Hey Nerds, Chanel can't make it this week so our friend Cole stepped in! Our nerdy hearts are on full display as we swap tales of chemistry wizardry, taco nights infused with science, and deep dives into the 'Dune' universe. We'll also shine a spotlight on the enchanting force of Harry Potter fanfiction, marvel at the delightful absurdity of modern vampires in New Jersey, and ponder the delicate art of adapting beloved stories for the screen. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, from laughter to reflective appreciations of the friendships forged through podcasting. With Cole's insights as a photographer and pharmacist, we're capturing life's special moments in more ways than one. So, come share in the camaraderie and leave feeling like part of the gang!
Hey Nerds, Chanel can't make it this week so our friend Cole stepped in! Our nerdy hearts are on full display as we swap tales of chemistry wizardry, taco nights infused with science, and deep dives into the 'Dune' universe. We'll also shine a spotlight on the enchanting force of Harry Potter fanfiction, marvel at the delightful absurdity of modern vampires in New Jersey, and ponder the delicate art of adapting beloved stories for the screen. It's a rollercoaster of emotions, from laughter to reflective appreciations of the friendships forged through podcasting. With Cole's insights as a photographer and pharmacist, we're capturing life's special moments in more ways than one. So, come share in the camaraderie and leave feeling like part of the gang!
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Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah for the aesthetic reasons. Yeah, exactly For the aesthetic reasons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's like a good, so funny object of decor to just have around the house, you know.
Speaker 1:Didn't get it. You could put it on your bookshelf.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could put other things Bucket you know what else flowers flowers. Yeah, you really class it up. You can use it. It's be a nice face.
Speaker 1:You're right, stacy, it looks like a giant butthole that we can put flowers in it.
Speaker 2:It does look classy. Church it up, church it up. I think they knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1:Hi, I'm Chanel, Hi, I'm Stacy, hey, nerds, this is Ashley and this is fiction fanatics. Are you excited? Well, I mean, it's just, it's just funny. Okay, we're going we're alive. Are you gonna start it like you did? The introduction and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can, it's up to you yeah you go ahead.
Speaker 1:Welcome, start over. Cut it out. No, we never cut it out. Welcome to our new episode. We have a special guest on today, cole.
Speaker 2:Hello excited.
Speaker 1:We're so excited. He's replacing Chanel today. Mm-hmm, chanel's busy working.
Speaker 2:She can't be replaced.
Speaker 1:Just today, just for one day, she's bombed, yeah, but we're so excited cuz Cole's amazing and he's been sporting our show for a long time. Oh, but you want to cut it out and start over now, don't you? You know what? Great. Come on, everybody, let's go watch TV. Great, this is where we can't have nice things. Come on, I knew this was I.
Speaker 2:Wanted to be part of the show.
Speaker 1:We always laugh because we tell Ashley to cut out certain parts of the show when she edits, and she never does. And we're like we please just do that let it roll. Thank you, rewording Okay. Hey guys, welcome to our episode. We're super pumped today because we have a special guest. We have Cole here with us. The cat hello he is replacing Chanel and spirit today because she's busy saving lives and doing amazing things, so We'll miss her. Yeah, but we're excited.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm excited. Yeah, we're recording in the Sun, ashley. This is our second take because Ashley's dogs went nuts, so this is like the first time we've recorded here too, I think. Mm-hmm, like together We've never recorded in Ashley's house before, always Chanel's, or yours or mine, when, like when I first on Toby, we recorded my house and it was chaos. What an argument.
Speaker 2:Seems like I get set up. I'm excited. There's really nice mics. I've never really heard myself like this. As I'm talking, I'm like is this my voice?
Speaker 1:it is your voice, we like it. What's funny is, though, for me and Ashley sometimes I'll listen to like our Earlier episodes when I don't like really remember them, and sometimes I can't tell me and Ashley's voice apart. If we're like going back and forth, it's because Stacy tries to sound like me. Well, it's a little easier now, because she sounded just a little bit different now that you have braces.
Speaker 1:So In the cutest way, the cutest way is braces yeah, brace face. So we should announce what our book of the month is right now. Ashley, just finished it.
Speaker 1:We today today she texted us we're doing hot. Oh my, it's so good we did. We're doing bride by Ali Hazelwood. It's pretty popular right now and I'm about halfway through it. It is excellent. It's like force proximity, force marriage. There's the nodding scene in it that people are losing their minds over. Do you know what that is? Yeah, do you know what nodding is cool? Mmm-hmm. I'll go on.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm not explaining it again. What's funny is that I've been reading this book at work and so I just assume that everyone knew what it meant. So I'm like the dedication in the book is great, because she says something like I could not do this without you. With spells it not, or whatever, and everyone's like well, what's that? And I was like Maroon, I was like well, I, I don't, I don't want to say it's sexual.
Speaker 2:It's very sexual.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:Well, no, I need to know. Hold on.
Speaker 1:I'll do what I've been doing at work and reading that.
Speaker 2:Come on the podcast and tell us.
Speaker 1:I do love that such a mainstream book has nodding in it. It's usually like a fanfiction thing. It's a big fanfiction thing. It's big with this book. Is it like a alpha, omega, beta kind of universe? Thing, Do you know what that is?
Speaker 2:I mean yeah, I think like, oh yeah, that guy's an alpha or he's a beta.
Speaker 1:I didn't know what it was Like, or you've heard like oh, that's real, like alpha energy. It's like main character energy and it's like very, it's like a, it's usually Analystic and pheromones and like faded mates kind of stuff. So urban dictionary for nodding I Kind of want to guess.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm assuming it's something like like when you get married, like you tie the knot, no, no, okay, well, well, but is it just usually in mates that the nodding happens, though it's only because I thought, well, I don't want to rubble, will go over next time. But, like in this book, they make it seem like it only happens with your mate, not anybody I would actually. I don't know, because all the stuff I read it is mates who are doing it, usually so in the fanfictions I read, but I don't know if it has. I don't think it has to be a mate anyway. So nodding Urban dictionary. When animals mate, specifically canines, I'm not sure about felines. This is the penis enlarges during climax. It remains enlarge the point where you're literally, where he's literally stuck inside of the female as long as possible for the mating process to go on. They're stuck together.
Speaker 2:This happens.
Speaker 1:For a while.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, it's just more than just a little bit of time.
Speaker 1:No, no, no this is, yeah, this happens to ensure insemination and that the male can ejaculate several times before he shrinks down small enough to unmount. This is a kink used in all sorts of hybrid ABO fanfictions examples. Does this big have nodding in it? I have to see this tip, all right my mouth is my mouth is on the floor right now.
Speaker 2:I've never heard of this.
Speaker 1:I just love it, because people who don't know truly are like oh, I don't know. And then I we tell them and they're like oh. Speechless it's when it's done right, it's. This is the first thing I've. This is the first thing I've ever read with nodding in it before me too. That's not true. I've read so many ABO fixes.
Speaker 2:It is not the first one I've read, but but I'm interested so okay, just read a guitar and actually Really encouraged me to read it and that was the first time I've heard of like a mate. Mm-hmm, but there's. This must be more like it must expend to other like fantasy novels
Speaker 1:and.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I think that back because we read that vampire, vampire, yeah, vampire thick, and it wasn't exactly nodding, but it was kind of. It was very similar. You see it a lot and like werewolf fan fictions and stuff, it's really big because, and like nature had seen in, like canines, like they said, but and all the fan fictions I've read, usually it's just like a biological thing, like the males who are alphas do this, whereas if you're a beta it's not really a thing. So can't be a beta? Yeah, be an alpha, yes, and then the, the other person. It doesn't have to be female, because I've read ABO fix, where it's male, male and it's fine. It's just different. You look so happy.
Speaker 1:Oh fucking love, male on, male fix, you know anyway. But it's usually the woman's like an Omega, which is like the pinnacle of like a woman you'd want there, like, so that's like the opposite.
