Hello, hello, outsiders. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. We have our bonus episode for you this month, which is really exciting because we're doing something a little bit different. Yeah, we have a guest. We do have a guest, which have we done that for outsiders before? I was just thinking that and I don't know. I'm sure people

will let us know. But I really truly don't know if we've done just like an exclusive

outsiders only interview collab episode. And this, this woman is like a long lost friend.

Yes. Yes. And for everyone who has been listening to the podcast and is always waiting for book recommendations, this is like the episode that you've

been waiting for because this is going to be an episode that is just filled with book recommendations because

today's guest has built an incredible platform dedicated to exploring the darker sides of knowledge

where curiosity meets history, science, and the macabre. Patricia, also known as Patches, is the

creator and host of the morbidly curious book club. And she is joining us today to give us all of the

insight on her favorite books. And we have brought a couple of our big recommendations for you as

well. Yeah, well, it began in 2021 as a small group of 10 readers sharing nonfiction recommendations

has exploded into a global

network of more than 16,000 members and counting over 50 local chapters exploring topics like

we've got death, we've got cults, we've got plagues, witches, we've got it all. And all

of the strange parts of history that often go untold yes and patches has

built this entirely morbidly curious world around this book club and it has i mean she has close to

17,000 subscribers in her book club which is unheard of for a book club i mean there are very few that

have well Oprah right yeah Oprah. Yeah. There's

touches and there's Oprah. And I think Reese Witherspoon or something had been Reese Witherspoon.

But this is huge. Like, no shade to Oprah and Reese Witherspoon. I don't know. I'm not a part of those worlds and I don't know what types of books they're reading. And I'm sure they have read amazing titles. But Patches has created this world of exploring books that like every single one. We're like, okay, yes, I would love that. Not like, oh, this person that's

famous recommended it. So maybe I'll give it a try. This is like someone just like URI that are just

totally interested in all of these weird obscure topics and just can't get enough of them. Yes. And I think what makes this

book club really cool, too, is that she picks nonfiction books. So all of them are true. And all of

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