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Welcome to Plans Are Booked, a podcast for
every reader.

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I'm Molly Geller.

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Stephanie Blackburn.

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I'm Caitlin Madison, welcome to chapter
31.

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We are going to be discussing a book
called One and a Millennial today by

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fellow podcaster Kate Kennedy from Be
There in Five.

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Molly is going to catch us up on what
she's been up to because she's been

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traveling the world and we haven't
recorded a pod in like

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back, baby.

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I'm so excited.

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I feel like I've been away from this mic
for far too long.

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first I just want to apologize to the
listeners for my voice.

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It's a very pollen filled day in
Watertown, Massachusetts today.

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So you're hearing a bit of congestion
thanks to my yellow covered car.

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but thanks for bearing with me.

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Yes.

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I'm back after a two week vacay.

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I went to Israel for my cousin's wedding
and then I went to Amsterdam just to

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explore.

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It was my first time there.

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I will say I got into vacation to ignore
it right quick because when I touched down

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in Israel it was already over 90 degrees.

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So it was like being purled.

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into the summer season and I had packed
accordingly knowing it was going to be

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quite hot and sweaty.

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And there's something about just like the
beach weather that puts you in that like

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vague frame of mind.

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It was so great to see my family was.

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so fun to just be at a huge celebration.

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And my cousin, and I didn't.

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make a ton of purchases.

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Well, this is the same name, I love names.

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her name is Maya.

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Lilly, her grandmother who...

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Let me see how I can best explain this.

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My cousin Tamar is married to a wonderful
person named Yair and his mother passed

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away last year.

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Her name in Hebrew means Lily.

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So they decided to name her Maya Lily and
Maya, the root is from the word mime,

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which means water.

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And we all grew up together at the beach.

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So she wanted a name that sort of made a
nod to that.

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So actually one of the nights we were on
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description and the

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behind the name that they had read during
her baby naming.

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So it's nice that all of us got to hear
that.

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She's four months old and she's so cute.

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She lets anybody hold her.

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She has a great disposition.

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It was just like amazing to get to spend
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Very fun.

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I made precisely one purchase.

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Actually, that's a lie.

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I made two purchases.

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The first one was completely unplanned.

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My cousin Julia needed.

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She was at her wedding, she was unhappy
with what she had packed, so we went into

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a

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store and she started trying things on and
were the same size.

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And I was like, Ooh, let me try on what
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So I just bought a pair of sandals like
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Then we went to one of the big open air
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and the nuts and whatever.

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And I bought an obscene amount of tea,
hibiscus tea, watermelon tea.

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And they like to just like scoop these
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like a dumb American.

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And originally he scooped enough that he
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about $350 US dollars.

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And I was like, sir.

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it was unbelievable.

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It was like these huge bags, plastic bags
that he was going to vacuum seal.

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And I was like, I'm sure this is like his
shtick.

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He like does this to everybody.

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but I took out my little calculator, do
the quick conversion and I was like, no,

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sir.

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that's not going to happen.

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So I saw these little Tupperware things
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and stuff.

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And I said, could we instead do that one
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So he did the world's giantest eye roll
because he was so close to swindling me.

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And then obviously the price came way
down, but I'm looking forward to making

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all kinds of iced tea over the summer and
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popsicles.

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So the shoes and the tea is the only thing
that I came back with.

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I did buy for other people chocolate and
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And then I went to U .S.

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with my other friend.

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I...

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back in the long business in Europe,
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had never been to the Netherlands.

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I honestly feel Amsterdam is like wildly
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I'm surprised that there are more people
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about like Lisbon, Portugal, or like these
other popular destinations.

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The canals were obviously the main
attraction in such a cool, different

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experience.

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And the people to walk there were there.

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The canals were quite fun in the canals.

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But for me, the biggest surprise was how I
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From street food to like five -star
restaurant food, I actually went for the

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first time ever to a Michelin star
restaurant during this trip, which I just,

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I don't know, I felt like I was on an
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Like it just felt so fancy and amazing.

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And we went to this other restaurant, De
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They were home to a lot of stuff.

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there, and then everything else comes from
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Every sniffer, every man -bun, every grass
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Bear, it reminded me of the episode in
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the fancy restaurant.

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Yes, yes.

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And they just like know everything about
everything and they...

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They play stuff on the plate with tweezers
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So this is cool for anyone who might be
planning to go there.

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Definitely make a reservation.

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went for lunch.

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We had four courses plus a full bottle of
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I was like, what is going on?

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And you don't tip there either.

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I couldn't get over it.

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But we also had the street french fries
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that people say to have.

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And I went to the Moe Museum, which is a
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Mangone Museum.

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It was just an awesome time, and I felt
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had like two and a half days after I went
to the Indian Museum.

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So now I feel like wherever I travel, I
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and look into that stuff and be like,

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a stop along the way.

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It just feels like I need more time.

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There's more to see and do, more to eat.

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I also learned from our canal.

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tour guide that he said the best day of
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It happens in August and the whole water
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It's like it floats and floats and

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And I know many people know about King's
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epic celebration.

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But he said this is even better than that.

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a lip season which is like April May he
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like the best best of Amsterdam you should
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that was just like a note that I talked
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So I went to Amsterdam in 2017 and I'm
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love the architecture there.

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I really like Dutch buildings.

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And I also loved like sitting outside at
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children with attached onto bikes.

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And also the bike culture like when you
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is and everybody just rolls their bikes on
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You just kind of feel like you're in some
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everybody's like being green.

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good to the environment, and there's
tulips everywhere and art everywhere.

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And this is where Anne Frank was safe for
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It's like...

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feels like...

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a little bit.

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But in a really healthy way.

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Thank you.

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That's a huge RBC experience.

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Those were really good.

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know I don't have an athletic bone in my
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So I didn't ride a bike while I was there,
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people use it to commute or to visit
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Nobody wears helmets, which was shocking
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And I actually asked the canal tour guide
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He was like, honestly, the bikes have the
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So it's not the same as in the U S where
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road with cars, the bikes reign supreme
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And so there's less of a safety concern,
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He also told us every year that the city
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of the canal.

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Because of people who don't lock them up
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but to Caitlin's point about the
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while you're there, I remember thinking
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list of other things that will be
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Like I just, I just, I'm have to go
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It's just, it's so much fun.

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And it's a huge group, which I would love
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So you can certainly do it on your way,
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Like I was thinking, the game rest, it was
fun to go by.

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It's just, it's one of those real, cool,
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So if you're thinking about it, if you're
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hi,

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directly going to add it on.

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I also had an amazing experience finding a
budget for which I used to be a free

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advertising publisher because I was so
lonely.

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I flew to Luke, that's what I said, and my
advertising agency is, I was like, I'm

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saying, I flew to the Caribbean for the
facility, but this was a great experience.

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Ever since we felt the first class age, I
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The TV screens were huge.

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When you sat down, you could customize
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They're now partnering with Gag, the food
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What used to be called, again, used to be
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downtown, the food is awesome.

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They gave out individual ice creams every
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And then several hours later, the card
starts coming down behind me.

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I was like, why is that so not such a
familiar sound?

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I was like, Jesus, it's not even, Jesus,
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What is going on?

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And this was my first film.

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And then I was like, it's not even.

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So it was spectacular.

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We did this flash, amazing.

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I was just standing there, I was going, I
was just going.

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Yeah.

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And then I was like, I'm going same movie
I was in.

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And I was like, no, no.

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But I was just going to the movie.

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I was just going to the movie.

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I so I have a question for you, Molly, as
if probably our listeners don't know this

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about me unless like you're one of my
besties.

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But I'm like a huge Sanrio Hello Kitty
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And one of the most devastating things
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Netherlands Netherlands is that I found
out about Miffy.

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Do you guys know Miffy?

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OK, listeners, you're going to have to
look it up, but I will show you Miffy in a

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moment.

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and she is a little bunny.

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and she came to fruition as like a
character in books and like a stuffed

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animal plush kind of way in 1954.

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And basically Sanrio got accused in 1974
of working off Miffy to create Hello

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Kitty.

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And I was like, absolutely devastated when
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But Miffy's like a lot of places in.

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Amsterdam.

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and like in the airport and like all over
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rabbit.

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I will say Hello Kitty is definitely
cuter, but I was like very devastated to

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find out that they like might have modeled
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Hello Kitty, Miffy also doesn't have a
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She just has a nose and eyes and it's like
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animal.

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so anyways I found that funny.

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I was just going to stay for a little bit
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And I'm going to come back and do this
because I saw that I had a career.

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I was thinking, I'm just going to do this
right now.

238
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And I was like, how do you do this?

239
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And I was like, where?

240
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And like, I'm do this off of here.

241
00:12:34,668 --> 00:12:36,248
And then I was like, well, I'm going this
here.

242
00:12:36,248 --> 00:12:38,808
And I'm going to do this out of here.

243
00:12:38,808 --> 00:12:40,528
And I saw it on the other end.

244
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I saw it right in front of me.

245
00:12:42,288 --> 00:12:42,828
I was like, I'm this.

246
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Discoveries.

247
00:12:43,558 --> 00:12:45,488
It's like the duty free shop.

248
00:12:45,488 --> 00:12:47,368
And I was like, what is with this stuffed
bunny?

249
00:12:47,368 --> 00:12:50,070
And I thought maybe I just like missed it.

250
00:12:50,070 --> 00:12:51,160
I was like, I'm sorry.

251
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I missed it.

252
00:12:51,740 --> 00:12:52,160
I was like, I'm sorry.

253
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I missed it.

254
00:12:53,100 --> 00:12:56,300
I was was was was missed I I I

255
00:12:59,054 --> 00:13:00,574
Dutch is fun.

256
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N -I -J -N -T -J -E, which is like a
shortening of the word Konigente, which

257
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means little rabbit.

258
00:13:11,654 --> 00:13:13,704
I probably totally butchered that.

259
00:13:13,704 --> 00:13:19,154
If you've ever heard anybody speak Dutch
or Afrikaans, which is similar, I don't

260
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even know how the sounds come out of their
mouth sometimes, but she's known in

261
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English as Miffy.

262
00:13:24,868 --> 00:13:27,788
And she has like TV shows, and there's a
picture.

263
00:13:27,788 --> 00:13:31,488
She's like padded in there, but that
overrides.

264
00:13:32,368 --> 00:13:34,398
Anyways, I've known her since I got out of
college.

265
00:13:34,398 --> 00:13:36,508
Well, I hope you tell me.

266
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were up to while i was away

267
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Would you like to go stuff?

268
00:13:43,833 --> 00:13:47,463
So there was a squirrel loose in the
house.

269
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And if you know me, you know I am
terrified of dark water, basements and

270
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small rodents.

271
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And my dad was out of the country for two
weeks.

272
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So it was on me to get it out of the house
and patch it up.

273
00:14:02,593 --> 00:14:05,134
So luckily my sister was off that day.

274
00:14:05,750 --> 00:14:08,390
And she's one of my scariest fighters so I
knew that I was in good hands.

275
00:14:08,390 --> 00:14:12,696
So we went to the house, found it, there's
a...

276
00:14:12,696 --> 00:14:17,056
my sister says it's a horrible video, but
I think it's a hysterical video of the

277
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whole conundrum on my Instagram, if you
look.

278
00:14:19,716 --> 00:14:21,716
We found the squirrel.

279
00:14:21,716 --> 00:14:24,296
We managed to get it out the window.

280
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I managed to patch the wall.

281
00:14:26,296 --> 00:14:32,796
I don't even know why it came in or why it
chose to come in on the ground level and

282
00:14:32,796 --> 00:14:34,496
then scale to the...

283
00:14:34,496 --> 00:14:37,374
ceiling for it to just be clear on the
outside.

284
00:14:37,374 --> 00:14:41,074
But, you know, it was a lot of fun.

285
00:14:41,074 --> 00:14:41,918
Thank you.

286
00:14:41,918 --> 00:14:46,428
also tell the people how you found out
that it was inside the house.

287
00:14:46,622 --> 00:14:53,062
our board member wants a screenshot of
Helen's group meeting at her house.

288
00:14:53,322 --> 00:14:57,322
She said, we think there's a blind car in
the house.

289
00:14:57,842 --> 00:14:59,272
That's a cool one.

290
00:14:59,272 --> 00:15:00,102
That's a good one.

291
00:15:00,102 --> 00:15:07,062
I'm just going to go run through the
drawing as it works.

292
00:15:07,202 --> 00:15:09,364
So we're as surprised as we are in the
house.

293
00:15:09,364 --> 00:15:13,444
So good thing I didn't accuse him like I
was planning on.

294
00:15:14,330 --> 00:15:20,310
Also, Chris, as we're still having to edit
this report, he makes me happy when I see

295
00:15:20,310 --> 00:15:21,190
the plan.

296
00:15:21,190 --> 00:15:21,750
OK.

297
00:15:21,750 --> 00:15:22,530
Yeah.

298
00:15:22,530 --> 00:15:23,610
Yeah.

299
00:15:23,610 --> 00:15:29,250
He's not going at this time of the year
because he's not going to be able his job.

300
00:15:29,250 --> 00:15:32,590
The side of the afternoon, he's going to
be sleeping at the same time as I do, but

301
00:15:32,590 --> 00:15:34,510
I'm going to pull over to the hospital.

302
00:15:34,510 --> 00:15:35,450
How?

303
00:15:35,450 --> 00:15:36,610
Super -fast.

304
00:15:36,610 --> 00:15:37,090
Right.

305
00:15:37,090 --> 00:15:39,998
So I'm going to go to bed and then I'm
going to sleep.

306
00:15:40,832 --> 00:15:45,772
Reviews imaginable every place that is
open to me on the internet

307
00:15:50,906 --> 00:15:57,066
I have already looked this person's
business up obviously and he has great

308
00:15:57,066 --> 00:16:02,746
reviews but all of the reviews that he has
that are good are because he shows up for

309
00:16:02,746 --> 00:16:04,026
emergencies.

