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FIVE Scary Books For Halloween · Midnight Movie Theatre

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Speaker 1: Dang! What's up with all these books?
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Speaker 2: It's that time of year. It's October.
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Speaker 3: So we're going to be talking about ghosts and goblins
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Speaker 3: and witches and skeletons.
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Speaker 2: Skeletons.
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Speaker 3: And I'm also going to be talking about five spooky
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Speaker 3: books that I read this year for Halloween. So we're
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Speaker 3: going to do the most recent one. I actually just
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Speaker 3: finished this book today. So here we go. Number one
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Speaker 3: is a book called The Har.
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Speaker 2: H-A-A-R.
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Speaker 3: It came out in 2022. It's by David Sodergren. This
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Speaker 3: is a Scottish folk horror book. And this is one
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Speaker 3: that took me a couple times to really get into.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad I did.
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Speaker 3: Like I said, I just finished it today. It's not
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Speaker 3: a super long book or anything, but it was really,
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Speaker 3: really good. I enjoyed it a lot more than I
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Speaker 3: expected to. I don't know what it was about it.
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Speaker 3: The beginning was just hard for me to really get
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Speaker 3: invested in for some reason. It's about this older woman.
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Speaker 3: She's a widow. She lives in this small village in Scotland.
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Speaker 3: This billionaire developer is buying up everyone's houses and buying
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Speaker 3: up all the land so that he can build all
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Speaker 3: this shit there, basically.
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Speaker 2: Make it like a tourist attraction, if you will.
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Speaker 1: And.
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Speaker 2: At first, the whole.
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Speaker 3: Town is against it, but slowly he starts to break
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Speaker 3: everybody down. Everyone starts selling their properties, except for her
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Speaker 3: and one of her friends. Basically, this guy is just
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Speaker 3: going to despicable lengths to get their property and putting
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Speaker 3: immense pressure on them and even eventually crossing the line
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Speaker 3: as far as that would go, as far as just
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Speaker 3: putting pressure on them goes or just offering them money
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Speaker 3: and stuff like that. He starts to do some criminal activity.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: It gets pretty, uh, pretty dark. So we follow around
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Speaker 3: Muriel while she's dealing with all this. She's like in
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Speaker 3: her late eighties. So she's not exactly a spry character, but, uh, she,
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Speaker 3: she lost her husband. He was a fisherman, a seaman,
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Speaker 3: if you will. And, um, he, uh, One day he
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Speaker 3: just went out to sea and never came back. And
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Speaker 3: so she never got to tell him goodbye. It's kind
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Speaker 3: of a heartbreaking story. She decides one day that she's
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Speaker 3: going to walk over to the special area of the
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Speaker 3: beach where her husband, Billy, proposed to her. And while
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Speaker 3: she's heading over there, she sees something that looks a
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Speaker 3: little funny. Something catches her attention and she's like, oh,
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Speaker 3: wait a minute.
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Speaker 2: What the hell is that?
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Speaker 3: But then she gets distracted because the billionaire's son, he
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Speaker 3: comes out of this... cave or something that her husband
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Speaker 3: proposed to her in. And he's got a fucking boner
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Speaker 3: and he just walks out butt fucking naked. And he's
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Speaker 3: got like a lady with her and she's kind of like,
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Speaker 3: what the fuck is going on here? And this guy
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Speaker 3: just like starts like shoving her down and stuff and
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Speaker 3: cussing at her. And she's just like, what is going on?
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Speaker 3: She gets rescued after that by this mysterious creature. From
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Speaker 3: then on, I don't want to say too much, but
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Speaker 3: this mysterious creature is Helps her out, helps her get
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Speaker 3: up and kind of recover from this like beating that
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Speaker 3: she takes by this fucking guy, this naked guy with
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Speaker 3: the boner. And in turn, she ends up helping out
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Speaker 3: this basically, I guess, like a sea creature is kind
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Speaker 3: of what we end up calling it. And from then on,
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Speaker 3: her and the sea creature kind of have this ongoing relationship.
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Speaker 2: If you will.
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Speaker 3: And one of the ways that she can help out
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Speaker 3: this sea creature just happens to be to feed it blood.