Speaker 2:It's like the equal to a male alpha. Yeah, woman, oh, mega yeah.
Speaker 1:so okay, so in bride is she supposed to be like an Omega? I don't know, I haven't got. I'm only halfway through it. I think theirs is just more of like a faded maids thing with it right, cuz you finished it already. Yeah, it was amazing, yeah, yeah. Is the notting in it amazing, worth the hype that everyone talks about? On tiktok? There's only one scene where it actually happens.
Speaker 2:There's, yeah, I mean I hate it, I didn't hate it.
Speaker 1:It's. The writing was very good with it. Yeah, I'm pumped, I can't wait to get to it. I wouldn't recommend listening to it. Like 8 am this morning, like I was, I'm just like what's happening? What's happening? So, yeah, that's the thing. Oh, we probably just ruined most of it. Don't let Chanel listen to this spoiler alert.
Speaker 1:There's notting in it. I Think everyone knows because, well, I mean, if people are interested in the book, it's really popular on Instagram and tiktok and stuff. But there's all these really funny tiktoks of people because Notting is huge in fanfiction but it's not like a big thing and publish reading. No, this is the first like public book like this. So people are reading it, which is cool, like who have no idea and they're just like, oh my god. And then tiktok so funny because it's just like. People are like, oh, you've been reading fanfiction since you were in high school.
Speaker 3:There's like one night and you're like whatever.
Speaker 1:We clearly didn't grow up reading the same things. Yeah, I Knew that was convenient, because literally I texted Chanel when I got bride and I opened the, the dedication. Literally she says I could not do this without you. And I was like I knew it. There's gonna be. Not even this book. I mean, they reference it the whole time, kind of, but it just, you know, a build, so you're gonna have to read it so you can tell us what you think. Okay, I've offered to give actually some a biofix to read and she's not about it yet, so yeah, and it's full disclosure.
Speaker 2:I have not read any fanfiction yet, but Stacy did make Like we'd make a book that I really want to read manacold so I'm gonna read it.
Speaker 1:It's gonna be coming, but right now.
Speaker 2:I'm only on the fourth book of a guitar so I got a finish. You're really on the fourth book. On the fourth book, like the novella. Yep, I'm on the novella and Ashley, what are you doing?
Speaker 1:You are only on the second book. He's on the fourth. I'm almost done with it. I'm reading three books at the same time right now. I don't have enough time. That is a lot. It's nice to just focus all my energy towards one, yeah, because it's a lot.
Speaker 2:There's action there's love. There's a lot happening and I feel like it holds your attention really well I wouldn't you want to keep reading it, especially in the third book, where so much is going on?
Speaker 1:I feel like this third book. When I talk to people who are like usually guys, they love the third book because there's like action and story in it.
Speaker 2:I feel like I think the third book is my favorite yeah.
Speaker 1:Is it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm almost done with the second. Well, the third book's really good too, because you just get so much more of the other characters in it too. All of the soup TikToks make sense now that I've seen about. Akatar because you've read the second, because you're past that scene in the second one. It was good. Akatar is a great series. That is a great series to like get introduced, to like the Fated Mates stuff and it's one of my favorite.
Speaker 2:I feel like for for a guy who's only really read, lord of the Rings is, like you know, that's high fantasy. Just kind of take a different road and go down to Akatar. It's very, very different.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it totally is, and I think more.
Speaker 2:Most people think like oh, this is for women, it's, you know, all love romantic trauma, but she's surging mess, she's got a lot of like fighting, battle scenes and action in it. They're really, I think, holds the guy's attention too, I mean you can still, you can be a guy and you can like love, you can like romance and she does really well with like balancing all of that.
Speaker 1:I think the third book is more action heavy, which is why I think I like it a little bit better, but it seems like and I could be wrong it seems like guys like they like Lord of the Rings so much because of like the elves and stuff, and then fairies are kind of like elves, so like I'm not surprised guys.
Speaker 2:I think they are right. They both have the pointy years, yeah, and they live they're immortal like you know, we both have that in common, and I like that.
Speaker 1:not all the fairies and serergy masses world have wings, so then it has more of like the elf thing to it. There's a lot of Lord of the Rings fan fiction too. Shit ton People love Lord of the Rings.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm excited to get into the fan fiction scene with. I mean, you've said this is the manacold is the number one. Yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 1:But should he really be reading that one as his first fan fiction? That? Was the first one you read. I'm concerned. I mean, I had read some stuff in high school, yeah, but um, yeah, cool, I wasn't reading manacled yet. I'm worried for his heart.
Speaker 1:His heart's gonna be fine, but he needs to read it now, because it's gonna be published next year. So yeah. I told him he should do live reactions like uh, what, oh, what Jay did? We had a. I think I told you we had a guy on who got really popular on tiktok because he was live recording his reactions to manacold. He was amazing.
Speaker 2:It was amazing.
Speaker 1:His wife had read. It was like you need to read this, but was. What was even better, though, was like some of his live reactions he gets halfway through and he had to have, like this, eye surgery. So then it's him listening to it.
Speaker 2:That'd be really entertaining. It was really entertaining.
Speaker 1:Yeah, manacold is probably like the most famous fan fiction, I would think.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm excited to read it.
Speaker 1:But um Bride the girl who wrote Bride was a Star Wars fan fiction writer. Yeah, that's why we love Allie so much.
Speaker 2:Okay, so she's written more than just this one.
Speaker 1:This is like her sixth book or something, I think that's published, but she wrote a ton of really great um. It's not her first number one like it's not her first book on the New York Times best seller. No, it's like her fourth or fifth I think, because I know the love hypothesis was and love theoretically and something else. She's really great, cool Well.
Speaker 3:I'm excited to hear about it, yeah so it'll be good.
Speaker 1:So it's all werewolves and vampires in there. So we like we talked about werewolves last time and we told Janelle we talked a little bit about vampires. We sprinkle them in but it's more like a fantasy episode, because we wanted to talk to you about some Akatar stuff too since well, but I wouldn't actually not gonna want to hear this, but since you're almost done with Akatar, you have to read if you like action and stuff. Her first series, throne of Glass, is amazing. Ellie at work is reading it.
Speaker 2:I've heard a lot about that. I've heard a lot about Throne of Glass.
Speaker 1:And so is Hayley at work. She's reading it Two of the other nurses at work I have. I'm on the last, I'm on the second to last book and it's incredible. It's really good.
Speaker 2:Better than Akatar.
Speaker 1:It's really different. It's a lot slower start than Akatar, I think, because I know everyone says like the first book's slow, but I would say like the first even slower.
Speaker 2:Oh my, the first two books are really slow at first and then it picks up.
Speaker 1:Okay, but there's eight books in the series.
Speaker 2:I feel like you know when you walk in the bookstore, like over here on Mass App.
Speaker 3:Oh my god.
Speaker 2:And that's you see, like Akatar and Throne of Glass kind of like on those like little stands like as you walk in, like that's the first thing you see, and that's another thing. I think I kept seeing Akatar everywhere. Then, yeah, I think Ashley sent me one reel and then my out. My Instagram algorithm just started showing me all these that's all mine, Akatar.
Speaker 2:Reels, tiktoks. They get crossed over from, you know, tiktok into Reels and it piqued my interest and a lot of people at work had read it too, and so, after I was okay, I need to check this out for myself and I did and I liked it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's playing a little series. Who's your favorite character so far, you think?
Speaker 3:Recent yeah he's great Because you know how you like read a book and you're like like what person? Would I be in this series you?
Speaker 2:know you always pull yourself in their shoes yeah, I would be Recent, I would be the most powerful. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3:I'm so cocky.
Speaker 2:But, I think, you, yeah, you just you just really come to like Recent he's? I don't know he's yeah he's super powerful and he's like he has the coolest core he treats everybody, yeah, he treats everybody like everybody's kind of equal you know which is not the case, as you see, like in the spring core starting out. But then you start to learn more and more about the night court. Yeah, and you're like, oh, this guy runs like a pretty clean ship like yeah, he's an all-around good dude.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love, I love him. I tell Ashley the time that she gives nest of vibes, which is better once you get further into her story. It's just no one likes nesta in the first book but honestly, when you get to, when you get to the last book, it's probably my favorite.