310
00:16:04,026 --> 00:16:08,446
So like people will be like my toilet is
flooding my house and so -and -so showed

311
00:16:08,446 --> 00:16:09,352
up like

312
00:16:09,352 --> 00:16:10,322
like, you know, really.

313
00:16:10,322 --> 00:16:11,642
an hour or whatever.

314
00:16:11,642 --> 00:16:18,162
And so he clearly prioritizes the money,
like going to these houses and making the

315
00:16:18,162 --> 00:16:19,322
money.

316
00:16:19,362 --> 00:16:24,062
And Steph and his dad very kind and her
dad very kindly, like trusted him because

317
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he's done other houses.

318
00:16:25,282 --> 00:16:29,482
And so he's had the money and is just
like, I'm going to take my sweet time and

319
00:16:29,482 --> 00:16:34,822
take all these other effing jobs and just
totally screw these people over that are

320
00:16:34,822 --> 00:16:36,222
trying to sell this house.

321
00:16:36,222 --> 00:16:37,476
I'm livid about it.

322
00:16:37,476 --> 00:16:38,376
it.

323
00:16:38,376 --> 00:16:42,042
And gets more and more people to recognize
him as he has a problem.

324
00:16:42,042 --> 00:16:44,072
or hasn't done what it is that he's
supposed to do.

325
00:16:44,072 --> 00:16:46,142
He makes excuses left and right.

326
00:16:46,142 --> 00:16:47,642
It's an absolute joke.

327
00:16:47,642 --> 00:16:50,522
He's despicable as a business person.

328
00:16:50,522 --> 00:16:55,644
Could be a really nice human in his real
life, business -wise, despite him.

329
00:16:55,644 --> 00:16:59,964
I also want to say that I was on TV
because of Julie.

330
00:16:59,964 --> 00:17:02,784
The situation was really terrible when we
were together.

331
00:17:03,264 --> 00:17:08,804
And Julie used to work at the Attorney
General's office when she was in college.

332
00:17:08,804 --> 00:17:09,976
And we're together.

333
00:17:09,976 --> 00:17:13,936
jobs was to work on consumer protection
related issues.

334
00:17:13,936 --> 00:17:18,816
So if a business was scamming somebody or
not following through on whatever they'd

335
00:17:18,816 --> 00:17:19,916
been paid to do.

336
00:17:19,916 --> 00:17:23,276
And she said, when Stephanie is ready, you
let me know.

337
00:17:23,276 --> 00:17:25,816
And we are going to report this to the AG.

338
00:17:25,816 --> 00:17:28,866
And I'm going to make sure that it gets
escalated every single which way it can.

339
00:17:28,866 --> 00:17:32,226
And I was like, I didn't even think of
pulling that lever.

340
00:17:33,130 --> 00:17:35,364
if you're listening, I love you.

341
00:17:35,848 --> 00:17:40,228
the other news is that we got an offer and
then a week later they got cold feet and

342
00:17:40,228 --> 00:17:41,148
backed out.

343
00:17:41,148 --> 00:17:45,748
So, I haven't been baking, which is
usually my like stress thing.

344
00:17:45,748 --> 00:17:48,828
Instead, I've been watching a lot of
farrier videos, which if you're not a

345
00:17:48,828 --> 00:17:56,288
horse girl, TM, then you don't know that
that is a profession that, is sort of like

346
00:17:56,288 --> 00:17:57,528
a nail technician.

347
00:17:57,528 --> 00:17:58,468
Yep.

348
00:17:59,528 --> 00:18:03,548
takes off the old horseshoes, basically
trims down the hooves.

349
00:18:04,008 --> 00:18:07,388
builds, you know, a few bunches of
themselves.

350
00:18:07,388 --> 00:18:10,448
And I think that's what I love about my
job.

351
00:18:10,448 --> 00:18:16,668
I work for Daniel and I work for all the
other doctors and I love to have friends

352
00:18:16,668 --> 00:18:18,408
that work on my team.

353
00:18:18,408 --> 00:18:24,688
There was a film called, I just put this
aside, I went to the psychologist's home,

354
00:18:24,768 --> 00:18:27,268
and there was all there was.

355
00:18:27,886 --> 00:18:28,866
pretty out there.

356
00:18:28,866 --> 00:18:30,406
She was like pretty bizarre.

357
00:18:30,406 --> 00:18:34,046
Looking back on it, I think she was
probably on the spectrum, but like none of

358
00:18:34,046 --> 00:18:35,666
us really knew what that was.

359
00:18:35,666 --> 00:18:39,546
And she would just like blurt out stuff
all the time and was like super awkward

360
00:18:39,546 --> 00:18:41,306
and also had terrible skin.

361
00:18:41,306 --> 00:18:44,404
Like she just didn't have anything really
going for her.

362
00:18:46,572 --> 00:18:47,174
Okay, pun.

363
00:18:47,174 --> 00:18:52,874
in our yearbook, I will never forget this,
was something along the lines of like,

364
00:18:52,874 --> 00:18:54,604
everyone should love horse people.

365
00:18:54,604 --> 00:18:56,934
They're such stable people.

366
00:18:57,834 --> 00:18:59,314
And I will never forget it.

367
00:18:59,314 --> 00:19:03,910
And that's from like 1998, 1999 that I'm
calling that back right now.

368
00:19:05,824 --> 00:19:07,564
a great fun.

369
00:19:18,643 --> 00:19:24,624
Well, as a quick aside there, if you are
into calming farrier videos, there is a

370
00:19:24,624 --> 00:19:28,124
guy out of the UK who is tattooed at the
wazoo.

371
00:19:28,124 --> 00:19:30,704
He's always got bear shirt sleeves.

372
00:19:30,804 --> 00:19:31,864
Yeah, very.

373
00:19:31,864 --> 00:19:32,816
It's.

374
00:19:36,412 --> 00:19:37,872
apparently attractive.

375
00:19:37,872 --> 00:19:40,092
You're like downplaying that part.

376
00:19:42,448 --> 00:19:43,914
Yeah, for sure.

377
00:19:43,914 --> 00:19:44,354
okay.

378
00:19:44,354 --> 00:19:48,594
I just want to make well also you have to
catch people up on like you're actually

379
00:19:48,594 --> 00:19:52,756
like getting to like the query part of
things.

380
00:19:52,756 --> 00:20:02,216
wrote a really poop level version first
draft, but I needed to get it out.

381
00:20:02,216 --> 00:20:06,336
Just like as like, let's just attempt
this.

382
00:20:06,336 --> 00:20:08,356
I didn't read the email you sent with.

383
00:20:08,356 --> 00:20:10,616
they're called first drafts for a reason.

384
00:20:10,616 --> 00:20:13,316
Everybody has that same feeling about
something important.

385
00:20:13,316 --> 00:20:15,216
I always feel that way about updating my
resume.

386
00:20:15,216 --> 00:20:17,436
We're like, good Lord, this is going to be
bad.

387
00:20:17,436 --> 00:20:19,706
You just, as you said, have to like purge
it.

388
00:20:19,706 --> 00:20:22,716
So you have something to mold and shape.

389
00:20:22,936 --> 00:20:27,456
Steph has been listening to these podcasts
where agents will like live review query

390
00:20:27,456 --> 00:20:30,744
letters and she sent me a few so I could
better understand how it works.

391
00:20:30,744 --> 00:20:34,544
timeout it's called the shit no one tells
you about writing and you should listen if

392
00:20:34,544 --> 00:20:36,052
you're a aspiring writer.

393
00:20:36,052 --> 00:20:36,602
really good.

394
00:20:36,602 --> 00:20:39,772
I found it fascinating, even though I
don't have a query letter to write.

395
00:20:39,772 --> 00:20:44,952
So I had all of that info in my brain when
I was reading your first draft.

396
00:20:44,952 --> 00:20:52,332
I think you nailed the structure in terms
of what needs to be included, how you made

397
00:20:52,332 --> 00:20:56,852
it clear why it's a dual point of view
story and why there needs to be both of

398
00:20:56,852 --> 00:20:58,171
those voices separately.

399
00:20:58,171 --> 00:21:02,640
And I loved the tidbit you included about
yourself.

400
00:21:02,878 --> 00:21:06,458
I think that's important to know who you
are as a person, who you do outside of

401
00:21:06,458 --> 00:21:07,298
credit.

402
00:21:07,578 --> 00:21:10,304
And you'll see in a little bit.

403
00:21:10,304 --> 00:21:11,144
Doc.

404
00:21:11,524 --> 00:21:16,984
I also wrote a version under your version
if I was going to be the one to write it

405
00:21:16,984 --> 00:21:17,574
about this book.

406
00:21:17,574 --> 00:21:20,334
So you'll see what you think about my
attempt.

407
00:21:20,334 --> 00:21:25,754
I'm sure it's fantastic because you
haven't met, at least with our viewers,

408
00:21:25,754 --> 00:21:31,754
three times though, of any of the
premieres that were sent for the time of

409
00:21:31,754 --> 00:21:36,194
the time to a finance or a credit unit.

410
00:21:36,394 --> 00:21:37,412
Yeah.

411
00:21:37,412 --> 00:21:41,052
you're listening to this podcast for the
very first time ever right now, I work in

412
00:21:41,052 --> 00:21:45,832
public relations, which could be
summarized as synthesizing someone's

413
00:21:45,832 --> 00:21:47,722
business down into one paragraph.

414
00:21:47,722 --> 00:21:52,352
That's like essentially what my job is to
distill what a company does into an email

415
00:21:52,352 --> 00:21:56,312
sized version for a reporter to be
interested in talking about it.

416
00:21:56,312 --> 00:21:58,562
So in this instance,

417
00:21:58,562 --> 00:22:00,202
what we want to do.

418
00:22:00,202 --> 00:22:02,312
Is what I think is what we have to do.

419
00:22:02,312 --> 00:22:06,096
And also, I have a place to say that I
have an idea of doing.

420
00:22:06,096 --> 00:22:07,656
nugget is of that story.

421
00:22:07,656 --> 00:22:10,716
And I'll be curious what you think when
you have a chance to read it, but I'm

422
00:22:10,716 --> 00:22:14,436
excited that we're at this stage of the
process because I feel like this is the

423
00:22:14,436 --> 00:22:18,656
point where it goes from a thing that's
been living in your head, a thing that we

424
00:22:18,656 --> 00:22:22,056
have read and shared feedback and it
becomes something that now is like out in

425
00:22:22,056 --> 00:22:26,656
the world for potential acquisition, which
is awesome.

426
00:22:27,328 --> 00:22:28,108
that is exciting.

427
00:22:28,108 --> 00:22:33,296
I think the problem for me is that at this
point it has been in my head for...

428
00:22:33,672 --> 00:22:38,692
I've been doing six, seven years, so I've
developed such a problem in my streets.

429
00:22:38,692 --> 00:22:44,152
I have to do it after eight, every single
word of support, every single platform of

430
00:22:44,152 --> 00:22:49,961
support, it needs to be looked at what is
truly important, just for the agent.

431
00:22:49,961 --> 00:22:55,382
agents to get on board and have such
trouble figuring out what place they're

432
00:22:55,382 --> 00:22:59,122
having to go to to track someone through
the story.

433
00:22:59,582 --> 00:23:01,762
Because I know how much you've been
through.

434
00:23:01,762 --> 00:23:03,052
Also, beautiful shoes.

435
00:23:03,052 --> 00:23:08,092
the submission process, usually the agents
have like a specific number of pages or

436
00:23:08,092 --> 00:23:10,892
like a word count that they want to see
with your first submission.

437
00:23:10,892 --> 00:23:13,532
So it's almost like a cover letter and
then your resume, right?

438
00:23:13,532 --> 00:23:16,092
You have to like whet their appetite and
then you give them a little bit something

439
00:23:16,092 --> 00:23:16,362
more.

440
00:23:16,362 --> 00:23:21,432
So my hope is that not only does the query
letter make them go like, interesting, but

441
00:23:21,432 --> 00:23:25,332
also then they read the first however many
pages that you're going to share and then

442
00:23:25,332 --> 00:23:25,544
I'll.

443
00:23:25,544 --> 00:23:29,964
That'll make it so that the more that you
wish you could include will start to come

444
00:23:29,964 --> 00:23:30,964
through.

445
00:23:31,100 --> 00:23:34,300
didn't do this purposefully, obviously,
because I was not thinking about the query

446
00:23:34,300 --> 00:23:35,600
when I started writing.

447
00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,660
But for the agents, so usually it's either
five or 10 pages.

448
00:23:39,660 --> 00:23:43,840
And if their submission is 10 pages, then
they're going to get a chapter from each

449
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,420
of the perspectives, because somehow I
managed to write basically five pages of

450
00:23:48,420 --> 00:23:49,300
each.

451
00:23:49,800 --> 00:23:53,162
So hopefully, hopefully someone loves it
when it's time.

452
00:23:53,162 --> 00:23:55,922
If you're listening to this, you'll be
able to do it in a way that's basically

453
00:23:55,922 --> 00:23:58,362
the first time you're taking this into
account.

454
00:23:58,362 --> 00:24:00,308
And so, I hope that you'll do that.

455
00:24:00,308 --> 00:24:02,488
to happen in 2024.

456
00:24:02,528 --> 00:24:06,228
I just really feel like this is the one
I've read every single book that Stephanie

457
00:24:06,228 --> 00:24:06,738
has written.

458
00:24:06,738 --> 00:24:08,888
And this is the best one by far.

459
00:24:08,888 --> 00:24:11,148
And I feel like it deserves this.

460
00:24:11,148 --> 00:24:14,948
So if you're listening, just put all the
good vibes out there.

461
00:24:16,318 --> 00:24:20,938
a movie script that I also really want to
come to fruition at some point.

462
00:24:21,138 --> 00:24:25,196
Well, there's one that's my favorite,
which you know, and...

463
00:24:25,196 --> 00:24:25,756
All right.

