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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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In sweet home Alabama, from the heart of Libya, comes a renegade candidate with a boombox and a head scarf. The cheerleaders, the geeks, the dweebs and the freaks are about to send a message the country needs right after 9/11.
A very big thank you to Yasmin!
Yasmin is a comedian and storyteller. You can follow her on Instagram @yasminelhahahady or TikTok @yasmin_elhady. She first told a version of this story at Story District in Washington, DC.
Produced by Justin Kramon, original score by Renzo Gorrio, artwork by Teo Ducot
Season 15 - Episode 19
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0:00.0 | Snap Studios. Okay, so I'm going to break the first rule of Book Club, which of course is whatever happens in the Book Club, |
0:22.0 | stays in the Book Club. I'm going to do this to |
0:26.2 | tell you that we the members of my book club have been members now for the majority of |
0:32.4 | our adult lives. |
0:35.0 | Before, marriages, before children, before divorces, |
0:39.0 | that's what makes it special. |
0:42.0 | When reading books is put the tiniest portion of what this club is about. |
0:47.0 | Almost an afterthought. |
0:50.0 | First search the food. |
0:52.1 | The host really goes all out, the drinks, the overnight trips |
0:56.6 | together, the histories, the break-off groups, the holidays, but all of it, all of it, is just trappings for the big show. |
1:07.2 | Because after the discussion of the book, |
1:09.2 | we pick which book we're going to read next? |
1:13.0 | One person, one vote. |
1:17.0 | Get to advocate for your selection, |
1:19.0 | whoever garners the most votes. |
1:21.0 | Their book is chosen a pure democracy and here emerges the ever |
1:29.0 | evolving coalitions the factions the threats the co coercion the favors and treachery |
1:35.8 | Often I will throw a |
1:39.2 | thoughtful |
1:40.6 | readable selection into the voting pool only to be foiled by Amanda Brown-Stevens |
1:47.0 | who will enter a lesser book into voting just to mess with me. Then, but then she advocates with such passion, such verb, such |
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