Off The Shelf Episode 26 - Who Am I? Game

[00:00:01] Speaker A: We get sent so many book ideas by authors that we can't possibly read them all. So Sarah came up with an excellent idea. She is interviewing some of those authors in mini episodes called Author Spotlight where we showcase those authors and let them tell us about their books and why we should read them. You can find them on our Book Interrupted channel. Wherever you get your podcasts. [00:00:23] Speaker B: 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. Me and Ashley are teaming up against Meredith and Lindsay. [00:00:38] Speaker C: No, no. [00:00:39] Speaker D: A more family friendly, more family friendly nickname for. [00:00:44] Speaker A: I almost went too far with the joke. I'm just stop. [00:00:46] Speaker B: You can go further than you already did. [00:00:48] Speaker C: Come on. [00:00:50] Speaker D: You don't know what Dick is short for. [00:00:52] Speaker A: Not William. [00:00:53] Speaker B: Another name for a hot dog. [00:00:54] Speaker D: A blunt hot dog. [00:00:56] Speaker C: Smokey. [00:00:58] Speaker D: Yes. We were praying or loving or eating something. [00:01:00] Speaker A: Yes. [00:01:01] Speaker D: Oh, is that cheating? [00:01:04] Speaker C: Bend in all bunch of ways. Who knows? [00:01:06] Speaker D: Dating all sorts of Williams. [00:01:10] Speaker E: You ready, guys? Let's do this. [00:01:17] Speaker A: Express yourself. [00:01:19] Speaker D: Share the wealth. [00:01:20] Speaker E: Hold onto your bookmarks. [00:01:22] Speaker D: We're off the shelf. [00:01:24] Speaker A: Express yourself. [00:01:25] Speaker C: Health is good for your health. [00:01:27] Speaker E: Book Interrupted is off the shelf. [00:01:33] Speaker B: Welcome to Book Interrupted, a book club for busy people to connect and one that celebrates life's interruptions. [00:01:41] Speaker A: This episode of Book Interrupted is off the shelf. Hold on to your bookmarks. [00:01:46] Speaker B: Welcome to this off the shelf episode where we are gonna play the game who am I? So me and Ashley are teaming up against Meredith and Lindsay and we've decided to limit it to season four and season five books just to make it a bit easier. I think many of us are nervous that we're going to fail at this. So what's going to happen is I'm going to get a character from Meredith and Lindsay and I am going to describe this character to Ashley and she has to guess who it is within 30 seconds. And then. [00:02:24] Speaker C: Which is crazy. [00:02:27] Speaker B: It's all because I was inspired by Lucille Ball and Betty White did one and it was. They were amazing. They didn't just do one thing. They did like non stop and they had to use one word anyway. We're not doing that. We're gonna be able to describe and all that kind of stuff. [00:02:43] Speaker A: So I think that if it goes over 30 seconds, that would be okay. If you could maybe. No. [00:02:48] Speaker D: Somebody should have a buzzer. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Okay. [00:02:52] Speaker B: Okay, so I'll go first. Ashley, you close your eyes. Meredith, you do the timing. [00:02:56] Speaker D: Which one should we give Sarah? The first one. The second one? [00:03:00] Speaker C: Please be easy for me. [00:03:01] Speaker D: The first one maybe because the second one. [00:03:04] Speaker A: The first one. [00:03:05] Speaker D: The first one. [00:03:06] Speaker C: Okay. [00:03:07] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:03:07] Speaker C: What if we get a character and we don't know them? [00:03:11] Speaker D: You will both know. Both. We made sure we picked one that you both know, so. Okay. [00:03:15] Speaker B: And you don't start the timer until I start talking. You have to give speech a second to figure out. [00:03:20] Speaker D: Yeah, no. