WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:00.920 Look. 2 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:03.680 I mean, would I watch like some sort of sort 3 00:00:03.680 --> 00:00:06.360 of life and death trials of citizens? 4 00:00:06.639 --> 00:00:09.199 I probably would, but I would want to see it live. 5 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:10.960 I don't want the clip show. 6 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:15.039 There are three trials. The first one is camping, the 7 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:18.039 second one is hiking, and the third one is Amaze. 8 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:21.039 It's so stupid. It's always the most obvious stuff. 9 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:23.480 It was like the man was wearing a party hat 10 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:26.000 and his his shirt had a pin on it that 11 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:28.239 said lordie, lordie, look who's forty. 12 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.079 When the reveal was that his full name was Malachi, 13 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.679 I did instantly find him hotter. 14 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:35.159 And I can't explain. 15 00:00:36.159 --> 00:00:40.000 I am so tired of the female protagonist that the 16 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:41.679 male needs to feed because. 17 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:42.600 Otherthwise she's going to starve. 18 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:45.759 It's like being poor, being poor. 19 00:00:46.439 --> 00:00:55.200 Amazed, Powerless, Powerless, Powerless, Hello everyone, and welcome back to 20 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.119 Me book Club. This week we read Powerless by Lauren Roberts. 21 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:07.280 Ooh, power Less a pick me female protagonist. 22 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:09.760 Can you believe we're doing a female. 23 00:01:09.480 --> 00:01:14.680 Protect this podcast? Is this a book we've read before? Perhaps? 24 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.079 Anyway, we are literally And I was like, I'd believe it. 25 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:23.079 Yeah, I know it's you understand it's going to happen 26 00:01:23.239 --> 00:01:26.480 and probably soon yeah episode we release. 27 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.400 It and then people one's like wait, yeah, so it's 28 00:01:30.439 --> 00:01:33.480 like you like, none of us catch it on? 29 00:01:33.879 --> 00:01:36.159 None of us. Remember, we read so many of these 30 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.560 it is hard to keep track. Anyway. We are mean 31 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:42.560 book Club read New York Times bestsellers that you want 32 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:47.480 us to whine about. As always, I'm Sarah Burton, I'm Jonas. 33 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:49.359 Grabis, and I'm Sabrina b. 34 00:01:49.959 --> 00:01:58.040 Jordan, and Clara is perhaps joining, perhaps not doing her 35 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:05.000 mysterious thing, but let's keep going. Powerless again by Lauren Roberts. 36 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.520 My goodness, why are we reading this book? It's because 37 00:02:08.599 --> 00:02:14.039 Sarah b No, not me, Sarah Bigger Staff. She's wrote 38 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:17.000 to us and said, I love your show, and having 39 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:21.280 just discovered it recently, I'm enjoining binge listening to it. 40 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:23.599 I regularly burst out laughing at the gym or walking 41 00:02:23.639 --> 00:02:26.000 my dog as I listened and attract some funny looks. 42 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:29.639 My recommendation for a formulaight cringey, poorly written New York 43 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.120 Times bestseller book is Powerless by Lauren Roberts. I know 44 00:02:33.159 --> 00:02:35.039 you've done a few fantasy books recently, and this has 45 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:38.360 a lot colm with Fourth Ring Wing. However, there is 46 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:40.960 so much tackle in this book, from the painfully stereotypical 47 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:45.039 character descriptions to the incorrect use of language guttural being 48 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:49.800 used to describe something visual anyone. I just couldn't understand 49 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:51.759 this book success, and I'm excited to hear you give 50 00:02:51.800 --> 00:02:54.719 it the full NBC treatment. All Right, well, here we go. 51 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:57.879 Can I say what I love most about this is 52 00:02:58.280 --> 00:03:00.599 she felt like she needed to defend. 53 00:03:00.639 --> 00:03:01.240 She's like, I know. 54 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:03.039 You've already done a lot of these and you're probably 55 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:04.199 not gonna want to do another. 56 00:03:04.240 --> 00:03:06.680 It's like, oh, Sarah, we want to do enough. 57 00:03:06.840 --> 00:03:09.400 Sarah, Now, that's right up our alley. You didn't need this. 58 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:12.280 I kept thinking, what a good wreck. 59 00:03:14.199 --> 00:03:16.159 Sarah are Sarah B. 60 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.199 I just want to say I'm proud at you, proud 61 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:22.159 of you for skipping over the greeting, which was Hi Sarah, Clara, Sabrina, 62 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:26.319 and Johanna. I just I feel like that was it 63 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.599 was an would have been an easy attack, and it 64 00:03:28.639 --> 00:03:30.240 will be remembered during a little fucker. 65 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:34.400 Okay, oh I thought you met you were coming after 66 00:03:34.479 --> 00:03:35.439 other Sarah bid. 67 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:38.080 Yeah, she's at the top. 68 00:03:38.159 --> 00:03:40.879 What you meant is I need to do something even 69 00:03:40.919 --> 00:03:44.199 more chivalrous than Sarah has just done set up. 70 00:03:44.240 --> 00:03:46.879 Oh wow, oh wow, chivalry. 71 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:49.000 A gentleman like we had in this book. 72 00:03:48.800 --> 00:03:51.199 But like Kai, so I just I pulled a Kai. Well, 73 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.560 real low bar for Kai, real low bar for me. So, 74 00:03:53.719 --> 00:03:55.599 how did you guys read this book? 75 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:57.560 You know what I did? 76 00:03:58.319 --> 00:03:58.520 Yeah? 77 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:01.919 You know it was I did three point five three 78 00:04:01.919 --> 00:04:03.120 point five times audio. 79 00:04:03.719 --> 00:04:06.560 You gotta do it with a seventeen hour audio book. 80 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:07.840 It's so long. 81 00:04:08.400 --> 00:04:13.879 Unnecessarily, I started this with audio, and I switched to 82 00:04:13.919 --> 00:04:17.839 reading it in like on my phone because it was 83 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:21.959 so much faster, because you can skim this baby real good. 84 00:04:22.560 --> 00:04:26.120 Yeah, I know this book is powerless, but I never 85 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:30.160 feel as powerful as when I can listen and retain 86 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:31.920 at three point five time speed. 87 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:35.040 I feel superhuman when I do it. 88 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:37.920 And there is a lot of repetition in this book. 89 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.240 There was a lot of the same conversation happening again 90 00:04:40.279 --> 00:04:41.040 and again. 91 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:44.199 So a lot of twitching mouths and quivering. 92 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:49.720 Lips yes, and blinking blue eyes. I want to say I. 93 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.160 Ended up with three copies of this book, and two 94 00:04:55.199 --> 00:04:58.160 of them have been safely returned to the public library. 95 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:00.759 Were any of them like the original? Because you know, 96 00:05:00.879 --> 00:05:04.839 like this was self published originally, so like we're any 97 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:08.879 of them, like no first edition. 98 00:05:09.839 --> 00:05:12.199 They all looked the same as the audiobook that I 99 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:15.240 ended up listening to in desperation at the last minute. 100 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:17.160 Okay, I couldn't. 101 00:05:16.839 --> 00:05:19.319 Get through the hardbacks. 102 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:26.120 All right, fair, fair fair Okay. Also reading, switching from 103 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:30.360 the audio to reading, it was really funny to me 104 00:05:30.439 --> 00:05:32.800 because the reveal of how you spell the name Peyton 105 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:34.079 was really good for me. 106 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:41.399 Yeah, across the spelling of it. But I came across this. 107 00:05:41.519 --> 00:05:44.800 I think it might have been in like the the 108 00:05:44.920 --> 00:05:47.480 description of the audiobook, which I just had not looked at. 109 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:49.920 And then at the very end, I was like, what 110 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:51.560 this he's a E. 111 00:05:51.800 --> 00:05:52.720 D y N. 112 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:54.199 Is that what we're sorry? 113 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:56.800 Yeah, don't name your child that. Don't do that to 114 00:05:56.879 --> 00:05:57.480 a person. 115 00:05:57.720 --> 00:05:59.600 Oh, I just can't can't wait to give you a 116 00:05:59.600 --> 00:06:00.360 little more info. 117 00:06:01.360 --> 00:06:03.319 Oh boy, And I say that, Look, I say that 118 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.839 as a Johanna. And by the way, no, I meant 119 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:10.160 no malage towards Sarah B. You're You're right, I'm the 120 00:06:10.199 --> 00:06:13.600 one that has the name. You and the rest of 121 00:06:13.600 --> 00:06:14.240 the world are right. 122 00:06:14.319 --> 00:06:17.519 And so I'm just saying, as a person with a 123 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:19.600 strange name, don't do it to a child. 124 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:23.160 Just let them be a Sarah, Let them be a Kate. 125 00:06:23.439 --> 00:06:25.120 Let them if you want to add a little flavor, 126 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:26.160 a little color, let them. 127 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:27.639 Be a Sabrino's. 128 00:06:27.920 --> 00:06:33.600 It's just actually, I love all sabrina. 129 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:36.199 I know it's about to say, there's some pretty famous Sobrina's. Okay, 130 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:42.839 guys are ready to do Sarah name first? Yes, okay, 131 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:45.240 it's a tab. I don't know. This is a new thing. 132 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.519 Do you notice that there's a tab? No? 133 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:48.639 A tab? 134 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.360 You see the document? There's a document tab? No? 135 00:06:54.680 --> 00:06:56.279 What do you mean a document to the side. 136 00:06:56.519 --> 00:06:58.319 Oh no, this is really going to mess them up, 137 00:06:58.360 --> 00:06:58.759 isn't it? 138 00:06:59.160 --> 00:07:00.759 Just? Okay idea? 139 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:03.000 But this is a really annoying way to do this. 140 00:07:03.040 --> 00:07:05.680 Why didn't you just put it on the outline. 141 00:07:06.160 --> 00:07:07.879 Because I wanted to do it this way. 142 00:07:08.480 --> 00:07:09.160 I don't like this. 143 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:10.160 It was easier for me. 144 00:07:11.000 --> 00:07:12.360 You're back on the chopping plot. 145 00:07:13.759 --> 00:07:16.000 This is so much better. Okay, sorry, I'm just realizing 146 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:19.680 this is really just a conversation between Okay, so basically 147 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:25.680 this summary Lauren Roberts, the writer. She basically went live 148 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:30.720 on TikTok to talk about her idea for this book. 149 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:33.600 And so this is just this is what I imagine happened 150 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:37.759 when she went live. Okay, this is the year twenty 151 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:45.000 twenty two. Yeah, I should give you roles? Uh Sabrina? 152 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:51.480 Do you want to be Lauren Roberts? Okay? Lauren? 153 00:07:51.879 --> 00:07:52.319 Sure? 154 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:55.839 And JOHNA. Would you like to be all the randos? Great? 155 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:57.360 I would love to wait. 156 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.959 Sorry, who was my who was my second one? 157 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:04.879 You're just Lauren, just Lauren Roberts, the author belong? 158 00:08:05.360 --> 00:08:06.439 And who else was? I? 159 00:08:07.199 --> 00:08:12.120 Nobody? Felt like nobody else? Okay, what's happening? 160 00:08:12.480 --> 00:08:15.920 Saverna, revealing she has never heard of the author's name before, 161 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.319 and I'm now doubting she has even. 162 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:22.279 Knowed this book. She's clicking around looking really confused, like 163 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:23.480 I see lights flashing. 164 00:08:25.120 --> 00:08:25.680 It's just the. 165 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:29.279 No, I don't know what you're talking about. 166 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:31.319 She's in a panic. 167 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:33.519 Why did you guys? You were at the tap, you 168 00:08:33.519 --> 00:08:34.639 found the tab and now. 169 00:08:34.600 --> 00:08:35.360 I found the tab? 170 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:36.919 Oh? 171 00:08:37.000 --> 00:08:40.519 Okay, all right, okay, you guys, are we ready? Okay, 172 00:08:40.679 --> 00:08:42.600 I'll just say this again. I'll set in the scene. 173 00:08:43.720 --> 00:08:47.080 Lauren Roberts goes live on TikTok in the year twenty 174 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:47.600 twenty two. 175 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:52.600 Hey, girlies, I just got an idea for a book, 176 00:08:52.639 --> 00:08:55.279 and I want to spitball with it with y'all. 177 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:57.360 What if there. 178 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:02.200 Was this homeless eighteen year old and she has to 179 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:04.480 pretend to have magic powers because. 180 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:07.799 Okay, in her world, people don't have magic powers. 181 00:09:08.559 --> 00:09:13.559 Those people are called ordinary or like diseased. They get shunned. 182 00:09:14.279 --> 00:09:17.320 I'm still working on that. But anyway, this girl, she 183 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:20.480 gets selected for this, like, let's just rip from the 184 00:09:20.879 --> 00:09:24.120 Hunger Games, a Hunger Games thing and all because she 185 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:27.519 saved one of the prince's lives. 186 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:31.159 Lauren, big fan, Can the prince also compete in the 187 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:32.320 Hunger Games thing? 188 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:35.480 Does that make sense? Doesn't matter? 189 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.639 Okay, yes, yes, because then they can beat the shit 190 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:40.759 out of each other. 191 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:45.799 And then almost take out a bunch Yeah. Nah, enemies 192 00:09:45.919 --> 00:09:47.320 to lovers, baby? 193 00:09:47.840 --> 00:09:51.840 Oh is there a resistance like the Ordinaries they're trying 194 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:53.200 to take down the king? 195 00:09:53.679 --> 00:09:56.559 Oh my god, I love that she can find out 196 00:09:56.679 --> 00:10:00.440 about that, Like halfway through the book. She really know 197 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:03.919 about it before because she was too busy being homeless 198 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:07.840 and stealing honey buns and pickpocketing and anyway, okay, so 199 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:11.840 this girl has she's already infiltrated the castle and. 200 00:10:11.799 --> 00:10:15.799 Then since they stay there to compete in the trials. 201 00:10:15.879 --> 00:10:16.080 Yeah. 202 00:10:16.159 --> 00:10:18.799 Yeah, and then she walks around and she hangs out 203 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:22.039 with both the hot bad boy prince who she's competing with, 204 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:25.559 and then the other like golden retriever prince who will 205 00:10:25.720 --> 00:10:27.039 one day be king. 206 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.720 Uh Lauren, random fan number three here, I just want 207 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:33.679 to pop in to say love try and go with 208 00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.519 air and despair. I absolutely love it. 209 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:38.759 Right, Oh my god, that's such a good way to 210 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:42.159 describe it. Okay, so she's like so hot and they're 211 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:46.600 both of us ass but okay, get this, it's it's 212 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:55.320 complicated because the king killed her dad, like she remembers, 213 00:10:55.759 --> 00:11:00.480 it hasn't that's right. In this world, there's an orcer 214 00:11:00.679 --> 00:11:02.879 who's supposed to be killing. 215 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:08.279 Baddies, but also the king did the killing himself. 216 00:11:08.519 --> 00:11:09.799 Also, the king. 217 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:13.679 Lets this girl, the daughter who trader Be killed, stay 218 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.240 in his castle and eat his food and dance with 219 00:11:17.360 --> 00:11:22.960 his sons and flirt with them shamelessly. You know, literally, 220 00:11:23.159 --> 00:11:25.559 there is no one watching her and no. 221 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:28.919 Rules, and it does not matter. Just know that even 222 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.919 though he's like a chill dad, he is a bad. 223 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:37.480 King, Lauren, this is Stanley from Cleveland, Illinois. 