Full Transcript for WE’RE BACK! ACOTAR 6 & 7, Sweetest Fiend & Bookish Drama | ACOTAR + Summer Recap (Pt. 1)

--> 00:03:48.400 You will find us on Instagram. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:49.199 We love that. 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:56.319 And soon you are going to find us on another top secret platform that we are very excited to announce very soon. 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:58.000 It's very cool. 00:03:58.240 --> 00:03:58.960 Let's jump in. 00:03:59.039 --> 00:04:04.000 What the hell have we been up to since uh we are on break? 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:04.879 Uh reading. 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:05.840 Should we start with reading? 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:06.479 I mean, yeah. 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:12.960 It's a book podcast, so that seems a book podcast now that we haven't talked about books for the first six minutes. 00:04:13.280 --> 00:04:14.400 Maybe we'll let's talk about some. 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:15.120 What did we read? 00:04:15.680 --> 00:04:17.439 Emily, what did you read? 00:04:17.839 --> 00:04:18.560 Read some books. 00:04:18.720 --> 00:04:26.639 Since we last met, I finished, read and finished Shield of Sparrows and Rights of the Starling by Debbie Perry. 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:29.519 Third book coming out in March. 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:31.839 Um, I liked it. 00:04:32.000 --> 00:04:40.079 You and another friend that I also read at the same time did not love all the questions and did not love all of the wandering, I believe. 00:04:40.959 --> 00:04:43.199 I like wasn't as bothered. 00:04:43.439 --> 00:04:46.079 I think it's because I'm not a guessing reader. 00:04:46.240 --> 00:04:49.120 Like I don't try, I don't ask questions while I read. 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:50.800 So I was like, great, she's doing it for me. 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:51.680 Fantastic. 00:04:51.920 --> 00:04:59.680 Um, and then I feel like Debbie really took the wandering right up as far as it could go before I would get annoyed about how separate they were. 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:01.759 And she like found the line and then she was like, okay, they're back. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:02.800 Also, the horse is dead. 00:05:02.879 --> 00:05:05.680 And I was like, Oh my god, unwell. 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:06.160 Yeah. 00:05:06.319 --> 00:05:08.480 I am unwell about the horse. 00:05:08.560 --> 00:05:09.120 I did not like that. 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:12.160 But I quite liked it. 00:05:12.240 --> 00:05:16.160 I am very interested to see the to see what happens in the third book. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:16.800 I liked those. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:17.279 Yeah. 00:05:17.439 --> 00:05:18.639 Um, what else did I read? 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:26.000 Oh, I read Night in Them Off because I am also reading Fresh Hot Off the Presses. 00:05:26.319 --> 00:05:30.480 Hot Off the Presses, um, which as of taping came out yesterday. 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:32.879 I am six chapters in. 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:35.279 I fucking love Rachel Gilly. 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:37.360 The writing is so pretty. 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.040 It is so poetic. 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:44.480 Um and I'm not gonna say anything else about it because it just came out, and I think that that's mean. 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:46.160 So, but it's beautiful. 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:48.639 The writing is beautiful, it's really lovely. 00:05:49.040 --> 00:05:50.000 Yeah, yeah. 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:53.040 Um, we did yeah, oh, go ahead. 00:05:53.120 --> 00:05:57.439 I know I was just gonna say, I'm really glad that not I haven't seen a lot about it yet. 00:05:57.680 --> 00:05:57.920 Yeah. 00:05:58.079 --> 00:06:03.040 Like I think everyone's taking the say the precaution of like, there's events going on, right? 00:06:03.120 --> 00:06:04.800 Like Dragon Con is happening this weekend. 00:06:05.279 --> 00:06:14.560 And everyone's like, let's give everybody time to read it and not be like, I'm done, you know, and be the first person to be like, here's my video on my review, and here's what I think. 00:06:14.720 --> 00:06:15.360 Blah, blah, blah. 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:16.800 Like, don't be those people. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:18.639 Um give it a breath. 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:19.199 Yeah. 00:06:19.279 --> 00:06:22.399 And I haven't seen that in the last 24 hours. 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:23.439 So yeah. 00:06:23.680 --> 00:06:24.560 Here's to hoping. 00:06:24.959 --> 00:06:25.680 Here's to hoping. 00:06:25.839 --> 00:06:26.399 Here's to hoping. 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:27.920 Yeah. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:35.199 Uh, you and I read some books together in preparation for another cool thing that we did over the summer, which we'll talk about in a second. 00:06:35.360 --> 00:06:45.360 Uh, we read Secrets of Jane, Invoking the Blood, and Gilded Wicked Mirrors, so we could introduce dark romance genre. 00:06:45.680 --> 00:06:46.480 We sure did. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.759 We the only one we didn't get to was Choke. 00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:50.480 Choke. 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:52.319 Um that was on our list. 00:06:52.399 --> 00:06:53.439 It's still on our list. 00:06:53.519 --> 00:06:56.000 We're going to get to it, but we didn't get to it before. 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:58.399 Um Yeah. 00:06:58.720 --> 00:07:02.319 Secrets of Jane was a quick fucking favorite. 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.399 Secrets of Jane is fantastic. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:05.360 It's so great. 00:07:05.680 --> 00:07:08.000 Um it I love it. 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:08.560 I love it. 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:08.959 I love it. 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:09.839 I loved it. 00:07:09.920 --> 00:07:10.480 I loved it. 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:11.839 Uh Invoking the Blood. 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.560 I know that you really like the magic system. 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:15.680 The with the rings. 00:07:17.040 --> 00:07:22.560 I liked the uh, I liked the female main character. 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.199 I really like the author. 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:29.680 I like I my biggest problem with it is like I really didn't like her sister. 00:07:29.759 --> 00:07:31.600 Like the female main character's sister. 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:33.759 This uh spar

what Sparrow? 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:34.480 Yeah. 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:38.240 I she grates on me, but like she goes away and then it's fine. 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:39.360 Like when she's not there, it's great. 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:40.560 Otherwise, I love it's great. 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:41.680 Hades and Persephone. 00:07:41.759 --> 00:07:42.959 Obviously, I love Persephone. 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:44.800 She's right there. 00:07:45.360 --> 00:07:47.759 Um so very into that. 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:48.720 Uh vampire. 00:07:48.879 --> 00:07:49.920 It's also vampires. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:50.319 It's great. 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:57.680 Yeah, Gilded Wicked Mirrors, I love because of the subtle, not so subtle Hazel uh Titanic references. 00:07:57.759 --> 00:07:59.680 There's the RMS Colossal. 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:05.439 And that was like clocked it right away. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:06.879 I was like, oh my God. 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:11.519 And then when we had talked to her, I was like, was that a Titanic thing? 00:08:11.600 --> 00:08:12.480 And she was like, yeah, for sure. 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:13.600 I'm obsessed with the Titanic. 00:08:13.680 --> 00:08:15.920 And I was like, fuck, I knew I liked you. 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:17.680 Knew it. 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:18.720 Knew it. 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:21.360 Um, Emily. 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:22.639 Loretta. 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:24.800 You are the only one who has read this. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.279 We got talk about my girl. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:29.439 Yes, we got an early arc. 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:34.480 Thank you to NetGalley for giving us baby's first arc. 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.840 We have a whole bunch of them that we are working through right now, too. 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:43.279 Um, and Raven, we will get you a review, a written formal review at some point. 