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IAAI Town Meeting: Book Club: “Someday, Someday, Maybe” · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I Am all in again. Oh, I.
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  Speaker 2: Am all in Town Meeting with Suzanne French and Tara
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  Speaker 2: suit An iHeartRadio podcast. Hey guys, welcome back to another
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  Speaker 2: episode of I'm All in Town Meeting, but this time
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  Speaker 2: we're doing a book club.
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  Speaker 1: It's myself, Tara and Susanne.
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  Speaker 3: Hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Today we are talking about Lauren Graham's book Someday Someday Maybe,
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  Speaker 2: and we were talking about how we did Kelly Bishop's book,
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  Speaker 2: and then we were like we should keep this book
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  Speaker 2: club going, which you know, I don't know about you, Suzanne,
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  Speaker 2: but like I love reading, but I sometimes need to
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  Speaker 2: like force myself to sit and read. And this is
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  Speaker 2: like a nice force myself to read a book. I like,
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  Speaker 2: have you ever been on Goodreads once or twice? I've
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  Speaker 2: been on Goodreads for like ten years, and I put
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  Speaker 2: all the books in my like want to read list
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  Speaker 2: and like have read list, and I like not review.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't like write reviews. I just like
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  Speaker 2: to give myself like stars on like how I like
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  Speaker 2: the book. And then I have a lot of friends
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  Speaker 2: I follow and so and then you usually put like
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  Speaker 2: a book challenge per year and I always put ten
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  Speaker 2: books per year and I always end up at like
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  Speaker 2: six or seven. I don't think I've ever actually hit
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  Speaker 2: my goal.
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  Speaker 3: I love to read, and I'm a physical book like
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  Speaker 3: I physically bought the book. I just like reading a
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  Speaker 3: book versus I feel like I spend too much time
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  Speaker 3: on devices already. I don't want to look at a kindle,
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  Speaker 3: so I love to like sit and read in a
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  Speaker 3: nice environment, in a nice room. I just there's just
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  Speaker 3: not time for that, you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 3: this life that we all are eating is so hectic.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I never have time to just sit
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  Speaker 3: down and disconnect with the book. So yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 3: even I wish I could read six or seven books
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  Speaker 3: a year. I can't even get that many.
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  Speaker 2: I've had a Kindle for a long time, actually have
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  Speaker 2: the I have the Kindle paperback, which does not look
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  Speaker 2: like it actually looks like a physical book, so it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't hurt your eyes. For me, I noticed that I
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  Speaker 2: was reading a lot, and then I was just like
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what to do with the books. So
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  Speaker 2: for me, it was like instead of just throwing it out,
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  Speaker 2: like I mean, mind you, I have a bookshelf behind me,
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  Speaker 2: so clearly I collect books like I have my whole
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  Speaker 2: Harry Potter and Twilight, and like I have a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of other books, but all those one off books, Like
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  Speaker 2: I was just like I just want to like get
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  Speaker 2: a kindle. But in recent years I got a Audible
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  Speaker 2: membership because of someone who well, I work in podcasts,
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  Speaker 2: but I also listen to podcasts. I found that I
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  Speaker 2: really liked listening to books, and I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: got more done. Like I was finishing Lauren's book this morning,
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  Speaker 2: but I did it while I was like cleaning my
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  Speaker 2: room and like like I started laundry. Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like it because it I can kind
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  Speaker 2: of do more at once.
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  Speaker 1: But I still like having my kindle.
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  Speaker 2: And I always when I go on vacations, Uh, I
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  Speaker 2: love taking my kindle because I feel like if I'm
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  Speaker 2: by the pool or I'm on the plane, like that's
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  Speaker 2: a place where I can I can read.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely easier from the packing perspective to not
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  Speaker 3: have it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you know, for me, I think another thing
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  Speaker 2: is I hate creasing a book.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, this off topic, we'll get to the book.
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  Speaker 2: I hate creasing a book, and so I always felt
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  Speaker 2: like I was ruining like a paperback. Yeah, because I
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  Speaker 2: like it to be like in pristine shape. So I
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  Speaker 2: feel like it's just like that's a little OCD in
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  Speaker 2: me of Like.
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  Speaker 3: No, I totally like the spine. This spine is not
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  Speaker 3: broken at all, Like I don't. That drives me crazy too,
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  Speaker 3: Like when.
