Episode 20 – Disclosure
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2015
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and returning guest Caroline (of Fantastic Fangirls and Panels) read Disclosure by Michael Crichton. It’s the ultimate sci-fi horror story for white men: a woman sexually harasses a man and lies about it, and everyone believes the woman! Luckily, the intrepid hero is able to use high-tech 1993-era virtual reality to solve his problems and put that lying lady in her place. Prepare your dialup modem for our 20th episode of #MisandryMonday!
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Footnotes: Michael Crichton’s notes on Disclosure
Clip from Community‘s VR episode
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Candy pairing: Caroline says Peepsters, Kait says Lifesavers Holes, Renata says a Yorkie bar.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about men's rights so you don't have to. |
| 0:16.4 | I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Disclosure by Michael Crichton. |
| 0:23.0 | Joining us for this early 90s virtual reality Battle of the Sexes is Caroline, |
| 0:28.3 | a blogger and expert on both the American legal system and remembering 1993. |
| 0:33.5 | Welcome, Caroline. |
| 0:35.1 | Hi, there. |
| 0:36.1 | You might remember Caroline from our very first episode, and now we're all the way up to |
| 0:41.5 | episode 20, so we decided to have her back, and also because we just like talking to her. |
| 0:47.4 | It's true. |
| 0:48.9 | 20 episodes is a lot. |
| 0:50.6 | It's about 19 more. |
| 0:53.6 | Well, I guess about 17 more than I thought we would do. |
| 0:58.3 | We've technically done more than 20 because we did a couple of half episodes that aren't counted in our official numbering system. |
| 1:07.8 | Oh, goodness. How time flies. |
| 1:11.8 | Time flies when you're reading garbage. |
| 1:14.1 | Yes. |
| 1:15.2 | Speaking of garbage. |
| 1:18.8 | That should just be our new tagline. |
| 1:22.2 | Indeed. |
| 1:25.7 | So, yeah, I guess this is a book I had not heard of, nor had I heard of the movie version of, |
| 1:32.5 | partly because I guess I'm a little bit younger and I don't remember 1993 very clearly. |
| 1:38.2 | I mean, I was eight, I guess, so anyway. |
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