224 00:11:37.639 --> 00:11:40.399 Can we talk more about that hot bad boy prince? 225 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.039 Oh? Absolutely fucking lonely. 226 00:11:43.480 --> 00:11:47.440 He's the spare, sure, but unlike Harry, he gets a 227 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:52.879 cool job in Orser, so he gets tortured all his 228 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:55.080 life so that he can be like, this job isn't 229 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:55.799 so bad. 230 00:11:56.080 --> 00:11:59.000 So what I wrapped up your fingernails? My dad did 231 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:00.440 that to me all that time. 232 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:04.080 Oh did that really fuck him up? Make him twisted 233 00:12:04.159 --> 00:12:06.320 like a silent killer? No? 234 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:07.080 I mean not. 235 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:10.000 Really like Okay, even though he had been physically and 236 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:12.639 mentally tortured since he was a young child, he's still 237 00:12:12.720 --> 00:12:15.919 like a good heart because he does let an. 238 00:12:15.919 --> 00:12:19.519 Ordinary kid lave the kingdom instead of killing him. 239 00:12:19.559 --> 00:12:23.279 So that is where we're gonna see growth in this character. 240 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:30.000 He's also cocky and of course uffler. Oh and his power. 241 00:12:29.759 --> 00:12:32.919 Is just it's just like, you know what, we don't 242 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:36.399 want to limit It's gonna be everyone's power whatever he wants. 243 00:12:36.720 --> 00:12:38.159 He can sense. 244 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:42.799 Powers a friend and found on the sixth Here Wait, 245 00:12:42.840 --> 00:12:45.879 what didn't that mean? He could sense immediately that that 246 00:12:46.200 --> 00:12:48.559 orphan girl doesn't have powers. 247 00:12:50.240 --> 00:12:56.360 Yeah, but but she's hot, so he like totally buys 248 00:12:56.440 --> 00:12:58.440 her bullshit about her power just. 249 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:02.200 Being like a little well does she even look out? 250 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:05.720 Well? Does she have a friend. 251 00:13:07.320 --> 00:13:10.679 Yeah, a total bestie, and she'll probably be too busy 252 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:13.120 flirting and fighting to talk to her most of the 253 00:13:13.159 --> 00:13:14.279 book until. 254 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:16.919 Until her bestie dies, which is. 255 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.000 Gonna be so sad of course, but we yeah it's 256 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:24.240 pretty sad because we're gonna like all know her really well, y'all? 257 00:13:24.279 --> 00:13:27.159 Does she have to deal with a lot of sexism 258 00:13:27.279 --> 00:13:30.600 during her trials, like people not thinking she can do 259 00:13:30.759 --> 00:13:32.519 things just because she's a girl. 260 00:13:33.519 --> 00:13:38.919 Oh no, No, just like our world, feminism and internalized 261 00:13:38.960 --> 00:13:41.159 misogyny don't exist because. 262 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.159 Everything's equal and there's like never. 263 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.919 Any conflict regender and sex. 264 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:46.080 And all that. 265 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:50.679 Also, who cares anyway, because she's not like the other girls. 266 00:13:50.759 --> 00:13:52.519 She's just like hanging. 267 00:13:52.159 --> 00:13:55.960 Out with the guys better because they get her. 268 00:13:55.799 --> 00:13:56.159 You know. 269 00:13:57.000 --> 00:13:59.879 So what do you guys think? 270 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:04.759 Everyone always thinks my name is Peyton, but it's really Peyton. 271 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:07.720 Can you give her my name so people can start 272 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:08.879 spelling my name? Right? 273 00:14:09.799 --> 00:14:10.639 I need help? 274 00:14:11.559 --> 00:14:13.960 Yeah? 275 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:18.200 And see that was a word for word from that 276 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:24.960 TikTok live. It's a really long TikTok live. I'm so sorry. 277 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:30.360 What she is Sarah is joking? Sarah wrote this. 278 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:33.279 I did sorry. 279 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.080 I was distracted for a minute I guess I let 280 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:37.639 down my smart. 281 00:14:39.200 --> 00:14:39.399 Well. 282 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.840 That last part really was from the TikTok Live that 283 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:43.840 there was a girl on there who was like, this 284 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:50.639 is my name? Can you use my name? Really? Okay? 285 00:14:49.840 --> 00:14:51.919 So that was the kindness. 286 00:14:52.320 --> 00:14:54.679 That was good. Get it out there. I really would 287 00:14:54.720 --> 00:14:55.120 love for a. 288 00:14:55.159 --> 00:14:58.039 Johanna to blow up, either positively or negatively, like we 289 00:14:58.080 --> 00:14:59.639 can have a negatively. 290 00:14:59.679 --> 00:15:01.120 You really want to put that out there. 291 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.159 I just want the name known. I don't care it. 292 00:15:05.639 --> 00:15:08.679 All, does it okay? I wouldn't. 293 00:15:10.320 --> 00:15:11.759 You're right, you don't want to wish and ate off 294 00:15:11.759 --> 00:15:13.840 on yourself. You don't want to wish of Karen on yourself. 295 00:15:14.200 --> 00:15:18.200 But at least nobody's saying Karne. Everybody's saying Karen. They 296 00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:22.559 know they know your name. Nobody was saying it's true. 297 00:15:24.200 --> 00:15:29.480 I'm happy for Peyden. Yeah that was great, Sarah, really funny. 298 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.200 It was really tight. Tight. 299 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:35.200 Yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't cut a word in the future. 300 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:40.320 No perfect looks some of us. You know we did it, 301 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:43.399 So let's let'll just stick with that. Johanna, do you 302 00:15:43.440 --> 00:15:47.320 have a Johanna's jugs a wine pairing for this book? 303 00:15:47.720 --> 00:15:52.000 So I did forget until this moment. Actually, I know 304 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:53.759 that seems crazy, like how. 305 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:57.559 Could something that happen? It's my only job, Like it's 306 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:59.159 like literally finished the book. 307 00:15:58.919 --> 00:16:03.120 Log on and then bring a wine. I will say 308 00:16:03.360 --> 00:16:08.360 a little funny anecdote. We had Matt's parents visited this 309 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:10.919 weekend and we all. Matt was like, here, I got 310 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.279 a bottle of red wine. And I was like, you 311 00:16:13.360 --> 00:16:16.440 know what, I haven't been drinking recently. Whatever I'm cracking into, 312 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.320 gonna indulge in this red wine. And he pours us 313 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:21.039 all the glass and we all took a sip and. 314 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:23.919 Everyone silently had like a moment of just like panic, 315 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:27.279 and then one by one everyone was like, there's something 316 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:29.840 wrong with the wine, so. 317 00:16:29.960 --> 00:16:33.240 Sad, and we were all like everyone was like jumping, 318 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:34.919 like I don't think I could drink this. 319 00:16:35.039 --> 00:16:35.879 Yeah, it's really bad. 320 00:16:36.200 --> 00:16:38.399 And Matt's mom was like, where did you get it? 321 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:39.799 And I was like, I don't know. 322 00:16:39.879 --> 00:16:41.480 I just someone must have brought it to our house. 323 00:16:41.519 --> 00:16:45.320 And I looked at the bottle. It was an alcohol 324 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:51.240 removed wine. It wasn't I know, it's crazy not alcoholic 325 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:54.519 wine that you have. It was alcohol removed. I mean 326 00:16:54.559 --> 00:16:57.440 it's literally just tasted like red wine. 327 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:02.799 Vinegar, I say, don't do that, And I don't think 328 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.079 this is so that works that. 329 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:09.440 I know for this, Yeah, I guess, you know. I 330 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:12.880 just think, like, enjoy a soda, you know, I don't 331 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:14.559 have to do. You don't have to subject yourself to something. 332 00:17:14.599 --> 00:17:17.119 I have a de alcoholized wine in my fridge that 333 00:17:17.160 --> 00:17:19.799 I was actually pretty excited about from act. 334 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.279 I mean you were excited to try it? 335 00:17:22.400 --> 00:17:26.319 Or yeah, I'm surprised Johnny yourself. Yeah, because don't you 336 00:17:26.519 --> 00:17:30.119 like beer that's no alcoholic, Like, aren't you like alcoholic. 337 00:17:29.759 --> 00:17:30.640 Beer is very good? 338 00:17:30.960 --> 00:17:31.440 Or was that you? 339 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:32.640 Oh? 340 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.119 Okay, sometimes I have to drink it? 341 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:38.200 All right, all right, fair, fair, I mean you don't 342 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:39.799 have to drink it. This is my point is that 343 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.319 you don't have to. You can just have something else 344 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:44.119 that doesn't have alcohol in its true true. 345 00:17:44.160 --> 00:17:47.279 I'm just saying, if you're abstaining, I will I would 346 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:51.000 say a non alcoholic beer ten times over a non 347 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.279 alcoholic wine. 348 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:53.279 Okay, sure? 349 00:17:53.400 --> 00:17:56.599 And that soda did you drain it or did you 350 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:57.160 drink it? 351 00:17:57.640 --> 00:18:00.160 Oh my god, we threw it away. 352 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:04.559 And I am sorry Mike and Dan, because you are 353 00:18:04.599 --> 00:18:08.079 the people gave me that wine. I specifically remember now 354 00:18:08.680 --> 00:18:10.319 I apologize. 355 00:18:10.240 --> 00:18:13.960 Yeah, it went down the sink. 356 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:18.880 And just like this book in some ways, what are 357 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.160 you trying to read back to the book where in 358 00:18:22.160 --> 00:18:25.319 which I prepared for Yeah, and it's it's supposed to 359 00:18:26.599 --> 00:18:27.799 have something to do with the book. 360 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.519 I think, Well, like you said, my thought was ya, 361 00:18:32.759 --> 00:18:34.119 it's a non alcoholic wine. 362 00:18:34.200 --> 00:18:35.519 Okay, that was your thought? 363 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:41.200 Yeah, okay if I yeah, all right, So. 364 00:18:42.960 --> 00:18:45.319 Yeah, you Janna, I agree with you that that was 365 00:18:45.359 --> 00:18:46.880 your thought, and I really support you. 366 00:18:48.079 --> 00:18:48.920 Thank you, Sabrina. 367 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:52.559 Oh my god, hap should I call you Kai? 368 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:54.920 Oh my god? 369 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:57.599 MALICKI, oh my god, this book. 370 00:18:57.720 --> 00:19:00.559 When the reveal his full name was malik Ki, I 371 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.799 did instantly find him hotter. 372 00:19:02.880 --> 00:19:04.920 And I can't explain that. 373 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:07.319 Because it's a bad boy name. 374 00:19:08.440 --> 00:19:09.920 No, it's just a hot name. 375 00:19:10.599 --> 00:19:15.359 But the brother is Kip right, it's kit kit kit okay, 376 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:15.759 well like. 377 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:17.960 Kit Kit Ridge the American girl doll. 378 00:19:18.160 --> 00:19:21.440 Okay. But did he have a short as well? Was 379 00:19:21.440 --> 00:19:22.559 it a short for something? 380 00:19:23.240 --> 00:19:25.759 Maybe it should be, but I don't know if maybe 381 00:19:25.759 --> 00:19:26.200 it isn't. 382 00:19:27.440 --> 00:19:29.640 So you can name the king, the person's gonna be king. 383 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:32.519 It's just like we're gonna call him kit. And then 384 00:19:32.880 --> 00:19:33.960 the other brother gets to be. 385 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:35.119 Mad King Kit. 386 00:19:37.039 --> 00:19:41.160 That King Kit Wow, based on some of the other 387 00:19:41.480 --> 00:19:45.039 characters' names in this book, Like I feel like there's 388 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:45.799 a Braxton. 389 00:19:46.519 --> 00:19:49.640 I think there's a Blair yeah over the place. When 390 00:19:49.759 --> 00:19:51.519 is this book set? I don't know. 391 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:52.920 Can't talk. 392 00:19:52.960 --> 00:19:57.480 I mean two thousand and eight in Christian Girl Autumn, 393 00:19:58.160 --> 00:19:58.960 I don't. 394 00:19:58.920 --> 00:20:17.759 I don't know all right this book. Let me give 395 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:19.559 you some background on the book before we dive in. 396 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:24.279 This is a New York Times bestseller. It was on 397 00:20:24.319 --> 00:20:26.839 the list for at least nineteen weeks after publication when 398 00:20:26.839 --> 00:20:32.960 it came out in twenty twenty three, and was self 399 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:36.640 published actually before that, before it was acquired by Simon 400 00:20:36.680 --> 00:20:41.640 and Schuster. But this book is the first debut novel 401 00:20:41.799 --> 00:20:46.400 of the author, Lauren Roberts, who is a little mysterious 402 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:51.880 even though she's all over online. She's from Michigan. I 403 00:20:51.880 --> 00:20:54.000 don't know where she went to college, but she dropped out. 404 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:58.079 So didn't have many nice things to say about it. 405 00:20:58.359 --> 00:21:01.799 Yeah, she was like eighteen and she started this, and 406 00:21:04.319 --> 00:21:08.400 she said she was juggling job a job. She was 407 00:21:08.440 --> 00:21:11.119 scrubbing toilets at a cleaning company. But then I also 408 00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:13.200 heard her say that she was working at a library 409 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:15.599 in a separate interview. So I'm like, I don't know 410 00:21:15.599 --> 00:21:17.160 what she was doing, but she wasn't doing it for 411 00:21:17.240 --> 00:21:22.839 very long because you know, she self published right when 412 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:25.160 she turned nineteen, and then like a few months later 413 00:21:25.480 --> 00:21:27.599 it got it was doing well enough to get picked 414 00:21:27.640 --> 00:21:28.640 up by Simon and Schuster. 415 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.039 So I have you guys googled a picture of her? 416 00:21:32.839 --> 00:21:34.400 No, yeah, I've seen. I've seen her. 417 00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:36.319 She's very hot. 418 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:41.519 Yeah, she's she's she's maybe twenty three now, she's a 419 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:42.599 hot young lady. 420 00:21:43.519 --> 00:21:47.559 She's I just imagined someone more bookish for such a 421 00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:48.160 long book. 422 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.559 Yeah. I have to say though, because I did listen 423 00:21:51.640 --> 00:21:55.319 to some interviews and watch some YouTube interviews with her, 424 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:58.920 it is hard for me. I was realizing, like, oh, 425 00:21:58.960 --> 00:22:01.599 this is me very much so feeling like a millennial 426 00:22:01.720 --> 00:22:04.799 right now because I'm having a lot of trouble listening 427 00:22:04.839 --> 00:22:11.480 to her talk. Interesting, she sounds she's so whatever generation is, 428 00:22:15.519 --> 00:22:17.519 what is it? Whatever? I don't know where are we 429 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.759 I am en Z? Are she's gen Z right year old? 430 00:22:24.039 --> 00:22:25.759 I think so, I think gen Z. 431 00:22:25.920 --> 00:22:30.160 But it's then the one belows she's not a Genalphia. 432 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:33.359 She's gen Z, but she like our genuine children. 433 00:22:34.039 --> 00:22:35.079 Those are genuine children. 434 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:38.880 A child for me, she apparently to Sarah sounds like 435 00:22:38.880 --> 00:22:39.720 a genuine child. 436 00:22:39.799 --> 00:22:43.359 So we don't really know, do we know? She's into knitting, 437 00:22:43.400 --> 00:22:46.720 laser tag hammocking word searchers, and coloring. 438 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.160 Oh god, she's a child. 439 00:22:50.799 --> 00:22:53.240 She's very active on Instagram and TikTok, and that's she 440 00:22:53.400 --> 00:22:56.160 was always sharing, writing updates and engaging with readers. And 441 00:22:56.200 --> 00:22:58.640 I think that's really how she was able to build 442 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:02.200 such like a fandom and momentum, Like she really used TikTok. 443 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:04.359 She also is a cat named Mango, and she got 444 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:06.440 the tattoo up to forget Me not Flower on the 445 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:07.160 chapter pages. 446 00:23:07.759 --> 00:23:10.240 Oh my god, I know about that named Mango. 