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He's also very good at being funny and it's all the same tone, but it's also just very uniquely him. Even when anyone else tries to talk like this, it's like... No, you're not. It's just... It is really great when someone is like, they do just have that voice and no part of this feels forced. Yeah, you kind of feel like if you had a conversation with the guy, he'd probably... He probably sound exactly like this. Yes. Have a seat, violence, hurting system. Help, help, I'm being repressed, bloody person. Oh, wanna give away to you, that's you, that's I. That's what I'm on about. Do you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you? Welcome back to Help, Help, We're Being Repressed. Today is our second book club. I'm gonna leave it to Smith. And I think once again, we're releasing it, not on the day we said we would. But it is not our fault, either time. I take no accountability. No. We're also not sure that you folks are so interested in this and our podcast is once again for you guys. So it's not for us, we wouldn't be doing this. We would just be yapping at each other on the phone with no witnesses. Yeah. So it's our present to you that you get to listen to us. It's pretty terrible gift. But anyway, so, depending on the crazy, I'm gonna wrap it. Depending on how people like this episode, we will or will not continue our book club series. Though honestly, what's the harm to announcing things in advance before we do it? Other than the fact that we have to decide in advance. It just makes us commit to something. And neither of us are, you know, big on commitment. Also, God decided to skip winter in Idaho this year. No, where else? I think it's because he took our winter and spread it over the east half of the country. The rest of the world with it. Yeah, but like tell me why it's 57 degrees and sunny outside right now. 59. The sky is blue. And sun is just melting over the landscape like butter. And it's so cozy. Don't become like green is sprouting. It's amazing. And I'm just wondering why we haven't had any winter at all. Yeah, it's still snowing here. Yep. It just skipped us for some reason. Anywho, back to the topic on hand. We've had not brought up yet. We leave it to Smith. I did at the very beginning. Oh, you're right. We did. My gosh. I've shortened them. Do you even listen to me? I've learned to tune you out a little bit. In good mean it when we're supposed to be having a conversation with one another. Truth. But leave it to Smith. For those of you who have read it, good job. For those of you who didn't read it. For those of you who didn't read it, you have zero excuse. Because I forgot about it. And I read it all this afternoon. So what? Okay, that's a bit of a flex. But it is 230 pages. So that's a heavy afternoon's read. You can make it happen. I assume you're going to be right on the roof. Zoom in a little bit. The situation of leave it to Smith. Is a bit of a comedic heist. Yep. Did I pee? What else? Yep. The one and only. And Smith is spelled with a pee, but the pee is silent. Pismit. And he is the most bizarre young man in... I don't know. I don't know. I don't even be hard to compare him to anybody. He is the bizarre chap. Monical. He is. Monical bizarre chap. He just says things. And he won't stop talking. And he calls everyone comrade. And he's really random. But we meet him just as he's trying to exit the fish business. That he was raised in. He never wants to see another fish. So he wasn't actually raised in. What it was is that his... He's financial situation changed. And he had to go to the uncle. And the uncle's business. Well, it's the family business. So he was actually working for the first time in his life. But in fish. But he did a stretch. His first job ever was a lot of fish for his uncle. And he had to do that. And his solves... Because he's broke. As Pete, he would house would say, Broke is the ten commandments. Yeah. And... Pretty darn good. He puts an ad in the paper that's called Leave It To Smith, where he's like, Hire me to do anything. Assessed in an ad. Crimes are fine, as long as there's no fish involved. And so he gets hired... To steal an necklace. But he's hired by the nephew of the owner of the necklace who was hired by the husband of the owner of the necklace. Both intending to give it back but they're trying to sneak money from her because she handles the finances in the family. And he's trying to give money to his daughter, stepdaughter. His stepdaughter. But okay, it's very convoluted. No, but that's what that's what this whole convoluted but generally very very low stakes heist. It's just between family and owners. Well, because you got hired by the owner to steal it. Just it's like insurance fraud basically. But like not because it's just the white insurance. But not because it's just trying to sneak money from the wife, which is technically his money. She