Episode 44 – Stories I Only Tell My Friends
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2016
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and Rob Lowe’s Other Nemesis Steve read Stories I Can’t Tell My Friends by Renata’s Nemesis, Rob Lowe. In addition to a lot of grade-A 80s celebrity gossip, we learned a lot about Rob Lowe, such as how important he thinks celebrities are and how Cary Grant once gave him a soap on a rope. Listen now to hear Renata over-explain why Rob Lowe is “a hot Paul Harvey.”
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Renata’s Moth story about Rob Lowe
The Rest of the Story: Paul Harvey, Conservative Talk Radio Pioneer
Candy pairing: Kait says weird Lindt truffles, Renata says expensive airport candy, Steve says a Charms Blow Pop.
Coming up next: Hollow Earth by John & Carole Barrowman.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we've read about Renata's nemesis |
| 0:14.8 | so you don't have to. I'm Kate. And I'm Renata. And for this episode, we read Stories I Only |
| 0:20.8 | Tell My Friends by Rob Lo. |
| 0:22.8 | Joining us to discuss this literal celebrity memoir is Steve, IT analyst and fellow nemesis of Roblo. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, Steve. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome to this podcast that was brought to you by Roblo Can't Read.com. |
| 0:38.4 | Good to be read.com. Yeah, I feel like it's important that we start off this nemesis month that we are having |
| 0:46.0 | by explaining why these particular people are our nemeses. |
| 0:50.5 | And Renata has a really good story about why Roblo is her nemesis. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, I do. |
| 0:57.6 | An award-winning story. |
| 0:59.2 | I have an award-winning story about why Roblo is my nemesis. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, so we've decided for March we'll be our nemesis month, and we'll read one book each by our respective nemesis. And we've started with our nemesis month and we'll read one book each by our respective |
| 1:12.1 | nemeses and we've started with my nemesis Roblo and I will set the scene by saying that Steve and I |
| 1:22.2 | were both big fans of the West Wing and big fans of Roblo in particular and his character Sam |
| 1:27.4 | Seward on the West Wing and big fans of Roblo in particular and his character Sam Seward on the West Wing. |
| 1:29.3 | And my junior year of college, I studied abroad in London and Roblo was doing the play of, oh God, what's it called? |
| 1:40.1 | A few good men. |
| 1:40.7 | A few good men. I was going to say he was doing the play version of, You Can't Handle the Truth. |
| 1:45.2 | And I was like, that's not what it's called. |
| 1:49.8 | He did that. |
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