447 00:23:10.640 --> 00:23:11.920 Serna used to have a. 448 00:23:11.880 --> 00:23:13.039 Listener off the pod. 449 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:16.720 Yeah, I thought that might be a listener. I mean, 450 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:24.359 is the cat okay? Sure? Anyway, so she you If 451 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:26.559 you ask her how did she love published, She's like, 452 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:29.119 I don't know. I googled it and then I just 453 00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:33.160 did it and it worked out for her. She won 454 00:23:33.200 --> 00:23:35.720 Barnes and Noble Ya Award in twenty twenty three. This 455 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:39.680 got huge on book talk. There are three books. There's 456 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:42.440 Reckless Book two, Fearless Book three. And then she also 457 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:45.559 wrote a bunch of novellas around it that are from 458 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.359 point of views that you're supposed to like read them alongside. Apparently, 459 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:51.839 so like Powerful came out in twenty twenty four, and 460 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:57.200 that is read alongside like a novella, a read alongside. 461 00:23:57.160 --> 00:23:59.519 Notes to a book, but it's a whole different book. 462 00:23:59.759 --> 00:24:04.960 Apparently. It's also the Powerful is Adina the Homeless Friends? 463 00:24:05.039 --> 00:24:06.160 Else to sew. 464 00:24:08.160 --> 00:24:11.680 Just a character then didn't cadell Dezi, So. 465 00:24:11.680 --> 00:24:13.799 Maybe she is more interested. Maybe it helped because it 466 00:24:13.839 --> 00:24:16.599 was like what was going on with that character anyway. 467 00:24:18.880 --> 00:24:22.240 According to the publisher Press Reliefs, the series has sold 468 00:24:22.240 --> 00:24:26.079 over five point five copies globally across all formats, five 469 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:31.200 point five million million. And uh, there is an adaptation 470 00:24:31.799 --> 00:24:35.799 she is for work? Is that Amazon? We'll see what happens. 471 00:24:36.559 --> 00:24:37.359 Oh, I can't wait. 472 00:24:37.799 --> 00:24:42.279 Yeah, yeah from Daphne Ferrero is. 473 00:24:42.240 --> 00:24:45.160 Apparently cast as Malachi. 474 00:24:47.119 --> 00:24:47.559 I don't know. 475 00:24:47.640 --> 00:24:50.000 I assume a fifty year old man because that's the 476 00:24:50.079 --> 00:24:52.680 voice of that character. That's how that character is written. 477 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.279 And I'm honestly my one takeaway was I was like, 478 00:24:56.319 --> 00:24:59.599 there's no way a young person wrote this because of 479 00:24:59.640 --> 00:25:04.119 the way this supposedly nineteen year old boy talks. 480 00:25:04.200 --> 00:25:06.000 I was like, I think he's like a little older 481 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:09.359 than that, but like twenty three, maybe I feel he was. 482 00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:12.799 He did make Christian Gray vibes like old man. I 483 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:15.279 mean the amount he was just very poetic. It didn't 484 00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:17.839 make sense. Gray is not old old, but you know, yeah, 485 00:25:17.839 --> 00:25:22.480 he was like twenty nine. Yeah, it didn't make sense. No, 486 00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:25.799 none of the characters made sense with like the way 487 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:28.880 they spoke versus their background. It never matched or made 488 00:25:28.880 --> 00:25:31.720 any sense, and you just eventually had to roll with it. 489 00:25:31.759 --> 00:25:35.240 If you were going to make it through this story, 490 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:36.720 you're gonna make it. You just had to be like, 491 00:25:36.720 --> 00:25:39.680 you know what I'm I You know, it doesn't have 492 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:43.039 to make sense. But yeah. The main character Peyden Gray, 493 00:25:43.440 --> 00:25:47.839 she is an ordinary. Her dad died when she was thirteen. 494 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:50.559 He was killed by the king again really still very 495 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:56.000 funny to me that he was a healer and secretly 496 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:58.160 the leader of the rebellion, although she didn't know about it, 497 00:25:58.160 --> 00:26:00.960 doesn't find this out till later, Mom, who gives a fuck? 498 00:26:02.039 --> 00:26:07.359 But her dad knew she was born without any powers 499 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:09.240 and knew that that would be bad, like she would 500 00:26:09.240 --> 00:26:13.000 be kicked out of the Kingdom. So she taught her 501 00:26:13.119 --> 00:26:18.359 to fight and then also pretend to be a psychic, 502 00:26:18.720 --> 00:26:20.920 which is literally just like looking at your hands and 503 00:26:20.960 --> 00:26:25.720 being like, oh, there's there used to be a ring 504 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:27.480 on your hand, and then so she could be like 505 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:30.880 you you were in a relationship that broke up, and 506 00:26:30.920 --> 00:26:33.759 then they're like, oh my god, it's like, oh dumb 507 00:26:33.759 --> 00:26:34.519 shit like that. 508 00:26:35.039 --> 00:26:37.319 The way she was a psychic was I mean, this 509 00:26:37.359 --> 00:26:41.480 is how people do cold readings to audiences, right, It's 510 00:26:41.680 --> 00:26:43.039 the way true he did. 511 00:26:43.079 --> 00:26:44.359 It was so lucky. 512 00:26:44.440 --> 00:26:46.400 She'd be like the man standing in front of me. 513 00:26:46.440 --> 00:26:49.119 I stared at him. I noticed a ring box in 514 00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:52.519 his front pocket and his right knee was covered in dirt, 515 00:26:52.559 --> 00:26:56.200 and soot I knew he must have just proposed. It 516 00:26:56.279 --> 00:26:58.759 was like, yeah, it was always the most like obvious stuff. 517 00:26:58.799 --> 00:27:01.200 It was like the man was wearing a party hat 518 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:03.720 and his his shirt had a pin on it that 519 00:27:03.799 --> 00:27:07.200 said lordie, lordie, look who's forty? 520 00:27:09.119 --> 00:27:10.079 If he sings. 521 00:27:09.799 --> 00:27:15.559 Together, I since a birthday, I said, yes, he screams mine. 522 00:27:16.039 --> 00:27:18.160 It was so stupid. It was like a little like 523 00:27:18.240 --> 00:27:21.720 parlor trick she did, and that it was. People just 524 00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:24.480 fell for it, even the person who should have been like, 525 00:27:25.240 --> 00:27:26.640 this is obviously bullshit. 526 00:27:26.799 --> 00:27:30.440 Who's never to root these people out and kill them? 527 00:27:30.880 --> 00:27:34.640 And that's ki eric Ka Yeah okay, but hear me out. 528 00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:39.599 The power of a hot person is so real. 529 00:27:40.039 --> 00:27:41.920 It is real, so true. 530 00:27:42.160 --> 00:27:46.240 You don't recognize if they're stupid, You don't recognize if 531 00:27:46.279 --> 00:27:46.920 they're because it. 532 00:27:46.839 --> 00:27:50.119 Doesn't matter because they are they're just so hot. We 533 00:27:50.200 --> 00:27:52.319 did learn, We do learn that she's hot because like, 534 00:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.160 even though she's like, like you know, stealing to survive, 535 00:27:55.400 --> 00:27:58.160 she's like, oh my god, wait, I have to find it. 536 00:27:58.400 --> 00:28:01.359 I have to find I say, I saved it. Describe 537 00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.759 what she looks like. She's got silver hair, which is 538 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.640 also likes a lot of she's supposed to be pickpocket 539 00:28:07.680 --> 00:28:10.400 who doesn't stand out from the crowd, but she used 540 00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:13.000 silver hair. I'm confused. I think sure. 541 00:28:13.160 --> 00:28:15.319 Is the message of this book that as long as 542 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:17.279 you're hot, you can never be ordinary? 543 00:28:17.799 --> 00:28:23.440 Is that, like, yes, okay, let's go sweet on the outside. 544 00:28:23.559 --> 00:28:26.519 Yeah, just find your hotness on the outside and you'll 545 00:28:26.559 --> 00:28:27.039 be okay. 546 00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:31.000 Yeah, okay here, wait, okay, So this is when they 547 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:35.359 first meet, So this is okay, this is kai Okay. Instinctively, 548 00:28:35.359 --> 00:28:37.799 I reach out to study the individual before they fall 549 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:40.559 over from the impact my arms wrapping around their waist. 550 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:43.960 Her waist, the body I'm holding is undoubtedly belongs to 551 00:28:43.960 --> 00:28:46.759 a female, though the massive, long silver hair brushing against 552 00:28:46.799 --> 00:28:50.200 my arms is proof enough. She's small but strong, leaner 553 00:28:50.240 --> 00:28:53.279 than most of the scrawny girls from the slums. I 554 00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:56.079 can feel it in the curve of her waist where 555 00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:59.880 my hand fits comfortably, though it's evidence that malnourishment stripped 556 00:28:59.880 --> 00:29:03.599 her of most of the muscles she evidently once had. Sorry, 557 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.039 that's that's very much for so much six seconds on 558 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:12.240 her waist, He's like she's been eating. She's slender though, 559 00:29:12.480 --> 00:29:15.119 like she's somehow like skinnier than the other girls. But 560 00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:17.920 it's like less malnourished, less right. 561 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:20.599 I don't know, But it's because she's skinny but still 562 00:29:20.680 --> 00:29:23.240 really muscular. You can tell it's the muscle wasting away, 563 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.359 not fat wasting away. 564 00:29:25.440 --> 00:29:28.000 Yeah, thank god, I'm. 565 00:29:27.839 --> 00:29:32.559 So tired of the female protagonist that the male needs 566 00:29:32.599 --> 00:29:34.799 to feed because otherwise she's going to starve to death. 567 00:29:36.079 --> 00:29:38.359 In here, it's yeah, she's got to get fed, and 568 00:29:38.359 --> 00:29:42.920 it's like it's what I don't like anyway, He's kinda 569 00:29:43.079 --> 00:29:44.720 make my girl eat. 570 00:29:46.200 --> 00:29:48.759 Than she even was at the beginning, and remember her, 571 00:29:48.920 --> 00:29:51.720 I can tell she had a female waist and that 572 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:56.119 she was very scrawny, scrawny so thin. 573 00:29:56.319 --> 00:29:59.359 Oh my god. Wait, we also didn't talk about there 574 00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:05.079 is there is like a tiny amount of background. There's 575 00:30:05.119 --> 00:30:08.640 she briefly mentions, sorry, the author briefly mentions that, like 576 00:30:08.720 --> 00:30:11.240 how this came to be, even though like it doesn't matter, 577 00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:15.680 but she's like everyone used to be ordinary, but then 578 00:30:15.720 --> 00:30:18.839 there was a plague, and then from the plague, some 579 00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.319 people got superpowers, and then they decided that the people 580 00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:27.799 who didn't have superpowers were diseased and needed to be 581 00:30:28.319 --> 00:30:31.880 like it. It's just like the silliest And also I 582 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:34.640 was like somebody was writing this during the pandemic and 583 00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:35.559 it shows. 584 00:30:35.880 --> 00:30:37.920 I think it was described in one page. 585 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:41.839 All yeah, that background, by the way, it was such 586 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:46.200 nonsense and like never everything every explanation of like what's 587 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:50.720 going on in this book, fantasy wise, is like nonsensical. 588 00:30:51.240 --> 00:30:52.880 It's just like not quite there. 589 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:55.720 So if you write a romance to see, by the way, 590 00:30:55.799 --> 00:30:58.920 you need to have a really fun phrase that instead 591 00:30:58.920 --> 00:31:01.720 of saying like oh damn are oh god, you have 592 00:31:01.759 --> 00:31:06.319 to come up with some like oh, cauldron, oh gods. 593 00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:08.599 And in this one it's oh plagues. 594 00:31:09.319 --> 00:31:11.119 Yeah they say it, so, oh. 595 00:31:11.000 --> 00:31:17.000 My plague, thank the plague. And that's really cool and 596 00:31:17.119 --> 00:31:20.119 really inventive. Yeah, and that really makes sure it's in 597 00:31:20.160 --> 00:31:23.839 your book. So find your fun word that substitutes for god. 598 00:31:23.640 --> 00:31:24.759 And put it in your book. 599 00:31:25.200 --> 00:31:29.160 So we're talking plagues, and so maybe you're thinking, oh plagues. 600 00:31:29.240 --> 00:31:33.440 This is like something that takes an all history of 601 00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:37.599 stuff that takes place back in like the fifteen hundred. 602 00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:41.039 I don't know, you're just like went Middle Ages. No, 603 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:46.960 it's not, because electricity is mentioned several times. There's even 604 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:50.319 a power that uses the electricity, and she talks about 605 00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.400 the slums not having as much electricity as the other 606 00:31:53.480 --> 00:31:56.599 parts of the town. So it's like, what the fuck 607 00:31:56.720 --> 00:31:59.240 is guy, I don't know. There's some watches too, people 608 00:31:59.279 --> 00:32:00.960 have watches. I don't know what's going on. 609 00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:06.160 It's dystopian but not. Actually, it's just like we've moved 610 00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:08.799 away from civilized society. 611 00:32:09.960 --> 00:32:12.519 There's no there's no like this is a certain time 612 00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:16.319 where it's the future. It's it doesn't make any sense, 613 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:19.640 but it is. Really. It did really crack me up that, 614 00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.200 like most and I would I want to talk about 615 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.000 this for like a long time. How like some of 616 00:32:24.039 --> 00:32:27.440 the powers were just like technology, Like one of the 617 00:32:27.480 --> 00:32:32.160 powers is just amplifier, Yes, just like microphone, So somebody 618 00:32:32.200 --> 00:32:33.519 has the power of microphone. 619 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.039 You imagine if you got everyone around you start getting 620 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:40.880 powers and they were flying and turning invisible and they 621 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:44.799 could become fire, and yours was not like even just 622 00:32:44.880 --> 00:32:46.599 for you to be a microphone, but it's like you 623 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:48.279 get to be a physical microphone. 624 00:32:48.640 --> 00:32:52.920 You could touch someone else and make them louder. Great. Yeah, 625 00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:54.519 it was just like and then there was one where 626 00:32:54.559 --> 00:32:58.240 they they were just cameras. They just like we're cameras. 627 00:32:58.880 --> 00:33:01.640 It's like we're cameras not invented yet, what's going on? Like, 628 00:33:01.680 --> 00:33:04.759 I don't, I just can't. Anyway, I want to play 629 00:33:04.759 --> 00:33:07.039 a game later where we imagine some other things she 630 00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.039 could have lied about having. 631 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:11.759 But okay, as opposed to lying about being a psychic, 632 00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:12.599 which was yeah. 633 00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.839 Yeah, but let's I guess we can move forward a 634 00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:19.039 little bit with what the fuck's in this book? We've 635 00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:24.400 done Peyton Gray, Yeah, okay, she's just like sleeping on 636 00:33:24.440 --> 00:33:27.000 the cobblestones with her friend a Dina, and she's like 637 00:33:28.079 --> 00:33:30.240 stealing thread because she loves to sew. 638 00:33:31.279 --> 00:33:33.839 But remember she's on the cobblestones. But she's like, not 639 00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:34.759 that dirty. 640 00:33:34.880 --> 00:33:40.240 She doesn't like she's not you know's We don't. 641 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:43.240 Know, she's not stinky, she's just. 642 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:51.960 Yeah. So something happens where Prince Kai he is the enforcer, aka, 643 00:33:52.079 --> 00:33:55.200 he's like the executioner. I guess, which is a weird 644 00:33:55.240 --> 00:33:57.519 thing to make your prince be. But sure, we'll stick 645 00:33:57.519 --> 00:33:58.680 with it. We'll go along with it. 646 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:01.839 Can I ask a question about this? Because and this 647 00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:04.880 could be the three point five time speed, but the 648 00:34:04.920 --> 00:34:10.079 way it's described is the King Kai and Kit's father 649 00:34:10.719 --> 00:34:14.199 has been training Ki to be an an enforcer, and 650 00:34:14.239 --> 00:34:17.559 it's like that's his destiny, his lineage, that's what he'll be. 651 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:21.239 But the king himself has been doing that training. And 652 00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:24.519 then the king himself is also training Kit to be 653 00:34:24.800 --> 00:34:28.840 the king, Like is there no current enforcer? 654 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:33.559 Not that we know, and it's wild, it doesn't make sense. 655 00:34:33.840 --> 00:34:36.480 We're like, why how do we know that old? No 656 00:34:36.519 --> 00:34:40.559 one has been one exactly. No, that's not clear. We 657 00:34:40.599 --> 00:34:42.679 don't know about that. I think we barely know the 658 00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:46.599 king has a name, so he's just always the king. 659 00:34:46.679 --> 00:34:47.320 I think there's a. 660 00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.599 Lot of stuff like this that also, it's so many 661 00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:54.239 that's like the king the like kingly duties they think of. 662 00:34:54.360 --> 00:34:56.320 Is like he teaches Kit. 663 00:34:56.280 --> 00:35:04.079 To do a lot of paperwork, I as much. 664 00:35:04.880 --> 00:35:09.519 Even though he can or some ship anyway, So yeah, 665 00:35:10.119 --> 00:35:14.719 Kit or Kai, he's got a whole back story about 666 00:35:14.719 --> 00:35:17.480 being tortured by his dad. But anyway, we see him 667 00:35:17.519 --> 00:35:20.440 and he's supposed to be being the enforcer and like 668 00:35:20.559 --> 00:35:25.239 making this ordinary child, killing this ordinary child, but he's 669 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:28.559 like such a big heart and instead he sends he 670 00:35:28.679 --> 00:35:33.519 banishes them. And then that's why he's in this like 671 00:35:33.800 --> 00:35:35.400 what's not the slums? What do we call it? 672 00:35:36.519 --> 00:35:38.440 The sand lands? 