Episode 155 – Ground Zero

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Arts, Books, Comedy

4.5 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Flashback Summer 2020 draws to an end with a return to the 90s, which contains within it a return to the 1940s. Our mysterious guest M joined us to read Ground Zero by Kevin J. Anderson, an X-Files tie-in novel. Come along with us on an X-File unbound by the production costs of a weekly television show, as Mulder and Scully suddenly gain the jurisdiction to investigate nuclear ghosts in glamorous locations like Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, and New Mexico. Be advised, it’s going to take awhile to download this episode over the dialup connection from your clunky government-issue laptop.

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: “How the Owl Bar’s Green Chile Cheeseburgers Fueled the Atom Bomb Scientists” by Robyn Lee

Fanfiction 101

Candy Pairing: Kait says Dunkaroos, M says malted milk balls, Renata says sunflower seeds.

Coming up next: The X-Files Origins: Devil’s Advocate by Jonathan Maberry.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about unexplained nuclear spookiness so you don't have to.
0:18.3	I'm Renata.
0:19.3	And I'm Kate.
0:20.0	And for this episode, we read Ground Zero by
0:23.6	Kevin J. Anderson. Joining us to discuss this vintage X-Files tie-in novel is M. Top Chris Carter Denialist.
0:32.7	Hello. Thank you for joining us. I just want to ask, does this mean that like of all the chris carter denialists
0:39.7	you are the top of them or that you deny that chris carter is a top i mean both definitely
0:46.9	both of those things but i think i'm pretty much the number one chris carter denialist
0:52.3	okay also he's clearly not a top.
0:56.3	Like, that man has no control over anything.
1:01.0	I will update those rankings accordingly.
1:04.5	I'm honestly surprised they weren't already updated.
1:07.4	Like, I did give you the press release.
1:11.3	You know, a flashback summer, we get a little behind on things sometimes.
1:15.9	That's fair. That's fair.
1:17.6	Speaking of which, this is flashback summer and this year, because we have sort of run out of our
1:24.3	old kind of flashback books, we've evolved. And instead of only reading the kinds of
1:31.1	long-running series books that we originally did for Flashback Summer, we've sort of branched out
1:36.5	into a wider array of books that we might have read and enjoyed in our youth or that our
1:43.5	guests may have read in their youths.
1:45.9	And in this case, I think all of us read this in our collective youths.
1:51.7	Yeah, like 1994 or whatever.
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