just watches it. Yep. And she disapproves of giving it to the stepdaughter. So it's just this whole convoluted little heist between family members that the only reason Smith has signed up for it is because the librarian of this family is a girl that he just met and decided he wanted to marry. Which is why he's involved. So that's the whole chaotic setup. And then there are also actual thieves there. There are real thieves. There's a cop in disguise. There's the people at the man are trying to bust him and like if you write a whole convoluted thing, it's a very woodhouse plot. Yep. There's a lot going on. Lots of nephews. Yeah, relatively low stakes, but just deeply chaotic the entire time. And that's kind of how his plots always go. Yep, that's about it. So. That's your your broad brush for the people who haven't seen it. See it read it. It's a book that's what I meant. I know. Yeah, read it. There aren't that many. When you're looking at this book, I just like to start with basically any time I consume any media. Be it movies or books, I have edits. Like I have thoughts of like how could this have been stronger? How could it be better? What parts of it aren't perfect? Like Lodilize just my interest. Surely there are things you read that you don't have edits for. That's mirror. That's what I'm getting to you little goober. I fed. Okay. Normally. Okay, cool. Like almost always. I just like I have edits. If there are edits to have, I have them. I have thoughts. I have reactions. Like what are we going to what how could this have been better? However, there is a select few. Not that few, but few proportionally. That I'm just like no edits. I got nothing. Well, jobbed. Like could not make that better. And I think leave it to Smith is one of them. I think most a lot of woodhouses. I have no edits. And I think that's partially just because he's gotten really, really good at executing one thing. Oh yeah, there's I mean, there's not a lot of necessarily variety in his novels. Like you're going to get a lot of the same flavor, same taste. So if you like it, which you should. But it's extremely random. So even as everything hits the same vibe, there's always like new weird similes and string new strange twists on references. Well, I mean, there are one more comedic comes back to, which is just like he looked like a well-dressed sheep or something like that. He likes that metaphor. He's going to like that one. He's going to come back to it. He does like sheep, but he also he's talking about British people. So you know, out of people, they might look more like sheep. But yeah, so he has his thing that he does and he just executes that very well. What are I love about it? Part of it is it's just it's such a coherent feeling to the whole thing. So it's like there's nothing that feels not in place. Yeah, I have I have recommended Woodhouse to people who I think are reading too much of the like serious stuff, you know. So I'm like okay, you're getting too serious. It's too serious. Yes. And I'm like as someone who is reading, you know, all the serious works literature. Like doing the drawings. All the Russians. All the Russians, the George Orwell, like, Cornback McCarthy, you got all the Hemingway, you know, working down those names that you're like, Falkner, I'm like, oh, I'm too smart. Read some Woodhouse. Like, because not only is he like light and hilarious and funny and it's good for you. He's also extremely educated. Yep. So he's a kind of brilliant example of using an education in a very, very fun way. Yeah. I agree. So, but one of the things is like we've talked before about how serious isn't realism. Yeah. And like people can get caught up in like, oh, the gritty dark stuff. That is the realism and the rest of it is all not so much. And while that holds with an individual work where you like, you need balance in an individual work that also follows for your whole diet because there could be a very serious book that's very good. But it's focusing on that aspect of the world. And if you consume only those books, even if they are individually good, you are only consuming one aspect of the world. So it's like you want your diet to be broader than that. And so Woodhouse is obviously, it does not contain all the trials and woes of this world. Nor could it ever be described as realism. No. However, I always think that fat tire can give you the best character. I was thinking I was like, you probably would be happier if you acted a little more like Spith. We don't recommend it though. No, we don't, we don't recommend lies and deception. But we do recommend saying things just for fun. Yeah, do it for the plot. No, in select situations. More like just being funny is a lot. But I'm just saying this lighthearted thing has its truths too. So it's, there's so much comedy to the world and comedy to people. So it's like consume both the things that are capturing that lighthearted part of