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tearing me apart

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Welcome to textual

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tension, a love hate

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relationship with romance

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novels. I'm your co host,

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Margie,

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and I am your co host Rachel.

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Every other week one of

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us summarizes a romance novel

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for our unsuspecting co host and

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we review and unpack what the

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fuck just so this week, I Margie

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I'm going to be the one who has

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has read and summarized a

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Raymond Scoble for deer Rachel

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so

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excited. I get so

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excited for these because

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they're just, they're either

1:10

great or they're so

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I'm just glad that like

1:15

after I read it, there's someone

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who is gonna judge me. Nope. It

1:18

is good judgment. What the

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heck? This is a safe space.

1:24

Space. Okay. Okay, so

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you ready? You ready for a dat

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title though? Baby. I

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was born ready.

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So the book that I

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picked was the dark Highlander

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by Karen

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No, but I may have seen

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it. I will like like, considered

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it.

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It's it's a pretty

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famous one. She's a Karen M.

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I've heard it pronounced Monning

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or moaning? Okay. Um, I mean,

1:52

there's no a so they got his MO

1:52

man ing. I know. All right. But

1:56

um, it was actually it was

1:56

better than the last thing I'd

1:59

read. But let's let's negative

1:59

100. Like a high bar. Exactly.

2:05

So I feel like when I describe

2:05

this novel, I feel like I let

2:09

the main character get away with

2:09

a lot of things. But she was so

2:12

desperate for a higher bar.

2:14

I'll admit. So I kind of

2:14

ran into the same thing, right?

2:17

Yeah.

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So the reason why I

2:18

picked this up is because my

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friend from choir Megan, she

2:20

recommended it to me, but we are

2:24

actually two or three steps away

2:24

from money connected. Oh,

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MEGAN'S MOM knows, Karen

2:28

morning. And that's how Megan

2:32

recommended it to me.

2:34

So do I need to feel bad

2:34

about bashing it? If it is bad

2:38

or No, I just okay. Um, no,

2:38

because I'm, I'm I will not hold

2:41

back. No,

2:42

I'm not going to either.

2:42

I'm absolutely not going to. So

2:46

it's the overall Goodreads

2:46

rating is 4.31. Okay, so that's

2:52

pretty good. So guys, I'm going

2:52

to hand Rachel my computer that

2:54

has the dark side. And then she

2:54

can go over she's the right

2:59

description for you.

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And I'm looking at it

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now. Is that a guy's back or

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girls back? I think,

3:07

guy it's a guy. It's

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very popular. Okay,

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so listeners looks like

3:09

again, and I'm going to start

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keeping track of how many how

3:15

many books this is the case with

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the lady. The author's name is

3:18

bigger than the title. Again, I

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think we're three for three

3:22

right now. Which is awesome. Um,

3:26

okay, so it is just a really

3:26

dark background. There's the

3:31

dark there's a dude's back, only

3:31

his back and arm one arm. You

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can kind of see a tartan going

3:36

across. And he has like an a

3:41

Celtic look and arm cuff that

3:41

may or may not be photoshopped

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on. I can't tell

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like the photoshopped hand.

3:50

Like it's I am not 100%

3:50

sure whether or not that sucker

3:55

was originally in that stock

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photo that they made. I don't

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probably not. Oh, it was

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made like it I think that's the

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original cover like 2003 So

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Photoshop was not in its prime.

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You can

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kind of see where they

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like shaved away some of his

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bicep to make it look like the

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arm cuff is like tight against

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his arm.

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Notice that when I

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looked at it, I'm gonna get to

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the description.

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Okay, great. Okay, here

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we go. Let's go on this

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adventure together listeners.

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Journey to a world of ancient

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magic breathtaking sensuality

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thrilling time travel journey to

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the world of the dark

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Highlander. criss crossing the

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continents and the centuries

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here's a novel as gripping as it

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is sensual, an electrifying

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adventure that will leave you

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breathless I am Jackie

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I've been going with

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Degas Degas Vegas but I really

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don't know

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Okay, well, um, it could

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be I am dingus kilter.

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Okay, it's real day

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let's take a good day girl.

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I will No I will only

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refer to him as dangus from a

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man with one good conscious and

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13 Bad ones driven to see to

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sate my darkest desires. From

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his penthouse layer above

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Manhattan, Gary Degas looks out

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over a glittering city that

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calls to the darkness within the

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16th century Scott tracks. He's

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fighting a losing battle with

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the 13 druids who possess his

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soul, do you mean him to an

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eternity of sexual pursuit? When

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Chloe Zander's student of

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antiquities is drawn to his

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world she finds the insatiable

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alpha male, an irresistible

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lure. Before long she's caught

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up in an ancient prophecy that

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will sweep her back into time to

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medieval Scotland. plunging into

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a world of timeless magic and

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dark seduction. She will soon

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face the challenge of a lifetime

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fighting 13 evil spirits for the

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heart of one irresistible man.

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Um, are you sure you didn't just

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have me read the entire fucking

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novel? Because Holy shit.

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Sorry. I'm sorry.

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I'm not even back in the

6:11

book. Like it

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was on Goodreads. I

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don't know. But Jesus. Yeah, it

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was long. I'm sorry.

6:19

Um, I already feel like

6:19

I've gone on a roller. So brief

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recap. We have druid Scotsman

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from the 16th century time

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travel and apparently also he

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has a flattened Manhattan. Cool.

6:34

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Why not?

6:36

You know, fight fight.

6:37

Like, hey, we we have

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already tackled the time travel

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problem. So why stop there?

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Okay, so um, I'm gonna

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set a little background into

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this book, because I read kiss

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of the Highlander before I read.

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This

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was the second one.

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This is the actually

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this is the I think it's the

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fifth one out of a series of

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seven is the dark Highlander and

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the halo four.

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Okay, do you have you

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read one through three? No.

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Okay.

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I only read four or five

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and I think six. Great. So I

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guys I 213 hour flight. So I had

7:04

a lot of time on my I read like

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three of these. Um, but so the

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kids have the Highlander and the

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dark Highlander is about the

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McKellar family in Scotland,

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six. They're from the 16th

7:16

century. And it's about two twin

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brothers drusen who's in kissel,

7:21

Ohio. I wonder I know that they

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have

7:30

Scottish, like, right,

7:30

not even like not even

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the twins are drusen and

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Degas, and

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Angus.

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And they are not only

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like sexy Scottish man, there's

7:47

like Scottish druid man, which

7:47

basically gives them magical

7:50

powers. Like they have a little

7:50

bit of mind manipulation, like

7:52

appealing powers. Like

7:54

I know you said mind. I

7:54

heard mine my mind a little bit

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of silent French Frenchmen,

8:07

right, so no, not that

8:07

but they so they have like a

8:12

little bit of druid powers. But

8:12

one of the things that our

8:15

family was given is basically

8:15

imagine Stonehenge, but imagine

8:19

Stonehenge where you if you go

8:19

stand in the middle of it, and

8:21

like put some symbols on the

8:21

rocks, you could type travel. So

8:26

okay, those were given to that there.

8:28

It's called Is it a

8:28

wand? is one of the things they

8:31

use? No, it's just the stone

8:31

circle. So I can't wait because

8:34

I read another book that is not

8:34

in any way related to this where

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that sort of happens also, so

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I'm a little

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worried. So in and they

8:40

were this stone circle was given

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to the Macau altars by rifle.

8:45

Oh, no, the face book, which is

8:50

they call it in this book that

8:50

I'm going to butcher the name

8:53

the Tuatha dead on, but I don't

8:53

know what to do down in diamond.

8:56

Okay, that's okay. I didn't know

8:56

that one. Well, that makes me

8:59

feel better because I was just gonna call them the faithful good. The fairy folk. Like you

9:00

can just hold whichever one. I

9:03

mean, I'm mine that is

9:03

Midwest, Ohio accent so maybe

9:07

it's what she knows.

9:09

So um, so they're like

9:09

very royalty, and they gave it

9:12

to them and shelters, but they

9:12

had one condition. They were

9:14

like, you can't go back in time

9:14

to save someone's life. We can't

9:19

do that. You can't change time

9:19

to save someone's life. Well,

9:21

Degas is like fuck that. My

9:21

brother Drew's did does died.

9:25

I'm going back in time. And

9:25

because he went back in time and

9:28

save Jason's life and because of

9:28

that, these evil these demons

9:32

basically were unleashed. And

9:32

they decided to make a nest.

9:37

Degas a soul. So these

9:41

Yeah, dingus is finished

9:41

right now. Yes, Angus.

9:46

Well, his brothers like

9:46

that to fuck Wow, could you do

9:49

that? So when we so now we're

9:49

going into the dark Highlander.

9:54

And now I'm going to give you

9:54

guys some trigger warnings. Oh,

9:58

right. Yeah. So um, This the

9:58

dark Highlander contains lots of

10:03

Stockholm Syndrome again,

10:03

unfortunately, it also contains

10:07

a light dusting of sexual

10:07

assault. But like, I don't want

10:11

you guys to think that it's

10:11

like, oh, he raped certain Well,

10:14

no, I don't want to say that.

10:14

I'm saying that like if you

10:17

Yeah, it just flows it just gets

10:17

close. It's problematic.

10:20

Exactly. So it's, it's, you

10:20

know, it's hard because

10:23

sprinkles on top of this

10:23

cupcake. Yes. So

10:26

if there's anything

10:26

else, not that I can think of

10:29

off the top of my head.

10:31

So I think we're good

10:31

and if for some reason something

10:33

pops up in the middle of this we

10:33

will go ahead and throw in a

10:35

little bit of a hey, just a

10:35

warning. This is about to happen

10:38

RAM. We care about you guys,

10:38

just in case anything you know,

10:42

is not great, but really

10:43

go and we got so we

10:43

first see the first character

10:48

we're introduced to is Degas.

