Episode 245 || Backlist Book Club, Vol. 5: East of Eden
From the Front Porch
The Bookshelf Thomasville
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Wait, before we talk about anything, I feel like I don't know if other people will be able to hear this, but do you hear the rain? |
| 0:08.5 | It's rain. It's raining here. It hasn't rained here in like six weeks. |
| 0:14.6 | Okay, do you know, I don't, I'm so oblivious. I haven't noticed. Do you not play attention to the weather? It is so hot and dry here. I think you could set me on fire. I feel like it's rained in Tallahassee. No. No? It is so dry. This is like a miracle. I felt like Noah when I woke up this morning. Like it finally happened. But you know, I don't leave my house unless I go to work and then I just stay. I don't, |
| 0:37.8 | like there's no windows. Oh, you don't look outside. No, I'm outside maybe about 20 minutes a day. Well, I just wanted to acknowledge that I don't know if people can hear it. I don't know what the mic picks up, but it is raining and it sounds so beautiful. I do like rain. I love to read in Oh, me too, agreed. |
| 0:35.4 | Okay, so we were going to talk about, oh, we were going to talk out the politician. |
| 0:40.1 | Mm-hmm. I love to read in the brain. I love to read in the... Oh, me too. Agreed. Um, okay. So, we were going to talk about, |
| 0:56.1 | oh, we were going to talk about the politician. Mm-hmm. What do you think? I'm like, I'm only like, I'm only at one point. I love it. How are you about Ryan Murphy? I love it. Okay. Listen, I, wait, this is a quick and important little little I have watched every episode of Glee |
| 1:12.6 | except for the last one because I am saving it for whatever I rewatch Glee with my children |
| 1:16.8 | if I ever have them and I love American Horror Story I loved his first show popular |
| 1:21.3 | there's all these little like different shows that he's like done that he like didn't get |
| 1:25.1 | picked up and I've seen all the pilots for them I'm obsessed okay. Okay. Anyway, back to politician. Um, yes, I also, I just, I love Guinez Paltrow. Oh man. She is being used to her full potential. Like, because I don't actually know what I think fully of Gwyneth Paltrow as an actress. But when she plays these roles, she's played them in West Anderson films before, when she plays this kind of like quirky, slightly standoffish, aloof. Her husband is one of the writers of the politician. I did not know that. Yeah, and he also... Her new husband. Yes. Newish. Yes. And I think, well, because I think that, because he worked with her on glee, and then I think that because he knows her. |
| 2:01.7 | Is that how they met? I think so. Did you, okay, Olivia's been loaning me, her people magazines that she inexplicably has been getting mailed to her. And so she gives them to me. And I saw a picture, you know, like spotted. And it was like, Gwyneth Paltrow, her husband. and then Chris Martin and his wife |
| 1:58.5 | all vacationing together and I was like |
| 2:00.5 | why everybody like is that is that typical or is |
| 2:25.0 | that just celebrities being celebrities I don't know but like but listen like I can't say anything |
| 2:30.3 | because I literally you know I'm trashed so I'm like here for So I'm like, go for it. I'm like, |
| 2:34.7 | let me go with you. I just was so intrigued. I mean, no judgment. I guess that's what |
| 2:40.3 | conscious uncoupling is. Like you can still be friends. That's right. Conscious |
| 2:42.9 | uncoupling. That's right. You can still hang out. But I just saw that picture and I was like, |
| 2:46.3 | wait a minute, what? Yeah. Okay. So, wait, I'm sorry. Chris Martin is dating |
| 2:51.4 | or married to Dakota Johnson, which is also why it was weird. Oh my gosh. Yeah, they're together. Oh, now I'm like, I'm like, I just got goosebumps, literal goosebumps. You do? He really does. Listen, I'm obsessed with Dakota Johnson for some reason. Did you see she got rid of the gap in her teeth on actual? |
| 2:48.4 | I'm very upset. |
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