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  Speaker 2: People yeah, so far, oh my god, oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: when people like roll book, I'm like, oh no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Like I when I was organizing we did construction my
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  Speaker 2: house and I was reorganizing my bookshelf and like making
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  Speaker 2: it everything in order, one of my Harry Potter cover
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  Speaker 2: books had a tiny tear in it and I almost
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  Speaker 2: lost it. But I was like, the book is fine,
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  Speaker 2: it's just the cover that's like torn, but like it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: But speaking of the book, I I did the audiobook
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 3: Which is read by Lauren herself.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yes, Lauren reads it, and I guess I'll just
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  Speaker 2: straight up say it. I wasn't the biggest fan of
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  Speaker 2: the book, and I don't know if I would have
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  Speaker 2: had a different perspective if I read it instead of
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  Speaker 2: listening to it. And the reason why is because I
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  Speaker 2: felt like I was listening to Laura Gilmore. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and it was really difficult but then I also was like,
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  Speaker 2: the character of Franny.
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  Speaker 1: Felt a lot like LAURAAI.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know if it if you thought of
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  Speaker 2: it the same way.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, So I I actually have the audio book
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  Speaker 3: of it, although I've only I had started listening to
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  Speaker 3: it a long time ago, like maybe two three years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and never finished the audio version. But I have read
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  Speaker 3: the paperback before, so this was the second time I've
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  Speaker 3: read it all the way through. And I can definitely
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  Speaker 3: see that point because there's just a quirkyn there's just
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  Speaker 3: so much overlap between Lauren and Laurala. I it's hard
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  Speaker 3: to separate them sometimes. So I can totally see that,
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  Speaker 3: and I from what I've read in the past this
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  Speaker 3: it's a novel, so it's fictional, but it's loosely based
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  Speaker 3: on Lauren's own story. It's not autobiographical, right, there's based
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  Speaker 3: on it, and so I think there's definitely some overlap there.
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  Speaker 3: I overall, I liked it. It's not my favorite book ever,
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  Speaker 3: but I guess I had to rate it, like on
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  Speaker 3: a scale of one to ten, i'd probably give it
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  Speaker 3: a six or a seven, Like it's just kind of
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  Speaker 3: in the middle. What I really liked about it, And
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  Speaker 3: this might be why I liked it maybe more than
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  Speaker 3: you did, is that Franni. Both Franny and Lauren are
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  Speaker 3: of similar age to me, So I can really relate
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  Speaker 3: to Frannie being, you know, in her early twenties, starting
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  Speaker 3: her career, you know, trying to figure out how things work,
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  Speaker 3: and feeling awkward because she doesn't know, you know, when
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  Speaker 3: she walked by the set of the commercial she was
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  Speaker 3: going to be on and she didn't know the check
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  Speaker 3: all them, you know, I can, I can totally relate
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  Speaker 3: to that, and I just really I thought she did
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  Speaker 3: a good job of connecting to that kind of early
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  Speaker 3: nineties vibe because I just remember that so clearly in
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  Speaker 3: my own life, and I know so for the folks listening,
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  Speaker 3: if you read the paper version, she's got like her
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  Speaker 3: her date book, her file facts in the story, and
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  Speaker 3: it's got like her own notes for what she was
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  Speaker 3: doing each week. And I don't know how they translated
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  Speaker 3: that into the audio version, but it just, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like where she's got just her whole week is written
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  Speaker 3: out on a physical piece of paper.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of cool.
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  Speaker 3: We did it back then, like we didn't have smartphones
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  Speaker 3: that we kept everything in like it literally was a
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  Speaker 3: very analog world.
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  Speaker 1: Which is funny.
