Hello, Joe here and you are listening to Under the Influence.

I kind of can't believe that it is August already. It just, it feels completely nuts to me.

I feel like July didn't even happen. But then again, school starts in three weeks,

which is great, but then I also have to get up early in the morning again, so... Mea.

But since we still have August left, and that is plenty of time to sit by the pool, sit at the beach,

ignore your kids. I want to give you some fun reading

recommendations. On book tour, everyone's been asking me what I'm reading. I just finished

marriage at sea, which is nonfiction, but it reads like a thriller. It's the true story

of a husband and wife who decided to sail around the world, which I think is like this fantasy for a lot of men, but in reality, sounds pretty horrible to me.

And this book proves that because they get marooned by a whale and they're stuck floating in a raft at sea for 118 days.

And this is not a spoiler, but the thing that's

awesome about this book is just how badass the woman is, how badass the wife is in this partnership.

She is like catching turtles and sharks and the husband the whole time is just sitting there

and he's like, I'm sad. Charlie's in the room with me, and he just laughed at that. Because it's ridiculous. He's just, I'm sad. I'm sad. Anyway, that's all I'm going to tell you. But marriage at C, that's what I just finished. My guest today is going to give us some other great recommendations. I've dropped her podcast, Glamorous Trash, in our feed before.

Chelsea Devontes is great.

I mean, she's so funny.

She's so smart.

And no one curates better reads, listens, or better celebrity gossip than this lady.

On Glamorous Trash, she actually dissect celebrity memoirs, which is so much fun. She does

the good ones, the bad ones, the absolutely bananas gonzo ridiculous ones. And I want to have her on

today to tell me which ones are worth your read this month. And because it's me, we also get a little bit deeper than that.

We talk about the power of telling your own story, which Chelsea did in her own memoir, which is

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