Episode 217 – Spare
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
As Americans, it’s our right to not pay attention to the British royal family. However, we’re waiving that right in order to read Spare by Prince Harry. We were thrilled to be joined by Dame Sophie of Two Bossy Dames–even more thrilled than Harry was to meet Will Arnett at a party at Courtney Cox’s house. Listen to this episode on your way to throw more tea into Boston Harbor.
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Prince Harry Holds Spike the Echidna
The Victorian Society in America
“Royal Bodies” by Hilary Mantel
Jimenez’s “Wolverine” Savages the Poaching Trade
Coming up next: Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about Has, Spike, Harold, and Prince Thicco, so you don't have to. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:21.4 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:22.8 | And for this episode, we read Spare by Prince Harry. |
| 0:27.2 | Joining us to discuss this tale of one man's daring escape from a cult of emotional constipation is culture writer, former librarian, and one third of two bossy dames, Sophie, Brookeover. |
| 0:39.8 | Hello, Sophie. |
| 0:41.2 | Hello, Renata and Kate. It is wonderful to be back with you again. |
| 0:45.5 | Yes, we're happy to have you. |
| 0:47.6 | Thank you. |
| 0:48.8 | And especially happy to have your royal expertise for this one. |
| 0:53.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:54.5 | That is, you know, it's one of those things where like, this is not useful information for me to have as a person who lives in North America. |
| 1:02.7 | However, I do have it. |
| 1:06.0 | So let's let's put it to work. |
| 1:08.4 | Let's put it to work. |
| 1:09.2 | Is this the part where I would establish my royal watcher bona fides, such as they are? |
| 1:15.4 | Okay. |
| 1:16.3 | So you both know that I enjoy Royal Watch stuff and like I watch the crown and I was very excited about Harry and Megan's wedding and their first baby and obviously |
| 1:29.1 | their second baby, but the first baby came at an earlier time. |
| 1:32.7 | As first babies tend to do. |
| 1:38.3 | I know that that's true. |
| 1:40.3 | So I've seen it with my own eyes. |
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