like I know, I know thewhole book is highlighted.
I'll say that.
Oh my god, you've got to betaking notes.
That's so funny.
Wait till you start.
Speaker 1 (40:37):
I know everybody says it, the Port of Mr.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
Fury.
Is that the third one?
That's the second one.
Speaker 1 (40:40):
People swear it's the best book of the series Mike
hasn't said the third one iswhen it gets steamy.
She's on the third one.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
The third one, I don't know.
I heard the second one issteamy.
Where's the smut?
Because I felt misled in Aqatarbecause there was like one
scene of smut.
I knew the first one hadnothing, all the smuts and the
last book was out in the series.
The last book in the series.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
There's a decent amount.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
And three, and there's a decent amount in the
one you're going to read, butnone in two, two, oh, I'm like
I'm being misled again.
Speaker 1 (41:14):
Why don't you?
Speaker 2 (41:15):
chill over there.
Why don't you take a chill pill?
Slow burn, OK Good.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
I'm not.
This is why I'm not even like.
This is why I never rush toread it, because I'm like it's
not even finished the series isnot even finished.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
Why isn't finished, chanel?
How many books are going to bein Aqatar?
We don't know.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Because it's not finished.
It's not finished Is CressenSiddy.
Is that the last one of theseries?
Speaker 2 (41:39):
No, Are any of her series complete?
Throw in a glass.
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Which is why we should have started.
Speaker 2 (41:45):
But everyone says you start Aqatar and then throw in
a glass.
I heard the opposite.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Whatever, I'm not the authorityon this.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
Also, I got to stop.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I got to get off the book talk thing because the
whole series is almost ruinedfor me because I can't stop
watching it when people aremaking things, I'm like I got to
stop.
Speaker 1 (42:02):
Yeah, that's why I say I'm on Bookstagram, but
whenever people post stuffthankfully Fourth Wing has not
been wasn't spoiled for me atall.
I didn't know anything, becauseevery time I saw stuff I was
like scroll fast and then Idon't know anything about it.
I just know the characters fromAqatar.
I've heard of Nesta and Fairyor whatever.
(42:25):
Pharah, pharah, whatever thefuck her name is, I've ruined.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
Throw in a Glass in parts for me and I think it's
fine.
Speaker 1 (42:33):
I was already three books into Throw in a Glass so I
knew she's.
Whoever she is.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Don't ruin it.
I've read it.
You're going to read thoseeight books.
Yeah, I am.
Eight massive books.
I got a list.
Speaker 1 (42:46):
I got a list.
Yeah, you ain't going to do it.
Oh, you're going to watchRuPaul.
Speaker 2 (42:54):
I'm new season started on Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (42:56):
New season.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Oh yeah, you're not, I haven't watched it yet, but
I'm going to.
You're not going to do it?
Speaker 1 (43:00):
RuPaul's so good.
Speaker 2 (43:01):
I can't.
You're funny, you're funny.
Anyways, anyways, yeah.
So cheers to 2023.
And 2024 is going to be amazing, yeah we're excited, I mean for
us.
Maybe not for the world, butbook-wise it's going to be great
.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
And you need to make some good books out.
I'm excited New year New us.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
No, no, yeah, that's what you said New year, new us
Same bullshit, yeah, samebullshit.
Ok.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Chanel doesn't like it.
Chanel is not a thing.
Oh, I just think you guys arefunny.
Let's do kudos.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
I'm going first.
Ok, I call it so you guys,because I'm doing like a year
kudos.
Speaker 1 (43:39):
OK, well, I did wrap up Kudos last episode, so you're
behind.
Speaker 2 (43:42):
Yeah, you did.
I know we kind of did, butanyways, well, first I have to
start with you guys, becausewe're the podcast and you made
2023 amazing for me and, likewe've talked about before,
what's nice about this podcastis that Stacey, she literally
(44:02):
just randomly headbutted her micfor no reason, I don't know why
.
I think it's because I didn'ttouch it.
The whole episode Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
Oh, so she's got to get a touch in 2024.