10:48

I'm gonna I'm butchering that

10:51

name, probably Angus Dyngus,

10:51

whatever. So and he is doing

10:56

what he does best, which is

10:56

routing routing. I'm so proud of

11:03

it. Before we jump into the

11:03

plot, I wouldn't known that the

11:05

author was very obviously

11:05

binging on Buffy the Vampire

11:08

Slayer while she was writing

11:08

this book. Fantastic. So the

11:12

first seed he he could dig is

11:12

compares himself to Angel that's

11:17

played like from Buffy the

11:17

Vampire Slayer that's play up on

11:20

his TV. And remember the last

11:20

name I just thought of this. The

11:25

last name of the other main

11:25

character is Chloe Zander's as

11:29

the character Xander from Buffy

11:29

the Vampire Slayer. Yeah, no. So

11:34

I caught I've never even watched

11:34

it. Maybe I caught too good.

11:38

Good.

11:38

Good. Good crossover.

11:40

So he's been broody.

11:40

He's been he's brooding and

11:43

living in Manhattan and he's

11:43

he's trying to find a way to get

11:47

rid of the 13 demons inside of him.

11:49

Okay, I mean as you do

11:49

as you do so

11:51

the way that he does that is actually does a lot of research. He's been quote

11:53

unquote, borrowing books from

11:56

the bet and from local museums

11:56

using his dark magic powers to

12:00

get books because they're like

12:00

as you do priceless Tomes.

12:04

Pretty much he's doing this I

12:04

wouldn't know it because he

12:06

doesn't want to go back in time

12:06

to see his dad because he's too

12:09

ashamed. These books

12:13

says Daddy problems.

12:16

Like I hate myself

12:16

problems. And everybody else

12:19

solution to

12:20

my needs a hug.

12:23

A hug he probably like

12:23

make it more than a hug. Oh, no.

12:26

Yeah, no. So do you want to

12:26

guess what keepsake is? For

12:31

completely going dark? And

12:31

that's like releasing all the 13

12:34

demons and becoming fully evil.

12:35

Is it love?

12:38

No, it's fucking

12:39

nice.

12:41

So it's a yes or no? Yes

12:41

or no. He's basically like

12:45

constantly either fucking

12:45

drinking or or eating because

12:48

the demons live on indulgence.

12:48

That's the way that I think of

12:51

it. So the only way to keep them

12:51

quiet within him

12:53

is interesting,

12:53

actually. Yeah, like, like, it's

12:56

still a little bit of the like,

12:56

this gives me an excuse to just

12:59

indiscriminately do people but

12:59

like,

13:02

well, it's it's a little

13:02

more interesting. And I will say

13:05

this, like he he's not into like

13:05

anybody who doesn't want to find

13:10

like if he has a night or a day

13:10

where he doesn't get any sex,

13:13

which happens. I mean, it

13:13

happens. He kind of is

13:16

miserable, but he's like, I'm

13:16

not gonna be a monster. Right?

13:19

You know, and that's kind of an

13:19

entire

13:21

Extra Large pizza by myself.

13:25

Do a bunch of push ups.

13:25

Okay. Actually, though he should

13:32

the demons were like, Oh, what's

13:32

this? I don't know if that would

13:38

make it worse or fictional

13:38

scenario. I guess it is

13:44

indulgence. So maybe,

13:46

you know, I can't say

13:46

I'm very experienced on this

13:49

particular side.

13:51

I only got up to 16 Tell

13:51

you a cookie does nothing all

14:04

right. She gets a weed.

14:06

Yeah, chill the fuck out homeboy.

14:09

Maybe be too busy Batman

14:09

brooding.

14:12

Yeah, yeah, there's a

14:12

lot a bit of a Batman vibe to

14:15

it.

14:16

Okay, so in the next

14:16

scene, we're introduced to Chloe

14:19

Zander's, and she's an

14:19

antiquarian, who works in the

14:21

Met cloisters. So basically

14:21

where they keep all the old

14:24

shit. And she finds out that

14:24

someone has made a huge donation

14:28

to the Met because they want a

14:28

book in return. So they

14:31

basically want to take a book to

14:31

the library that is the Met if

14:34

you have a ton of money. Okay,

14:34

yeah, so she's actually really

14:37

pissed about that she's like they're gonna ruin it they're gonna get like coffee stains all

14:39

over it and her got her boss is

14:41

like, that's fine just yelling

14:41

money. But money. Exactly. Yeah,

14:46

actually. The is Degas who's

14:46

getting the book out that's what

14:49

he donates like a ski on do,

14:49

which is like, I'm not

14:53

pronouncing that right, but it's

14:53

like a blade. And it's like,

14:55

priceless.

14:56

Oh, I've heard it

14:56

pronounced. Like Shawn do Sean

14:59

maybe I don't I'm a

14:59

monster. I'm not

15:03

garbage people.

15:05

Absurd. So apparently

15:05

though there's been some sort of

15:08

miscommunication because when

15:08

Chloe arrives at degas's

15:11

building, Degas is in a cab

15:11

heading to the Met because he

15:14

thinks he's going to pick up the

15:14

book. And she's they're dropping

15:17

off. So she goes up to his

15:17

penthouse, and well, so he sees

15:21

her on the street, and he's

15:21

like, damn, holy shit, she's

15:25

hot. And this is the quote, his

15:25

attention was caught by a lass

15:28

who was stepping from a car at

15:28

the curb in front of them. She

15:31

was different and it was the

15:31

difference that drew his eye.

15:34

She had none of the city's

15:34

polish it was all the lovely are

15:36

for it, refreshingly tousled to

15:36

lightly free of the artifice

15:40

with which modern women enhance

15:40

their faces. She was me my sexy,

15:48

bright green sweatshirt. Day.

15:48

But yeah, you were just looking

15:58

at the floor just spotted. God.

15:58

Yeah,

16:02

that I was my that was

16:02

my guttural reaction to the use

16:06

of the word last. In a this is

16:06

third person, right?

16:11

Yes. Okay. Yeah. Well,

16:11

you can hear it's third person

16:15

omniscient. So like, they can

16:15

write their thoughts. So, and he

16:18

calls her laugh. Okay, so I'm

16:18

saying we actually called her

16:21

sweet all the time, which I'm

16:21

kind of like so, so Degas leaves

16:27

in the cabin, she goes up to the

16:27

penthouse, because she thinks

16:29

that he's up there. And she

16:29

walked. So she actually like

16:33

tries the door, the door is

16:33

unlocked. So she's like, not

16:36

just gonna leave it here because

16:36

he's gone. And this is a

16:38

priceless thing to her. So she

16:38

walks in, and she's like, Oh, my

16:41

God, because there's so many

16:41

antiques in there. And she's

16:44

like, crazy about antiques, and

16:44

it's Scottish antiques. Just

16:48

like wandering around his

16:48

apartment, like, look at that,

16:51

look at that, look at that, look

16:51

at that bed, because she ends up

16:54

of course, in his bedroom,

16:55

you know, it gets my

16:55

juices flowing, a little bit of

16:57

light being a light breaking.

17:01

Well, so like, she's in

17:01

his bedroom, and she notices

17:05

that like, there's silk ties on

17:05

the bed posts, and she's like,

17:08

Oh, shit, okay. And so she's

17:08

like, looking in his room,

17:16

though, because now she's kind of curious about it. She's like, how has all these Scottish TEKS

17:18

but once this, you know,

17:21

compared to all the stuff that

17:21

it's in his apartment, the thing

17:23

that she has is worthless. So

17:23

she's looking around, and she

17:27

looks under the bed and she's

17:27

like, Hmm, well, she sees

17:29

something under the bench. She's

17:29

like, Oh, that's weird. And she

17:32

looks under there. And there are

17:32

a bunch of books that he's

17:34

hidden under his bed because

17:34

they're the stolen books. And

17:38

she's like, damn it. She's also

17:38

the

17:41

place all these books

17:41

from appraisal appraisals, books

17:46

from

17:49

like, you have a whole

17:49

house. You're gonna leave these

17:54

books under your bed that you

17:54

wouldn't know what to talk

17:56

about. And also there's condom

17:56

wrappers under the bed. There's

18:00

also women's underwear under the

18:00

bed. So like you're not

18:02

concerned that anyone's gonna

18:02

see it. You're bringing a woman

18:05

up there all the time.

18:07

I mean, also, maybe

18:07

hiding a bunch of priceless

18:10

books around a bunch of like

18:10

trash and panties isn't the best

18:15

well that's what Chloe thinks she's like, you can't have all these under here so

18:17

she's like under the bed like

18:20

fully under the bed trying to

18:20

pull them out. When suddenly she

18:26

I've not yet tried it beneath

18:26

the bed last but if this is your

18:29

preference, and the rest of you

18:29

is as lovely as what I'm seeing,

18:32

I might be persuaded to oblige.

18:38

Yeah, I love it. Because

18:38

it's so ridiculous in my mind.

18:45

Okay, so Degas

18:47

is a hell amount of sass

18:47

and I love

18:49

it. Key. Okay. I will

18:49

say this about him. I didn't

18:53

give you any day. I am a monster

18:53

for a tortured hero like Harry

18:58

Dresden kind of shit. Oh my god,

18:58

monster. Oh, Harry Dresden

19:01

Winter Soldier monster, like

19:01

love them. So Degas pulls Chloe

19:07

by the leg out from under the

19:07

bed. And she at first pretends

19:11

that she's the cleaning crew.