the world and things that are capturing the dark part of the world. You want, you want to be consuming both. But Woodhouse is definitely that lighthearted silly half. Well, yes, not very many people say when they propose. I forgot to mention that I can do card tricks. I was actually after he proposed. Yes, he was adding a bit after. When he proposed to, he was like, just think about me. Give me a chance like you would give an olive. Yeah, he. It's like you didn't like all of this when you first tried them. Did you? It's like I would hope that you'd extend me the same grace you would extend it all of. Okay. He's really funny. But I also, I love having the polar opposite of educated people. It's like on one half you have T.S. Eliot. It's a very, very educated guy. And his poetry is full of references and language shifts and things that are strange. Oh yeah. Some people would call him a snob because he like, you know, what translate it for you? No, he won't. He just like, it's like, oh, what? You can't speak Italian. Boohoo. Boohoo, born for you. It's like, no, I can't. And then there was in some French and English accent and Latin and it's like root. He's like, you bad boons. Don't know your languages. Clips. But he's really, really good. He's one of my favorite poets. Both pre and post conversion. His poetry slaps. It's obviously a little, it's got that lovely Christianness after, but he was still a good poet before. Yes, still good. It turns a nice little phrase. It's really, really good, serious poetry that betrays how educated he is. And then on the flip side you have Woodhouse. Where nothing, nothing could be less serious, but it's riddled with references. Like, I did an honors class in high school where we just read P.T. Woodhouse, but searching for the references. That was with Ampacar, right? Yeah, it was with our aunt. With our aunt, she loves herself a good Woodhouse. But she was always on the hunt for references. And so like, every time we read a chapter, we had to come back with like 10 references that we'd caught. And we could all find different ones. And you never found the class. And you never found all of them. There's so many. But a lot of them are mangled references. Oh, they're almost all mangled. Yeah. I love a... Just the most fun way to reference things. Sure. I like half a league, half a league, half a league onward with a hay-nani-nani and a hot cha-cha. See, that one doesn't take that much to recognize, but it's a good one. Yeah, there's a lot. But yeah, so it's fun to see that level of education go into pure comedy. Yeah. But yeah, it is a book for which I have no notes. The characters are bizarre and amazing. All of them. Do you like this one more than other Woodhouse? I would probably consider it my favorite. There are definitely others that are up there. Yeah. But I think it's my favorite. I also like Quick Service, which is kind of the same book and Code of the Woosters. Yeah. Quick Service, the main character is a little different than Smith, but oh yeah, but he's got strong similarities. He's a little less off his rocker than Smith. A little less, yeah, random. When Smith first meets Eve, his love interest, he sees her out in the rain under the, like under the awning of a building, like looking at the rain, and she's got such a lovely hatch. She doesn't want to ruin it. And so he just pops down to the lobby of his club where he was looking out from and just gives her someone else's umbrella. Well, he actually finds the best umbrella. Yeah, he's the nicest. He huts through all the umbrellas for the most expensive, nicest umbrella and then brings it to her and just steals somebody else's umbrella. He's often described as galping and then he just gallops off. When he's confronted her and she was like, I am not so weak as all these other socialists who merely talk. I am actively participating in the retribution of the word. Bro. No one knows how to respond to it. People are just constantly in shock. Talking about it. Yeah. They don't even have a little like, what? Which I think we both have had the experience of. Where you say something and people is like, star-a-plank people. People short-circuit, like what? Yeah. And one of the, one of my little details I like about this book that I don't remember happening in another book is just the way that you know Smith and Eve are meant to be together is within a first meeting them what you find out is both of them dress like rich people and are flat broke. So both of them completely confuse people because everyone looks at them and they're so well dressed, so expensively dressed that everybody just assumes they're rich and they're like, that was my last money I spent on this hatch. That was my last money. No more. No more than it. Lack of pounds from now on. That was like the level of broke Eve was when she bought her hat. And she was too beautiful. She was tempted by the hat and then she bought a