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  Speaker 2: I still keep like I have a paper and notebook,
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  Speaker 2: even though like my calendar is on my phone, like
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  Speaker 2: for at least for work, I keep everything on a
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  Speaker 2: paper and notebook, like dated to do lists and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I just love, you know, just how she
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  Speaker 3: portrayed life in that time period, like the Answering Machine.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she started each chapter with her Answering Machine
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  Speaker 3: messages and you know, having to use a payphone to
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  Speaker 3: call someone because you're not you're not emailing, you're not texting,
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  Speaker 3: like you literally had to make a connection with somebody
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  Speaker 3: personally over the phone and it. So I liked it
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  Speaker 3: from that aspect, and it just kind of made me
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  Speaker 3: nostalgic for that period in my own life. And so
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  Speaker 3: maybe that's why I liked it a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: because I did think the story itself was a little
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was thin in some places and then
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  Speaker 3: too thick in other places, Like some parts of it
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  Speaker 3: I thought were really drawn out, and other parts of
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  Speaker 3: it I felt like she didn't really flesh it out enough.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I for me, I agree with that, like.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I did like the you know, wanting to
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  Speaker 2: follow your dreams and you know you're working really hard
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  Speaker 2: and you're not giving up and same as you. Like
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  Speaker 2: I in my twenties, I was like asking questions and
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  Speaker 2: I was lost, but I was figuring it out, and
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  Speaker 2: like working in entertainment, I kind of felt like that
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  Speaker 2: connection to it. I just felt like seventy percent of
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  Speaker 2: this book was audition rooms and it went and I
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  Speaker 2: understand the point of like you had to make it
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  Speaker 2: to the end of she go, she got the job right,
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  Speaker 2: but like I didn't need the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Book to be audition, audition, audition.
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  Speaker 2: And then it was like sixty percent into the book
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  Speaker 2: and then finally there's like a little relationship. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, could we have gotten to this like way sooner?
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  Speaker 2: And like I love a romance, so that's me. But
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  Speaker 2: I just felt like I've I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: but I thought that the relationship storylines.
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  Speaker 1: Weren't fleshed out.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then the audition storyline was like so flashed out.
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  Speaker 2: I kid you not I said this to you before
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  Speaker 2: we started. I finished this book twenty minutes before we
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  Speaker 2: started this podcast because I could not get if it
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  Speaker 2: were me like reading this for fun I would have
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  Speaker 2: stopped this book because the first like ten chapters maybe
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  Speaker 2: more fifteen were just audition rooms, and.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing in a different font basically, like
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  Speaker 2: and I understand, like that's the hustle of it all,
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  Speaker 2: but it just seemed like it was going absolutely nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: And even thinking back, I was like, there was no
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  Speaker 2: like sitting on the edge of my seat moment in
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  Speaker 2: this book at all.
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  Speaker 1: Like it just felt like flat the whole way through. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: at the end when.
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  Speaker 2: Literally like the last line is literally like beep and
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  Speaker 2: then the book ends, and I was like, well that
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  Speaker 2: was the excitement that I you know, but but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't like I wasn't like I need another book.
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  Speaker 1: I just was like, Okay, well it's over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I definitely thought that the part with Dan I
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  Speaker 3: wanted more of that, Like I felt to get to
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  Speaker 3: it fast enough, and because she spent so much time
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  Speaker 3: on James. But at the same time, I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how to explain it, like I didn't really like the
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  Speaker 3: stuff with James either because he I don't know, it
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  Speaker 3: was it was clear that he was kind of using her,
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted her to pick up on that earlier.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah, instead of chapter seventeen when we're like
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  Speaker 2: finally right, it's.
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  Speaker 3: Like way towards the end of the book when she
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  Speaker 3: finally realizes that I wanted her to have some kind
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  Speaker 3: of confrontation with him, Like I wanted her to like
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  Speaker 3: just give him a what for. And we didn't get that,
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  Speaker 3: Like we know that he called and she ignored his calls,
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  Speaker 3: and that was like the only resolution we got. I
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  Speaker 3: wanted her to have like a conversation with him and
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  Speaker 3: be like you jerk, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, nothing happened. There was no conflict.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly I wanted. I wanted a little more
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  Speaker 3: of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, you said, you rate it, what
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  Speaker 1: a six? Six out of ten?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, six to seven?
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  Speaker 2: So on on good Reads, when you finish a book,
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  Speaker 2: there is a five star rating, and I personally gave
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  Speaker 2: it a two, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Like, but that's why, Like, I don't think it was
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  Speaker 1: a bad book.
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  Speaker 2: I would probably never go back to it, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't need a sequel to it, but it just it
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  Speaker 2: went nowhere.
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  Speaker 3: What was the consensus on good Reads? What did other
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  Speaker 3: people rate it?
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  Speaker 2: So I actually pulled it up because I was looking,
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  Speaker 2: so out of five stars, the overall rating was a
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  Speaker 2: three point five to three.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so about seven out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so yeah, And then I'm scrolling I mean people's reviews,
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  Speaker 2: like people write reviews, and they're pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Long, so I'm not going to read you.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, there was like the one on top
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  Speaker 2: is a three out of five. There's a four, there's
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  Speaker 2: a four, there's another two. I found it interesting that
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  Speaker 2: a lot of there was a mix of I love
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  Speaker 2: Gilmore Girls so much and I wanted it, and then
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  Speaker 2: there was another one where it's like, oh, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know much about Lauren Graham from Gilmore Girls, but I
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  Speaker 2: watched Parenthood and like stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: And the main thing that.
