Episode 106 – Hope Never Dies
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
We teamed up with Anna and Alene from Bellwether Friends, our BFP (best friend podcast), to read about our nation’s greatest BFFs, Joe Biden and Barack Obama. Unfortunately for us, Andrew Shaffer’s political RPF mystery Hope Never Dies turned out to be light on the friendship and heavy-handed on the opioid crisis. Listen to this episode on your next Amtrak trip!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Watching President Obama Make a Bracelet for Joe Biden Gave Us Friendship Goals
18 Times Barack Obama And Joe Biden Were #FriendshipGoals
Obama and Biden are the ultimate crime-fighting team in ‘Hope Never Dies’
Stop, You’re Killing Me: List of Real People Mysteries
Candy Pairing: Alene says a melted Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, Anna says a Waffle House pecan waffle, Kait says White House M&Ms, Renata says almond milk.
Coming up next: 4th Anniversary Spectacular!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers where we read about Amtrak Joe, amateur detectives, so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.1 | And for this episode, we read Hope Never Dies by Andrew Schaefer. |
| 0:22.4 | Joining us to discuss this real person fan fiction about our 44th president and vice president are Anna and Aline, the Bellwether Friends, here for another special worst best friends crossover event. |
| 0:35.1 | Hi. |
| 0:37.3 | If you're not familiar with the Bell Leather Friends, they are an excellent podcast where |
| 0:42.3 | they are librarians who we trust and they tell us their pop culture opinions. |
| 0:48.2 | And they started as a podcast writer on the same time that we did. |
| 0:52.3 | So we are very close, very astrologically |
| 0:55.9 | compatible. Now we're all in the same state. Yeah. We've got it. We've got it all. |
| 1:03.6 | Yes. And let's just greet them separately in case people are not familiar with Boe with their |
| 1:08.0 | friends so they can try to tell your voices apart. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello, Anna. I'm Anna and I'm Aline. And now you have to stop me and can't go into your |
| 1:17.7 | whole podcast introduction because you're on our podcast. Because we're librarians. |
| 1:23.5 | Oh no. The streams are crossing. So this book, Hope Never Dies, I suggested it. |
| 1:31.9 | Actually, a few people did ask about this on Twitter, and I thought I was being so sneaky |
| 1:36.7 | by suggesting it. |
| 1:37.8 | I thought I was going to give us a little break to kind of like transition back from |
| 1:42.2 | Flashback Summer, and I thought we'd have this kind of like lighthearted, funny thing to read. |
| 1:48.3 | And it would be just a little transition before we get back into the real kinds of trash |
| 1:52.8 | that we read for this podcast. |
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