Episode 03: The Secret
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2014
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
For our third episode, Kait and Renata are joined by writer/activist Keane to discuss The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. This best-selling self-help book taught us that the Universe doesn’t understand the word “no.” Seriously, the Universe, no means no. Listen now to learn how to manipulate the Universe to cook a man! Or cook a man’s meal. The choice is yours. This episode was definitely not brought to you by Christian Mingle dot com.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Blank check from the Universe.
Oprah on how The Secret made The Color Purple happen.
Barbara Ehrenreich’s Bright-Sided Explores the Dark Side of Positive Thinking
Candy pairing: Kait says sugary protein bars, Keane says Willy Wonka gum, Renata says a poisoned apple.
Coming up next: I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain by Courtney Robertson
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about how to control the universe so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.4 | And this week we've read The Secret by Rhonda Byrne. |
| 0:25.2 | Joining us to talk about The Secret will be writer slash activist Keene. Welcome Keene. |
| 0:33.2 | Hi, Renata. Hi, Kate. I'm super glad Kean could join us for this podcast because he is the person |
| 0:39.9 | who actually first told me about the secret. We met when we were both in the Peace Corps and like |
| 0:47.0 | really quick, quickly, we discovered you both really like to watch bad movies. And we started sort |
| 0:52.9 | of comparing notes like, oh oh yeah like have you seen |
| 0:54.9 | the room have you seen like whatever and he said have you seen the secret and i had not heard of |
| 1:02.0 | it at that because that was 2008 so it was like pretty new then and uh keen could at the i mean at the time |
| 1:10.6 | and still he could just, like, quote it. |
| 1:12.4 | He had, like, parts of it memorize and he insists that I need to watch it as soon as possible. |
| 1:17.2 | And that's friendship. |
| 1:19.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.1 | So, for those of you listening who might not have been so lucky to have a friend make you watch the DVD of The Secret. |
| 1:29.9 | By the way, this did start as a movie first, and the best-selling book is actually like a novelization of the movie. |
| 1:38.9 | But it's a self-help book that is about the secret itself. |
| 1:46.1 | The titular secret is called the Law of Attractions. |
| 1:49.7 | And what that means is that everything you think comes true. |
| 1:55.0 | I'm going to read a quick little quote here. |
| 1:58.3 | Basically put, the law of attraction says that like attracts like, but we're really |
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