[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a cup of daily to get a fuck out of our absolutely jar.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I am your host Kelsey Mubba fucking just turned thirty five.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is going to be a little bit of a short and sweet little shattering of an episode because it's your girl's birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's your girl's thirty fifth birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just earned thirty-five.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying, uh, I'm saying, oh my god, yeah, I'm something tiny, but like how am I thirty-five you guys?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been making internet videos since I was like twenty.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's fifteen years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm freaking out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, also if you hear the little grumbling on the side, Fred just ran into praying.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I was laughing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So our Fred is our foster dog that we've had.
[SPEAKER_00]: And by we, I mean, for the last month and change, and he is a little micro bully.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he had a Fred.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know you had a video go viral this weekend on the talk app?
[SPEAKER_00]: You have like three million views on a video, rather.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, it's so funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was like us just a stupid throwaway video that I was literally like, let me just make this before I go to bed because I feel like I haven't been doing a good enough job of posting about him of like trying to help him get adopted.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here's just in my office with me the other night and I just like pulled him from the the floor and was like.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is Fred and he looked so funny, so goofy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think people were just enamored all big yon by your little silly, smushed face.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a resting, you're the biggest frowny face I've ever seen in my life, Fred.
[SPEAKER_00]: People keep saying you look like an old man in a baby's body.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're like Benjamin Bunning, you're going backwards.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he has a little bit of zoomies right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's playing bites with my thingies.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yes, if you want to adopt Fred, he is still available for adoption.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you can watch those videos I've been posting to get to know a little bit more about his personality.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was so funny because every now and then you'll get one of your videos come across the tables of a celebrity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like a random celebrity will pop up in my comments every now and then I'm like, oh, that's funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: My video made it in dear for a U-page.
[SPEAKER_00]: We must be like six degrees of separation or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this week's weird random six degrees of celebrity separation was Nikolay Shay.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perfect match host, but more importantly, ninety eight degrees.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baddest baddie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't even know the other ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't even tell you what the other ones looked like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nik was always that guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wore the wife beater.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had Jessica Simpson.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was that guy for a minute.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's back with his wifey and hosting all them Netflix shows.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think I had captioned the Fred video something like, is Fred your perfect match home or something?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he commented, BRB petitioning for Netflix to make a season of perfect match, dog edition.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whether or not it was his intern or whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were thrilled.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fred was so happy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said, we are ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fred is ready.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if I wasn't dating the athlete, I would be on every single one of those dating Netflix reality shows are you kidding me?
[SPEAKER_00]: The way I did just hear traders is casting regular civilians for traders.
[SPEAKER_00]: U.S.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I am all over it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that was very funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: We had a funny pop up little viral video every now and then they, the dogs, they do pop off.
[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I had a birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's my little housekeeper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: There it is, housekeeping.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have my birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was so not looking forward to this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think y'all could tell in my voice.
[SPEAKER_00]: You could hear it in the episodes.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't even like really post that much about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, didn't do a whole bunch of nonsense on the socials just because I was just like,
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't feel like a big one, and I just, I didn't have any self-interest this year, which is crazy to say for Leo.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as we learned from Maddie, Murphy last week's episode, I need to be seen right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is Leo season, and that is about being seen.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm trying to
[SPEAKER_00]: But myself out there a little bit more, be a little bit more excited.
[SPEAKER_00]: But my parents had come in town to have a layover before they went to Hawaii for my mother's birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they were stopping off pretending like they were coming to hang out with me, but they really just here for a layover.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we went and had the most like crazy jam packed day and change with each other like it was so much fine they landed we immediately went out to breakfast in my dad was like so you're thirty five and I was like yeah can you believe in he's like
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have kids are getting married anytime soon.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be an old maid.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right, folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: He used the term old maid, which just goes to show you how old my dad is.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then my mother and I proceeded to school him on the statistics of marriage in case he my sweet sweet father who's just
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a romantic at heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like my parents have been together for forty years next year and like he is just such a soft like stove leaves in love and like once, you know, he just sees a white picket fence stream for his kids.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I really thought he'd let go of that whole idea.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when he said that like first thing, he said, when he got in the car with us and I was like, what the fuck?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, my mom were like, that fuck, excuse me?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I weirded that come from out of this
[SPEAKER_00]: There's more morally liberal and loose man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, so that was funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to really do the run around with just where I'm at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, excuse me, I am with a twenty eight year old man right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you think he has any intentions of settling down having a kid and
[SPEAKER_00]: getting married.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, and is that something I even want?