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:48.240 But right now, Emily's gonna give you a verbal review because you got to read. 00:08:48.480 --> 00:08:57.039 I got to read Sweetest Fiend, uh, which is Raven Kennedy's Pied Piper duology coming out later this month. 00:08:57.360 --> 00:09:00.320 I'm obsessed with Raven Kennedy. 00:09:00.480 --> 00:09:02.399 Um, I love Play to Prisoner. 00:09:02.480 --> 00:09:11.360 I will say if you if you liked Play to Prisoner, but you didn't like the pace of the first two books, that is not an issue in this book because it's a duology. 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:13.279 We get right into it real fucking quick. 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:18.480 We understand what the conflicts are, we understand our girl, we understand where we're going. 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:24.320 Like we understand we start moving right really, really, really quickly into the book. 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:27.840 Um, magic system is fascinating. 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:39.600 Uh, it it's this is not a spoiler because it is the Pied Piper, so there are plagues that are uh plaguing the town. 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:41.519 Is that right? 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:44.000 I think so. 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:58.559 And then he's getting hit by plagues, and then the Pied Piper shows up with his little pipe um to save the people from the town of uh our girl is kidnapped by the Pied Piper. 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:02.080 What could possibly happen after that? 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:04.000 Um, who's to say, really? 00:10:04.159 --> 00:10:04.879 Who's to say what? 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:13.279 They just like they actually don't ever speak again and they never interact in any way, and they definitely don't fall in love. 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:18.480 Um The ending is nuts. 00:10:18.879 --> 00:10:24.000 It ends on a crazy cliffhanger and made me really angry. 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.639 I because here's the thing about arcs now is I'm now even farther away from the next book coming out. 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:36.559 Um this book isn't even out, and I need to know what happens in book two. 00:10:36.879 --> 00:10:39.039 Uh and you read this like a month ago. 00:10:39.279 --> 00:10:40.639 I read it a while ago, yeah. 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:44.960 Um the ending is it's a lot. 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:45.600 It's something. 00:10:45.759 --> 00:10:46.879 I'm trying really hard. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.000 I'm really bad at giving spoilers. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:48.799 I'm trying really hard to do. 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:49.919 You cannot do spoilers. 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:51.279 Raven will kill us. 00:10:51.600 --> 00:11:00.480 Raven don't show up in the middle of the night like the Pied Piper and bash us over the head with a flute. 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:02.559 No, he just plays the flute. 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:04.399 And then it magically makes you follow him. 00:11:04.480 --> 00:11:10.960 And you're like, No, but I'm saying Raven will bash us over the head with the Pied Piper's flute if we give anything away. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:12.799 Um how many stars? 00:11:13.120 --> 00:11:13.919 4.7. 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:15.279 Oh my god. 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:16.240 I really liked it. 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:17.039 I thought it was really good. 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:18.559 How many chili peppers? 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:22.080 I it's actually not a super chili pepper-y book. 00:11:22.240 --> 00:11:22.960 I think the St. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:25.200 Second book is probably gonna be more chili pepper-y. 00:11:25.679 --> 00:11:32.080 Um, there are definitely chili peppers, um, but it's not the main thing yet. 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:32.960 Like dose? 00:11:34.159 --> 00:11:36.799 Maybe like trace, dose or trace chili peppers. 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:37.279 Okay. 00:11:37.519 --> 00:11:37.679 Okay. 00:11:37.840 --> 00:11:38.799 Yeah, I'm gonna stick with that. 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:40.639 It has actually been a while since I've read it. 00:11:40.799 --> 00:11:40.960 Yeah. 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:45.200 Uh for for let's go 4.5 stars, trace chili peppers. 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:49.039 Here's my one beef

with it, if I may, without Raven Kennedy killing me. 00:11:49.200 --> 00:11:49.440 Yeah. 00:11:49.679 --> 00:11:51.759 Um, I hate faded mates. 00:11:51.840 --> 00:11:52.320 I don't like it. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:57.519 I would like people to be with each other because they want to be with each other, not because fate decided that they should be with each other. 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:07.759 But what I hate even more is when you have fated mates and you've decided you don't want to call them faded mates because everybody else calls them fated mates, and so you come up with a new word, which would normally be fine, and I would be totally cool with it. 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:09.039 Wait, I forgot. 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:10.320 You forgot about this day. 00:12:10.399 --> 00:12:12.399 I thought you forgot this. 00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:23.039 I went to say, but um, there's a new word for mates in this book, and I'm not gonna say it because I want you to read it and experience it with your own ears and your own eyeballs. 00:12:23.120 --> 00:12:27.200 Um, but she has picked a new word, and that is her prerogative as a writer. 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:31.440 And frankly, I like that we're trying something new, and I do I do like that. 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.320 I do not like the word, the word's gotta go. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:35.360 I'm so sorry, Raven. 00:12:35.440 --> 00:12:36.080 I love you so much. 00:12:36.159 --> 00:12:36.960 Please don't hate me. 00:12:37.120 --> 00:12:37.919 The word's gotta go. 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:40.799 We're not tagging her in this. 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:44.799 If she's if she sees this, she's watched the whole or listened to the whole episode. 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.879 We're not tagging her in this portion. 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:48.240 I do really love the book. 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:50.320 I just that word really like takes me out of it. 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:50.799 I'm so sorry. 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:51.279 100%. 00:12:51.679 --> 00:12:52.080 100%. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:57.279 When you texted it to me, I think I sent you the gif of the the uh what? 00:12:57.759 --> 00:12:58.159 What? 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:01.039 Like I was like, why? 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.600 I just just we why are we reinventing the wheel? 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:07.600 Yeah, they're faded mates, they're mates. 00:13:07.840 --> 00:13:08.960 It's like that's what it is. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:10.559 And just prefaded mates. 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.279 There's a like a little bit more to it than that. 00:13:13.360 --> 00:13:18.720 There's a the actual relationship is slightly different, so I get why she wanted to pick a different word. 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:20.960 Um just not that one, just a different one. 00:13:21.200 --> 00:13:21.840 Yeah, 100%. 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:22.720 Okay. 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:25.919 Um, you also read Butcher and the Blackbird. 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:26.960 I did, I loved it. 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:28.080 It was a fucking delight. 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:28.559 I love it. 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:28.879 Okay. 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:32.639 They're serial killers and they also kidnap each other, and it's amazing, and I love it. 00:13:32.879 --> 00:13:34.559 She's got a thing with eyeballs. 00:13:34.799 --> 00:13:36.879 Yeah, she gouges on people with eyeballs. 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:42.480 Okay, everyone's talking about like right now on threads, is like they're calling Alfred Weaver to be like, what is your eyeball fetish? 00:13:42.559 --> 00:13:47.759 And she's like, I like the squish of them, and like she's crazy and in like a wonderful way. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:49.440 Like, she's so funny. 00:13:49.679 --> 00:13:50.559 I love her. 00:13:51.519 --> 00:14:00.399 The um premise is that the female maid character and male maid character are both serial killers, but they kill other serial killers. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:20.720 So they're like good serial killers, and then they become they like meet each other and they sort of start this competition where his brother, who's like a hitman for the mob or something, identifies some bad guy, and then they have like a week to like live in the town where the bad guy is, figure out who the bad guy is, and whoever kills him first wins. 00:14:20.960 --> 00:14:24.399 Okay, and this series is the leather and lark series. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:24.879 Yeah. 00:14:25.919 --> 00:14:26.320 Second one. 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:26.720 There's three. 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:30.720 But Jim Blackbird, Leather and Lark, and Scythe and Sparrow. 00:14:30.879 --> 00:14:35.120 So it's the three brothers and their three female partners. 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:35.679 Cool. 00:14:35.840 --> 00:14:36.080 Okay. 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:39.679 Also, the brothers are Irish, and so the voice actor is Irish. 00:14:40.480 --> 00:14:41.279 It's all done. 00:14:41.600 --> 00:14:42.480 I like that was good. 00:14:42.559 --> 00:14:42.960 That was good. 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:43.759 Yeah. 00:14:44.080 --> 00:14:47.840 I gotta get into some Bryn Weaver because it's delightful. 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.000 Positively, she a freak. 00:14:50.159 --> 00:14:53.440 And I think I'm I think I'm like her as a person. 00:14:55.519 --> 00:15:02.879 Her thing as a serial killer is she stages like super elaborate crime scenes to fucking die, and part of it is she her eyeballs out. 00:15:03.120 --> 00:15:04.559 But she doesn't gouge them. 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:11.120 She like she says she plucks them out, and part of his like picking at her is he's like, it looks a little gougy. 00:15:11.360 --> 00:15:12.639 It's a little messy. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:14.559 And she's like, fuck you. 00:15:14.639 --> 00:15:16.559 I do a precise, perfect job. 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.000 Oh my god, that's so funny. 00:15:19.039 --> 00:15:19.360 It's really good. 00:15:19.440 --> 00:15:19.679 I like it. 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:21.120 It's like a Dexter love story. 00:15:21.200

--> 00:15:21.679 I'm into it. 00:15:22.399 --> 00:15:23.039 It's cute. 00:15:23.279 --> 00:15:24.080 I love that. 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.480 Um, anything else new? 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:27.440 No. 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:30.720 I started my Akatar reread and I am on Akahwar. 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.919 We're both on Akahuar, re-listen, which is kind of cuckoo crazy. 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:40.639 Um, real quick, yeah, I I did Shield of Sparrows and Rights of Starling as well. 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:43.440 Um, yeah, not my favorite. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:45.120 Definitely not my favorite series. 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:49.279 I will continue it because I I gotta I gotta see it through. 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:52.320 I've spent two books worth the these characters. 00:15:52.559 --> 00:15:57.759 Um, I figured out the Rights of the Starling stuff pretty quickly. 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:02.000 Um I and I immediately, and I think I texting you and you're like, I don't know. 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:10.559 And I was like, I'm right to Friend of the Pod Mary at lunch when you texted me that and I showed it to her, and she was like, Yeah, Emily, you're a fucking idiot. 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:10.960 Thank you. 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:13.039 No. 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:15.519 Not Mary calling you up. 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:19.600 Never calling me that, but she was like, I was kind of like, yeah, man. 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:20.720 Yeah, dude. 00:16:20.879 --> 00:16:21.360 Like, yeah. 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:27.840 Yeah, I mean, right away I was like, oh, she's I sorry, spoiler. 00:16:27.919 --> 00:16:28.639 I'm gonna cut that. 00:16:30.960 --> 00:16:34.399 Major spoiler of the entire second book. 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:36.000 I'll beef it out. 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:36.960 Oops. 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:37.600 Wow. 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:39.600 Um my god. 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:42.720 Um, I'm not here to solve your problem for you. 00:16:42.879 --> 00:16:45.360 I want I want you to tell me when you are ready. 00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.600 Yes, I'm I need to solve it. 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:48.960 I'm sitting there being like, what's going on? 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:50.559 The fuck is going on with fuck shit? 00:16:50.639 --> 00:16:51.519 I'm gonna figure it out. 00:16:51.679 --> 00:16:53.279 And then, and I think you're right. 00:16:53.360 --> 00:17:02.159 Like, that's why the questions were driving me nuts because I had my own questions and then she had 10 questions in a row, and I was like, Odessa, shut the fuck up. 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:05.279 Like I don't need your that is a good question. 00:17:05.440 --> 00:17:05.839 Yeah. 00:17:09.680 --> 00:17:12.640 I'm sitting here being like, girl, I asked that 10 pages ago. 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:22.319 Um I have I have something I need to scream about for this book. 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:25.119 And I wrote it down in a note so I wouldn't forget. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:28.720 Actually, reading. 00:17:28.799 --> 00:17:29.599 Okay, go for it. 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:31.279 Uh uh, okay. 00:17:31.839 --> 00:17:34.400 What the fuck does wind smell like? 00:17:41.359 --> 00:17:43.119 She does say that a lot, doesn't she? 00:17:43.839 --> 00:17:47.440 It is it is I'm losing my mind. 00:17:47.519 --> 00:17:51.200 It is the description of the man. 00:17:51.519 --> 00:17:54.000 I'm trying not to like spoil things here, right? 00:17:54.559 --> 00:18:08.160 The man that she is into in this book, she says smells of leather and wood and something else smelly and wind. 00:18:08.400 --> 00:18:11.119 And every time wind is in the description. 00:18:11.519 --> 00:18:14.240 Wind has to smell like what it is picking up. 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:19.279 Like it smells like grass or dust or the ocean or like like a fart? 00:18:19.440 --> 00:18:20.880 Like, what does he smell like? 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:22.079 Oh a fart. 00:18:22.480 --> 00:18:24.960 Like I just pretty hot. 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.440 So I'm gonna just pretend he's not fart. 00:18:27.519 --> 00:18:27.920 Like he's got it. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:29.119 Um and see on the floor. 00:18:29.359 --> 00:18:34.960 I was like, it's like, yeah, it's whatever his whofting is it's gonna whoft something. 00:18:35.119 --> 00:18:35.920 That's the wind. 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.920 It's a like breeze where it's like linen in fresh sky or something. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:40.640 Maybe. 00:18:40.799 --> 00:18:41.359 I don't know. 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.200 But like I yeah, that it drove me nuts. 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:46.319 It drove me nuts. 00:18:46.480 --> 00:18:53.119 I I literally wrote it down because I was like, I think this is the thing that makes me the most angry. 00:18:53.519 --> 00:18:57.680 You just know making a ransom candle that's like smells like wind. 00:18:57.920 --> 00:18:58.960 Can we have one? 00:18:59.359 --> 00:19:01.839 Smells like wind question mark. 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.720 I mean like what does wind smell like? 00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:07.920 Anyways, that was uh my qualm with that. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:14.799 And also, if you told me to tell you what happened at the end of Rights of the Starling, I couldn't. 00:19:15.279 --> 00:19:17.440 I don't remember how it ends. 00:19:17.759 --> 00:19:20.400 I remember what happens to Bleep to South. 00:19:22.319 --> 00:19:25.200 I don't remember what Odessa and Ransom are up to. 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:26.000 Me neither. 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:29.200 I know that they go back to Quintus. 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:35.599 I feel like my brain shut off at the finding out about her dad. 00:19:35.839 --> 00:19:38.319 Okay, I could not remember how that book ended. 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:39.440 It was very crazy. 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:47.119 Um, I haven't started reading it yet, but I got Magpie, which is Parker A. 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:50.160 Gardner's book that I will be narrating. 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.160 Oh, that's so exciting. 00:19:52.240 -->

