Hi, I'm Erica Ramirez, founder of Ili and host of What About Your Friends, a podcast dedicated

to the many lives of friendship and how it's portrayed in pop culture.

Every Wednesday on the Ringer Dish Feed, I talk to my best friends, Steven Othello, and

your favorites from within the ringer and beyond about friendships on TV, in movies, pop

culture, and our real lives.

So join me every Wednesday on the Ringer Dish Feed, where we try to answer the question

TLC asked back in the day.

What about your friends?

Welcome to Jam Session, I'm Julia Whitman, I'm Amanda Dobbins, hi Amanda, so much July

4th.

Tomorrow.

It's a holiday extended holiday weekend here in the United States, I was absolutely shocked

to find out that July 3rd is not an official federal holiday.

So was I, so was a colleague of ours who scheduled jury duty service with the hopes that he

would only be eligible for three days of the week and no no July 3rd on the docket.

I would, this was like unbelievably shocking to me, so here we are, we're going to talk

about some July 4th racks, some summer racks, a new addition to the cool man list, who

honestly has been overlooked for too long.

We'll come back to that, only by us, not by the world, by the way.

And to begin with, I wanted to talk about this article in The New York Times last week,

written by Alexander Alter and Elizabeth Harris about how review bombing on Goodreads

is impacting many books and like kind of publishing industry in general, which I honestly

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