464
00:24:25,756 --> 00:24:26,616
I'm not here.

465
00:24:26,616 --> 00:24:28,206
I want to just say.

466
00:24:28,206 --> 00:24:32,866
as like maybe like an eight or 10 episode
mini series, all normal people, maybe.

467
00:24:32,866 --> 00:24:38,066
So I've wanted that to come to fruition
for a long time.

468
00:24:38,066 --> 00:24:43,010
And this is my number two thing that I
want for you.

469
00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:47,980
actually think this week in order to
distract myself from not being under

470
00:24:47,980 --> 00:24:51,460
contract, I'm going to start a first draft
of something, probably one of the

471
00:24:51,460 --> 00:24:53,176
manuscripts, turn it into a book.

472
00:24:53,176 --> 00:24:53,676
Great.

473
00:24:53,676 --> 00:24:56,196
And it's not going something I want to
write.

474
00:24:56,356 --> 00:25:00,046
But listen, just let this dress run.

475
00:25:00,046 --> 00:25:01,256
This is how I want it.

476
00:25:01,256 --> 00:25:02,656
I'm start the dress.

477
00:25:02,716 --> 00:25:03,718
Or what?

478
00:25:03,718 --> 00:25:06,358
I'm up for a ramen date at some point, if
you'd be interested.

479
00:25:06,358 --> 00:25:12,478
It's going to end of the week is rain
actually, which is too bad.

480
00:25:12,718 --> 00:25:13,298
all right.

481
00:25:13,298 --> 00:25:18,298
So my catch up is I put an offer in on a
house, didn't get it.

482
00:25:18,658 --> 00:25:21,424
Still on the hunt for a house.

483
00:25:21,424 --> 00:25:23,834
The Massachusetts market is crazy.

484
00:25:23,834 --> 00:25:24,744
That's the name.

485
00:25:24,744 --> 00:25:27,704
So we're going to see if we can just do
this new thing.

486
00:25:28,004 --> 00:25:33,224
How they can bring that life to life and
make it seem like it's a common property.

487
00:25:34,064 --> 00:25:39,582
So you have to go to an ad hoc again and
make an offer by 5 PM on Tuesday.

488
00:25:39,582 --> 00:25:43,422
Monday and then like hold your breath and
hope you get it and hope that somebody

489
00:25:43,422 --> 00:25:48,842
didn't come in with cash or somebody
didn't waive the inspection or whatever.

490
00:25:48,942 --> 00:25:51,676
It's pretty cutthroat, didn't get it.

491
00:25:51,676 --> 00:25:53,876
Can I interject for one second?

492
00:25:54,376 --> 00:25:59,716
I would recommend to someone who has no
house knowledge whatsoever, do not waive

493
00:25:59,716 --> 00:26:00,706
your house inspection.

494
00:26:00,706 --> 00:26:06,656
But saying that, I also need you to know
that not all inspectors are equal.

495
00:26:06,656 --> 00:26:08,744
We just had a house inspection done.

496
00:26:08,744 --> 00:26:10,404
And we don't lie.

497
00:26:10,444 --> 00:26:12,584
Two quarters of that was worship.

498
00:26:12,584 --> 00:26:16,104
For example, send it to the leaders of the
party.

499
00:26:16,104 --> 00:26:19,424
Well, if the other people too close, they
have a problem with them.

500
00:26:19,424 --> 00:26:24,374
I had said, well, if you talk, all you
have to do is try to talk and all of you,

501
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:25,404
the heat works.

502
00:26:25,404 --> 00:26:29,148
So just know from the beginning, not all
of you are supposed to be a party.

503
00:26:29,148 --> 00:26:29,508
equal.

504
00:26:29,508 --> 00:26:34,610
Find one that has either great reviews or
someone you know use them.

505
00:26:44,890 --> 00:26:50,530
So my real estate agent came up with this
like compromise that I actually really

506
00:26:50,530 --> 00:26:55,930
liked Where we put a number on the
inspection so I put in the offer which was

507
00:26:55,930 --> 00:27:00,366
above asking and I said I'd like to do an
exploratory inspection

508
00:27:00,366 --> 00:27:05,666
and I won't hold the buyers to any of it
unless it exceeds $20 ,000.

509
00:27:06,246 --> 00:27:12,806
Which the seller's agent came back and
said that she actually thought that that

510
00:27:12,806 --> 00:27:20,126
made mine be a higher on the list
potential offer.

511
00:27:20,606 --> 00:27:26,106
I kind of like living in that land because
then if you're talking a septic system or

512
00:27:26,106 --> 00:27:28,386
the furnace is trash or what, you know
what I mean?

513
00:27:28,386 --> 00:27:30,406
Then they have to do it.

514
00:27:30,508 --> 00:27:36,108
But it's like 10 things that like I've
been shipped away at, that were kind of

515
00:27:36,108 --> 00:27:41,468
not fish, but the houses that we live in
and like whatever that is in there.

516
00:27:41,468 --> 00:27:43,848
That's what I consider weird there.

517
00:27:43,948 --> 00:27:46,916
So that's kind of like where I'm at with
that.

518
00:27:46,916 --> 00:27:51,496
I'm spending a lot of time in the United
States right now because I think I was

519
00:27:51,496 --> 00:27:52,876
making a lot of progress.

520
00:27:52,876 --> 00:27:54,756
I had a lot of travel to do.

521
00:27:54,756 --> 00:27:55,382
I had a lot

522
00:27:55,382 --> 00:27:57,202
a lot of golf that I want to play.

523
00:27:57,202 --> 00:27:59,662
I want to see my parents on the Cape a
bunch.

524
00:27:59,662 --> 00:28:03,382
And I'm just not going to be around as
much to like do this house hunting.

525
00:28:03,382 --> 00:28:08,642
So I kind of am like putting a hard stop
on it at the end of June and like giving

526
00:28:08,642 --> 00:28:10,322
myself a break.

527
00:28:11,282 --> 00:28:12,982
that being said, I'm going to one this
afternoon.

528
00:28:12,982 --> 00:28:15,981
So like, watch that be the one that would
be hilarious and I would love it.

529
00:28:15,981 --> 00:28:18,982
But anyway, so my hard stop is June.

530
00:28:18,982 --> 00:28:23,522
Every time I put a hard stop on something,
like when I was applying to teaching jobs,

531
00:28:23,522 --> 00:28:26,532
I was like, I'm giving myself this
timeline of.

532
00:28:26,532 --> 00:28:27,292
whatever.

533
00:28:27,292 --> 00:28:31,232
Something that usually seems to happen,
like in the first lessons.

534
00:28:31,412 --> 00:28:34,732
So I'm saying this out loud, I was talking
about gym, I'm a gym.

535
00:28:35,092 --> 00:28:40,992
I have basically like a week left of
teaching, so this is kind of like a crazy

536
00:28:40,992 --> 00:28:43,254
time where I'm not finding it anymore.

537
00:28:43,254 --> 00:28:46,514
and we like kind of fill class time with
fun stuff.

538
00:28:46,514 --> 00:28:50,734
But then I also am like submitting my
grades and it's like a little chaotic.

539
00:28:50,734 --> 00:28:53,286
And then...

540
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,860
had a huge celebration at my school last
night because this is the 100th

541
00:28:57,860 --> 00:28:59,980
anniversary of this whole being open.

542
00:28:59,980 --> 00:29:07,780
So we had this crazy banana centennial
celebration that was Gap Beavent.

543
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,380
And they had people park off site.

544
00:29:10,380 --> 00:29:13,338
They had coach buses to like,

545
00:29:13,338 --> 00:29:15,798
were 450 people at this event.

546
00:29:15,798 --> 00:29:17,318
It was alums.

547
00:29:17,318 --> 00:29:20,488
It was like previous faculty, retired
faculty.

548
00:29:20,488 --> 00:29:23,334
The previous head of school came like.

549
00:29:23,478 --> 00:29:25,498
there were places to be there.

550
00:29:25,678 --> 00:29:30,878
And if you work at the school and you're
like required to sign up for a shift or

551
00:29:30,878 --> 00:29:34,578
day in some way, this is where my first
movie goes fast.

552
00:29:34,578 --> 00:29:35,694
I have three events.

553
00:29:35,694 --> 00:29:41,934
-event activity in which I was supposed to
call former faculty and invite them and

554
00:29:41,934 --> 00:29:44,764
let them know like, hey, did you get our
flyer or our email?

555
00:29:44,764 --> 00:29:48,274
Like, do you want to come to the
centennial celebration?

556
00:29:48,314 --> 00:29:49,670
And...

557
00:29:49,934 --> 00:29:54,674
There was a window of like making the
phone calls between May 13th and May 17th

558
00:29:54,674 --> 00:29:57,534
and the email went out to sign up for a
job on May 14th.

559
00:29:57,534 --> 00:30:01,054
So already a day was gone by and I was
like, hmm, okay.

560
00:30:01,054 --> 00:30:02,014
Signed up for it.

561
00:30:02,014 --> 00:30:04,994
Do you think a single person gave me a
list of phone numbers of people I was

562
00:30:04,994 --> 00:30:05,544
supposed to call?

563
00:30:05,544 --> 00:30:06,153
Absolutely not.

564
00:30:06,153 --> 00:30:08,794
I did nothing for the centennial
celebration.

565
00:30:08,794 --> 00:30:09,804
Thrilled about it.

566
00:30:09,804 --> 00:30:11,834
Bragged about it to everybody I knew.

567
00:30:11,834 --> 00:30:13,654
I was like, I did nothing.

568
00:30:13,654 --> 00:30:19,090
Meanwhile, my friends had to like man the
photo booth or be a greeter at the door.

569
00:30:19,090 --> 00:30:24,030
Or towards the end of the night, they'll
have people like, handing out like,

570
00:30:25,792 --> 00:30:26,992
colored board games.

571
00:30:26,992 --> 00:30:30,744
And like, and you're gonna have a school
walk in, and it's gonna have to be like,

572
00:30:30,744 --> 00:30:31,494
what have you.

573
00:30:31,494 --> 00:30:34,054
And so it was ridiculous.

574
00:30:34,254 --> 00:30:36,474
So my friends and I, it was open bar.

575
00:30:36,474 --> 00:30:40,774
There was one, I actually thought the food
setup was dumb.

576
00:30:40,774 --> 00:30:44,374
I would not have planned it the way that
they did it, but it was in our gymnasium

577
00:30:44,374 --> 00:30:48,092
and they rented all these couches and
furniture.

578
00:30:48,092 --> 00:30:49,392
plants.

579
00:30:49,432 --> 00:30:51,492
And like, we didn't even know what we were
doing.

580
00:30:51,492 --> 00:30:53,792
a gym or anything ridiculous.

581
00:30:53,792 --> 00:31:00,372
And it had a jazzy quartet band singing
pop classes.

582
00:31:01,252 --> 00:31:04,072
And it was very nice.

583
00:31:04,072 --> 00:31:06,802
There was an ice sculpture at the bar.

584
00:31:06,802 --> 00:31:08,910
It was like the...

585
00:31:08,910 --> 00:31:10,100
logo of the school.

586
00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:11,530
Like it was swanky.

587
00:31:11,530 --> 00:31:15,370
It felt like a very, very fancy bar
mitzvah basically.

588
00:31:15,370 --> 00:31:16,485
So.

589
00:31:17,206 --> 00:31:24,266
the food station one food station was they
had like already scooped bowls out of

590
00:31:24,266 --> 00:31:29,746
these items and so there was like some
kind of sweet potato concoction that was

591
00:31:29,746 --> 00:31:35,286
like had also like earth and like some
kind of like you could scoop it with like

592
00:31:35,286 --> 00:31:38,838
a chair kind of thing and then they also
had yoghurt with them.

593
00:31:38,838 --> 00:31:39,618
pesto.

594
00:31:39,618 --> 00:31:42,498
So those were like the bowls you could
grab at the one station.

595
00:31:42,498 --> 00:31:44,798
And then the other station was.

596
00:31:44,798 --> 00:31:48,158
every plant is usually possibly a happy
plant.

597
00:31:48,158 --> 00:31:49,268
It was great.

598
00:31:49,268 --> 00:31:52,498
I had the idea of putting one for the
first time in my life.

599
00:31:53,138 --> 00:31:58,898
And also they had, I thought it was shrimp
cocktail of course, but shrimp were

600
00:31:58,898 --> 00:32:05,458
grilled, but it still had like some kind
of like cocktail sauce in it like you went

601
00:32:05,458 --> 00:32:06,354
through there.

602
00:32:06,354 --> 00:32:08,034
So that was all seafood.

603
00:32:08,034 --> 00:32:11,628
And then there were some past appetizers,
but I didn't really...

604
00:32:11,628 --> 00:32:13,772
don't think we could have a good price to
try.

605
00:32:13,772 --> 00:32:15,152
of object is that.

606
00:32:15,152 --> 00:32:22,072
And then there's the cast dessert, so
there was like a fruit sorbet, a banana

607
00:32:22,072 --> 00:32:23,352
pudding.

608
00:32:25,310 --> 00:32:30,160
mini whoopie pies that were on a tray of
rainbow sprinkles.

609
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:34,530
So if you were a sprinkle person, you
could roll your mini whoopie pie around in

610
00:32:34,530 --> 00:32:38,086
it, which I have to say rainbow sprinkles
as like a...

611
00:32:38,376 --> 00:32:39,130
I fountain.

612
00:32:39,130 --> 00:32:40,610
like a setting on a thing.

613
00:32:40,610 --> 00:32:44,110
I'm going to steal that for a party at
some point because it was like so festive

614
00:32:44,110 --> 00:32:44,650
looking.

615
00:32:44,650 --> 00:32:52,330
And then in the corner, they had two
people doing cotton candy that one flavor

616
00:32:52,330 --> 00:32:57,090
was rose or rose and the other was
champagne, which I hate cotton candy and I

617
00:32:57,090 --> 00:32:59,028
didn't eat it, but it was very fancy.