Speaker 2:I've heard the last book is nest's book and it's nest's book and it's just.
Speaker 1:It's just. You told me that before I started the series. And then I started the series and the first thing is like nest is terrible. I was like she's terrible, yeah, stacey thanks, she's such a strong character she's probably she's probably my favorite, especially when she's the last book because she's so complex. I get really annoyed with Elaine. She really annoys me for the most of the series, but I feel like you never really know that much about Elaine, like even through the third book
Speaker 2:you get a little bit more development from nesta, you start to learn more about her. But Elaine is I don't know. She. Yeah it. It's kind of hard to like pin her down. Like what does she really like? You know that she's like very kind of like soft spoken and I don't know, just like sweet, but she doesn't have a lot of lines, yeah in the book what is?
Speaker 1:that the right word and she's like not present a lot dialogue.
Speaker 3:That's yeah, she doesn't have a lot of dialogue in the book, so it's kind of hard to figure her out.
Speaker 1:I talked so much shit about her. Watch her books and be incredible and they're like she's totally routine oh, is this? She's getting her own book well, they don't know for sure, but this I think they're she's gonna announce the next book and a guitar and everyone's pretty certain it'll be a little okay, since they've set up like oh well, never mind, because you haven't read that far yet. Just kidding, you haven't read that far yet.
Speaker 3:I know, but I see no tiktok. I know what they're setting up for, so I know why it's gonna be her all the rumors, I don't.
Speaker 1:I really love Lucien. My favorite characters, morgan, I love her. Should I not love her? I love her, I don't like her either, but what go?
Speaker 2:on why don't you like her.
Speaker 1:You gotta get to where Cole is. I think you'll see Cole when you for the book.
Speaker 1:I don't know I just think there's something kind of sketch coming about her. And then once you get all the way down the series and you get on the rabbit hole with people like go hardcore with like these conspiracy theories and like theories of people's characters, and then you're like is she a really great character? I don't know. Is she messing around? Like I don't know? Like I don't know? I can't tell you she ever read it. I like her right now.
Speaker 2:But no, I do, I like her too.
Speaker 1:But it's just like because her she's supposed to be like a truth teller, whatever that's like her power, but then is she. It comes across that she's lying a lot, so like what is it?
Speaker 2:that's like, that's her, her gift, her gift is true teller.
Speaker 1:Yeah am I supposed to know that? It's like a? Isn't like a greek mythology thing they relate her name to and then they say it. It cut like I forget what. I haven't read the whole series in so long. But yeah, that's like her thing is. She's a true teller?
Speaker 2:yeah, that is, I do remember that. Yeah, but to go back Lucian is great, I think you see. So you're how far through the?
Speaker 1:I'm almost done with the second book? Yes, okay they, they, they're done in the cabin like I think they're getting out okay, but she's seen Lucian in the woods.
Speaker 2:Yeah, in the woods, okay and that kind of puts a bitter taste in your mouth from Lucian because he he had the fox mask and everybody called him the fox because you know he might be yeah he might be a little bit more clever and have some kind of ulterior motive. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1:After the fourth book, you're still kind of on edge on Lucian, but he does he has one big redeeming.
Speaker 2:Um what like scene.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah well, better be good, because I don't like him or Tamlin right now. I will just say after, because thrown of glass is done, I know I should it's. I know I can hear them a lot right now. But I will say Sarah is really good at like setting something up and so, like in thrown of glass, she sets something up and then in the sixth book six book I read it came full circle. It was something she like referenced in the first book so she waited like five books to bring it up again. So, like she's really good at setting up, like, yeah, creating like a web, like you have like you picture her just having like this big map and like who's connected to?
Speaker 2:who with all the red pieces of yarn and tacks and like I love writers that do that how they like bring something back like you know jk rolling was really good with harry potter yes, setting up like some big twists in the end and reveals that are awesome.
Speaker 1:You're like, wow, like she really had to plan that one oh yeah, I still remember reading the severest twist when I was reading the books in high school. I mean like oh my god yeah well, you're gonna love manacold if you love that, because talk about an author who's great at yeah, dropping things in the beginning, then it being a big deal later okay yeah right, yeah, manacles, great, there's like before manacold and after manacold. It's just funny because your life change.
Speaker 2:It's just funny because when I.
Speaker 1:It's just funny because when people I love, when people read fan fiction because there's so many great stories there's like all these authors, it sometimes comes off, when you read it, cooler than published work because it's literally they just like writing these stories. It's for free, but you it's like people who've not really heard of it. You can see it like there's news articles about this and like a big thing when it got, when it got picked up by the publisher and all this stuff, and so no people who've never even heard of fan fiction are reading it and they're starting with that and it's just really dark and I'm just like, okay, like, and then you have like the og's.
Speaker 1:Like you know one of the guys we work with me and co work with, who read my immortal in high school, the worst fan fiction of all time. I never heard of it until you explained it earlier. It's ridiculous it's a whole new world. Yeah, all these possibilities, yeah, so, but yeah, I'll be excited to see Manicold and how they change it to be published because, like Ali Hazelwood who did Bride, bride isn't a fan fiction but one of her first books.
Speaker 1:The love hypothesis was originally fan fiction and she just changed the characters, names and stuff yeah so, but if you've read her fan fiction, you can definitely see the Star Wars influence in it. So it'll just be interesting to see how, when you read this versus like the published one next year, to see how she changes the story so that it's because it can't be too much like the characters. Yeah, like an infringement, right, right, do you?
Speaker 2:think it will lose some of its magic, like by having to change so much and I don't know because you have to you kind of now, at this point, where you're in the harry potter world right now you have, she has to create her own yeah world and it's yeah and that's why I think people want to read Manicold it's kind of what I want to read, yeah, just because,
Speaker 1:it's harry potter and that's my fan fiction is so great. Yeah, one of my favorite series.
Speaker 2:Probably is my favorite series of all time um, yeah do you think it'll lose. It depends how good she is.
Speaker 1:I guess because like with Ali's book, it didn't lose anything. Um, I think this will be a lot harder, though, because it's gonna be like because she's keeping the story like a stole, it's like a war story and all this stuff. So it's like is she gonna keep magic in it? And another author who did like the hurricane wars, who was a star wars writer she's an amazing fantasy writer, but she kept all the magic and like stuff in it, but she had to change the whole like fantasy system, so that was different and she did great so for hurricane wars.
Speaker 1:It was great, yeah, so hopefully this one, so I'm interested in what you both would say to.
Speaker 2:So you both love harry potter. You read manacold, but you still love harry potter, so I'm gonna call my wife out right now she doesn't want to read manacold because she loves harry potter and she feels like that will ruin some of the. I guess the magic for just like loving harry potter no, you'll like it better than harry potter.
Speaker 1:Fiend fiction literally fiend fiction literally fixes things that the stories get wrong in the books, I feel like. So I just think of them as two separate things. I love the series, but I grew with sacey. I think fiend fiction fixes a lot of things. For me that doesn't make sense, like I don't think it makes sense that harry and her money didn't end up together. I just will die on this hill.
Speaker 1:I know everybody loves her and drako and fanfiction. I like it, fanfiction too, but they're just stuff in the books they didn't really like, but I still love it. I still love that. It's all my favorite series, just like. I think fan fiction is different, though, just like, yeah, but I mean and it's not even just like I mean especially the Harry Potter fan fiction. I think that some of the characters it expands on more. So you like characters who have small roles, like Pansy is huge in fan fiction and she's my favorite fan fiction yeah.
Speaker 1:But in like Cannon and Harry Potter, her she's so her role so small, it's so one dimensional, she's like this snotty, whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah you don't really see a lot.