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Speaker 3: And even though there's not a lot of people on
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Speaker 3: this island, I think she starts thinking, I think I
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Speaker 3: know some people that have some blood that I could
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Speaker 3: probably give you. I'm probably just going to leave it
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Speaker 3: there because if I get into it, I don't want
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Speaker 3: to spoil any of these. I would recommend all of
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Speaker 3: these books for sure. Check them out. Check out The
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Speaker 3: Horror by David Sodergren. fantastic spooky book for Halloween. Oh,
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Speaker 3: that's Billy. Oh, speaking of Billy.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The husband's name is Billy in the book. And maybe,
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Speaker 3: maybe Billy in the book is actually Billy from Saw.
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Speaker 3: You ever think about that? I didn't think about that
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Speaker 3: when I was reading it, but now I am. And
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Speaker 3: now I think that's probably accurate. Maybe Miriam is jigsaw
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Speaker 3: and that's how this is actually a jigsaw origin story
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Speaker 3: oh yeah i think we're onto something here i think
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Speaker 3: we need to start a uh series on netflix about
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Speaker 3: the horror but it's actually just about the how the
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Speaker 3: movie saw got started Um, this number two book for me,
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Speaker 3: for my spooky books, Invasion of the Body Snatchers came
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Speaker 3: out in 1955. It was written by Jack Finney. I
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Speaker 3: think he actually wrote it in 1954, but you know,
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Speaker 3: I think that's the publishing date says 1955. So we're
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Speaker 3: just going.
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Speaker 2: To roll with that.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, this is a, an absolute classic. I just kind
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Speaker 3: of rolled into this one, uh, blind. I've seen the
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Speaker 3: seventies movie, the seventies remake. And I think that's it.
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Speaker 3: I've seen pieces of the, the 56th. invasion of the
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Speaker 3: body snatchers, but I don't think I've finished it. So
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure how similar it is to the book, but, um,
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Speaker 3: This was quite a bit different than the 70s version.
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Speaker 3: This book was really, really good. Something about it felt
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Speaker 3: a lot more modern at times.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of middle parts, damn.
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Speaker 3: There was a part in the middle that kind of
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Speaker 3: drug a little bit, but it wasn't anything that serious.
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Speaker 3: It was just kind of one of those things where
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Speaker 3: I feel like maybe they could have had the characters
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Speaker 3: make some different choices. It just made the story feel
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Speaker 3: a little clunky because this doctor, he's getting all these
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Speaker 3: people come into his doctor's office and they're like, hey,
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Speaker 3: my fucking dad's acting like a fucking dick or something.
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Speaker 3: He's not my dad anymore. And the doctor's just kind
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Speaker 3: of like, what the fuck are you talking about? And
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Speaker 3: enough people start telling him this to where he starts
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Speaker 3: taking it serious and he sends them to a psychiatrist
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Speaker 3: that he knows. The psychiatrist kind of chalks it up
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Speaker 3: to mass hysteria until one of his friends, a couple,
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Speaker 3: this husband and wife, they're like, we need you to
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Speaker 3: come to my fucking basement and look at something. So
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Speaker 3: him and this lady that he used to date They
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Speaker 3: go to the basement and basically he shows them like
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Speaker 3: a fucking dead body on his pool table. And he's
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Speaker 3: just like, I don't know how to fuck this guy here.
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Speaker 3: Who put this dead body in my basement, guys?
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Speaker 2: Wasn't me. Damn, that's weird.
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Speaker 3: So there's a dead, kind of like a dead body
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Speaker 3: in his basement, but they're like, damn, this body doesn't
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Speaker 3: look like it's been used, you know, and it doesn't
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Speaker 3: have any fingerprints. And it doesn't really have a face,
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Speaker 3: so they're like, this is fucking strange. One thing I
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Speaker 3: really liked about this, though, was that they don't waste
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Speaker 3: a bunch of time trying to convince this doctor of
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Speaker 3: what's going on. He just kind of decides, like, I
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Speaker 3: think these are fucking clones, dog. I think this is
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Speaker 3: a clone of you, actually. And he's kind of like,
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Speaker 3: are you shitting me? Is that what's going on here?