[SPEAKER_00]: No.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fred, don't worry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not yelling at you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can just keep chewing on my fingers.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just like so very gently chewing on my fingers.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: I even put a little press on nails for my birthday to celebrate their sparkles.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the one time I try to be a little bit them.
[SPEAKER_00]: on the birthday, you know, I put on tight dress a little sparkly little little, little, little, little heel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so we went out to breakfast, then we shopped and shopped and then for my actual birthday dinner, we went to this insane restaurant, which I don't know how I lived in Los Angeles as long as I have and I've never heard of it or been to it called Barton G's.
[SPEAKER_00]: I highly recommend if you want to have a miniature Vegas night out
[SPEAKER_00]: in West Hollywood.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in like a completely unknown, unassuming box restaurant just looks like a regular, a regular restaurant from the outside, but they're like gimmick, they're a little hook.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I still listen on TikTok.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can look it up too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you order comes with the most insane visual presentation.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't mean that as like a Michelin star chef.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean like the bottom of a
[SPEAKER_00]: two presentation in like the most big is he funny ass way like we got the ribeye and it came out on a lawnmower that made a like like they turned it on and then they let you look at it all bunch and then they leave it and you eat your food off of it and they turned off the little sound and we were like what the fuck we ordered the dessert we had the Marie Antoinette which was a four foot tall
[SPEAKER_00]: Statue of cotton candy that was wrapped around a mannequin that looked like a drag queen's head.
[SPEAKER_00]: We ate from.
[SPEAKER_00]: What else did we have?
[SPEAKER_00]: We had the most insane shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just all about the presentation there.
[SPEAKER_00]: The food is fine and good Andy, but we had such a ball.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was really just an insane fever dream of a dinner and
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a hoot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, you know, we came home.
[SPEAKER_00]: We tried to watch Sean wake forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: My parents fell asleep approximately three minutes into turning on his television, just like any parental does.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, it felt very wholesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: I also, oh my god, this is this is breaking news.
[SPEAKER_00]: How scary.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a little boo boo.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got one in my, I got one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, whatever got me, well, my birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you, if you've got an addictive personality, if you're in those AA's or those NA's or if you're in that addiction class of life,
[SPEAKER_00]: don't get a libubo because I can get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about the actual libubo.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about the opening.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about the gambling.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's about the thrill of seeking the heroin high.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is opening those little cardboard monsters.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you what, I had no idea I would get as childlike.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, there are adult meaning babies, but I was
[SPEAKER_00]: I was genuinely like a nervous high wondering what I was going to pull out like what color I was hoping for the secret I got luck for anyone who cares.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, I immediately was then looking up how to order a giant box that and I went.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you're all kills, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't just, you don't just dive right in and drink the whole fifth of whiskey.
[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta have a shopper, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Just because it tastes like licorice doesn't mean you egg your mom won't fuck up your entire life and drink your bank account.
[SPEAKER_00]: It will.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what a little booboo will do if you don't watch out.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is coming from one attic early to the next.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just don't limit your intake.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fred, you're really, you're really going after my fingies there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does it taste like steak?
[SPEAKER_00]: What's happening?
[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you're enjoying.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I got a label, my sister ordered me a giant chocolate cake that I will be eating all by myself this week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the athlete also got me the newest Jordan for retro jeans sneakers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're very cute.
[SPEAKER_00]: Catch them on the gram.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will be wearing them for every of it from here on out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's see.
[SPEAKER_00]: My parents bought me a cute little jacket that we saw at the thrift store.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I just had an overall, I think I was just sad because I didn't want to plan anything because I knew my parents were going to be here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't have the love of my life that L-O-M-L here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to go visit him in Europe, but that's not financially feasible at this very moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to find a way to get out there, but I do miss him in long-dong distance.