Speaker 1:But Pansy and fan fiction is like has a huge long in pockets. Like one of the best in fiction. She's they write her a lot with like Neville long bottom. It's great. So I think, or, harry, I think she would really like it. There's.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, because you can think of it as two different things. But sometimes I'm just like, well, this was better. Like there are some fan fictions that I've read there like an eighth year fic that happens after the war in Harry Potter, and like, well, this is way better than how they ended it in the series and stuff. So we should get her like a really fun fan fiction, like user, into it, like like all the right things, or well, all the right things is great, that's a great one you got to start with. Yeah, that's happy. I really I always recommend like there's one called isolation of people like Harry Potter, and it starts. It literally picks up where the six book ends, on the astronomy tower and it's amazing. And it's instead of Draco running off with Snape, he gets stuck with Hermione and Hermione doesn't go with them at first to hunt her crux and she's a castle.
Speaker 1:I haven't read this though. That one I literally it's like one of the first ones I started reading when I came back in the fan fiction and I truly believe that it was a better seventh book than what you can rally. Wrote it like fixed everything. It's literally like very much like side by side with the other one. And then there's another one called the Disappearances of Draco Malfoy, and it's the same thing. It ends with the astronomy tower scene. But instead of him going off with Snape, he goes with the three of them, and they all four go to work together.
Speaker 2:These are all pretty popular in the fiction world, so interesting.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the dynamic is funny between Harry Draco and Ron. It's great. There's like it's so comedic, but their characters are funny together. Yeah, I think she'd like it she should we'll, we'll, we'll fight, we'll come up with like a small one that she are just like a fun one.
Speaker 2:That would be a part of it too is that Manacal, at least from what I heard or read, is like it's a darker.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you definitely try fiction. Check trigger warnings with that one. Did you watch the Handmaid's Tale? Oh yeah, I read it yeah it's the Handmaid's Tale and Harry Potter mixed together, right? Yeah, no one told Ashley that when she started I think I told Cole already I take a three month break from it. After I read a certain scene, I just like closed it and set on my nightstand for three months before I could like get back into it. Yeah, but which being you know we should have some get to know you.
Speaker 2:Questions for Cole.
Speaker 3:Yeah we just get excited to talk about books.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we haven't talked about fanfiction in a while. Yeah, we haven't ever since. Yeah, we did the Coloxl did Coloxl did all the photos for our rebrand.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh yeah, I don't know. Yeah, and the little reel that we put together as well yeah, he's an amazing photographer.
Speaker 1:He did my engagement photos and my wedding photos. Yeah, it was so fun. Your wedding photos are great, but your engagement photos were beautiful.
Speaker 2:I know I love the engagement photos. That was great. Get the bottle of champagne and the Harry Potter glasses.
Speaker 1:That was so great, I still have those glasses. Yeah, that's really great. They're actually up on my website.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I love those. So if you wanted to go, see it.
Speaker 2:You can check out my website and you can look at Stacy's engagement photos.
Speaker 1:I know everyone jokes around when they see those photos and they're like you talk about Draco mouth when all these blond men so much. And then Pia is a redhead, it's so pale, it's so pale. You married a brawn. I know he doesn't act like brawn, but he does have fiery temper. That's a redhead thing. But yeah, so Col's amazing photographer. He's also a pharmacist, so he's super smart. Nurses get to bug them all day. Okay, I got to tell the story about the first time I met Cole when I started working at the VA.
Speaker 2:Do I know the story? Yeah, I don't know. Do I know the story? It's one of my favorite ones.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I work with Cole. He's a pharmacist in the emergency room where I work, and this was a long time ago, like five years ago, I think.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I forget what I was asking you. I didn't really know you at the time. I came to ask him a question about a medication and he's telling me about it, and that's. You start talking about him, like oh, he's really smart, like he's just like pulling us out of the set, and then you start writing notes.
Speaker 2:He sounds so much better than I am.
Speaker 1:No he starts writing these notes out and I'm just like, oh, that's interesting. He starts drawing like the chemical, like drawing like with the circles and the lines you know talking about for chemistry.
Speaker 2:And I was literally like.
Speaker 1:I have no idea what this is Like.
Speaker 2:I'm a little bit nerdy or back, then I don't feel like I would do that anymore.
Speaker 1:Yes, you would have a story after it was so great I was drawing aromatic rings and telling you to explain something. I was just like I barely passed basic chemistry in college, like barely like. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:Like I had to retake it once and I was just like he must think I'm really smart, because I have no idea what this is, and I instantly knew I was like he's gonna be great to hang out with you kind of did this when we were hanging out one day this was a while ago when we got tacos at this place down the street here and then we went to the bar and we had like a margarita and I mean like I wasn't drunk or anything, but I had a couple I wasn't drunk, I was just really tipsy and I had like made some joke or something about Molly, because we were talking about Katie goes to Raves and sometimes and you were describing like breaking down why you would never do this.
Speaker 2:Oh my goodness. Yeah, I probably did. I'm way more of a nerd than I think.
Speaker 1:I thought and I just remember thinking I will never do Molly, You've killed drugs for me I was just talking about, like the dopamine and serotonergic release.
Speaker 2:Oh dear God, I can't believe I did that.
Speaker 1:No, I think Ashley told me I was like wow, I'll never do. Molly, that sounds terrible. I'm totally not worth the gain of the beginning of it. We love nerds on this spot. Yeah, like Ashley can talk. When I went to see the first dude movie with Ashley, she'd already seen it like at least once or twice. I loved it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the first movie, great, I think it. What I think on Run Tomatoes? It got like a.
Speaker 1:it didn't get great reviews.
Speaker 2:I can't, I don't want to say it because I can't remember, but the newest one is like 95.
Speaker 1:But I think it's gone up even I think it's like 96.
Speaker 2:And yeah, but I still love the first one, and even I've listened to the soundtrack over and over really, I haven't seen the second one either it's on my, it's on my list.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's like the first dude amazing.
Speaker 2:Can't wait to see the second dude.
Speaker 1:Well, when we went to see it, I finally went to see with Ashley. I need you to understand cool the whole, because she's read all the books. She's like really obsessed with it. For some reason You've read all the books, what she's like they're slow obsessed with that the originals.
Speaker 2:Oh, the originals, yeah, not the his son. The main, yeah, the main writer the son is Frank Herbert. Yes, yeah, you're right, because he dies and writing the second or third book.
Speaker 1:I thought he wrote more than that.
Speaker 2:Did he I'll have to check.
Speaker 1:I think he wrote the first five first five Okay didn't his son like finish one?
Speaker 2:or something. He's still writing them, I think picked them up.
Speaker 1:I know, but actually I spent the theater for two and a half hours literally breaking down everything in detail what's happening, and I loved it because I didn't watch any of the old movies, I hadn't seen any of them, I didn't know anything that happened, so, like, I went into it completely blind. And then here's actually like and this is this and this is this, and this means this, and this is exciting, because at least this is this.
Speaker 2:So, after reading the books, how do you feel? Like you've only seen the first movie. I saw the second one on Friday. So how she?
Speaker 1:didn't get the popcorn bucket and I'm very disappointed. Yeah, I'm so disappointed, thank, you Cool, you need it.
Speaker 2:That's the reason you go. You get the popcorn I can't eat popcorn right now.
Speaker 1:She already broke a bracket. I didn't meant. Chanel already braided me on your podcast about it. Shoot, I wasn't. The issue was is that I had been eating men's. I wasn't chewing them, I just sucking on them.
Speaker 2:Well, I think any guy would tell you you could still get the popcorn bucket. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:For the aesthetic reasons.
Speaker 2:Yeah, exactly For the aesthetic reasons. Yeah, yeah, it's like so funny. Object of decor to just have around the house, you know didn't get it.
Speaker 1:You could put it on your bookshelf.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you could put other things in the bucket you know what else Flowers flowers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:You really class it up, you can use it as be a nice base.
Speaker 1:You're right, Stacy Like a giant butthole, but we can put flowers. It does look like a class. Church it up, Church it up.