19:11

And then he's like, literally, I

19:14

just saw your boss. I know who

19:14

the fuck you are. Smooth,

19:19

really? And she's like shit, so

19:19

now but he's also kind of like

19:22

shit because he's like, I can't

19:22

let her go. Because she knows

19:25

about these books. Now. She

19:25

knows that I stole them. So So

19:31

Oh, no, he's he's huge. And

19:31

she's tiny. So he literally

19:35

backs her up onto the bed so

19:35

that she falls back onto the bed

19:40

and she's like bubbly like I

19:40

will tell you what I do you

19:44

know, what do you do with that

19:44

scenario to make someone feel

19:46

calmer?

19:47

I'm going to take one

19:47

solid whack at this and say he

19:50

uses the silk ties on the bed to

19:50

tired of the bed.

19:53

Well, first he kisses

19:53

her to distract her. And she

20:01

digs it. Better ways. Better

20:01

ways, probably

20:06

very effective. If she's

20:09

attracted to you then

20:09

yeah, it's very effective.

20:11

I would have punched him

20:11

in the throat. Well, she,

20:14

she doesn't. She he, but

20:14

then he's distracting her with

20:19

his lips and his body, which is

20:19

bodies on top of hers. And he

20:23

ties it to the bed. There.

20:24

She wasn't that far off.

20:24

No, you weren't anything I am

20:28

too

20:28

for too. So basically,

20:28

he keeps her tied to the bed for

20:33

probably a few days. No, not

20:33

like a few days, but like, on

20:37

and off like, kill. He's like,

20:37

do you want to eat something? Do

20:40

you do bathrooms, that kind of

20:40

stuff? Um, yeah. For like a

20:43

couple days.

20:46

Notice she's missing?

20:48

No. And they go over

20:48

that the book? No, because

20:51

they're like, oh, let's do York

20:51

City. No one will notice that

20:54

one girl is missing.

20:55

She has a job.

20:58

And family. She does not

20:58

have family. Oh, of course.

21:01

She's a tragic Baxter. Of course. They

21:03

never have rightly. Her parents died in

21:05

a car wreck and her

21:05

granddad died when she was a

21:07

sophomore in college. I think so

21:07

she has no family. tragic

21:11

backstory. All right.

21:13

Okay, so wait. Friends

21:13

and listeners. If someone

21:20

catches you doing some shady

21:20

shit, don't tie them to the bed

21:25

and leave them there for several

21:25

days, please. It's common

21:27

courtesy. All right.

21:29

Well, so he does. So

21:29

eventually, she agrees to help

21:32

him find in the books, whatever

21:32

he's looking for, because she

21:35

speaks several languages as

21:35

well. So she can decipher them.

21:37

Okay. And he can't. He can't,

21:37

but it's better done to them

21:41

one. Oh, okay. It's good. And

21:41

he's like, at one point, like, I

21:44

think at the end of the second

21:44

day, it's like, I can't just

21:46

keep keep her tied up. Like this

21:46

is inhumane, like, Yeah. Say

21:53

Yeah, so like, but it's also

21:53

like a cake thing, because he

21:55

really, really, really, really,

21:55

really, really digs her. Uh huh.

21:58

So yeah, oh, you know how his

21:58

demons so she. So she's like, so

22:03

she agrees to help him

22:03

basically, so that she can get

22:06

out of there faster. And, but at

22:06

one point, he like tries to

22:09

seduce her and she's very, like,

22:09

taken aback because she's really

22:14

into it. But she's also like

22:14

this. I know, this guy is like a

22:16

womanizer, and is gonna like

22:17

his fuck, and also tie

22:17

me to the fucking bed for two

22:21

days. Right? Okay, but

22:22

it's like in her mind.

22:22

That's what she's thinking. So

22:25

she doesn't want to get involved

22:25

with him. So she goes into the

22:27

study, and she sees a sword on

22:27

the wall. And she's like, I get

22:33

stabbed this motherfucker.

22:33

Exactly. Well, actually, she

22:36

takes a sword off of the wall, and she comes out with it. And she's like, let me go. And he's

22:37

like, Oh, no, any backs are up

22:40

against the wall. And he says,

22:40

you can cut your way through me.

22:44

Or you can stay here of your own

22:44

will own will, quote unquote,

22:49

someone needs to give

22:49

this dude in all of those books

22:52

that he's stolen. He has not

22:52

stolen a fucking dictionary to

22:55

let him know what Free will

22:55

means. That ain't it?

22:59

That's not the exact

22:59

line but like that's the

23:01

connotation right so but he also

23:01

tells her well, what he really

23:06

tells us if you stay I'll give

23:06

you that sword and it's

23:09

priceless. So she's gonna make a

23:09

profit if she turned a profit if

23:13

days. That's fair. So but thing

23:13

is this conflict over though

23:17

that day or two days Degas is

23:17

constantly trying to tempt Chloe

23:20

to have sex with him and she

23:20

refuses him as she's terrified

23:23

of him and he wants to get in

23:23

her pants literally to silence

23:26

the demons i can't i can't

23:26

believe i can say that silence

23:30

the Divas or and also because

23:30

he's crazy about her the more

23:36

than more than he's been with

23:36

anybody else so But Doug and I

23:42

cutaway scene, we get two men

23:42

talking who have a plan they're

23:46

going to kill Chloe to get in an

23:46

enclosed apartment in stages so

23:50

that so that looks like Degas

23:50

killed her so that they can pin

23:53

the crime on Degas and then

23:53

force him to use his powers to

23:56

release the demons inside him.

23:56

So basically, these two men what

24:00

the demons inside him to be

24:00

unleashed, okay. Yeah,

24:02

this is a little bit of

24:02

like a, like Pink Panther vibe

24:06

of like I said, Imagine them in

24:06

a dark room twirling their

24:10

trench coats. trench

24:10

coats. Absolutely. Yep. So the

24:15

either that evening or the next

24:15

evening, Degas admits to Chloe

24:18

that his plan is to break a

24:18

powerful Dark Curse. He finally

24:21

tells her that and that he's a

24:21

time traveling druid.

24:23

Okay, how does that go?

24:25

It does not go over

24:25

well, okay. Like I do not

24:27

believe you. And he tells Chloe

24:27

though, that he's returning to

24:31

Scotland in order to break the

24:31

curse. And she and she's like,

24:36

really sad because she's like,

24:36

Oh, this adventure is kind of

24:38

ending like I was actually this

24:38

was really cool. I've been

24:41

having a good time with this

24:41

dude, and he's really hot. And

24:43

then he gets lit. She's sitting

24:43

on the couch and he gets down on

24:46

his knees in front of her and it

24:46

begs her to come with him. He's

24:49

like, please don't leave. Come

24:49

with me. Okay, and he says, I

24:53

will give you anything in this

24:53

apartment that you want any of

24:57

the priceless artifacts on this

24:57

apartment that you want. If you

25:00

He will come with me. Oh, okay.

25:00

And he's like, we'll put it in a

25:03

safe deposit box under your

25:03

name, so that when you get back,

25:06

it'll be ready for you. Okay, so

25:06

he's like, you really trying to

25:10

get her to go? And she so she

25:10

wants the artifacts, obviously.

25:15

But she's also always dreamed of

25:15

going to Scotland like it's a

25:17

big thing. So

25:18

I do have one question.

25:18

Yes. Is he immortal?

25:22

Or did he travel to

25:22

travel to he time traveled to

25:25

Manhattan? So

25:27

I have questions. I'm

25:27

sure you do. How long? Has he

25:31

been in Manhattan? How did he

25:31

get a fortune? How the fuck does

25:34

he know what a goddamn car is?

25:36

I think he's with a

25:36

better hat, bro. While I don't

25:38

know how long at the end of the

25:38

kiss of the Highlander, there's

25:41

like a, there's a little bit of

25:41

explanation into that. But it's

25:44

not much he got the money from

25:44

all the antiques that he had,

25:47

because he brought them with him

25:47

or he like hid them in a cave so

25:51

that once he time traveled to me

25:51

that he would know where they

25:54

weren't, like uncovered because

25:55

he has a perfect

25:55

understanding of how the how

25:59

capitalism works in terms of the

25:59

United States. And

26:03

apparently, I don't know

26:03

why. And also remember he has so

26:06

he shares the knowledge of those

26:06

13 demons that are living inside

26:09

him.

26:10

Okay, so if they're from

26:10

the 60s, I don't you Okay, all

26:14

right, I'm sorry.

26:17

Questions that I can't

26:17

answer, I

26:19

will, can let me go back

26:19

to the potatoes on Mars. I'm

26:24

just going to grasp onto my

26:24

suspension of disbelief and get

26:29

not like out.

26:30

So she in that

26:30

arrangement, she makes it very

26:32

clear to him like sex is not

26:32

part of this arrangement. If I

26:35

go and he's like, I don't want

26:35

sex to be part of the

26:37

arrangement. I want to seduce you.

26:39

I didn't say yes, sex.

26:39

You said. Exactly. You're

26:44

crying, you're crying

26:52

so she agrees, though,

26:52

she says, Okay, I'll go to

26:55

Scotland with you to help you

26:55

find whatever it is you're

26:57

looking for it but that's the

26:57

only reason I'm going and he's

27:00

like, fine, they shake hands and

27:00

he turns her head over and

27:03

kisses it. Your eye roll? I

27:06

think I just rolled my

27:06

eyes so hard that they went up a

27:08

little bit into my head by

27:10

phrase my favorite

27:10

phrases. I just rolled my eyes

27:13

into the sunset. That's good. So

27:13

so the she goes to bed untied

27:20

that night, which was great,

27:20

great, but he does sleep outside

27:23

the door. Okay, so he but he

27:23

leaves that morning to go run

27:27

some errands. Like he needs to

27:27

go get her passport, etc, etc.