673 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:46.079 Something stupid? Where she where the poor people live? Uh 674 00:35:46.280 --> 00:35:52.400 he faction live there. Yeah, she steals from him and 675 00:35:52.519 --> 00:35:55.119 that's hot. That's like what I read those little time 676 00:35:56.119 --> 00:35:59.840 little moment from that. But then some people try to 677 00:36:00.119 --> 00:36:06.800 also rob Kai and they are baddies. But there's also 678 00:36:06.880 --> 00:36:10.760 this silencer guy who's like a super scary power because 679 00:36:10.800 --> 00:36:14.920 it makes your powers, it makes you become powerless. And 680 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:20.079 so Kai can't fight back because even though it seems like, 681 00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.360 well why can't he just like physically fight back, but 682 00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:25.360 you know it doesn't matter. It gives him a bad 683 00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:30.880 headache or something, and then we see Peyton. She's like 684 00:36:32.079 --> 00:36:35.559 some she sees it happening, and she decides that the 685 00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:40.559 silencer looks like the king or the person who killed 686 00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:46.440 her dad. And then she's like, I'm saving my daddy symbolically, 687 00:36:46.719 --> 00:36:53.400 and she like fights the silencer and saves Prince Kai, 688 00:36:53.440 --> 00:36:58.440 and that's like the big moment she gets for this whole, Like, 689 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:02.239 oh this, she keeps going through this like in the book, 690 00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:06.199 she's always like seeing Kit, who's the older prince that's 691 00:37:06.199 --> 00:37:09.480 gonna be king. He's always like seeing the killer in 692 00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:12.519 his eyes or like that, and it's like crazy because 693 00:37:13.639 --> 00:37:16.159 I mean, I guess we'll reveal at the end the twist. 694 00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:19.559 It just doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make any sense. 695 00:37:19.840 --> 00:37:24.920 That in particular makes the twist make really no sense. 696 00:37:25.119 --> 00:37:26.199 It makes no sense. 697 00:37:27.639 --> 00:37:32.199 Can I also say something about Kit, which is when 698 00:37:32.239 --> 00:37:35.400 I was listening on three point five time Speed, there 699 00:37:35.480 --> 00:37:41.119 is a moment that Kit and Peyden's share together where 700 00:37:41.119 --> 00:37:44.079 they're in a garden. Yeah, there's something like a flower 701 00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:46.480 crown or I don't know. He's like, it looks good 702 00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:48.119 on you, and she's like, it looks better on you? 703 00:37:48.639 --> 00:37:52.480 And I thought oh cute. The future king is gay. 704 00:37:53.679 --> 00:37:58.320 And I spent a lot of the book thinking that 705 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:04.039 Kit was gay and that he was like asking her 706 00:38:04.159 --> 00:38:07.639 to the dance and stuff, maybe as a beard or 707 00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:08.400 maybe because he. 708 00:38:08.400 --> 00:38:11.920 Knew that she liked Hi and so like that sister 709 00:38:12.079 --> 00:38:12.440 at law. 710 00:38:13.400 --> 00:38:17.360 Yeah, and it took me a really long time to 711 00:38:17.480 --> 00:38:21.960 like reground myself and oh, this is maybe a love triangle, this. 712 00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:23.719 Is fun well, and it was it. I mean, that's 713 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:25.639 another question. It's funny you say that though, because I 714 00:38:25.679 --> 00:38:31.079 also up top believed that Peyden was with aDNA and 715 00:38:31.079 --> 00:38:34.320 that was she was fully a lesbian. I just though 716 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:36.119 at first the way they were, I don't know, I 717 00:38:36.159 --> 00:38:38.159 just I really didn't. I was like, oh, that's gonna 718 00:38:38.159 --> 00:38:41.039 be fun because you don't they're gonna be all these 719 00:38:41.079 --> 00:38:44.679 guys and you don't expect that. But no, no, that 720 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:45.480 wasn't it at all. 721 00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:49.079 But anyway, just to get the plot going, or I 722 00:38:49.119 --> 00:38:51.679 had a confusion too, I just want to oay, okay, 723 00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:52.480 share a share chack. 724 00:38:52.599 --> 00:38:53.000 I didn't. 725 00:38:53.280 --> 00:38:55.840 I didn't think Peyden was with a Dina. But she 726 00:38:56.119 --> 00:39:00.679 ends a lot of her sentences by saying, isn't that right? 727 00:39:00.760 --> 00:39:02.559 A like a green dress? 728 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:03.480 A and. 729 00:39:05.679 --> 00:39:08.079 That's her nickname for A. Dina is just to call 730 00:39:08.119 --> 00:39:11.440 her A. But I thought she was Canadian and like 731 00:39:12.480 --> 00:39:16.159 she's a super like old Canadian man, sort of like 732 00:39:16.239 --> 00:39:22.239 backwoodsy and it really changed my view of her in 733 00:39:22.320 --> 00:39:23.360 the book for. 734 00:39:23.280 --> 00:39:26.559 A long absolutely, Yeah, does that make any sense? A 735 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:33.159 and I would urriage future authors. A is not a 736 00:39:33.159 --> 00:39:33.920 good nickname. 737 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:35.000 There's too much. 738 00:39:35.079 --> 00:39:39.320 If you're listening to the audiobook, some readers are going 739 00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:54.760 to go Canada. 740 00:39:43.760 --> 00:39:59.920 Okay, that's very funny, Santa. 741 00:40:00.719 --> 00:40:04.400 Okay. So the other the big plot, Oh my god, 742 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:07.679 now I'm the Purge. The Purge Trials. What the fuck 743 00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:08.199 are they called? 744 00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:08.320 Now? 745 00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:14.679 I can't the per They're these these trials that are 746 00:40:14.719 --> 00:40:20.800 introduced and barely explained, and they are obviously. 747 00:40:20.760 --> 00:40:22.239 That it's the Hunger Games. 748 00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:25.440 It's the Hunger Games, but like with less explanation. And 749 00:40:25.559 --> 00:40:29.079 also it's funny because like the main character seems to 750 00:40:29.119 --> 00:40:32.039 not understand what they are or what or I've heard 751 00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:35.239 of them before, which seems weird for something that like 752 00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.280 should seems like it happens a lot, but. 753 00:40:38.559 --> 00:40:44.800 Sure it's it's not supposed to ever have any ordinaries 754 00:40:44.840 --> 00:40:49.239 in it, right, It is just the elites that compete 755 00:40:49.320 --> 00:40:51.320 in it, right, which is but. 756 00:40:51.400 --> 00:40:56.360 Like it's not all elite elites. Sometimes it's like I 757 00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:59.239 guess they're still technical elites, but it's like the blame. 758 00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:04.599 Elites are there too, Like the microphones, Yeah, the microphones 759 00:41:04.599 --> 00:41:04.960 are there. 760 00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:07.920 I don't know. I'm like confused, like gals. And the 761 00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.000 other thing is that like I feel like for Hunger Games, 762 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:13.280 you knew, like only you know, there's only one winner, 763 00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:17.000 like that's the big deal. You never fucking understand what 764 00:41:17.039 --> 00:41:21.440 the like how many die? 765 00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.239 Because I was like, I, you know, I had mapped 766 00:41:24.280 --> 00:41:29.119 it onto the Hunger Games, and they didn't seem to 767 00:41:29.199 --> 00:41:32.400 ever like be concerned that maybe they wouldn't get to 768 00:41:32.480 --> 00:41:34.239 live together at the end. 769 00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:36.239 But I was like, only one of you is coming 770 00:41:36.280 --> 00:41:36.719 out a lot. 771 00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:39.760 It seems like nobody needed to die, honestly. 772 00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:43.840 But then also Payden's when she starts, she announces to 773 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:46.519 the whole kingdom. She's like, they're like, what's your what 774 00:41:46.559 --> 00:41:48.199 are you gonna do in the purge? And she's like, 775 00:41:48.519 --> 00:41:51.960 I'm gonna survive And there's like a hush silence, and 776 00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:54.480 everyone's like shocked that she would say something like that. 777 00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:58.320 So it is like it's eluded that she's not gonna survive. 778 00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:01.679 Yeah, it's it's very it's it's like they set she 779 00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:05.320 sets up stakes, but then they don't. But honestly, you 780 00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:08.639 don't feel them at all, because what you get is 781 00:42:08.719 --> 00:42:12.960 there's a bunch of balls and it seems way more 782 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:15.719 concerned about what she's gonna wear to. 783 00:42:15.639 --> 00:42:19.199 The Yeah, I forgot actual lot this book was like 784 00:42:19.480 --> 00:42:24.079 there's that whole beginning part where there's like the Caesar 785 00:42:24.159 --> 00:42:27.639 Flickerman character, Yeah exactly who is like, you know, Stanley 786 00:42:27.639 --> 00:42:30.760 Tucci in The Hunger Games and is like interviewing her, 787 00:42:31.039 --> 00:42:34.400 and then there's a little question where she charms the 788 00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:37.599 audience by poking fun at the king or not the King, 789 00:42:37.639 --> 00:42:42.840 the prince, and like all of that kind of goes away, 790 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:45.840 like needing the support of the crowd. 791 00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:48.440 Yeah, we don't. That doesn't affect the games at all, 792 00:42:48.519 --> 00:42:50.719 Like it doesn't the Hunger Games. There's nothing like thought out. 793 00:42:50.840 --> 00:42:53.280 There's just like it's just basically the only reference later 794 00:42:53.400 --> 00:42:57.199 is like this is where people think. It's like people 795 00:42:57.239 --> 00:42:59.559 are it's not even saying they're betting. It's just like 796 00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:02.280 this is where people think you are in the rankings. 797 00:43:02.840 --> 00:43:04.719 The King says it to her as though it's like 798 00:43:04.800 --> 00:43:07.679 you'll never get higher than that, but it's like, who cares, 799 00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:11.159 It's just what people are thinking. It doesn't mean anything. 800 00:43:11.199 --> 00:43:13.400 I don't understand. It was. 801 00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:17.480 It felt like someone asked, and I know this was 802 00:43:17.519 --> 00:43:19.679 before this is pre chat GPT, but it felt like 803 00:43:19.719 --> 00:43:22.039 someone asked chat GPT, like give me just a quick 804 00:43:22.239 --> 00:43:25.039 like one page on what the Hunger Games is, and 805 00:43:25.079 --> 00:43:28.559 then like that's what this book gets without any understanding 806 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:31.480 or any of the fun rules that they had where 807 00:43:31.519 --> 00:43:34.000 you could send in you know, you could pick a 808 00:43:34.079 --> 00:43:37.800 champion and you could send supplies. It was unclear if 809 00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:42.679 the Kingdom was watching these context kids book too. Sometimes 810 00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:48.760 they were telling me sometimes they were just like private killings. 811 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:49.920 Or like it was like it was being recorded but 812 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:52.159 it wasn't live, and then they just did the clips 813 00:43:52.239 --> 00:43:54.480 later and it's like, okay, that's stupid. 814 00:43:55.760 --> 00:43:57.079 Just like reality TV. 815 00:43:58.039 --> 00:44:00.719 I mean, would I watch like some sort of sort 816 00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:04.760 of life and death trials of citizens? I probably would, 817 00:44:04.800 --> 00:44:06.199 but I would want to see it live. 818 00:44:06.599 --> 00:44:09.679 Also there at the clip show, there are three trials. 819 00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:12.559 The first one is camping, the second one is hiking, 820 00:44:12.639 --> 00:44:15.760 and the third one is amaze. It's so stupid. 821 00:44:16.199 --> 00:44:23.880 It's like being poor, being poor, amaze, Oh. 822 00:44:23.719 --> 00:44:25.719 My god, I can't believe I was stupid these trials. 823 00:44:25.760 --> 00:44:28.639 So there was also this this really pissed me off. 824 00:44:28.800 --> 00:44:31.920 So there's a big ball at the beginning, like like 825 00:44:31.960 --> 00:44:35.000 Sorerena and Sarah said, there's just like the thirty chapters 826 00:44:35.039 --> 00:44:37.800 out of sixty are like before the trials even started, 827 00:44:37.920 --> 00:44:39.639 just like I'm in the castle now. 828 00:44:40.199 --> 00:44:43.679 Yeah, no one's paying attention to her. She's just there. 829 00:44:44.000 --> 00:44:47.239 And they have this big ball where all of the 830 00:44:47.280 --> 00:44:50.079 women that come to the ball make this grand entrance. 831 00:44:50.119 --> 00:44:52.280 That's their whole thing is like all the men wait 832 00:44:52.280 --> 00:44:54.159 in the ball and then the women enter one by one, 833 00:44:54.639 --> 00:44:58.760 and all the women wear green. But you know, Pain 834 00:44:59.079 --> 00:45:02.360 looks at the rule and there's nothing in the rules 835 00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.800 that says you have to wear green, and so she 836 00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:09.000 just decides she's gonna wear a silver dress. 837 00:45:09.039 --> 00:45:11.119 And wow, she has silver hair. 838 00:45:11.480 --> 00:45:13.840 It's the first time anyone's ever thought to do a 839 00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.559 different color at the ball. 840 00:45:15.880 --> 00:45:18.320 And like, why would you pick that color that's gonna 841 00:45:18.400 --> 00:45:21.159 drown you out? You have silver hair, Like, it doesn't true, 842 00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.719 it doesn't mean yes, you don't see me wearing yellow. 843 00:45:27.119 --> 00:45:29.440 So yeah, I liked that, like all of the other 844 00:45:29.599 --> 00:45:31.920 None of the other women ever thought that, like it'd 845 00:45:31.960 --> 00:45:34.239 be fun to stand out and be the one gallon 846 00:45:34.280 --> 00:45:34.920 a different. 847 00:45:34.679 --> 00:45:36.119 Color, Like have you heard of a wedding? 848 00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:39.559 Okay, we know about being the only one in a 849 00:45:39.559 --> 00:45:42.119 certain color, but we know about it. 850 00:45:42.119 --> 00:45:44.480 It's funny because her whole premise is that she has 851 00:45:44.559 --> 00:45:48.000 to hide that she's ordinary, but she like does everything 852 00:45:48.039 --> 00:45:50.920 to make herself stand out and like draw attention to herself. 853 00:45:50.960 --> 00:45:53.280 It's wild even just talking the way she talks to 854 00:45:53.360 --> 00:45:57.639 kind kid, like over and over again, she says something like, yeah, well, 855 00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:00.480 maybe the kink should be more for his people, and 856 00:46:00.519 --> 00:46:03.800 then her internal monologue is like, I can't believe I 857 00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:06.079 just spoke my mind like that. I really need to 858 00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:10.199 watch what I'm saying. And then they're just like yeah, 859 00:46:10.199 --> 00:46:13.920 like she just she just constantly like talks out and 860 00:46:14.119 --> 00:46:18.239 there's no record, like there's nothing, there's something wrong about it, 861 00:46:18.320 --> 00:46:19.840 and they all like her for it. 862 00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:23.880 It's just like the like the ordinary aren't so bad. 863 00:46:23.920 --> 00:46:26.079 Maybe you're standing right in front of one right now, 864 00:46:26.119 --> 00:46:26.920 you stupid dick. 865 00:46:27.039 --> 00:46:30.760 Oh peydon, why didn't say that. 866 00:46:30.920 --> 00:46:31.719 I didn't mean it? 867 00:46:33.480 --> 00:46:35.119 Oh my god, but we do. 868 00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:40.920 I like can't believe I like, actually coming into this tonight, 869 00:46:41.079 --> 00:46:46.840 forgot about this whole prelude. 870 00:46:46.960 --> 00:46:51.920 It's just so funny because like, honestly, the fantasy part 871 00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:55.679 of this book is so so very very bad, and 872 00:46:55.760 --> 00:46:58.440 I and there are some things I enjoyed and we 873 00:46:58.480 --> 00:47:01.199 can we will get too. It's just like it is 874 00:47:01.440 --> 00:47:06.159 crazy how nonsensical fans like even just like Jack's one 875 00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:10.880 of the guys fighting. He has the ability to blink. 876 00:47:10.960 --> 00:47:13.239 It's called blink, and he can like just move somewhere else, 877 00:47:13.960 --> 00:47:16.400 and he like doesn't ever use it to go up 878 00:47:16.440 --> 00:47:18.800 the mountain, like he finds out it's like capture the 879 00:47:18.800 --> 00:47:20.639 flag or even the maze. It's like you just have 880 00:47:20.679 --> 00:47:22.880 to get to the center of the maze. Jack should 881 00:47:22.920 --> 00:47:25.840 be winning all of these he just yeah, gets should 882 00:47:25.920 --> 00:47:28.199 go there. I mean, like it just I don't know 883 00:47:28.239 --> 00:47:35.480 there was and the way then. 884 00:47:33.159 --> 00:47:35.840 Steal everyone's power. Should just be doing that. He could 885 00:47:35.840 --> 00:47:37.719 do that too, steal the blink. 886 00:47:38.039 --> 00:47:42.159 Also, she why she's like fighting these people with all 887 00:47:42.199 --> 00:47:45.760 these powers. I'm sorry, there's a girl who can move 888 00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:48.679 things with her mind. You're not gonna beat her. I'm sorry, 889 00:47:48.760 --> 00:47:51.480 it's ridiculous. This story is a ridiculous. You're not beating 890 00:47:51.480 --> 00:47:53.480 her at a fight. You're so sorry, You're. 891 00:47:53.320 --> 00:47:55.199 Definitely gonna beat microphone girl. 892 00:47:56.599 --> 00:47:59.360 You can be microphone girl. But like, also there's there's 893 00:47:59.360 --> 00:48:03.000 a little unun little brother who also just I don't 894 00:48:03.239 --> 00:48:06.880 was just for some reason, also randomly in the purge. 895 00:48:07.280 --> 00:48:10.480 He also like there's never any explanation as to why 896 00:48:10.519 --> 00:48:17.280 he was chosen. And then he almost dies and kais. 897 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:19.840 Like saving guy brother and he's fifteen. 898 00:48:19.760 --> 00:48:22.239 Yeah, and I'm like, and then he kiss like save 899 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:26.599 his life, and but he does, and then like nothing happens, 900 00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:29.400 Like nothing else happens with this guy. 901 00:48:29.880 --> 00:48:31.599 I feel like at the top, they make a big 902 00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:33.440 deal about how this is the first time that a 903 00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:37.760 prince has ever been in the trials or whatever they're called, 904 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:41.880 and I I could be wrong, but I feel like 905 00:48:41.920 --> 00:48:43.840 they don't make a big deal out of how the 906 00:48:43.880 --> 00:48:45.400 little brother is also in it. 907 00:48:45.519 --> 00:48:46.920 Yeah, later. 