Episode 182 – Michelle Remembers
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
We were joined by our Caftan Club sisters, Grace and Ashley, to discuss a bestseller that was so bad it had to be removed from publication: Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder. The book represents irresponsible therapeutic practices as well as irresponsible journalism, but at least it’s also uncomfortably horny! Listen while assembling your 13-piece evil bench from evil Ikea.
Content warning: This book and our discussion of it contains non-graphic discussions of miscarriage, child abuse, animal abuse, sexual assault, and a lot of generally gross stuff.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: You’re Wrong About: Michelle Remembers.
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“The Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse” by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
“Real ‘Sybil’ Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake” by Lynn Neary
Coming up next: Jay’s Journal by Anonymous.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about some false repressed memories so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Paster. |
| 0:23.8 | Joining us to discuss this redacted classic of the satanic panic is Grace, who fondly remembers |
| 0:29.4 | a time before she read this book, and Ashley, a woman who sometimes gets non-supernatural dermatitis. |
| 0:35.9 | Hello, this is Grace. |
| 0:37.5 | Hi, this is Ashley. Hi, this is Ashley. |
| 0:38.4 | I get dermatitis sometimes. |
| 0:40.4 | Is it shaped like Satan's tail, though? |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, it's not. |
| 0:47.9 | It's definitely, if there is anything supernatural, I wasn't paying attention hard enough |
| 0:52.1 | to, like, read too much into it. It's the times that I've, |
| 0:55.6 | I've had it. Maybe you need to see a handsome psychiatrist about it. And then he can give you a |
| 1:01.8 | referral to the bishop for your dermatology needs. You might remember Grace and Ashley last |
| 1:09.7 | joined us earlier this year for the Left Behind books. |
| 1:14.7 | And if you listen to that episode, you would know that Grace and Ashley are in a cult club with us. |
| 1:21.7 | Not a cult. |
| 1:22.1 | Where we're not in a cult. |
| 1:22.9 | It's not a cult. |
| 1:24.2 | It's a club about cults. |
| 1:25.9 | And we decided that this would be both a good thing for us to discuss as a club and to share our discussion with you. |
| 1:34.3 | And like kind of shout out on this to folks on Patreon who I kind of casually said a few months ago like, oh, yeah, I kind of want to do say Michelle remembers for an episode. |
| 1:43.4 | And everyone jumped on that and begged us to do it. |
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