Off The Shelf Episode 25 - Fantasy Draft Pick

[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, all. Lindsay here. Making a great podcast takes money and time and we need your support to keep us going. Please consider supporting us on Patreon, sponsoring an episode or a book cycle or unlocking behind the scenes contact at Book Interrupted. Unpublished for only $1.99 a month. I mean, you can't buy much for 1.99 anymore, so it's a bargain. [00:00:24] Speaker B: Find out [email protected] parental guidance is recommended because this episode has mature topics and strong language. Here are some moments you can look forward to during this episode of Book Interrupted where we're going to play the game that Ashley has suggested called the Fantasy Draft Pick game. And I added a twist to it, Ashley. [00:00:47] Speaker C: And two, if we never make it off the island and we have to repopulate, that man's babies are going to be gorgeous once again. [00:00:55] Speaker B: Oprah. She has her own private jet. [00:00:57] Speaker C: Yes? [00:00:57] Speaker D: Yeah, but are you allowed to just get on your own private jet in the Amazing Race? [00:01:03] Speaker C: Is there rules against it? [00:01:04] Speaker D: Be like, we have to get to this place. I've got some connections. Let's get on my jet. [00:01:09] Speaker A: Not Glennon Doyle. Glennon Doyle will be the least pronounced. I'm just joking. [00:01:16] Speaker C: Okay, sorry. Continue. [00:01:17] Speaker B: All right. [00:01:18] Speaker D: Fighting words. [00:01:19] Speaker B: No. [00:01:20] Speaker D: But he'd probably be like, danger's coming. Like, good job, John. That's your job. Make sure we don't get eaten by something while we're here. [00:01:27] Speaker C: I'd kill the guy from the Hating Game. Wow. Yeah, wow. [00:01:31] Speaker D: Some serious hate. Because there's some real monsters in these books. [00:01:36] Speaker C: Yeah, true monsters. [00:01:38] Speaker A: You ready, guys? Let's do this. [00:01:45] Speaker E: Express yourself. Share the wealth. Hold on to your bookmarks. We're off the shelf. Express yourself. It's good for your health. Book Interrupted is off the shelf. [00:02:03] Speaker A: The following episode is off the shelf, brought to you by Book Interrupted thing. [00:02:11] Speaker B: Welcome to the off the shelf episode where we're going to play the game that Ashley has suggested called the Fantasy Draft Pick game. And I added a twist to it, Ashley, because. So what we're gonna do is we pick the top three and the last three choices we're gonna have following scenarios for either characters in a book we've done at Book Interrupted or if it's a non fiction book, the author from one of the books we did on Book Interrupted. So any of the characters. So Ashley could be like President Snow when he's young. It could be any of these word. [00:02:48] Speaker D: Or when he's old. We did both those, right? [00:02:51] Speaker C: Well, yeah, you know what? He slays either way. [00:02:55] Speaker B: So we're Gonna. I'm gonna give you scenarios and you're gonna put your top three characters. And then your Kim suggested this. It's too bad she couldn't make it. The last three choices you'd want in those scenarios as well because she's like, yeah, I think that'd be more fun. Like who you really don't want to be on your draft. [00:03:12] Speaker C: Your non. Fantasy league. [00:03:14] Speaker B: Yes. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Let me. So you're going to say a scenario like, say, going to lunch or something. And then I would pick the top three people that I would have a character or an author of a book that I would like to go to lunch with. And then I would also pick the bottom three that I absolutely don't want to go to lunch with. [00:03:31] Speaker B: 100%. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Okay. Okay. I understand. I'm getting the website up on my phone so I can try to find what the books were. [00:03:40] Speaker C: Great. [00:03:41] Speaker A: It would be under Shop on our website for Book interrupted dot com. Under Shop under the Amazon section. We'll have all the books Book Interrupted member book picks. So if anyone wants to play along, they can go to our website, bookinterrupted.com shop and see all the book picks there. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Exactly. [00:04:03] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:04:03] Speaker B: Amazing. Thank you, Benzie. [00:04:06] Speaker A: Not Glennon Doyle. Glennon Doyle will be the least pronounced. Just joking. [00:04:12] Speaker C: Okay, Sorry. [00:04:13] Speaker D: Continue fighting words. [00:04:17] Speaker B: Okay, so the first scenario is if you're stranded on a desert island and you're trying to be rescued, not that you're going to be on there forever, but you're stranded on a desert island, who's your top three and who's your bottom three? [00:04:33] Speaker D: And they can be imaginary people. [00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah. Characters or authors. [00:04:37] Speaker D: I don't know. I feel like you gotta have somebody on there from the Hunger Games. [00:04:42] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:04:42] Speaker A: It was just a Katniss. Okay. [00:04:44] Speaker D: Right. Yes, Katniss for sure. And then I think Elizabeth Zod. Just because she's very smart and practical, I think she would figure stuff out. She would know things that I didn't know. [00:04:57] Speaker C: Oh, I love. [00:04:58] Speaker D: I don't know. And who's the last one? We brought a lot of books. The Robin nose. [00:05:04] Speaker A: Brought the Robin Nose. One of the birds. [00:05:06] Speaker E: No. [00:05:06] Speaker A: That's good. [00:05:07] Speaker B: What's his name? John Young. [00:05:09] Speaker A: John Young. [00:05:10] Speaker