618
00:33:01,422 --> 00:33:02,882
No, no chocolate fountain.

619
00:33:02,882 --> 00:33:04,012
Nope, didn't have one.

620
00:33:04,012 --> 00:33:05,486
No fountains of anything.

621
00:33:06,224 --> 00:33:11,204
going to say something and you can make me
edit it out if you think that it's not

622
00:33:11,204 --> 00:33:12,664
appropriate for this.

623
00:33:13,304 --> 00:33:14,204
Okay.

624
00:33:14,684 --> 00:33:22,964
I wish that instead of spending money on
silly frivolous things, they thought

625
00:33:22,964 --> 00:33:29,144
harder about retaining talent that can
bring their students up to a level.

626
00:33:29,144 --> 00:33:32,258
where they will then go on to high school
and succeed.

627
00:33:32,288 --> 00:33:37,748
like the theme of my kind of music video
was why this was special.

628
00:33:38,427 --> 00:33:39,168
It's fine.

629
00:33:39,168 --> 00:33:40,648
It doesn't look special.

630
00:33:40,648 --> 00:33:42,108
I mean, please.

631
00:33:42,428 --> 00:33:43,948
Why this was special.

632
00:33:43,948 --> 00:33:47,388
And how it was going to affect my music
speeches, all this.

633
00:33:47,388 --> 00:33:49,248
It was, you know, whatever.

634
00:33:49,788 --> 00:33:55,048
I will say, if you weren't a fan of the
number, it was $200 ago.

635
00:33:56,667 --> 00:33:58,596
And...

636
00:33:58,743 --> 00:34:04,964
So I would say out of the 450 people,
there are probably at least 100 people

637
00:34:04,964 --> 00:34:09,004
that have to pay because we don't work in
an event, quote unquote.

638
00:34:09,624 --> 00:34:11,676
So they have to go pay after the balance.

639
00:34:11,676 --> 00:34:16,796
The event easily exceeded $35 .20, which
is really nice.

640
00:34:16,796 --> 00:34:22,176
And the event was probably set up just
based on what I had in mind.

641
00:34:23,076 --> 00:34:27,354
It was a complete open bar with a high
shower of water.

642
00:34:27,498 --> 00:34:28,238
like.

643
00:34:28,238 --> 00:34:31,178
This was an expensive prospect.

644
00:34:31,318 --> 00:34:36,578
I get that the school is a hundred years
old, but like, and I've, you know, like at

645
00:34:36,578 --> 00:34:40,458
an event like that, I was like, there's
going to be like some fundraising aspect

646
00:34:40,458 --> 00:34:42,828
to it where there will be like a silent
auction or something.

647
00:34:42,828 --> 00:34:44,218
No, there was nothing like that.

648
00:34:44,218 --> 00:34:47,658
There was no like open your checkbook kind
of thing for the school.

649
00:34:47,658 --> 00:34:50,938
So they just were like shelling out money
for this event.

650
00:34:50,938 --> 00:34:53,438
And then I was standing with my friends.

651
00:34:53,438 --> 00:34:57,180
We're about to do an English department
photo in the photo booth.

652
00:34:57,838 --> 00:35:03,698
all of a sudden this very loud, aggressive
hissing sound starts.

653
00:35:03,698 --> 00:35:06,558
I'm like ready to like go like to the
cocktail and look at it.

654
00:35:06,558 --> 00:35:09,378
I mean I do it in college school for like
a million pairs, like I've seen some

655
00:35:09,378 --> 00:35:10,378
things.

656
00:35:10,458 --> 00:35:14,198
All of a sudden, it's like, it's a huge
loud hissing sound.

657
00:35:14,198 --> 00:35:17,618
We're like, are we, are the sprinklers
about to go off when everybody's in this

658
00:35:17,618 --> 00:35:19,138
very fancy party?

659
00:35:19,538 --> 00:35:19,938
no.

660
00:35:19,938 --> 00:35:24,878
All of a sudden, from every corner of your
room, confetti cans.

661
00:35:24,890 --> 00:35:26,480
we didn't even know were there.

662
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,680
started chewing on the places, where was
covered an interesting confetti?

663
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:33,180
It was hot.

664
00:35:33,180 --> 00:35:38,060
There was a cop that was at the end of the
park, I don't know what happened, or this

665
00:35:38,060 --> 00:35:43,550
guy who was there, and he was sitting
there and like, because he was like,

666
00:35:43,550 --> 00:35:45,800
please, don't do this to me, I don't you.

667
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,370
I just was like, what is this guy?

668
00:35:48,370 --> 00:35:49,390
It was hot.

669
00:35:49,390 --> 00:35:53,630
wild because we had just sang to school
happy birthday which I thought was the

670
00:35:53,630 --> 00:35:56,243
corny song that I had heard twice in my
life

671
00:36:00,312 --> 00:36:11,592
will say as someone who plans a lot of
events for the nonprofits that I volunteer

672
00:36:11,592 --> 00:36:16,072
with, I'm not surprised to hear that they
didn't solicit people while you were

673
00:36:16,072 --> 00:36:19,144
there, but their hope for sure.

674
00:36:19,144 --> 00:36:21,164
is that people had an amazing time.

675
00:36:21,164 --> 00:36:26,004
They walked away feeling closer to the
school, like they have this tightened,

676
00:36:26,004 --> 00:36:30,564
strengthened bond, and the next time they
solicit them, whether that's one -on -one

677
00:36:30,564 --> 00:36:34,324
or the next time the parents are all
together or whatever it is, surely they

678
00:36:34,324 --> 00:36:37,024
will be asking them for more money, I
guarantee it.

679
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:42,880
If you can afford for confetti cannons,
you can afford to pay an English teacher

680
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,366
full time.

681
00:36:44,366 --> 00:36:46,606
I think it was more than four.

682
00:36:47,006 --> 00:36:50,086
I mean, this is like a double -sized
gymnasium.

683
00:36:50,086 --> 00:36:51,260
It's huge.

684
00:36:51,260 --> 00:36:55,380
in the fact that like they paid for buses,
they had all these branded elements, like

685
00:36:55,380 --> 00:36:59,180
if I were you, knowing everything that
you've gone through, I think even just

686
00:36:59,180 --> 00:37:01,500
seeing like the ice sculpture would have
sent me over the edge.

687
00:37:01,500 --> 00:37:02,774
There's just like...

688
00:37:02,774 --> 00:37:04,754
I took photos and sent it to my family.

689
00:37:04,754 --> 00:37:07,574
I was like, this is what I'm dealing with
right now.

690
00:37:07,574 --> 00:37:11,454
Thank God I didn't actually have to work
at the event because I would have lost it.

691
00:37:11,454 --> 00:37:16,514
And also one of my colleagues is a long
-term sub and he just was like under the

692
00:37:16,514 --> 00:37:20,014
assumption that he did not have to attend
this because he hasn't been a full -time

693
00:37:20,014 --> 00:37:21,094
faculty member.

694
00:37:21,094 --> 00:37:24,074
And our boss told him that he was expected
to be there.

695
00:37:24,074 --> 00:37:27,704
So in the 11th hour, he had to go into the
like shift.

696
00:37:27,704 --> 00:37:32,464
spreadsheet and sign up for a bar which
started at 9pm.

697
00:37:32,624 --> 00:37:34,024
It was wild.

698
00:37:34,024 --> 00:37:35,334
It was brilliant.

699
00:37:35,454 --> 00:37:39,374
There were a lot of people that came, did
what they had to do and then got out.

700
00:37:39,674 --> 00:37:40,774
It was crazy.

701
00:37:40,774 --> 00:37:41,524
It was crazy.

702
00:37:41,524 --> 00:37:50,674
I've never been to an event like that and
it just was like very...

703
00:37:51,134 --> 00:37:52,754
Yeah, I was gonna say yucky.

704
00:37:52,754 --> 00:37:54,914
Wasteful is more posh.

705
00:37:54,954 --> 00:37:57,736
My issue with it...

706
00:37:57,736 --> 00:38:05,476
is that I try to expose myself and I try
to talk it full -fret here, like this is a

707
00:38:05,476 --> 00:38:06,236
protest.

708
00:38:06,236 --> 00:38:08,538
It's like...

709
00:38:08,538 --> 00:38:11,158
so unnecessary.

710
00:38:11,158 --> 00:38:15,338
And like everybody was just like patting
themselves on the backs at like how great

711
00:38:15,338 --> 00:38:15,778
we are.

712
00:38:15,778 --> 00:38:17,668
And I was like, we're not that great.

713
00:38:17,668 --> 00:38:19,638
Like honestly, we could be so much better.

714
00:38:19,638 --> 00:38:22,778
And then all these parents were asking me
why I'm not coming back next year.

715
00:38:22,778 --> 00:38:26,158
And I had to be like, well, they won't
give me health insurance as I'm in a

716
00:38:26,158 --> 00:38:27,361
cocktail dress.

717
00:38:27,361 --> 00:38:34,321
I break the free phallus with two syringes
in my hand, and I'm stripping on a

718
00:38:34,321 --> 00:38:34,921
prosthetic limb.

719
00:38:34,921 --> 00:38:37,061
And I'm like, why are they trying to use
the bed sheet?

720
00:38:37,061 --> 00:38:38,971
So I have to be like, I'm a life -saving
person.

721
00:38:38,971 --> 00:38:41,821
I'm a ruthless, economy therapist.

722
00:38:41,821 --> 00:38:43,441
It was ridiculous.

723
00:38:43,441 --> 00:38:45,621
And I was not carrying a concrete lie.

724
00:38:45,621 --> 00:38:47,261
I was not coming back.

725
00:38:47,341 --> 00:38:48,732
I have to say that I'm a

726
00:38:48,732 --> 00:38:53,160
that you're describing is reminding me a
lot of a show that

727
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,700
Steph watched and then I just binged and
we hope you're also going to binge called

728
00:38:56,700 --> 00:39:01,330
Maxson Hall, which is about a very preppy
school.

729
00:39:01,330 --> 00:39:03,020
It's not a boarding school.

730
00:39:03,020 --> 00:39:05,352
It's not private school.

731
00:39:05,352 --> 00:39:08,232
it takes, here's my just quick aside on
that.

732
00:39:08,232 --> 00:39:13,712
It takes place in England and yet they're
all speaking Dutch, German, Dutch.

733
00:39:14,032 --> 00:39:15,476
Not important, but.

734
00:39:15,476 --> 00:39:20,176
you like a gossip girl type vibe, if you
like these kinds of over the top rich

735
00:39:20,176 --> 00:39:23,516
people parties, Max and Hall has six
episodes.

736
00:39:23,516 --> 00:39:25,098
It's on Amazon prime.

737
00:39:25,528 --> 00:39:27,496
and they just got approved for season two.

738
00:39:27,496 --> 00:39:33,846
The lead gentleman is extremely handsome
and I think you won't regret it.

739
00:39:33,846 --> 00:39:37,636
And since it's fictional, hopefully it
won't give you the same ick vibe that

740
00:39:37,636 --> 00:39:41,996
hearing about this party just did, but
it's very much that like the big party for

741
00:39:41,996 --> 00:39:44,256
the donors and they have the students
involved.

742
00:39:44,256 --> 00:39:46,815
You didn't mention, but I'm sure it was
also part of it.

743
00:39:47,616 --> 00:39:49,656
yeah, it's very similar vibes.

744
00:39:49,656 --> 00:39:53,170
I have one more update for our listeners
before we get into the book of the day.

745
00:39:53,486 --> 00:39:56,646
I have one too that Steph and Molly don't
know about yet.

746
00:39:56,646 --> 00:39:58,146
Ha ha ha.

747
00:39:58,426 --> 00:39:59,346
Okay.

748
00:40:00,430 --> 00:40:06,450
So I was supposed to go to a taping of, I
was going to call it the Cold Bear Report,

749
00:40:06,450 --> 00:40:09,090
Late Night with Cold Bear, whatever his
show is called.

750
00:40:09,090 --> 00:40:14,170
And my dad passed away and the timing was
just like, I was like, I'm going to give

751
00:40:14,170 --> 00:40:14,810
up these tickets.

752
00:40:14,810 --> 00:40:15,970
It's just like not going to work.

753
00:40:15,970 --> 00:40:17,830
It doesn't make sense right now.

754
00:40:17,830 --> 00:40:23,270
So a week or so ago, I was like, I should
get on the wait list to try and go to Cold

755
00:40:23,270 --> 00:40:23,740
Bear again.

756
00:40:23,740 --> 00:40:25,738
Like I'm going to put my name on the list.

757
00:40:26,350 --> 00:40:31,690
So I put my name on the list and within 24
hours, they emailed me and said, we would

758
00:40:31,690 --> 00:40:38,590
love for you to come see a taping of
Colbert report this summer on July 11th.

759
00:40:38,690 --> 00:40:41,670
That date meant nothing to me at that
point in time.

760
00:40:41,670 --> 00:40:46,390
And 48 hours later, I found out that
that's when Trump will be sentenced.

761
00:40:46,470 --> 00:40:53,056
So the day that Trump gets his sentencing,
I will be at a taping of the Colbert show.

762
00:40:53,392 --> 00:40:56,400
And then that's what I'm going to say.

763
00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:02,610
and that weekend, the RAC is in the city,
which I also did not know.

764
00:41:02,610 --> 00:41:05,746
So it's going to be...

765
00:41:05,746 --> 00:41:07,266
bonkers USA.

766
00:41:07,266 --> 00:41:08,886
I'm so excited.

767
00:41:08,886 --> 00:41:12,086
It will probably be 200 degrees in the
city while I'm there.

768
00:41:12,086 --> 00:41:13,496
And I just don't even care.

769
00:41:13,496 --> 00:41:17,846
And I'm probably going to have the time of
my life.

770
00:41:17,846 --> 00:41:19,068
Like honestly.

771
00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:26,440
wait, before we get to that, I just want
to say that bonkers USA should be Trump's

772
00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,700
campaign slogan for the rest of the
campaign.