00:19:53.119 Is this the winner? 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:54.480 This was our winner. 00:19:55.839 --> 00:20:05.279 The winner of one of my the raffle uh for my narrating stuff at the next thing we should talk about, uh, which is Forbidden Love. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:10.319 Um, I did a little raffle there and I gave away a free audiobook narration and Parker A. 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:11.359 Gardner won. 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:15.680 She was very excited, and she sent me a signed copy with a little signed. 00:20:16.319 --> 00:20:17.200 So cute. 00:20:17.440 --> 00:20:18.640 And I'm really excited about it. 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.039 Uh, it's got like tarot cards and crows on it and stuff. 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:22.559 So I was like, wow, right up my alley. 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:24.160 Um pretty pumped about it. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:26.240 Speaking of Forbidden Love. 00:20:26.559 --> 00:20:27.119 Yes. 00:20:27.759 --> 00:20:28.880 Baby's first con. 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:31.039 Babies first con in the books. 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:35.359 Um a whirlwind of a weekend. 00:20:36.000 --> 00:20:36.319 Yes. 00:20:36.559 --> 00:20:39.279 Um, it was like a m literally a month ago. 00:20:39.599 --> 00:20:41.200 Today it ended. 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:44.000 Why does it feel like it was three months ago? 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:44.720 I don't know. 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:46.960 August is a long time. 00:20:47.680 --> 00:20:49.759 August was three years. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.319 Um just don't understand. 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:54.400 It alarms me that that was a month ago. 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:55.839 That was only a month ago. 00:20:56.640 --> 00:20:57.759 Isn't that crazy? 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.680 Yeah, that feels like a year ago. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.240 I feel like a hundred things have happened since then. 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:05.200 We got several hundred followers. 00:21:05.359 --> 00:21:08.400 Uh, we met so many fucking cool people. 00:21:08.960 --> 00:21:11.039 Cosplayers, authors. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:12.880 Everyone is incredible. 00:21:13.039 --> 00:21:14.000 We had so much fun. 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:17.519 Um my god! 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:19.119 Henry, okay. 00:21:19.759 --> 00:21:25.200 This is so fun because I had never listened to the graphic audio. 00:21:25.519 --> 00:21:27.279 Oh, and now you sniff it. 00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:31.279 And now I'm literally just going, that's just Henry. 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:32.079 Henry. 00:21:32.319 --> 00:21:34.160 We're friends, we're friends now. 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:35.680 Like, this is crazy. 00:21:36.240 --> 00:21:37.039 So weird. 00:21:37.359 --> 00:21:54.079 It was weird listening to it again, knowing like having met it's having met him, and he's just like a lovely human being, like lovely, and had like such a good argument for why Tamlin may not all be that bad, even though I still think he sucks. 00:21:54.240 --> 00:21:54.559 Sorry. 00:21:54.799 --> 00:21:59.759 I just finished the High Lord meeting scene, so now's maybe not the best prime for me to talk. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:05.200 About Tamlin's redemption arc because I would like to strangle that man. 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:05.839 Fair. 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.079 Uh that's not his signing moment. 00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:08.799 For sure. 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:11.119 How happening at that time? 00:22:12.160 --> 00:22:14.960 When he does something moderately redeemable. 00:22:15.200 --> 00:22:15.519 Yeah. 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:18.079 Currently a sentence. 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:18.400 Yeah. 00:22:18.880 --> 00:22:20.400 What else happened at Forbidden Love? 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:23.440 Uh wait, it's not our new favorite band. 00:22:25.839 --> 00:22:26.480 Obsessed. 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:28.079 Neoni. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:29.440 Hello. 00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:32.319 They were so good. 00:22:33.279 --> 00:22:36.160 Um, they're going on tour and they're not coming to Los Angeles. 00:22:36.319 --> 00:22:38.319 I've chosen to take that personally. 00:22:39.359 --> 00:22:40.000 Obviously. 00:22:41.759 --> 00:22:47.920 Yeah, I don't feel good about it because now I know the words to all of their songs, and now I can't scream Wonderland out loud. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:50.720 Oh my god, the one with the cool gun sounds. 00:22:51.200 --> 00:22:51.759 Yeah. 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:53.759 I love all of it. 00:22:53.839 --> 00:22:55.599 I've been listening to it on reviews. 00:22:55.759 --> 00:22:56.240 It's so good. 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.640 So they have another one coming out that they're singing with some guy. 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:01.839 I saw a video of it. 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:03.279 I haven't listened to it yet. 00:23:03.599 --> 00:23:05.680 Um, so good. 00:23:06.000 --> 00:23:08.799 We briefly mentioned we did a panel. 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:17.279 So why we read Secrets of Jane, Invoking the Blood, Gilded Wicked Mirrors, and Why Choke is still on our list is because we moderated the Dark Romance panel. 00:23:18.319 --> 00:23:21.839 And I think I think it went so good. 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:22.880 Yeah. 00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:25.200 Like uh everyone had fun. 00:23:25.359 --> 00:23:26.559 It was very interactive. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:28.079 I was really proud of us. 00:23:28.160 --> 00:23:31.039 We made like some adjustments in the moment, too, based on time. 00:23:31.200 --> 00:23:34.079 And I think that the authors had a good time. 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:36.160 Everyone seemed really happy with it. 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:39.279 We met Jasmine, who we're both obsessed with. 00:23:39.599 --> 00:23:41.359 I might be in love with her. 00:23:41.599 --> 00:23:42.319 So we're not. 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:43.200 No. 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:44.480 No, she's here. 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:45.920 She lives by us. 00:23:46.160 --> 00:23:47.200 We need to hang out with her. 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:50.880 She's like walking the red carpet for every freaking thing

that's opening in the city. 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:51.680 Very cool. 00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:52.880 Oh my god. 00:23:53.039 --> 00:23:54.160 She's so cool. 00:23:55.599 --> 00:23:56.720 So nice. 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:57.119 She's not a good one. 00:23:57.200 --> 00:24:02.160 She didn't be as helpful to us when she learned that we were new and didn't know what we were doing. 00:24:02.319 --> 00:24:11.119 And she was so helpful and so kind and so reassuring and like made everybody follow us on Instagram and was just a lovely little gem of a person. 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:11.519 Yeah. 00:24:13.279 --> 00:24:14.319 Absolutely adore her. 00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:15.200 Shout out, Jasmine. 00:24:15.279 --> 00:24:15.599 We love you. 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:16.799 The ball was great. 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:18.640 The ball was super fun. 00:24:18.799 --> 00:24:19.839 It was very crowded. 00:24:20.160 --> 00:24:20.799 Very crowded. 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:24.160 I had a little panic attack and had we had to leave early, but we got really cute photos. 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:27.279 We got really cute photos and lots of good content. 00:24:27.599 --> 00:24:30.960 And we saw a lot of people and like got to hang out with them. 00:24:31.200 --> 00:24:32.640 It was really wonderful. 00:24:32.799 --> 00:24:35.519 It was uh in a public park. 00:24:35.759 --> 00:24:41.839 Um, so there were randos like trying to get in, and uh it just like made us a little bit uncomfortable. 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:51.920 Yeah, and also like trying to interact with people who are trying to take content and photos outside and not like super great, perhaps a perimeter next time of some sort. 00:24:52.480 --> 00:24:57.680 Yeah, like there was a lot of all of our boobs were basically out, right? 00:24:57.759 --> 00:25:00.000 Like we're you know, we're cosplay convention. 00:25:00.079 --> 00:25:04.960 People be wearing all sorts of stuff, and like obviously it's eye-catching and attention grabbing. 00:25:05.119 --> 00:25:09.119 That's literally the entire point of yeah, it yeah. 00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:10.960 Um just felt a little odd. 00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:19.359 And then it was like kind of walking distance to our hotel, so we would have loved, I think loved to walk, but also did not. 00:25:19.759 --> 00:25:21.759 Did not feel safe, didn't feel safe to walk. 