B: John Young. [00:05:10] Speaker D: Just because I want to talk about birds while I'm there. No, but he'd probably be like, danger's coming. Like, good job, John. That's your job. Make sure we don't get eaten by something while we're here. [00:05:21] Speaker C: I would pick President Snow because we need someone good to look at to keep the morals High and two, if we never make it off the island and we have to repopulate, that man's babies are going to be gorgeous and brutal. [00:05:39] Speaker D: And brutal. [00:05:40] Speaker C: Oh, and brutal does not shy away from killing. [00:05:44] Speaker D: So, like, if you got to eat something, he's going to be like, I'll kill that cute animal. I don't care. I'll kill anything. [00:05:49] Speaker C: They're going to make some fun games up. So that's my top pick, 100%. [00:05:56] Speaker A: Well, you could add in Marshall. What's his name? Rosenberg, the guy from nonviolent communication. So if he was there, that was the author, that he could make sure that everybody can communicate if you're stuck on the island. [00:06:08] Speaker D: Right. [00:06:08] Speaker C: Oh, love that. [00:06:10] Speaker B: How do we get along? [00:06:11] Speaker A: There you go. [00:06:12] Speaker D: Snow, stop killing people. [00:06:13] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:14] Speaker D: We need each other. [00:06:16] Speaker C: Or just give me your babies. [00:06:18] Speaker D: You're not going to get off this island alone. [00:06:23] Speaker C: I do know two people I would not want. And Lindsay, I'm so sorry, but the two main characters in the Hayden game. I know. First of all, I would just go into the water. I would go into the water and just try and swim away. And if I go, I go. If I had to sit there and listen to them like, no, I don't like you. Oh, but, oh, no, I couldn't do it. Do it. [00:06:47] Speaker A: Be like, forget it. I'm swimming. Goodbye. [00:06:50] Speaker C: Yeah, like, life's over if I'm here, so. [00:06:53] Speaker A: Oh, God. [00:06:54] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:06:55] Speaker A: That's a fair, fair point. [00:06:57] Speaker C: Yeah. What about you guys? [00:06:59] Speaker B: I would have for my bring to the island, I would have Katniss because she can hunt and everything, and have Gail because he can also hunt. So I'm picking those two. There should be limitations. [00:07:11] Speaker A: Listen. [00:07:12] Speaker B: And then my third pick is Oprah because someone's gonna come save us. If Oprah's on the island with us, someone is coming. [00:07:18] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:07:19] Speaker C: Smart. Smart. [00:07:22] Speaker D: Very good. [00:07:22] Speaker C: Oh, I love that. [00:07:23] Speaker B: Who I don't want to bring is. Well, I probably. [00:07:27] Speaker D: You pray, love. [00:07:29] Speaker B: She wouldn't be helpful either. Margaret Atwood is kind of old, so I probably wouldn't want her. Oh, no. But she has a fiction book, so Offred. I probably. Well, I guess it doesn't matter if Offred or not. I wouldn't. [00:07:41] Speaker A: She's pretty smart, resourceful. [00:07:43] Speaker D: I'm surprised that we picked the bfg. The BFG would be very useful. You can walk. [00:07:48] Speaker C: I was just looking at that. Yeah. Like, depending how large, we might be out of there in two steps. [00:07:55] Speaker B: Maybe not Gail, then maybe pfg. [00:07:57] Speaker A: All right. [00:07:57] Speaker C: Also, Gail's a traitor. [00:07:59] Speaker B: Yeah, It's Hard to say. Who I wouldn't want to bring Glennon Doyle is. [00:08:04] Speaker A: The answer is always. [00:08:07] Speaker D: I just. [00:08:08] Speaker A: Ashley. It's because I really didn't like that book. And everybody else is untamed at the beginning, and so everyone's like, oh, my God, if we ever get Glennon Doyle, she's probably, you know, after you for all the bad things you said. [00:08:21] Speaker C: She's like, I'm not coming on the podcast. Are you kidding? One of you hates me. [00:08:26] Speaker A: Well, I don't hate her. [00:08:28] Speaker B: She hate her. [00:08:30] Speaker C: We dislike the book. That's all good. Yeah. [00:08:33] Speaker D: Okay. [00:08:33] Speaker B: I wouldn't bring Marshall Rosenberg because I'd be like, just shut. I feel that you should. Like, I wouldn't want that. Let's talk about our feelings when we're trying to survive a desert island. I'd be like, okay, I'm done. Can you just feel yourself on the other side of the island? And then I think that I wouldn't want President Snow because he's a murderer. Sorry, Ashley. [00:08:56] Speaker C: We'd be on different islands, so it's okay. [00:08:59] Speaker B: And I guess a hating game. Yeah, I wouldn't want the guy from the Hating Game there just because I thought he was kind of annoying, because. [00:09:06] Speaker C: He'D be mean to us, you know? But he'd still try and sleep with us. He'd be like, just be so rude. And then he'd be like, we gotta repopulate. No, you've just been rude to me the whole time. [00:09:15] Speaker B: He might also mansplain things to us, being like, well, you know what we should do? And I'd be like, can you go with Rosenberg over there, please? [00:09:24] Speaker C: Yes. We'd be trying to make a fire, and he'd be like, you're supposed to put it with more force. What? You do it, then you do it. [00:09:30] Speaker D: I'm surprised nobody wants to bring Ms. Chief Eagle testicle, because they would be awesome. Yes, that's true. [00:09:38] Speaker C: Maybe Kim's pun could turn into a. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Whale or something, and we could just ride into the distance. That's a good one. [00:09:45] Speaker D: I don't think they're supposed to help humans. They're just. Yeah, they're just supposed to teach humans about love, which, you know, would pass. [00:09:52] Speaker C: We might get off. Yeah, we might get off a lot. [00:09:55] Speaker A: That's. [00:09:56] Speaker B: That's true. [00:09:56] Speaker D: We want to get off the island. But we would get off. [00:09:59] Speaker C: Oh, would we ever. They'd come and rescue us, and we'd be like, we're staying. [00:10:03] Speaker D: We're good. [00:10:04] Speaker C: Don't worry. [00:10:05] Speaker D: We're doing fine. We're one with the land. We like it here. We let roll with the land in more than one way. Yeah. [00:10:14] Speaker A: What is it rubbing off on? What did she. [00:10:16] Speaker D: Rubbing with Lynn is rubbing off on us. We're rubbing off on it. [00:10:20] Speaker A: Yes. [00:10:21] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:22] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:23] Speaker B: And Lindsay, you. [00:10:25] Speaker A: Oh, I don't know. I just said a thousand of them. [00:10:28] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:29] Speaker A: Yeah. Let's move on to the next question. [00:10:31] Speaker B: Next question. [00:10:32] Speaker D: Okay. Yeah, we're not really following the rules. [00:10:34] Speaker A: We were just, like, talking about it. I'm not a good rule follower, so. [00:10:37] Speaker B: This one's actually for Lindsay. I was thinking of you when I came up with this question. [00:10:42] Speaker D: No pressure. [00:10:43] Speaker B: Who would you have on your team if it was a zombie apocalypse? [00:10:47] Speaker A: Oh, love zombie apocalypse. [00:10:49] Speaker C: Oh, my God, they're so good. Wow. Oh, that's so hard. [00:10:56] Speaker D: You might need snow. [00:10:57] Speaker A: Well, Lola, come on. Yeah, totally Lola, for sure. [00:11:05] Speaker C: I'm thinking the bfg too. Because if I'm in his hand all the way up here, are the zombies really coming up? You know, like, are they climbing up a giant to get to me? [00:11:15] Speaker A: So maybe we just watched World War Z, the movie, and it was like. [00:11:19] Speaker C: Oh, I guess they climb up so fast. [00:11:22] Speaker A: So. But yeah, fair. [00:11:24] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. Lola. Bfg. Yeah, probably. [00:11:29] Speaker A: What about Killers of the Flower Moon? Wasn't there some guys there with guns in that one that. Yeah. [00:11:35] Speaker D: Willing to kill whoever. [00:11:37] Speaker A: That's true, but. [00:11:38] Speaker B: What was his name again? [00:11:39] Speaker A: The Hunger Games. Any of the people in the Hunger Games. [00:11:42] Speaker D: I mean, basically just the book. Yeah. [00:11:44] Speaker C: I would think Finnick O'Dare would be great from. He wasn't in the first Hunger Games, but they kind of mention him. He's just so great in combat. He's more from the second books and the third books, but, yeah, really skilled in combat. So I feel like he would just. Just be out there slaying those zombies. [00:12:03] Speaker A: What about the women who run with wolves? There was probably some kind of. I can't remember all of it, but I'm sure there was something in there that would help in battle. The wolves. I picked the wolves. The wolves or women who run the wolves. [00:12:17] Speaker C: That's a good one. [00:12:18] Speaker D: Oh, I know the. The one in the forest with the. She's maybe a. He's a witch and she's got a house with the chicken feet. [00:12:27] Speaker C: Who am I talking about? Yeah, she's like. [00:12:29] Speaker B: She's called Yaya something or Baba Yaya or something. Something like that. Yep. [00:12:35] Speaker A: I mean, you know what? John Young from what the Robin knows. Yes. May be able to help avoid them because he can listen to the birds and be like, okay, they're coming. Let's get out of here and go somewhere else. [00:12:46] Speaker B: I was thinking John Young, too. Like, he's gonna be able. Like, the birds are warning us they're coming. We better go this other way. [00:12:53] Speaker A: Yeah, we got John Young, Lola, and the guy from the Hunger Games. [00:12:57] Speaker D: Baba. [00:12:58] Speaker C: Yeah, I'm good. Oh, that's a good fantasy draft. [00:13:02] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:13:03] Speaker D: Yeah, that's pretty good. [00:13:04] Speaker A: And not Glennon Doyle. [00:13:09] Speaker C: I don't know. We have to make it. [00:13:12] Speaker D: You guys remember Bluebeard from Women who. [00:13:14] Speaker B: Were with the Wolves? [00:13:15] Speaker A: Oh, yeah. [00:13:16] Speaker B: Yeah. He would be a good one. No, he would be. [00:13:19] Speaker D: There's a lot in here of. [00:13:21] Speaker B: That would be the Handmaid's Tale. Some of those, like the Peacekeepers or whatever. Peacekeepers? No, that's from Hunger Games again. [00:13:29] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:13:32] Speaker D: But. But in the Handsmaid tail, everybody's soul, like, already controlled and, like, don't trust anybody. So, like, the people who made that world the way it is. Those monsters for, like, killing a zombie. Those guys are kind of. You know, they happened a little bit before maybe. [00:13:48] Speaker B: Yeah. I think this is fun. [00:13:50] Speaker C: Yeah. Who would be your. You would not want in a zombie. [00:13:53] Speaker A: Apocalypse two people from the Hating Game. [00:13:56] Speaker F: No. [00:13:56] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:13:58] Speaker C: Actually, no. They can come and I'm ditching them. They can be baked. [00:14:02] Speaker A: Just throw them like I'm getting out of here. You guys go argue over there. [00:14:07] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, totally. Totally. But a real one for me for not. I wouldn't want. I forget his name. But from the Giver. The main guy in the giver. Mostly because, like, he's a kid and he's not gonna