773
00:41:29,020 --> 00:41:32,576
Anyway, but yes, tell the people about why
we three are going to New York.

774
00:41:33,358 --> 00:41:36,438
Big, big, big news.

775
00:41:36,538 --> 00:41:42,738
For Molly's big four -o, we are going to
New York City and we are going to see

776
00:41:42,738 --> 00:41:48,178
Romeo and Juliet starring Kit Conner and
Rachel Ziegler.

777
00:41:48,998 --> 00:41:52,958
Steph is the only one of the three of us
that got a pre -sale code and she waited

778
00:41:52,958 --> 00:41:58,598
for five hours in the queue, Taylor Swift
style, to get the tickets.

779
00:41:58,598 --> 00:41:59,918
Bless her.

780
00:41:59,918 --> 00:42:02,580
The next day when the general on sale to
the public,

781
00:42:02,580 --> 00:42:10,600
lobby, I had only cushions and gifts, and
I got into the, I got into like five, it's

782
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:12,760
within three minutes, like I did.

783
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,660
But the truth is, it was five minutes
longer.

784
00:42:15,660 --> 00:42:21,900
So, the steps were like, just like
completely knocked out of our process and

785
00:42:21,900 --> 00:42:24,120
went out and onto my life.

786
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,928
In addition to this.

787
00:42:25,928 --> 00:42:28,488
Unreal theater performance, which I know
it will be.

788
00:42:28,488 --> 00:42:33,468
We're also going to try to go to 11
Madison Park, which I have been wanting to

789
00:42:33,468 --> 00:42:34,968
go to for years and years and years.

790
00:42:34,968 --> 00:42:40,988
If you aren't familiar, it's a restaurant
off of Madison Square Park and it always

791
00:42:40,988 --> 00:42:43,948
makes the list of the 50 best restaurants
in the world.

792
00:42:44,108 --> 00:42:47,568
There is just like a magic about that
place.

793
00:42:47,568 --> 00:42:48,978
I've watched documentaries about it.

794
00:42:48,978 --> 00:42:53,256
Like I'm far down the rabbit hole and they
decided about two years ago.

795
00:42:53,256 --> 00:42:55,916
to make their entire menu plant -based.

796
00:42:55,916 --> 00:42:58,936
So at first I was like, I don't know if I
should go, it might not be worth it

797
00:42:58,936 --> 00:43:01,456
because what if everything is like meaty?

798
00:43:01,456 --> 00:43:05,556
But hopefully we're gonna get an
incredible vegetarian feast as part of

799
00:43:05,556 --> 00:43:06,696
this New York weekend.

800
00:43:06,696 --> 00:43:11,036
So very excited and yes, huge thanks to
Steph for sitting in front of her laptop

801
00:43:11,036 --> 00:43:14,856
literally for five hours straight so that
we could go to this.

802
00:43:14,856 --> 00:43:19,896
Well, I was also on the other side of the
world and it was 1 a for me and I was like

803
00:43:19,896 --> 00:43:20,808
laying in the bed.

804
00:43:20,808 --> 00:43:23,728
following the text chain just to make sure
I could like give her any real -time

805
00:43:23,728 --> 00:43:27,708
answer that she needed while this was
happening but we made it we're in we have

806
00:43:27,708 --> 00:43:32,508
the tickets and obviously we'll recap it
for everybody when we come back in the

807
00:43:32,508 --> 00:43:37,848
fall but okay one final update before we
get into the book of the day which is to

808
00:43:37,848 --> 00:43:43,228
say that right before I was leaving for
this vacation we had decided to do a

809
00:43:43,228 --> 00:43:47,336
giveaway on our Instagram of a book by

810
00:43:47,336 --> 00:43:51,896
Kate Spencer, who is an author that I love
and adore, and she was also the co -host

811
00:43:51,896 --> 00:43:55,196
of the Forever 35 podcast for many, many
years.

812
00:43:55,956 --> 00:44:02,336
And Kate just like exploded my brain by
responding to us in the DMs and not only

813
00:44:02,336 --> 00:44:07,276
sharing our giveaway post to her thousands
and thousands of followers, but offering

814
00:44:07,276 --> 00:44:13,436
to send her newest book, One Last Summer,
which comes out on June 11th, to our

815
00:44:13,436 --> 00:44:14,234
winner.

816
00:44:14,536 --> 00:44:19,195
including signing it and customization of
her inscription.

817
00:44:19,276 --> 00:44:22,826
And she also offered to be a guest on this
podcast in the future.

818
00:44:22,826 --> 00:44:25,016
And I almost fell off my chair.

819
00:44:25,016 --> 00:44:30,495
This is like to me, there are A -list
celebs like the Brad Pitts of the world.

820
00:44:30,495 --> 00:44:33,556
This is like very A -list in my world.

821
00:44:33,556 --> 00:44:38,336
I listened to Forever 35 multiple times
per week, every week for over five years.

822
00:44:38,336 --> 00:44:42,496
It was a huge part of my COVID experience
was like hearing them in my ear pods,

823
00:44:42,496 --> 00:44:43,596
AirPods.

824
00:44:45,508 --> 00:44:49,344
so excited to read this text.

825
00:44:49,344 --> 00:44:51,504
we'll be able to find a time that works
for her schedule.

826
00:44:51,504 --> 00:44:52,804
She's based in LA.

827
00:44:52,804 --> 00:44:56,784
But I just want to say if by some miracle,
Kate Spencer, you're listening to this, we

828
00:44:56,784 --> 00:44:57,984
are very, very grateful to you.

829
00:44:57,984 --> 00:44:59,524
We're so excited to read your new book.

830
00:44:59,524 --> 00:45:01,584
We can't wait to potentially chat with
you.

831
00:45:01,584 --> 00:45:05,664
And just thank you for being all up in the
Bookstagram Booktalk universe and

832
00:45:05,664 --> 00:45:08,550
supporting what we're doing in addition to
us supporting what you are doing.

833
00:45:08,550 --> 00:45:09,450
we need.

834
00:45:10,254 --> 00:45:13,294
It was such a pleasant surprise after.

835
00:45:14,234 --> 00:45:18,994
When was that over the winter when we had
that petty interaction where we tagged

836
00:45:18,994 --> 00:45:19,574
somebody?

837
00:45:19,574 --> 00:45:25,354
It's just like so refreshing that somebody
like appreciates that we're like reading

838
00:45:25,354 --> 00:45:30,774
their books and talking about them and
tagging them and Ellie and Tessa are like

839
00:45:30,774 --> 00:45:36,614
our listeners, Ellie and Tessa are
hardcore, hardcore forever 35 people.

840
00:45:36,614 --> 00:45:39,386
And I texted them the news and they were
like,

841
00:45:39,386 --> 00:45:40,136
do you think?

842
00:45:40,136 --> 00:45:42,846
And I'm like, no, I don't think I want
this.

843
00:45:42,846 --> 00:45:47,976
But I appreciate in three lines the
significance of it and I'm very much

844
00:45:47,976 --> 00:45:53,116
looking forward to playing the role of the
non -fandirl in the film.

845
00:45:53,116 --> 00:45:57,836
And I'm looking forward to it in the block
and cast, I can make sure that we like,

846
00:45:57,836 --> 00:45:58,790
get the hang of it.

847
00:45:58,790 --> 00:46:04,390
professional and that nobody is like, you
know, if I see like sweat coming off of

848
00:46:04,390 --> 00:46:07,296
Steph's brow, I'll step in, like it'll be
fine.

849
00:46:07,296 --> 00:46:09,218
say I'm gonna be sweating like crazy.

850
00:46:09,218 --> 00:46:12,418
I'm happy to be that lady.

851
00:46:12,418 --> 00:46:18,038
I'm purposely not going to listen to any
Forever 35 in preparation so that I can be

852
00:46:18,038 --> 00:46:20,198
the composed one of the group.

853
00:46:21,838 --> 00:46:23,918
Hahahaha!

854
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:31,920
Yeah, I hope that I will be able to be
chill and actually just like enjoy the

855
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:34,900
privilege of getting to have a
conversation with her and not fall over

856
00:46:34,900 --> 00:46:36,020
myself.

857
00:46:36,660 --> 00:46:41,360
But anyway, yes, we're very excited about
Kate and our book is coming out next week.

858
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,220
So you'll see more of that on our
Instagram for sure.

859
00:46:44,220 --> 00:46:47,120
Okay, transitioning into the book of the
day.

860
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:51,260
We are talking about, as Caitlin said
earlier, one in a millennial, which is

861
00:46:51,260 --> 00:46:52,808
written by Kate Kennedy.

862
00:46:53,192 --> 00:46:56,672
I started following Kate on Instagram
years and years ago.

863
00:46:56,672 --> 00:47:03,552
I found her because at the time she was
making hilarious doormats that said things

864
00:47:03,552 --> 00:47:05,672
like, turn off your straightener.

865
00:47:05,672 --> 00:47:09,542
And she got some pretty like decent press
coverage of these mats.

866
00:47:09,542 --> 00:47:13,572
And she actually left her full -time
corporate job in order to pursue doing

867
00:47:13,572 --> 00:47:16,452
these hand -painted doormats.

868
00:47:16,452 --> 00:47:22,696
And then she also decided around the same
time to start a podcast.

869
00:47:22,696 --> 00:47:26,256
on kind of all of her pop culture musings.

870
00:47:26,316 --> 00:47:32,756
So Be There in Five, the podcast, covers
everything from TV and movies to very big

871
00:47:32,756 --> 00:47:35,116
Taylor Swift situation going on there.

872
00:47:35,116 --> 00:47:42,676
And she also talks a lot about millennial
culture, millennial nostalgia, sort of

873
00:47:42,676 --> 00:47:46,240
what it means to be of this age group.

874
00:47:46,376 --> 00:47:50,496
And when I found out that she was coming
out with a book, I was like, my God, like

875
00:47:50,496 --> 00:47:55,216
her podcast is already so long for most
episodes are more than 90 minutes, like 90

876
00:47:55,216 --> 00:47:56,456
minutes to two hours.

877
00:47:56,456 --> 00:48:01,716
And I thought this will be great because
it will be like almost uninterrupted

878
00:48:01,716 --> 00:48:04,636
medium for her to share everything that
she wants to share.

879
00:48:04,916 --> 00:48:08,376
I, these gals can attest, I wanted to read
this for months and months and months and

880
00:48:08,376 --> 00:48:10,396
I, and I waited because it was hard cover.

881
00:48:10,396 --> 00:48:11,430
It was very expensive.

882
00:48:11,430 --> 00:48:12,230
of.

883
00:48:12,230 --> 00:48:13,350
And then Mr.

884
00:48:13,350 --> 00:48:17,430
Chair, he gave me a good card with the
obviousism to the coursework book so I

885
00:48:17,430 --> 00:48:20,570
decided to use it on this in my hero book.

886
00:48:20,570 --> 00:48:27,010
So I want to say that one of I enjoy most
about P is the music nature.

887
00:48:27,010 --> 00:48:28,648
And I'm thinking that for a conventional
book.

888
00:48:28,648 --> 00:48:33,388
her in the podcast medium, listening to
her talk to the camera on Instagram.

889
00:48:33,488 --> 00:48:39,668
I think for me, one of the things that was
hard about this book is that I think her

890
00:48:39,668 --> 00:48:41,724
humor and her wit.

891
00:48:47,012 --> 00:48:51,232
would disagree because I actually, since
I've listened to so many episodes of her

892
00:48:51,232 --> 00:48:54,212
podcast, I didn't hear my inner monologue.

893
00:48:54,212 --> 00:48:55,472
I heard her.

894
00:48:55,472 --> 00:49:03,400
She has like a sing -songy poetry way that
she speaks on the podcast so fast and...

895
00:49:19,484 --> 00:49:21,444
never heard the podcast.

896
00:49:21,444 --> 00:49:26,184
I think it's important if you are
interested in reading this book just to

897
00:49:26,184 --> 00:49:27,790
know that she kind of splits it up.

898
00:49:27,790 --> 00:49:34,290
chronologically in terms of like coming of
age and being considered a millennial.

899
00:49:34,290 --> 00:49:39,930
So she has like a section that's 1990s and
like what was going on during that period

900
00:49:39,930 --> 00:49:42,530
and then the 2000s and then today.

901
00:49:42,530 --> 00:49:50,590
And she covers things like, she covers
things like, you know, what it was like to

902
00:49:50,590 --> 00:49:53,350
be a girl in the 90s and everything was
like.

903
00:49:53,454 --> 00:49:58,014
I had that game Mall Madness, which was
all about shopping and spending money.

904
00:49:58,014 --> 00:50:03,854
And then I had another game called Girl
Talk, which was like, you would do truth

905
00:50:03,854 --> 00:50:07,094
or dare, and there were zit stickers you
had to wear.

906
00:50:07,094 --> 00:50:10,854
And it was a totally bizarro.

907
00:50:10,854 --> 00:50:14,644
Looking back on it, I'm like, this is what
we were giving the girls to do.

908
00:50:14,644 --> 00:50:16,374
This is ridiculous.

909
00:50:16,534 --> 00:50:19,758
And there were so many, I mean, she talks
about...

910
00:50:19,758 --> 00:50:22,248
sleepovers versus a slumber party.

911
00:50:22,248 --> 00:50:25,598
And she talks about having a day bed,
which I had one.

912
00:50:25,598 --> 00:50:30,018
There are so many things that like, and
like I said, I don't listen to her

913
00:50:30,018 --> 00:50:30,528
podcast.

914
00:50:30,528 --> 00:50:34,138
I just started following her on Instagram
a couple months ago because she's a

915
00:50:34,138 --> 00:50:34,468
Swiftie.

916
00:50:34,468 --> 00:50:38,678
She got recommended to me on Instagram and
I didn't even really know that she was the

917
00:50:38,678 --> 00:50:39,978
one that had written this book.

