Episode 55 – Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys
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Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2016
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Becca, and their guests Anna of Bellwether Friends and Holly of TopatoCo continue Flashback Summer by trying to solve the mystery of the missing entertainment after slogging through Nancy Drew and the Ghost of Craven Cove and The Hardy Boys and the Secret of Sigma Seven. Will they discover why they read so many of these books as kids? Will they uncover the secret to why these series are so long-lasting? Will they deduce the three basic personality types of all teenagers in series mystery books? (Spoiler alert: no, no, yes.)
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Footnotes: Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys YouTube Playlist
Nancy Drew TV Show Not Happening Because It’s ‘Too Female’
15 Mysterious Facts About the Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, and the Secret Ghostwriters of Children’s Fiction
Nancy Drew by Kate Beaton: 1 2 3 4 5
The Original Ghostwriter Behind Nancy Drew Was One of The Most Interesting YA Writers of All Time
Candy pairing: Kait says old-timey penny candy, Becca says Three Musketeers, Anna says Twix and Bit O’ Honey, Holly says candy buttons.
Coming up next: Angels to Watch Over Me by Lurlene McDaniel.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about boring, old-timey teenagers so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:17.8 | And I'm Becca, aka. Not Renata. |
| 0:20.2 | And for this episode, we read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. |
| 0:23.7 | Joining us to discuss these timeless teenage sluice are Anna of Bellwether Friends and Holly, |
| 0:29.9 | vice president of Topatico. |
| 0:31.8 | Hi, Anna and Holly. |
| 0:33.7 | Hi. |
| 0:35.2 | Hi. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm Anna, but I prefer a girl detective. |
| 0:38.3 | And I'm Holly, and my full title is actually Executive Vice President of Special Projects. |
| 0:43.3 | Very fancy. |
| 0:44.3 | We don't, we're not that fancy. |
| 0:46.3 | No. |
| 0:47.3 | No. |
| 0:48.3 | Look, I'll come right out and tell you because no one ever gets it. |
| 0:51.3 | It's actually from the TV show Angel. |
| 0:55.8 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:01.9 | And that was, yeah, that was Lila Morgan's position at the Big Evil company. |
| 1:04.9 | Okay, now we're in on the joke and it's funny. |
| 1:08.1 | I never watched those shows, so I still don't know the show. |
| 1:12.3 | A lot of people didn't watch the show, and there's a lot of good reasons for that. |
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