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Speaker 3: And they're just like, it is. And so they just
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Speaker 3: kind of go from there, which I really liked. I
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Speaker 3: liked that this book kind of hits the ground running
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Speaker 3: as far as that goes. And this, this one wasn't
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Speaker 3: very long either. Not a, not a super long book
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Speaker 3: or anything. The one problem, I guess, like the clunky
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Speaker 3: thing that I was talking about is basically because like,
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Speaker 3: so they figure this out and then they just leave
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Speaker 3: town and it's like, okay, books over, you know? Book
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Speaker 3: should be wrapping up any second. But that's kind of
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Speaker 3: a problem because it's like, well, if you leave town,
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Speaker 3: that is the end of the book, right? Because you
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Speaker 3: could just fucking run away or whatever, you know? Get
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Speaker 3: the hell out of there, buddy. That's what I would do.
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Speaker 3: If there was a fucking pod person growing in my
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Speaker 3: basement that looked just like me but didn't have a
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Speaker 3: penis or a face, yeah, I'm leaving. And it gets, like,
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Speaker 3: amped up to the point where, like, there's four main
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Speaker 3: characters that are hanging out.
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Speaker 2: These two couples, basically.
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Speaker 3: They go to sleep in one place and they discover
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Speaker 3: four pods. They try to leave in a car and
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Speaker 3: they discover four pods in the trunk. And they're just like, yo,
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Speaker 3: they're trying to turn us into damn pod people like today.
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Speaker 3: Like they're not waiting around. There's pods showing up left
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Speaker 3: and right. They've got tons of pods. So they leave
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Speaker 3: town and it's kind of like, well, that's a problem because,
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Speaker 3: you know, you kind of need them to have this
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Speaker 3: conflict with these clones or whatever. Uh, and even though
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Speaker 3: they know that there's clones and that they're probably aliens
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Speaker 3: and there's a pretty good chance that they could be
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Speaker 3: turned into, you know, vegetable clones or whatever these things are. Um,
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Speaker 3: they decide, well, let's go back to town cause we
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Speaker 3: need to defend, to defend our town. We got hometown
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Speaker 3: pride up in this bitch. We need to get back
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Speaker 3: there and kick all these pod people's asses, even though
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Speaker 3: it's like the whole town versus four, basically. But then
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Speaker 3: once they get back to town, shit picks back up.
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Speaker 3: It gets really interesting again. And I just really liked it.
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Speaker 3: I liked how it ended. It just had a creepy atmosphere.
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Speaker 3: There wasn't really anything gross that happened in it either,
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Speaker 3: which is something that I don't mind that. But it's
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Speaker 3: something where There's a lot of books, especially horror-ish books
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Speaker 3: that I read, and even if they're not too over-the-top
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Speaker 3: or anything, I feel like there's a lot of gross-out
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Speaker 3: shit in them. This one didn't really have any in
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Speaker 3: it at all. It was almost like one of those
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Speaker 3: things where it's like there's maybe a couple sex scenes
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Speaker 3: in it or something like that, or just references to
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Speaker 3: sex or something. I feel like this is like a
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Speaker 3: YA book, basically, is what I'm trying to say. Pretty...
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Speaker 3: squeaky clean book. Had a lot of really cool sci-fi
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Speaker 3: slash horror stuff in it, though. I really liked it.
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Speaker 3: Check out Invasion of the Body Snatchers if you get
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Speaker 3: a chance. Okay, and the number three book is going
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Speaker 3: to be a 2025 horror novel by Virginia Fido called
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Speaker 3: Victorian Psycho. This book takes place in 19th century England.
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Speaker 3: It's about a violent governess, and basically she's like a
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Speaker 3: governess is essentially like a live-in babysitter, like a nanny,
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Speaker 3: more or less. So they hire this nanny, and she
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Speaker 3: is a psycho, and she's living in their house, and
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Speaker 3: she's taking care of their kids, and you're just kind
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Speaker 3: of following her around and living inside her head. And
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Speaker 3: she's explaining all of her crazy thoughts and all the
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Speaker 3: terrible things that she's done. I thought this one was
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Speaker 3: going to be a lot tougher to read because from
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Speaker 3: the general idea at the beginning of this book, I
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Speaker 3: thought her end goal was basically going to be that
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Speaker 3: she's a cannibal and that she's trying to eat these kids.