Speaker 2:I think they knew what they were doing, Like I think everybody everybody's like oh haha. Like, look at this bucket, I can't believe like some marketing team came up with this, but I think the marketing team was genius. Yeah, because that's everywhere on Reddit.
Speaker 1:That's, everyone talks about everybody's body just because of that. Yeah, t shirts about the popcorn bucket. Yeah, people knew what they were doing. But yeah, we love nerds on this podcast, the nerdy or the better. I mean, just look at me, I got everyone in our department reading fanfiction. That's true.
Speaker 2:Stacy, I think is the leader of our e yeah of emergency department like in terms of like what people should read, like.
Speaker 2:But you're pretty good, I think and I would say this is true even just with like movies or series, like whenever we would sit down and talk, and I think you're pretty good at figuring out what people would like, because every time you'd be like, oh, I just watched this series, like oh, you wouldn't really like that one, but this other series you would love. And every time you said you would love this series, I love that series.
Speaker 1:That makes me so happy so. I feel like you're pretty good at that's a talent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I like reading people and figuring out what they would like.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, you've been a bit. You have been a big influence on the department and now there's the book club.
Speaker 1:book club is started, which you're not leading, but I wish I'd be a part of it more, but they read separate books and so then I just feel like I can't. I'll have you know. Like you know how, ashley said she's reading three books earlier. So I'm reading bride right now, I'm still reading throne of glass and I've been reading this Kendall unlimited book series on my phone at the same time. So like I'm also read, so I told one of the girls at work I was like I cannot commit to anything else Because it'll kill me. No, more.
Speaker 3:But I think there's.
Speaker 2:There's like eight or nine people now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's really cool. The club so that's fun, yeah, and they're doing a sci fi book this month. They're doing that Hail Mary book, the guy who wrote the Martian oh yeah, the Martian.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the one that in the movie Matt Damon.
Speaker 1:Yeah it plays the movie.
Speaker 2:Oh, great movie.
Speaker 1:I know people love it. I haven't seen it. I like Matt Damon. Yeah, a lot of suspense drama Mars.
Speaker 2:That's like psychology, like you know because he's alone. Yeah, he's all alone and he has to figure all the stuff out to stay alive. And it's really cool Like you're rooting for him the whole time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the movie.
Speaker 2:It's really, it's really cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's your list of things. I have to finish.
Speaker 3:I've said I never read that book, I feel like that would be a good book.
Speaker 1:I have the Hail Mary book that they're reading. I used to not read. I mean, I have so many books that I haven't read, then I just keep buying more books that I do read and it's a bad circle problem. Never is Well speaking of what is your favorite book Cole.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, my favorite book of all time is actually. This is really funny because like just bought it. It's. It's actually a kid's book, but it's. I think it's like one of those nostalgic things. For me it's Mrs Frisbee and the Rats of Nim, and this is going to be. This is going to sound pretty nerdy, but did you guys have like AR I can't remember what it's called like in school, where you would read a book for like a certain number of points?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, stacey, like won the contest. Yeah, I read the most books of all my school. Oh my God, this is so funny. Of course you would. I single handed you were destined to have your own podcast because yeah, that's so funny, so that's so.
Speaker 2:I was like I do know what AR is and I do know that I read a lot of books I haven't heard of that book, so yeah, so AR and I think, mrs Frisbee, I think I read it when I was like in third grade, because I think that's when our school like, that's when you could start. It was like in third grade and usually I think teachers use it for, like you get so many points and then you get some kind of reward, and our reward at school was that I think once you got to 50 points, you could. It is so, so weird, but they would set up this table. It was still in the cafeteria but it was way off to the side where you got to choose anybody in your class to go and like sit at the separate table for two and you got your own like separate lunch.
Speaker 1:It wasn't just like your tray lunch Like you got like actually good food, which I don't know what it even was.
Speaker 2:But, yeah, so like chose my best friend, scott, and me and Scott, you know we got to eat lunch by ourselves in the corner with, like they even had, candles, it sounds kind of romantic.
Speaker 1:But when you're in third grade you're like this is so cool.
Speaker 2:Like I'm just eating, you know, lunch with my best friend.
Speaker 1:Everyone's joy. And yeah, I can see everybody over there.
Speaker 2:They're just at the crappy little tables, and they're crappy little chairs and we get this nice wooden table.
Speaker 1:They're either square pizzas, government cheese, I remember.
Speaker 2:I think so. Third grade. That was when I read the first Harry Potter book which was worth a decent amount of points. And I remember I wasn't really like looking for, like, oh, I might like this book, might like this book. I was looking at points because I was like oh, if I read one more book and I could get enough points to have my 50 points, and then I could get my lunch with my best friend, you know, and so I saw.
Speaker 2:I can't remember how many points it was worth. I'm just going to make it up and say like it was 14. So I saw it. I was like, oh, this book's 14. So I just grabbed it and I started reading it and I loved it.
Speaker 1:I loved it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's, uh, it's to not spoil anything, because I think it's a really good book in general, but it's about this family of mice where one of the mice is really sick, and there's also this other story going on with these lab rats that have essentially been bred until they get smarter and smarter and smarter, until they become like sentient like sentient rats and uh. It's a very interesting story to uh to.
Speaker 1:Read and as it unfolds? Yeah, it's it's probably my favorite book of all time. Have you reread it as an adult then?
Speaker 2:You know, I just bought it because I was like I'm also, I really want to start Like my own collection of books.
Speaker 1:I know, people collect everything you know.
Speaker 2:But I think I want to be like a collector of books and you should add their trophies. Yeah, like Katie, my uh, my now wife, her, her uncle has always bought her books for like birthdays, christmas and they're like. The I don't know what you would call it like the higher level of edition of books. They're all like slipcases like special edition. Yes, but they're all like well-renowned books, like he's gotten us grapes of wrap and. Dracula and um All these, like you know, classic classic books.
Speaker 2:That everybody should read, like he's always gotten those, and so I also would like to start collecting books so that we just have this like awesome library, you know there's, they make so many beautiful editions of books.
Speaker 1:Uh, theo laughs at me and actually kind of laughs too, but I have like six editions of Cersei Because that's my favorite book and so anytime there's like. It was so funny because, like two weeks ago so there was this special argentinian like edition of Cersei with painted edges, he did not buy another one. Theo saw me on my phone. He goes you are not ordering another one of that same book. And I was like but look, it's blue and like the edges are sprayed and it's in a different language.
Speaker 3:It is nice, I would.
Speaker 1:So no, I think having books are great like especially the cool special editions and. Going back to like books you read when you're kids. That was me reading. Series of unfortunate events.
Speaker 2:Like I love that. Oh, you were obsessed with that. It's like when you're young, like that gets you a lot of a our points.
Speaker 3:If you read a series of unfortunate events, I remember that yeah they're big.
Speaker 1:I never read those. Yeah, they're great.
Speaker 2:Let me sneak it. Yeah, they're great. That's not his real name, that's his like writer name.
Speaker 1:I don't know what his real name is, but that's another reason I like so much is like a kid in middle school and stuff is because he just wrote books for like kids that were a little more serious than like necessary, you know, and they're very they're like funny, but it's like there's a lot of suspense because, there's.
Speaker 3:In like many like 12. Yeah, there's 12 of them. 12 of them. Yeah, yeah, and there was one movie Jim Carrey was the he was old. Oh, it's Olaf, I think it is.
Speaker 1:Olaf. Yeah, I must have said no, it's not Olaf, but it is. Yeah, it was good. There was a series, though, too, where it was.
Speaker 2:Neil Patrick.
Speaker 1:Harris, but they cancelled it halfway through and it was a really good I can imagine I mean it was really good the the movie I thought was actually pretty good, it does the first three books in one movie. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Um, but the books are very, very good and I think most like young teens.
Speaker 1:Adolescents would.
Speaker 2:Would really like them. I love them.