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  Speaker 2: People said were I read this because of Gilmore Girls,
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  Speaker 2: and Franny was basically Laura l I slash Lauren. And
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I think that's the hard part is
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  Speaker 2: because I wanted to separate the two really badly, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why.
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  Speaker 1: I said, like, maybe it was me listening to the.
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  Speaker 2: Audio book that felt that way, but at the same
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  Speaker 2: time I kind of took that element out of it,
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  Speaker 2: and actually the context of the book, the way the
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  Speaker 2: mannerisms a little bit and stuff just felt very Lauren
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  Speaker 2: slash Laurli. And I think that was hard, And I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that it's a bad thing. I think that
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  Speaker 2: means Lauren then created this care and world. Like think
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  Speaker 2: about it, like a lot of actors kind of play
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  Speaker 2: the same type of roles, like not all, but there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot like you have a heart throb, or you
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  Speaker 2: have the girl next door, or you have the nerd. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Lauren has created this character so well, and it's very
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  Speaker 2: hard as someone who has played Lorli Gilmour for uh
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  Speaker 2: seven seven seasons, seven seasons plus the revival, like you
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  Speaker 2: know this person so well. It wasn't like she was
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  Speaker 2: two episodes in. And then also, if you think of Parenthood,
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  Speaker 2: there's a little bit of Lauren in Parenthood, right, Like
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  Speaker 2: you can't deny it. So I think that it's it's
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  Speaker 2: well written, right like, I don't think it's a bad book, like,
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  Speaker 2: but I just think that it was hard to I
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  Speaker 2: wonder if the entire and sit by the way, she
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  Speaker 2: has another book, right.
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  Speaker 3: This was her only novel. Her others are more.
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  Speaker 1: Essays, got it.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know if she had another novel because I
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  Speaker 2: was gonna say, maybe if you took the entertainment industry
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  Speaker 2: out of this and you created just like a love story,
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  Speaker 2: girl next door working in a coffee, maybe we could
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  Speaker 2: have had a different feeling. But I think because it
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  Speaker 2: was trying to be an actor the whole time, I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is just Lauren. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of what people were saying online too.
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  Speaker 3: I remember several years ago, now I don't know, time
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: fly so fast. It's probably five or six years ago now,
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  Speaker 3: there was talk that she was writing a not necessarily
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  Speaker 3: a sequel to it, but like some sort of a
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  Speaker 3: companion book to it. So I don't know whatever happened
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  Speaker 3: with that, if she just abandoned that for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: but I think if she did come out with I
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  Speaker 3: liked Frannie as a character, and I would probably if
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  Speaker 3: she wrote another book that was part of the Franny universe,
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  Speaker 3: I probably would read it just to see what happens
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  Speaker 3: to her. But yeah, so she It's also worth noting
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  Speaker 3: I think that she wrote this while she was shooting Parenthood,
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  Speaker 3: so hmm, she because I've seen in interviews there was
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  Speaker 3: she was making a comparison to the Gilmore set versus
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  Speaker 3: the Parenthood set, because on Gilmore she was in every
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  Speaker 3: single scene, whereas on Parenthood, which is a larger ensemble cast,
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  Speaker 3: she wasn't in every scene and so had time in
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  Speaker 3: her trailer to sit and write this book. And so
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  Speaker 3: I think that that might inform some of it as well,
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  Speaker 3: because there might maybe there's like a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: Sarah Braverman in there. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go back and watch Parenthood. It's been
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  Speaker 2: I know Amian Danieler are just starting it. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: it's made all of this Parenthood talk. I'm like, hmm,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's my next binge.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm thinking I need to go back and watch
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  Speaker 3: it too. I've seen it once or twice and I
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  Speaker 3: loved it. I just haven't watched it recently, but I
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  Speaker 3: was thinking the same thing. I should probably start it.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a sad show.
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  Speaker 3: It is so definitely not it's not Gilmore Girls.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and also to pivot a little bit spoil if
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: you watch nine one one and you're not caught up,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: giving you a second to fast forward.