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Speaker 3: And that's like her thing is like eating kids. And
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Speaker 3: that's why she is basically a live-in nanny so that
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Speaker 3: she can have access to eating kids. And I was like, damn,
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Speaker 3: this might be like a tough one. I don't know
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Speaker 3: if I'm going to get through it, but as it
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Speaker 3: goes on, it kind of leans more into, um, almost
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Speaker 3: some silly moments that could come from all this.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 3: It felt like there was a little bit of like
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Speaker 3: dark comedy throughout this book. And this is another, uh,
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Speaker 3: pretty quick read. It's 208 pages. I thought it was
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Speaker 3: pretty fun. And I have, um, a little bit of
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Speaker 3: mixed feelings about how it ends. Because on one hand,
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Speaker 3: there's a really, really cool twist or reveal that I
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Speaker 3: didn't see coming that I feel like made the whole
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Speaker 3: book worth it. And on the other hand, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't tell if it was trying to be similar
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Speaker 3: to American Psycho. I mean, there's definitely some moments where
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Speaker 3: you're not sure if like, is this an unreliable narrator
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Speaker 3: situation we got going on here? because is any of
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Speaker 3: this actually happening or is this just like in this
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Speaker 3: person's head? And you kind of get the idea that
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Speaker 3: like some of it's happening, at least. Some of it
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Speaker 3: is revealed, you know, pretty quickly. I feel like they
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Speaker 3: don't drag you along too much as far as like
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Speaker 3: if something is a dream or just like a hallucination
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Speaker 3: or a fantasy or something like that. I feel like
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Speaker 3: they tell you pretty quick. So Overall, yeah, I thought
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Speaker 3: this was really a really solid read as far as
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Speaker 3: just kind of like a short horror book goes. This
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Speaker 3: one does have like quite a bit of gross out stuff,
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Speaker 3: or at least quite a bit of gore and killing
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Speaker 3: in it, basically. I would almost compare this to like
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Speaker 3: slasher style of kills. Like it almost felt like reading
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Speaker 3: a slasher movie kind of. Pretty solid Victorian Psycho. I
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Speaker 3: guess there's a movie. Okay, yeah, there's a 2026 movie
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Speaker 3: that premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. So maybe I'll
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Speaker 3: check that out.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I haven't heard anything about that until just now. Number
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Speaker 3: four is going to be the 1979 book Ghost Story
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Speaker 3: by Peter Straub. This one was a little bit longer
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Speaker 3: than the rest. It's 483 pages. I had this one
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Speaker 3: on my list of books to read for quite a
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Speaker 3: while and just kind of kept putting it off. I
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Speaker 3: just didn't know what to expect about it, and I
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Speaker 3: didn't look anything up before going into it. I'd kind
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Speaker 3: of heard the connection, obviously, like Peter Straub and Stephen
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Speaker 3: King have written books together, and I knew about the
13:31
Speaker 3: Stephen King connection and all that. So it's been on
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Speaker 3: my list. I've been meaning to check it out, and
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Speaker 3: I'm glad I finally did. This is a really wild-ass book, honestly,
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Speaker 3: when it comes down to it. I thought it was
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Speaker 3: going to be just haunted house story because a lot
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Speaker 3: of the covers I saw were just pictures of this
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Speaker 3: big spooky looking mansion.
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Speaker 2: So I was strictly just.
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Speaker 3: Going off of judging the book by the cover, if
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Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying. It's basically about this group
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Speaker 3: of friends, these old guys that call themselves the Chowder Society.
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Speaker 3: They've been friends since they were kids. Now that they're
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Speaker 3: like in their, I would say everyone's either 60 to
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Speaker 3: 80 years old. They're all pretty old now. I feel
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Speaker 3: like they're anywhere between like 70 to 80 years old,
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Speaker 3: each one of them. And they get together, I think
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Speaker 3: once a month, and each one of them has to
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Speaker 3: tell a scary story as if it's really true. And
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Speaker 3: they're not allowed to reveal whether it's true or not.
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Speaker 3: And this all comes about because of a dark secret
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Speaker 3: that they're hanging on to. The dark secret is related
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Speaker 3: to one of their friends that dies at a party.
