Episode 04.5 – I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends, Part 2
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2014
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Listeners, will you accept this bonus episode? Margaret of Two Bossy Dames joins Kait, Renata, and returning guest Stacey to explain The Bachelor to us in this follow-up to our episode about I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain by Courtney Robertson. In return, we read her more classy excerpts from Courtney’s book. Listen now to hear us struggle valiantly with names like Adrian Grenier, Arie Luyendyk, and Ben Flapjack. Um, Flajnik.
PS: if any reality television producers are listening, please contact us ASAP about the important new reality shows we’ve pitched in this episode!
CNN interview confirming Renata’s pronunciation of Adrian Grenier’s name
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where someone else watched Courtney Robertson's season of the Bachelor so we didn't have to. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:19.7 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:21.2 | And joining us once again is Stacey, librarian slash reality TV fan, who you may remember |
| 0:27.5 | from our last episode. |
| 0:29.2 | Hello again. |
| 0:31.1 | So in our last episode, we discussed I didn't come here to make friends, a memoir by |
| 0:35.7 | Courtney Robertson and Deb Baer that detailed Courtney's life, |
| 0:39.8 | specifically her time on the reality TV show The Bachelor. |
| 0:43.3 | None of us had seen the show, but luckily, Margaret, librarian slash host of the best 24-7 slumber party on Twitter, |
| 0:52.1 | is here now to answer our questions about Courtney because she has |
| 0:57.9 | seen it and she actually has already answered some questions about Courtney and the book on the |
| 1:02.3 | podcast, The Pop Culture Happy Hour. |
| 1:05.2 | And she's here again. |
| 1:06.8 | Welcome Margaret. |
| 1:07.9 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:09.5 | I wish I had known that Courtney Robertson would be such a big part |
| 1:13.0 | of my media career. I would have taken very careful notes. Right. You've got to work on your |
| 1:21.1 | branding. I think my Twitter bio is like already at maximum. Otherwise I would add gimlet-eyed bachelor commentator to the whole thing. |
| 1:33.3 | It's hard out there in the 140 character world. |
| 1:39.3 | It really is, especially if you're like terminally verbose. |
| 1:43.3 | All right. Well, thank you so much for especially if you're like terminally verbose. |
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