Episode 185 – The Meaning of Mariah Carey
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
All we want for Christmas is…another celebrity memoir, and Mariah Claus delivered. We read The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey with Michaela Angela Davis and enjoyed our visit to Mariah’s realm. Listen to this episode on your way to visit your lambily!
Content warning: This book and our discussion of it contains non-graphic discussions of child neglect, domestic abuse, and racism.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Mariah Carey Explains Why She Tweeted That “Thanksgiving Is Cancelled” by Bianca Betancourt
“This Throwback Photo Of Mariah Carey & Will Smith Will Give You All The ’90s Feels” by Brad Witter
“The Summer That ‘I Don’t Know Her’ Became the Most Crushing Celebrity Shade” by Kenzie Bryant
Mariah Carey’s Ice Cream Meltdown on TRL
Mariah Carey’s Weddings in Photos
“Mariah Carey smashes pumpkins to kick off Christmas season: ‘It’s time'” by Nick Romano
“27 Burning Questions About Mariah Carey’s New McDonald’s Ad” by Dave Holmes
How Did This Get Made #94 – Glitter
Coming up next: The President Is Missing by James Patterson and Bill Clinton.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about hashtag justice for glitter so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.4 | And for this episode, we read The Meaning of Mariah Carey by Mariah Carey. |
| 0:25.7 | Joining us to discuss this allegedly defamatory memoir is A Little Lamb. |
| 0:36.8 | Once again, we are actually a guess list for this episode. |
| 0:40.0 | The lamb will remain silent. |
| 0:42.8 | The lamb is at all that they need to say. |
| 0:45.9 | Okay, two things before we get into it. |
| 0:49.6 | First up, doing a content warning right at the beginning. |
| 0:53.1 | Content warning, child child neglect domestic abuse |
| 0:55.7 | racism mental illness being talked about badly I guess uh also I wanted to say now I've been meaning |
| 1:04.3 | to say this for a while that I know that we have a problem where we we start talking about |
| 1:10.3 | something upsetting and I'm like oh yeah we should have said warning. And I know we don't always remember to say it out loud in the correct moment, but we do put them on the website. So if you are someone who, you know, looks for content warnings, has some topics you don't want to hear about. Make sure to like read the episode description because it'll be there even if we didn't |
| 1:27.7 | like say it in the moment. |
| 1:29.4 | And the episode description, too, it's not just on the website. |
| 1:32.2 | It's in the text in whatever your podcatcher is. |
| 1:36.0 | Yeah, the podcatcher takes the website text and puts it in a box. |
| 1:40.2 | Yeah, we always have it written out in our document. |
| 1:42.7 | But the thing is, this podcast also needs a content warning for, like, undiagnosed ADD, where we don't follow the whole thing that we wrote out sometimes. |
| 1:53.5 | Anyway, so that's in this. |
| 1:55.1 | If you know about Murray Carey, probably some of these are not a surprise, but that's what we're talking about. |
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