27:30

And um, while he's gone, the sky

27:30

shows up. He even get

27:35

fake, like documentation

27:35

and

27:38

no it's not Well, that's

27:38

true is fake documentation. Paid

27:42

it's your total money for it. You can pay it's just for the money and good documentation.

27:46

legal representative.

27:50

I don't know. I'm so

27:50

sorry. Oh, you know what, I do

27:55

know part of that because they

27:55

do have and technically they're

28:00

the ancestors of people who

28:00

still live in Scotland and have

28:03

been told so do you show this

28:03

stuff? Oh, yeah. Okay, they show

28:06

up on these people's property.

28:06

Okay, and in the last book so

28:09

the last book Justin took a 500

28:09

year power nap to get back to

28:13

his true love Yeah, Sleeping

28:13

Beauty ask okay. Yeah. And when

28:17

he wakes up power nap. So when

28:17

he wakes up he ends up in his

28:23

Technically he's their ancestors

28:23

house. Okay, so that's where he

28:26

wakes up. So like the ant but

28:26

the the people who live in that

28:30

house have been told the stories

28:30

for generations. Okay, really

28:32

awkward for the people

28:32

that live there for 500 years.

28:35

real quiet around the house,

28:35

make sure they didn't wake up

28:39

to the chance to sleep.

28:39

Okay.

28:43

banging around pots and

28:43

pans in the kitchen is

28:45

really bad to hide this

28:45

body for 500 years. It's

28:48

actually

28:49

like a sleeping beauty

28:49

glass coffin how to deal with

28:52

just like a tablecloth overtop

28:52

of the kitchen table.

28:57

Rocky Horror with Edie

28:57

Wilson like that, but they still

29:05

they do have people who have

29:05

lived in the modern era. Okay.

29:07

All right, that that makes a

29:07

little more sense. Better ish,

29:11

but not that great. So anyway,

29:11

so there's this guy who shows up

29:14

at degas's apartment while Chloe

29:14

is there alone. And Chloe tells

29:18

him Degas isn't gonna be back

29:18

for another hour because that's

29:20

who the guy Giles Jones, another

29:20

Buffy reference.

29:24

Awesome.

29:25

He Giles Jones says, I'm

29:25

looking for Degas and she says,

29:30

he's gonna be back for an hour.

29:30

And then he goes into full

29:32

murder mode. So he pulls out a

29:32

knife starts trying to like

29:35

attacking her and I have to give

29:35

her credit. She fights back

29:38

really hard. She whacks the guy

29:38

with a full bottle of wine,

29:42

kicks him in the balls. She does

29:42

a good job. So by the time it

29:46

gives Degas enough time to like,

29:46

make a heroic return naturally,

29:49

yeah. And he gets done his way

29:49

into the room and savor sort of

29:54

actually well, so the Giles

29:54

Jones sees Degas and it's like,

29:58

oh my god, like he actually got

29:58

gets this worshipful look on his

30:01

waist, which is very strange

30:01

gravy and Degas gets pissed

30:05

immediately, obviously, and but

30:05

the guy says, may I serve the

30:11

dragger? Which I'm also draw

30:11

your dragon or something like

30:15

that with my death as I failed

30:15

with my life, and then he jumps

30:18

headfirst out of the apartment

30:18

onto the pavement below. Hey,

30:21

find out. Exactly. So Degas

30:21

cleans and heals little cuts

30:27

that Chloe has managed to get.

30:27

He's actually kind of like it's

30:30

described weirdly because he

30:30

kind of pulls off her clothes

30:32

very like, like, you know, off

30:32

because he wants to make sure

30:35

that she's not hurt. Hmm. Cuz he

30:35

sees all that red wine all over.

30:38

Right?

30:39

You know, right. Right

30:39

on close looks exactly like

30:41

blood. Exactly. So I

30:41

before I go into the next part,

30:47

have you seen that video yet

30:47

online? Have the girl the guy in

30:50

the airplane bathroom know this.

30:50

So basically, it's insinuated

30:56

that they were fucking in the

30:56

airplane bathroom. And this

30:58

other guy's kind of holding up

30:58

the phone and go and logo, like

31:01

way to go dude.

31:02

Mile High Club. Exactly.

31:02

Well,

31:05

I want to know that

31:05

Degas gets Chloe off twice on

31:10

the airplane without taking off

31:10

one article of clothing and they

31:13

are not in the airplane

31:13

bathroom. Just have a blanket

31:17

between them. He puts a blanket

31:17

over her. But that's it. And

31:21

then he's just using his hands.

31:21

Okay. Yep. Yep. So that was

31:24

their first sexual encounter

31:24

that,

31:28

um, there's a lot of

31:28

reasons why that's not okay.

31:31

Well, he also says he's

31:31

like, he was he after he does

31:34

that. He's like, he was like,

31:34

super close to just like making

31:37

everybody on the plane, take a

31:37

little nap. So that they could

31:41

just like,

31:42

Do it, do it. Um, that's

31:42

first of all, every of my

31:46

nightmares when traveling is

31:46

having to elbow someone because

31:49

they tried to do something

31:49

terrible. Also, that makes it

31:52

really hard to say no. Yeah,

31:52

that's

31:55

not okay. Yeah, that's

31:55

very true.

31:58

I'm assuming she's into

31:58

it. Oh, very into it. Okay. And

32:01

she asked for permission

32:01

first. He's like, Can we do

32:04

this? And she gets really into

32:04

it. She's kinky, too. Okay,

32:07

she's kinky too. So, um, it's,

32:07

well, it's not great, but it's

32:11

fine. Because at one point, he's

32:11

like, if you don't stop me, now

32:14

we're not stopping. And then

32:14

later on, she gets a little

32:17

nervous. And he's like, No,

32:17

we're not stopping. So yeah,

32:21

problematic. problematic. Yeah.

32:21

Oh, man. But they make it they

32:26

make it to lug bin. Oh, good.

32:26

They make it there. They make it

32:29

there. They had to degas's

32:29

Brother drew stuns house. So

32:33

we've already talked about, and

32:33

David's is terrified to see his

32:36

brother dressed and couldn't be

32:36

happier to see him. So that's,

32:39

you know, because like you Degas

32:39

always thought that everybody

32:42

would hate him because he took

32:42

on these 13 demons but Jason's

32:44

like, you saved my life to do

32:44

it. Why would I be angry? Right?

32:47

Yeah. And Chloe meets or Chloe

32:47

meets Jason's wife, Gwen, who

32:54

was pregnant with drusen twins,

32:54

so she's like, hella big. Oh,

32:58

okay. Yeah, she's hella big

32:58

right now. And they Chloe and

33:03

all these characters when kind

33:03

of have like a heart to heart.

33:06

And wet is like, you're

33:06

definitely fucking Degas, aren't

33:09

you? And she's like, No. Well,

33:09

maybe. I don't know. Okay, okay.

33:17

So tip clothes. Don't

33:19

finger foot straight on a plain.

33:23

Stranger well, but don't

33:23

do it. Don't do it. It's not

33:27

good. Anything sexual autoplay,

33:27

those things are disgusting. or

33:32

disgust.

33:33

It's just uncomfortable for everyone involved.

33:36

Yes, so and also poor

33:36

Chloe. She's got to be

33:38

exhausted. Like she was. She

33:38

will she was attacked yesterday.

33:44

Like that'll the adrenaline

33:44

it'll take it out of you. Then

33:46

she's finger fucked on the

33:46

plane. And then she has to deal

33:51

with jetlag.

33:53

Yeah, that's yeah. No,

33:53

not a good time. No good.

33:55

No bueno. So um, so

33:55

after Chloe goes to bed, Gwen

33:59

drusen. And Degas have a heart

33:59

to heart and they basically all

34:02

decide, okay, yeah, you have to

34:02

go back in time and you have to

34:04

go see Jason and Degas his dad

34:04

Sylvan to get those, see those

34:08

texts and see if they'll tell

34:08

you anything about getting rid

34:10

of these demons.

34:12

Because of course, his

34:12

name is Sylvan. Yeah. Okay.

34:14

Yeah. What's Sylvan?

34:16

Sylvan is like fe. Oh,

34:16

my God. Like Fe O or if you want

34:21

to be more a little more modern

34:21

with it. Sylvan Learning Center.

34:26

I have to go to that. He

34:26

did it. Why did I sucked at

34:30

math? He did Sylvan Learning

34:30

Center. I thought it was the

34:33

worst. So the next day

34:35

podcast is not supportive.

34:38

Oh actually sponsor as I love

34:42

to sell out.

34:46

So um, so the next day,

34:46

they they kind of all go on a

34:51

morning adventure together,

34:51

okay, and then kind of go around

34:53

Scotland. But then in the

34:53

afternoon, they go head back to

34:57

the house and Degas starts doing

34:57

that. Something stones that are

35:01

there. So he's getting ready to

35:01

like send Degas and himself and

35:04

Chloe back in time. And Chloe

35:04

and Gwen kind of have a heart to

35:08

heart and what is not a good

35:08

friend out there right now?

35:13

Because it is like pushing Chloe

35:13

into Degas his arms like just

35:17

like doing go. She's with him.

35:17

He's

35:20

the bad advice, Bear. She's

35:22

a horrible. She's like a

35:22

molecular physicist too. And

35:27

she's just like, she was better

35:27

in her first book, but she's so

35:30

annoying. And this one because

35:30

she's like, she's very much kind

35:33

of like, oh, everything's

35:33

wonderful. And I have my true

35:37

love and now pregnant with his

35:37

babies.

35:39

My only goal in life was

35:39

I'm a woman.