matching outfit for her because she's like, I couldn't be wearing poor person clothes with a hat like that. And so yeah, both of them assume the other person is much richer when they meet each other because both of them are idiots. They're not. And dress so expensively. So Amira, apply your English major brain. What can be learned about this book? What can be learned about this book? Wow, you tell me. Not much because of your job. No, it's not. Your job actually. You're the English major. True. I mean, it's just really fun. Like there's not, it's not much of a like, it's not going to be moralizing. That's for sure. Yeah. The point is it is a book to enjoy. And yeah, I'm not saying you can learn nothing from it. Because personally, I'm like, I think we all would be having a better time. Just be a little more random. I do like it. I'm just saying that the idea behind our book club, whether we keep doing it or not, is we kind of wanted to pick to show people the kind of books we want them to be reading. Or that we try. Yeah, like the books that we, there's one thing to just reviewing things. And it's another to be like, y'all should read this. We read this. Y'all should read this. We read it because it's hilarious. And so this one isn't one with a ton of depth. I mean, you can really dig through it for the references and things. And you can look at the way that he balances his characters and how like unique and funny they are. But overall, rather than being like a ton of material to dig through, because it's all pretty surface level. It's fun. Well, yeah, it's surface level. It's just we wanted to recommend it. Yeah, kind of. But I mean, it's surface level, but also it's like every line is funny. Like, I don't know how man does it. It's just brilliant throughout the entire thing. Like every description is just hysterical. I don't, I can't think of any other author of it narrates with this level of quippiness. Terry Pratchett like is probably my second place. To just how much comedy he can fit into his narration, but he can't keep up with PG Woodhouse. Yeah, I don't know. What happens every line is funny. Yeah, every description. But yeah, I don't I don't even feel like we must always remember that poets are also gods creatures. That's a pretty good. I had that on the sarcasm wall. Do you have a favorite character other than Smith? Oh, I was like, I mean, no, we like it's one of those ones where I think that there's a correct answer for favorite character, you know? So if it's like you must be like say, Smith better be your favorite, but other than that, get a narrow go out into the eaves. What's next? Second place goes to who? Well, I mean, eaves pretty great, but I wouldn't call her my favorite character. She's just like a good, like person. Like I like her as a person. I guess she was a real person. I'd enjoy it. She's not as crazy as Smith, but she can definitely be a good artist. No, but she's definitely, she's plucky. Yeah, she's plucky and she's, she's down for all sorts of things. So like she's ready to go on a wacky adventure but she's not going to be as Bafstick is Smith. No, she'll be more spastic now that she's with Smith, but for sure. Yes, but she's about M'sworth. Yeah, I was going to say I was like, M'sworth is a recurring character through what I was. And he's a little favorite of what house? Yes, I think. So out of all the characters, probably M'sworth would be my go too. M'sworth I think is like a study on fleshing out a one note character. Like how much can you get out of one note? Because he is a cozy little guy. He's such a cozy little girl. But he's an Earl. He's like, so he's an aristocrat in a giant mansion with like generations of noble blood. And it's just kind of a fun little guy. And he always loses his glasses and he is into flowers more than anything else in the world. Well, I thought the opening of the book was kind of brilliant. The introduction M'sworth. Do you remember the O? Yes, because I had to read out my phone because I do not have a copy. How now? Do do do do do all the way back. How many pages was it? 230. Okay, I didn't have pages in my 30s something. I just found a free PDF. So at the open window of the great library of Blanding's castle, drooping like a wet sock as was this habit when he had nothing to prop his spine against. The Earl of M'sworth, that amiable and boneheaded pier stood gazing out over his domain. Like, that's pretty amazing. I was a lot in that. I love authors with good opening lines. I'm a big fan. Actually, that's beautiful. A lot of people have been talking about in my journalism glasses as leads. You know, both of like articles, but also to stories. And it was funny because my teacher was like, well, no one's like, you know, I'm going to read the first line and just shut a book. I was usually if you have a book. I was doing there like, I know for a fact, this is what my dad does. He just thinks that books