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:23.680 So yeah. 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:27.119 And we live in LA and it didn't feel safe to walk in Nashville. 00:25:27.519 --> 00:25:28.960 We're easily walking outside. 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:33.039 Yeah, there was just some very intense bro we men that were yucky. 00:25:33.519 --> 00:25:36.319 Um that would be my only qualm for it. 00:25:36.400 --> 00:25:40.079 Uh I didn't hear of anything happening while we were there. 00:25:40.240 --> 00:25:51.920 I I know that there was some trouble with the l lines and the signings, and some people didn't read the literature that they should have, uh, talking about what is allowed to be signed. 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:52.799 Yeah. 00:25:53.119 --> 00:26:03.200 And we get back and we're on the plane, and what's trending is Forbidden Love, T and Tropes being a terrible convention. 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:06.240 I was my flabbers were gasted. 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:09.279 I was so shocked by that news. 00:26:09.599 --> 00:26:14.960 I like maybe because we have not done this very often, but like I had everything we needed. 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:16.640 We had a problem, it was solved. 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:20.640 Yes, the lines were could the line management of the author signings have been better? 00:26:20.880 --> 00:26:21.200 For sure. 00:26:21.359 --> 00:26:21.839 100%. 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:23.440 It could be everywhere. 00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:27.440 Like, that's kind of com com I don't know. 00:26:27.599 --> 00:26:31.759 Like, I it didn't really strike me as like I'm gonna go get on the internet and complain about that. 00:26:31.839 --> 00:26:32.960 I was just like, it's a convention. 00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:35.039 A lot of people want Rachel Gillick's signature. 00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:35.920 Right. 00:26:36.160 --> 00:26:42.720 Well, and there was so much, there was there was a lot of people that were like, oh my god, my swag bag was empty. 00:26:42.880 --> 00:26:49.279 And it's like, no, can you not read the tier that you paid for has a tote bag? 00:26:49.440 --> 00:26:53.039 You're supposed to fill it with the shit that you buy. 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:57.119 Two tiers above that has a swag bag of stuff. 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:00.480 You got a tote bag. 00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:01.279 Right. 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:11.200 Uh there's a a lot of influencers that I had kind of talked about or talked with about this because I was like, did you guys experience something bad? 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:13.599 Like, did we miss something as vendors? 00:27:13.839 --> 00:27:19.359 Like, did we completely just tunnel vision be like, Do you want a fan cast with us? 00:27:19.440 --> 00:27:20.319 We're having a great time. 00:27:20.480 --> 00:27:22.000 Like a game. 00:27:22.400 --> 00:27:23.119 We don't do it. 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:25.839 That's right. 00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.000 We were being jigsawed at everybody who walked by being like, Do you want to play a game? 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:31.759 And they were like, What the fuck? 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:34.240 We're just trying to give you free shit. 00:27:35.359 --> 00:27:36.799 If you follow me on the internet. 00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:41.519 That's literally all we were doing was like, get follow us on Instagram and we'll give you free things. 00:27:41.599 --> 00:27:44.240 And so many people were like, Yay, great. 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:46.559 And then there were a slight few that was like, no, thanks. 00:27:46.640 --> 00:27:48.960 And I was like, okay. 00:27:49.200 --> 00:27:50.400 Okay, then leave. 00:27:53.839 --> 00:27:57.359 Don't leave your empty Pepsi bottle on our

table. 00:27:57.759 --> 00:27:59.759 People kept leaving trash on our table. 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.519 I was getting really fucking mad. 00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:12.000 Um, anyways, I was talking to some of the influencers, and they were like, we didn't experience anything over La La Line. 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:25.519 And one of the influencers that I will that will remain nameless, um, said that the only complaint that they had had was with like the water station, like the water fountains went out of order. 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:28.240 That is not the the event's fault. 00:28:28.400 --> 00:28:30.000 That is the venue's fault. 00:28:30.240 --> 00:28:30.880 Yeah. 00:28:31.279 --> 00:28:38.799 And and it seems like the local PA staff that was hired for the venue was the problem. 00:28:39.119 --> 00:28:49.839 And so when people go rushing online to shit talk an event where there I feel like there's been many events where totally valid. 00:28:50.079 --> 00:28:53.119 There are still authors who have gotten nothing from Once Upon a Gone. 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.559 Like they still haven't gotten money from those fucking doubloons madness. 00:28:56.720 --> 00:28:57.599 You remember that shit? 00:28:58.079 --> 00:29:00.079 Not a not narry a penny still. 00:29:00.400 --> 00:29:01.279 Marry a cent. 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:06.160 Not a one cent, not a single doubloon has been really cashed in. 00:29:06.480 --> 00:29:08.319 Is that a Pirates of the Caribbean thing? 00:29:08.400 --> 00:29:08.720 Probably. 00:29:08.799 --> 00:29:09.200 I don't know. 00:29:09.920 --> 00:29:10.559 It is now. 00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:11.440 It is now. 00:29:11.759 --> 00:29:16.160 But I I don't feel like this was that at all. 00:29:16.640 --> 00:29:29.359 And now if you run online and you say, I had a terrible time at this event and because you think you deserve the world because you paid a couple hundred dollars to go to a thing, I get it. 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:31.440 Like that's a lot of money to do that. 00:29:31.839 --> 00:29:36.720 But like read what you're getting, see what you got, and move on. 00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:41.039 If you didn't get something, that would be different, but you just didn't read. 00:29:41.359 --> 00:29:41.759 Right. 00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:55.599 Definitely not excusing it, but like as somebody who works in marketing for a living, I am like genuinely con and I know we're in a literacy crisis and this is not news, but like people don't read at all. 00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:56.319 Nobody. 00:29:56.559 --> 00:29:57.680 They don't read anything. 00:29:58.640 --> 00:30:10.240 Like and the amount of times that I get flack of like, well, we should really tell our audiences this, and I'm like, here's 18 emails of me telling the audiences this thing. 00:30:10.720 --> 00:30:11.759 Did you read it? 00:30:11.920 --> 00:30:16.880 Person who's yelling at me for not communicating the thing that I definitely communicated 18 times. 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:17.440 Mm-hmm. 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.880 I like am genuinely concerned about people's ability to read. 00:30:21.200 --> 00:30:25.839 And and it's like people show up at these things and they expect like even like like theater events, right? 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:31.519 Like they expect people to be like, okay, let me here's give me your hand and I'm gonna walk you through it. 00:30:31.599 --> 00:30:34.000 And it's like, when did that start happening? 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:39.759 Like, I heard somebody was upset because like we had it was phantom, and so like obviously people will die in phantom. 00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.839 And there are there are they do? 00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:44.880 Just because oh my god, he murders people. 00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.119 The OG dark romance, no way. 00:30:47.519 --> 00:30:50.400 Um and like people didn't know that. 00:30:50.480 --> 00:30:58.480 And I was like, I don't know how much clear like obviously we're not gonna say like this person is murdered at this point in the scene, but like dark themes, not for young audiences. 00:30:58.799 --> 00:31:00.880 Call our box office if you want to know more. 00:31:01.039 --> 00:31:05.279 Like, we will we will tell you if you call us and you're like, what do you mean by dark themes? 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:06.240 We'll be like murder. 00:31:06.319 --> 00:31:08.319 Somebody is hung from the thing. 00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.279 Yeah, if you if you're like really bothered by that, you really want to know. 00:31:11.359 --> 00:31:15.359 But like you gotta do a little bit of work, you gotta try a little bit. 00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:18.319 It's been out for a while. 00:31:18.559 --> 00:31:22.799 Yeah, it's also like not new, like yeah, yeah. 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:23.920 People don't moderate. 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:28.000 No, it and and I feel like that that was the the biggest situation. 00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:32.160 I think that Brie handled it with Grace, both online with what she said. 00:31:32.319 --> 00:31:40.319 Um, I think that uh she deserves kind of an apology from a lot of people that but she'll never get it, which sucks. 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:42.799 Um, and I think she did a wonderful job. 00:31:43.119 --> 00:31:50.240 That girl who made like teen videos about getting a tote bag instead of a swag bag, I was like, you are so dumb. 00:31:50.559 --> 00:31:51.440 Fishing. 00:31:51.839 --> 00:31:52.640 Fishing. 00:31:53.039 --> 00:32:03.119 You show your registration that you're in tier mortal or whatever, and then show the tear bracket that says mortal gets tote bag, berry or whatever gets swag. 00:32:03.359 --> 00:32:06.880 Like you're proving your own idiocy in this video. 00:32:07.200 --> 00:32:07.519 Yes. 00:32:07.839 --> 00:32:10.480 We don't even, which is so upsetting. 00:32:11.119 --> 00:32:14.160 A tote bag is the the bag is the gift. 00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:18.400 A swag bag is a bag full of swag. 00:32:19.039 --> 00:32:23.759 Like I just yeah, it's driving me