Speaker 2 (44:13):
I don't know what I was saying.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Oh, you guys, I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (44:17):
We have to hang out because we've got to record and
it makes me so happy.
All of the guests that we hadon were just truly amazing and
like took time out of theirschedules to hang out with us A
bunch of weirdos, which is sonice.
And then our friends and familythat have been really
supportive.
Like Stacey's got all thesepeople from work listening to it
.
Like our friend Justin I didn'tthink he actually listened to
(44:39):
it.
He doesn't read any of thisstuff.
No, he actually listens to ourpodcast and takes notes.
It's amazing.
He's an amazing person and thentells us what he thinks, what
could be better, tips and tricksand stuff.
It's like maybe I say like alittle too much like and I need
to cut it out.
Oh my god.
So just everybody has been sosupportive and I love it and
(45:01):
yeah, just we have the bestsupport, I feel like, for this
podcast.
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 1 (45:07):
I'm going to piggyback off that because I,
yeah, all of our friends whohave been guests on the show,
like this past year, and evenour people who have been on, who
have been guests, who aren'tour friends, like the great
authors or artists, and I meanwe've had so many great guests
(45:28):
and people who, like you said,have just supported us and have,
you know, helped make thispodcast what it is.
It's just all the people in thefanfic community, in the book
community and, yeah, and peoplewho have listened.
So thank you for listening.
So that is my first kudo.
Like you said, everyone who'sjust made this podcast what it
(45:50):
is.
My second kudo is obviously toyou guys, because you make this
podcast what it is as well.
So I just appreciate everythingthat you guys have done this
past year, whether it's justcoming to record or bounce ideas
off of, or, yeah, just likebring your energy and your
knowledge of fanfics and books,and I love making this with you
(46:14):
guys.
So so, yeah, yeah, thank you.
This year has been great andthe unhinged energy.
Speaker 2 (46:22):
That's like a big yeah yeah, we've been a little
unhinged this last year.
We're going to rain it in alittle bit.
I'm not elevate, elevate it.
I'm going to elevate it, but Iain't raining it in what is it.
Um, what does Rapal say?
This pussy's on fire.
Is that what?
Speaker 1 (46:37):
he says Step your pussy.
Speaker 2 (46:38):
Step your pussy.
I swear he said she definitelyconfused this girl's on fire and
RuPaul with step your pussy.
At least she keeps it.
Be proud, she's been on theshow.
I know she always.
Yeah, my kudos.
As far as support systems thatwe've had, they've been epic.
All these authors, you guysFucking lucky.
(47:03):
I love you.
So he's like I gave my longkudos last episode.
Speaker 1 (47:07):
Can you?
Speaker 2 (47:07):
just listen to that.
Um, can you please go back andlisten, but also, but no,
seriously, like, like, like,sorry, justin, I'll stop by, but
yeah, just like people who'vebeen listening.
She said it.
Speaker 1 (47:18):
I know I need to.
Speaker 2 (47:20):
Um, but Jen our producer producer this year
she's been so supportive, yeahCole with his photos and being
so great taking them of us andoh, miguel watching here, but we
got to get them back on too forthat.
Miguel, introducing us toLindsay.
Speaker 1 (47:38):
Yeah, Even when we went to like Comic Con, like oh
yeah, think about like that wasin January.
Speaker 2 (47:43):
Yeah, and Miguel went to that.
Yeah, he's so supportive.
Speaker 1 (47:47):
Amber, like they all came out, like they didn't have
to come to that.
You know, Ashley was there,right, amber was there, amber,
and.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Ashlyn were both there.
Ashlyn was not pushing.
Yeah, yes, at Comic Con.
Wait, it was just Amber.
No, it was just you.
But Ashlyn, like the next week,was on an episode with us.
That's what it was.
That's what it was.
Speaker 1 (48:07):
I was like, okay, so many people on, but um, but yeah
, it's just, it's just beengreat.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
Just been great.
That's just what we're going tokeep saying.
It's just been great, yeah, solike you said.
So get ready for this year.
Yeah, and don't forget to readwhat you like.
We have to be able not to laugh.
Speaker 1 (48:26):
Don't laugh at them.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
Bye.
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