908 00:48:49.079 --> 00:48:52.159 Shouldn't shouldn't that count equally and maybe even a little 909 00:48:52.159 --> 00:48:54.280 more because he's not the future enforcer. 910 00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:56.719 He's just a weak little child. 911 00:48:57.239 --> 00:49:00.360 Yeah, it's weird. It doesn't like the logic. You're like, 912 00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.119 why did the king do this? Why did the king? 913 00:49:03.239 --> 00:49:05.559 Why did they pick her? Because it's not random, like 914 00:49:05.639 --> 00:49:10.000 hunger games. It's like she was chosen by his I 915 00:49:10.039 --> 00:49:12.159 don't know the I don't know who picks them. I'm 916 00:49:12.159 --> 00:49:15.039 assuming the king, but don't really know. But just because 917 00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:18.599 she saved his life. But but again, this is what 918 00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:22.239 we also need to realize at this point, the king, 919 00:49:22.800 --> 00:49:27.280 this is again the daughter of a trader the king killed. 920 00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:31.800 Yea, he knows, like the king was confused. 921 00:49:32.400 --> 00:49:34.519 And it's not a like I just to figured out 922 00:49:34.559 --> 00:49:37.400 who you are from the king. The king always. 923 00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:40.400 Knows and always or did he find out kind of 924 00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:42.639 in the middle of the trials, which is how I 925 00:49:42.719 --> 00:49:46.119 read it. I was like, I've for some time, and 926 00:49:46.159 --> 00:49:47.719 I was like, well, how long is that time? 927 00:49:48.079 --> 00:49:50.239 I feel this always did the length of the book, 928 00:49:51.400 --> 00:49:52.599 don't I don't. 929 00:49:52.639 --> 00:49:56.079 There was never a moment described that like was revealing, 930 00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:59.599 and so I can only I this is again just 931 00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:02.760 like plot holes, like what's going on the way the 932 00:50:02.840 --> 00:50:07.920 king acts is so nonsensical, like even just like why 933 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.719 is she allowed to wander around and like talk to 934 00:50:10.800 --> 00:50:14.559 the he clearly doesn't like her and once he'r dead, 935 00:50:15.280 --> 00:50:21.960 but is like letting her flirt endlessly with his two sons, 936 00:50:21.960 --> 00:50:23.199 like it doesn't make any sense? 937 00:50:23.800 --> 00:50:25.599 How much do you really know about her? 938 00:50:25.679 --> 00:50:28.199 If you think she's like kind of part of the resistance, 939 00:50:28.239 --> 00:50:32.719 a thing she's literally never heard of. True until you 940 00:50:32.800 --> 00:50:36.559 let her mingle around your kingdom and people are like. 941 00:50:36.519 --> 00:50:39.360 Hey, hey, my god, we're the resistance. 942 00:50:39.719 --> 00:50:41.840 You have to get some key off of kit. 943 00:50:42.119 --> 00:50:45.280 And then she can do all these things super easily. 944 00:50:45.360 --> 00:50:47.159 Everything she could do is she can do it all 945 00:50:47.199 --> 00:50:50.039 so easily. Also so funny the resistance. Guess where the 946 00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:59.400 resistance meets at her house? She had a house whole time. 947 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.519 It's so funny. 948 00:51:05.960 --> 00:51:09.199 What but she is living. 949 00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:11.440 I think she literally describes it as like I live 950 00:51:11.440 --> 00:51:15.360 in a trash pile. Yeah, she describes her house as 951 00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:19.320 But then for some reason, there's a house and she 952 00:51:19.360 --> 00:51:21.280 goes back there one day. She's like, I'm gonna go 953 00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:23.440 back to my house. I'm gonna just check it out, 954 00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:25.920 head on back, see if my dad's chair is still there. 955 00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:28.760 It's like, did her dad. I'm trying to make sense 956 00:51:28.760 --> 00:51:30.760 of it, Okay, I'm trying to do the legwork that 957 00:51:30.880 --> 00:51:32.840 Lauren Roberts did not do. And I'm like, perhaps the 958 00:51:32.960 --> 00:51:37.480 dad left the house to the resistance in and she's 959 00:51:37.519 --> 00:51:39.800 not in his will. I don't know that's fucked up. 960 00:51:39.760 --> 00:51:43.320 So she can't make that bad debt before he died, right, 961 00:51:43.360 --> 00:51:44.159 but what happened? 962 00:51:44.239 --> 00:51:45.639 Yeah? But like also did they. 963 00:51:46.480 --> 00:51:47.760 Watch him get murdered? 964 00:51:50.400 --> 00:51:52.840 Murdered and in the last minute quickly struck her out 965 00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:55.440 as well? She doesn't get the house. I want her 966 00:51:55.440 --> 00:51:56.440 to live in a trash pile. 967 00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:01.039 I've been training her all her life to be a pickpocket, 968 00:52:01.079 --> 00:52:05.159 and now this is the chance. I don't know, it's very. 969 00:52:05.079 --> 00:52:08.199 Very your father, you might have to live in a 970 00:52:08.239 --> 00:52:08.760 trash pile. 971 00:52:08.760 --> 00:52:11.800 I think she didn't know that her dad was like 972 00:52:11.880 --> 00:52:14.239 a big deal part of the resistance. 973 00:52:14.360 --> 00:52:15.920 No, she doesn't know that either. 974 00:52:16.639 --> 00:52:20.280 Why did she think the king himself would have murdered 975 00:52:20.719 --> 00:52:22.039 just some random dad? 976 00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:26.119 Good question. Well, doesn't seem like she didn't seem to 977 00:52:26.159 --> 00:52:28.679 think about that. She didn't really, And this is why, 978 00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:31.119 I mean, this is the same for all the characters. 979 00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:37.360 The characters don't really think at all, like not at all, 980 00:52:37.440 --> 00:52:39.960 not even the leaders of the resistance. They're not like, oh, 981 00:52:40.079 --> 00:52:44.840 maybe this plan. Our plan is to basically like sneak 982 00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:50.239 up so we can show up at the third trial 983 00:52:50.280 --> 00:52:52.519 and like surprise everyone, and then we're just gonna be like, 984 00:52:53.159 --> 00:52:58.199 please be nice. To us, we're ordinaries, Like what was 985 00:52:58.280 --> 00:53:02.199 their plan? There wasn't a plan. No, no one's thinking 986 00:53:02.239 --> 00:53:04.800 in this book and it's insane. Even the King is like, 987 00:53:06.320 --> 00:53:07.800 I don't know the fuck he's doing. 988 00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:10.320 You don't we know that? 989 00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:14.679 Yeah, he's also like the second key that the Resistance 990 00:53:14.760 --> 00:53:19.079 needs her to like find to get from Kit. It's 991 00:53:19.119 --> 00:53:23.920 like Kit just Sue Spontee is like, yeah, there's this 992 00:53:23.960 --> 00:53:27.639 really important key that I hide on my person and 993 00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:32.920 it's like, why would you tell a basic stranger that 994 00:53:33.360 --> 00:53:36.199 gigantic security detail. 995 00:53:36.400 --> 00:53:38.760 He's horny for her, and that's so this gets back 996 00:53:38.800 --> 00:53:44.159 to this this three this love triangle, which is unfortunately 997 00:53:44.199 --> 00:53:46.719 when this was introduced, I was like, oh, I see 998 00:53:46.719 --> 00:53:51.800 potential like brother brother, Oh you know, there's the hot one, 999 00:53:51.840 --> 00:53:54.039 but like he's the king, so it's gonna like, look, 1000 00:53:54.079 --> 00:53:57.719 he's going to have to start. I there was, but 1001 00:53:57.760 --> 00:54:04.559 there really wasn't anything like she's never liked Kit like 1002 00:54:04.800 --> 00:54:05.480 it would have been. 1003 00:54:07.320 --> 00:54:11.280 If she probably did, probably but if she was actually 1004 00:54:11.280 --> 00:54:14.280 but instead she just shamelessly flirts for him throughout the 1005 00:54:14.280 --> 00:54:16.280 book and then at one point they're like, also, your 1006 00:54:16.280 --> 00:54:18.360 mission is to flirt with him, and she's like easy 1007 00:54:18.960 --> 00:54:22.559 because she's been doing it for no reason, Like it's. 1008 00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:28.920 Just a moment of conflict where it's like, I haven't 1009 00:54:28.920 --> 00:54:31.079 been doing this the whole book. It will be weird 1010 00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:33.599 and it will be a challenge I need to undertake. 1011 00:54:33.800 --> 00:54:36.239 No, she just it's just the way she is. She's 1012 00:54:36.320 --> 00:54:38.559 just like, this is how she talks to me. She's 1013 00:54:38.559 --> 00:54:44.239 just naturally flirty. And yeah, I guess that's okay. So 1014 00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:46.199 there's that set up, and then we have this like 1015 00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.719 enemies to lovers thing, I guess, But it's like she 1016 00:54:52.199 --> 00:54:57.079 doesn't seem to really see herself as an enemy with Kai, 1017 00:54:57.199 --> 00:55:00.639 do you know what I mean. It's like we're both 1018 00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.840 doing these purge trials, but we immediately team up immediately 1019 00:55:04.840 --> 00:55:08.719 on each other's side, like I don't I mean other 1020 00:55:08.840 --> 00:55:13.840 it's more of like, uh, not like an impossible romance 1021 00:55:13.840 --> 00:55:17.400 because it's like, oh, he's they can't really be together 1022 00:55:17.480 --> 00:55:21.320 because he's royalty and she's not. It's not like enemies, 1023 00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:26.360 I mean until the end, I guess it's like lovers 1024 00:55:27.000 --> 00:55:29.760 or flirters. Two enemies is maybe what it feels like 1025 00:55:29.800 --> 00:55:33.559 the trope. Actually, I doubt doubt they're actual enemies. 1026 00:55:33.760 --> 00:55:38.199 I think in the universe, right there's like a there 1027 00:55:38.320 --> 00:55:43.639 should be a montague and capulate situation to them, except 1028 00:55:44.159 --> 00:55:48.360 that Kai has no idea who she actually is, and 1029 00:55:48.599 --> 00:55:49.679 neither does she. 1030 00:55:50.239 --> 00:55:52.320 Right, so she doesn't know her dad is the leader 1031 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:54.039 of the resistance exactly right. 1032 00:55:54.320 --> 00:55:56.840 It's like, where is the conflict? 1033 00:55:56.880 --> 00:55:57.440 Do you are? 1034 00:55:57.599 --> 00:55:58.599 Just? 1035 00:56:00.199 --> 00:56:05.800 But yeah, it seems fine. I actually the I the 1036 00:56:05.880 --> 00:56:10.440 thing I know. It's why A but a little amount 1037 00:56:10.760 --> 00:56:14.599 of hurting and touching they did with each other. These 1038 00:56:14.639 --> 00:56:18.239 are eighteen year old and twenty something, Like, there's no 1039 00:56:18.320 --> 00:56:22.320 way these people haven't fucked, like, aren't fucking kissing making 1040 00:56:22.360 --> 00:56:25.000 out at the very least. That was the most ridiculous 1041 00:56:25.039 --> 00:56:26.199 part of it to me, that it was like the 1042 00:56:26.239 --> 00:56:30.119 amount you guys are like hands all over each other, 1043 00:56:30.760 --> 00:56:34.559 making up reasons, laying on top of each other at 1044 00:56:34.599 --> 00:56:37.679 one and you're telling me you're not like and there 1045 00:56:37.719 --> 00:56:40.320 wasn't ever a reason, Like it wasn't like Kai was like, 1046 00:56:40.800 --> 00:56:43.760 I must keep myself pure as the enforcer, or she 1047 00:56:44.039 --> 00:56:47.920 was like virgins are really looked down upon, and if 1048 00:56:47.920 --> 00:56:49.920 you're not a virgin, you can't Like there was never 1049 00:56:50.039 --> 00:56:54.119 any setup as to why they couldn't just fucking hook up, 1050 00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:55.519 And it bothered me. 1051 00:56:55.559 --> 00:56:58.400 So they didn't kiss right like there was no no. 1052 00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:01.039 There was like a peck, maybe there was nothing nothing. 1053 00:57:01.480 --> 00:57:04.320 There was that moment where he chased her out of 1054 00:57:04.320 --> 00:57:07.039 the ball and the rain and he held his jacket 1055 00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:09.280 over his head to keep her dry, and she was like, 1056 00:57:09.480 --> 00:57:11.960 I'm already wet, yeah. 1057 00:57:11.400 --> 00:57:14.480 And he's like, I know, and then his lips quivered 1058 00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:19.840 with a smile and his dimpy's dimppy simpled and her 1059 00:57:19.880 --> 00:57:21.519 eyes traveled to his mouth. 1060 00:57:23.000 --> 00:57:25.440 I was also having so much fun reading this and 1061 00:57:25.519 --> 00:57:29.679 imagining like fifteen to seventeen year old kids taking this 1062 00:57:29.719 --> 00:57:32.280 as their template for like how to talk to people, 1063 00:57:32.400 --> 00:57:34.079 like and how to flirt, like how to talk to 1064 00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:35.079 girls because. 1065 00:57:34.960 --> 00:57:35.920 A lot of Naggine. 1066 00:57:36.039 --> 00:57:41.360 There's this one line where she gets hurt and kus 1067 00:57:41.480 --> 00:57:42.880 like who did this to you? 1068 00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:45.280 And of course, because we're trying to play the enemy's 1069 00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:47.719 celeveris trope, she's like, why do you care? And he 1070 00:57:47.800 --> 00:57:50.880 goes because I don't like my toys to be played with. 1071 00:57:51.920 --> 00:57:53.920 Yes, I was dying. 1072 00:57:54.280 --> 00:57:57.239 It's ridiculous sixteen year old trying to flirt and being 1073 00:57:57.280 --> 00:58:03.519 like I don't like my toys. I want young people 1074 00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:04.960 to use this as their template. 1075 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:08.320 It just take us to whatever time. This is Oh 1076 00:58:08.360 --> 00:58:11.119 my god, the constant use of the word darling. It 1077 00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:14.639 was like way too much. Oh, and they like knife 1078 00:58:14.679 --> 00:58:17.880 at your throat, I'm gonna kill you. And they have this. 1079 00:58:17.760 --> 00:58:20.599 Refrain too that you could tell the author thinks is 1080 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:24.599 like so impactful. Which is the truth then and then 1081 00:58:24.760 --> 00:58:30.079 they would respond the truth always. I think that came 1082 00:58:30.159 --> 00:58:31.719 up three or four times. 1083 00:58:32.159 --> 00:58:37.480 Oh yeah. And then there's the like funny so many 1084 00:58:37.480 --> 00:58:39.960 funny to the like dancing where he's like, I have 1085 00:58:40.000 --> 00:58:41.519 to teach you how to dance because you have to 1086 00:58:41.599 --> 00:58:44.039 dance with my brother, and then they're like in the 1087 00:58:44.079 --> 00:58:47.000 middle of the night together dancing. I'm like, what is this. 1088 00:58:47.079 --> 00:58:49.880 There are no rules. I don't want to get on here. 1089 00:58:49.880 --> 00:58:52.920 I thought this character was gay. See all the pieces 1090 00:58:52.920 --> 00:58:53.719 are lighting up. 1091 00:58:54.000 --> 00:58:55.639 It's like, I have to teach you to. 1092 00:58:56.599 --> 00:58:58.480 Will be pissed if you can't dance. 1093 00:59:00.079 --> 00:59:03.320 He yeah, he's like he's very particular. 1094 00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:06.239 He's good. 1095 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.480 He did four years of ballroom, like. 1096 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:11.440 He's gonna something. 1097 00:59:12.679 --> 00:59:15.519 Yeah, totally, you're right. He never made like a huge 1098 00:59:15.599 --> 00:59:17.960 move on her. He just like there were like two 1099 00:59:18.119 --> 00:59:21.639 conversations maybe between Kit and Kai, who also kind of 1100 00:59:21.639 --> 00:59:23.760 seemed gay together. Now that you say that like they 1101 00:59:23.760 --> 00:59:27.840 were always like they kept being shown. I don't know, 1102 00:59:27.880 --> 00:59:31.199 like they had more Yeah, they had more kind of 1103 00:59:31.639 --> 00:59:35.400 chemistry than Kitten I. 1104 00:59:35.400 --> 00:59:40.119 I did not pick up on the brotherly I think. 1105 00:59:41.639 --> 00:59:44.599 But they also don't talk like there's like some vague 1106 00:59:44.599 --> 00:59:48.559 where She's like, you know, Kid's like, oh, she's interesting, 1107 00:59:48.800 --> 00:59:53.480 I want to know more, and Kuy's like yeah, and 1108 00:59:53.519 --> 00:59:56.519 then they don't like neither of them talk about really 1109 00:59:56.599 --> 00:59:57.440 how they're feeling. 1110 00:59:57.840 --> 01:00:00.079 I don't know, there's just boy stuff, you know, I 1111 01:00:00.239 --> 01:00:00.960 guess it is. 1112 01:00:01.119 --> 01:00:03.519 I guess it's total boy stuff. Kai's total boy stuff 1113 01:00:03.599 --> 01:00:06.960 because he's like, uh, I just like kill people. My 1114 01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:09.000 daddy tells me too, And I never like think about 1115 01:00:09.039 --> 01:00:11.639 it too much, like I. 1116 01:00:11.639 --> 01:00:13.599 Don't know, like he just I'm just this is the 1117 01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:14.760 way it is, and. 1118 01:00:14.800 --> 01:00:18.719 La la la, like he it's so funny because he 1119 01:00:18.800 --> 01:00:22.159 does not have a like a single complex thought. 1120 01:00:22.559 --> 01:00:24.599 No, he literally. 1121 01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:26.960 Except in his mind poetry for her. 1122 01:00:27.599 --> 01:00:30.920 Sure, but like the things he says out loud to 1123 01:00:31.199 --> 01:00:35.960 himself are not things that one says to themselves, Like 1124 01:00:36.119 --> 01:00:40.159 I don't sit there in my mind and think, Sabrina, 1125 01:00:40.599 --> 01:00:44.320 you were raised to be this job and you don't 1126 01:00:44.400 --> 01:00:47.920 care about anything other than this job, because that is 1127 01:00:48.000 --> 01:00:52.800 how you were raised. Like, no, you have complex thoughts 1128 01:00:52.840 --> 01:00:55.960 about who you are in your life, and you aren't 1129 01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:58.800 also aren't constantly thinking about it. 1130 01:00:59.639 --> 01:01:02.079 I I want to ask you guys, how much of 1131 01:01:02.159 --> 01:01:05.280 your day, as people is spent going like, why. 1132 01:01:05.119 --> 01:01:08.199 The fuck did I just do that? I something such 1133 01:01:08.239 --> 01:01:09.840 an idiot, I'm so embarrassed. 1134 01:01:10.360 --> 01:01:12.559 Never that's also the funny thing to be that. I'm like, 1135 01:01:12.599 --> 01:01:14.920 if she's a character who like speaks her mind a lot, 1136 01:01:15.000 --> 01:01:17.639 she's probably most of the time just gonna do it. 1137 01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:19.880 I don't know, like not going to constantly be like 1138 01:01:20.480 --> 01:01:22.079 because if she's anxious about her. 1139 01:01:23.920 --> 01:01:25.960 I was asking, for real, how often do you guys 1140 01:01:26.039 --> 01:01:30.840 think that? Because I think that all day long? Oh yeah, 1141 01:01:31.079 --> 01:01:31.760 this is what I mean. 1142 01:01:31.840 --> 01:01:33.840 I mean if I feel like I never think that. 1143 01:01:34.719 --> 01:01:37.400 I don't never think it. It is rare that I 1144 01:01:37.440 --> 01:01:40.639 think it. But once I do, I think about that 1145 01:01:40.760 --> 01:01:41.719 thing for a week. 1146 01:01:42.000 --> 01:01:45.119 Okay, Yeah, I choose not to because I will spiral. 