624: Book Adaptations Pet Peeves
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re cracking open our list of pet peeves and sharing the reasons why book adaptations go wrong. Erin joins us to discuss authors who sell out, the fans who ruin everything, and, of course, the George RR Martin Conundrum. Plus, we debut our latest literary project, Shelf Respect!
Relevant links:
- Our full show notes are at knoxandjamie.com/624
- Your parasocial bffs have a new project all about books and reading! Come hang out with us and get some freebies at patreon.com/shelfrespect.
- Main Character Energy Quiz
- Upcoming Adaptations: The Long Walk | The Woman in Cabin 10 | Hamnet | The Running Man | Frankenstein | The Housemaid | Regretting You | Wicked: For Good | Verity
- Adaptations We’d Like to See: The Night Circus by Eric Morgenstern | Freddy & Fredericka by Mark Helprin | Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin | Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Red Light Mentions: Romping on our ding dongs about Marin County pronunciations | Red Cards: Spitters (Jalen Carter, Branden Bett) | Ryan Clark Hot Take | Arch Manning | Red Card King of the Week | Luke Lindenmeyer Proposal
Green Lights:
- Jamie: show - The Paper
- Knox: book - What Kind of Paradise by Janelle Brown
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| 0:00.0 | You know what? |
| 0:00.5 | Sports will serve to me this week. |
| 0:02.2 | The baseball. |
| 0:19.5 | What? The baseball. The Phillies Karen. Oh, yeah. I did see the Phillies Karen. Which one of that dad give her the ball. That's also in him. Why you just hated her the ball? He's not getting enough hate. That's embarrassing. Possessions like nine cents to law. You scared of that lady? Yeah. scared of that lady you know |
| 0:20.0 | scared of that lady? Don't be scared of that lady. |
| 0:30.5 | Hello, welcome to episode number 6, 24 of the podcast. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm your host, Knox Boy. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:38.7 | The podcast is a show dedicated to delightful idiocy, and we're committed to educating you on the things entertained, but do not match. |
| 0:42.6 | To find out more about these adaptive proceeds, check us out at Knox &Jamey.com. |
| 0:46.2 | You can find us on Instagram and Facebook and Blue Sky at The Podcast. |
| 0:50.2 | Thanks for joining us this week, as we are going to be talking about the reasons why book adaptations go wrong. |
| 0:52.0 | But before you that, you guys, your parasycial best friends, which is us, we have a brand |
| 0:57.4 | new project all about books and reading called Shelf Respect. |
| 1:01.2 | Shelf Respect is a podcast. |
| 1:03.3 | It's a newsletter. |
| 1:04.4 | It's a secret club where we talk about books and reading in a ridiculous way. |
| 1:08.2 | We'll judge books by their cover and then some. And we would love for |
| 1:12.0 | you to come hang out with us over at patreon.com slash shelf respect. Now listen, there's a free membership |
| 1:17.4 | and you can listen. Okay. You can get it sent to your podcast type of choice. You're just drop it in. |
| 1:23.2 | The first episode is I've titled it, Why, though, and it's why we're launching another podcast, who we are as readers. Why do we read? Which books defined us? Of the three of us, who do you think is defined by a babysitters club? It is not me or Aaron. It is not. Okay. And everything that you can expect to find at this new place, |
| 1:45.1 | it's hosted by me, Knox and Aaron. We also have some freebies. Freebies. So many good freebies. |
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