918
00:50:39,978 --> 00:50:45,258
Even though I had heard about this book, I
had read a review of it or something.

919
00:50:45,742 --> 00:50:46,066
And

920
00:50:46,066 --> 00:50:51,786
so there's so many things that resonated
with me at the very moment when I was very

921
00:50:51,786 --> 00:50:53,746
close to the age of her.

922
00:50:53,766 --> 00:51:00,794
But for me, I'll dismiss me, there wasn't
like an anthropopoeic piece or like a...

923
00:51:00,794 --> 00:51:05,214
it almost felt like I was like reading her
journal entries about like reminiscing

924
00:51:05,214 --> 00:51:06,284
about the past.

925
00:51:06,284 --> 00:51:11,754
And it was supposed to be, I think essays
about like what it's like to be a woman

926
00:51:11,754 --> 00:51:13,920
that grew up during that time.

927
00:51:13,964 --> 00:51:17,174
And I just didn't feel like we finished
the loop.

928
00:51:17,174 --> 00:51:20,424
I felt like, here's what this is all
about.

929
00:51:20,424 --> 00:51:24,204
I know that we have copies and I know that
we gave that and I know that we played all

930
00:51:24,204 --> 00:51:28,224
that mess and I know that there's no
culmination.

931
00:51:28,458 --> 00:51:31,378
of like why she wanted to talk about those
things.

932
00:51:31,378 --> 00:51:36,758
Or like she talked about like a little bit
about like how they influenced and

933
00:51:36,758 --> 00:51:39,048
informed her career later on.

934
00:51:39,048 --> 00:51:42,460
But like there just wasn't like...

935
00:51:42,460 --> 00:51:46,900
thematically, I wasn't really sure how she
was doing this as a book.

936
00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:51,140
It just felt like a list of all these cool
things that she wanted people to connect

937
00:51:51,140 --> 00:51:52,420
to her about.

938
00:51:52,420 --> 00:51:55,300
And I just felt like that had like wrapped
up.

939
00:51:55,300 --> 00:51:57,102
It felt like it was a problem.

940
00:51:57,102 --> 00:52:01,234
unfinished and like maybe she hadn't
completed all of her thoughts.

941
00:52:01,256 --> 00:52:04,676
super interesting that you should say that
because I read a lot of the Goodreads

942
00:52:04,676 --> 00:52:07,876
comments right before I left my own
personal review because I was just kind of

943
00:52:07,876 --> 00:52:10,816
like curious if people felt the same way
that I did.

944
00:52:10,816 --> 00:52:15,716
Many people said that this should have
been in the memoir category and that even

945
00:52:15,716 --> 00:52:17,926
though it's not.

946
00:52:17,926 --> 00:52:19,266
No, it's essays.

947
00:52:19,266 --> 00:52:22,984
I think it would be in the essays and
criticism section of a bookstore.

948
00:52:22,984 --> 00:52:27,424
What's interesting is that in the intro,
she talks about how it's not a memoir, but

949
00:52:27,424 --> 00:52:33,104
more like observations about, you know,
her reflecting back on this time and kind

950
00:52:33,104 --> 00:52:34,904
of what her life is like now.

951
00:52:34,904 --> 00:52:41,364
And I think if it had been in the memoir
category, she maybe could have gone

952
00:52:41,364 --> 00:52:44,684
further in a lot of the things that she
discussed.

953
00:52:44,684 --> 00:52:47,624
So for example, she talks a lot about like
body image.

954
00:52:47,624 --> 00:52:51,424
And how when she was in a sorority in
college, she really was like the hyper

955
00:52:51,424 --> 00:52:54,064
-focused on what she was wearing and what
she looked like and was she skinny enough

956
00:52:54,064 --> 00:52:56,404
and how did she look in pictures with all
these friends?

957
00:52:56,404 --> 00:52:59,724
And I thought to myself, if this were a
true memoir, like she would have gone even

958
00:52:59,724 --> 00:53:00,054
further.

959
00:53:00,054 --> 00:53:02,604
She would have said how it's impacted her
over time.

960
00:53:02,604 --> 00:53:05,924
If you follow her on Instagram, you know,
she's still working on her own kind of

961
00:53:05,924 --> 00:53:08,904
body self -acceptance, especially now that
she's a mom.

962
00:53:09,044 --> 00:53:15,484
I just felt that because it wasn't all the
way in the personal category, she couldn't

963
00:53:15,484 --> 00:53:17,704
really take it there.

964
00:53:17,704 --> 00:53:19,574
And I would have loved to hear that.

965
00:53:19,574 --> 00:53:22,514
And I think she does give her listeners a
lot of that on the podcast.

966
00:53:22,514 --> 00:53:23,624
She's very vulnerable.

967
00:53:23,624 --> 00:53:24,984
She's very open.

968
00:53:24,984 --> 00:53:30,864
And I think she was trying to keep this in
the, I don't know if analysis is the right

969
00:53:30,864 --> 00:53:36,144
word, but just almost like pop culture
observations and reflections, instead of

970
00:53:36,144 --> 00:53:40,924
going all the way on the, this is how this
impacted me, or this is how this is, you

971
00:53:40,924 --> 00:53:44,964
know, a part of the way I think about
myself or my relationship or my approach

972
00:53:44,964 --> 00:53:46,512
to motherhood now.

973
00:53:46,728 --> 00:53:50,048
She actually did an episode where she
interviewed her mom.

974
00:53:50,108 --> 00:53:55,608
And I learned so much about her in that
conversation and the things that she sort

975
00:53:55,608 --> 00:53:59,008
of regretted about her very religious
upbringing, the way that it made her think

976
00:53:59,008 --> 00:54:00,768
about dating.

977
00:54:01,748 --> 00:54:03,020
Huge.

978
00:54:03,242 --> 00:54:09,782
To have a family that's not super
religious and to make that choice on your

979
00:54:09,782 --> 00:54:12,882
own to sort of enter into that culture.

980
00:54:13,202 --> 00:54:19,482
I wish we had done more about that because
one, that would make you crazy at that

981
00:54:19,482 --> 00:54:20,084
age.

982
00:54:20,084 --> 00:54:24,174
but also like, I didn't quite understand
why she had chosen.

983
00:54:24,174 --> 00:54:27,472
Like I understand the whole like water
skiing at camp thing, but like,

984
00:54:28,728 --> 00:54:34,148
That is such a drastic decision to make
without familial influence that I need to

985
00:54:34,148 --> 00:54:35,248
know more about.

986
00:54:36,376 --> 00:54:39,856
I want to also just share with the
listeners a little bit about her writing

987
00:54:39,856 --> 00:54:40,436
style.

988
00:54:40,436 --> 00:54:46,596
She talks about how parents tend to talk
about like the olden days and what it was

989
00:54:46,596 --> 00:54:48,116
like when they were kids.

990
00:54:48,216 --> 00:54:53,016
And she says, I think they forget that
millennials have our own version of this.

991
00:54:53,016 --> 00:54:56,456
It's like, yeah, but walking miles to
school in the snow was hard.

992
00:54:56,456 --> 00:55:01,256
But have you ever had to navigate an empty
new release VHS shelf at Blockbuster with

993
00:55:01,256 --> 00:55:06,456
a sleepover crew in tow that will never
achieve rental consensus?

994
00:55:06,456 --> 00:55:11,436
Have you ever spent a night being
disinvited to a slumber party in solitude,

995
00:55:11,436 --> 00:55:16,076
only to play solitaire and fail to
experience the abundance of flying card

996
00:55:16,076 --> 00:55:21,376
stacks graphics of an it's time quote,
make it rain you hoped would solve your

997
00:55:21,376 --> 00:55:21,992
pain?

998
00:55:21,992 --> 00:55:26,252
Have you ever played fast and loose with a
limewire computer virus that will come to

999
00:55:26,252 --> 00:55:31,312
your Windows 95 before your Melissa
Etheridge album ever finishes downloading?

1000
00:55:31,312 --> 00:55:36,932
Your skin just gets tougher when a burn CD
takes eight hours to buffer and no one

1001
00:55:36,932 --> 00:55:42,112
respects millennials for the baby pirates
we once were, committing federal crimes on

1002
00:55:42,112 --> 00:55:46,292
the daily to pay our respects to the arts
by not paying anyone in the arts.

1003
00:55:46,412 --> 00:55:50,794
It's just like, she sometimes hits it so
on the head, that idea of the empty.

1004
00:56:05,856 --> 00:56:11,356
Can you tell me more about where the
Papagenos and the Blockbuster were in

1005
00:56:11,356 --> 00:56:11,866
Nonantum?

1006
00:56:11,866 --> 00:56:13,532
What's there right now?

1007
00:56:13,532 --> 00:56:18,032
it's the giant plaza kind of between
Nantum and Watertown that has the stop and

1008
00:56:18,032 --> 00:56:18,732
shop grocery store.

1009
00:56:18,732 --> 00:56:21,492
You have to drive down a hill to get to
it.

1010
00:56:21,492 --> 00:56:24,952
So there used to be to the left of the
grocery store, the Papagenos and the

1011
00:56:24,952 --> 00:56:25,382
Blockbuster.

1012
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:28,884
Those were the two stores that were on the
left side of the plaza.

1013
00:56:29,098 --> 00:56:30,518
I understand.

1014
00:56:32,298 --> 00:56:32,778
Yep.

1015
00:56:32,778 --> 00:56:35,520
Yeah, I totally know where you're talking
about now.

1016
00:56:35,520 --> 00:56:40,000
also want to talk about, first of all, she
has a chapter called, Are We Going Out

1017
00:56:40,000 --> 00:56:40,540
Out?

1018
00:56:40,540 --> 00:56:43,950
Which I just feel like is the most
millennial question of all time.

1019
00:56:43,950 --> 00:56:48,014
Like we all know what that means just by
hearing, but towards the end of the book.

1020
00:56:48,014 --> 00:56:52,094
like the millennial version of like, but
do you like like her?

1021
00:56:52,114 --> 00:56:53,914
Yeah, exactly.

1022
00:56:55,034 --> 00:56:59,294
But the thing I need to point out is,
yeah, so I'm going to choose that teacher.

1023
00:56:59,294 --> 00:57:05,054
She's talking about what happens if you
get a bit older and some people are older

1024
00:57:05,054 --> 00:57:08,614
and some people are not, some people are
older, like, you know, older.

1025
00:57:09,184 --> 00:57:15,764
And she's talking about how people who are
single often get sort of isolated or

1026
00:57:15,764 --> 00:57:20,084
routinely just called out for the fact
that they're not in a traditional

1027
00:57:20,084 --> 00:57:21,184
relationship.

1028
00:57:21,256 --> 00:57:25,616
And she says, we should be applauding
single people for having the courage to

1029
00:57:25,616 --> 00:57:27,796
leave relationships that aren't right for
them.

1030
00:57:27,796 --> 00:57:32,396
We should be marveling at their resilience
in the event it wasn't their choice.

1031
00:57:32,396 --> 00:57:36,036
Making the right decision for yourself
time and time again is a marker of

1032
00:57:36,036 --> 00:57:40,716
strength and self -worth that gets
unfairly branded as quote, still being

1033
00:57:40,716 --> 00:57:45,756
single, a title nobody should be reduced
to outside of a W -2.

1034
00:57:45,756 --> 00:57:50,414
Not spending your whole life in a shitty
relationship is a pretty big W to me.

1035
00:57:56,140 --> 00:58:02,440
of my favorite chapters was when she
revisits in her 30s, Saved by the Bell,

1036
00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:05,108
because I feel like that was very
clearly...

1037
00:58:05,814 --> 00:58:07,454
in all of our childhoods.

1038
00:58:07,454 --> 00:58:13,154
And I remember feeling like I was not
supposed to like Jessie, because one, I

1039
00:58:13,154 --> 00:58:16,534
hated my curly hair, and she had curly
hair.

1040
00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:22,414
But also she seemed so over the top, and I
hate to use this word, but like almost

1041
00:58:22,414 --> 00:58:23,694
kind of crazy.

1042
00:58:23,694 --> 00:58:26,012
At the same time though, I did

1043
00:58:26,012 --> 00:58:30,912
like the way Slater talked to her, but I
thought I was supposed to like it because

1044
00:58:30,912 --> 00:58:33,132
of the way it's presented on the show.

1045
00:58:33,132 --> 00:58:35,152
And now looking back, I'm like, what the

1046
00:58:35,268 --> 00:58:40,338
had teenager we had a teenage boy calling
his girlfriend mama in the hallway.

1047
00:58:40,338 --> 00:58:45,628
Hey mama Weird so weird and she was
definitely supposed to be like the

1048
00:58:45,628 --> 00:58:51,508
frazzled brainy friend that like Was super
chaotic and like stressed out all the time

1049
00:58:51,508 --> 00:58:54,982
even like aside from the caffeine pill
episode like

1050
00:58:54,996 --> 00:59:00,956
She was definitely just like, kind of
rabid and just kind of like, thick.

1051
00:59:00,956 --> 00:59:03,956
I mean, definitely, you see the canines
under the chandelier.

1052
00:59:03,956 --> 00:59:07,636
It seems pretty weird, but like, she
probably had parents that were like

1053
00:59:07,636 --> 00:59:10,416
playing a lot of fresh college football,
but apparently she didn't.

1054
00:59:10,416 --> 00:59:11,970
I think she was slater.

1055
00:59:11,970 --> 00:59:14,700
supposed to be opposites attract kind of
thing.

1056
00:59:14,700 --> 00:59:16,610
And it was just really chaotic.

1057
00:59:16,610 --> 00:59:18,410
But I think it's in the same chapter.

1058
00:59:18,410 --> 00:59:22,006
One of the lines that I wrote down to
mention was,

1059
00:59:22,008 --> 00:59:23,778
of course, I have my piece.

1060
00:59:23,778 --> 00:59:25,948
I have my piece, my future.

1061
00:59:26,228 --> 00:59:27,428
Yep.