1147 01:01:45.239 --> 01:01:48.400 I kind of a Sabrina here. I will spiral. And 1148 01:01:48.440 --> 01:01:52.679 I have realized that it doesn't doesn't not helpful to 1149 01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:53.719 me to do that. 1150 01:01:53.840 --> 01:01:55.400 I'm just trying to figure out what other people's in 1151 01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:58.360 her monologues are I guess Serena got me thinking that, Like, 1152 01:01:58.880 --> 01:02:01.079 you know, I don't think about my job what I 1153 01:02:01.119 --> 01:02:02.920 was raised to do, but I guess I do think 1154 01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:04.000 often about like that. 1155 01:02:04.039 --> 01:02:06.079 It's such a stupid thing to say. 1156 01:02:06.400 --> 01:02:11.559 Fix and fixes, but she doesn't fix it. 1157 01:02:11.679 --> 01:02:14.840 She just is like, yeah, whoopsies, she goes whoops, and 1158 01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:20.719 then she flashes her silver hair and she cinches her 1159 01:02:20.800 --> 01:02:21.480 little waist. 1160 01:02:22.280 --> 01:02:28.719 Yeah it's a little anemic waist, but strong but still yeah, 1161 01:02:28.800 --> 01:02:32.400 she's still very strong and like feisty. Okay, here, I 1162 01:02:32.440 --> 01:02:35.400 want to read a little quote. This is obviously Kai 1163 01:02:35.559 --> 01:02:41.239 talking about our girl. Everything beautiful, everything bold, everything breathtaking. 1164 01:02:41.400 --> 01:02:44.400 This is what I feel in her gaze. That and terrified, 1165 01:02:45.000 --> 01:02:47.360 terrified of what she's doing to me. She is a vision, 1166 01:02:47.360 --> 01:02:50.400 a nightmare, a dream, a grim reaper clad in black, 1167 01:02:50.440 --> 01:02:52.840 come to steal my soul and my heart. I've never 1168 01:02:52.880 --> 01:02:55.639 seen something so beautiful, so bold, so blatantly wrong for me. 1169 01:02:55.719 --> 01:02:58.639 She is a devil, she is a deity. She is 1170 01:02:58.679 --> 01:03:01.920 a man's downfall and human form. She is my downfall. 1171 01:03:02.320 --> 01:03:05.159 Then her eyes drift to Kit, the connection snaps, and 1172 01:03:05.199 --> 01:03:08.480 I'm left feeling empty. Besides the jealousy growing beside me. 1173 01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:11.000 Why did I ever think I could have her? Ever 1174 01:03:11.039 --> 01:03:13.480 think she would have me? Because beests don't get the beauty. 1175 01:03:14.440 --> 01:03:15.480 Oh my god, I crack. 1176 01:03:15.599 --> 01:03:18.840 Don't you feel like she wrote that like really early, 1177 01:03:19.960 --> 01:03:22.400 Like it doesn't really fit, do you know what I mean? 1178 01:03:22.440 --> 01:03:25.159 I'm like, bees still get the beauty. He never thinks that. 1179 01:03:25.280 --> 01:03:26.679 He's never like I'm not hot. 1180 01:03:27.039 --> 01:03:29.119 He All he thinks about is how hot he is 1181 01:03:29.199 --> 01:03:30.039 and says. 1182 01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:34.039 It, Yeah, it doesn't make any sense. And also, there 1183 01:03:34.119 --> 01:03:37.119 was never really concerned that kit was going to win her, 1184 01:03:37.159 --> 01:03:40.119 Like that would have been interesting, but that was never 1185 01:03:40.239 --> 01:03:41.000 really there. 1186 01:03:41.199 --> 01:03:44.679 Dweem brother who does paperwork, absolutely not. 1187 01:03:45.320 --> 01:03:46.840 The slame future king. 1188 01:03:48.119 --> 01:03:50.880 This man is trying to like speak in like thinking 1189 01:03:50.960 --> 01:03:55.760 so poetically. I guess it's so, but it's also like cheesy. Sorry, 1190 01:03:55.760 --> 01:03:58.639 I gotta read one more Kai thing. I never thought 1191 01:03:58.679 --> 01:04:01.639 about what my favorite color was. It never seemed important. 1192 01:04:01.960 --> 01:04:04.400 Oh my god. Sorry. They asked each other their favorite colors, 1193 01:04:04.400 --> 01:04:07.039 and neither of them had a favorite color. So stupid. Okay, 1194 01:04:07.639 --> 01:04:10.360 she goes, he goes. Not until I looked into a 1195 01:04:10.360 --> 01:04:13.119 pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning 1196 01:04:13.199 --> 01:04:15.880 was a beautiful thing. Not until I looked into a 1197 01:04:15.920 --> 01:04:18.760 pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning 1198 01:04:18.880 --> 01:04:21.599 was a painless thing. Not until I looked into a 1199 01:04:21.639 --> 01:04:24.199 pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling 1200 01:04:24.440 --> 01:04:27.000 was a peaceful thing. I've never thought about what my 1201 01:04:27.039 --> 01:04:30.039 favorite color was before, because I hadn't seen one that 1202 01:04:30.199 --> 01:04:33.679 was worthy of the title until now blue. I say, 1203 01:04:33.800 --> 01:04:36.840 my voice, low, So what color are her eyes? 1204 01:04:36.960 --> 01:04:40.519 Are they sky blue or are they fire blue? 1205 01:04:41.239 --> 01:04:44.800 Yeah? These are different color blues. Ocean blue, that's kind 1206 01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:47.119 of a greeny blue, I would say, I don't know what. Yeah, 1207 01:04:47.360 --> 01:04:51.519 we're just so fucking stupid, just the way he thinks 1208 01:04:51.559 --> 01:04:54.400 and talks like. I guess, you know what, maybe it 1209 01:04:54.519 --> 01:04:57.840 was nice. I actually don't know if I liked being 1210 01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:01.480 in his brain, because I guess it just like he 1211 01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:04.480 was obsessed with her full throttle the whole time, and 1212 01:05:04.519 --> 01:05:06.519 I would have liked to, like, not know that. 1213 01:05:06.639 --> 01:05:10.679 I think they're okay, and if we can like a 1214 01:05:10.679 --> 01:05:13.480 little bit toward the end too, I think being in 1215 01:05:13.519 --> 01:05:16.000 his brain, I can't decide. I think like there was 1216 01:05:16.039 --> 01:05:18.119 some fun of it, But there is a thing that, 1217 01:05:18.199 --> 01:05:20.400 like the King says at the end, which could have 1218 01:05:20.440 --> 01:05:24.159 been a really dramatic moment, but wasn't because we were 1219 01:05:24.159 --> 01:05:28.960 in Kai's mind the whole time, and basically it's like, 1220 01:05:29.159 --> 01:05:34.360 there's this last trial, and you, well, the last trial 1221 01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:39.400 is actually almost irrelevant to this. But at some point 1222 01:05:39.559 --> 01:05:43.440 the king and she are head to head and the 1223 01:05:43.559 --> 01:05:48.960 King is basically like, hey, bitch, I'm gonna kill Where where. 1224 01:05:48.840 --> 01:05:50.679 Are the people who fight for him? Where are they? 1225 01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:51.360 I don't know? 1226 01:05:51.920 --> 01:05:54.119 But then he was like, jokes on you. 1227 01:05:54.360 --> 01:05:57.280 The whole point has been for Kai to kill you, 1228 01:05:57.679 --> 01:06:02.000 and he likes to play with his prey. And I 1229 01:06:02.119 --> 01:06:06.079 was just like, no, that's not what Kai is. Like, 1230 01:06:06.119 --> 01:06:09.239 we would know if Kai was angling to kill her 1231 01:06:09.360 --> 01:06:09.800 right now. 1232 01:06:10.000 --> 01:06:10.199 Now. 1233 01:06:10.320 --> 01:06:16.719 Incidentally, the book does shift into that being where it goes, 1234 01:06:16.800 --> 01:06:20.320 but it's like that wasn't a preexisting motivation. 1235 01:06:19.840 --> 01:06:22.119 Of Ky, right, and I nor do I actually believe 1236 01:06:22.159 --> 01:06:24.840 it at the end. But yeah, So she fights the 1237 01:06:24.960 --> 01:06:30.239 king who has powers, and somehow beats him using her 1238 01:06:30.880 --> 01:06:34.679 I don't even actually sheer strength. I don't even know 1239 01:06:34.719 --> 01:06:38.199 how she does. It doesn't just because she's so strong 1240 01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:39.719 and she trips him. 1241 01:06:39.760 --> 01:06:42.880 I don't fu uses her of hot, that's all. 1242 01:06:45.599 --> 01:06:47.880 And then we find I guess At some point before 1243 01:06:47.920 --> 01:06:51.760 he dies, the King reveals that Kai is actually the 1244 01:06:51.760 --> 01:06:58.039 one who killed her dad, and she's even though we've 1245 01:06:58.039 --> 01:06:59.960 heard her say a bunch of times it was definitely 1246 01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:03.679 the king. Now she has to backtrack and be like, oh, 1247 01:07:04.960 --> 01:07:06.000 I don't know why I thought that. 1248 01:07:06.639 --> 01:07:10.440 Also, it's like I let them confused how young does 1249 01:07:10.480 --> 01:07:13.119 the king look and or how old does Kyle? 1250 01:07:13.360 --> 01:07:15.679 Also it doesn't make sense because he keeps talking about 1251 01:07:15.679 --> 01:07:18.800 how similar Kit looks to the king, and so it's 1252 01:07:18.800 --> 01:07:21.000 also like, Okay, wait, what's happening? 1253 01:07:21.159 --> 01:07:23.480 But now you also do they all look the same? 1254 01:07:23.639 --> 01:07:23.719 Like? 1255 01:07:24.039 --> 01:07:26.480 And it was going on first killed, so it was 1256 01:07:26.519 --> 01:07:30.559 like several years ago, like he he must have actually 1257 01:07:30.760 --> 01:07:33.559 been a child, and you thought that was a full 1258 01:07:33.559 --> 01:07:35.559 blown king, Yeah. 1259 01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:38.880 Because she was thirteen I think at the time. Also 1260 01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:42.440 like but also Ki, Ki, You're like, Ki, that was 1261 01:07:42.480 --> 01:07:46.360 your first kill. You must have remembered your first kill, certainly. 1262 01:07:46.159 --> 01:07:47.400 Right, everybody remembers that. 1263 01:07:47.840 --> 01:07:50.639 You're not going to bring up It's just seems crazy 1264 01:07:50.639 --> 01:07:52.559 to me that you they wouldn't be like, oh, I 1265 01:07:53.039 --> 01:07:56.880 just recognize her. That that would have been some sort 1266 01:07:56.920 --> 01:07:59.599 of internal something that came up Like that would have 1267 01:07:59.599 --> 01:08:03.400 been more interesting. I think if he was fighting that internally, 1268 01:08:03.480 --> 01:08:07.039 like realizing, but no, you wouldn't have any of that. 1269 01:08:07.840 --> 01:08:09.599 We couldn't have any of that because we needed him 1270 01:08:09.599 --> 01:08:11.440 to just be like super cocky. 1271 01:08:11.599 --> 01:08:13.360 We couldn't have that because we needed to have a 1272 01:08:13.360 --> 01:08:16.680 conversation where they both go, yeah, I don't have a 1273 01:08:16.720 --> 01:08:20.760 favorite color and then the other person goes yeah, oh okay, 1274 01:08:20.920 --> 01:08:23.039 which is one of those thoughts you just you keep 1275 01:08:23.079 --> 01:08:25.479 inside you don't need. 1276 01:08:25.319 --> 01:08:28.600 To ever voice that, or or like have you ever 1277 01:08:28.680 --> 01:08:35.239 played thumb Wars And she's like no. Then they play 1278 01:08:36.760 --> 01:08:39.199 And that's something that happened when they were camping in 1279 01:08:39.239 --> 01:08:40.439 the first trial. 1280 01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:43.880 But I'm dancing too had room for that. 1281 01:08:44.640 --> 01:08:47.800 They also did dancing. I don't know why that was happening. 1282 01:08:47.880 --> 01:08:52.359 I thought, so the maze the like twist, I guess 1283 01:08:53.159 --> 01:08:55.840 was also the King said to Kai that maybe he 1284 01:08:55.920 --> 01:09:01.640 was going to get to kill Peyden in the next trials, and. 1285 01:09:01.560 --> 01:09:03.319 I was like, are we killing people? 1286 01:09:03.680 --> 01:09:06.800 And then it was like, okay, at the center of 1287 01:09:06.840 --> 01:09:08.840 the maze, once you get there, there's going to be 1288 01:09:08.880 --> 01:09:10.560 an ordinary waiting for you that. 1289 01:09:10.520 --> 01:09:11.279 You have to kill. 1290 01:09:11.720 --> 01:09:14.319 And so I was like, first I was like, oh 1291 01:09:14.359 --> 01:09:17.439 my god, Peydon is going to be trapped right there, 1292 01:09:17.800 --> 01:09:19.359 and then Kai is gonna have to kill her. No, 1293 01:09:19.520 --> 01:09:21.920 she gets to start at the start line like the 1294 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:25.880 other people competing. And then I thought, maybe her father 1295 01:09:26.079 --> 01:09:29.319 isn't really dead and he's going to be the person there. 1296 01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:34.079 Also No, but it was it her, It was her DNA. 1297 01:09:34.880 --> 01:09:38.079 It was a again again so funny. We didn't even 1298 01:09:38.119 --> 01:09:40.159 mention this. She's there at the beginning and then I 1299 01:09:40.159 --> 01:09:44.000 don't know, halfway through the book. Literally these are thoughts 1300 01:09:44.119 --> 01:09:48.880 that uh, Peyton has, Oh, I forgot about my friend. 1301 01:09:49.680 --> 01:09:52.119 She likes to sew, maybe she can make my dress. 1302 01:09:52.399 --> 01:09:54.239 And then she has her coming to make her dresses 1303 01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:58.119 and talks to her about nothing else, not about Ki, 1304 01:09:58.880 --> 01:10:03.319 not about Kit, not about residenting, nothing and. 1305 01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:06.000 Author is I got to rest. The plot. 1306 01:10:07.439 --> 01:10:11.600 Shows up and she's but also like I was confused 1307 01:10:11.640 --> 01:10:14.319 because she didn't have to kill her. She was like 1308 01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:18.920 already dying or something like what happened she was and 1309 01:10:18.960 --> 01:10:20.640 she was like I'm sorry, and I'm like I don't 1310 01:10:20.640 --> 01:10:22.800 know what you did. You were just so in some dresses. 1311 01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:24.600 I'll fucking No. 1312 01:10:25.439 --> 01:10:30.239 We find out and powerful we need or maybe a novella. 1313 01:10:30.399 --> 01:10:33.119 Yeah, yeah, the Powerful, Yeah that is the one that would, 1314 01:10:33.159 --> 01:10:34.119 I guess tell us. 1315 01:10:34.000 --> 01:10:37.479 It's us for just writing one book and expecting to 1316 01:10:37.520 --> 01:10:39.640 be able to understand the book by. 1317 01:10:39.479 --> 01:10:45.560 Reading the book. Yeah, yeah, we needed the whole compendium. 1318 01:10:45.960 --> 01:10:49.000 Stupid girls, stupid fucking book. 1319 01:10:49.560 --> 01:10:53.439 All right, let's can we talk a little bit. I mean, 1320 01:10:53.800 --> 01:10:56.279 there's so much to make fun of, it's almost endless. 1321 01:10:56.520 --> 01:11:03.880 But did you guys like Kai and Peyton, did you 1322 01:11:04.039 --> 01:11:05.199 like their flirting scenes? 1323 01:11:08.399 --> 01:11:15.119 Well, okay, that's a loaded question, because overall I was 1324 01:11:15.199 --> 01:11:17.239 looking forward to those scenes. 1325 01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:18.199 Yeah, I. 1326 01:11:20.399 --> 01:11:23.560 Do feel as though I didn't get the return on 1327 01:11:23.600 --> 01:11:28.840 my investment sure listening to them. Yes, would I venture 1328 01:11:29.520 --> 01:11:33.279 through the next four books to perhaps get another taste, 1329 01:11:33.399 --> 01:11:34.039 Yes I would. 1330 01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:37.680 Yeah, I think I might agree with you there, Sabri. 1331 01:11:39.199 --> 01:11:42.520 I hated it at the beginning, and then once I 1332 01:11:42.560 --> 01:11:45.079 think I gave up on trying to make sense of anybody, 1333 01:11:45.199 --> 01:11:48.479 or like the lot, like I just gave up on 1334 01:11:48.520 --> 01:11:51.159 the logic of everything, or the fact that like this 1335 01:11:51.479 --> 01:11:53.560 Chai character, the way he talks doesn't make any sense 1336 01:11:53.560 --> 01:11:58.319 given his background. I then I was able to just 1337 01:11:58.439 --> 01:12:03.119 enjoy that they are. They're like just super flirty and 1338 01:12:03.760 --> 01:12:06.399 they're just looking for reasons to like touch each other. 1339 01:12:06.920 --> 01:12:11.279 And they're just like, never gonna admit it. 1340 01:12:11.840 --> 01:12:14.520 I think what you both are describing is that this 1341 01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:19.199 book nagged you both, and it was so mean to you, 1342 01:12:19.319 --> 01:12:22.119 and it ignored your needs as readers for so long 1343 01:12:22.800 --> 01:12:25.880 that finally, when it turned a tiny little bit of 1344 01:12:25.920 --> 01:12:28.199 its light on you and had a little bit of fun, 1345 01:12:28.239 --> 01:12:32.239 flirty banter, you both snapped. 1346 01:12:31.800 --> 01:12:35.640 At it like, yeah, I was like good enough. At 1347 01:12:35.640 --> 01:12:36.600 the hook, we. 1348 01:12:36.640 --> 01:12:39.319 Were like, oh my god, thank you for paying attention 1349 01:12:39.439 --> 01:12:39.680 to my. 1350 01:12:39.800 --> 01:12:43.720 Need book, and I have for giving me strategy here. 1351 01:12:44.359 --> 01:12:47.479 To give so little to your reader that the crumb 1352 01:12:47.520 --> 01:12:51.760 that you throw out of flirtation will be thought of 1353 01:12:51.880 --> 01:12:52.399 as good. 1354 01:12:53.359 --> 01:12:55.000 Yeah. I think that's accurate. 1355 01:12:56.399 --> 01:13:00.119 Yes, I honestly I don't. I don't have any criticism 1356 01:13:00.119 --> 01:13:00.960 on your commentary. 1357 01:13:01.399 --> 01:13:05.760 Yeah, it's true, Chris. It was what got me at 1358 01:13:05.800 --> 01:13:09.239 all continuing to read the book. I mean, other than 1359 01:13:09.279 --> 01:13:10.560 we had too for this podcast. 1360 01:13:10.680 --> 01:13:13.319 Yeah, other than it's our jobs. 1361 01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:18.520 But look, did the book did the book end with 1362 01:13:18.640 --> 01:13:25.439 setting up that? That's setting up that the Kai Kit 1363 01:13:25.560 --> 01:13:28.520 is now the king and Kai has to go find 1364 01:13:28.640 --> 01:13:33.159 her and bring her back. So do am I excited 1365 01:13:33.199 --> 01:13:36.159 for that? Yes? Because I it's just going to be 1366 01:13:36.199 --> 01:13:41.039 forced proximity all over again. We're sing zero again, and 1367 01:13:41.079 --> 01:13:42.800 it's going to be more of an end, like this 1368 01:13:42.880 --> 01:13:46.279 is going to be the true enemies, because like, you 1369 01:13:46.399 --> 01:13:49.279 killed my dad, well, you killed my dad, well your 1370 01:13:49.359 --> 01:13:50.720 dad sucked well. 1371 01:13:50.840 --> 01:13:53.520 Well, I think the best thing that could have happened 1372 01:13:54.039 --> 01:13:59.199 was that she killed his dad, because now, like it'd 1373 01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:04.600 be pretty tough to forgive someone for killing your father, right, Yes, 1374 01:14:05.560 --> 01:14:06.880 you've also there. 1375 01:14:07.159 --> 01:14:10.399 Yeah and now so now it's even now, there's evens 1376 01:14:10.640 --> 01:14:12.079 Now they're the one person in the world that can 1377 01:14:12.159 --> 01:14:15.800 understand you. 1378 01:14:15.800 --> 01:14:18.239 You have something in common because we know you don't 1379 01:14:18.239 --> 01:14:19.319 have colors in common. 1380 01:14:19.479 --> 01:14:20.079 We know that. 1381 01:14:22.199 --> 01:14:24.920 We didn't talk about TV, so I don't know what 1382 01:14:25.000 --> 01:14:25.600 else they have. 1383 01:14:25.760 --> 01:14:29.159 Really, there were books. There was a mention of books 1384 01:14:29.199 --> 01:14:31.920 existing in her room when she came to the castle, 1385 01:14:31.920 --> 01:14:34.600 but no, she didn't read any of them as far 1386 01:14:34.640 --> 01:14:35.039 as I know. 1387 01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:38.239 But cool that in theory this main character can read 1388 01:14:40.680 --> 01:14:45.920 that is not Romantay books the main character sometimes and 1389 01:14:46.000 --> 01:14:46.720 that's hot too. 1390 01:14:48.680 --> 01:14:52.520 Yeah, I don't know there, I can't. Like there were 1391 01:14:52.560 --> 01:14:56.159 other characters, but it's like barely worth mentioning them. Blair Archer. 