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want you to. I'm not trying to win. [00:03:25] Speaker C: Oh, that's so cute. I love that. [00:03:29] Speaker B: Not true, but cute. [00:03:32] Speaker D: The audience is winning. If you're hilarious. [00:03:35] Speaker C: Is Sarah the competitive one? [00:03:36] Speaker D: No, Meredith is. [00:03:38] Speaker B: She's gonna win for sure. [00:03:41] Speaker D: Listen, I'm not good with names. Do you. Are you sure you don't want a whole minute? [00:03:44] Speaker B: Okay, let's do one minute. One minute. Better. Okay, one minute. [00:03:47] Speaker D: Because that seems more reasonable, doesn't it? Like, 30 seconds. I know Betty White and Lucille Ball did it, but, you know, they're performers that are used to talking in front of people. I mean, we've been doing this for five seasons, but we're not great at it. Okay, just. We need more time to babble on. Are you ready? Can you read that? Oh, okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Actually, you could open your eyes. [00:04:12] Speaker C: Okay. [00:04:13] Speaker B: Ready? [00:04:13] Speaker C: I guess. [00:04:15] Speaker B: Ashley, I am a shape shifter who likes to have sex with everything. [00:04:22] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Ms. Chief Eagle Testicle. [00:04:26] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [00:04:26] Speaker C: That was too easy. Now. I was gonna pick that. [00:04:31] Speaker B: Yeah, Ashley picked it because she wanted to guess it. [00:04:35] Speaker C: Oh, that is so exciting. Okay, everyone else only gets 10 seconds. [00:04:39] Speaker D: Now, that was really fast. [00:04:41] Speaker B: How long was that? Just in case we have to. [00:04:43] Speaker D: Oh, no, it was 18 seconds. [00:04:46] Speaker B: 18 seconds. Okay, 17. [00:04:48] Speaker D: 17 seconds. But she said, okay, Ashley. And then she paused for a bit. Yeah, I am. [00:04:56] Speaker C: I was totally gonna be like, I want to have sex with this tree. I want to have sex with. You know, like, I was. Yeah. So cool. I'm happy about that. Right on. [00:05:05] Speaker D: Very good. [00:05:07] Speaker C: Okay. [00:05:07] Speaker B: Okay. This is for Meredith. [00:05:08] Speaker C: Oh, no. [00:05:09] Speaker D: I'm gonna be bad at this choke. [00:05:10] Speaker A: For sure be bad at this, too. [00:05:12] Speaker B: Which one should we give her, yours or mine? [00:05:16] Speaker C: Oh, do yours. [00:05:17] Speaker B: Okay. [00:05:18] Speaker D: Okay, I'm excited. I'm very bad with names. [00:05:23] Speaker A: Oh, me, too. Oh, my goodness. [00:05:25] Speaker B: Can you read my writing? Oh, great. [00:05:26] Speaker D: Okay, I read it. [00:05:29] Speaker A: Okay. Can I open my eyes now? Okay. My name. [00:05:34] Speaker D: You're not gonna remember this name. [00:05:36] Speaker A: Oh, great. [00:05:37] Speaker D: Okay, well, you might. I don't know. I don't remember any names. Okay. [00:05:40] Speaker A: I don't ever, so. Okay, we'll try. [00:05:42] Speaker B: If you get close, you know who it is, but you don't know their Actual name. That's fine. [00:05:46] Speaker A: Oh, my goodness. [00:05:47] Speaker D: Can I say, like, where this person's from? I just can't say their name. [00:05:51] Speaker B: I guess so. [00:05:51] Speaker D: Yeah, fine. It was written on the clue. [00:05:53] Speaker B: That's fine. [00:05:54] Speaker D: Okay. [00:05:55] Speaker C: The person didn't have a last name. Just so there's only one. It was only one day. [00:06:00] Speaker B: Just the first time. [00:06:01] Speaker A: Okay. Yeah. [00:06:02] Speaker D: Are you ready? [00:06:03] Speaker A: Oh, God. Okay. [00:06:04] Speaker D: I got to try. Lindsay. I give the try. [00:06:05] Speaker A: Okay. We can do this, Mayor. [00:06:07] Speaker C: You guys got it. [00:06:09] Speaker D: I met the main character of this book at a yoga retreat. And I am an American from Texas. And I was very blunt with her, and she liked me because I talked to her in a blunt way. [00:06:20] Speaker A: Oh, my gosh. A yoga retreat? [00:06:22] Speaker D: Yes. We were praying or loving or eating something. [00:06:25] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:06:25] Speaker D: So is that cheating? And I need more clues. You don't know his name. So sometimes a nickname for this person would be a male member. Like genitalia. I'm just saying. [00:06:40] Speaker A: Penis. [00:06:42] Speaker C: No, no, a more family friendly, more. [00:06:45] Speaker D: Family friendly nickname for somebody with this. [00:06:48] Speaker A: Oh, sorry, Dick. [00:06:50] Speaker D: But what would