Ep. 221 - Roller Girl by Vanessa North (Encore!)

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🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Hey y'all! It's time for an encore episode: Roller Girl by Vanessa North! We will be back next week with our annual Reading Embrace episode, but we think the best way to start 2022 is with this feel-good lesbian romance between a trans athlete and a plumber/roller derby coach. It's exactly what we need! Roller derby, tons of enthusiastic consent, low-stakes conflict, a whole gaggle of awesome side characters, the importance of lady friendship! This novella was a big yum, a big swoon, and a big heart soar!

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0:00.0	Hello HBs, Erin and I are doing a weird today, and we're doing it to you.
0:15.1	Last week we had a mild crisis, which we promptly and efficiently handled as only newly
0:21.5	crowned scientists can, but it completely threw off recording the reading embrace.
0:27.6	So our first episode of the year is going to be a re-release.
0:32.5	The good news is that means that everyone who emailed their reading embraces in by January
0:37.6	2nd will be in the official episode next week.
0:43.2	The other good news is that we're setting the tone for 2022 with this warm, fuzzy, low
0:49.9	angst book about ladies being fucking badass and loving each other superbly in every sense
0:57.3	of the word.
0:58.3	So, here's Roller Girl by Vanessa North.
1:04.3	Hi, Erin, hello, Erin, actually, I need to say hello, sootter, mellum, oh yeah, we're
1:25.0	doing the Roller Derby book, wow, we're cooking with gas, aren't we?
1:29.3	I went through several names and then I haven't done it in like two years, so yeah, I had
1:34.3	an answer to slaughter millen anymore, it's been a long time, do you banter?
1:41.3	No, I have done nothing in the last two weeks, nothing.
1:46.3	Wow, sorry, that's how I feel today.
1:49.1	I'm wearing the same pants, I wore last time I talked to you, that's the level.
1:53.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:54.3	Do you have banter?
1:55.3	Well, I mean, I have kids stuff, but like my kids are cute, but to me, you know, I'm really
2:04.1	glad that you've had that revelation, it's really nice, they're, I'm psyched about this.
2:09.3	They're cute, like they're fucking cute, but it's like to me, so you posted that picture
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