mental. 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.240 Um overall, we had a wonderful time though. 00:32:26.400 --> 00:32:27.519 Yeah, we do love them. 00:32:27.680 --> 00:32:29.200 Um we got a move on. 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:32.240 100%. 00:32:32.640 --> 00:32:33.279 Um, okay. 00:32:33.519 --> 00:32:35.119 Uh personal news. 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:36.400 I'm just gonna share real quick. 00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:41.039 Uh I had spine surgery, so that's why we kind of were a little bit quiet online. 00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:46.319 Um, but I am healing and we will be back to our regular scheduled programming. 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:50.559 Um, we were gonna have some episodes out maybe a little bit earlier in August. 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:52.400 Obviously, we started a little bit later. 00:32:52.480 --> 00:32:53.680 We're back in September. 00:32:53.759 --> 00:32:56.240 Um, and that's the only reason that was happening. 00:32:56.400 --> 00:32:59.279 So I am recovering swell. 00:32:59.680 --> 00:33:01.680 Uh, and I'm actually doing okay. 00:33:01.759 --> 00:33:05.440 Like I've been sitting stationary now for an hour, and I'm doing all right. 00:33:05.519 --> 00:33:06.319 Like, that's pretty good. 00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:07.920 I have 12 pillows I'm sitting on. 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.799 So as you should, as well, people should at all times. 00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:12.240 Oh, yes, Princess and the P. 00:33:12.960 --> 00:33:16.720 Well, I was gonna say, much to the same same level as importance as spine surgery. 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:21.920 My news is I rearranged my bookshelf over the summer and I got a snack tattoo. 00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:26.880 Um basically the same levels of stuff happening. 00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:32.000 And Emily, you have a very serious PSA about that snack tattoo that you need to tell everybody. 00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:37.440 Men go away. 00:33:37.759 --> 00:33:38.400 Men go away. 00:33:38.559 --> 00:33:40.720 Not that you're here, but if you are great. 00:33:41.279 --> 00:33:41.759 That's great. 00:33:41.839 --> 00:33:42.400 You can stay. 00:33:42.640 --> 00:33:42.880 Okay. 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:45.680 I'm a pretty like tattooed person. 00:33:45.839 --> 00:33:46.640 There's a lot of them. 00:33:46.799 --> 00:33:48.640 I have sat through many a tattoo. 00:33:48.880 --> 00:33:56.240 Apparently, up until the year of our Lord 2026, I have never been tattooed on my period. 00:33:56.720 --> 00:34:01.839 Don't fucking do that, apparently, because I thought I was gonna die. 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.759 I tapped out of this tattoo. 00:34:03.920 --> 00:34:07.200 It's not done yet, as you can see by my elbow. 00:34:07.440 --> 00:34:14.400 This tattoo, I sat for eight hours in a convention hall in a metal folding chair and was fine. 00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:22.800 This tattoo, I was in a comfy cozy studio for six hours, and we maybe did three hours of acting tattooing because I had to keep making her stop. 00:34:22.960 --> 00:34:23.199 Yeah. 00:34:23.360 -->

00:34:25.280 Um, and I was like, I don't know what's happening. 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:26.159 I'm so embarrassed. 00:34:26.239 --> 00:34:27.599 I don't ever sit like this. 00:34:27.920 --> 00:34:30.000 And she immediately was like, Are you on your period? 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:31.679 And I was like, Yeah. 00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:33.360 And she's like, Yeah, it's gonna hurt. 00:34:33.440 --> 00:34:34.719 It's gonna hurt really bad. 00:34:35.199 --> 00:34:38.000 I had no idea. 00:34:38.320 --> 00:34:40.400 Um I don't know how I ever missed that. 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:43.599 And I'm surely people are gonna be in the comments and be like, yeah, that's obvious. 00:34:44.000 --> 00:34:44.719 Not to me. 00:34:44.800 --> 00:34:46.239 Um I didn't know. 00:34:46.559 --> 00:34:52.000 Like, I have many, many tattoos, and I guess have just missed that every time. 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.159 Uh yeah, don't get tattooed on your period. 00:34:54.239 --> 00:34:56.559 It's literally the worst pain I've ever been in in my entire life. 00:34:56.719 --> 00:34:58.159 I hated every minute of it. 00:34:58.400 --> 00:35:02.880 My tattoo artist is wonderful and lovely, and I would recommend her to everybody. 00:35:03.039 --> 00:35:08.000 Um, except for when you're actively bleeding out of your vagina, then I would not recommend to anything. 00:35:08.320 --> 00:35:10.719 Don't too much blood loss, too many nerves. 00:35:11.039 --> 00:35:12.639 Yeah, so just keep that in mind. 00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:16.000 That that is uh hella painful. 00:35:16.320 --> 00:35:19.599 Feels like they should teach that to us when they like teach us. 00:35:19.920 --> 00:35:24.480 It would be great if like women's health and menstrual cycles taught us anything. 00:35:24.880 --> 00:35:28.719 Were taught to us and studied better and that we knew anything about them. 00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:30.719 I hate America. 00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:32.480 This is a book podcast. 00:35:32.639 --> 00:35:36.480 Um, let's go back to talking about smut. 00:35:36.559 --> 00:35:36.719 Okay. 00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:38.000 That's that's our thing. 00:35:38.159 --> 00:35:44.880 Every time we like veer into like dread and political that we could just go on about for hours, we gotta be like, and we're gonna curb. 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:48.239 But best believe we will be a political if we have a side pony. 00:35:48.480 --> 00:35:49.599 I love a side pony. 00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:51.599 It feels very Bryce Quinlan. 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:52.880 Thank you. 00:35:53.039 --> 00:35:54.400 I knew you'd love that. 00:35:55.199 --> 00:35:56.800 I'm honored. 00:35:57.039 --> 00:35:58.159 I knew you'd love that one. 00:35:58.320 --> 00:35:59.599 It is, it's very Bryce. 00:35:59.760 --> 00:35:59.920 Yeah. 00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:03.039 With their little streak of Danica in there. 00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:03.360 Yeah. 00:36:03.679 --> 00:36:06.719 Also, I don't think I was blonde last time we were on this podcast. 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:08.239 So I don't think you were. 00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:09.199 I don't think you were. 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:12.320 Oh, I think it might have been for the one episode, but your hair was up. 00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:13.199 Oh shit. 00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:13.360 Okay. 00:36:13.599 --> 00:36:14.719 I think your hair might have been up. 00:36:15.280 --> 00:36:16.159 You're blind now. 00:36:16.400 --> 00:36:18.159 Um, okay, we got a couple of other things. 00:36:18.239 --> 00:36:19.760 We're just gonna run through these real fast. 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:23.599 Uh uh Love Hypothesis trailer dropped. 00:36:23.920 --> 00:36:24.800 Looks great. 00:36:25.119 --> 00:36:27.280 Forgot that I shit all over the book. 00:36:27.360 --> 00:36:29.920 Um, I still feel the way I do about the book. 00:36:30.159 --> 00:36:31.440 Very excited to see the movie. 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:32.159 It looks good. 00:36:32.239 --> 00:36:36.159 They've done interviews where they say like it does not veer from the book. 00:36:36.320 --> 00:36:39.360 Like they really worked hard to make sure that it is like the book. 00:36:39.519 --> 00:36:40.800 I said it would be a good rom-com. 00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:41.679 I think it'll be really great. 00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:42.480 I can't wait to watch it. 00:36:42.559 --> 00:36:45.280 We talked about Nave of the Moon is being out already. 00:36:45.519 --> 00:36:49.119 Okay, two bummer things that happened. 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:52.719 One is like a glad it happened, call that bitch out. 00:36:52.880 --> 00:36:57.519 And this is PB Squamer drama that happened. 00:36:57.760 --> 00:37:08.079 Uh mediocre white man calls himself a book boyfriend, was signing books written by Novessa Allen as Josh from Lights Out. 00:37:08.320 --> 00:37:10.320 Nobody ever said that he was that. 00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:13.039 He self-proclaimed that he was Josh. 00:37:13.199 --> 00:37:16.239 He was invited to a book boyfriend bash thing. 00:37:16.800 --> 00:37:17.360 I don't know. 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:22.480 He's literally a mediocre white man who like went through a divorce and has a pedo mustache. 00:37:22.559 --> 00:37:23.280 It's really weird. 00:37:23.440 --> 00:37:24.960 I don't think he's attractive. 00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:26.239 I don't get it. 00:37:26.480 --> 00:37:27.440 And that's fine. 00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:35.920 Like it's his attractiveness has nothing to do with it unless he is marketing himself as a book boyfriend, and it's very strange. 00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:36.639 Anyways. 00:37:36.960 --> 00:37:43.360 I would like it noted that I got Botox three days ago, so I can't quite make the face that I want to make at the point. 00:37:43.679 --> 00:37:45.760 So your eyebrows would be to your hairline. 00:37:46.480 --> 00:37:47.360 Like way up here. 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:48.239 I'll go for you. 00:37:49.840 --> 00:37:50.400 It's fresh. 00:37:50.480 --> 00:37:51.679 It'll settle in a second. 00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.320 Um, but there would be

