Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.

And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.

Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.

Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.

I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.

You can find out more at zibbyowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.

And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything.

Enjoy the show.

Hi, so this is a special sneak peek five-minute episode about the movie The Bad Guys.

I got a screening of it early, which was really exciting, and was offered the chance to interview

Aaron Blaby, who is

the best-selling author of The Bad Guy series, and also the director, Pierre Perrifel.

So your kids undoubtedly will want to see the bad guys, and they absolutely should.

And I'm going to read you quickly a little bit about the author and also the director.

And then you can listen to our quick chat and hopefully this will arm you with some

fun stuff when you're watching the movie. Okay. So Aaron Blaby, who by the way is also the executive

producer, is a number one New York Times best-selling author with around 30 million books in print.

He is the creator of three globally popular book series, The Bad Guys, Pig the Pug, and Thelma the Unicorn.

His series The Bad Guys has spent well over 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

I also got a chance to interview at the same time, Pierre

Perry Fell, the director, who is making his featured directorial debut with the release of the

bad guys. He most recently served as head of character animation on the short film, Tudurard,

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