Speaker 1:I just like, but I just love books. I have like that nostalgic feeling when you read them. Yeah, and also we got subway for our a, our points.
Speaker 3:Oh, nice, yeah, that's, great.
Speaker 1:Do you remember you got to eat in the library and you got to eat subway.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1:Oh, it was amazing.
Speaker 2:I love that other people have these experiences, that it was like the subway party sub and it was just like all these other nerdy kids and we're like, yeah, we're at subway the library, everyone else has to eat the cafeteria.
Speaker 1:today it was really great. I don't think I ever got a lot of points to do that. I don't know why I didn't read like that.
Speaker 2:But it sounds fun. A subway party would have been fun.
Speaker 1:But it's just funny because when me and Theo first moved in together we were like putting stuff up in the garage and he was like a swimmer in high school and play like basketball and all this stuff and I'll only sports trophies and then I had like one small toe of like stuff from school and it was like all reading awards.
Speaker 2:He had a bunch of plaques.
Speaker 3:I had a bunch of plaques, yeah, and I was.
Speaker 1:He was like you're such a nerd. I was like I know, yeah, I love it. That's a good favorite book.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know that yeah.
Speaker 1:Oh, sorry, my dream was unwinded. I can't believe so easily now, when I talk too much or get excited, it's a pregnancy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, how far along 30 weeks.
Speaker 1:Oh my god, amazing. Okay, what's your favorite? If you had to pick between, I feel like you're gonna pick Harry Potter, but Harry Potter, star Wars and Lord of the Rings. What's your favorite fantasy world? Do you think yeah?
Speaker 2:Harry Potter, and I think it's because it's so fun like looking back. When I read Lord of the Rings, I was. I read the first book in high school Then.
Speaker 3:I finished it and like the song.
Speaker 2:I read one book each summer of college.
Speaker 1:But they're not. Lord of the Rings is not an easy read.
Speaker 2:No, it is. It is a long.
Speaker 1:I've heard that like churn sometimes.
Speaker 2:Like I just remember, like there's like one chapter where he's like talking about About a tree, you know, and it's like just describing the tree and you're like, oh my gosh, like.
Speaker 1:I'm ready for the action again, yeah yeah, and so I love it.
Speaker 2:like you know, once it's all like said and done, you're like, wow, like that was amazing, like he's such a good writer and he uses words in ways it's just like wow, this guy's like a wordsmith. His vocabulary, you know, exceeds most writers like way beyond you know, and. I think Harry Potter is just like you. It's a book you never want to put down, like sometimes reading Lord of the Rings. You get bored.
Speaker 1:You're like okay, I'm ready for something else, you know, and then Star Wars.
Speaker 2:I've never actually read the books, but I love the movies yeah the movies are so good, um, but I think also growing up with the characters like we're literally the same age.
Speaker 1:It's like the nostalgia yeah, it's like I grew up with them.
Speaker 2:They're like my friends.
Speaker 1:We're like literally the same age, just the cast and everything. Now still, oh yeah, and you always like yeah, you're like when am I gonna get?
Speaker 2:my letter, you know, to Hogwarts. Like I'm ready.
Speaker 1:I can remember getting the book at midnight with my mom at Walmart. Do you remember? Mom put us a Walmart at midnight to get the fifth book. Do you remember when the first book came out, our teacher read it to our Class. Yeah, uh-huh, that was amazing because we were, I remember preordering the seventh book and yeah, at Barnes and Noble. I can't remember.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't remember what it was at the time, how much it was, but it wasn't from a rich family or anything, but I remember my mom being like well, why don't you just get it like when it gets to the library? You know it was probably, like you know, $30. Yeah, but I'm like you don't understand, mom. I have to have this book. I need to read it first.
Speaker 1:I gotta read it before someone tells me what happens in the end. That happened to Stacy. One of my friends told me the end of what happened with Dumbledore in the sixth book before I finished it.
Speaker 3:It's like it burned in my brain. I'll never forget how mad you are.
Speaker 1:And then I read the last book and I'll never forget.
Speaker 2:like nine hours I stood up all night reading because I was like no one is reading this for me. Yeah, I think I had it. Yeah, I think I'd read the whole thing like within a week, like the seventh book.
Speaker 1:Stacy, remember we went to all the midnight release things for twilight at Barnes and Noble. Oh yeah, there's like midnight release parties for the books. We're so cool. Yeah, we were. We're the coolest. I had a shirt. This said stupid Liam.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for part, for part one. I remember Going to the midnight show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think it's one of the only midnight showings that I've actually been to we went to every single Harry Potter midnight showing yes, we did all eight of them. When we were in middle school, our group of friends, do you remember? This week to rake leaves for, and at like 12 hours one saturday. We raked leaves all day to pay for.
Speaker 2:Tickets and pizza and our parents took us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because we also didn't come from like some rich family. My mom is like no, she's like you can go like make, which is fine. Like we did it.
Speaker 3:I mean all of our friends are like five of us, right, yeah.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was like the most hard work for piece of pizza ever. Yeah, harry Potter was worth it. I'm so worried. Yeah, that's all these nostalgic memories I know right. Yeah, you're such a good soul, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So Harry Potter, yeah. Final answer Harry Potter, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, since the book this month is about werewolves and vampires, what do you like better, werewolves or vampires? If you could be one, which one would you be?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think vampires are so cool, like I love.
Speaker 1:I love vampires. Yeah, I would, yeah, I would inevitably choose the vampire. She's literally like. I wish I was on a mic right now. She's a werewolf?
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I just I said even like we have the book Dracula. I've never read Dracula, so I need to.
Speaker 1:I read it recently. I need to read that, yeah, and it's an old, it's an older book. Like it's a little sexist but it's good. It's scary it is, but I mean it's look at when it was written yeah, it's four at the time.
Speaker 2:Have you ever seen the movie what we do in the shadows?
Speaker 1:Yes, you watch the show.
Speaker 2:I've never seen the show.
Speaker 1:It's just as good as like Dairy Girls. It is just like.
Speaker 2:Matiti, yeah, I get that right. Yes, it's, it's him, and it's so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, tv shows a masterpiece, If you think the shows, if you think the movies, I think the movies.
Speaker 2:I love the movie the show is literally 10 times better than the movie and I don't think I had seen it like on like a reddit, like list of like Movies you've never heard of but are actually like great incredible, yeah, and it was because it was like an indie.
Speaker 3:Movie right, like it, I don't was it in theaters? I don't think so if it wasn't theaters, it didn't get a lot of press but, it's an at least
Speaker 2:10 years.
Speaker 1:It's, it's definitely. Yeah, it's at least 10 years probably.
Speaker 2:But so clever, like love the movie and it's kind of like you know, if vampires were actually real in today's world, like how would they be? Like they probably like want to go out and go clubbing and you know like be a part of the whole yeah. Be a part of like society but like, yeah, maybe have like a human friend as well.
Speaker 1:And that's what's so funny. That's what the TV shows about. Literally the whole first episode is just like yeah, we came to America to take it over like 400 years ago, and it's just them living in New Jersey.
Speaker 3:Hang it out, just chill it.
Speaker 1:You would, yeah, with the type of shows you like, you have such good taste, you would. You'll watch it.
Speaker 2:And, oh my god, it makes me think that that made me I think you know twilight like you know, uh, especially with the movies Mm-hmm, a lot of people didn't like it like People love the books but a lot of people didn't like the, the movies and everything.
Speaker 1:But what we do in the shadows was like a big redeemer for vampires.
Speaker 2:It was great.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a great one. I recently watched Um. Did you know that Eddie Murphy's a vampire? Vampires in berkland here we go. Yeah, they've never heard of that. Angela bassets in it, I have heard of it. Yeah, so that was a vampire movie I watched recently with theo and actually didn't believe me that Eddie Murphy's a vampire and it's just great. He's just like really great.
Speaker 2:I imagine he. Yeah, imagine he's hilarious, everything he's in, yeah, funny.