1392 01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:58.399 I guess she was the other mean girl, but like 1393 01:14:58.439 --> 01:15:01.439 their immediately rival, like it was just I don't know. 1394 01:15:01.479 --> 01:15:04.279 I thought it was just stupid that it's like Blair, 1395 01:15:05.319 --> 01:15:07.680 she's walking in there with her tits up. She's probably 1396 01:15:07.680 --> 01:15:11.000 trying to impress Kai and Kit. It's like, maybe, no, 1397 01:15:11.079 --> 01:15:14.279 she wasn't. She was just like a girl. She's known 1398 01:15:14.279 --> 01:15:16.239 them since she was kids, and now she's fighting. 1399 01:15:16.439 --> 01:15:18.840 Like sorry, she has perky tits. 1400 01:15:19.199 --> 01:15:21.760 Yeah. I feel like Peyton was like pretty bitchy to her. 1401 01:15:22.680 --> 01:15:28.760 She's not very feminist. She's a she's not a gal's girl. 1402 01:15:29.319 --> 01:15:34.800 She loves to flirt. I don't, I don't nothing bad, Like, okay, 1403 01:15:34.840 --> 01:15:37.159 nothing bad. That's not fair. Her dad does die. 1404 01:15:38.319 --> 01:15:42.359 But it's not like an action and her story. 1405 01:15:42.680 --> 01:15:48.199 Everything's really coming up Payde Like she's got a task. 1406 01:15:48.359 --> 01:15:52.439 She does it, she's got to fight, she wins it. 1407 01:15:54.439 --> 01:15:56.560 I do feel bad for her that her nickname in 1408 01:15:56.600 --> 01:15:59.800 the book is gray, even though her hair is silver. 1409 01:16:00.279 --> 01:16:01.600 Kai likes to call her gray. 1410 01:16:01.800 --> 01:16:03.520 It's his cute we name. 1411 01:16:03.600 --> 01:16:04.520 Her last name is girl. 1412 01:16:04.760 --> 01:16:05.640 It was her last name. 1413 01:16:05.720 --> 01:16:10.800 It's her last name. What's also stupid? Her name's Peyton Gray. 1414 01:16:10.920 --> 01:16:17.279 I missed that. Well, it's understandable because because of the 1415 01:16:17.279 --> 01:16:18.039 color of her hair. 1416 01:16:18.600 --> 01:16:22.560 Yeah, I think that would was is funnier and fair, 1417 01:16:22.600 --> 01:16:25.600 but no, it's it's even stupider than that. It's the 1418 01:16:26.720 --> 01:16:29.039 her last name is the color of her hair. 1419 01:16:29.119 --> 01:16:34.079 Okay, so honestly killed her dad? Then for sure? You know, 1420 01:16:34.319 --> 01:16:34.920 for sure. 1421 01:16:35.079 --> 01:16:37.039 I'm sure he doesn't know the name. 1422 01:16:37.760 --> 01:16:39.720 Like, oh, there was a little girl with still like 1423 01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:42.199 gray hair, and then I killed her dad. You don't 1424 01:16:42.199 --> 01:16:45.279 know who that is. You know who it is, you 1425 01:16:45.359 --> 01:16:46.319 know who the fuck it is. 1426 01:16:47.880 --> 01:16:49.720 Maybe it was really okay? 1427 01:16:50.359 --> 01:16:55.359 Then yeah, maybe somehow it was really Kit who killed 1428 01:16:55.800 --> 01:16:56.359 her father. 1429 01:16:57.079 --> 01:16:59.079 That would make more sense to me, But also, like 1430 01:16:59.159 --> 01:17:03.159 none of it makes to me. If we if I 1431 01:17:03.199 --> 01:17:05.119 take another step forward, do you know what I mean? 1432 01:17:05.239 --> 01:17:05.920 What if she. 1433 01:17:05.880 --> 01:17:09.960 Killed her dad and this has all been her subconscience 1434 01:17:09.960 --> 01:17:11.680 playing an elaborate game to protect her. 1435 01:17:12.680 --> 01:17:15.840 This is the wild West, and I believe that anything 1436 01:17:15.880 --> 01:17:18.359 could happen in these next four books, including that. 1437 01:17:18.680 --> 01:17:20.239 And I believe that you're going to find out. 1438 01:17:21.520 --> 01:17:25.920 I believe that as well. What are our next five 1439 01:17:25.920 --> 01:17:28.079 books of this season? Is it these books? 1440 01:17:28.800 --> 01:17:31.720 Yeah? We're just doing all these? Yeah? Also, why was 1441 01:17:32.159 --> 01:17:34.720 where were there was like flicking each other's nose or 1442 01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:36.760 like paid and would flick Kays and I was like, 1443 01:17:36.800 --> 01:17:38.960 why are we flicky noses? That kept happening? 1444 01:17:38.960 --> 01:17:42.359 No one should ever touch my nose, I understand. 1445 01:17:42.520 --> 01:17:44.640 I was like, is that cute? Yeah? 1446 01:17:44.680 --> 01:17:47.680 Well I remember in super Bad when they're like, boop boop. 1447 01:17:47.760 --> 01:17:51.199 I mean, I guess that was Michael Sarah and Jonah 1448 01:17:51.279 --> 01:17:54.199 Hill and not a flirt, but it was very sweet. 1449 01:17:55.960 --> 01:17:58.479 Did you know that? Uh, there's a serial killer test 1450 01:17:58.520 --> 01:17:59.880 that involves booping a nose. 1451 01:18:01.520 --> 01:18:02.159 I think it's no. 1452 01:18:03.840 --> 01:18:06.399 If you boop a why is it that my reaction 1453 01:18:06.560 --> 01:18:09.239 is I want to pass as a serial killer. 1454 01:18:10.720 --> 01:18:10.960 No. 1455 01:18:11.319 --> 01:18:16.039 Um, if you boop a serial killer's nose too many times, 1456 01:18:16.079 --> 01:18:18.479 they'll freak out. But a normal person will just have 1457 01:18:18.560 --> 01:18:23.520 a normal reaction. I guess you could google nose boop 1458 01:18:23.600 --> 01:18:24.720 test serial killer. 1459 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:26.680 All right, I'll get right on that. 1460 01:18:27.239 --> 01:18:33.039 I did, and the first thing twenty three physical abnormalities 1461 01:18:33.039 --> 01:18:35.239 of serial killers. And then you know how sometimes I'll 1462 01:18:35.279 --> 01:18:37.960 be like missing from your search, missing booping. 1463 01:18:41.960 --> 01:18:43.000 All right, guys, can. 1464 01:18:42.920 --> 01:18:44.920 We go back to the powers? Can we talk powers? 1465 01:18:44.960 --> 01:18:48.880 Okay? Yeah, okay, here's some powers just to give you 1466 01:18:48.920 --> 01:18:54.960 to remember. Amplifier, the ability of voice projection, bronni, the 1467 01:18:55.000 --> 01:19:02.239 ability of strength, cloner, the ability of clone creation. Uh flash, 1468 01:19:02.399 --> 01:19:05.640 the ability of enhanced speed gus, the ability to control 1469 01:19:05.720 --> 01:19:06.600 air and wind. 1470 01:19:07.680 --> 01:19:11.479 Do you think do you think amplifier ever accidentally left 1471 01:19:11.479 --> 01:19:14.560 her amplifier on and then was talking about someone and 1472 01:19:14.560 --> 01:19:15.720 that was getting amplified and. 1473 01:19:15.680 --> 01:19:17.439 She absolutely. 1474 01:19:19.199 --> 01:19:21.199 Or like flushed the toilet backstage? 1475 01:19:21.640 --> 01:19:27.920 Oh my, oh my god. Hyper the ability of enhanced 1476 01:19:27.920 --> 01:19:33.880 senses is apparently one, although we that just sounds unpleasant. 1477 01:19:34.840 --> 01:19:37.560 Shimmer the ability to maybe a light. Oh my god, 1478 01:19:37.600 --> 01:19:39.600 so there is one that's just a light bulb. I 1479 01:19:39.680 --> 01:19:42.119 knew it. I knew there would be. There's a whole 1480 01:19:42.119 --> 01:19:42.880 stage crew. 1481 01:19:43.079 --> 01:19:45.760 It's like some of the people. You've got your lighting, 1482 01:19:45.840 --> 01:19:46.800 who's got sound? 1483 01:19:47.199 --> 01:19:49.840 Is there one whose skill is backdrop? You can become 1484 01:19:49.880 --> 01:19:53.479 any background that everybody needs to put on any production. 1485 01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:58.279 The ability to give air conditioning. 1486 01:20:00.159 --> 01:20:04.720 There's site, the ability to record and project. 1487 01:20:04.800 --> 01:20:06.600 We saw those people walking around. 1488 01:20:06.800 --> 01:20:11.159 There's there's that sucks where you can tell if something's 1489 01:20:11.279 --> 01:20:15.439 level by laying across it. Your body reads delirium if 1490 01:20:15.720 --> 01:20:16.560 you're laying on his level. 1491 01:20:16.640 --> 01:20:22.920 There's gotta be one that's like GPS. Right, Oh yeah, 1492 01:20:23.039 --> 01:20:26.039 what if there what is there like a trash man one? 1493 01:20:26.159 --> 01:20:31.239 Do you think or they just have to remove waste. 1494 01:20:32.079 --> 01:20:34.199 I just feel like she could have come like she 1495 01:20:34.439 --> 01:20:36.880 went with psychic, but I've just now like seen so many. 1496 01:20:36.960 --> 01:20:38.800 I'm like, just pick one that like no one's gonna 1497 01:20:38.840 --> 01:20:41.119 ask you to show them, like like yeah, I'm like 1498 01:20:41.359 --> 01:20:46.399 I have like toilet power, and no one's gonna be like, 1499 01:20:46.680 --> 01:20:47.159 show me. 1500 01:20:47.760 --> 01:20:49.960 I can wipe my butt without any paper. 1501 01:20:51.319 --> 01:20:53.399 It just seems like that's where we were going. 1502 01:20:55.600 --> 01:20:59.159 Ability to surf anywhere. 1503 01:20:59.439 --> 01:21:07.319 You know, she like, what these are so stupid? The veil, 1504 01:21:07.399 --> 01:21:11.439 which is invisibility, volt ability of electricity, manipulation. 1505 01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:15.399 Oh my god, you could have one that's like humor 1506 01:21:15.680 --> 01:21:18.039 ability to make anybody funny and then you just laugh 1507 01:21:18.039 --> 01:21:18.760 at what they said. 1508 01:21:18.880 --> 01:21:20.399 Yeah, yeah, I mean. 1509 01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:25.680 You should have done that. You should have done that. 1510 01:21:25.680 --> 01:21:27.119 That would have been a really good one for her 1511 01:21:27.159 --> 01:21:28.560 because it would have made it like it would have 1512 01:21:28.600 --> 01:21:32.840 fed into her being charming. God, I mean, I guess 1513 01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:35.600 she did. People are stupid, though, I just think it's 1514 01:21:35.600 --> 01:21:40.119 so funny the like just idea that it's like we 1515 01:21:40.600 --> 01:21:44.039 in this world which is set not Middle Ages, I 1516 01:21:44.039 --> 01:21:48.079 don't really know, but like we all have technology because 1517 01:21:48.239 --> 01:21:53.359 people a power life. It's just so funny to me, 1518 01:21:54.119 --> 01:21:57.760 like do you, like, is there someone who's like, yeah, 1519 01:21:58.800 --> 01:22:01.880 it's like Internet. I'm sure there is. I'm just like 1520 01:22:01.920 --> 01:22:03.880 I have to just to know, like. 1521 01:22:04.359 --> 01:22:10.039 Ye mobile hot, anyone can connect to you, up to 1522 01:22:10.199 --> 01:22:12.399 four people can connect to you at any moment. 1523 01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:16.520 Cool power. 1524 01:22:17.840 --> 01:22:20.119 Bless you know what. 1525 01:22:20.279 --> 01:22:23.319 And we never really understand why the king is like 1526 01:22:23.399 --> 01:22:27.960 getting rid of the Ordinaries or like other than he 1527 01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:31.359 like makes up a lie that they're disease, but like why, 1528 01:22:31.800 --> 01:22:33.199 like it doesn't it's not. 1529 01:22:33.680 --> 01:22:37.000 King is ordinary and he wants to he. 1530 01:22:37.000 --> 01:22:39.800 Had some powers. He was fighting her with some powers. 1531 01:22:40.199 --> 01:22:43.000 It's just it's not clear, like what benefit to the 1532 01:22:43.079 --> 01:22:45.520 kingdom it provides to get rid of ordinaries. 1533 01:22:45.560 --> 01:22:49.520 I guess like it, it doesn't make it. It really 1534 01:22:49.800 --> 01:22:54.680 doesn't make it doesn't make sense. I needed like a 1535 01:22:54.720 --> 01:22:58.520 lot more explanation for that. It's not like a you know, 1536 01:22:58.720 --> 01:23:04.239 or historically the Ordinaries were you know, really cruel to 1537 01:23:04.279 --> 01:23:07.319 the people with abilities and called them free like there could. 1538 01:23:07.199 --> 01:23:10.079 Have been any easy bat around X man sort of 1539 01:23:10.119 --> 01:23:12.159 thing like yeah, and called them freaks. 1540 01:23:12.159 --> 01:23:13.760 And then you're like, okay, well now they got the 1541 01:23:13.800 --> 01:23:15.960 power and this is them getting you know, but no, 1542 01:23:16.159 --> 01:23:18.000 we don't have any ammimations. 1543 01:23:18.159 --> 01:23:21.720 I guess it could just be like Darwinism slash elitism. 1544 01:23:22.720 --> 01:23:24.520 It's like you're weak, we don't want you. 1545 01:23:24.720 --> 01:23:25.199 Bye. 1546 01:23:25.479 --> 01:23:27.479 Yeah. But then like, why don't you just do something? 1547 01:23:27.520 --> 01:23:32.359 We were like, uh, we'll just make it so you 1548 01:23:32.399 --> 01:23:33.159 can't have babies. 1549 01:23:33.199 --> 01:23:37.880 I don't fucking know, Like, yeah, it seems so extreme, 1550 01:23:38.199 --> 01:23:42.479 make them Munichsa think you could have a career in politics. 1551 01:23:42.880 --> 01:23:44.800 You're incredible the way you think on your feet, you 1552 01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:46.640 find solutions. 1553 01:23:47.720 --> 01:23:51.000 Yeah, like, look, we can do these things. Oh my god, 1554 01:23:51.079 --> 01:23:54.640 this book is so stupid. I don't know. I mean, 1555 01:23:54.680 --> 01:23:57.279 I feel like there's definitely probably random things that we 1556 01:23:57.319 --> 01:24:01.600 could talk about, but I don't even there are other characters. 1557 01:24:01.760 --> 01:24:03.880 Lenny was a redhead who worked as a guard, but 1558 01:24:03.960 --> 01:24:05.800 he was like bad at his job and he was 1559 01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:08.319 never there. But then was he revealed to be in 1560 01:24:08.359 --> 01:24:10.159 the resistance or am I just making that up? 1561 01:24:11.159 --> 01:24:12.840 I don't recall, all. 1562 01:24:12.800 --> 01:24:18.479 Right, fair doesn't matter. It just was like it seemed weird, 1563 01:24:19.159 --> 01:24:21.079 seemed weird that she could do whatever she wanted. 1564 01:24:21.239 --> 01:24:24.159 I've never heard anyone used the phrase I do not 1565 01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:27.039 recall unless they've been asked to testify in front of 1566 01:24:27.039 --> 01:24:27.760 a judge. 1567 01:24:28.079 --> 01:24:32.439 So I really appreciate that I do not recall. 1568 01:24:32.479 --> 01:24:34.680 It sounds like, uh yeah, you just want to get 1569 01:24:34.680 --> 01:24:36.600 it right, you want to be accurate. 1570 01:24:37.600 --> 01:24:38.239 I always do. 1571 01:24:40.479 --> 01:24:43.119 I think we've you know, look, yes, could we make 1572 01:24:43.159 --> 01:24:45.319 this a two and a half hour podcast. 1573 01:24:44.880 --> 01:24:46.239 About the flaws of this book? 1574 01:24:46.359 --> 01:24:47.000 Yes, but. 1575 01:24:49.199 --> 01:24:52.279 I feel like we've covered you know, the big stuff. 1576 01:24:53.039 --> 01:24:55.159 Yeah, I think so. I guess the other thing I'll say, 1577 01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:57.319 because we talked about Hunger Games, there's another book called 1578 01:24:57.319 --> 01:25:00.720 The Red Queen, which is apparently very very similar, and 1579 01:25:00.760 --> 01:25:03.920 I believe the author even said has actually said Red 1580 01:25:04.000 --> 01:25:06.239 Queen is one of her favorite books, and she described 1581 01:25:06.279 --> 01:25:08.439 this as Red Queen meets Hunger Games. And then like 1582 01:25:08.479 --> 01:25:13.359 if you look up Red Queen, you're like, oh it, 1583 01:25:13.439 --> 01:25:17.199 this is exactly. It's like, you know, even like to 1584 01:25:17.319 --> 01:25:19.439 the it was a world where some people have powers 1585 01:25:19.439 --> 01:25:24.319 and others don't, and there's like a two princes they're 1586 01:25:24.359 --> 01:25:28.319 half brothers, and there's a love triangle and she has 1587 01:25:28.319 --> 01:25:31.640 to hide who she is. It's like all these there's 1588 01:25:31.640 --> 01:25:34.479 a bunch of it just yeah, maybe it's better, but 1589 01:25:34.520 --> 01:25:38.840 it probably is. Right. Well, anyway, this is like huge, 1590 01:25:38.880 --> 01:25:41.159 and I don't even know what to say. I actually 1591 01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:44.800 had the thought just because she's the author is super 1592 01:25:45.079 --> 01:25:47.319 online that I was like, I think more so than 1593 01:25:47.359 --> 01:25:48.560 other authors. 1594 01:25:48.640 --> 01:25:52.439 She's gonna chance with her. Huh. 1595 01:25:53.079 --> 01:25:55.520 She said that, how does that make you feel worried? 1596 01:25:55.800 --> 01:25:58.920 I guess we'll never release this episode. 1597 01:26:00.399 --> 01:26:04.159 I mean it's okay. I feel like she's doing really well. Yeah, 1598 01:26:04.359 --> 01:26:05.439 so it's still okay. 1599 01:26:05.640 --> 01:26:08.359 Yeah, And you know what, that is what I always 1600 01:26:08.359 --> 01:26:10.760 have to remind myself as we are punching. 1601 01:26:10.520 --> 01:26:14.319 Up and and honestly, good on her for writing such 1602 01:26:14.359 --> 01:26:17.119 a flawed book and for it to become so like 1603 01:26:17.199 --> 01:26:19.399 and putting it out there, because I feel like the 1604 01:26:19.479 --> 01:26:25.000 problem with I think I'm assuming a lot of people craziest, 1605 01:26:27.039 --> 01:26:32.079 well so fresh. It's hard savage being so precious about 1606 01:26:32.079 --> 01:26:34.479 things and then never putting them out there. And it's like, 1607 01:26:34.560 --> 01:26:36.640 I feel like this is an example of like, yeah, 1608 01:26:36.760 --> 01:26:38.680 just put it out there. People sometimes don't give a 1609 01:26:38.720 --> 01:26:39.880 fuck about the flaws. 1610 01:26:39.880 --> 01:26:43.000 Perfect is the enemy of fine in this case. 1611 01:26:43.840 --> 01:26:45.680 Yeah, yeah, she was brave. 1612 01:26:45.560 --> 01:26:48.720 Enough to say it's fine and look, there's clearly some 1613 01:26:48.880 --> 01:26:52.399 magic here. There is some sprinkle magic. I enjoyed listening 1614 01:26:52.439 --> 01:26:54.880 to this book for a lot of it. I did 1615 01:26:55.520 --> 01:26:56.039 a lot of a. 1616 01:26:56.079 --> 01:26:58.560 Lot of you know, a big chunk of the middle. 1617 01:26:58.600 --> 01:27:02.399 Bad writ hour through but no, no, not a bad 1618 01:27:02.399 --> 01:27:06.520 writer at all. But look to compare it, I know 1619 01:27:06.800 --> 01:27:09.199 you are all against me, but to compare it to 1620 01:27:09.359 --> 01:27:13.359 last week Ninth House that was so innovative and imaginative 1621 01:27:13.560 --> 01:27:18.880 and had so many creative moments, this felt so derivative 1622 01:27:18.880 --> 01:27:19.640 of other stuff. 1623 01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:23.279 I just feel like I was. I was not on 1624 01:27:23.359 --> 01:27:26.560 last week's episode. However, I did read the book. 1625 01:27:27.119 --> 01:27:27.720 You loved it. 1626 01:27:28.159 --> 01:27:30.399 That book, No, God, damn it. 1627 01:27:33.119 --> 01:27:37.520 Really, I well what I'll say about that book, And 1628 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:40.279 I was really sad to have read it and not 1629 01:27:40.319 --> 01:27:42.119 to be able to be at the report. 1630 01:27:42.720 --> 01:27:44.399 That's truly my nightmare. 1631 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:49.399 But I have never been able to pay attention to 1632 01:27:49.479 --> 01:27:51.680 a book less than that book, so I would have 1633 01:27:51.680 --> 01:27:54.119 had very little little to contribute. 1634 01:27:54.840 --> 01:27:57.640 It was fine. We we talked, We talked that book out. 1635 01:27:57.720 --> 01:27:59.520 We don't we don't need to return to it. But 1636 01:28:00.239 --> 01:28:02.880 I see, Johanna, that I see what you're saying. There's 1637 01:28:02.880 --> 01:28:05.720 a lot more information I guess in that book. 1638 01:28:05.760 --> 01:28:06.199 I was saying. 1639 01:28:06.199 --> 01:28:08.560 It wasn't simply saying that the book had more information. 1640 01:28:08.600 --> 01:28:09.479 I wasn't say. 1641 01:28:11.439 --> 01:28:14.960 I'll say about the comment you were making, which is 1642 01:28:15.199 --> 01:28:18.520 sure this book is derivative of other things. 