35:42

Right, exactly. And so

35:42

that's what she think. It's just

35:45

annoying. So she's pushing Chloe

35:45

at Degas and she tells her you

35:48

need to take a leap of faith

35:48

with Degas and just whatever he

35:51

tells you to do, go with it. Go

35:51

with it. Okay, great. Thank you

35:54

best friend. Thank you so much.

35:56

Um, no question.

35:56

Everything always.

36:00

Literally literally. So,

36:00

um, Chloe goes to join Degas in

36:05

the circle. And she's like, What are you doing? Because he's painting the stones. And he

36:06

tells degas's tells Chloe, I'm

36:10

leaving, I'm leaving, and I want

36:10

you to come with me. And she's

36:12

like, where are you going?

36:12

There's no car, okay? And she's,

36:17

and he's like, I'm going and I

36:17

want you to come with me. And

36:20

I'm asking you to take another

36:20

leap of faith with me. I know.

36:22

That's hard. And she's like,

36:22

he's

36:24

racking up debts.

36:26

Yeah, okay. She's going

36:26

okay. And he's like, he says

36:29

he'll come without knowing where

36:29

I'll where I'm taking you and

36:32

closes if you think I've come

36:32

this far to be dumped along the

36:35

wayside. You don't know me very

36:35

well with kelser. I'm the woman

36:37

who snooped beneath your bed.

36:37

Remember? I'm slave to my

36:40

curiosity. If you're going

36:40

somewhere I am to you're not

36:42

getting away from me yet.

36:44

Alright, she's known him

36:44

for what three days? Yeah,

36:48

somewhere around somewhere around

36:49

there. So this is Guess

36:49

what time it is time travel,

36:54

Rachel science core.

36:58

So I will say we had a

36:58

minor discussion about this

37:01

before, in the form of I am an

37:01

engineer. I like science a lot.

37:08

So Margie told me time travel

37:08

and that's about it and asked if

37:11

I would be able to maybe talk

37:11

about it a little bit. So go

37:15

ahead and describe it and I'll

37:15

see what I can do.

37:17

Okay, so it to see if

37:17

this is like accurate at all,

37:21

you know, I mean? Well,

37:22

there's a lot to unpack.

37:22

Well, there's a lot of science.

37:27

Okay.

37:27

Ready. So this is the

37:27

text of them of Degas and Chloe

37:31

traveling back in time, a

37:31

terrible gravity seem to be

37:34

pulling at her sucking her in

37:34

and stretching her out bending

37:37

her and impossible ways. She

37:37

thought she heard a sonic boom.

37:40

And then suddenly there was a

37:40

flash of white white so blinding

37:43

that she lost all sense of sight

37:43

and sound. She could no longer

37:46

feel degas's His hand, she could

37:46

no longer feel her own hand, she

37:49

tried to open her mouth and

37:49

scream, but she had no mouth to

37:52

open. The white grew ever more

37:52

intense and there and though

37:55

there was no no longer any sense

37:55

of motion she felt felt

37:58

nauseating vertigo. There was no

37:58

sound, but the silence itself

38:02

seemed to have crushing

38:02

substance. Just when she was

38:04

certain she couldn't endure one

38:04

more instant the White was gone

38:07

so abruptly that the blackness

38:07

slit slammed into her with all

38:10

the force of a Mack truck. Okay.

38:10

So

38:14

it's time for special

38:14

relativity for dummies. So, um,

38:22

as far as descriptions of how

38:22

actually going in back in time

38:25

would feel? I don't know,

38:25

either. Although it was kind of

38:28

funny. It's sonic boom. And then

38:28

silence. Yeah. So like, you

38:31

wouldn't hear anything evil,

38:31

even if we somehow assume that

38:35

it is in any way possible.

38:35

Because you're moving at the

38:37

speed of light, like light moves

38:37

faster than sound, you would

38:40

hear nothing. In space, no one

38:40

can hear you scream. The biggest

38:47

problem with time travel is that

38:47

you're not just traveling in

38:51

time, the Earth and Sun are

38:51

constantly moving. Even if

38:54

somehow you were able to travel

38:54

back in time, you would end up a

38:58

space out in the middle of

38:58

fucking nowhere. Okay, you would

39:02

be like millions of miles away

39:02

from the Earth if you went back

39:07

in

39:07

time, because the Earth

39:07

and the sun are not in the same

39:10

position. No, they're flying

39:10

through space when you were when

39:13

you left.

39:14

Yeah, well, not even just like the Earth, rotating the sun, but like we are all

39:16

flying through space super fast.

39:19

Okay, so like, there's no way

39:19

you would be anywhere close to

39:24

Earth if you went back in time.

39:24

So that's like a real big

39:26

problem. But the other thing is,

39:26

so the theory of time travel,

39:31

and I'll try to kind of bear

39:31

like, bring this down a little

39:34

bit. It's all relative. So this

39:34

is whole all relativity and all

39:39

of that thing. Things move in

39:39

different times based on the

39:44

speed that they're going like

39:44

time is relative to the speed

39:47

that you're traveling. So for

39:47

instance, in my favorite

39:50

description of this is you know,

39:50

we've never officially proven

39:53

relativity right. It's still

39:53

technically a theory quote,

39:55

unquote. But with navigation

39:55

satellites, GPS satellites, If

40:00

we don't correct for relativity

40:00

in the timing of the clocks on

40:05

those satellites, they don't

40:05

work. So we've never proven

40:08

relativity, but you have to use

40:08

relativity for something like

40:12

that to work. So like, if

40:12

someone's moving away from the

40:14

Earth at close to the speed of

40:14

light time is going to move

40:18

differently for them than it

40:18

would for us on Earth. Right?

40:21

Okay, that's kind of weird going

40:21

to age a lot. The people on

40:23

Earth would age a lot faster than the people traveling. That's like Interstellar. Yeah,

40:25

exactly. Yeah. So long story

40:29

short time travel is not

40:29

possible. You would not hear

40:32

anything, even if you were going

40:32

back time. And if they somehow

40:35

managed to pop back out in the

40:35

16th century, they would also be

40:38

a couple million miles away from

40:38

Earth and die in about 30

40:41

seconds. So assuming they had a

40:41

full breath of air.

40:46

But you forgot to

40:46

include one thing. What's that

40:49

druid magic

40:52

that comes into my

40:52

equation. God

40:55

God damn it. Oh,

40:57

okay. So well and Rachel

40:57

science corner with me head in

41:01

hands just okay.

41:02

So they get there. So

41:02

Chloe passes out when she hits

41:05

the ground when they arrive? Of

41:05

course she does. But yeah,

41:08

she's in the middle of space. She can't wait.

41:12

Okay, so but wakes up to

41:12

find Degas kind of like looking

41:15

very off and just looking very,

41:15

like rigid and uncomfortable.

41:19

And just like what the fuck is

41:19

wrong with you? And it's because

41:21

he's used his match so much of

41:21

his magic, like, all the demons

41:24

are like wanting to hate.

41:24

Literally what happens? So he

41:29

tells her, I will give you every

41:29

artifact I owed if you kiss me

41:32

and ask no questions. And she's

41:32

like, What the fuck is

41:35

happening? Okay, okay. So they

41:35

do they get it on. Like, he

41:41

pushes her up against the rocks,

41:41

the one of the rocks and they're

41:44

like, really getting into it to

41:44

the point where like, she's

41:46

like, Alright, I'm ready. Let's

41:46

do this. Like, fuck, and he

41:50

pulls out his penis. And she

41:50

can't close her hand around it.

41:54

It's so big. Very big. That's

41:54

like, oh, like I was doing this.

42:03

Like the whole looking like I

42:03

was holding a telescope tried to

42:08

figure out okay, how big is your

42:08

whole hand like her whole head

42:15

won't fit around it so I'm

42:15

imagining like she's gonna

42:17

scooping it up holding it like

42:17

this. Or holding it like this

42:23

the average putus diameter this like, oh, like so about a

42:32

cup of your head to the shape of

42:37

it. See? Half

42:48

the scientist in me

42:48

loves you for that.

42:50

Okay, so I think that

42:50

that sounds awfully big to me

42:53

though. And I think that's what the author was going for. It's

42:55

not the size of the ship it's the motion of the ocean

42:57

right? So they don't

42:57

fuck because Silvan shows up his

43:01

Degas his dad and it's like

43:01

literally dig his pits he's so

43:09

bad. But like so we're gonna

43:09

kind of like time travel

43:12

ourselves our team drew is worth

43:12

of blue balls going on right now

43:15

literally. So we're but we are

43:15

going to time travel a bit

43:18

ourselves because the next like,

43:18

lot of the book is not

43:22

important. Okay, great. The only

43:22

thing that happens that's really

43:25

important is that they do have

43:25

sex for the first time. Great

43:28

and he literally rides around on

43:28

a horse to a field and is like

43:31

we're do with it and they do

43:31

very rough. Okay, it's IV to tie

43:36

it's good but it's it's and I

43:36

thought I knew what

43:41

she better not get any

43:41

sort of infection because in

43:43

16th century Oh, no. She has the

43:43

life expect her life expectancy

43:47

dropped like 40 years when she

43:47

went back in time. Federal she

43:51

also does is immunized

43:51

though so she is gonna get a lot

43:55

less of those diseases that

43:56

were prevalent. She's

43:56

gonna bring so many pack with

43:58

her Yeah, okay,

43:59

okay, we're not gonna get to that we're gonna just like to dive

44:02

in and and Christopher

44:02

Columbus all over again. Well,

44:06

there's

44:06

this awkward moment though where she's like it's not gonna fit it's not gonna fit and

44:08

they like make it work. Like Oh

44:14

boy. Oh boy. Oh no. I found my

44:14

new least favorite phrase is it

44:20

worse

44:20

than she think she you

44:20

know she's thing is my

44:23

Sally. I don't think

44:23

it's that bad. Okay, Virgin

44:26

barrier. All right, guys. Iman

44:26

is not a barrier. It stretches

44:33

like it's it's a nice thing it

44:33

stretches it's not like it's

44:37

it's it's not like a piece of

44:37

paper that gets punched through

44:41

or something. Okay. Now works.