[SPEAKER_00]: They sucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: It sucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god, speaking of this is, you know what, I thought this episode wasn't really quick.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a lot of freaking.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got a Jade Egg stuck up in my body.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got a jade egg somewhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even a lie.
[SPEAKER_00]: I outgooved.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gooved too close to the sun.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought because maybe it's been ten years since the trend of putting jade eggs up your whoa has gone came and went.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I could outbest the egg and let me tell you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had a fucking crystal up my couch for two and a half hours today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, I had a long day to myself today.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a relaxation day.
[SPEAKER_00]: My parents left.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was, you know, I'm getting over a science infection because, you know, I am me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought, you know, I think I'm finally going to try this thing and just like see what it's about.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's supposed to like, I don't know, work out your Yoni muscles.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's supposed to align your fucking
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it does actually, but it was nice and cold.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will say that's what kind of like got me into it was that it was so nice and cold and I don't think you guys know how deep the cervix goes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I felt like this thing was in my butt.
[SPEAKER_00]: It went in and then dropped down because it's heavy.
[SPEAKER_00]: That thing is ways, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: And it went inside me and then I just felt like I'll don't like it hit a floor and I was like
[SPEAKER_00]: Where is it?
[SPEAKER_00]: And y'all, I looked.
[SPEAKER_00]: This thing went where no diva cup had gone before, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I had never reached.
[SPEAKER_00]: To I thought I was going to pull out a
[SPEAKER_00]: eighth wonder.
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought I was going to find the circle of hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I was so far and truly learned a lot about my my anatomy because I thought the thing wasn't my ass.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not even a lot of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like it was in my ass.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to bear up.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to bear down.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had the labor and I had to labor out.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to protest.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to rest.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had to do so many things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And at one point I gave up and just started watching videos on my phone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I had like Google out and get a J-day out of your pussy and then I got distracted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was like, wait, oh my god, I have a crystal in my coat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I got to get it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the thing is, is like, you can sit pretty comfortably and not feel it in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you can like, do certain movements and lace or in ways and you're like, oh, there's a crystal in my coat.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you can also just sit there and it just will be in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I wonder if people do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it wasn't until I heard, heard, I read some advice that if you like sit on the toilet, pretend like you're gonna turn your foot.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what finally got it out of me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I was doing all sorts of squatting positions.
[SPEAKER_00]: If any, I'd be any yogis are listening.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did, um, like, goddess squat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did, um, soup, not soup to butter can answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the one where, yeah, no, I did do soup to butter can answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's the one, malasana?
[SPEAKER_00]: I did malasana.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I was doing all these crazy squats, but I think it actually, but I had to exit more horizontally than I was expecting.
[SPEAKER_00]: Expecting.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was a crazy afternoon.
[SPEAKER_00]: And like, of course, I know when to talk to you about it, I wasn't just going to be like texting the group chats or like, you know, updating people.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here I am now on my couch telling you guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: So anyway, just by the ones with the strings attached, that's what I, that's my lesson learned.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, Fred, did you hear that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you hear about how I got an egg stuck up my coat?
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like a chicken.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a goddamn rooster for my birthday.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's what I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was crazy today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, hey, did you guys watch that Taylor Swift interview?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was a good one, wasn't it?
[SPEAKER_00]: When we come back from this quick break, we're gonna talk about that in a couple of things that I've been really enjoying and loving.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, that T Swift interview.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've been listening for a while, if you're here.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know that I am, I'm right down the middle about T Swift and that I obviously love her music.
[SPEAKER_00]: Many of her albums have gotten me through crazy times in my life.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the overall representation of who she projects herself to be and the class she represents, that like, yes, it would be amazing if she had more influence on certain parts of things in her, you know, whatever, but I can also expect
[SPEAKER_00]: that person to want to do that with it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they might not be interested in doing that with their life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like with great power does not come great responsibility as we've seen with our president in the rest of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And gestures broadly to the rest of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I really enjoyed watching that podcast interview.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was originally in a watch with a girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: I ain't got two hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do up to hours.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I started seeing clips on social media and I was like, I think I'd never seen her sit and talk for that amount of time uninterrupted edited lightly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, but I had never seen her just look at that comfortable and free and
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, just like herself and an interview before.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I said, you know, let me put this thing up on my TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me my dinner.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no, no, no, no with dogs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we watched that two hour interview.