reads the first lines like you don't like it. Well, when I go through a bookstore and you're having a piece of books, I'll be like, first lines. You got one line to sell me on this. We actually read it. If I'm feeling generous, maybe a first page. And I think part of it, we read an article that was interviewing Stephen King. And part of the funny thing was, I think my teacher disagreeed with him. But I was kind of with Stephen King on this one. That. Because he was talking about leads and he was like, well, the most important thing isn't necessarily giving them information in the first. I mean, he's like, there's a lot of information you can. Yeah. And he thinks it's good to have a certain amount of inspiration given. But the most important thing an author can do in the first line is set the tone and style. And the voice of the novel. That's what I tell kids when I tutor. Yeah. So it's like the first line dictates what, like how you're going to be writing this book. So it's like in a fist first line, right? You're like, the tone is that. The tone is very much set. And you're like, okay, so he's going to be being very funny. He's going to be a metaphor. He's not going to be like clippy, sure. It's not going to be that way. You're not going to have things that's like all trimmed to the edges. It's going to be excessive. Yeah, and more importantly, just not a main character. And metaphorical. Yeah, but it's like M-thorth isn't the main character. So it's not like, it's not like he set the scene, but he did extremely set the tone. Right. And so you just know from that, you're like, oh, this is going to be great. So it's another proof that man's a good writer. He's also very good at being very, very funny. Like, and it's all the same tone, but it's also just very uniquely him. Yeah. So you found a way of being funny. That's just woodhouse funny. Like even when anyone else tries to talk like this, it's like, now you're not. It's just. But yeah, I love the first one. Obviously, you don't, when you're writing, you don't or drawing anytime you're being a creator, you don't want to be someone who's just like, chasing style while you're learning, like chasing your own unique tone, because that's just, you know, like putting the cart before the horse, like you need all of your basics and you need to get, like, and then you will find your style as you work, rather than like chasing it down. But it is really great when someone is like, they do just have that voice. And no part of this feels forced. Yeah. This is just his voice as he talks. It's just him. Yeah, like, he kind of feel like if you had a conversation with the guy, he'd be pretty great. He'd probably, he'd probably sound exactly like this. Yes. Given that he wrote like this for like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, Did you also like M's worth? Was that your favorite? Yeah. M's worth. I mean, this wasn't a huge cast, but M's worth it. Yeah, I was like, it's not necessarily a great guy. You're so funny. Another, I love the line when he's because the way Smith sneaks into the man or the steel necklace is by disguising as a poet that is coming to visit. M's worth. Which M's worth. M's worth accidentally chased off because he didn't have his glasses, so he couldn't see the guy across from him. And it was just narrating about his garden for the entire conversation until he annoyed the poet so much he left. Well, not quite. He annoyed the poet it on. And then he saw a florist shop across the street and just left without saying anything. Without like, and then M's Todd was like, I'm out this guy's suck. It actually gave me one of the favorite, my favorite quotes is he comes back and he's like, tells Smith who's taking it as plays. He's like, I'm sorry, I just popped across the street there. I forgot about you. And Smith is just like, always pop across the streets. It's the secret of a happy and successful life. And so I'm just like, what? Okay. You know, AI is not helping me here. Google AI. I mean, I never use AI on purpose. I was like, you know, I just googled how many books did PG would have, right? And there's no like auto response. So I'm like, apparently, that I don't even know. How same is this? What else? 96 maybe? Like how many people read Woodhouse? Darned if I know. Cause like, I've heard him referenced in like articles when I'm reading things. I try to make as many people read them. Yes, but I rarely meet people who read Woodhouse. Or we don't have to read all 96. I certainly haven't. But there are definitely some you should. Georgia. Georgia. I was reading an article by him. I mentioned to Woodhouse. I was like, yes. Great guy. Yeah, Neil. 96 maybe that's right. I don't know. Okay, another quote I liked. Smith embarked on his solitary meal, wondering sarfly at the person at the perverseness which made girls work when there was no one to watch them. Because he failed to get Eve to bail on her