Episode 04 – I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this shocking rose ceremony–we mean podcast–three people who have never watched The Bachelor staunchly defend the show’s greatest villain! Kait and Renata are joined by Stacey to discuss I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain by Courtney Robertson. We learned more than we ever expected to know about the winner of Season 16 of the Bachelor’s modelling career, wardrobe, and pubic hair. And frankly, we thought it all sounded fairly reasonable.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: The Bachelor ‘Mean Girl’
The Women of the Bachelor Speak Out Against Courtney
Candy pairing: Kait says gummy bears, Renata says cotton candy, Stacey says candy corn.
Coming up next: Scavenger Hunt by Christopher Pike.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about reality TV contestants' pubic hair, so you don't have to. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And this week, month, |
| 0:33.5 | two week section, we've read, I didn't come here to make friends by Courtney Robertson, who was the winner and villain of a season of The Bachelor TV show. |
| 0:39.8 | And with us this week, we have Librarian and Reality TV fan, Stacey. |
| 0:46.2 | Hi. |
| 0:47.4 | Hi, Stacey. |
| 0:48.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:49.9 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:52.8 | Okay, I guess I want to get right in here and say that, um, |
| 0:57.3 | none of us has watched The Bachelor, |
| 0:59.8 | although, um, |
| 1:00.9 | Stacey and I do watch a lot of other reality TV shows. |
| 1:04.2 | And the reason, um, |
| 1:05.8 | I picked this book was mainly because, um, |
| 1:10.4 | Paul Shear, um, really highly recommended it, who is one of the hosts of the |
| 1:16.9 | How Did This Get Made Movie Podcast? And he was very enthusiastic about this book. And so I figured |
| 1:23.7 | it was probably a good one for us to read. And Kate and Stacey can let me know how they feel about that opinion. |
| 1:30.6 | Yeah, I haven't, like Renata said, I haven't seen The Bachelor. |
| 1:36.2 | There are some reality TV shows that I'll watch. |
| 1:39.2 | The Bachelor isn't one of them, and it's not like a snobbish, like, oh god, I don't watch that. |
| 1:46.0 | I really don't watch a lot of TV in general outside of my narrow scope of interest. |
| 1:53.7 | But, you know, you do you, whatever. |
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