be listening. [00:14:20] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:14:21] Speaker C: Damn thing that I say. And I feel like that is so much stress. Yes. [00:14:26] Speaker B: Yeah. Kids. [00:14:27] Speaker C: Oh, no. I couldn't do that. The stress already. Enough of being in a zombie apocalypse with kids. Brutal. [00:14:34] Speaker D: How about fun home? If there's gonna be a lot of dead people, maybe you need somebody who knows about funeral home stuff. [00:14:40] Speaker A: That's true. [00:14:41] Speaker C: Okay. [00:14:41] Speaker D: How they got all these dead people. [00:14:42] Speaker C: Help. Help. [00:14:44] Speaker D: That's true. [00:14:45] Speaker A: Help not come alive again. [00:14:50] Speaker B: How do we keep them dead? [00:14:52] Speaker D: You're an expert in death, are you not? [00:14:55] Speaker A: What about the Midnight Library? Because can't you go there and then, like, transport to somewhere else? I forget exactly. But a person was dead or something. [00:15:02] Speaker D: The Librarian might be helpful maybe. [00:15:06] Speaker B: Yes. Go to a different dimension. [00:15:08] Speaker D: But this reality is not what I'm looking for. [00:15:10] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:15:10] Speaker B: I need to go to a different reality of myself. [00:15:13] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:13] Speaker B: I don't want to be in the. [00:15:15] Speaker A: Don't be. [00:15:16] Speaker B: I pick a different life. Let's go somewhere Else. [00:15:19] Speaker D: Yeah, that's great. [00:15:20] Speaker C: Yeah. Get lost in the library. That would be nice. [00:15:22] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:23] Speaker C: Honestly. [00:15:24] Speaker B: And you don't want Shirou because he's a kid too. [00:15:26] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:15:26] Speaker A: None of the what about the burnout lady secret to unlocking the stress cycle. [00:15:32] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:15:33] Speaker A: How do you handle this? I'm very stressed. There's zombies at my door. [00:15:37] Speaker D: Just learn how to meditate and be like, I think we need to kill some of these zombies. [00:15:43] Speaker A: Oh, give someone a big hug. [00:15:46] Speaker D: Kiss. [00:15:46] Speaker A: Just kiss them for five minutes. Or whatever you're supposed to do to break the cycle. [00:15:50] Speaker B: And once again, Ashley needs President Snow as a kid. What's his name again? [00:15:54] Speaker D: Not as a kid. As a teenager. [00:15:57] Speaker C: He's not a kid. [00:15:58] Speaker A: Okay. I was her teenager. [00:16:00] Speaker D: 20 something. [00:16:01] Speaker C: Thank you. [00:16:02] Speaker D: Thank you. Not a child. He said kiss that child. [00:16:06] Speaker A: Creepy. [00:16:06] Speaker B: A young man. [00:16:07] Speaker C: A very handsome, handsome young man. He's not a child. No, that is a young man. [00:16:14] Speaker B: Sorry. [00:16:15] Speaker D: Yeah, I meant like young instead of old. [00:16:17] Speaker B: Young man. Just be like a kid. [00:16:20] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:16:21] Speaker D: I wonder who the middle Snow is gonna be. On the next on the the Hamish movie. [00:16:25] Speaker C: Oh, my God. I know. [00:16:27] Speaker D: I mean, they'll do a movie, right? Anyway? [00:16:28] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, totally. We'll do a movie. Yeah. [00:16:31] Speaker D: And then you can kiss him. The mid. The mid snow. [00:16:35] Speaker C: Like there's just one for each age. [00:16:36] Speaker D: Except for the child. [00:16:38] Speaker C: Yeah, the child's all good. [00:16:42] Speaker D: It would be interesting with this game is if you could only pick a person once, you know, and you knew ahead of time. And so you're like, okay, well, Katniss is so great because we can't have her on everything, but Gail is a lot like Katniss in his survival skills, you know? [00:16:58] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:16:59] Speaker D: So, I mean, you could do the. [00:17:01] Speaker A: 4% fix, you know, try to get the most out of every hour of killing. [00:17:06] Speaker D: That's right. [00:17:06] Speaker A: Killing zombies. [00:17:08] Speaker D: Get up early and do something for you. [00:17:11] Speaker A: Do something for you so you're mentally prepared for the zombies. [00:17:15] Speaker D: For the zombies. Wake up. [00:17:16] Speaker B: Yeah. See something creative before the zombies come. [00:17:18] Speaker A: Who's that? Karma Brown. [00:17:20] Speaker D: I imagine that fighting the zombies in the zombie apocalypse would be a lot like having just like a really busy life anyway. You'd be like, okay, well, yeah, we've got to kill zombies, but before they get up, like, we gotta make this house more secure. Like, you know, we gotta make this house nice to live in. Not just secure from zombies. [00:17:37] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:17:37] Speaker D: You know, or start a garden or something. We got to eat down the road. Long term planning 4% fix. Now, is she going to be really good at fighting zombies? I don't know. [00:17:46] Speaker A: What about Kirsten Karchmer? I mean, seeing red. There's probably blood involved. [00:17:51] Speaker D: So she's not afraid of blood. [00:17:54] Speaker A: Yeah. So maybe she could. She's a pretty feisty woman, though. So we talked to her how many times? And I bet she'd be pretty tough. [00:18:04] Speaker B: I bet she. She's from Texas. I bet she can handle a gun. [00:18:07] Speaker A: Yeah, I think she'd be able to get out. [00:18:10] Speaker D: Oh, my God. I love it. You're like, if you're from Texas, you probably own a gun. I don't know. I'm Canadian. I have no idea. [00:18:15] Speaker B: Well, I guess gassing. Maybe not. But she's just so. Makes me think she's probably at least handled a gun. [00:18:22] Speaker A: How about Yuval Noah Harari from Sapiens? Because maybe he's seen a precedent in history and knows how to find something to solve the zombie issue. [00:18:32] Speaker D: Yeah, he's like, hey, humans have exterminated so many other things. We can take care of these zombies. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Okay? [00:18:39] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe we lead all the great. [00:18:42] Speaker D: Exterminations except for that one asteroid before we came along. [00:18:45] Speaker B: Yeah, maybe Malcolm Gladwell could do something like that. He's always, like, figuring out statistics. Maybe he could do some research. [00:18:51] Speaker D: I don't know. You be like, malcolm, stop thinking about it and pick up a gun. It's very interesting what you are telling us about these zombies, but right now, what we really need, the night they're. [00:19:07] Speaker A: Right there outside the door. [00:19:08] Speaker C: Stop thinking. [00:19:10] Speaker A: Action. [00:19:11] Speaker D: He's not like a big guy, right? [00:19:13] Speaker C: Yeah. No. [00:19:15] Speaker A: Okay. [00:19:16] Speaker B: This interruption is brought to you by unpublished. Do you want to know more about the members and Book Interrupted? Go behind the scenes. Visit our website at www.bookinterrupted.com. [00:19:30] Speaker E: Book interrupted. [00:19:33] Speaker F: This interruption is brought to you by fruit that is really, really fresh. Like, off the tree, out of the garden. I can't. I'm like being, you know, in Toronto in a colder climate in the winter, of course, we. I mean, I guess there's probably some greenhouses, but a lot of our fruits and vegetables get imported into here. So you're getting fruit and veg that's not necessarily ripe fresh. You know, it's been shipped. And we went to visit my aunt in Florida and she has an avocado tree and a key lime tree and a Meyer lemon tree and a whole garden with Roma tomatoes and cherry tomatoes and herbs and. Oh, my goodness, the difference. We picked a couple of the avocados off the tree and you let them sit for a few days and then just the amount of flavor that's in them, the Tomatoes, how juicy and full of flavor they were. The, you know, lemons, everything. Just the mint from the garden. The, you know, Laird made a salad that had just, like, parsley and basil and fresh rosemary from the garden. Anyways, it was amazing and delicious and so full of flavor. And I, you know, miss it. And I can't wait for it to be summer again. And I have a garden and I can pick it from my garden. [00:20:55] Speaker B: Book interrupted. Great. The next question is. I think we'll limit it to. Everyone just picks one because Amazing Races use one. So who would you choose to be on Amazing Race with? [00:21:09] Speaker A: You can't be Katniss or the same people. Yeah. [00:21:14] Speaker B: On Amazing Race. I don't think she'd be great on Amazing Race. She's lived in District 12, totally isolated. Yeah. Put her for Amazing Race. [00:21:23] Speaker C: For Amazing Race, you need stamina. [00:21:26] Speaker D: I'm going with Elizabeth Zot. She's smart, she's got stamina, and she's well read, and she doesn't take from anybody. [00:21:34] Speaker A: Wow. [00:21:34] Speaker C: Love that. [00:21:36] Speaker A: Looking through the books mean Malcolm Gladwell's. [00:21:40] Speaker D: He would do pretty good. [00:21:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Malcolm Gladwell might be a good one. [00:21:44] Speaker C: Yeah. I was thinking Malcolm Gladwell as well. [00:21:46] Speaker A: Kirsten Karchmer, man, she's. That's a fiery woman, too. She'd probably be going, going, going. She has so much energy. Yeah, she would have fun. [00:21:55] Speaker D: 4% fix. Get up early, go on a race. [00:21:58] Speaker A: Yeah, I bet she is a lot of energy. [00:22:01] Speaker C: Yeah. I would need someone really, like, motivational. Because the first inconvenience, I'm like, let's drop out. We haven't seen this money. It means nothing to me. You know, Like, I'm just. I have no will for anything. [00:22:13] Speaker D: What are the chances we're gonna win this money? Not good. [00:22:17] Speaker C: Seriously. And then we'd be cut from the show. [00:22:19] Speaker D: Let's go for a hot tub instead. [00:22:21] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:22:22] Speaker B: Relax. Elizabeth Gilbert has traveled to lots of places and amazing races. You're going to different countries, so maybe she might be helpful because she might know a lot of people in different countries that you could just call up. [00:22:33] Speaker C: Yeah. Or know kind of more of the custom. You know, like, just be more familiar with the places. [00:22:38] Speaker B: She's well traveled. Once again, Oprah, she has her own private jet. [00:22:42] Speaker C: Yes. [00:22:42] Speaker D: Yeah, but are you allowed to just get on your own private jet in the Amazing Race? [00:22:48] Speaker C: Is there rules against you? [00:22:49] Speaker D: Like, we have to get to this place. I've got some connections. Let's get on my jet. No, you're supposed to sail there. I don't actually know I don't. Don't watch the show, but like, private ship. I got my private ship and I got a crew to take us there. Just bring Oprah. [00:23:08] Speaker C: I mean, she really would, though, sign me up. [00:23:10] Speaker B: I bought Amazing Racer for that. [00:23:12] Speaker D: I just wonder which question is going to come up with the. The lady who wrote White Fragility. [00:23:20] Speaker A: Robin d' Angelo. [00:23:21] Speaker F: Is that her name? [00:23:22] Speaker A: Robin d' Angelo. [00:23:23] Speaker D: She's an academic. [00:23:24] Speaker A: Yeah. We need a