The gang talks fandom and franchises: our favorites, series we want more of, series we can do without and series we’d like to see made. Funny enough, we don’t argue about Star Wars, not once!

*Important Note*

As a note, while the mic picked up everyone, we also did not adjust the mic enough, so there are moments where the audio would be loud enough to blow out someone's speakers. We tried our best to edit and adjust it, but some of the audio still sounds distorted.

Timestamps

00:00:00 - Intros

00:00:30 - Adaptations and Franchises

00:01:00 - Whitney Fast and The Furious

00:35:00 - Seque, Whose Your Favorite Batman?

00:12:45 - Sherlock Holmes discourse

00:15:39 - Tabrizia Scream

00:17:05 - Evelyn The Muppets

00:18:35 - Tessa Pokemon

00:20:45 - Chris Spider-Man/Assassin’s Creed

00:30:40 - Franchises That Should Stop Being Made

00:31:00 - Disney’s Lost Magic

00:38:55 - 9-1-1 Rant

00:47:15 - Not a Franchise per se…

00:52:45 - Live Action Disney Strikes Again

00:54:30 - Let a Villain Be a Villain

01:09:05 - Mission: Impossible is the Last Action Movie

01:19:45 - Give Us Romance Movies Again

01:25:45 - Weak Hero

01:27:45 - A Book TV or Movie That You Would Like to See a Sequel or Reboot

01:42:10 - Outro

The gang brings back talking about books we’re reading and shows we’re watching. We also touch on fandom culture and community. And Tessa talks about her trip abroad in Tokyo and Manilla.

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Timestamps

00:00:00 - Intros

00:00:42 - Welcome Back Tessa

00:01:50 - Tokyo Highlights

00:20:50 - Manilla Highlights

00:23:20 - Beginnings of Fandom

00:30:35 - Philippine Book Festival

00:35:54 - What We’re Reading / Watching

00:36:50 - Girl Mode and Lunar Boy mention by Whitney

00:37:24 - Daredevil Born Again

The Pitt - Whitney

00:42:46 - Adolescence - Tabrizia

00:49:45 - The Knight’s Shadow / The Greatcoats Series - Chris

00:54:50 - American Psycho - Evelyn

01:02:25 - META / AI Using Publishers and Authors as “Training”

01:06:55 - Fandoms!!

01:32:18 - What We’re Looking Forward To

01:36:50 - Outro

Welcome to a very special episode of the Fake Book Club Podcast! The Gang will be interviewing Tabrizia, creator of the book blog, Cup of Tea with That Book, Please, in celebration of 10 years of books, blogging and tea!

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Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast season two, episode two! We’re catching up and talking about some recent controversies and disappointments from our favorite authors, artists, and creators. But we promise to end this ep on a happy note!

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intros

00:00:51 - Whitney’s Valentine’s Day / Speed Dating

00:10:35 - Physical Media vs Streaming vs Owning Digital Movies

00:19:07 - Super Bowl

00:30:50 - Psychic Fever (K-Pop band)

00:33:29 - The Great Jane Austen Read Along

00:35:10 - Neil Gaiman and the Death of the Author

01:14:52 - Positive Things To Look Forward To

01:21:18 - Tabrizia Author Talks

01:22:22 - Outro

And we’re back! Welcome to Fake Book Club Podcast season two! We’re catching you up on what we’ve been up to, talking about current events, and setting our goals for the new year! We have a ton in store for our second season, so stay tuned!

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intros

00:00:30 - What’s new with everyone?

00:00:36 - Tessa’s Album Journey

00:07:40 - Books vs CDs

00:13:45 - Tabrizia went to London! (again)

00:17:28 - Whitney’s Bday!

00:20:55 - Twenty Sided Tavern

00:22:35 - Current Events - Luigi Mangione

00:36:48 - Evelyn has switched to Storygraph

00:42:10 - Tik Tok Ban

1:00:38 - Goals and Positivity in the New Year

It is our season finale, and we are closing out with the battle of the reading trackers! We are closing our inaugural season by comparing the two popular reading trackers: Goodreads and The Story Graph. We dive into these websites…but get sidetracked by other topics, of course. Which reading tracker will reign supreme? Listen to find out!

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intros

00:01:49 - Reflection on Elections

00:13:05 - What’s everyone currently reading

00:13:20 - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Chris

00:21:18 - Tabrizia reads a romance book! (Once Persuaded, Twice Shy by Melodie Edwards)

00:29:44 Steve Kornacki Pounded Enthusiastically By His Handsome Election Map by Chuck Tingle - Evelyn

00:32:03 - Kamisama Kiss aka Love will always be real - Tessa

00:39:18 - Motor Crush (reread) - Whitney

00:40:36 - Quick ComicCon seque

00:46:10 - The Friends of Stevie Derstler (starting) - Whitney

00:50:00 - Kodansha House Redux

00:55:00 - Chris’ Spider-man Rant

00:57:46 - Goodreads vs Story Graph

01:26:15 - Glasses Tangent

01:29:00 - We’re all getting old

01:34:45 - Closing Statements

01:48:53 - Holiday Plans

Episode 7 or That Halloween Episode! We sit down and talk about the various movies and books that spook us and give us chills…and in typical fashion go off the rails to discuss everything in between.

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Song used:

This Is Halloween by UNIVERSFIELD

From freemusicarchive.org

Image Credit: Image by Pexels from Pixabay

Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intros

00:00:50 - Spooky Levels

00:02:35 - Slasher Discourse

00:11:37 - Creepy Kids Discourse

00:26:28 - Gothic Horror and Psychological Thrillers (Tabrizia)

00:33:00 - All Horror Welcome (Evelyn)

00:34:24 - Movie/Shows Recommendations

00:35:46 - Tim Curry’s Criminal Minds episode, Possibly Disturbing (Whitney)

01:11:32 - Rosemary’s Baby and The Shining book vs film (Evelyn)

01:14:00 - Tabrizia and Tessa Prefer Reading / Book Recommendations

01:43:46 - NYC Halloween Parade

01:48:00 - NYC ComicCon!

01:52:25 - Outro

For Episode 6, we catch up, talk about our time at Anime NYC, we (re)tell a story. We each took a volume of Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughn and retell the story the best we can from memory (and a few notes). We think it went better than expected, but we’ll let you be the judge?

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Intros

00:01:21 - AnimeNYC and ComicCon

00:24:05 - Future events i.e. Libraries & Comic Shops

00:25:55 - Paper Girls ReTelling

00:29:37 - Volume 1 -Whitney

00:38:01 - Volume 2 -Tabrizia

00:55:55 - Volume 3 -Evelyn

01:03:05 - Volume 4 -Tessa

01:15.10 - Volume 5 -Chris

01:24:33 - Volume 6 -Future Whitney

01:40:05 - Final Thoughts

01:51:35 - Outro