be the longer name of that name? [00:06:52] Speaker A: William. [00:06:53] Speaker D: Is that right? [00:06:54] Speaker A: A bomb. [00:06:55] Speaker C: Come on. [00:06:56] Speaker D: You don't know what Dick is short for? [00:06:58] Speaker A: Yeah, William. Dick is short for William. [00:07:02] Speaker D: Billy is. Billy is short for William. Straight away, if you have lots of money, you are rich Richie. [00:07:10] Speaker A: Richard. [00:07:11] Speaker D: Richard. Richard. [00:07:14] Speaker A: Okay, that was really bad. [00:07:16] Speaker B: It was one minute and ten seconds. [00:07:20] Speaker A: Okay, well, I lose at this game. [00:07:22] Speaker D: I think we got there. I wouldn't know his name. [00:07:25] Speaker C: It's a name for a male member. It's like. [00:07:29] Speaker A: Well, you told me a nickname for a male member. This is pg, right? It does say that. [00:07:34] Speaker D: I just wish you said more things. [00:07:36] Speaker C: That's hilarious. [00:07:38] Speaker A: You guys stopped me. [00:07:39] Speaker D: Keep going. [00:07:40] Speaker C: I could have kept going. Yeah, you should have let her go on. [00:07:42] Speaker D: You're like, more family friendly. Have you ever met a man who people call or penis? Hi. Hi, I'm Richard, short for William. [00:07:57] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Richard, but people call me Penis. [00:08:00] Speaker D: Hi, my name is William. People call me but you said penis. [00:08:05] Speaker B: I was like, she's like, penis. [00:08:09] Speaker D: No one ever told anyone that she's named the. [00:08:12] Speaker C: And then it's like, it's pg, Dick. [00:08:18] Speaker D: I now feel like we gave you guys too easy. [00:08:21] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:08:22] Speaker D: We made yours way easy. Richard from Texas. Richard from Texas. [00:08:26] Speaker C: Yeah. I feel like me and Sarah went with, like, non super main characters, like side characters. Totally. All right, Sarah. [00:08:35] Speaker D: Congratulations. Okay, are we going with our. Our original second choice or our backup choice? [00:08:41] Speaker C: We never did a backup. [00:08:44] Speaker D: We thought everyone would pick Ms. Chief Eagle Testicle. [00:08:48] Speaker B: We Almost did. [00:08:49] Speaker D: We just thought this would be fun. [00:08:51] Speaker A: A free area. [00:08:52] Speaker C: Wow. [00:08:53] Speaker D: Wow. [00:08:54] Speaker C: Okay. [00:08:54] Speaker D: Okay, Sarah, you can open your eyes. [00:08:56] Speaker A: Do I even time it? [00:08:57] Speaker D: I'm going to time it anyway. [00:08:59] Speaker A: Okay. Don't be so obvious. Make some, like, hinty ones so that. [00:09:02] Speaker D: Talk about cocks if you have to. William. Billy. [00:09:09] Speaker C: I'm sure this person has a great one. That's. Yeah. [00:09:15] Speaker D: Wonderful. [00:09:16] Speaker C: Okay. Oh, sorry. I was waiting for someone to say go, so. That's okay. [00:09:21] Speaker D: Whenever you start doing the thing, I'll start the timer. [00:09:24] Speaker C: Go. Okay. Sarah. I have a cousin that makes really cool clothing from items around our house. [00:09:36] Speaker D: Oh. [00:09:36] Speaker C: I pretend to be rich, but I'm actually poor. [00:09:40] Speaker B: Tigress. [00:09:41] Speaker C: No. I go to a really cool school. It's called the Academy. And my father helped create a game after a war. And I lived through the dark times as a child. [00:09:57] Speaker B: Snow. [00:09:57] Speaker A: And you want to sit on his penis. [00:10:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:01] Speaker C: What's his first name? [00:10:02] Speaker B: Cornelius. No, no. I always say Cornelian Coriolanus. [00:10:08] Speaker D: Anus has to be in the name. [00:10:10] Speaker C: For it to be Cornelius. Snow. And Snow lands on top. [00:10:15] Speaker D: First. [00:10:15] Speaker B: I thought it was going to be Snow, but I was like, Ashley would just be like, my future husband. [00:10:19] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:10:19] Speaker B: Oh, Snow. [00:10:21] Speaker C: I know. [00:10:21] Speaker D: We're like, take it easy, Ashley. Do it. [00:10:24] Speaker C: Snow. [00:10:25] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:10:26] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:10:27] Speaker D: Wow. [00:10:27] Speaker C: Wow. [00:10:28] Speaker D: Okay. Forgot to stop the timer. I'm a bad timer. [00:10:30] Speaker A: But you could have probably got it. [00:10:32] Speaker D: In 2020 because we were gonna pick Tigress. We were like, no, Sarah loves Tigress. But actually, would you love to talk about Snow? [00:10:40] Speaker C: Oh, I was so happy when I saw that. [00:10:43] Speaker B: So approximately how long do you think that was? [00:10:46] Speaker C: Let's say 40 seconds. [00:10:48] Speaker B: 40 seconds. Okay. [00:10:51] Speaker A: Shorter than mine. [00:10:52] Speaker C: 45. [00:10:54] Speaker B: Okay. [00:10:55] Speaker D: Oh, my goodness. [00:10:56] Speaker A: Okay. [00:10:56] Speaker D: All right, William. I got the name a cat William. One day, his name's William, but we just call him Cock. [00:11:07] Speaker C: Yeah. The cat that you're gonna get. His nickname's Cock. [00:11:14] Speaker A: No, I still want someone to be like, hi, my name is blah, blah, blah, but people call me Penis. [00:11:19] Speaker C: Yes. And they're just so casual about it. [00:11:24] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:11:25] Speaker A: And then someone does it, like, hey, Penis. [00:11:27] Speaker D: I love how I was concerned about saying that he was from Texas. Was, like, cheating a little bit. And you're like, I still don't know who this is. [00:11:35] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:11:36] Speaker A: I mean, I vaguely recalled. [00:11:38] Speaker D: I didn't remember him either, till I read it. I go, oh, yeah, that guy existed. Yeah. Boy exists. [00:11:44] Speaker B: And I picked Eat, Pray, Love. Because I was like, oh, they both hated that book. We should pick one. [00:11:48] Speaker C: Yeah. That's what Sarah said. She goes, let's do it. They both hated it. [00:11:52] Speaker A: I also haven't read it in so long, so I was like, oh, my God. I remember totally. [00:11:58] 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. [00:12:11] Speaker E: Book interrupted. Hey, bookies, here's a good interruption. How about when you have drank at least two big cups of coffee, and then now you can't stop having to go pee. This one will be brief because I'm out of here. I gotta go to the bathroom. [00:12:29] Speaker A: Book interrupted. [00:12:32] Speaker B: Okay, can you read this? [00:12:34] Speaker D: Is it backwards? No, it's backwards for you. That sounds zoomed in on my head. [00:12:38] Speaker C: I feel weird. [00:12:39] Speaker A: Can I just take two seconds to double check that I know who that is? [00:12:43] Speaker D: I'm gonna take out my headphones so you guys can talk to her about it. [00:12:46] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. Take your headphones off. [00:12:47] Speaker C: This is Snow's best friend that he betrayed. [00:12:50] Speaker D: Okay. [00:12:50] Speaker A: That's what I thought. [00:12:50] Speaker B: Okay. [00:12:51] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:12:51] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:12:51] Speaker C: Okay. [00:12:51] Speaker D: I'm gonna put my headphones back in. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:12:54] Speaker D: Okay. My eyes are closed. I'm trying to put the headphones back to my ears. [00:13:01] Speaker A: I have an obvious one, but I'm not gonna. I'm gonna go not obvious to start. So I was. Or this character was killed because he was trying to do something and stand up for the certain people. [00:13:17] Speaker D: It's from your book. We rip the brill of the part. [00:13:20] Speaker A: No. And his friend is someone that Ashley wants to sit on his penis to bring him to his William to his Janus. [00:13:34] Speaker D: The Janus. I was like, he's got a messed up name. I'm so happy we picked Snow for you because we're, like, looking at names from that book. We're like. I'm like, oh, yeah, De Janus is such a weird name. [00:13:51] Speaker A: I was trying to think of what else he did. [00:13:53] Speaker C: He had to mentor someone from his own city. [00:13:59] Speaker A: Well, I was gonna say he got