44:41

At that

44:50

punch your way.

44:55

Oh god. 30 There goes

44:55

your Pepsi. No, yeah, so that's

45:05

my least favorite

45:06

like the complete

45:06

aversion to using scientific

45:08

terms when referring to like

45:08

penis and vagina like that they

45:12

are objects on a body that

45:12

everyone I would say virtually

45:17

everyone has because I don't

45:17

know there. I'm sure there's

45:20

some exceptions. But if you

45:20

don't have one, that's a

45:22

problem. Everyone has one. You

45:22

can say the word Yeah, the

45:25

sockets word. Hi.

45:28

He may not have had it

45:28

because he's from the 16th

45:30

century. Yeah, but he shouldn't

45:30

know actually the way out loud.

45:34

No, he didn't say it out loud.

45:34

He said that he felt himself

45:37

like go through it's

45:38

just say Hyman just not

45:38

maybe not as sexy. Virgin

45:43

barrier is a lot less sexy than

45:43

Hyman great. I'd like to give a

45:49

brief Hello to all the people at

45:49

work all the guys see him Monday

46:00

got um, they in the past

46:00

so the good in the past, but

46:04

they've still been basically

46:04

like, why are you here? All I

46:06

sent all that stuff to the

46:06

future already. So there's

46:09

literally no reason for them to

46:09

go to the past. It's so

46:12

annoying.

46:13

Okay. Yeah. Well, she

46:13

can she can check 16th century

46:18

sex off of her bucket right off

46:18

of her bucket list, if you will.

46:23

So basically, they go

46:23

there to lose her virginity. I

46:26

don't know. And they do declare

46:26

their love to each other. He's

46:29

like, so they have sex under the

46:29

moonlight. out in the field.

46:32

Again, they've known each other for a week at that point, haven't called it? Well, so he's

46:34

like, No, he's holding her in

46:38

his arms. And she's sort of

46:38

asleep. And he's and he's

46:41

thinking to himself, I'm gonna

46:41

marry this bitch right this

46:43

fucking second. That's what you

46:43

do. Sure, he completes his half

46:48

of the druid ritual. So while

46:48

she's asleep, he says if it must

46:52

be last 20 My honor for years if

46:52

one must be forsaken, will be my

46:57

soul for yours should death

46:57

coming on Toby my life for

47:00

years. I am given its and then

47:00

there's like this magical thing

47:03

that happens where like he, his

47:03

soul is like starting to merge

47:07

with her. So he's basically

47:07

promised to her he's not gonna

47:10

like, suck anyone else

47:11

I know. You know, I

47:11

know. You're hella single. Maybe

47:15

you don't have as many

47:15

experiences. I love you. But I

47:19

can tell you it's very common

47:19

that almost everyone in a

47:22

romantic relationship is totally

47:22

down to get married within the

47:25

first three days. So no,

47:25

immediately when I met Zach,

47:29

definitely within the first

47:29

week, I was like, I'm gonna

47:32

marry him even though I'm 16.

47:32

And definitely don't think boys

47:35

are so gross.

47:36

I can't believe I

47:36

personally could delvia the

47:39

season. I was like a very

47:39

concerned about your

47:42

relationship.

47:44

I take that as a compliment to my deadpan delivery skills. Okay, so And

47:46

she's

47:49

like, so in this scene,

47:49

Chloe wants to repeat it back to

47:53

him. Because she's like, Oh,

47:53

that sounds really pretty. Let

47:55

me repeat it. And he's like, No,

47:55

because he's worried that if she

47:58

repeats it back to him, and he

47:58

goes full dark that she's gonna

48:01

be like tied to these 13 demons

48:01

that are also inside him.

48:04

And okay, he opened that

48:04

can of worms. Oh, yeah, yeah,

48:08

it's totally his fault. He's a dingus.

48:10

He's totally a dangus.

48:10

So, she actually the way she

48:14

declares Her love is very funny.

48:14

So she gets really nervous. So

48:18

um, she gets very nervous to

48:18

tell him she loves tell him she

48:22

loves him. So she practices in

48:22

front of a shield. And it's

48:26

like, I love you. I love you.

48:26

And it's like practicing, like

48:29

by looking which didn't help me

48:29

at all.

48:31

I have 1000 yard stare

48:31

right now. We should put a

48:36

glossary of our facial

48:36

expressions on the website so

48:39

that we can feel oh,

48:41

Bless you. Bless you.

48:41

Bless you. Oh, goodness, so

48:44

many.

48:44

So many kiddies need

48:44

this. So this is Carlos Danger.

48:48

He's a little bit experienced in

48:48

the romance side of things. So

48:51

yes. He's our expert.

48:51

Yes. Yeah. So he's. So Degas, of

48:59

course, sneaks up behind her

48:59

doing this, and says, You can

49:02

have the confounded shield if

49:02

you like it. very confused. She

49:08

gets really pissed. She's like I

49:08

was practicing tried to tell you

49:11

and I loved you, and you ruined

49:11

it. And then she runs away. And

49:14

so he chases after her and grabs

49:14

her skirt, and it rips down the

49:19

back. And so her ass is exposed.

49:19

Say that it said Good job, guys,

49:24

just a comedy of air.

49:27

So finally, though, he

49:27

tells Chloe does tell, Degas

49:31

does tell Chloe about his curse.

49:31

Why has it and what he thinks

49:36

that they should do about it,

49:36

which is go back to the modern

49:39

day and try to find the people

49:39

who attacked her because the

49:43

people who attacked Chloe

49:43

basically worshipped the 13

49:46

demons that are inside of him.

49:46

And they want them to be

49:48

released because they know that

49:48

because they believe that it's

49:51

going to right start off the end

49:51

of the world. So they get back

49:54

and Degas does the one thing

49:54

that you said you should never

49:57

do. He does not communicate. So

49:57

he knows So the bad people are

50:00

in London. So he goes he tries

50:00

to go off to London by himself,

50:04

but they kidnap him halfway and

50:04

they take him there anyway.

50:07

Okay, and he's like, I was

50:07

coming to meet you anyway, like,

50:11

let's let's let's do this like

50:11

let's do a showdown How do I get

50:14

rid of these things? And they're

50:14

like, not so fast and they bring

50:17

out Chloe Of course, so Chloe's

50:17

been kidnapped. So he, they

50:23

basically tell him like, you can

50:23

either release all the demons

50:26

and start the end of the world,

50:26

in order to not have us not kill

50:30

your girlfriend, or we kill your

50:30

girlfriend, and then what are

50:33

you gonna do? And he's like, Well, if you kill my girlfriend, I'm gonna release the demons

50:35

anyway, because I'll be so

50:37

pissed. I won't be with holes,

50:37

not

50:39

the thing you tell them? Well, he

50:41

doesn't tell him that. But he's thinking that in his mind, right. So he makes us that

50:42

Chloe can't see or hear. And

50:48

then he releases the demons. And

50:48

they're just all Yeah. And so

50:51

when she, you know, when her

50:51

vision and her hearing are

50:54

restored, she she looks around,

50:54

everybody's gone. And the room

50:57

was covered in blood. And she's

50:57

like, I'm booked. Um, have you?

51:01

Did you watch community

51:01

much? No. Okay. There's an

51:05

episode of community where they

51:05

go into the different timelines.

51:07

And the darkest timeline is

51:07

where one dude like, I'm gonna

51:10

go get the pizza from downstairs.

51:14

I love that. Yeah,

51:14

Donald Glover is fantastic.

51:20

Yeah, this is a stand up. Weirdo

51:20

is like one of my favorites.

51:23

Yeah, so that's the vibe

51:23

I get from that. Yeah. So

51:27

so she Chloe wakes up

51:27

poor thing. And she's all alone

51:30

in London. So she calls Gwen and

51:30

drew stem. And although and they

51:34

come and get her in London, and

51:34

although they don't want to

51:36

admit it, they're all kind of

51:36

like, Degas is probably dead

51:39

like nobody's heard from him.

51:39

Right and so and when once Chloe

51:44

to stay with them, she's like, stay for a few weeks, you know, you're really upset.

51:47

It's the end of the

51:47

world anyway, who cares? Yeah.

51:49

And well, they they

51:49

think that so what they think

51:53

happened is that Degas killed

51:53

himself so that the demons

51:57

inside him would die or

51:57

something like that, basically.

51:59

So he was sacrificed himself so

51:59

Chloe and the world. So that's

52:02

what they think happened. They just don't have the body to prove it. Right. So I'm Gwen

52:04

tells Chloe, like, stay with us.

52:09

But like, every time poor Chloe

52:09

looks at drusen he looks. He

52:13

looks dead on like Degas. And it

52:13

just like breaks her heart. And

52:16

so she's like, No, I got to go back to New York. I got to get back to my life. I got to try to

52:18

write feel,

52:20

you know, the job that

52:20

I've just left for those that

52:23

haven't said anything to anybody

52:23

about it. Send an email. Oh,

52:27

great.

52:28

Okay, so um, she goes

52:28

back to New York and she goes to

52:32

the safe deposit box that they

52:32

set up with her artifacts in it

52:35

and she finds a letter and

52:35

letter is from Degas before they

52:39

left for Scott for Scotland. You

52:39

reading this?

