Episode 171 – Greenlights
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Alright, alright, alright! Even though time is a flat circle, we’re celebrating Celebrity Memoir May and we’re starting the party with Matthew McConaughey’s book Greenlights. The most surprising part about this book was how much we sincerely enjoyed it. The second most surprising part about this book was all the wet dreams. Seriously, this book was wild and we hope that you will listen to it!
Content warning: This book contains descriptions of child abuse.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Matthew McConaughey Made His Debut on an Old Unsolved Mysteries Episode” by Adrianna Freedman
The just keep livin foundation
Matthew McConaughey Peace Corps PSA
Coming up next: No Walls and the Recurring Dream by Ani DiFranco.
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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about Matthew McConaughey's bumper sticker collection so you don't have to. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Renata. And I'm Kate. |
| 0:22.8 | And for this episode, we read Green Lights by Matthew McConaughey. Oh, boy, did we ever. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm so excited. We are recording this on Easter Sunday and it is appropriate because I feel |
| 0:37.0 | reborn, renewed. |
| 0:41.1 | This, I, you know, and it's been a long pandemic. It's been a long year. I've been feeling |
| 0:46.9 | the wear and terror of daily life. And this has just brought me back to the beginnings of the podcast and like how exciting it is, |
| 0:57.0 | how great it feels when you're like, I have got to talk about this completely Buckwild book I've read |
| 1:02.6 | already like my co-worker as my roommate, everyone has already heard hours of me talking about |
| 1:08.8 | this book at this point because I just kept being like, and another |
| 1:11.4 | thing. And also, he said this. This is such a rich, rich morsel for us to discuss on this day. |
| 1:21.4 | It's true. So we picked this. I feel like, was there a reason you picked this or did you just |
| 1:26.3 | hear that? There is a |
| 1:27.6 | reason and I'm going to get to it. But also, we are, sometimes we like to dabble with themes and we're doing |
| 1:34.2 | Celebrity Memoir May. So this is our first celebrity memoir of the months. But we picked the |
| 1:41.3 | pride, the one that's next time first. And then Renata suggested, oh, like, |
| 1:46.1 | we'll do this one and we can do just, we won't do a guess, we'll just do the two of us, |
| 1:49.7 | it'll be quick. We can, you know, whatever. So timeline wise, as Renata said, we're recording |
| 1:55.8 | this on Easter Sunday. So our live show at Porter Square Books, well, virtual live show at Porter Square Books, was this |
| 2:02.5 | past Wednesday. |
| 2:03.4 | Thank you to everyone who came. |
| 2:05.6 | It was fantastic. |
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