1062
00:59:27,428 --> 00:59:33,008
I'm in a little bit of a fall and I'm just
rolling around in it.

1063
00:59:33,008 --> 00:59:38,968
And a big, long, huge, and even a huge,
large, huge chamber that we watch on and

1064
00:59:38,968 --> 00:59:41,688
on and on and on and on and on and on and
on and

1065
00:59:41,688 --> 00:59:42,818
I don't know.

1066
00:59:42,818 --> 00:59:47,498
And so there were just like, it was all
over the place.

1067
00:59:47,498 --> 00:59:49,738
It was like, that's the cool summer job.

1068
00:59:49,738 --> 00:59:49,984
Like.

1069
00:59:49,984 --> 00:59:54,944
you got the sandbox player, and they had,
you know, complete work, and when you're

1070
00:59:54,944 --> 00:59:57,404
there for it, you have to be in the car,
right?

1071
00:59:57,464 --> 01:00:00,396
It was just like, very much in the -

1072
01:00:00,396 --> 01:00:01,236
the 90s.

1073
01:00:01,236 --> 01:00:04,996
And actually, I know the public didn't
watch it, but that was one of the things

1074
01:00:04,996 --> 01:00:09,776
that really cracked me up about Stranger
Things is that there's like a full season

1075
01:00:09,776 --> 01:00:11,114
of like -

1076
01:00:11,294 --> 01:00:16,836
guy that ends up being this like monstrous
villain on the inside is the like hot.

1077
01:00:16,996 --> 01:00:22,136
like, are like a full, like, a mullet, all
pumped up to like, sweat and over it and

1078
01:00:22,136 --> 01:00:22,486
everything.

1079
01:00:22,486 --> 01:00:27,486
like I was just like yeah this is it
doesn't didn't everybody have a crush on a

1080
01:00:27,486 --> 01:00:32,186
lifeguard at one point in their lives is
it just our generation that she made me

1081
01:00:32,186 --> 01:00:36,646
question myself a little bit like our kids
not having crushes on lifeguards anymore

1082
01:00:38,382 --> 01:00:42,122
I'm going to ask my students actually,
they won't tell me because they're 12, but

1083
01:00:42,122 --> 01:00:44,920
like, I'm going to be like, how many of
you had a crush on a lifeguard?

1084
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:48,280
I'm very curious for their answers, but
also I was going to say back to the Save

1085
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:52,080
By The Bell bit, some of the best episodes
are when they worked at the Malibu Sands

1086
01:00:52,080 --> 01:00:53,020
Beach Club.

1087
01:00:53,020 --> 01:00:58,440
It was like, I looked forward to those
every time that would come into the cycle.

1088
01:01:00,424 --> 01:01:02,204
Correct, Stacey Carosi.

1089
01:01:02,984 --> 01:01:08,684
Yeah, I just, I think to bring it back to
the summary, I think, of what we're all

1090
01:01:08,684 --> 01:01:15,704
saying is that there's so much about this
book, One and a Millennial, that is crazy

1091
01:01:15,704 --> 01:01:16,234
relatable.

1092
01:01:16,234 --> 01:01:21,824
And she articulates things in such a way
that you picture it perfectly, like how

1093
01:01:21,824 --> 01:01:24,564
you were playing that board game or how
you used to get ready with your friends to

1094
01:01:24,564 --> 01:01:27,156
go out, out or whatever it is.

1095
01:01:27,428 --> 01:01:32,508
Or reminding you of one of the most
terrifying episodes of Rescue 911 where

1096
01:01:32,508 --> 01:01:37,428
the babysitter opens their mouth and their
tongue gets stuck to the freezer and I was

1097
01:01:37,428 --> 01:01:39,248
terrified afterwards.

1098
01:01:39,248 --> 01:01:41,174
Never opened my mouth in your freezer.

1099
01:01:41,426 --> 01:01:46,626
one that traumatized me was did you see
the episode where the kids were making a

1100
01:01:46,626 --> 01:01:49,506
bonfire in their yard and they thought
they should just like put a little

1101
01:01:49,506 --> 01:01:54,646
gasoline on it to like they put a little
gasoline on it to like really get it going

1102
01:01:54,646 --> 01:01:59,266
which they don't realize how bad of an
idea that is because they're like 13 and

1103
01:01:59,266 --> 01:02:02,996
this kid gets like his whole body burned
and almost dies.

1104
01:02:13,932 --> 01:02:14,912
No.

1105
01:02:15,552 --> 01:02:21,122
that was like, I think the kids version of
Baywatch, but instead of it being

1106
01:02:21,122 --> 01:02:25,300
lifeguards, it was people that rescued
animals in a bay.

1107
01:02:25,300 --> 01:02:28,280
who would we know that was in it?

1108
01:02:35,748 --> 01:02:39,888
Hey dude, Pete and Pete, there are just so
many good Nick shows.

1109
01:02:40,228 --> 01:02:45,208
But anyway, if you want a dose of this
kind of nostalgia, I think you can either

1110
01:02:45,208 --> 01:02:48,598
read the book or give her podcast a
listen.

1111
01:02:48,598 --> 01:02:50,984
I really think it's so great and...

1112
01:02:50,984 --> 01:02:54,114
You can pick and choose by the topics that
you're interested in.

1113
01:02:54,114 --> 01:02:57,404
So as opposed to this book where maybe,
you know, you relate, let's say to 50 % of

1114
01:02:57,404 --> 01:03:02,004
it with the podcast, you can bounce around
on the topics that you're most interested

1115
01:03:02,004 --> 01:03:03,724
in or the pop culture moments.

1116
01:03:03,724 --> 01:03:06,464
Certainly if you're a Swifty, you should
be following her already because she does

1117
01:03:06,464 --> 01:03:09,564
amazing analysis of Taylor's every move.

1118
01:03:10,312 --> 01:03:15,212
would suggest her two -part series that
she did, I don't know, like three summers

1119
01:03:15,212 --> 01:03:19,172
ago about Bama society culture.

1120
01:03:19,172 --> 01:03:20,808
That was a phenomenal listen.

1121
01:03:20,808 --> 01:03:25,188
Yeah, she went hard on the Alabama rush
culture.

1122
01:03:25,188 --> 01:03:29,318
And I think that's actually how I started
like falling down that rabbit hole.

1123
01:03:29,318 --> 01:03:32,088
And there was the HBO documentary and all
these other things, but she was really

1124
01:03:32,088 --> 01:03:33,008
like at the forefront.

1125
01:03:33,008 --> 01:03:37,528
And sometimes she gets obsessed with very
niche reality shows.

1126
01:03:37,528 --> 01:03:42,908
So if you're following her and you have a
shared joint interest, you will be in love

1127
01:03:42,908 --> 01:03:46,588
with her because she deep dives on
everything very, very, very extensively

1128
01:03:46,588 --> 01:03:47,994
when she's interested.

1129
01:03:49,038 --> 01:03:50,278
question.

1130
01:03:50,338 --> 01:03:54,968
I'm not, I don't follow any of the
sorority, Bama, whatever, whatever.

1131
01:03:54,968 --> 01:03:56,578
I just don't.

1132
01:03:56,858 --> 01:04:01,258
Did Outfit of the Day come out of Rush
videos on TikTok?

1133
01:04:01,298 --> 01:04:02,758
OOTD?

1134
01:04:03,557 --> 01:04:07,418
What about Get Ready With Me?

1135
01:04:07,418 --> 01:04:08,698
GRWM?

1136
01:04:09,378 --> 01:04:10,018
Okay.

1137
01:04:10,018 --> 01:04:11,078
I'm just curious.

1138
01:04:11,078 --> 01:04:14,156
I don't know the origin stories of those
things, but...

1139
01:04:14,156 --> 01:04:18,056
See, I don't either, but I did listen.

1140
01:04:18,056 --> 01:04:20,296
I mean, I don't, first of all, I'm not on
TikTok.

1141
01:04:20,296 --> 01:04:22,476
Second, I didn't follow any of the

1142
01:04:22,476 --> 01:04:26,636
what the video, specifically, I've been
watching, but what I did was I took her

1143
01:04:26,636 --> 01:04:29,336
podcast and then turned it into a first
-time.

1144
01:04:29,336 --> 01:04:34,066
I think it's been a really important to do
the research yourself.

1145
01:04:34,066 --> 01:04:38,803
I mean, she does so much research for any
topic she discusses, even just for trust.

1146
01:04:38,803 --> 01:04:41,100
trust that she's telling you everything.

1147
01:04:41,100 --> 01:04:45,680
would also say, I can't remember where I
first heard this, if it was from an author

1148
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:50,860
or if it was like in a podcast I was
listening to, but someone recently said

1149
01:04:50,860 --> 01:04:55,960
the more niche and specific something is,
the more relatable it is.

1150
01:04:55,960 --> 01:05:01,090
And I felt like this book is like a
masterclass in that it's so specific.

1151
01:05:01,090 --> 01:05:06,200
It's about such a specific age group,
growing up experience, girlhood

1152
01:05:06,200 --> 01:05:08,616
experience, self -esteem experience.

1153
01:05:08,616 --> 01:05:14,136
If you moved through the world on the same
sort of timeline and age timeline as she

1154
01:05:14,136 --> 01:05:19,236
did, you will undoubtedly have moments
where you're like, yep, that's exactly how

1155
01:05:19,236 --> 01:05:22,656
it was for me, or that's exactly how I
felt, or that's how I spent my time with

1156
01:05:22,656 --> 01:05:26,996
my friends, or we were talking about just
before we started recording, Steph was

1157
01:05:26,996 --> 01:05:30,826
interested in this one part in the chapter
about popular girl handwriting.

1158
01:05:30,826 --> 01:05:35,652
I mean, there's just certain things that
she hits on that are so true and real.

1159
01:05:35,652 --> 01:05:37,712
to the idea of gel pens.

1160
01:05:37,712 --> 01:05:39,912
Gel pens, so true.

1161
01:05:40,464 --> 01:05:45,104
So anyway, Kate Kennedy, we thank you for
this mega deep dive on all things

1162
01:05:45,104 --> 01:05:45,684
millennial.

1163
01:05:45,684 --> 01:05:47,704
I thought this was really fun.

1164
01:05:47,784 --> 01:05:52,124
I'm excited for her that this is a new
medium for her, that she has Instagram,

1165
01:05:52,124 --> 01:05:53,844
she has the podcast, now she has this.

1166
01:05:53,844 --> 01:05:56,984
I have no idea how this will be one and
done or she'll have opportunities to write

1167
01:05:56,984 --> 01:05:58,284
other things.

1168
01:05:58,764 --> 01:06:01,052
But go ahead.

1169
01:06:01,052 --> 01:06:05,892
want to lastly say that the inside covers
beautiful.

1170
01:06:06,212 --> 01:06:09,532
I mean, they hurt me.

1171
01:06:09,972 --> 01:06:12,825
The collared t -shirt.

1172
01:06:12,825 --> 01:06:16,005
the skirt that has the like frills on the
bottom.

1173
01:06:16,844 --> 01:06:20,365
my God, the S, why did we make S's like
this?

1174
01:06:20,445 --> 01:06:22,314
Everything, it's just.

1175
01:06:22,314 --> 01:06:23,304
related to Snoop?

1176
01:06:23,304 --> 01:06:25,374
I always thought it was.

1177
01:06:25,374 --> 01:06:26,694
The S?

1178
01:06:27,454 --> 01:06:29,894
Are we talking about the same kind of S?

1179
01:06:32,234 --> 01:06:33,934
Six lines, yeah.

1180
01:06:33,934 --> 01:06:35,654
Yeah, no, I thought it was Snoop.

1181
01:06:35,654 --> 01:06:36,534
I thought it was...

1182
01:06:36,534 --> 01:06:37,824
I loved jelly shoes.

1183
01:06:37,824 --> 01:06:41,914
They cut my feet to no end, but...

1184
01:06:41,914 --> 01:06:43,204
Should we talk about what we're reading?

1185
01:06:43,204 --> 01:06:47,074
This has been a long app, but we should
pop it in, I think.

1186
01:06:47,712 --> 01:06:48,732
Want me to start?

1187
01:06:48,732 --> 01:06:52,172
I'm reading my first Abby Jimenez book.

1188
01:06:52,312 --> 01:06:58,492
I have been following her Instagram, not
actually for her, but for her dog Tess and

1189
01:06:58,492 --> 01:07:00,232
also her Yorkies.

1190
01:07:00,232 --> 01:07:01,732
Sorry, not sorry.

1191
01:07:02,712 --> 01:07:07,372
And maybe that inspired me to do
Huckleberry's narration reel yesterday

1192
01:07:07,372 --> 01:07:10,952
because Tess has some pretty epic reels.

1193
01:07:11,052 --> 01:07:16,312
So if you love dogs, definitely follow her
Instagram because it's quality content.

1194
01:07:16,832 --> 01:07:20,552
This book is called Just for the Summer
and apparently it's the third.

1195
01:07:20,552 --> 01:07:22,168
I think she does kind of what

1196
01:07:22,168 --> 01:07:29,028
Is it Anna Huang who does the like each
story is from a different side character

1197
01:07:29,028 --> 01:07:29,438
type thing?

1198
01:07:29,438 --> 01:07:31,368
I'm imagining that's what the case is.

1199
01:07:31,368 --> 01:07:32,928
I don't know for sure.

1200
01:07:33,028 --> 01:07:38,247
This is about two characters who are both
basically good luck chucks if anyone

1201
01:07:38,247 --> 01:07:40,308
remembers that movie.

1202
01:07:40,308 --> 01:07:43,708
I don't know how well that movie has aged
because I have not watched it since when

1203
01:07:43,708 --> 01:07:44,292
it came out.

1204
01:07:44,292 --> 01:07:48,162
our age knows it because that was like the
height of Dane Cook time.

1205
01:07:48,344 --> 01:07:50,934
Correct, which is also super cringe now.