Speaker 1:So that's great. Um, I'm a vampire girl, so I mean I like werewolves. You want numbered?
Speaker 2:your werewolf girl? No, she's no. Chanel is the only one.
Speaker 1:She's on a little Loan deserted, deserted island, all alone with her you know this book, bride.
Speaker 2:I'm liking them more. Yeah, I like how Ali rides her werewolves.
Speaker 1:I do like the aspect of like fates or mates are really big with werewolves. I like that a whole lot. But Excuse me, sorry, cut that out. You couldn't even hear anything, you just drew attention to it. I don't know, I'm embarrassed. Um but I, I don't know. I like werewolves, I like the shifting thing, but I think it'd be cool if you could shift into something more than just a werewolf, like maybe that'd be cooler than being a vampire, like being a shifter. But why would you want to shift into a safe?
Speaker 2:like Tamlin.
Speaker 1:Yeah like. Tamlin's powers really fucking cool. I don't like a bird. I don't know. Have you seen the tiktok going around with people that are like I can't wait for the akatar series to come out? And all these people who've never read the book get like a tamlin tattoo after the first?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I see.
Speaker 1:Later, oh my gosh. It's so true though, supposedly because Hulu was supposed to make a series for akatar and it got dropped, but I've heard that, like HBO is trying to pick it up?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it'd be a great HBO one, because HBO always Kind of gives to that line. Yeah, of like a little more nudity, more colorful language. You know I mean hell if they can do euphoria, I feel like you can do about anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I'm here for the nudity.
Speaker 2:I love euphoria by the way, that's a good show.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's off the rails very dark. Yeah, that is off the rails.
Speaker 2:If you're a happy, bubbly, cheery person. Yeah that's Not one. I would advise you watching.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's just like a train wreck the whole time. But, I was just like we. I had a very different kind of high school experience that these kids had. I think everybody did.
Speaker 2:I think you know it's portrayed as like oh, this is like the mainstream. High school experience but no, like I think we, you know, even going to like a small country school, like you knew, like some of that happened, like in the fray, yeah, you know, but that is, that was not mainstream.
Speaker 1:That was not yeah, everybody's experience. So I see Sam for nine hours reading Harry Potter and high school. Look at all these parties doing drugs and you're just like having the best time of their lives. It's me sitting in my bed with like my Ninja.
Speaker 2:Turtle blanket written.
Speaker 1:Harry Potter. It's a 17 year old. It's fine. Okay, can we have any more questions? To get to Nicole, what?
Speaker 2:do we usually ask. Well, I will say I like about like reading and stuff I so for in the world of pharmacy. If you want to specialize in any like one, like specialty, you know. So for me, emergency medicine, but there's, like you know, intensive care, pediatric oncology.
Speaker 2:If you want to have your own specialty you need to do two years of residency which residency very similar to like medical residency, where you're doing a research project and you rotate between all of the specialties to just kind of get like a fast-paced learning introduction to healthcare. And so I did two years of residency and because you're working so hard and it's like there's never not a night where you can get home and just relax, you're like you know your preceptor's giving you some study you need to read and or you have some kind of presentation or some kind of like research thing to work on. I after so through residency and then afterwards, probably like three years into my career, like I did not read any books.
Speaker 2:So it's really only for the last two two and a half years now where I've gotten back into reading and I love it, because I used to read a lot before residency and even in college.
Speaker 3:It kind of falls off but I think it does for most people you know you're.
Speaker 2:You got a lot of work to do but residency really killed it for me so it's finally coming back and now I feel like I'm diving in and getting a lot, getting really into reading again and yeah, like I said, I'm collecting more books now and it's really exciting. So that's kind of my reading history.
Speaker 1:I love it, though, but I think reading is getting such like a more like popular positive thing right now too, with social media and stuff, and there's just so many good series and books out there right now, yeah, but I don't think I read anything in nursing school.
Speaker 2:hardly at all, I will say I think like TikTok and Reels, like as much as you want to hate them, for you know sucking people's time and you can do the death scroll, but you do you see a lot of like book related things and then you're kind of like oh, like I want to read that.
Speaker 1:And I kind of like that you know, social media has stimulated more reading yeah or made it more mainstream, maybe that's why I wanted to read Acotar. Yes, everything that I'd seen on TikTok about it and people were obsessed with it yeah, honestly, I think that's how I heard about it too was everyone was talking about it on social media and I was like well, I should probably read this.
Speaker 1:It's great. It's my favorite series right now. Just wait till you pass more than the second book. You know I will say when I was in nursing school, I reread the entire Harry Potter series, so I was so stressed out all the time. But yeah, I remember that you did that. Did you just read some of them recently too? Yeah, yeah, I haven't read them in a long time. It's been like on my list of things, but then my list is so long, so who knows?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've heard the audiobooks are really good.
Speaker 3:Excellent 10 out of 10. Oh, that's how you did it.
Speaker 1:Right yeah.
Speaker 3:Audio books.
Speaker 1:I not in nursing school, but recently I've been re listening to them on audiobook. So good yeah, our friend Danny, he listens to it all the time. Hold us in his car listening to random Harry Potter books.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, especially, you are like our age and grew up on we mean really young, yeah, super young. We're actually going to be 35 this week. Little babies, little fresh babies out in the world.
Speaker 3:But how do you?
Speaker 2:feel about the series that's going to be coming out. Are you nervous, excited?
Speaker 1:I'm intrigued. I mean, obviously I'm going to watch it. I feel like we're all a little on edge, though, yeah.
Speaker 2:Because we don't. We love the movies, Mm-hmm. We love the books. I feel like we don't want that to be ruined.
Speaker 1:I feel like they could have done like a Marauder series or something why? Won't they do Marauders, which would have been interesting, because the story is so loose with that, like you just know how it ends. They could do so much with it. I was sad. I was hoping that's what they were going to announce, plus like the 70s, it would have been great.
Speaker 1:I think it'll be good. Yeah, I was just talking to our friend Miguel, his girlfriend Lindsay they were, we just did a bonus episode with them, but she said that she was reading that right now they're trying to find the showrunner for the series and they're having, I guess it's three different people they've narrowed it down to and they're all writing the first, like two episodes, and then they're going to pick. That's cool. That's a cool way to do it, interesting. Yeah, and I heard Tom Felton's going to be in the series. Yeah, I heard he's going to be outlooshes.
Speaker 2:And it's going to be every season is its own book. I wonder how that'll go because, like you, know their kids and at least like with the movies, they they did it like basically subsequently, year after year. But a season takes a long time. I wonder if they'll be able to turn them out or if it'll be like Stranger Things, where those kids are like 40 now I know. So it's just like high school Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they'll definitely have to once they like figured all out, like go, go, go. I feel like it'll have to be like a. It's kind of like I think Avatar.
Speaker 2:Aren't they doing that? They're like yeah, they've already, like I don't know if they've finished filming for the first season. Oh the oh, you're talking airbender.
Speaker 3:I was talking about the movie.
Speaker 1:Avatar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the movie Avatar, I think like they, as soon as they finished the second in movie, they immediately started on to the third, so that the kids weren't too old, yeah Because they didn't want the there's. I think they've even said like the Stranger Things effect, like that.
Speaker 1:Quotes yeah, because it's true, they do look so old now, it's true? Yeah, right, right.
Speaker 2:But okay, but yeah, to go to your airbender. So my wife and I just finished the live action series of that which I think favorite animated series of all time.
Speaker 1:It's so great, I think.
Speaker 2:Avatar the last airbender. I've never seen it.
Speaker 1:It's good. I know people love it, it's so good, ashley, you have to watch it. I think you would really like it. I probably would. She now loves it yeah it's.
Speaker 2:It's so good I mean it's like it's a kid's show, but it's also I feel like it is also made for adults. Yeah, it's pretty deep, you know yeah, it's very deep, it handles you know, some like deep topics, while keeping it fairly light and funny.
Speaker 3:Yeah exactly, it holds your attention.
