647: Flavor Town 11 - Book Edition
The Popcast With Knox and Jamie
Knox McCoy and Jamie Golden
4.8 • 7.1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we’re opening the Flavor Town gates! In this eleventh installment of Flavor Town, we’re taking on our listeners’ spiciest book-themed takes. From controversial opinions about beloved genres to reading habits that should maybe stay private, there’s enough literary chaos to scorch your TBR list. Plus, we get Erin’s real-time reaction to some heartbreaking news.
Relevant links:
- Our full show notes are at knoxandjamie.com/647
- Rewind: Flavor Town episodes | Shop Bundle | Instagram Post
- In Memoriam: Robert Duvall | IMDb | Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry | Final Message | Erin’s Spreadsheet
- Mentions: Fanfic Episode | Dramione Spreadsheet | Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman | Sunday Night Lights | The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Curious Notoriety of “Performative Reading” (via The New Yorker) | Faith Adjacent Romance Novels Episode
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- Red Light Mentions: Pima County, Arizona | Obama on Brian Tyler Cohen | “Wuthering Heights” (see also: 7-day free trial to hear more on TMYK | Alison Oliver)
Green Lights:
- Jamie: book - Reign & Ruin by J.D. Evans
- Knox: book - The Stalker by Paula Bomer
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| 0:00.0 | And I'm biased because I'm trying to do something similar. |
| 0:02.3 | Audio fiction, like with the Sunday Night Lights available wherever you listen to the podcast. Yes. Where according to one listener, just Katie, she said, people only like it because they like me, not because it's good. It's just man. Katie! Katie! Katie, Robert Duvall would hit you in the face for saying. Katie. That is mean as a snake. I was like, well, what's her vibe? and she didn't like Annie Downs either. |
| 0:24.3 | But she didn't like Annie Downs either. But she did like Pilgrim's Progress. She was like, this is what? Absolutely not. No. And do you think she's superior to people who don't read Pilgrim's Progress? Unfortunately, yeah, she is. I hate it, but you got to have principles. |
| 0:37.5 | You got to have moral standards. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello, welcome to episode number 6, 47 of the podcast. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm on your host, Knox McCoy. |
| 0:50.9 | And I'm your other host, Jamie Golden. |
| 0:52.5 | The podcast is a show dedicated to Delifo Adiacy, |
| 0:55.1 | and we're committed to educating you on the things entertained, but do not matter. To find out more about these illiterate pursuits, check us out at noxonjami.com. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook threads and Blue Sky at the podcast. Thanks for joining us this week, because we are going to be inducting new members into Flavortown. |
| 1:10.9 | But before we do that, you guys, three of us, Knox Me and Aaron, Thanks for joining us this week as we are going to be inducting new members into Flavortown. |
| 1:11.0 | But before we do that, you guys, three of us, Knox Me and Aaron, launched a newish podcast this week. |
| 1:17.2 | Now, I say newish because we technically launched it behind a paywall back in September. |
| 1:21.3 | But now there is a free option in your podcast app of choice. |
| 1:25.0 | We have three episodes you can listen to you. |
| 1:26.9 | You can click the links in the show notes or just look for shelf respect on any of the podcast apps where you listen |
| 1:32.7 | to your favorite shows. And your favorite shows would mean only the ones we make because we |
| 1:36.4 | suggest you do not listen to other podcasts. Now, our first episode is a snake draft where we snake draft |
| 1:42.5 | words, phrases, and other cliches that need to be gone with. |
| 1:47.0 | We do not want them in our books anymore. Now, spoiler, Aaron got the first round pick and wasted it |
| 1:52.7 | in a way that I've never seen anyone waste a first round pick. It might have been a waste. It might |
| 1:57.5 | have been a diamond in the rough. That's right. You're exactly right. It was not, but it could have been. It could have been. |
| 2:02.9 | We originally started Shelf Respect because we wanted to have a dedicated place to talk about books. |
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