1206
01:07:50,934 --> 01:07:56,064
But anyways, this is about a guy and a
girl who are both good luck chucks

1207
01:07:56,064 --> 01:07:57,404
essentially.

1208
01:07:57,664 --> 01:08:02,724
Everyone who dates them after they break
up, they find their person.

1209
01:08:03,244 --> 01:08:10,004
And she finds him because he has done, am
I the asshole?

1210
01:08:10,004 --> 01:08:14,524
Which if you know, my God.

1211
01:08:14,704 --> 01:08:16,884
Thank you.

1212
01:08:17,336 --> 01:08:21,156
If you know those, some of them are
hysterical and some of them are really sad

1213
01:08:21,156 --> 01:08:22,196
and horrible.

1214
01:08:22,196 --> 01:08:27,136
But he has written a hysterical one and
she responds to him and is like, hey,

1215
01:08:27,136 --> 01:08:27,626
guess what?

1216
01:08:27,626 --> 01:08:30,456
I am dealing with the same thing.

1217
01:08:30,456 --> 01:08:34,996
And so they end up kind of texting back
and forth for a while, but she's a

1218
01:08:34,996 --> 01:08:37,516
traveling nurse and he lives in Minnesota.

1219
01:08:37,516 --> 01:08:40,576
And they kind of come up with this
agreement.

1220
01:08:40,576 --> 01:08:42,040
If we...

1221
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:46,620
date each other, will we cancel each
other's curse out so that basically after

1222
01:08:46,620 --> 01:08:50,380
we break up, we'll both find our person
afterwards.

1223
01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:54,620
As far as rom -coms go, there is great
banter.

1224
01:08:55,220 --> 01:08:56,940
I have not gotten to any sauce.

1225
01:08:56,940 --> 01:08:59,540
I don't know if there is sauce and it's
okay.

1226
01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:02,760
Great characters, great side characters.

1227
01:09:02,820 --> 01:09:07,600
And then it's just making me want to go
back to Minnesota for pizza, even though

1228
01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:12,008
Pizzeria Lola has not been mentioned, but
it's making me think about it.

1229
01:09:12,008 --> 01:09:17,428
have to say whoever Abby Jimenez's
publicist is deserves mad props because

1230
01:09:17,428 --> 01:09:19,448
I've seen this book everywhere.

1231
01:09:19,448 --> 01:09:21,068
I've seen it.

1232
01:09:22,628 --> 01:09:23,898
I've seen it everywhere.

1233
01:09:23,898 --> 01:09:27,488
All over social media, all over all the
bookish things that I follow.

1234
01:09:27,488 --> 01:09:30,758
I feel like it's prominently displayed in
bookstores across America.

1235
01:09:30,758 --> 01:09:35,308
They're doing an amazing job of making it
sort of like one of the hot books of

1236
01:09:35,308 --> 01:09:36,156
summer.

1237
01:09:36,808 --> 01:09:39,968
I will talk next about the book I'm
reading, which is also appearing on all of

1238
01:09:39,968 --> 01:09:41,168
those lists.

1239
01:09:41,448 --> 01:09:45,508
I just finished this on the plane,
actually it's called the paradise problem

1240
01:09:45,508 --> 01:09:47,208
by Christina Lauren.

1241
01:09:47,288 --> 01:09:49,648
We've talked about Christina Lauren a lot
on this podcast.

1242
01:09:49,648 --> 01:09:51,338
It's a author duo.

1243
01:09:51,338 --> 01:09:54,048
It's actually two women, Christina and
Lauren.

1244
01:09:54,288 --> 01:10:01,688
This story is about a guy who is one of
four siblings and he is one of the heirs

1245
01:10:01,688 --> 01:10:04,396
to a huge supermarket chain.

1246
01:10:04,396 --> 01:10:07,916
chain which is what is called the
Westerns, obviously it's going to be a

1247
01:10:07,916 --> 01:10:09,736
critical urgent situation.

1248
01:10:09,976 --> 01:10:15,896
And in order to access his inheritance, he
has to be happily married for at least

1249
01:10:15,896 --> 01:10:17,276
five years.

1250
01:10:17,636 --> 01:10:20,252
He winds up...

1251
01:10:20,252 --> 01:10:24,372
marrying someone while he's still in
college in order to start the process,

1252
01:10:24,372 --> 01:10:25,792
start the timeline.

1253
01:10:25,812 --> 01:10:30,346
Then during this five year timeline, his
youngest sister gets engaged.

1254
01:10:30,856 --> 01:10:33,326
and is having a wedding on a private
island in Indonesia.

1255
01:10:33,326 --> 01:10:36,556
It's giving like major crazy rich Asians
vibes.

1256
01:10:36,976 --> 01:10:42,016
So his family knows that he got married
without them and they think it was just

1257
01:10:42,016 --> 01:10:44,876
like a courthouse thing because he's not
like a showy person.

1258
01:10:44,876 --> 01:10:50,656
Well, now he has to bring said wife to
this wedding after three years of nobody

1259
01:10:50,656 --> 01:10:53,196
meeting her or knowing anything about her.

1260
01:10:53,196 --> 01:10:57,076
So this is like the fake dating trope on
steroids.

1261
01:10:57,956 --> 01:11:00,264
So they're faking the marriage.

1262
01:11:00,264 --> 01:11:04,544
They have this really high stakes reason
why it has to be real.

1263
01:11:04,984 --> 01:11:12,244
And Anna, the woman who has the fake
fiance, fake wife, also has some stuff

1264
01:11:12,244 --> 01:11:15,584
going on in her life where she really
needs this to go well.

1265
01:11:15,584 --> 01:11:19,306
Like she needs to make it to the other
side.

1266
01:11:19,584 --> 01:11:25,484
has he promised her money out of it or
something?

1267
01:11:25,552 --> 01:11:29,432
saying that she will receive a certain
amount of money if she agrees to go along

1268
01:11:29,432 --> 01:11:30,092
with this.

1269
01:11:30,092 --> 01:11:34,792
She has a dad who is very sick and has a
ton of medical bills and it's a single

1270
01:11:34,792 --> 01:11:36,052
parent situation.

1271
01:11:36,052 --> 01:11:39,412
And she's like, I'm doing all of this for
my dad.

1272
01:11:39,792 --> 01:11:45,552
If you've ever loved like a makeover
montage, all all like tied clueless, that

1273
01:11:45,552 --> 01:11:48,152
is basically how this book starts because
this girl.

1274
01:11:48,152 --> 01:11:52,192
girl is not going to do the same thing
that Richy and Gia were doing.

1275
01:11:52,192 --> 01:11:56,391
She has to do quite a lot of poop jumping
in order to seem like she could be

1276
01:11:56,391 --> 01:11:58,792
somebody who's actually married to him.

1277
01:11:58,792 --> 01:12:03,696
The way they describe this may attract her
to be underage.

1278
01:12:03,696 --> 01:12:07,996
I just like want him to be real because
not only does he seem so incredibly

1279
01:12:07,996 --> 01:12:13,036
attractive, but he's also crazy smart and
he's like pushing against this like

1280
01:12:13,036 --> 01:12:16,306
predestined outcome for himself because he
wants to be a professor.

1281
01:12:16,306 --> 01:12:18,226
He doesn't want to work in the grocery
store.

1282
01:12:18,226 --> 01:12:18,474
And

1283
01:12:18,474 --> 01:12:19,334
a whole new world.

1284
01:12:19,624 --> 01:12:22,334
I just loved it and it was such a good
plane book.

1285
01:12:22,334 --> 01:12:25,824
I'm sure it would be an equally great pool
book, beach book, lake book.

1286
01:12:25,824 --> 01:12:30,734
It just, between the tropical location and
the high stakes of the fake relationship,

1287
01:12:30,734 --> 01:12:35,254
you're just glued and can't recommend that
enough.

1288
01:12:36,838 --> 01:12:39,658
will be reading that shortly I believe.

1289
01:12:39,938 --> 01:12:44,688
I am reading a totally different kind of
book from what you guys are reading.

1290
01:12:44,688 --> 01:12:49,486
I am reading a book called Talking at
Night by

1291
01:12:49,486 --> 01:12:51,546
Claire Daverley.

1292
01:12:51,546 --> 01:12:53,966
She's a debut author.

1293
01:12:54,286 --> 01:13:00,186
And I got recommended this book because
I'm a Sally Rooney freak.

1294
01:13:00,586 --> 01:13:07,226
And a lot of the authors on the back of
this book are kind of like, is she the

1295
01:13:07,226 --> 01:13:08,486
next Sally?

1296
01:13:08,486 --> 01:13:13,646
Like, Carly Fortune has a quote on the
back of this book and Napa Lutano has one,

1297
01:13:13,646 --> 01:13:18,286
Mary Beth Keene, like authors that we
really like are quoted on this book saying

1298
01:13:18,286 --> 01:13:19,686
you must read it.

1299
01:13:19,694 --> 01:13:21,994
It's a first love book.

1300
01:13:21,994 --> 01:13:25,354
The two main characters are 17 years old.

1301
01:13:25,914 --> 01:13:30,874
I'm not that far into it, but both of them
kind of seem like sad sacks.

1302
01:13:30,874 --> 01:13:38,294
Like the boy, Will, his mom just like took
off on him and his sibling and he lives

1303
01:13:38,294 --> 01:13:39,434
with his grandmother.

1304
01:13:39,434 --> 01:13:43,704
And we don't really like know a lot from
the start as to why that happened.

1305
01:13:43,704 --> 01:13:46,542
And I think also he maybe doesn't really
know.

1306
01:13:46,542 --> 01:13:52,342
And his hobby that keeps him out of
trouble essentially is that he's really

1307
01:13:52,342 --> 01:13:54,622
into fixing up motorbikes.

1308
01:13:54,622 --> 01:13:57,742
And that's his thing that he does and he's
really good at it.

1309
01:13:57,742 --> 01:14:03,282
And then the female character, her name
is, I believe it's Rosie.

1310
01:14:03,562 --> 01:14:09,024
She is a songwriter and she's very into
music.

1311
01:14:09,024 --> 01:14:14,444
And she has a very good sense of humor
great at really answering questions.

1312
01:14:14,444 --> 01:14:19,046
She has the right to say, like, basically,
what she doesn't say.

1313
01:14:19,046 --> 01:14:20,126
wrong.

1314
01:14:20,446 --> 01:14:26,466
So she's very much like a gets good
grades, keeps her head down, kind of keeps

1315
01:14:26,466 --> 01:14:33,126
the songwriting to herself and like within
the first chapter or so she like is like

1316
01:14:33,126 --> 01:14:37,230
songwriting and like gets carried away
with the time and she's like god.

1317
01:14:37,232 --> 01:14:38,922
and I'm a little bit gentle with her.

1318
01:14:38,922 --> 01:14:44,182
dinner and like I have to go do that so
she's like a people pleaser and She meets

1319
01:14:44,182 --> 01:14:47,402
this boy at a party and they have a
conversation and both of them are like

1320
01:14:47,402 --> 01:14:51,322
we're never gonna see the other person
again And then it's like very clear that

1321
01:14:51,322 --> 01:14:56,562
that that they are going to see each other
again people on the internet have been

1322
01:14:56,562 --> 01:15:00,003
like this book is so

1323
01:15:00,142 --> 01:15:05,422
like it's normal people, but like in a
less sad way.

1324
01:15:06,202 --> 01:15:10,302
And there's like a chapter at the
beginning that hints at something bad

1325
01:15:10,302 --> 01:15:10,782
happening.

1326
01:15:10,782 --> 01:15:13,862
And I don't, you can't really tell who the
bad thing happens to.

1327
01:15:13,862 --> 01:15:18,382
I just know it's not the girl, but I don't
know if it's like one of the parents or

1328
01:15:18,382 --> 01:15:22,142
like her brother or Will or Will's
sibling.

1329
01:15:22,142 --> 01:15:25,562
Like I can't really tell like how it's
pieced together.

1330
01:15:25,582 --> 01:15:26,286
So.

1331
01:15:26,286 --> 01:15:28,506
I think it's going to be really good.

1332
01:15:28,506 --> 01:15:33,246
The writing is very stark and beautiful,
similar to Sally Rooney.

1333
01:15:33,246 --> 01:15:36,966
And instead of having traditional
dialogue, it's like a third person

1334
01:15:36,966 --> 01:15:37,756
narrative.

1335
01:15:37,756 --> 01:15:41,596
And it says like, then Will said this,
then Rosie said that.

1336
01:15:41,596 --> 01:15:45,426
And so that's kind of like a different
format that I like.

1337
01:15:45,466 --> 01:15:47,366
It seems really good so far.

1338
01:15:48,102 --> 01:15:49,162
intrigued.

1339
01:15:50,242 --> 01:15:54,502
If y 'all want to keep up with what we're
reading, give us a follow over on

1340
01:15:54,502 --> 01:15:56,092
Instagram where at plansarebooked.

1341
01:15:56,092 --> 01:16:00,162
We also are gonna have another giveaway
coming up.

1342
01:16:00,162 --> 01:16:03,932
We are gonna be giving away two Colleen
Hoover books.

1343
01:16:03,932 --> 01:16:06,562
It starts with us and it ends with us.

1344
01:16:06,562 --> 01:16:11,128
If you're into Colleen Hoover then you
already know that the movie version...

1345
01:16:11,128 --> 01:16:14,948
is coming out at the end of the summer,
the end of August, I think.

1346
01:16:15,408 --> 01:16:18,598
So if you'd like to have access to both of
those books before they're moving jobs,

1347
01:16:18,598 --> 01:16:20,188
we're going to look at it at the end of
the year.

1348
01:16:20,188 --> 01:16:24,968
And if you have ideas for things you'd
like us to chat about, books you think we

1349
01:16:24,968 --> 01:16:28,568
should cover, and next week, it's going a
book that's a book that you'll love.

1350
01:16:29,454 --> 01:16:32,294
until next time, our plans are booked.