Episode 170 – Didn’t See That Coming
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2021
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
We learned so much from discussing Rachel Hollis’s book Girl, Wash Your Face with Margaret H. Willison (of Two Bossy Dames, Appointment Television, and NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour) that we simply had to reunite to discuss her latest book, Didn’t See That Coming. Brace yourself for the most shocking revelation: this book made us cry.
Our friends at Porter Square Books hosted us for this virtual live show! If you watched it on Crowdcast: thank you so much for joining us! This is just the audio from that event for those of you who prefer not to see our faces. (The video is still archived and you can watch it here if you’d like.)
Content warning: This book contains discussion of suicide.
Note: This episode was recorded before Rachel’s whole “comparing herself to Harriet Tubman” thing.
Readers advisory: Here (via Porter Square Books).
Footnotes: Episode 144 – Girl, Wash Your Face
Coming up next: Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about what it sounds like when two influencers divorce so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:18.9 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.2 | And for this episode, we read, |
| 0:22.0 | Didn't See That Coming by Rachel Hollis. Joining us to discuss the latest entry in the |
| 0:27.1 | Girl Wash Your Cinematic Universe is fellow White Oprah aspirant Margaret H. Willison. |
| 0:34.1 | Hi, guys. Hi, Margaret. Thank you so much for giving me the privilege of continuing my journey with Rachel Hollis. It's just really, it really means a lot to me in this season of my life. You know, we did skip, we did skip girls stop apologizing. And you you know what I'm not going to apologize for that |
| 0:56.4 | I think I don't think Rachel Hollis want you to I've gathered that much I don't think that she would |
| 1:03.6 | I want to do a couple things before we get started um first of all I am team seltzer and thank you to follow team shelters I've seen in the chat um second of all, I am team Seltzer. And thank you to fellow team Seltzer as I've seen in the |
| 1:12.7 | chat. Second of all, I really want to thank Porter Square Books for hosting us. I want to thank |
| 1:17.7 | everyone for coming. And in, like, Kate and I really do shop at Porter Square Books. And when we |
| 1:24.0 | Margaret does too. And Margaret does too. I don't want to speak for you, but thank you for your self-advocacy and for supporting local |
| 1:31.8 | businesses. |
| 1:32.6 | I hacked my courage. |
| 1:34.8 | Thank you. |
| 1:35.6 | I love that journey for you. |
| 1:39.3 | Anyway, we were really nervous that we were going to be like, hey, favorite bookstore, |
| 1:44.0 | can we have an event with you? |
| 1:45.0 | And then, like, no one would come. |
| 1:46.5 | And then we would have to stop shopping there from the shame. |
| 1:50.9 | Just masks, hats pulled down over our heads. |
| 1:53.7 | It would be awful. |
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