[SPEAKER_00]: And my highlights.
[SPEAKER_00]: may not be everyone's favorite highlights, but truly my highlights were I loved how much physical touch travel go beyond her ad I thought his support of her like you can tell that she is so comfortable around him and to hear all about these private little moments I just I really enjoyed watching their body language and like watching her
[SPEAKER_00]: her look at him the way he looked at her and I do think she is more in love with him even though she pretends to be like the smart one and he's like the big dumb office football player.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I do think she is more in damn.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why I just get that vibe if you agree with me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know in the comments below.
[SPEAKER_00]: I might be starting some shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fred, what do you think?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have anything to say?
[SPEAKER_00]: very good.
[SPEAKER_00]: He agrees.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you follow me on Goodreads, which if you don't, you absolutely should.
[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to transfer over to that other one that you guys told me story worth is that what it's called, but it's very hard to figure out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I mean, Goodreads is not any better, but I just I have a hard time navigating that the story graph.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that what it's called?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so I've been reading a lot lately and I want to talk about some of my favorites that I have come across and some might maybe you could skip it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this is another little mini episode of our scandalous feminist book club.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Last time we did some, we did, what do we do?
[SPEAKER_00]: We did how to date men when you hate men.
[SPEAKER_00]: We did come as you are and I think boy slut.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this week, we're going to be talking about some fun ones.
[SPEAKER_00]: I read Open Wide by Jessica Gross.
[SPEAKER_00]: I rated this four stars and the log line is as follows and it also has a great cover photo.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, it is a provocative novel about intimacy loving consent following an increasingly obsessive radio host.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who test boundaries she didn't know existed all of his desperate to get close to Theo really really close.
[SPEAKER_00]: She always struggled to connect with people and now she's in her thirty singles single.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so fostered by relationships that she secretly records her conversations hoping to decipher social clues and find a way to be less alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then Theo comes into her life and I'm not going to spoil it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says weird as all of us and he wants to get close.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she also wants to get close, like really close, like in his skin if she could.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think this is technically like a romantic thriller.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's three point seven five stars.
[SPEAKER_00]: It has a hundred sixty two ratings, a hundred views on good reads.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is mostly rated four stars.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love insane women of literature.
[SPEAKER_00]: a crazy female protagonist signed me all the way up for a modern contemporary romcom romancey thriller effect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like this was definitely the kind of book I wanted to write.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want to write my novel like where it's just weird absurd unbelievable, but you are believing it and you want to stick with it because you have to figure out what happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I gave it four stars the only reason why I didn't get five and without being spoilery.
[SPEAKER_00]: is I would have liked a better explanation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll just say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't say anymore because I don't want to spoil it, but I think it was such a fun up-to-date of our times look at codependency.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, like intimacy, the power of consent in a relationship even,
[SPEAKER_00]: It had a lot of metaphorical alternative meetings, and I listened to the audiobook of this one, so I think if you like a weird, crazy fucking main character girl you have, this one is for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've read it before, let me know what you think in the comments below.
[SPEAKER_00]: This next one, I'm excited to tell you about because your girl
[SPEAKER_00]: She got a library card.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right, library cards are free.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty ninety-nine, and he's gonna know that you're county library.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I went over to our gorgeous West Hollywood library in Los Angeles.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a stunning building.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would go there and just like hang out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, bitch, look at all these motherfucking books.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are best sellers that brand knew, they're adult, they're contemporary, they're fiction, they're nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like there were so many that you forget a library is,
[SPEAKER_00]: up to date.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like when I think of a library, I think of an old dusty encyclopedia, Almanaki place, but I forget that they are getting all the Barnes & Noble's bestsellers just as much as any other bookstores.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I said, let me just kind of on Overell, and they had this book called Eleven percent on one of the
[SPEAKER_00]: Display shelves.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, oh, this is a cool cover.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's very like crackled stone dark with two snakes, a two headed cobra on the front with big pink riding.
[SPEAKER_00]: That says eleven percent and a woman laying underneath it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like a Renaissance woman.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the author's name, I hope right pronounce this right, is Marin Uthog.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it is a gosh, I want to get this right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it a Danish book?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's Danish.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go with Danish.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I said, let me read this log by Dion, y'all are going to hear exactly where I was, and I should up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And inverse the handmaid's tale asks, what if women took over the world?