work. To join him. I love Mthworth when he's monologuing about all the flowers. He has major beef with, I think it's Angus, the Scott Gardner. He's always beefing with him. Where he's monologuing. And he's like, and I said, McAllister or whatever it was, you may have your gravel path on one proviso that you build it over my dead body. Oh my God. He has no spine in most areas of his life. Except God make. And then it's like, you may not take away the moss. Yeah. That's their main fight of the book. Is do we have gravel paths or moss paths? Oh, S's. But yeah, so Woodhouse. Here's another good one. Smith is just hilarious. I'm sorry. He's so funny. It's like, it seemed to me that in addition to being a beautiful, she brought out all that was best of him in intellect and soul. That is to say, she let him talk often there in longer than any girl he had ever known. Way to go, you. One bro over. Yeah, by letting him talk. Yeah, it's also a little rough on poor Freddie, because Freddie is also deeply in love with Eve. Freddie is not that in love to Eve. I feel like Freddie has been in love with the many girls. Yes, but he's been pretty determined with Eve. True. Freddie is the nephew that hired Smith to steal the necklace. Yeah. Because he won in the thousand pounds from his uncle. Yeah, because he's also broke. This is a book of broke people. Because except for the effort, the effort is broke. You know, the Earl has a ton of money, but the problem is you can't make the Earl understand that you want to borrow money. That's very difficult. Yeah, because he just thinks about flowers. Like that's literally all he thinks about. So he's really, really difficult to communicate with on any other topic. He did hire Smith at the end of the book, especially after recognizing that Smith was related to the Smith who won the tulip competition. So he got the year that M's worth won the Rose competition. So yeah. So he's like bonding. But it's just funny because Smith, he makes chaos for people around him even when he didn't actually like directly do it. He's kind of just a chaos agent. But there's this original secretary. This is the job that Smith is hired for at the end. And is quite driven mad by the whole thing. Well, I forgot about Baxter, the efficient Baxter. But this is part of, you have to feel a little bad for the efficient Baxter because he might suck. Say it was like a buzzkill. Like, let's be real. He seems like a major buzzkill. But he's also right. He's also correct. Isn't it rough when annoying people are right? But we're still rooting for the person he's up against, which is Smith. But the misunderstandings where you're like Baxter is just straight up correct about everything that happens. That's, this is not McTodd and he is there still bad news. Yeah, like that, that's, and that's going on. That the necklace was hidden in a flower pot. Like he's just right about all of the things. But just M's worth cannot be communicated to. I've actually met a guy that's almost to this hard to communicate to, where you just like say something as clear as you possibly can. And then they just blatantly cheerfully misunderstand you. And then they laugh at you if you think they're being like, if you're like, no, no, no, you didn't get it right. They're like, ah, you're so confused. And you're like, no, no, no, no, no, you're confused. I'm not confused. I'm not sure who you're talking about. You do. I'm not going to drop names, but you know what I'm talking about. It took me a second. I was like, racking my mind. Yeah, but it's like a struggle when they're just like, what? What happened? And you're just like, oh, I like, I can't spell it out any clearer. And that's the struggle of the efficient backster and Lord M's worth. So Lord M's worth is just like, why is my secretary throwing flower pots at people? And it's like, actually, Smith threw a flower pot at him. It started a train of thought that led to that. Yeah, but also Smith is just so mean to backster. Because after backster does grow flower pots. This is why we cannot entirely say be like Smith. Yeah, because M's worth, he sees backster throw flower pots. And he is just like, like, I dismissed it the first time, but apparently because he misunderstood that situation, I was smith, I threw it, but he was like, apparently, I've got a flower pot throwing maniac of a secretary. And Smith is like, you do. And he goes down to talk to backster for M's worth. And he's like, you must cut yourself off. And he starts talking to him like an addiction pep talk of like, if you like, whenever you see you feel the urge come upon you, you must stay strong, calm, rad backster. And the backster is losing his mind. And I'm like, so partially, I'm like, yeah, be like Smith say things like Smith, the piece silent as in shrimp. You're like, as in shrimp. As in taradactyl or psychiatrist. But he also said shrimp. You're like, that throw people off for