Episode 69 – Tinglers
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2017
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Proving Love: An Interview with Dr. Chuck Tingle
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about proving love so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.0 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.0 | And for our 69th episode, we read Redacted in the |
| 0:24.3 | butt by Redacted under the Trump administration and taken by the gay unicorn biker, both by the |
| 0:32.0 | Hugo nominated author Chuck Tingle. Joining us to discuss these two tinglers is Hardcore Lady Buck, Jenny. |
| 0:39.5 | Hello. |
| 0:40.3 | Hi, Jenny. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome back to the show. |
| 0:42.8 | Thank you. |
| 0:44.2 | Jenny previously was with us to explore the world of Harlequin romance novels. |
| 0:49.2 | And so this is a natural extension of that. |
| 0:57.0 | Yes. Yes. |
| 0:59.7 | I don't even know where to begin. |
| 1:02.6 | There's so much to cover. |
| 1:04.4 | Chuck Tingle, I feel like, is mainly known for his Twitter, |
| 1:08.4 | although he has written a great many of these short erotic. |
| 1:12.7 | Like, are these even books? |
| 1:14.2 | I don't know. |
| 1:14.4 | They're like short stories. |
| 1:16.6 | I think it's more that he was sort of known for writing these, like, ridiculous erotica stories or novelettes or whatever you want to call them. |
| 1:29.3 | I don't even think they're long enough to be novellas. |
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