[SPEAKER_00]: It is the new time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what's interesting about this new time in this book is that it's actually kind of like post-apocalyptic in that, not post-apocalyptic.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is like post-clearly in apocalypse of some sort.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they basically restarted
[SPEAKER_00]: the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they restarted though, only eleven percent of the population left are men.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they are kept in scientific spas, as they call them, by women.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you follow around these, it's like a four story POV, one woman is a witch, because those exist.
[SPEAKER_00]: One is a priestess, a high priestess, bringing in that religious aspect.
[SPEAKER_00]: One is a, how do I explain what she is?
[SPEAKER_00]: She is, I don't want to give anything away.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's two other women, and you'll figure it out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the men are kept at these spas.
[SPEAKER_00]: And basically, if you want to procreate, which use that they are, you have to go make an appointment with one of these men at the spas.
[SPEAKER_00]: You bone them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They get put back up in their cages.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then if you have a boy, it goes to the scientific center.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the women don't want them anyway, because they're like, men are out of control.
[SPEAKER_00]: They ruin the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're the reason why the world went down the first time.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I had a joyous time flying through this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I read this one in Hardcover, and I would have loved to listen to it on audiobook, but it is a translation, again, from a Danish book.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't know how different it would be from the original.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought it was just such a, again, fucking weird
[SPEAKER_00]: Fine, chaotic, thrillery, anticipatory work of art and fluthera, I think, in three days and, oh, Fred, damn girl.
[SPEAKER_00]: Highly recommend to totally see this being made into a movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's very provocative.
[SPEAKER_00]: They be doing so weird.
[SPEAKER_00]: Shit in this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I fucking ate.
[SPEAKER_00]: it up again, if you don't like those books that kind of give you an uneasy feeling a little bit after you read them you're like, oh, I kind of like, who I got to take a walk for a second, just like, get my head back on straight.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one's like just a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: beneath that, you know, you won't walk away with a tummy ache, but you'll definitely be like, well, this is a fucking journey.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that is the eleventh percent by Maryn Uthog.
[SPEAKER_00]: And finally, I'm going to tell you the one that I was a little bit dare I say, dare I say disappointed by
[SPEAKER_00]: This one is one of my higher rated, that this was on my four star and above list.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is rated four point two three out of five stars over a million ratings.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why I was like this has to be fantastic over a hundred thousand reviews.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is called Eleanor Olifant is completely fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gave it two stars, which I was so sad to say, uh, this is the log line.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Meet Eleanor, Elefant.
[SPEAKER_00]: She struggles with appropriate social skills.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just releasing a trend of all the books.
[SPEAKER_00]: And tends to say exactly what she's thinking, very like Spectrum Coded.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing is missing and her carefully timetable life of avoiding social interactions where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza vodka and film chats with mummy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
[SPEAKER_00]: When she and Raymond together, saved Sammy and elderly gentlemen who is fallen on the sidewalk, the three of you come, the kind of friends who rescue one another from the lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: of isolation they have each been living and it is Raymond's big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find a way to repair her only repair her own profoundly damaged one soon to be a major motion picture.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why I also want to read it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Produced by none other than the Reese with her spoon Eleanor Elefon is completely fine as the smart warm and uplifting story about and out of the ordinary here when who's deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit makes for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open your heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: It like sounds like a fun time, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't get it and I kept waiting to get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I listened to this one on audiobook.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe that had an effect on me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really truly, the main character as much as I love like a weird cookie.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like she didn't do it for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: The story lines are different.
[SPEAKER_00]: The romance is doing the twist didn't surprise me whatsoever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call that shit from the jump.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was a near well.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it was such a moment, cause four point two, three stars.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I have bad taste?
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't answer that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I do.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need to be told by internet strangers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I wish I could understand what everybody else saw in this one.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've read it, write a comment below.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me know what you liked about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What am I missing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do I need to go back and like read this on paperback or something?
[SPEAKER_00]: It just wasn't for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't title my fancy.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't title my due dad.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't jade my egg.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't find it.
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