smart. All of your questions have been, like, physical. Is there any ones where it's like, you want to be with somebody smart? Just smart, not physical. [00:23:33] Speaker B: Okay, here's another question. Like a Freaky Friday, who would you switch places with? That's one. Oh, Freaky Friday. I can't remember how long you have the Freaky Friday. Like, switch places. But I put one week. You have to exchange places with someone for one week. [00:23:47] Speaker A: No, that's totally. [00:23:48] Speaker B: I'm gonna treat someone super smart because that might be kind of cool. [00:23:51] Speaker A: Oprah. I want to switch with the Oprah. Of course, everybody. [00:23:54] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. Oprah would be amazing, actually. [00:23:58] Speaker D: I don't like when people look at me. I don't know. That would just be stressful. [00:24:01] Speaker A: I definitely would not want to switch with Offred from the Handmaid's Tale. That would be my lowest one. [00:24:09] Speaker C: I would switch with the main girl from. And I. I'm so bad with character names. So sorry. From the Midnight Library. Oh, yeah, that would be cool. The experience would be so cool. And also when I read it, I felt it really resonated with me. Specifically, I remember the ex, she was trying to get over. His name was Dan at the time when I read it. I was also trying to get over an ex named Dan. And so. [00:24:35] Speaker B: Really? [00:24:36] Speaker C: Yeah, so I thought it was. So. It was very therapeutic to read. And I just feel like going through that whole experience. Experience in real life would be amazing. Yep. [00:24:46] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah. [00:24:47] Speaker B: No, I like that one too. [00:24:48] Speaker A: Ashley would especially like to switch places with the girl from the Hating Game. [00:24:54] Speaker C: Okay. I thought you were gonna say A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes because she kisses snow. [00:24:59] Speaker A: So I was excited. That too. But I was being silly. [00:25:03] Speaker C: But the guy. Absolutely not. I quit my job. What about you guys? [00:25:12] Speaker D: My job. [00:25:15] Speaker C: First day. Like, I got six days left, we're gone. [00:25:19] Speaker D: What would be good? I don't know. [00:25:21] Speaker A: A lot of these are so sad. Like, I don't want to switch places with, I don't know, the Killers of the Flower Moon. [00:25:26] Speaker F: Or. [00:25:28] Speaker B: Kind of fun. Become a giant. [00:25:30] Speaker D: Absolutely true. Diary of a Part Time Indian. Like, I don't know. [00:25:36] Speaker C: Yeah, some of them are pretty. Are pretty rough. [00:25:39] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:25:42] Speaker C: You get to go travel across. [00:25:44] Speaker D: Yeah, that sounds all right. [00:25:47] Speaker C: Trying to find yourself. [00:25:49] Speaker D: That sounds fun. [00:25:50] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:25:50] Speaker A: Like, they called me number one. I definitely wouldn't. Obviously not that from the ashes. Like, there's so many ones that were sad. That Henrietta Lax. [00:26:00] Speaker D: How about the girl in the bfg? [00:26:02] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, it'd be fun. [00:26:05] Speaker D: I can't just keep saying the same ones over and over. [00:26:08] Speaker B: I could be the Queen of England. She's in the bfg. I switch places with her for a week. That might be great. Become the queen for a week. [00:26:15] Speaker C: Fun to be treated like the queen for a week. [00:26:19] Speaker B: Ooh, yeah. [00:26:21] Speaker C: Yeah, that would be super fun. [00:26:23] Speaker D: Ms. Chief Eagle Testicle. [00:26:25] Speaker B: Yeah, he's shapeshifter. [00:26:26] Speaker D: You can shapeshift. Yeah, right. And you get to teach everything about love. [00:26:32] Speaker C: Also, you're getting off so much. I feel like it would be a wonderful week. Absolutely. [00:26:39] Speaker D: It would be wonderful. You'd be like, hey, look at that goose. I gotta keep teaching that goose how to love the beat. The bears, the beavers. I mean, until the humans come around. [00:26:49] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:26:49] Speaker D: I love the painting. Okay, this is in the book. There's a painting of Miss Chief Eagle Testicle with a goose. He's like, teaching the other animals to love. And I just like this book. This book is something else, you know? [00:27:03] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:03] Speaker A: There's also a lot of penises in the. In the paintings, too. For you guys that didn't Big do get to see. Well, that's not one with the penis, but that one's got the sexy scenes. [00:27:15] Speaker C: There's a lot of penis painting detail. [00:27:18] Speaker D: Lots of details. [00:27:20] Speaker A: Yeah, right. [00:27:20] Speaker D: They're not just. [00:27:21] Speaker B: And who would you. I guess we don't have to do that. Who do not want to switch with. Because there's lots of people I wouldn't want to go. [00:27:28] Speaker C: Too many people. [00:27:29] Speaker D: Yeah, too many. Especially, like the dystopian novels. I mean, just take the whole season of banned books and, like, just pick one of the characters in there. [00:27:37] Speaker B: All of them. [00:27:37] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:38] Speaker B: Yeah, the characters. [00:27:39] Speaker C: I wouldn't want to be anyone in the giver world. That so boring. [00:27:43] Speaker F: Yeah. [00:27:43] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:27:44] Speaker B: Even when dad killed Mom. Horrible. No. [00:27:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. For real. There so many sad ones. [00:27:51] Speaker B: Too many. Sam suggested this