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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 124 – The Five People You Meet in Heaven

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Comedy, Books, Arts

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

If you like sitting around, listening to esoteric monologues that may or may not relate to your life from random people who refuse to answer any pertinent questions, do we have the vision of the afterlife for you! Chelsea joined us for The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom, a trudge through one man's severely messed up existence that was probably meant to be inspirational, but mostly made us feel disturbed and dead inside. Hold onto your keys and join us on this carnival ride into our own personal hell!

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the afterlife's elaborate plan for trolling you so you don't have to.

0:18.2

I'm Kate.

0:19.2

And I'm Renata.

0:20.5

And for this episode, we read The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Album.

0:26.4

Joining us to discuss this journey through heaven's endless waiting rooms is Chelsea, the product of a

0:32.5

Christian education. Hello, Chelsea. Hello, Kate and Renata.

0:39.6

Hi, thanks for joining us.

0:40.9

Thank you.

0:44.6

I would also like the record to reflect that I wanted that intro to be.

0:48.8

Chelsea is an internet rando who doesn't have the qualifications to be here.

0:51.4

So, uh... Yeah, but then...

0:53.0

But she's actually, like, more qualified to be here than K or I are.

0:57.3

So we didn't want to say that because it seemed mean.

1:02.6

Unnecessarily mean, as opposed to the kind of necessarily mean, I think we're about to be toward Mitch Album.

1:09.6

Listen, he deserves it. That's why I said. I said necessarily mean as to be toward Mitch Album. Listen, he deserves it.

1:11.1

That's why I said. I said necessarily mean, as opposed to being unnecessarily mean to Chelsea.

1:16.9

Oh, this, good point.

1:18.2

This book definitely deserves all of the necessary meanness that we are about to heap on it.

1:25.0

I really was surprised by how much I did not like this book. I picked it up,

1:30.9

it's physically short, it's like a small looking book. I was like, this will be a breeze to get

1:36.2

through, and I expected it to be sort of like cloying life lessons, and I was like, I can

1:43.5

tolerate that, but I wasn't prepared for this

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