hanged. And I was like, you're gonna know exactly who it is if I say hang. So. So I was like, he was killed. [00:14:06] Speaker D: I love that. With like. Should we have a bonus round? [00:14:12] Speaker A: We have. We have a bonus round. Okay, which one of you is better at guessing which one of you is? Because you guys probably won that. [00:14:19] Speaker D: You guys definitely won. [00:14:20] Speaker A: Okay, so you get to. So which one of you wants to guess? And which one of you wants rock, paper, scissors? [00:14:26] Speaker C: Sarah. Who gets to rock, paper, scissors? [00:14:32] Speaker D: Oh, Ashley wins. She got the rock on the scissors. [00:14:36] Speaker C: Okay, I will guess. I will Guess. Okay. [00:14:39] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:14:40] Speaker D: Good. [00:14:41] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:14:42] Speaker D: Are you ready? [00:14:44] Speaker C: 18 seconds. [00:14:45] Speaker D: Get set. Go. [00:14:48] Speaker B: So I've had a lot of trials in my life, and I also have had many men in my life, and everyone seems to fall in love with me because I'm so amazing. [00:14:59] Speaker C: Oh, my God. Oh, what's her name? From the women. From the women. Her name. She went to war. She's in the Vietnam War. The main character of the women. [00:15:09] Speaker B: Everyone calls me by my boy's name. [00:15:11] Speaker C: Oh, my God. [00:15:14] Speaker D: It's like if you were really blunt, you might be called. [00:15:18] Speaker A: Or a hot dog. [00:15:20] Speaker B: Hot dog. [00:15:20] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:15:21] Speaker B: Another name for a hot dog. [00:15:22] Speaker D: A blunt hot dog. [00:15:24] Speaker C: Smokey. [00:15:27] Speaker D: No, no, her name is not Smokey. That's a bear. [00:15:31] Speaker C: That's her name. Ma' am. Richie. [00:15:36] Speaker B: No, no. [00:15:36] Speaker A: Red hot. [00:15:37] Speaker B: Yeah, Red hot. Something's Red hot Chili. [00:15:41] Speaker C: Red hot. [00:15:41] Speaker D: Talking about a hot something. [00:15:43] Speaker C: Tabasco. No, put that on. [00:15:46] Speaker D: If you're very blunt, somebody might say that you were being very. [00:15:50] Speaker C: Oh, rude. You're very honest. You're very sometimes freaking name. [00:15:58] Speaker B: People eat hot dogs and they call them something furters. [00:16:03] Speaker D: Oh, that's good. [00:16:04] Speaker C: Frankie. Frankie. Yes. Thank you. Okay. We got there together. [00:16:10] Speaker D: My last clue was a little bit of a cheat. [00:16:13] Speaker C: No. That I wouldn't have got there. So I had the E. I knew it was like, E something. [00:16:20] Speaker B: Oh, great. [00:16:21] Speaker D: Very good. That was a 34. [00:16:24] Speaker C: But I like. [00:16:26] Speaker D: We knew that it was. But the fastest one was. Were you Alanis or. No, no. [00:16:32] Speaker B: Eagle testicle. [00:16:34] Speaker C: It was moi. [00:16:35] Speaker D: That's true. You, like, had the sex with everything. [00:16:38] Speaker A: We're all like, oh, we know who that is. [00:16:40] Speaker D: We know who that is. [00:16:41] Speaker C: Yeah. And relatable. So maybe that's why I got it. [00:16:45] Speaker D: I'm just glad you. You didn't guess me. Is it Meredith? [00:16:50] Speaker C: Yeah. I don't remember reading Meredith's autobiography. That's. [00:16:55] Speaker D: But sounds a lot like her. [00:16:59] Speaker A: Well, Mary, you did have a lot of suitors when you were younger. Well, enough. [00:17:04] Speaker D: What are you trying to say? [00:17:07] Speaker A: Are you a shapeshifter? [00:17:11] Speaker C: You could have been bend in all bunch of ways. Who knows? [00:17:14] Speaker D: Dating all sorts of Williams. [00:17:20] Speaker A: I almost went too far with the joke. I'm going to stop. [00:17:22] Speaker B: You can go further than you already did. Everyone likes to call me penis. Nice to meet you. [00:17:29] Speaker C: Thanks. [00:17:30] Speaker D: This game had a lot more penises in it than I thought it was going to. Me too. [00:17:35] Speaker C: And I love that you started that. [00:17:39] Speaker D: It all came from you, actually, come to think of it. [00:17:43] Speaker C: Yeah. There. [00:17:45] Speaker A: The shape shifter who has sex with everything. [00:17:48] Speaker C: Perhaps that's the one that started the game. [00:17:52] Speaker D: That's true. That's true. Maybe I was trying to pin the blame on someone else. [00:17:58] Speaker B: Maybe it has to do with the beer in the book. [00:18:01] Speaker C: Interrupted, I was gonna say could be. What's in the cup? Well, I don't want a beer. [00:18:06] Speaker D: I also drank a tea. [00:18:09] Speaker A: Oh, I wish I had beer in mine. [00:18:12] Speaker C: It's just water. [00:18:13] Speaker D: It is kind of late. [00:18:15] Speaker C: Ish. [00:18:15] Speaker A: All right. It is late. [00:18:16] Speaker C: It was so great to see you guys, and I hope you have a lovely summer. [00:18:21] Speaker D: Have a great summer. [00:18:22] Speaker C: Enjoy having some time to read some books. You want to read? [00:18:26] Speaker D: Yeah, totally. [00:18:27] Speaker C: There's a new Hunger Games out, too, but it's sad, so. [00:18:30] Speaker B: Did you read it already? [00:18:31] Speaker C: Yes, I did. [00:18:32] Speaker A: Oh, it's out. [00:18:32] Speaker B: It's out. [00:18:33] Speaker D: Is it Hamish? [00:18:35] Speaker C: Yeah, it's the second Quarter Quell. It's Hamish's Games. [00:18:38] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't know that was out already. [00:18:40] Speaker C: Oh, yes. Yep. [00:18:42] Speaker B: I put it on hold at the library, but it's gonna be, like, something like four months. Like, I put on the second it was. [00:18:48] Speaker C: Oh, forever. Yeah. Oh. [00:18:51] Speaker B: But it's like, this will be, like. [00:18:52] Speaker C: 10 years, several months, and it's like. [00:18:56] Speaker D: We will have written the next book by the time you do this one. [00:19:00] Speaker C: It is available on Audible and Spotify, so. [00:19:06] Speaker B: Okay, I might go to Spotify. Yep. [00:19:09] Speaker C: Yeah, it's pretty good. So. But it's. It's sad. [00:19:12] Speaker B: Sadder than the other ones. [00:19:14] Speaker D: With the other ones sad. [00:19:15] Speaker C: I would. Sad in the sense that, like, could you imagine someone doing that to you? You know, like, just. Yeah, so. But great book. Like, I would say that's maybe her second best book ever. Get really, really well written. [00:19:33] Speaker B: Have they announced who's gonna play the young Hamish? [00:19:37] Speaker C: Yes, they did. They announced, I think, almost the whole cast. Also, I don't know if you guys are into TikTok or not, but there's, like, a joke going around on TikTok where you are auditioning to play in the new Hunger Games, and just. Yeah, and it's so funny. This one girl did. She's like, I'm auditioning for 10 characters, and she's just trying to play random characters. It's just hilarious. Sunrise on the Reaping Hay. Mitch, casting. Here we go. So the person playing Haymitch, his name is Joseph Zada. Oh, my God, how cute. Look at this little guy. Look at him. [00:20:21] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:20:23] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:20:24] Speaker C: And so they are trying to stick closer to who Haymitch looks like in the movies versus the book, because in the book, he is a person of color, whereas he's obviously white in the movies. So there was debate on whether they were going to try and cast someone similar to the books or the movies. And I think just since more people watch the movies versus reading the book. [00:20:50] Speaker D: They picked, I think that's an interesting choice. I feel like now would be the time. You know, people can suspend disbelief. I mean, that's what we're doing. Watching the movie. [00:21:01] Speaker B: In the first place, was Hamish a person of color in the first Hunger Games? I can't remember. [00:21:08] Speaker D: I don't think it was. [00:21:10] Speaker C: She kept it very ambiguous of what everyone's race was. But it's implied that the poorer districts are people of color. One of the main reasons was they're outside all the time. You know how people with lighter skin, they're typically not. They don't live in areas typically that have so much sun exposure all the time. Whereas, like, districts 