like way up here. 00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:54.880 Continue. 00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:56.000 I just wanted that noticed. 00:37:56.480 --> 00:38:00.639 And he can't. 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:04.719 Um, we are so back. 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:14.159 Uh so he goes and makes a video saying, You want me to read your indie book to these small authors. 00:38:14.320 --> 00:38:15.760 First of all, fuck you. 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.559 Second of all, you want me to read your book. 00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:22.559 You're going to pay me a$200 deposit. 00:38:23.360 --> 00:38:31.760 And then I will make the video, whether I like it or not, either ripping it a new asshole or loving it. 00:38:32.159 --> 00:38:32.480 Yeah. 00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:33.519 And he didn't say that. 00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:34.320 I said that. 00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:39.280 But hit like him being like, whether it's a good, like, I'm not gonna make up the review. 00:38:39.519 --> 00:38:44.000 Um, and pay me$200, and I might say I hate your book. 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:50.239 Yes, and you still have to pay me the$800, and an additional eight hundred dollars. 00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:52.800 So he was charging a thousand dollars. 00:38:54.159 --> 00:38:56.079 Now, I don't think he ever did this. 00:38:56.239 --> 00:39:04.480 I think he like came up with it because he was like audacity to say that and put that on God's green internet for the world to see. 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.199 Fucking illegal. 00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:09.119 Yeah, that's crazy. 00:39:09.440 --> 00:39:16.159 Like, you cannot solicit money for positive reviews. 00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:16.880 Yeah. 00:39:17.119 --> 00:39:23.039 The federal government does not allow that, and they allow far too much bullshit lately. 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:25.039 But they don't allow that. 00:39:25.199 --> 00:39:27.519 So, like, that's the problem that people had with it. 00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:33.360 Yeah, that people had with it is like you're committing a crime. 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:40.639 Like, you just admitted you would be committing a crime, and and also we think you're okay. 00:39:41.360 --> 00:39:44.079 And also you're taking your meaning we don't like you. 00:39:44.320 --> 00:39:45.039 And we don't like you. 00:39:45.119 --> 00:39:47.199 Um you're committing a crime. 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:53.199 Yes, and it it fucking divided the book community so quickly. 00:39:53.360 --> 00:40:08.400 And like every single day you log on to threads in the book book community uh like for yes, there are people who are his friends who are also other cosplayers who are also charging three thousand dollars to attend these events. 00:40:08.639 --> 00:40:12.639 So it kind of he is an idiot. 00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:23.119 And he said the quiet part out loud, which shone the spotlight of other people, and the people supporting him are also the other people who would be doing these things. 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:23.840 And that's fine. 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:25.360 Get your bag, bitches. 00:40:25.519 --> 00:40:26.719 Get your bag. 00:40:27.039 --> 00:40:30.639 Big, big divide within the community when this came up. 00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:36.880 It was the authors being like, holy shit, and then it was the content creators being like, we deserve money too. 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:39.679 And no one said you didn't. 00:40:40.159 --> 00:40:45.760 Not saying I don't want to pay you, I just don't want to bribe you to see my book is good. 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:46.400 Right. 00:40:46.559 --> 00:41:01.679 And then the other issue was that sometimes when people put a shitty video out where they say something fucking stupid, people now feel the bravery to come forward and say other stupid shit that they've done. 00:41:01.840 --> 00:41:07.679 And a lot of people came forward saying, like, he said inappropriate things, like he's done this, he's done that. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:15.199 And so a lot of other things came out, which I think was it was like two separate issues and big old drama. 00:41:15.440 --> 00:41:22.559 Uh, he gave like a half-assed, you know, apology that's not an apology because he never admitted fault to anything. 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.440 He just justified everything and it was yucky. 00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:31.679 Um, so I he's dead to us, um, which is fine because he doesn't know who we are, and that's fine. 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:33.679 And I don't care. 00:41:36.000 --> 00:41:37.039 I'm fine with anything. 00:41:37.920 --> 00:41:50.159 I really like Steven Walker, um the Tamlin cosplayer with the really long hair, and they have a podcast together called The Smash Cast, which I have shouted out on our podcast before. 00:41:50.480 --> 00:41:51.760 Him, he him and who? 00:41:51.920 --> 00:41:54.079 Him and him and PB Squamer. 00:41:54.320 --> 00:41:56.559 Peanut butter, peanut butter squammer. 00:41:56.639 --> 00:42:00.239 Oh, which the PB guys stands for pretty boy. 00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:07.679 Well, I'm just gonna let you sit with that. 00:42:09.519 --> 00:42:10.960 I love that for you. 00:42:11.519 --> 00:42:12.320 I don't like it. 00:42:12.559 --> 00:42:14.159 I know, I'm really sorry about that. 00:42:14.320 --> 00:42:16.320 I'm really sorry I had to tell you that. 00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:19.199 That's literally what it stands for. 00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:22.079 You know who we gotta shout out, our girl, Callista. 00:42:22.239 --> 00:42:25.519 Callista fucking went hard on this dude on the internet. 00:42:25.679 --> 00:42:27.599 She was like a boss bitch. 00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:28.079 I love it. 00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.840 She was like, fuck you, fuck you, peanut butter. 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:39.679 Like you went off and she goes, actually, peanut butter's delicious, so I'm not gonna slander that sh and she went ham. 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:45.519 And then there was a that's where the content creators were like, the way he looks and stuff has nothing to do with it. 00:42:45.599 -->

00:42:51.920 And it's like it doesn't until he's marketing himself to be paid as for his looks. 00:42:52.079 --> 00:42:52.639 You know what I mean? 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:56.239 Like it's just like, okay, something about this feels yucky. 00:42:57.119 --> 00:43:02.800 And I'm and I'm uh I'm a big fan of uh people calling people out now, which is great. 00:43:02.960 --> 00:43:06.960 I don't love cancel culture, um, but I liked that one. 00:43:07.119 --> 00:43:08.239 Are you looking him up? 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:14.000 I am please don't tell me you think this man is attractive. 00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:16.800 No, I got okay. 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:19.199 I was like, I gotta go. 00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:22.400 No, are you insane? 00:43:22.559 --> 00:43:25.039 Are you saying I think this man is attractive? 00:43:25.360 --> 00:43:30.719 Well, you were looking at your phone like this, like you were about to tell me something really upsetting. 00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:42.000 What's really upsetting is that the first thing that comes up is mutual follows, and I am unhappy with a name that I see on the list. 00:43:42.559 --> 00:43:43.760 Is it the friend of the pod? 00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:44.800 No. 00:43:45.119 --> 00:43:45.840 Is it Tyler? 00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:47.599 No, it's not, thank God. 