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  Speaker 1: But Peter Krausey right, Krawsey.
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  Speaker 3: Krausa, I think, yeah, Krassa.
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  Speaker 1: He plays Captain in nine one one and they just
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  Speaker 1: killed him off. Do you watch nine one one?
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  Speaker 3: I haven't watched the current season. I watched some of
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: the early seasons.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: This show is about to go downhill. This is like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Derek Shepherd dying in Grey's Anatomy. It will never be
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  Speaker 2: the same. And I was I think that's also why
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I want to go back to Parenthood, because I'm like, well,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: now he's dead in the show I watched, so I
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: need to go back to another show. Yeah, anyway, if
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: you fast forward, you can come back now. But I
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: think overall, like, I mean, I don't know if there's
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: any other specifics he wanted to get into.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: But no, not really.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I it was enjoyable, but not you know, not it
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: got me to read.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was a pleasant way to spend
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: some time.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, it was just it was a
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: light book to read.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: But I did find myself like.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: As I was listening to it, if I kind of
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: not dozed off, but if I just kind of like
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: my brain veered into a direction while listening, if I
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: picked back up, I didn't miss anything.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like and then.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I read on a good Reads review someone said I
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: found myself skimming through some chapters, and I didn't miss much,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Like I was just I was just trying to get ahead.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Some parts were really like wordy. Yeah does that make sense?
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: Like I was just like, this could have this this
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: half this chapter could have been or this chapter could
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: have been like half as long.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree. Sometimes she does put too much
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: in a sentence. Yeah.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: The one part that I really loved about this book,
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I have to say, was the use of the of
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: the answering machine and the voicemails. I think that was
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: so well done in that time. And like, I don't
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: know because then at the very end, when like everyone's
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: calling her to congratulate her and they saw this show,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I was like, it was just kind of like a
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: It started with Hey, it's your dad, like you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: blah blah, and yeah's it going over that? You know.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I can't remember what he said at the beginning of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: the book, but it started with that, and it ended
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: with like, we're so proud of you, and like her
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: dad didn't like fully believe in it at first that
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: she would get this job like this acting gig, but.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was a nice little touch to
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the book.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I agree. And because that, you know, going
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: back to what I was saying before, that was how
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: we communicated with each other. If you couldn't they didn't
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: answer their phone, you had to leave them a message
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: because you had no other way to communicate with them,
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: like you couldn't text them or you know whatever. So
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: there was a lot of you know, endless answering machine.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: You know, that's why we call it playing phone tag,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: you know, like you'd leave a message for someone and
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: they'd leave a message for you. Like that's just what
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: it was. And I thought that was a clever device
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the way that she incorporated that into the book for sure.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we are going to do another book, right, Yeah, I.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Think we talked about doing all of her books, so
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: we have.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: The we were gonna do it in order. Yeah, so
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: the next one, looking it up.
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: I think the next one is the one that.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: She did talking as fast as I can.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Yes, that's the one that came out like right around
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: the time of the revival.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, which I have read before, have you?
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I did do this one. So actually, this
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: was the.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: First book that I ever listened to as an audiobook,
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: was Lauren's was Lauren's book because I was like, I
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: don't know. Her voice is like comfort to me because
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: of kill Moore girls, and I do remember loving this book.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: So the next book we're going.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: To be reading is Talking as Fast as I Can,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: which is uh a, this was personal essays of her,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: but it's it's Laurence. So now we're gonna ge Lauren.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know when we're going to finish it. We'll
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: keep everyone updated on when we'll talk about it. But
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: that'll be the next one. And then after that she
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: has two more books, so there's a total of four.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the one, the one after Talking as Fast
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: as I Can, is really short. It was it was
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: a graduation speech that she gave it her high school. Oh,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: but then she expanded it a little bit, so it's
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: it's more like a motivational kind of thing. It's real
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: short and cute.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Is that in conclusion? Don't worry about it. Yes,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: let me see how many pages it is.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: That that will take like an hour to read.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's fifty two pages.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: So maybe maybe we tack on that, tack this on
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: to the next one. Okay, so let's tack this one
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: on to Talking as Fast as I Can because fifty
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: two pages is yeah, nothing.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Of hope she does more. I kind of like this
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: side venture for her. Yeah, alrighty, well, thanks for listening, guys,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: And if you didn't read the book and you want
• 22:28
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• 22:31
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• 22:33
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