52:41

I probably exactly.

52:45

dead on. And so she in

52:45

he's like, I would never leave

52:49

you. I love you. I'm so sorry.

52:49

And so she has that. And then

52:52

she goes back to his penthouse

52:52

because the penthouse is now

52:55

completely hers who signed it

52:55

over to her before he left team.

52:58

And she's really really sad of

52:58

course. And so some she hear

53:02

somebody trying to break through

53:02

the door. And she's like, that

53:05

bastard who could do this to me

53:05

and my lowest point she's like,

53:08

really pathetic. Do I'm sorry,

53:08

okay, for losing her boyfriend.

53:12

And I guess I shouldn't say

53:12

that. It would be a horrible

53:15

thing. But um, so he so so

53:15

somebody comes to the door, she

53:21

puts the sword under the

53:21

person's neck. And guess who it

53:24

is? Uh, huh. Degas boyfriend.

53:24

And he's like, Please put down

53:28

the sword. And she freaks out

53:28

like they have a moment. So he

53:32

is. So Degas explains that the

53:32

faith folk basically felt sorry

53:36

for him. And we're like you were

53:36

willing to risk your life to

53:40

save the world. We give you some

53:40

holy plot armor. Batman was so

53:45

working to heal the wound that

53:45

you had in your chest where you

53:48

stabbed yourself. Okay, and then

53:48

we'll take you back to your

53:52

girlfriend. And so only a few

53:52

hours have passed for Degas. But

53:55

weeks have passed for Chloe.

53:55

Okay, basically, and she's like,

53:59

never, ever, ever leave me

53:59

again. And then they live

54:02

happily ever after. I also

54:02

wanted one little plot point I

54:05

missed was when Chloe meets up

54:05

with Gwen immediately going,

54:10

it's like we're gonna get you a

54:10

pregnancy test. Because she's

54:12

like, maybe you'll be happy like

54:12

me and find out that although

54:15

your boyfriend is dead, you're

54:15

pregnant, which is the worst

54:19

possible thing that could happen

54:19

in my mind. Yeah, that's she's

54:23

the worst friend

54:25

who boy.

54:26

Okay. That's what

54:26

happened to Gwen. She thought

54:28

that Justin was dead and the

54:28

baby. She had his bait, but she

54:32

knew she was pregnant. Okay.

54:32

Yeah. All right. Yeah. So that's

54:35

the end of the end. Oh, okay.

54:35

Yeah, sure. Yeah, there's

54:39

a lot of there's such a

54:39

lot to unpack there.

54:44

I feel like every time I

54:44

do one of these when I'm reading

54:47

it, I'm more fine with it. But

54:47

then they tell it to you and I'm

54:49

like, Wait, this is very wrong.

54:49

are so many like I knew like

54:53

what was a bad friend. I knew that things are

54:55

just wrong doesn't mean

54:55

it can't be entertaining, but

54:58

it's still real wrong.

55:00

You're really wrong.

55:00

Okay, so

55:02

now that merge, you went over the summary of the book, we're going to go take a little

55:04

bit of a deep dive. And again,

55:07

our word is unpack Yeah, the

55:07

characters and a little bit of

55:10

the story and talk about maybe

55:10

why it's so great or terrible.

55:14

I mean, so, so good. I

55:14

didn't mind this book, maybe

55:18

because like I said, the last

55:18

one was so bad. The first one,

55:21

the first one that I read was so

55:21

bad, but I mean, it's not great.

55:25

That doesn't make it great.

55:25

Yeah, things that he does or not

55:28

okay. I think that I tend I do

55:28

tend to fall for like the tragic

55:32

backstory, Dark Hero character.

55:32

So Degas is like a moth to

55:37

flame. So and I think that's why

55:37

I let him get away with a lot of

55:40

stuff. But I and I liked reading

55:40

him, because he's, he's trying

55:46

so hard to be a good person. I

55:46

find it like I was kind of like,

55:50

he's self aware. He's very self

55:50

aware that there are things

55:52

wrong with him, and he wants to

55:52

try and fix them.

55:55

He's just feel sorry for

55:55

himself about Yeah, exactly.

55:59

Yes, he does not he

55:59

does. He he he does sometimes,

56:03

but most of the time, he's more

56:03

just kind of like I can't

56:05

believe I'm such a big fucking

56:05

idiot. Because I did this Chloe,

56:11

I thought she was very at the

56:11

word I would describe used to

56:14

describe is Q and not Q and like

56:14

an annoying way cute and kind of

56:17

like an endearing way where

56:17

like, she gets so excited about

56:20

things. It's hard not to get

56:20

excited with her. Like she gets

56:23

so excited seeing all go into

56:23

16th century and she gets

56:26

excited like seeing all the

56:26

antiques like she's passionate.

56:29

And I liked that about her. Um,

56:29

she's also aware about other

56:33

people. So like, when she needs

56:33

Degas, she's like, I really

56:35

attracted to you. But like, that

56:35

doesn't mean it's a good idea to

56:38

pursue anything with you. Right?

56:38

So yeah, I mean, and Degas is

56:42

kind of like, Could you do some

56:42

bad shit, dude?

56:45

Yeah, there's a plane

56:45

freely. Yeah.

56:49

Yeah. Like, are these

56:49

are you that desperate? That's a

56:52

long flight

56:53

to be awkwardly stuck in

56:53

a flying tin can with other

56:56

people. Also, if he has that

56:56

much money, why didn't you just

56:58

get like a private jet?

56:59

Seriously, though, I

56:59

mean, I'm assuming that they

57:01

were in first class, but that's

57:01

also never described, so they

57:04

could have been a coach.

57:04

Grateful, like, I know that she

57:09

had a wait, I know that she had

57:09

a window seat. That's the only

57:11

description that I've got. Oh,

57:11

creepy. Yeah. So the ply? Um,

57:17

kind of like, I don't the fact

57:17

that they went back in time for

57:20

almost no reason. Yeah, pretty

57:20

dumb. I think that they just

57:23

want she wanted that plot point.

57:23

But I think you could have

57:26

reached for it in other ways and

57:26

better ways, right?

57:29

Time travel, for me is

57:29

always really sticky when it

57:32

comes to like, books in general,

57:32

because it either has to be done

57:36

really well. Or again, to be

57:36

fair, I have a little bit of a

57:39

science brain that tends to

57:39

overanalyze shit like that.

57:41

Yeah. And I'm all on board for,

57:41

you know, suspension of

57:45

disbelief to an extent. But

57:45

there is a point where I'm like,

57:50

it wasn't Atlantis,

57:51

you know? You know,

57:51

that's fair. Hey, You warned me

57:58

about that one, though. I was

57:58

able to mentally prepare myself

58:01

to hold on,

58:02

I guess. I don't really

58:02

have I think that time travel. I

58:06

like his historical stuff. I

58:06

like to travel in that sense.

58:09

It's kind of fun. But it's also

58:09

it's it is also like, I think

58:14

that because I'm not a science

58:14

brain, I can kind of hold on to

58:17

my suspension of disbelief more

58:17

easily, right. But I didn't I

58:21

didn't like it because it didn't

58:21

really have a plot point. It was

58:24

they were basically they're just

58:24

a bang, right? And I like I

58:27

honestly liked Degas more in his

58:27

penthouse apartment. I thought

58:30

that was cooler in a way than

58:30

them going on back in time.

58:34

I think that's so I tend

58:34

to not go for modern fantasy as

58:40

much to an extent I do. I do

58:40

enjoy modern fantasy, but like,

58:43

I think a big reason why I don't

58:43

jump on it is because of that.

58:47

Like, it's harder for me to hold

58:47

on to the suspension of

58:50

disbelief when it's put in a

58:50

modern setting, right? Because

58:53

basically, the only description

58:53

you can have is Ooh, magic.

58:57

Yeah, so the main male

58:57

character degas's, I'm actually

59:01

gonna, I think you're gonna

59:01

think that I'm writing him low.

59:03

I'm gonna give them a five. Just

59:03

because he's not out of 550 is

59:07

out of five. Yeah, we've been

59:07

doing that. Okay, I'm gonna give

59:10

him a 332 and a half, three, two

59:10

and a half three because like, I

59:15

think that I'm like I said, I'm

59:15

letting him get away with a lot

59:18

of things because he's my type.

59:18

So I'm gonna give him a three.

59:21

Yeah, there's a couple

59:21

spots in there. It's like

59:23

homeboy hands to yourself. Yeah,

59:23

no means no.

59:26

No means no. But he's

59:26

also got 13 demons inside of him

59:29

telling him to do it. So if

59:29

we're going to take that into

59:32

account, just

59:34

just 13 Emperor power

59:41

let me try that doing

59:54

Oh, no. Just all wearing

59:54

different colors.

1:00:02

talking to each other.

1:00:02

Oh my god. Okay, so I'm gonna

1:00:05

give him a three out of five.

1:00:05

I'm gonna give Chloe a four out

1:00:08

of five. Because I think that

1:00:08

she was like a pretty dynamic

1:00:11

character. Okay for a romance

1:00:11

novel, ready three out of five

1:00:15

it's three, two and a half to

1:00:15

three to five per regular novel

1:00:18

four to five romance novel okay?

1:00:18

The plot gets

1:00:23

well so why would you

1:00:23

why would you give Chloe that

1:00:25

because like, right right in my

1:00:25

mind a five out of five is like

1:00:28

Jane Eyre level motivations

1:00:28

backstory?

1:00:32

That's true. I mean, she

1:00:32

did have a pretty good backstory

1:00:34

like they talked about her

1:00:34

parents passing away and her

1:00:38

granddad and why she's still

1:00:38

optimistic after all these

1:00:41

terrible things have happened to

1:00:41

her right and they like I said,

1:00:45

I liked how she wasn't in it.