1643 01:28:18.239 --> 01:28:22.199 But like you know, it's derivative of things that I 1644 01:28:22.279 --> 01:28:27.000 really like. So it made me like it pull that 1645 01:28:27.119 --> 01:28:27.600 for a pool. 1646 01:28:27.680 --> 01:28:30.319 Quote on the cover of the book is a derivative, yes, 1647 01:28:31.079 --> 01:28:32.800 but is it of things that I like? 1648 01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:33.479 Also? 1649 01:28:33.600 --> 01:28:35.359 Yes? 1650 01:28:47.680 --> 01:28:52.199 I mean god, what she did. She wrote it like 1651 01:28:52.760 --> 01:28:55.199 booking at TikTok and knowing book talk and then like 1652 01:28:55.239 --> 01:28:57.399 being like, here the tropes people want, and she was like, 1653 01:28:57.439 --> 01:28:59.039 I'm going to shove as many of them as in 1654 01:28:59.119 --> 01:29:01.720 as I can. And it was it was it worked 1655 01:29:01.720 --> 01:29:03.199 out for her. You can't deny it. 1656 01:29:03.279 --> 01:29:04.359 I was gonna hear this. 1657 01:29:05.279 --> 01:29:08.159 Sorry. Well, then let's listen to some good Reads five 1658 01:29:08.199 --> 01:29:12.239 star reviews, shall we again? This is this is one 1659 01:29:12.279 --> 01:29:16.079 of those books. Over one hundred and twenty nine thousand reviews, 1660 01:29:16.159 --> 01:29:19.520 over nine hundred and seventy three thousand ratings, four point 1661 01:29:19.600 --> 01:29:22.720 one five, So it's pretty high that many ratings. That's 1662 01:29:22.720 --> 01:29:26.760 a that's an overall high average. So let's get some 1663 01:29:26.800 --> 01:29:30.399 of these five stars out. Sloan said the banter, the tension, 1664 01:29:30.520 --> 01:29:36.920 not one kiss, the ebilogue five stars. Now, Hannah gave 1665 01:29:36.920 --> 01:29:39.720 it six stars. She said, pay is such a brave 1666 01:29:39.800 --> 01:29:43.079 and strong FMC. She always has the best comebacks and 1667 01:29:43.199 --> 01:29:45.640 isn't afraid to fight for what she wants. I love 1668 01:29:45.720 --> 01:29:48.319 that she was able to fake her psychic ability so convincingly, 1669 01:29:48.359 --> 01:29:51.439 and she had such cool fight scenes. Kai my man, 1670 01:29:51.760 --> 01:29:53.720 Oh my god. He's so funny and caring, and he 1671 01:29:53.880 --> 01:29:57.479 also has a really tragic backstory sad face. But he's 1672 01:29:57.479 --> 01:29:59.560 so understanding and when he opened up to pay it 1673 01:29:59.640 --> 01:30:02.319 was the cutest thing. I love it when guys are 1674 01:30:02.319 --> 01:30:05.840 the ones being vulnerable. Also, he has damp balls. 1675 01:30:07.359 --> 01:30:09.079 Elli. Yeah. 1676 01:30:09.119 --> 01:30:13.560 Also, his real name is Malachi e I agree. 1677 01:30:13.199 --> 01:30:16.319 Hannah, Hannah, come on, You're better than this. 1678 01:30:17.279 --> 01:30:19.199 Malachi has a really hot name. 1679 01:30:19.279 --> 01:30:21.359 It is not I don't. It feels like it's the 1680 01:30:21.439 --> 01:30:23.840 name of a demon from hell. To me, that's what 1681 01:30:23.880 --> 01:30:27.520 I think. I guess one of Satan's minions. Sort of. 1682 01:30:27.720 --> 01:30:29.560 Maybe the only name angel. 1683 01:30:29.359 --> 01:30:32.920 Hotter than Malachi is Makhaie mackay. 1684 01:30:33.119 --> 01:30:35.760 It sounds like macau, like a parrot. 1685 01:30:36.159 --> 01:30:40.239 No, No, Malachi. 1686 01:30:42.279 --> 01:30:44.119 Is angel. It's an angel. 1687 01:30:45.319 --> 01:30:46.560 I think a fallen angel. 1688 01:30:47.880 --> 01:30:48.800 Oh perhaps, but. 1689 01:30:50.760 --> 01:30:54.680 I'm looking at up. I wrote Maliki, look up. 1690 01:30:54.560 --> 01:30:56.239 My serial killer boop think. 1691 01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:02.760 Niehas she said not to be dramatic, but lives were 1692 01:31:02.840 --> 01:31:05.680 changed five stars, so a lot of people loving it. 1693 01:31:05.800 --> 01:31:09.199 I don't know, but what about how did we feel? 1694 01:31:09.720 --> 01:31:12.840 How did we feel? What is the hate rate coming 1695 01:31:12.880 --> 01:31:13.880 in for this one? 1696 01:31:15.199 --> 01:31:18.720 I'm ready, Okay, go ahead, I'm going to give it 1697 01:31:18.760 --> 01:31:23.479 a four out of five. I do think there were 1698 01:31:23.520 --> 01:31:27.760 a number of areas for improvement. One would have given 1699 01:31:28.159 --> 01:31:32.680 at least a kiss come on. Two maybe would have 1700 01:31:32.760 --> 01:31:34.760 tied the beginning of the book into the end of 1701 01:31:34.840 --> 01:31:35.319 the book a. 1702 01:31:35.239 --> 01:31:36.039 Little bitter. 1703 01:31:37.760 --> 01:31:39.199 For future books. 1704 01:31:39.920 --> 01:31:45.720 That's for future books, sure, but also it was inspiring 1705 01:31:45.840 --> 01:31:48.560 to me of like kind of along the lines of 1706 01:31:49.439 --> 01:31:54.880 Sarah's savage statement of like, good on you for putting 1707 01:31:54.880 --> 01:31:57.439 it out there, like, also good on you for finishing it. 1708 01:31:57.560 --> 01:32:00.520 Yeah, like yeah, the reason I haven't written a book or. 1709 01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:03.560 Had a book published, this guy won't write a book, 1710 01:32:04.800 --> 01:32:06.239 and in my mind, I want to. 1711 01:32:06.279 --> 01:32:06.920 And you did it. 1712 01:32:07.039 --> 01:32:08.680 Yeah, and then you wrote a bunch more and then 1713 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:10.159 you wrote little side novellas. 1714 01:32:10.680 --> 01:32:11.560 And also. 1715 01:32:13.039 --> 01:32:16.479 You're so much more achieved than I am at half 1716 01:32:16.520 --> 01:32:18.039 my age. 1717 01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:19.560 Congratulations. 1718 01:32:19.640 --> 01:32:22.600 Maybe I'm knocking down the ranking because I'm mad at her. 1719 01:32:22.600 --> 01:32:27.199 Now okay, oh, you talked yourself, you talked yourself down. 1720 01:32:27.680 --> 01:32:31.159 I got mad she's so young and so successful. You know, 1721 01:32:31.640 --> 01:32:32.640 I'm very happy about it. 1722 01:32:32.520 --> 01:32:35.000 It is hard, It is hard to support that sometimes. 1723 01:32:35.840 --> 01:32:39.920 Yeah, oh like yeah, good for you. 1724 01:32:40.000 --> 01:32:42.119 I wish I knew more about her background too. I 1725 01:32:42.159 --> 01:32:46.199 hated how like little we knew about just like from Michigan. 1726 01:32:46.920 --> 01:32:48.600 It's like, come on, give me a story. 1727 01:32:49.159 --> 01:32:51.560 Lauren Roberts actually sounds like a super made up name 1728 01:32:51.640 --> 01:32:51.840 to me. 1729 01:32:51.920 --> 01:32:58.680 Also, yeah, it does sound very generic, very maybe yeah, 1730 01:32:58.720 --> 01:33:01.159 we'll see what she will see what she keeps. Maybe, 1731 01:33:01.199 --> 01:33:04.039 you know, in ten years I'll be like absolutely devouring 1732 01:33:04.079 --> 01:33:06.840 Lauren Roberts books. It's just possible the y A version 1733 01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:09.920 of her is not the author for me. 1734 01:33:10.239 --> 01:33:12.119 Like years, she's going to be like it was me, 1735 01:33:12.319 --> 01:33:13.159 John Grisham. 1736 01:33:13.479 --> 01:33:19.560 I just oh no, I don't know I've seen her interviews. 1737 01:33:19.720 --> 01:33:22.399 Or did she see someone pretending to be La pretending to. 1738 01:33:22.319 --> 01:33:25.319 Be here perhaps or an AI person. She is very beautiful. 1739 01:33:25.359 --> 01:33:30.920 Yep. Yeah, I'm going to give this a God this 1740 01:33:31.000 --> 01:33:33.920 is hard. I'm going to say three out of five 1741 01:33:34.119 --> 01:33:37.960 because I almost want to give it a higher reading 1742 01:33:37.960 --> 01:33:39.560 because I just think this was a great book for 1743 01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:42.880 the cast, Like it was a perfect book for the cast. 1744 01:33:44.199 --> 01:33:46.319 There was so much in this to make fun of. 1745 01:33:46.399 --> 01:33:48.000 There was so much of it was funny, but it 1746 01:33:48.039 --> 01:33:50.520 also like wasn't hard to read, it wasn't painful to read. 1747 01:33:50.680 --> 01:33:53.479 Like like I said, I could get through this one. 1748 01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:56.359 I got through this one really fast fast, especially when 1749 01:33:56.399 --> 01:34:03.359 I took it off audio. I really did start enjoying 1750 01:34:03.560 --> 01:34:08.479 the the Malachi and paid in flirting like I was 1751 01:34:08.520 --> 01:34:11.039 having fun with it. I was waiting for them to 1752 01:34:11.279 --> 01:34:14.680 make out. And I think the only sad thing or 1753 01:34:14.720 --> 01:34:16.800 the thing that might keep me from reading on is 1754 01:34:16.840 --> 01:34:20.680 that I know that like they never have sex in 1755 01:34:20.760 --> 01:34:23.560 the it's a very ya and then apparently there's only 1756 01:34:23.640 --> 01:34:26.960 like I don't, I don't, I don't think so. I 1757 01:34:27.039 --> 01:34:30.239 think it's it's not if it's not written. If nothing, 1758 01:34:30.279 --> 01:34:32.479 they have like one kiss at the end of the 1759 01:34:32.520 --> 01:34:34.039 second book, and I don't know what. 1760 01:34:34.000 --> 01:34:37.159 Happens to the third book, but like you know, you know, 1761 01:34:37.520 --> 01:34:39.239 there was going to be a tease the whole times. 1762 01:34:39.239 --> 01:34:42.000 And I still love that. That's true, that's true. 1763 01:34:42.119 --> 01:34:45.479 I just I feel like for me, what made this 1764 01:34:45.760 --> 01:34:49.159 compare to The Hunger Games, which I found compelling plot wise? 1765 01:34:49.279 --> 01:34:52.000 This did was not compelling plot wise. The world she 1766 01:34:52.079 --> 01:34:55.760 created was not compelling. So the only thing that was 1767 01:34:55.800 --> 01:34:59.359 going for it was the flirtation between the two main characters, 1768 01:34:59.359 --> 01:35:01.880 and so for them to not fuck is like a 1769 01:35:01.880 --> 01:35:04.640 problem for me. So that's gonna have to go down 1770 01:35:05.119 --> 01:35:07.640 to three for me. Three o five. 1771 01:35:08.239 --> 01:35:12.319 Okay, I'm really okay with them not fucking. That's fine. 1772 01:35:11.960 --> 01:35:17.960 I really I like the build up. I like the flirtation. Okay, 1773 01:35:18.119 --> 01:35:21.359 So how do I rate this? Knowing that the author 1774 01:35:21.439 --> 01:35:25.960 is listening right now? You know where I go in 1775 01:35:26.000 --> 01:35:29.880 my mind is, Look, we playfully made fun of it, 1776 01:35:30.079 --> 01:35:33.039 and honestly we started, I think on a real high 1777 01:35:33.039 --> 01:35:35.359 when we said that she was super hot. I think 1778 01:35:35.680 --> 01:35:37.880 if it were me, that would booy me for the 1779 01:35:37.920 --> 01:35:40.079 rest of the episode. I would I would take everything 1780 01:35:40.119 --> 01:35:43.239 in good spirits after that. So I think, knowing that, 1781 01:35:43.399 --> 01:35:47.279 knowing that she's in a good mood, because you know, 1782 01:35:47.399 --> 01:35:52.159 really we were complimentary, I think I can fairly give 1783 01:35:52.159 --> 01:35:53.800 it a three for the same reason Sarah did. 1784 01:35:53.840 --> 01:35:55.560 I think it was a really fun book for the cast. 1785 01:35:55.720 --> 01:35:59.000 It was a great book for the cast, But like, yeah, 1786 01:35:59.000 --> 01:36:02.079 it's no Ninth Out, you know, it's so Stephen King, 1787 01:36:02.159 --> 01:36:05.520 it's no Hemingway, it's. 1788 01:36:05.279 --> 01:36:11.319 It's no The Secret. And yet it's no malice. I 1789 01:36:11.439 --> 01:36:12.119 ended up at three. 1790 01:36:14.399 --> 01:36:17.479 That's what malice. That's what I was really comparing to 1791 01:36:17.600 --> 01:36:20.039 Ninth House. 1792 01:36:20.840 --> 01:36:23.840 Now, I was just gonna say, if we're if we're 1793 01:36:23.880 --> 01:36:29.159 ready for little Fucker, I have I have just like 1794 01:36:29.199 --> 01:36:33.119 a statement in advance, and then I have my vote. 1795 01:36:33.920 --> 01:36:38.079 I prepared something, and the statement I prepared is John, 1796 01:36:38.119 --> 01:36:41.039 I would love for you to remember who brought up 1797 01:36:41.359 --> 01:36:44.720 that she was hot, and that was me, and so 1798 01:36:45.159 --> 01:36:48.319 I really helped put her in this this good mood 1799 01:36:48.319 --> 01:36:48.960 and that good tone. 1800 01:36:48.960 --> 01:36:52.439 So anyway, that's my just statement I'm going to start. 1801 01:36:52.520 --> 01:36:55.760 I'm gonna say, and then my my vote is for 1802 01:36:55.880 --> 01:36:58.680 Sarah because told me that. 1803 01:37:00.000 --> 01:37:01.880 There's only one kiss that of the second book and 1804 01:37:01.920 --> 01:37:05.239 then maybe nothing in the third book. And so now 1805 01:37:05.279 --> 01:37:07.880 I can't go and read them because I read that 1806 01:37:07.920 --> 01:37:08.640 what happens. 1807 01:37:08.920 --> 01:37:11.039 I just feel like I just want to prepare because 1808 01:37:11.840 --> 01:37:13.920 that would be very That was very disappointing for me 1809 01:37:13.960 --> 01:37:14.520 to find out. 1810 01:37:16.159 --> 01:37:18.680 Yeah, I don't know, well, and maybe I'm lashing out 1811 01:37:18.680 --> 01:37:22.359 at the information and you're just the target of my. 1812 01:37:22.640 --> 01:37:24.800 Okay, Well, it's interesting because I was going to vote 1813 01:37:24.800 --> 01:37:28.000 for you, Sabrina. And you know why, It's because right 1814 01:37:28.039 --> 01:37:31.000 now you're looking at us. You've got this like cunty 1815 01:37:31.119 --> 01:37:35.800 little bob. You've got these little glasses you're really serving 1816 01:37:36.760 --> 01:37:39.479 and I'm like you and I don't know why, but 1817 01:37:39.560 --> 01:37:41.560 it's like it's it's pissing me off. 1818 01:37:41.640 --> 01:37:45.119 So wow, John, if you wanted to vote for me 1819 01:37:45.199 --> 01:37:47.159 for the same reason, I'd really like it. 1820 01:37:47.920 --> 01:37:52.920 To say, okay the phrase you've got a cunty little bob. 1821 01:37:53.520 --> 01:37:59.720 But also, Sarah has the same haircut right now? Is 1822 01:37:59.760 --> 01:38:01.840 this same length as Sabrina's? 1823 01:38:01.920 --> 01:38:06.439 It is you you are blind. It's not to get 1824 01:38:06.479 --> 01:38:07.079 myself out of. 1825 01:38:07.399 --> 01:38:12.000 Mine's above the shoulder, right below the shoulder. 1826 01:38:11.680 --> 01:38:14.600 It's not below it's what there's a one inch difference, 1827 01:38:14.840 --> 01:38:16.399 but you both have long bobs. 1828 01:38:17.439 --> 01:38:20.359 What's not at all? Okay? 1829 01:38:21.119 --> 01:38:24.760 I first of all, I was gonna vote for Sabrina 1830 01:38:24.800 --> 01:38:27.000 for her whole little First, I have a statement to 1831 01:38:27.039 --> 01:38:29.239 make which I thought was gonna be related to little fucker, 1832 01:38:29.359 --> 01:38:31.319 and then it was just like it is. It was 1833 01:38:31.399 --> 01:38:33.880 just a statement to say, like do we all just 1834 01:38:33.920 --> 01:38:34.279 get like. 1835 01:38:34.279 --> 01:38:37.560 No, it was why it was something that saved you 1836 01:38:37.640 --> 01:38:39.920 throughout the podcast, and I just wanted you to remember 1837 01:38:40.119 --> 01:38:40.960 who saved you. 1838 01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:42.039 I see. 1839 01:38:42.399 --> 01:38:45.800 It felt like just as like I think I was. 1840 01:38:46.279 --> 01:38:49.439 I felt like it was like, now a personal statement. 1841 01:38:49.520 --> 01:38:53.880 I want everyone to know that I've begun taking hot yoga. 1842 01:38:54.479 --> 01:38:55.399 Right now? 1843 01:38:55.520 --> 01:38:57.000 Why right? It feels like it. 1844 01:38:57.039 --> 01:38:59.199 The whole podcast is your chance to just talk and 1845 01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:00.920 talk and talk about whatever you want. You'd have to 1846 01:39:00.920 --> 01:39:04.079 wait for now to make a statement, Okay, I understand now, 1847 01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:09.119 So I'm gonna it's really hard to choose between the 1848 01:39:09.159 --> 01:39:12.159 two of you with your cunty little reactions to me 1849 01:39:12.479 --> 01:39:17.600 comparing your haircuts, Like, honestly, it's really you. 1850 01:39:17.560 --> 01:39:22.319 Weren't You weren't using it in the same way Sarah. 1851 01:39:22.439 --> 01:39:24.039 Yeah, you did use it differently. 1852 01:39:24.359 --> 01:39:25.680 You used it with a hard set. 1853 01:39:25.840 --> 01:39:27.479 You used it the way Kai would use it and 1854 01:39:27.479 --> 01:39:29.880 not the way Kit would use it. Yeah. 1855 01:39:30.039 --> 01:39:31.520 I feel attacked by both of you. 1856 01:39:31.960 --> 01:39:33.520 All I can do at this point is I just 1857 01:39:33.560 --> 01:39:35.479 feel like it has I have to split my vote. 1858 01:39:35.479 --> 01:39:38.560 It's both of you, and I don't like this little duo. 1859 01:39:38.720 --> 01:39:41.560 Wow has that ever been done? I don't. I don't care. 1860 01:39:43.319 --> 01:39:45.720 It is it's both of you. You're attacking me. 1861 01:39:45.960 --> 01:39:49.399 Came out of nowhere, and your rage. 1862 01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:52.720 Over me comparing your your haircuts, I don't And then 1863 01:39:52.720 --> 01:39:54.720 that I use the hard seed, but you both are 1864 01:39:54.800 --> 01:39:55.880 using a soft sea. 1865 01:39:56.039 --> 01:39:59.159 I don't I don't know. I don't like it. 1866 01:39:59.279 --> 01:40:01.680 I don't like how I don't like who you are 1867 01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:07.159 right now. Wow. Wow, that's very funny. So I guess 1868 01:40:07.199 --> 01:40:10.680 I half vote for each of you. I guess so 1869 01:40:10.920 --> 01:40:13.960 Sabrina and I are the little fuckers of the cast 1870 01:40:14.319 --> 01:40:15.359 County little fuckers. 1871 01:40:15.439 --> 01:40:18.560 I love it, one and a half to one and 1872 01:40:18.560 --> 01:40:19.199 a half. 1873 01:40:19.520 --> 01:40:24.079 Great, great, great great. Okay, what are we doing? So? Guys? 1874 01:40:24.199 --> 01:40:28.880 If you like this, please mean book club on the socials, 1875 01:40:29.199 --> 01:40:31.960 Please join our patreon, become a patron of the main arts. 1876 01:40:32.520 --> 01:40:33.920 What are we reading next week? 1877 01:40:34.039 --> 01:40:36.279 Oh my gosh, I've been reading it already. 1878 01:40:36.279 --> 01:40:38.640 I'm so excited. I'm like a quarter of the way through. 1879 01:40:38.960 --> 01:40:41.960 And give yourselves time, you guys, it's a long. 1880 01:40:41.800 --> 01:40:43.319 While, Oh it is. 1881 01:40:43.680 --> 01:40:45.319 Why have we picked so many ways? 1882 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:49.159 I don't know? This was this seventeen hour audio book. 1883 01:40:49.800 --> 01:40:52.479 We didn't do your diligence this season at all. 1884 01:40:53.720 --> 01:40:57.239 I feel like I and I missed the meeting because 1885 01:40:57.279 --> 01:41:00.199 I feel like it just happened and was really sprung 1886 01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:04.520 in a way that it was given no notice. I agree, 1887 01:41:04.640 --> 01:41:08.439 but I'm very vigilant about checking. 1888 01:41:08.760 --> 01:41:10.279 Well next time, beyond it. 1889 01:41:10.359 --> 01:41:12.960 I feel, you know, I well, it was just like 1890 01:41:13.159 --> 01:41:15.319 we're was it the day you guys met with Blake? 1891 01:41:15.680 --> 01:41:19.239 And yeah it was, and it just like it was like, hey, 1892 01:41:19.319 --> 01:41:21.479 we already have a meeting setup, can you join? 1893 01:41:21.560 --> 01:41:23.560 And I could not because I was gonna be out 1894 01:41:23.600 --> 01:41:24.000 of town. 1895 01:41:24.399 --> 01:41:27.720 And and then I feel like you've. 1896 01:41:27.880 --> 01:41:28.840 Book any of these? 1897 01:41:29.960 --> 01:41:32.600 No, well, it was once there was a booklest what 1898 01:41:32.640 --> 01:41:34.079 was I going to do go in and say. 1899 01:41:33.960 --> 01:41:36.560 Oh, look, okay, But you have to understand there was 1900 01:41:36.600 --> 01:41:42.520 also outcome Alchemized, which was a thirty six hour audio 1901 01:41:42.520 --> 01:41:46.479 book length, So like anything next to that seemed pretty sure. 1902 01:41:47.119 --> 01:41:49.199 You got to throw in like a nine, got to. 1903 01:41:49.119 --> 01:41:52.920 Throw in a nine. The Secret of Secrets is slow going. 1904 01:41:54.439 --> 01:41:58.960 So are you really expressed being very excited about it. 1905 01:41:59.039 --> 01:42:01.479 I'm reading like for tonight. 1906 01:42:02.720 --> 01:42:04.319 And you're going to get through it. 1907 01:42:04.359 --> 01:42:06.800 But I can't wait to get to my reading. It 1908 01:42:06.840 --> 01:42:07.760 makes me so excited. 1909 01:42:07.800 --> 01:42:09.920 But I mean, and we have a special guest too 1910 01:42:10.239 --> 01:42:10.640 for this. 1911 01:42:12.439 --> 01:42:14.800 Guys will be joining us again. He wanted to do 1912 01:42:14.880 --> 01:42:18.279 this book. He requested it, so we said. 1913 01:42:18.239 --> 01:42:22.159 Please come back, we'll do the book, we'll have some fun. 1914 01:42:22.680 --> 01:42:25.279 So from last season he's coming back. 1915 01:42:26.199 --> 01:42:29.760 Wow, No, time. No wait, no wait, come back already 1916 01:42:30.239 --> 01:42:32.479 all right. Well, I guess we'll see the rest of 1917 01:42:32.560 --> 01:42:33.640 y'all later. 1918 01:42:35.840 --> 01:42:50.359 Bye bye. Follow us on all the socials