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Speaker 3: who was also a member of the Chowder Society. So
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Speaker 3: after he dies, they kind of start thinking like, damn,
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Speaker 3: was his death related to this secret that we've been
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Speaker 3: keeping for all these years? And one of the members
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Speaker 3: asks another one of the members, what's the worst thing
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Speaker 3: you've done in your life? He says something like, I
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Speaker 3: won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst
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Speaker 3: thing that's happened to me. And so then that's, That's
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Speaker 3: what prompts all these stories. And basically, they just continue
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Speaker 3: on with this tradition. And it goes until similar events
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Speaker 3: start happening that remind them of their friend dying. And
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Speaker 3: they're starting to think like, damn, our dark past is
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Speaker 3: coming back to get us. And basically, the book goes
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Speaker 3: on from there. I'm not going to say too much
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Speaker 3: more than that. But I will say, this is not
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Speaker 3: just a ghost story or a haunted house story. This
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Speaker 3: is a fucking crazy story that involves... like several timelines,
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Speaker 3: multiple major events, several like fairly lengthy stories that you
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Speaker 3: get in the middle of the book that weave into
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Speaker 3: the narrative. I thought it was great. I had a
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Speaker 3: lot of fun with this one. It was a really,
15:50
Speaker 3: really a pretty quick read for me. It was one
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Speaker 3: of those, like once I picked it up and really
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Speaker 3: got into it and kind of figured out what was
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Speaker 3: going on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I blew right through it.
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Speaker 3: It was a little tricky starting out because you kind
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Speaker 3: of get this story at the beginning that it just
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Speaker 3: drops you in the middle of it. And then it
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Speaker 3: it cuts away from that and you don't go back
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Speaker 3: to that story until the end. And so at first
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Speaker 3: I was kind of like waiting for them. Like, so what,
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Speaker 3: when are we going to find out what the fuck
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Speaker 3: was going on at the beginning of this book? You
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Speaker 3: do just in case that's like a deal breaker for anybody.
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Speaker 3: You do find out, you just got to hang in there.
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Speaker 3: That's ghost story by Peter Straub. Number five is going
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Speaker 3: to be another old timey classic, a wrinkle in time
16:31
Speaker 3: came out in 1962, uh, written by Madeline, Madeline let angle.
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Speaker 3: I hope I'm saying that right.
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Speaker 2: Probably not.
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Speaker 3: But this is a, this is another similar to invasion
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Speaker 3: of the body snatchers. I would say this is like
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Speaker 3: another YA type of book where it has a creepy
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Speaker 3: enough feel. It has a lot of cool, like sci-fi
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Speaker 3: stuff going on and like multidimensional type of stuff, but
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Speaker 3: it never gets too graphic or gross to where I
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Speaker 3: feel like younger readers wouldn't have a problem with it.
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Speaker 2: Really.
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Speaker 3: Maybe just some of the, uh, like quantum physics type
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Speaker 3: of shit that they've got going on in here. This
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Speaker 3: was another just really great read. Super, super easy to
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Speaker 3: get through, I'd say. A lot of really interesting characters.
17:17
Speaker 3: The story starts off and it just moves. It drags
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Speaker 3: you right through it like no problem. Very interesting concept
17:23
Speaker 3: of time and space, I guess you could say. I
17:26
Speaker 3: feel like I'd heard this book referenced.
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Speaker 2: A lot in other books.
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Speaker 3: Works, and I just never got around to reading it. Obviously,
17:36
Speaker 3: Stranger Things in the last season pulled a lot from
17:39
Speaker 3: this or was inspired by this story quite a bit.
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Speaker 3: So I was curious to figure out what the connection
17:45
Speaker 3: was there.
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Speaker 2: And it was.
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Speaker 3: Interesting because in this, the character that they kind of
17:51
Speaker 3: borrow from in Stranger Things is the Mrs. What's-It character
17:55
Speaker 3: in A Wrinkle in Time, and instead in there they
17:57
Speaker 3: have Mr. What's-It as the Vecna guy. Related to that character, though,
18:02
Speaker 3: is maybe my only hesitancy to show this book to
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Speaker 3: kids at a certain age, because I feel like it
18:09
Speaker 3: almost tries to undo any type of stranger danger knowledge
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Speaker 3: that you would have bestowed upon your kids, or any
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Speaker 3: kids really, because essentially there's like these three good guy
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Speaker 3: characters mrs what's it and her two friends and this
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Speaker 3: like little kid like five-year-old kid or something like that
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Speaker 3: uh just happens to run into them in the woods
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Speaker 3: and they're just like hey why don't you hang out
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Speaker 3: with us in our shack and shit like that and
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Speaker 3: he's just like fuck yeah that sounds awesome and once
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Speaker 3: he tells his sister and like mom and shit about
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Speaker 3: this they're like whoa whoa whoa what are you doing
18:44
Speaker 3: there hey don't be doing that shit what the fuck
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Speaker 3: are you talking about but he's like no it's cool
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Speaker 3: dog They're fucking chill with it, dude.
