427: Live or Die-brary
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we take a page from an old episode to discuss tropes and themes in books that we want to check out versus the ones that are way past their due date. Plus we share which book adaptations we think are spineless and which adaptations are bound to happen.
MENTIONS
- Let's be IRL friends! Our live shows will be in April but tickets go on sale next week! Visit KnoxandJamie.com/live for more info.
- Happy 3rd birthday, The Wandering Years!
- Way back: Episode 230: Live or Die-brary
- Recommendations galore: see all Knox and Jamie’s green lights
- Fact check bear attack survival: Brown lay down, Black fight back
- Books referenced: Zombies Spaceship Wasteland by Patton Oswalt | Final Girls by Riley Sager | Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover
- Iconic: Drew Barrymore in Scream (1996)
- Oh no: Interview with the Vampire is being rebooted
- Book adaptations that are great: Children of Men (book series) & Children of Men (movie) | Little Women (book) & Little Women (Greta Gerwig’s 2019 film) | Outlander (book series) & Outlander (tv series) | Don’t Let the Pigeon (book series) & Don’t Let the Pigeon (tv series)
- Book adaptations we want to see: Station Eleven | The Time Traveler’s Wife | Where the Crawdads Sing | Peter Pan | Persuasion | White Noise | The Nightingale | The Fortunate Ones | The Midnight Library | 1 and 2 Samuel | Dark Matter | My Sister, The Serial Killer
- Red light mentions: Oprah’s Favorite Things 2021 | movie: Last Night in Soho
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GREEN LIGHTS
- Jamie – book: The Journey Toward Wholeness by Suzanne Stabile
- See also: Episode 288: The Enneagram | 324: Enneagram for the Holidays | Faith Adjacent: The Enneagram | Episode 48 of The Enneagram Journey: Knox McCoy (5)
- Knox – book: Forty Days on Being a Five by Morgan Harper Nichols (see the rest of the series) | book: It’s Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness by Seth Wickersham
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So trust me, you got to drag me to the woods. |
| 0:02.6 | Okay, so what if a bear abducks you though and you are on the trail and like you get separated and it's a brown bear? |
| 0:07.1 | Don't Google it. Don't cheat. You little cheater. Don't do it. |
| 0:10.1 | No, you know what I was really thinking is I was like, I'm better prepared for a stroke because I assume I'm gonna have a stroke |
| 0:16.4 | So I always have to keep in mind if like face arm speech time call 911 |
| 0:20.3 | So the thing that I like is I asked you a very specific question and what you chose to do was to Google |
| 0:25.6 | What am I doing in case they get a stroke which is not at all what we're talking about here? |
| 0:31.6 | Hello and welcome Debson before 27 of the pop cast on when your host's not |
| 0:40.2 | ExpoCoi and I'm your other host Jamie Golden. The pop cast has a show dedicated to delightful |
| 0:44.2 | 80s and we're committed to educating you on the things entertained but do not matter. |
| 0:47.5 | So find out more about these compositional proceeds. Check us out at noxonjamy.com |
| 0:52.1 | You can also find us on Instagram and Facebook at the pop cast and we're on Twitter at pop cast five. |
| 0:57.1 | Thanks for joining us this week as we were going to be talking to live or |
| 0:59.6 | DiBrarie do you get it too? |
| 1:01.9 | But before you do that you guys the pop cast live is coming to four cities in April 2022. |
| 1:07.7 | We will be in theaters in Chicago see how Dallas and Birmingham throughout the month. |
| 1:12.5 | Now this is the perfect excuse for date night girls night. |
| 1:16.2 | Brows of the show night a road trip or how about you just simply move from where you live now to one of these cities in the next five months. |
| 1:23.2 | Get your credit score ready for a new home because our faces want to see your faces. |
| 1:26.7 | Now we've done 15 live shows and they have all been weird and whimsical and wonderful and most importantly unedited. |
| 1:33.7 | So our live shows are being MC Fire Beloved Erin Moon and our team is going to be there with T-shirt cannons and snark. |
| 1:39.7 | Now be five best friends of the show they get access to purchase tickets first on November 8th. |
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