1:00:45

She was also a character who

1:00:48

didn't wasn't just there for the

1:00:48

romance.

1:00:52

See, that's my biggest

1:00:52

pet peeve is when the only thing

1:00:54

that's guiding this character

1:00:54

her only goal is like one demand

1:00:59

meet

1:00:59

right? And she's not

1:00:59

she's like to get her to go to

1:01:02

Scotland. He has to offer her

1:01:02

all the artifacts. Where my

1:01:06

money yeah, basically, he's

1:01:06

like, I'll pay you to come with

1:01:10

me. And again, when they get

1:01:10

even when they get to Scotland,

1:01:13

he's still kind of like passing

1:01:13

out antiques like, you know,

1:01:15

they're buying coins, which

1:01:15

isn't okay either. But I'm

1:01:17

saying that like, it shows that

1:01:17

she's motivated by things that

1:01:20

aren't Degas beyond the romance

1:01:20

and she is self empowered, where

1:01:24

like she wants she wants these

1:01:24

things, right. So okay, if we're

1:01:29

gonna put it on that scale,

1:01:29

though, of like, five isn't five

1:01:32

is like Jane Eyre will give her

1:01:32

two. Okay. Yeah, she's not she's

1:01:40

not she's not so bad where she's

1:01:40

like, like Shay hauling, but

1:01:46

she's a little bit more in the

1:01:46

answer that so definitely falls

1:01:51

apart when Degas is gone. Like

1:01:51

she does not there's no inner

1:01:54

strength to her out. Like she

1:01:54

becomes super dominant really

1:01:58

quickly. She becomes flat as a

1:01:58

pancake, okay, she's super

1:02:01

dependent really quickly. And

1:02:01

she's also just like, so

1:02:03

depressed she can't even go to

1:02:03

work or like, take care of

1:02:07

herself, but rightly so. You

1:02:07

still got to take care like even

1:02:10

a bad shit happens to you got to

1:02:10

be here. Yeah, that's the thing.

1:02:13

So plot.

1:02:14

Why did they go to 16th

1:02:14

century

1:02:16

I thought that they

1:02:16

needed to and then they ended up

1:02:19

not, which is like, for me, it's

1:02:19

just bad writing.

1:02:22

If you've ever played I

1:02:22

know, you haven't played d&d,

1:02:25

but in my mind, that is like the

1:02:25

pointless d&d side quest that

1:02:27

really doesn't do anything. It's just filler.

1:02:29

Right, exactly. And that's, I think it was just like, the author wanted them to

1:02:31

go back in time, and they do

1:02:34

figure out, they do find out

1:02:34

that they find out things that

1:02:40

they could have found out in the

1:02:40

modern day. That's kind of what

1:02:43

they figured out. And so it

1:02:43

wasn't that they went I guess

1:02:47

they did go for a reason. But it

1:02:47

was like, not strong enough to

1:02:50

like ward them going. So but

1:02:50

it's a romance novel. So

1:02:54

like, Yeah, I think that

1:02:54

having not read it. I think it's

1:02:58

something that might have been a

1:02:58

little bit more interesting is

1:03:00

if maybe there were fewer demons

1:03:00

in his brain. But when you got

1:03:04

internal monologues you actually

1:03:04

got all of the different voices

1:03:07

that would have been

1:03:08

that would have been

1:03:08

cool. Yeah, but he actually does

1:03:11

say that they're not they don't

1:03:11

have voices. They just have

1:03:13

impulses. So they don't have a

1:03:13

way to speak to him yet or

1:03:17

right. He's pretty sure like the

1:03:17

darker he goes. He knows that

1:03:20

he'll be able to like hear him

1:03:20

and they're more gonna tell him

1:03:23

to do things. Yeah, I'm gonna

1:03:23

give the plot a generous to a

1:03:27

generous, generous.

1:03:30

Yeah. Wow. Wow, that was

1:03:30

indeed a lot to unpack.

1:03:34

Yes. Oh, boy. Always Is

1:03:34

this a surprise? Over I'm sorry.

1:03:39

So um, for those of you

1:03:39

new to the podcast, one thing we

1:03:43

like to do is after we go we

1:03:43

dive through this underwater

1:03:47

garbage fire. The first episode,

1:03:47

you'll get it, you have a book,

1:03:53

we like to go through and sort

1:03:53

of do a little bit of a palate

1:03:55

cleanser, and talk about what we

1:03:55

are reading outside because like

1:04:00

romance novels, if you've ever

1:04:00

read one, which I hope you have

1:04:02

you if not, you should are

1:04:02

really fast rates, at least in

1:04:06

my mind, like a couple hours.

1:04:06

Right. So what is Margie? What

1:04:10

have you been reading to sort of

1:04:10

take your brain off of this when

1:04:13

you needed a break from whatever

1:04:13

this was? So I

1:04:16

have been reading so

1:04:16

right now I've been kind of like

1:04:18

on a reading dry spell just

1:04:18

because I think I've been

1:04:22

pushing myself too hard on top of all the work I'm already doing. Sure. So went to the

1:04:23

library and I picked up some

1:04:26

books that I saw on the shelf that sounded interesting. The one that I've picked up right

1:04:28

now is called the Hazel wood.

1:04:31

Yeah, that's on my Goodreads.

1:04:31

Yeah, it's by Melissa Albert,

1:04:35

and I'm really enjoying it. Um,

1:04:35

I don't really it's one of those

1:04:38

books where I'm like, I can't

1:04:38

predict where this is going.

1:04:41

Okay, see, I kind of appreciate

1:04:41

that and it's very fair, it's

1:04:45

fairy tale themed see I love but

1:04:45

it twists on fairy tale, but

1:04:48

it's not fairy tales that you've

1:04:48

ever read before. I've really

1:04:51

enjoyed it. I've also got a book at home that I'm really excited to read called the Essex print

1:04:53

or the Essex Serpent, and it's

1:04:57

really interesting. So yeah,

1:04:57

well

1:04:59

when you finished that one let me know because it's been on my Goodreads for a while

1:05:01

and I haven't picked it up yet

1:05:03

though.

1:05:03

I did finish the Name of

1:05:03

the Wind and I highly recommend

1:05:06

it too. Okay like you love Lord

1:05:06

of the Rings if you love this

1:05:11

book. Oh shit. Okay, it's very

1:05:11

it's Harry Potter meets Lord of

1:05:14

the Rings. Oh, that

1:05:14

sounds rad is really

1:05:14

okay. Name of the Wind got it?

1:05:17

Yeah, yeah. And if you guys want

1:05:17

us to put up set up like a good

1:05:20

reads or something for the books

1:05:20

that we've read and books that

1:05:23

we actually would recommend.

1:05:23

What do we have? What do we

1:05:26

have? Yeah, I just, I

1:05:26

know we've I've already included

1:05:29

a few books, romance novel books

1:05:29

that we've read. Okay. But we

1:05:33

need to add on the books that like

1:05:38

we will work on getting

1:05:38

that up and keep your eyes

1:05:41

peeled on our social media yet

1:05:41

platforms you for when we do get

1:05:45

that up and send us some recommendations. Yes,

1:05:47

send us some recommendations for books that you think that we would like

1:05:49

outside of the podcast, but also

1:05:51

books that you want us to do in

1:05:51

terms of romance, right? Because

1:05:54

we're kind of just like going to

1:05:54

the library. And yeah, and

1:05:59

finding romance novels, but if

1:05:59

you have recommendations, I'm

1:06:02

excluding 50 Shades of Grey. I

1:06:02

know when we do that,

1:06:05

even for a special

1:06:05

episode. Yeah, we haven't. Yeah,

1:06:09

yeah. We're definitely finding

1:06:09

books kind of everywhere. I

1:06:11

actually there's a little free

1:06:11

library in my neighborhood. And

1:06:14

I found one there and I picked

1:06:14

it. I'm both terrified and

1:06:18

excited. But

1:06:18

like I said, we're just

1:06:18

kind of finding books. So if you

1:06:21

guys want if you guys have

1:06:21

recommendations, or ones that

1:06:23

you want us to do, or just a

1:06:23

title that you see, that's

1:06:26

ridiculous. We will read it for

1:06:26

you. Yeah, you don't have to

1:06:29

pick

1:06:30

send us a picture.

1:06:30

There's no yeah, there's a

1:06:32

brewery in Indianapolis called

1:06:32

books and brews. And they've

1:06:37

been posting on their Facebook

1:06:37

pictures of romance novels at

1:06:40

their bookstores with googly

1:06:40

eyes on them and it's my

1:06:42

favorite thing. So if you want

1:06:42

to send us a ridiculous book

1:06:45

cover like one of them is Fabio

1:06:45

with two googly eyes. It's so

1:06:48

good. You said this

1:06:48

Fabio one recommendation

1:06:52

I've never done a Fabio.

1:06:52

Oh shit.

1:06:56

Okay, okay, so let's

1:06:57

wrap this up. Yeah,

1:06:58

thank you so much for

1:06:58

listening. Like we said if you

1:07:02

have any recommendations or

1:07:02

thoughts about the book we just

1:07:05

unpacked please let us know you

1:07:05

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1:07:11

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1:07:11

at attention much Yeah, so we

1:07:16

want to thank Ayla Nereo for her

1:07:16

song Oh love which was used in

1:07:19

the intro so yeah, song.

1:07:22

I won't lie. I got it

1:07:22

off of a really cool free music

1:07:24

website. So credit where credit

1:07:24

is due. It's an awesome song.

1:07:28

And it's really great.

1:07:28

So we'll see you guys. Yeah,

1:07:31

sounds good.