sure. So when you make the list, but don't bully poor buzz kills like backster. Stay funny things. Buzz cuss deserve love too. Just maybe just yeah, but I also, I also love that the real criminals are Americans. And it's a little favorite random thing of mine to read Americans written by other ethnicities and nationalities is just so funny. I love seeing the stereo type of stuff. Other people's perspective of Americans. And this is a pretty good one. But what's fun about it is that the lady thief of the burglars also came in as a poet. That's how she got in. But she's not there. But like she actually wrote a poetry. But what's funny is yeah, she's a real poet. So it's just the American thief is a published poet. Yep. And so like everybody found her really irritating because of all of her poetiness and it's like she's in disguise. But that was actually her real poetry. Yeah, there's actually a great line about her. Cause I wrote down quotes because I thought they were funny. Also commonplace books. Good thing to have. Yeah, no, I recommend that sort of everybody. Memorize quotes. It's fun. And like if you like reading something full of references then collect references. Like I think it's good habit to have. Here it is. This is about let's her face. Miss PVC. Is that it? Yep. Walking around. It is a sad PV. I think PV. Yeah. It is a sad but indisputable fact that in this imperfect world genius is too often condemned to walk alone. If the earth you're members of the community see it coming and have time to duck. There you go. It is funny. I get the feeling that PG Woodhouse does not like poets. Especially female poets. They actually mean the male. No, he really mean to make Todd. No, he does not like how it's. When his wife serves the guest of the healer. All of his attempts of like writing people, writing poetry are also like mocking and oozy. So the line of joy. Yes, the poetry that Smith is pretending to have written starts with the pale parabola of joy and uses like no idea what that means. But he also loves to have girls be like, do you think do is the tear drops of fairies? Smith pops up and says something like I think the flowers of the soul's little innocent children who died. And she's like wow. Beautiful. Not too bad at describing himself as a poet. Uh, he doesn't nail it. He's not. No, he doesn't seem sincere most of the time. I don't think he's good at oozing sincerity. No. Really random guy. But yes, at least Smith is just really funny. You were talking about the Americans. Well, how they talked was just really funny. It was really weird English. What do I say? Yeah. So I'm just saying that I found it funny that the American poetress is a burglar. Potas. Potas. I think. Ah. Poet lady. The poet lady. Female poet. Sometimes I feel like I should learn more. I don't think there's none. There's none are and there's just potas. Right? Yeah, I think I don't know why you weren't at an or I don't know why I did that either. And then her her little comrade. But they were they were also a couple together in their in their burglary. So they're getting married after but it's just she's really really uneducated and very easily thrown off by Smith and she was the brains of the operation. It's not like there was a big statement in American stereotypes here. They were just really aggressively not British. And they also brought two guns. So count on Americans to involve firearms. In basically any plot. Yeah. Like anytime there's any kind of story where there's a ton of people in another country in Americans show up they're probably armed. You can count on us for that. Yeah, but what has to great? He's awesome. He has lots of good both. The Smith is one of our favorites. The Birdie in Worcester. Yeah, the show was really funny too. It's a pretty faithful adaptation. I watched it in my wee years. I loved it in my wee years. Yes. In my grandmother's basement. So if you want very embarrassing situations. The code for us embarrassing. Obviously we think you should read Leave It To Smith. But let's just add a couple others on there. Quick service. Damhill and distress. Jill the reckless. Jill the reckless. And hit up the Jeeps and Woosters. I like the code of the Woosters. But when I read the code of the Woosters in my younger years I would actually have to like look away from the book. I was cringing so hard. One of those terrible things where you're like, so like, if you're watching something, right, you can just like actually cover your eyes. No, turn around and it'll go away. It won't go away. No, it won't go away. You can't just skip it because you don't know what happened. It won't go away. You can't just like, even if you look away and you cover your eyes, you're like, darn it. I think I have to go back. But I have never been the book. Yeah, I've never been made to cringe so hard. As in code of the Woosters, like from a book. Oh my gosh. Movies can make me cringe, but I don't