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:48.880 Maybe he doesn't know. 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:50.400 He probably knows. 00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:51.599 It was kind of everywhere. 00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.119 But that's what I'm saying. 00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.960 Is that part of the community stuck by his side his side? 00:43:57.440 --> 00:43:58.719 But it's like a cosplayer. 00:43:58.800 --> 00:43:59.760 Like I think he's just in the 00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:01.840 like book community. 00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:05.440 Well that's why he's hot, but like he's not really a cosplayer. 00:44:05.679 --> 00:44:07.039 Neither is PB Squamour. 00:44:07.360 --> 00:44:08.880 He never cosplayed shit. 00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:17.920 He just he he would show up and act like he's having red lights out now. 00:44:18.079 --> 00:44:26.800 Um I don't he was telling people that Nevassa Allen wrote Josh's character after him which is fucking false. 00:44:26.960 --> 00:44:29.440 And she's been like, I do not know this man. 00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.960 I do not know this man. 00:44:31.039 --> 00:44:32.480 Like this is crazy. 00:44:32.719 --> 00:44:33.199 Yeah. 00:44:33.519 --> 00:44:36.239 Okay, we said we will go quick through this, but clearly I know. 00:44:36.800 --> 00:44:45.039 So they it was I was so attached to my phone during that time period, which was really probably not healthy at all. 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:53.199 But because I was just was I was so disappointed seeing who was still supporting him after what he said when it was just like point blank disgusting and wrong. 00:44:53.360 --> 00:44:54.320 Okay, let's move on. 00:44:54.480 --> 00:44:56.719 Another disgusting and wrong thing. 00:44:56.880 -->

00:45:00.159 Um HM Wolf releases Daggermouth. 00:45:00.400 --> 00:45:04.719 Yes not disgusting and wrong amazing we love HM Wolf. 00:45:04.800 --> 00:45:06.639 You know what is disgusting and wrong? 00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:24.559 When the fucking Atlantic drops an article the day before accusing her a black female author of AI with no context with no facts nothing to back that shit up. 00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:25.280 And guess what? 00:45:25.440 --> 00:45:34.639 You know what the worst part is she is the fourth author of color that has been accused of AI right before their release release date. 00:45:35.760 --> 00:45:36.480 I hate it. 00:45:36.639 --> 00:45:37.519 I hate everything about it. 00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:46.400 This one I am disgusting and I do know like I you do not need to fill me in I know what happened uh and it is horrific and terrible and crazy. 00:45:46.880 --> 00:45:52.400 Horrific tale crazy and the community backed up the fuck out of her which is amazing. 00:45:52.559 --> 00:46:03.599 We all were like stop sharing the article fuck this guy stop saying his name this day is about her I think how she handled it was so graceful and beautiful. 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:35.519 She gave it no attention and was like this is my moment I'm really glad that she didn't let that fucking worm of a man take that away from her I am huge props to her huge props to her we still we have the arc of it that we still got to read I did buy the hard copy um when it came out because there were signed copies and so I grabbed it and our bonus we did release books not at the exact same time as literally other every other author in the world I have no idea so many so many hours in the day. 00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:43.679 We literally I'm so glad that we're doing aquatar through the rest of the year because and then up until Sweetest because we have so much to read. 00:46:43.760 --> 00:46:51.199 I have to use the rest of the year to read new books while simultaneously catching up on Avatar that's all we can do. 00:46:51.840 --> 00:47:09.360 Okay speaking of Avatar Avatar six and seven titles came out okay a court of splintered harmony and a court of forgotten melody thoughts I like it I'm into I love them I'm into it actually seem to be the only person on the internet who does remember who Kroche is which is exciting for me because normally I don't remember stuff. 00:47:10.079 --> 00:47:18.719 But I'm into it I like the Valkyrie I like the pre I like the premise I like um that we still don't know whose point of view it is um I'm into it. 00:47:18.960 --> 00:47:41.119 Yeah same uh covers came out they're like an ombre pink teal with like a yellow which kind of is making people think it's like a night court aqua day court dawn court stuff with like putting the colors in order to see the timeline which I think were a little bit too much to be honest with you. 00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:44.000 But um whatever floats your boat. 00:47:44.320 --> 00:47:52.239 I do feel like

there's a lot of people trying to fill in the blanks before the book comes out which kind of drives me cuckoo nanas if I'm being completely honest. 00:47:52.480 --> 00:48:02.079 I think people have uh been getting a little bit annoying online trying to like solve it right yeah I think people forced her to drop them early and I'm fucking pissed off about it. 00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:12.960 Let let us have nice things girl fantasy fangirls ruined it I don't care I'm gonna say it. 00:48:13.199 --> 00:48:30.880 Do it I I am so pissed that they did that go searching through and everyone's like it's available if you check a web browser's whatever I don't I forget the words I'm thinking of right now but like they were able to pull up like the basically like the coding of the website. 00:48:32.480 --> 00:48:32.960 Or something. 00:48:33.199 --> 00:48:47.920 Yeah and like found it put it on the internet before and then release it and everyone's like well she had a Timesquare ad that day so she was planning on it that day for blah blah and that's fine. 00:48:48.079 --> 00:49:01.760 She probably was but maybe not at seven in the morning yeah or like I don't know or mark marketing teams they have fail safes if shit like this hits a fan. 00:49:02.159 --> 00:49:04.559 They could have reserved that it was a digital billboard. 00:49:04.639 --> 00:49:11.599 You can swap those in and out all the time like I don't never bought a billboard in Timesquare I don't know but like she could have been advertising something else. 00:49:11.679 --> 00:49:18.079 It could have been a teaser like what Taylor Swift does like it could have been all sorts of things um and then it became title drop. 00:49:18.159 --> 00:49:20.000 I just feel like it was not her intention. 00:49:20.320 --> 00:49:27.119 No I don't think so either I think it was gonna be it was supposed to be rolled out a little slowly for the sake of the speculation. 00:49:27.280 --> 00:49:28.480 She doesn't like it. 00:49:28.719 --> 00:49:34.079 She's said that like the fans come up with their own stuff and I don't really pay attention to it. 00:49:34.239 --> 00:49:46.239 It really sucked it really put a damper on it and I honestly I don't know about you but it made me less excited but I'm kind of just like all right I'm excited to read it when it comes out like that's fine but I'm not like holy book like I can't wait. 00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:48.639 Yeah I am still pretty excited. 00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:54.800 I'm trying not to let other people like ruin and like take my my joy away but I did feel like the day was kind of weird. 00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:55.119 Yeah. 00:49:55.360 --> 00:50:14.079 It felt like a really weird day and then I think the I've I like I've the theories and people's reactions to like uh I think the covers are ugly and I haven't now I have to read Crescent City and like now people are reading Crescent City I've always had to have read Crescent City. 00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:23.760 The end of Crescent City happens in Belarus you have to read it you have to you have to read it like I don't know what else to tell you. 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:33.039 But it the people have known that now for two years oh it these covers revealed nothing in terms of the the attached the the correlation to Crescent City. 00:50:33.199 --> 00:51:39.039 The Crescent City correlation has existed for years since House of uh Fame and Shadow came out yeah the last one the third one honestly since House of Sky and Breath was out because the flame the flame stutter that were just breezing right past I couldn't remember which one was too blah blah blah blah blah technically she goes to Valaris at the end of book two yeah this has been no she jumped right through that mirror oh I remember that good for me that's right they're in the glass that's what happens in book two the boat and the glass palace sure yep you got it book three is like the wolf a lot of Ethan there's a lot of lot of Ethan and that that bitch that's in a tub yeah and then she's not in tub but definitely still should have been Day Bright Day Bright and the thing there and the thing and then Cormac explodes and yeah and the Viper Queen Witch Theoryan drugs fighting ring wow yeah no we got this we remember this one. 00:51:39.199 --> 00:51:46.639 Oh yeah I read these okay moving on amazing moving on um yeah that's really it about Aqatar. 00:51:46.719 --> 00:51:53.119 Speaking of Avatar should we finally get the fuck going on what this episode is holy shit. 00:51:53.599 --> 00:51:58.880 I'm gonna make the beginning of this its own episode just like a welcome back episode. 00:51:59.119 --> 00:51:59.760 Yeah