when she's like, you could always do the whole marry, kill and choose your top ones for that. And I thought, yeah, Ash, I never. [00:28:01] Speaker D: Want to kill anybody. [00:28:03] Speaker C: I do. Like, figuratively, not literally. [00:28:10] Speaker D: See the episode on Lola. She is not in the gang. [00:28:13] Speaker B: I know, but she's not in a gang. [00:28:15] Speaker C: Yes. [00:28:16] Speaker A: Well, we know who Ashley wants to marry. Like, that's uneasy. [00:28:19] Speaker B: Yeah. So, Mary. [00:28:21] Speaker C: Actually, I would marry Peeta Mellark. [00:28:24] Speaker B: Oh, you would? [00:28:27] Speaker C: I love him so much. [00:28:28] Speaker D: He'd be a good husband, I think. [00:28:30] Speaker C: No, he'd be such a great husband. Especially if it's Josh Hutcherson playing Peter Malark. Yeah. [00:28:37] Speaker A: Really? [00:28:38] Speaker C: No. [00:28:38] Speaker F: Oh, yes. [00:28:41] Speaker E: Oh, yes. [00:28:42] Speaker C: Yes. No, you're. No. I would snow in any stage of life. [00:28:48] Speaker D: Why haven't you said this before? [00:28:50] Speaker B: Any stage of life. [00:28:52] Speaker C: Any stage. [00:28:53] Speaker B: Any stage of life. [00:28:54] Speaker C: Donald Sutherland could get it, like. [00:28:56] Speaker D: Yeah. Donald Sutherland. [00:28:58] Speaker C: Oh, yeah. [00:28:58] Speaker B: He's a Sutherland as an old man. Really? [00:29:01] Speaker C: Yeah. Wow. Oh, yeah. [00:29:03] Speaker B: No, never. [00:29:05] Speaker C: And then I would kill. I'd kill the guy from the Hating Game. Wow. Yeah. [00:29:11] Speaker A: Wow. [00:29:11] Speaker D: Some serious hate. Because there's some real monsters in these books. [00:29:15] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:29:17] Speaker C: True monsters. So they shall live Mean men. I can overcome everything but mean men. What about you guys? Who are you and marrying and killing? [00:29:29] Speaker D: Hey, I don't want to kill anybody. [00:29:31] Speaker A: I can only think of people I want to kill. What about the. They call me number one. All the. The residential school. [00:29:39] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:29:39] Speaker A: Horrible people. There you go. Get them out of there. [00:29:44] Speaker D: Just get out. [00:29:44] Speaker A: Well, not really. I was a. I don't really want to kill people. Don't put that on the Internet. That. I like mass murder. Horrible. Don't say that. [00:29:54] Speaker D: Ironic life. [00:29:55] Speaker C: Okay. [00:29:55] Speaker A: I don't really want it. Yeah, exactly. Like from the ashes. He's pretty handsome. Jesse Thistle. [00:30:01] Speaker D: He is pretty handsome. What are you willing to do to him? You gonna marry him? Are you gonna. [00:30:05] Speaker A: You know, I think I'll just use him for sex. [00:30:08] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Oh, Jesse. [00:30:10] Speaker B: I wonder if he's listening. [00:30:13] Speaker A: I wonder if he's listening. Oh, God. Come on. [00:30:17] Speaker C: Our show. [00:30:20] Speaker B: She is ready. [00:30:23] Speaker D: I think everybody's gonna marry somebody. Had to be somebody who wanted to talk about science or intellectually stuff, you know what I mean? [00:30:31] Speaker B: So who you'd have to be like. [00:30:33] Speaker D: This Sapiens guy or Malcolm Gladwell or Elizabeth. Elizabeth Zot. One of those. Probably. [00:30:41] Speaker B: I was going to pick Malcolm Gladwell to marry. I thought he would be a good one to marry. [00:30:45] Speaker C: Oh. [00:30:46] Speaker D: But Elizabeth wouldn't marry me. Marriage. She's not into it. [00:30:51] Speaker C: Common law. [00:30:52] Speaker B: I would also kill the giants. That's who I'd kill. I'd marry. I'd kill the giants. They're really hard to kill. Well, I can pick anyone I want. So I'm killing the giants. The bad ones. And who would I. I think I might have to pick. What's the guy from the Hunger Games again? That's Katniss's guy. Gail. But not really Gail. I think I'd have to pick Gail. [00:31:16] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:31:17] Speaker A: No, to Mary. [00:31:20] Speaker C: To Mary. [00:31:21] Speaker B: No, not to marry Gail. To bang in the woods. [00:31:26] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:31:26] Speaker B: Oh, I pick him. [00:31:28] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:31:29] Speaker D: In the woods. [00:31:30] Speaker B: And then Malcolm Gladbell for the husband and then kill the giants. That's who I choose. [00:31:34] Speaker C: Okay. Okay. [00:31:36] Speaker D: This is who you don't want to bang is the, like, dude from the Handmaid's Tale. The husband. Right. The worst sex you can have. The commander I can think of. Bad ones. Yeah, that would be bad. Because, like, it's described as bad. And the wife there. [00:31:53] Speaker C: And it won't get better. [00:31:54] Speaker D: No, it's just gonna be. [00:31:59] Speaker A: I would definitely not want to have sex with the guy who's in Lola. The one when they're eating sushi and he's like a big. [00:32:08] Speaker F: He's like one of the. [00:32:09] Speaker D: Right. [00:32:10] Speaker B: The cartel. Yes. [00:32:13] Speaker A: She describes him as like, oh, no, thank you. [00:32:16] Speaker B: I think that's why she said I. [00:32:17] Speaker C: Had an icky feeling the whole time. Yes. Yes. [00:32:20] Speaker B: He's like, don't rape me, please. [00:32:22] Speaker D: Yeah, I know you don't want to marry. Is the guy from the Killers of the Flower Moon, obviously because he's going to kill you and all your. [00:32:29] Speaker A: Yes. [00:32:31] Speaker B: What's his name again? Eddie or something. [00:32:33] Speaker D: On thinking. It's Earnest, but that could be wrong. [00:32:35] Speaker B: Earnest. It is Earnest. It is Earnest. [00:32:38] Speaker