11 and 12 had more sun exposure because of work environments they were in. But I don't think anyone came out explicitly and said they're brown, they're black, et cetera. [00:21:42] Speaker B: Okay. [00:21:43] Speaker A: In the movies, I think they're all white, aren't they? [00:21:46] Speaker C: Oh, white as ever. [00:21:47] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:21:48] Speaker C: Except for Thresh. Oh, Thresh and Rue. [00:21:51] Speaker D: Oh, no, they're not all a couple. [00:21:52] Speaker B: And the stylist guy, that's. [00:21:58] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. So, yeah. So if you guys want a summer read, let me know what you think. [00:22:05] Speaker D: Before we go, is there anything you want to say about Twilight? Sarah, just while we're on, I haven't. [00:22:10] Speaker C: Mentioned Twilight in way too long. [00:22:13] Speaker B: You know what's funny? Because we have a fan that's going to be joining us, and part of me thought, well, if we don't have a fan, maybe I can. Then someone. [00:22:23] Speaker C: Twilight. [00:22:24] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:22:26] Speaker D: Oh, my God. [00:22:26] Speaker C: What is the. [00:22:27] Speaker D: That's what I should read this summer is I should read one of the Twilight books for my sister as a gift. Totally read the Twilight book. And then we can be like, what did you think about, like, buy it and like, dog ear it. Be like, what do you think about when this happens? And she'd be like, let me talk about it. [00:22:44] Speaker A: I read them all when they came. [00:22:46] Speaker D: Out, but just the first one. [00:22:48] Speaker A: Yeah, I read them all. [00:22:49] Speaker D: Right. [00:22:49] Speaker A: When they came out. I read them ages ago. Yeah. Can't remember. I mean, it was. When did they come out? A long time ago. [00:22:55] Speaker C: Oh, like so long years ago. I was in middle school, so. [00:23:00] Speaker A: You're so young, Ashley. I was in middle school. I was probably 30. [00:23:07] Speaker B: Probably. [00:23:07] Speaker C: Hey, this. This back doesn't feel young. So. [00:23:12] Speaker B: So read Twilight. [00:23:13] Speaker C: What is the fan book? Do we know yet. [00:23:16] Speaker B: Yes. The fan, her name is Rhiann. She's been listening to the podcast from the beginning and her fan book is called the Deep. Looks really good. [00:23:29] Speaker C: River Solomon. [00:23:31] Speaker B: Yes, River Solomon. Yeah. The Deep. And it's about mermaids. But it's. I read a little bit about it, but it's, you know, the slave ships that went across the Atlantic, the women that were thrown overboard didn't die and they became mermaids. [00:23:45] Speaker C: It says an underwater society built by the water breathing descendants of pregnant slaves thrown overboard from slave ships. [00:23:53] Speaker D: That sounds really good. [00:23:55] Speaker C: Wow. [00:23:55] Speaker B: Yeah, I cannot wait to read that book. It looks really good. So she's going to be coming on. [00:24:00] Speaker C: We got some really good book picks this. This season. [00:24:04] Speaker B: I think so, too. [00:24:05] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:24:06] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:24:06] Speaker C: This might be my favorite season of book picks. [00:24:09] Speaker B: Okay, great. [00:24:12] Speaker C: So. So we'll have to recap that at the end of the year. [00:24:16] Speaker B: That's true. We will recap that. [00:24:17] Speaker C: Yeah. It was lovely seeing everyone. [00:24:20] Speaker A: So lovely to see you. [00:24:21] Speaker C: Yeah. Happy summer. [00:24:23] Speaker D: Let's make a jazz hands at the same time. [00:24:27] Speaker A: That's actually clapping in sign language. [00:24:29] Speaker D: Oh, great. [00:24:30] Speaker C: That is so cute. Right on. [00:24:33] Speaker B: I'll use that as a picture for our off the shelf. [00:24:36] Speaker D: That's us all doing this. Yep. It will be perfect. [00:24:42] Speaker B: All right. [00:24:43] Speaker C: Okay, bye. [00:24:43] Speaker B: Ladies, thank you for joining us on this episode of Book Interrupted. 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