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Speaker 2: Mrs.
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Speaker 3: What's it gave me a fucking beer dog. And it's like, hey, bud,
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Speaker 3: you're going to get molested if you keep doing that.
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Speaker 3: What are you, a fucking idiot? But he's just like, no, actually,
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Speaker 3: I've got like a fucking 600 IQ, dude. I got
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Speaker 3: a fucking 420 IQ. I'm about to go smoke weed
19:07
Speaker 3: with Mrs. What's it? Anyway, super cool story. One of
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Speaker 3: out of all these stories, maybe one of my favorite
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Speaker 3: character arcs with the 13 year old girl in it,
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Speaker 3: Meg Murray. Besides the anti-stranger danger stuff that's in this book,
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Speaker 3: the part about her kind of like coming to terms
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Speaker 3: with her family and who she is and stuff like
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Speaker 3: that was just a really nice message, really fantastic character arc.
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Speaker 3: It's one of those things where it's like, yeah, you
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Speaker 3: would want to, you know, get that message across to
19:38
Speaker 3: a young mind.
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Speaker 1: So.
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Speaker 2: A Wrinklin' Time.
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Speaker 3: What a great book. What a timeless story. And then
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Speaker 3: this is going to be my number six. This is
19:46
Speaker 3: pretty much just like a bonus one that I'm tacking
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Speaker 3: on here. This is Dark Hearts. by Norman Partridge. I
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Speaker 3: did not read this one this year. I think I
19:54
Speaker 3: read it last year or something like that. But this
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Speaker 3: was adapted into a movie a few years ago, I think.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, 2023. I thought the movie was pretty cool.
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Speaker 3: Too, to be honest, as far as just like a
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Speaker 3: fun Halloween movie goes. There's a little bit of gore
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Speaker 3: in it. and kind of a cool, almost like game show.
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Speaker 3: What is this movie, or what does this story remind
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Speaker 3: me of? This one does have some folksy feeling horror, too.
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Speaker 3: It's like every year, the town has to play this
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Speaker 3: game to try to stop this pumpkin. Sawtooth Jack is
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Speaker 3: the character's name, but it's basically like a pumpkin man
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Speaker 3: from getting to the church by midnight or something like that,
20:38
Speaker 3: and whoever stops him gets like a million dollars and
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Speaker 3: a new house and they get to go on, they
20:43
Speaker 3: get a brand new car and they get to leave
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Speaker 3: town and go on vacation. Cause it's like before that
20:48
Speaker 3: you're not allowed to leave town in this story or
20:51
Speaker 3: something like in this town, they like make sure everybody
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Speaker 3: stays in town and shit.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It was, it's an interesting one. It felt very in
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Speaker 3: its own universe or in its own world.
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Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I always just feel like that's going to be one
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Speaker 3: worth mentioning as far as specifically Halloween, uh, movies or
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Speaker 3: books go. It was, uh, Another quick read, 176 pages.
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Speaker 3: I enjoyed it quite a bit. I think I like
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Speaker 3: the book a little bit better than the movie, but honestly,
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Speaker 3: the movie was really good too. Fairly faithful to the book,
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Speaker 3: if I remember right. And that's going to be it.
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Speaker 3: Those are my five plus one spooky books, my six
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Speaker 3: spooky books for this year. So if you've read any
21:29
Speaker 3: of those, let me know what you think. If you haven't,
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Speaker 3: check them out. Come back and let me know what
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Speaker 3: you think. Like and subscribe and do all that fucking bullshit.
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Speaker 3: And see you in the next one. Have a happy
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Speaker 3: Halloween and good night.
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Speaker 2: Trick or treat, motherfucker.