have, there's not that many books that can make me cringe with secondhand embarrassment. What else? It's kind of funny because most of the candy barrisps. It's kind of funny because most of the candy barrisps. This is a great sub series because most of his books as well as a lot of other books are about a guy getting the girl. Right? Yes. The geez that we engaged to the writer. Yeah, the geez in Woosters series is all about Bernie trying to get rid of the girl. He always gets engaged. He always has getting engaged against his will or on accident and is always trying to shake the girl. But there's like this thing where it's like the guy can't dump the girl. So he has to like have all the other things. We always have to make a way for her to dump. Or for her to fall in love with someone else. Yeah, so there's, Bernie is just the incompetent noble with jeez, his right hand man, who is much better at all of this plotting and planning than he is. That doesn't stop Worcester from trying though. But yeah, the series of trying to shake the girl. Because you can't dump her. No, especially with the ants all looking on. That's another thing that would house weirdly has beef with our ants. He has some good ants. Like, there's like, Aunt Dahlia, is she the good one? Aunt Dahlia is a good one. But one of the things that he says in that book is like all on saw the same. It's like you might think they're nice, but sooner or later out pops the clove and hoof. Yeah, Woodhouse is just hysterical. And Aunt Dahlia still like threatens Bernie periodically. She says like, I am taking legal advice on to ascertain whether strangling a stupid nephew is against the law to refer to her or not watch yourself. To refer to her, Bernie is an incompetent nebulous for sure. I'm fully muffin head like he's a twerf. But he's telling me I think one of the dialogues from his book is him being like, there are days that one asks oneself, do pants matter? Dave's response, the mood will pass. But yeah, so the, I can't recommend that show too. The show is good. I don't know where you can watch that though. I have no idea. But it's my fault who's the lead. What's his face? The guy in house. Laurie. He Laurie. Yeah. He's a great actor, so he does great job. But yeah, playing Bernie. Woodhouse is almost entirely worth reading. Like I don't, I haven't read a book that I was like, that wasn't worth it. There you, you can write that for sure. There are the more perfect specimens and the last perfect specimens, but he is always funny. He will always be funny. So you don't have to read all of them, but you should read some of them. Especially if you did not read, leave it to Smith. It also makes it can make you affectionate towards the little stupid heads in real life. Yeah, you're like, just don't like all look at a little guy. Look, it's just a well dressed sheep. Like we move from being annoyed to being patronizing. Which is progress. Kind of. I think so. It's less like, you know, villainous. No, no, no. Yeah, well, it's always better to have affection. It's always better to kind of take the power away from annoying people to be like rather than looking at it as like malevolent something to like an opponent of any kind that you need to like butt heads with. You're just like, you can to be like, I'll look at the little silly guy. Look at you little fool. You're just ready. Yeah. A well dressed sheep. I, oh, one of his other one is the sheep with a secret sorrow. I look, which is good. I like that he looked like a bereaved tapeworm. That's a good one. She looked like she was poured into the dress and forgot to say when that one threw is he the he was in the back of the line when the next were handed out? No, the chin's for hand. Yeah, you looked like he was in the back of the line when the chin's were being handed out. I like he looked like someone who had been like chasing rainbows and wanted turned around and bit him in the lake. Like you're like, oh, like I can kind of actually make that image in my mind. But like, where, how did you think it was? Who like, where did the inspiration come from? He looks like one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom. Yes, but there he goes. There was endless quotes. They're endless. I also like, of course, it is best on all occasions to be above reproach. But failing that, the next best thing is undoubtedly to hide the body. It was pretty good. Okay, we did not, to be ever think about like, what are next books should be? No, I told you that we were going to see whether people wanted another one. Oh, yeah, you did say that. I did that. She doesn't listen to me. No, I remember that. Why not? I only say interesting things. I know. Your voice is just so soothing, you know what kind of, I'm going to sleep. And you know, I know that we didn't have a ton of deep thoughts this time around, but it's just an amazing book. It's just a pleasure to eat. Yeah. Cheers. Cheers.