Speaker 2:The character development, like the arcs on all the characters are perfection, like chef's kids. So the anime series all time favorite and I think whenever you take some and all three seasons have 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Speaker 3:And I think they ended.
Speaker 2:They ended it at a perfect time. It's like we were talking about Fleabag before we started recording like Fleabag perfect, perfect they finished right when they needed to like. It's still left you wanting more which is the best time to end it. You're like, this is so great, I want more, but you love that feeling you never go like.
Speaker 1:it went on too long.
Speaker 2:They should be right, you don't even like yeah they knew they knew how to stop it. Yeah, they, and I think that's another one of my favorite, you know many series it's yeah, two seasons, but the live action for Avatar and I think there there really is like you can read through, I don't know, like Twitter threads or Reddit, you know, subreddits regarding the movie and it has a lot of hate and I think it's just because you took a perfect series.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you're never going to. Yeah, you're never going to achieve that.
Speaker 2:And you know where you have like 20, some episodes per season in the animated series, like you get eight episodes in the live action, so you just have to go so quick. There's a lot that gets caught out and I think, like Katara, for instance, like you, really like the first season really focuses on her, like waterbending development and like she has to overcome like some, like psychology of like her, like her fears or confidence.
Speaker 2:And she has a great arc even just in the first season, but that really gets dropped yeah they had to change it in the live action.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And then all of a sudden, you get to the like the season finale and it's like how did she become?
Speaker 1:and she's so powerful, yeah, right, and she's like whooping on these dudes and you like, I love that, like build and a character it just got dropped because, especially in the first season, when, like she wasn't allowed to do it and like, like you said, it's like this emotional, like blocker stuff, it is hard, but it is way better than the movie, though. Yeah, oh for sure, I've never.
Speaker 2:I've never even seen the movie. I've heard terrible things, yeah people hated the movie and so I never watched it. But but the live action I mean for what it is, it's not bad, it's not bad, and I mean the some of the characters that they cast, like I thought Saka was a very, very good cast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's one of my favorite.
Speaker 2:He plays that character very well. I think, Zuko I initially was very cautious of and I was like ah, like I don't know, but he grows on me.
Speaker 1:He's my favorite character. Yeah, he's. He's great. He's like the guy the bad boy redemption arc.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like the firebreaker and I think Bunkle is, I think he gets cast pretty well, I think he was great, but I think Azula she that's what Theo said to about that he didn't like that either.
Speaker 1:He was huge into it too, so he he didn't like that party there, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I like Azula the character or the her the actress. I don't know her name, but he said he said the same thing.
Speaker 1:He's like I just don't get.
Speaker 2:It doesn't look like yeah, yeah, she doesn't fit her, I think because Azula in the animated series is so evil and she just looks evil yeah. And the girl who plays Azula in the live action just looks too nice.
Speaker 1:Like more annoyed. She looks like annoyed with Okay yeah, but I like that they picked it up for the next two seasons, because I think they're just going to film it back to back because they're young characters.
Speaker 2:They are young.
Speaker 1:We don't want that stranger things effect.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't want the stranger things.
Speaker 1:Although I can't wait for the new season, they better bring Eddie back 30 years old.
Speaker 2:I can't wait.
Speaker 1:Read so much Eddie Munson and Steve.
Speaker 2:Perry Just read something. Did they just finish the script?
Speaker 3:I don't know, I read something too, yeah.
Speaker 2:So, now that the writer's strike is over, I think a lot of these shows that we've kind of been waiting for will get you for you, that's another one, like they got.
Speaker 1:I heard that they're having a hard time because now all the actresses and actors are so famous.
Speaker 2:They don't know they can afford to have them on the show. Yeah, they've done a lot since then.
Speaker 1:Like what's her face? Sweeney Sydney.
Speaker 2:Sweeney, yeah, like how could she?
Speaker 1:I don't know how they could afford to work, let alone the guy who plays Nate Jacobs. Like I know, you watch Saltburn.
Speaker 2:Oh my god.
Speaker 3:You didn't watch.
Speaker 1:Saltburn. Well, that's on your list. You gotta watch it.
Speaker 2:It's so great. What's it?
Speaker 1:on Prime Prime. Okay, go free. What's the give?
Speaker 2:me the 36,000 foot view.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's about the guy who plays I can't think of. His real name is right now he's in it, the guy who plays Nate Jacobs, and he's this like super rich, like old money English guy and he goes. It takes place in Oxford and it's about one of his friends is a classmate coming to stay with them for the summer in their castle and it's unhinged.
Speaker 2:Don't, don't give him, just let him go into a blind.
Speaker 1:Okay, but there was this meme that was like people watching Saltburn. It's like people have been reading fanfictions, like it could have been worse. Could have been worse. Write a lot worse.
Speaker 2:I can't wait to hear you think about it. That's on your homework. Yeah, I am looking for a new show because I just finished the live action of Avatar.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a great cast. What's the best friend? Oh, it's Barry. He's that Irish actor who was in. He was in like killing of the secret deer and let me pull him up. He was in a movie that me and Skyler just watched that had. Why can I think of people's names right now? Him.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, yeah, he was also in Fantastic Beasts, oh.
Speaker 1:Kogan. Oh yeah, he was the movie's excellent. Yeah, skyler was not a fan of it.
Speaker 3:The band.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he was in the Irish movie. The band's banshees of I can't say it right. I don't want to say it wrong because I sound like such a hick, but yeah, that was up for a best movie last year. It was an excellent movie off the rails, but it was good. Oh, I never saw the internals. He was in the internals, that normal movie.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he was in internals as well. Yeah, I forgot about that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, solburn.
Speaker 2:Solburn Okay.
Speaker 1:We should definitely end on you watching Solburn and go back to Tulsa. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:You have to come back to.
Speaker 3:Tulsa, you think?
Speaker 1:you want to wrap it up, then you want to do some kudos, yeah, okay, so I obviously want to kudos Cole for coming and spending the afternoon with us on this beautiful day. This is fun In Indiana because it's never always this nice and it is beautiful. Today I have to go for a walk. It's so great, it's so nice to hang out outside of work and pick your brain.
Speaker 2:All stuff, books and what I'm not drawing structures.
Speaker 1:apparently we love that you like vampires more than werewolves. I'm sure Chanel is in all of it too. Yeah, and I want to kudos Ashley for bringing me coffee and croissants this morning before we came in, and it's been a great Monday. What a great Monday. Oh yeah, it is Monday. I mean it'll be Tuesday when you guys listen, but it's a great Monday. Here in Indianapolis it feels like a weekend right now. It does. Yeah, my kudos is also for Cole, because you're amazing and we've been trying to eat you on for a while, so fine work out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're working schedule and trying to get everything lined up, but it's just hard when everyone works in like a medical field and we don't work like nine to five. Cole works the schedule where he has like a week on, week off. Ashley kind of has a set schedule, but I definitely do now too I definitely do not have a set schedule. I work a lot of weekends so it's hard to swing anything with me. Yeah, so thanks for making time for us.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, being so fine Long time listener First time Can't say caller, caller.
Speaker 1:First time yeah.
Speaker 2:First time on the cast.
Speaker 1:And yeah, you're my only kudos. Stacey and Chanel are okay. We're okay. Yeah, that's fine. And now my kudos is also for Stacey and Chanel. She's poor Chanel. She's like stuck at work right now. She's got a bunch of homework due.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's a busy time these are busy for her, so yeah, great.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:So what Do you want to do? Any kudos, or you can oh, oh kudos. Well, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thanks for having me on the cast to both of you. Yeah, I think it's uh, that's like for it to have or to let somebody come on your podcast. It's like a big deal. It means you don't only like them, but you trust them.
Speaker 1:Well, it's because we love you, yeah, and you're a top tier friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, only top tier friends get to make the podcast, so thank you for having me on.
Speaker 1:You want to lead us out today? Yeah, we hope everyone has a great week and stay safe and make sure you really like