Episode 19 – Modelland
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2015
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and returning guest Margaret (one of Two Bossy Dames) read Modelland by America’s Top Author Tyra Banks! It’s a fashionable YA dystopia with 550 pages of text and easily 1000 nonsensical made-up concepts. This episode is plus-sized because we had so much to unpack, and also because Margaret is such a delightful Intoxibella that it is difficult to stop talking to her. Put on your best smize and listen now!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: America’s Next Top Model Cycle 17, “Tyson Beckford” (featuring Modelland motion pictorials)
AV Club Review of ANTM “Tyson Beckford”
Satellite Dish: Modelland Special
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Candy pairing: Kait says an elaborate lollipop, Margaret says M&M’s personalized with Tyra Banks’s initials, Renata says a can of whipped cream.
Coming up next: Disclosure by Michael Crichton.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about forgetta girls and intoxabella's so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.1 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:21.5 | And for this episode, we read Modeland by Tyra Banks. |
| 0:25.3 | Joining us to discuss this Y-A dystopia-like object is Margaret, librarian and host of the |
| 0:32.3 | Best 24-7 Slumber Party on Twitter. |
| 0:35.3 | Hello. |
| 0:35.6 | Hi. |
| 0:36.6 | Hi, guys. |
| 0:37.8 | Welcome back, Margaret. |
| 0:39.6 | It's a delight to be here. |
| 0:42.4 | Longtime listeners of Worst Best Sellers will recall Margaret from our follow-up episode to I |
| 0:49.1 | didn't come here to make friends by Courtney Robertson, where, ironically enough, we made |
| 0:53.8 | friends with Margaret. |
| 0:56.3 | What a twist. |
| 0:57.9 | What a twist. |
| 0:59.5 | Courtney could have seen it coming. |
| 1:01.1 | Tyra could not have. |
| 1:03.2 | Right. |
| 1:04.6 | Then to cement our friendship, we made her read this book, and now she probably wants to murder |
| 1:09.8 | us. |
| 1:10.3 | That's not fair. Whoa, whoa. Margaret pick this book. now she probably wants to murder us. That's not fair. |
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