C: Okay. [00:32:38] Speaker B: Yep. Yeah. You don't want to marry Earnest for sure, because he's going to kill you. [00:32:42] Speaker D: Not a good marriage. [00:32:44] Speaker B: Who wouldn't you want to marry? President Snow, probably because he doesn't actually love you. Because he doesn't want. [00:32:49] Speaker D: But it wouldn't be. I mean, you'd have stuff. [00:32:53] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:53] Speaker D: And you could probably sleep with whoever you want. [00:32:55] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:32:56] Speaker D: And he might kill you one day. [00:32:57] Speaker C: I mean, you'd have so much white roses around, too. That might be beautiful. The wedding, all white roses. Stunning. Yeah, right? Him in a red suit. Stunning. So. [00:33:11] Speaker B: Well, maybe you don't want to marry Marshall Rosenberg. Talking to you too much about your feelings. Like at some point you might be. [00:33:19] Speaker C: Like, okay, no, this is too much. [00:33:23] Speaker B: I understand your needs. [00:33:25] Speaker A: I got it. I want to marry one of the women who run with the wolves. Like, one of the crazy, wild. Don't care about any. I am just a wild woman. There you go. [00:33:34] Speaker D: That one wild woman. [00:33:36] Speaker A: All right. [00:33:36] Speaker D: Sleeping with wild woman would be pretty good, too. Free. [00:33:39] Speaker C: Oh, free. So free. [00:33:42] Speaker B: You wouldn't want to marry what's her face in what's her face. You know, lessons in chemistry. Her friend. That would Take care of her daughter all the time. Remember, she was married to that horrible man that beat her. [00:33:52] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:33:53] Speaker B: I mean, married to him. [00:33:54] Speaker C: That would be true. [00:33:55] Speaker A: Did we say Ms. Chief Eagle Testicle for the sex? Well, obviously. Did we say that yet. [00:34:00] Speaker B: Why did we say that? Nobody did. [00:34:03] Speaker D: Because we said the last question and the one before. Maybe. [00:34:10] Speaker C: Maybe. [00:34:10] Speaker D: Y. [00:34:11] Speaker B: All right. [00:34:11] Speaker D: Okay. Is there any more questions? [00:34:13] Speaker B: No. That's it. The end. [00:34:15] Speaker C: Oh, awesome. I love that. [00:34:17] Speaker A: That's what we're going to end with. [00:34:19] Speaker B: We're going to end with that. [00:34:20] Speaker C: Well, Snow, call me up. [00:34:24] Speaker B: Did we. [00:34:24] Speaker A: Did we talk about all the books? I think we went over? [00:34:27] Speaker D: Didn't come up. Let's see. Yeah, we talked about Sapiens and From the Ashes. Right. Fragility didn't really. I mean, you know, that's a hard one to put into a question. Here. Burno Fun Home, Midnight Library. We did a lot of these. They called me number one. What happened to you? [00:34:43] Speaker B: No, we did Oprah. We did Oprah a lot. We didn't do the Moral Life of Henry Alax. [00:34:48] Speaker C: I thought we did. [00:34:49] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:34:49] Speaker A: Yeah. Mayor said y. Oh, you did Immortal Life. [00:34:53] Speaker D: I did bring it up with. Robin knows. The Absolutely True Diary came up. I think we brought up when Dad. I think. [00:35:02] Speaker A: Yeah, I think they all did. [00:35:03] Speaker B: No, we all. [00:35:03] Speaker D: Yeah, it's pretty amazing. I think they did all of them. [00:35:06] Speaker B: Yeah, we did them all. [00:35:08] Speaker D: Huh? [00:35:08] Speaker C: Oh, nice. That's awesome. [00:35:10] Speaker D: I can't believe we did that. We're so great. [00:35:12] Speaker C: Are we good at our jobs? Heck, yeah. [00:35:16] Speaker B: So much in the show notes. They're gonna be so much in the show notes. I'll be like, oh, my God. [00:35:20] Speaker C: Every book we've done, I'm actually doing a personal. Well, it's not a personal challenge, but the local library here every year does a book challenge. And every year, I've told myself for, like, the last, like, three years, I'm like, I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna do it. But it's 50 books per year, so it's basically a book a week. So I signed up for it. I'm okay if I don't finish it. But the main reason I wanted to sign up for it is because it gives you each book you have to read. There's 50 different categories type of thing. So one could be, like, read a book set in space or read a book by a female author or just something like that. [00:36:03] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:36:04] Speaker C: That's cool. Yeah. I want to branch out from reading the same genres that I read over and over. And so I think that's going to help me. So even if I don't finish it, I'm excited to just pick and pull, like from different books. [00:36:18] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:36:18] Speaker D: Even if you just like start a book in the category, you could start reading and be like, this is not for me. And at least you read it, right? [00:36:25] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I'm excited to do that. Right. And you know, and again, like, I might find a book that I would have never picked myself and it might be amazing. [00:36:35] Speaker B: 100%. That's awesome. [00:36:37] Speaker D: That's great. [00:36:37] Speaker B: I love it. [00:36:38] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:36:38] Speaker B: All right, ladies. I guess that's it. [00:36:42] Speaker C: Awesome. It was good to see everyone. [00:36:44] Speaker B: Yeah. It was really great seeing you. And I love playing these games. [00:36:47] Speaker C: Yes. Yes. I can't wait for the next one. [00:36:51] Speaker B: Thank you for joining us on this episode of Book Interrupted. 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