SOMETHING SPECIAL by Dina S. LIVE Release Party!

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
welcome to the don't make it weird podcast.
We are your writingstorytelling comedy podcast for
humans, by humans and guys.
We are live and I am joined asalways, by the sexy, seductive,
steadfast sultan of swaggerhimself, producer sean.
What's up, buddy?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
how's it going?
Everybody, we're here for thelive release party.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Let's go let's go and you know what I can.
I can.
I apologize really fast, seancan I just do you want to?
Apologize.
Yeah, can I?
I'd like to apologize realquick to all the non-humans
watching our show.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
He's sorry.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I didn't mean that you couldn't watch our show.
Vampires were wolves, notvampires.
But everyone else.
You guys are welcome.
We want you to be here andwe're very, very sorry for
excluding you.
So sorry, but you want to knowwhat I'm not sorry about,
producer Sean.
We are here for somethingamazing man.
We are here for the secondcoming of the greatest literary

(01:10):
novel of all time, and I don'tbelieve in hyperbole.
Tonight's guest of honor is amulti-talented powerhouse an
award-winning author, a mother,a podcaster, a proud Ravenclaw,
a championship sharpshooter, amaster of American sign language
and the chief administrativeofficer at lost boys press.
When she's not wrangling herown two mischievous Basenji's or
driving her husband to thebrink of madness, she's

(01:32):
obsessing over all things teal.
Her much awaited sequel,something special, book two of
the discerners trilogy, which isabsolutely not an autobiography
, is out now, and we could bemore proud or excited to
celebrate this milestone withher.
Please give a warm welcome toour best friend, the, the
sutilating simulacrum ofsensitive, seren-sumptuous

(01:55):
serenity, who's always somethingspecial.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Dinosaurus.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
He reached so far like he was trying to shoot for
the stars there and just liketotally totally flubbed it.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
That was a good intro though, guys, thanks, it was a
good start.
I felt I felt good about it.
Oh, jesus man, I I'm so excited, dina, we're back here, we're
celebrating you.
How does it feel?

Speaker 4 (02:22):
pretty good, pretty good.
Um, can somebody text myhusband and tell him that the
dogs ate?
I can't reach my phone and hejust texted me asking.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Yeah, yeah, I can do that.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Now that I've met him multiple times.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, yeah.
We can send that text.
Thanks, definitely, definitely.
We'll remember.
And for the audio, onlylisteners who may be listening
to be reading listen to thislater.
You're gonna miss out on a lotof visual stuff.
So just head over to ouryoutube channel.
Just just go watch us onyoutube.
Dina's fully naked right now.
It's awesome.

Speaker 4 (02:49):
We support her being in her birthday suit for this
show uh, and if you're watchingus on tiktok right now, you can
head on over to youtube to youknow, see the full experience.
That's right, thank you.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
yeah, it's gonna be amazing, um, but can we, can we
go over something here?
Because I feel like we got thetitle wrong, right, sean,
because it's not somethingspecial.
No, it is two, something twospecial the Dinosaurus
Chronicles.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
That's right, something like that.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
You're so real for that.
We're so real?
Do we have the real coverpulled up?

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Because we've been bamboozling you guys for a while
with these big covers at thebottom here We've been
bamboozling you.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
On the left corner of your screen you can see the
regular alleged regular cover.
On the other side you can seethe alleged hardcover special
edition.
Both, beautiful Dina, who didthese facsimiles of your real
cover?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
uh, what's a facsimile?
Oh, my god thanks okay, um, Idon't know how to answer that
question.
Emily's world of design did thehardcover.
Is that what you're asking?
And then I that's what he'sasking.
Well, me and Tilly and Ashleyactually worked on the regular

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cover, okay, okay, I mean theyare beautiful, beautiful covers.

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Nothing wrong with them.
But, sean, I believe we havethe real cover.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Shit.
Okay.
Well, I forgot to prepare forthis, so I'm scrambling right
now.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
We can talk about what we're drinking tonight,
guys, because I want to fill up.
Yes, we can.
Yeah, let's fill up the cup.
What are we drinking tonight,dina?

Speaker 2 (04:29):
I forgot ice shit tonight time hey, rance gave us
permission to use this, so we'regoing to use it it's completely
original tonight.

Speaker 4 (04:44):
Sean, let me pick out what we're gonna try for our
weird drink segment, becauseit's my birthday and it's my cut
.
Well, it's soon to be mybirthday and it's my cover
release so or not?
Cover release my book.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
It's your birthday week basically month, birthday
week, yeah.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
So we're gonna try mountain dew, hard seltzers and.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
I'm going with Baja Blaster I have.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Baja Blast Punch right now and I'm actually
drinking it out of my specialedition.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
Go to.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
WeMakeCupscom fora custom Tumblr, if you guys want.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
And I'm definitely drinking the same thing as the
rest of them Definitely didn'tscrew this up at all.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
How do you suck so?

Speaker 3 (05:28):
bad.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
His local liquor store sucks dude.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
Yeah, I, literally.
We have one in the entire stateof Georgia, just one between me
and my mom's house, oh my god.
And so, listen, I got RedStripe Rum Punch.
It's made with caribbean rumand mango juice and sparkling
water and other natural flavors.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
it's basically the same thing tell him, shannon,
okay, I'm gonna add this to thescene.
Um, thanks to the uh cheerseverybody.
Thanks to the, the glory thatis uh and, by the way, our
friend levi uh and supportamazing friend levi did some

(06:12):
pretty awesome photoshoppedcovers some fan art for dina on
amazing covers um check thoseout.
But this is this is the thereal theatrical cover yeah, the
real, the real cut.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
uh, uh-huh.
Okay, very proud of this hardwork that we put into this.
That definitely didn't justfuck around in five minutes.
But, dina, while Sean's pullingthat up, I want you to know, in
honor of Nathaniel, I got as anapology some Bermuda Black Rum.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Oh, cute Is that.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
so Bermuda, it's oh cute, yeah, oh.

Speaker 4 (06:46):
Bermuda, it's significant Okay.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yep, and then, on top of that, I got the pickle shot
as my punishment for not gettingthe correct drink.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
Shannon's in the chat shuddering right now.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
Here we go, here it is oh yeah, oh my God, this is
incredible.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes, thanks to the glory of ChatGPpt's image
generation pamsley bennett.
Yeah, pamsley bennett's inthere um love, magic and tragic
is the tag, and tragic and awhole lot of drama is also the
tagline and also and a whole lotof blue nathaniel for some
reason

Speaker 4 (07:24):
I love that for him.
That's kind of fitting for hispersonality to censor all
chronicles which is that like aschool?
Is that a college in?

Speaker 2 (07:34):
the background.
That's columbia, isn't.
It isn't.
That's columbia university.
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
I've never been there .
Anybody that reads this book isgonna be like, yeah, this witch
has never stepped foot onColumbia campus before.

Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (07:49):
I could map that place out like the back of my
hand at this point, like I didmy research, but yeah, I've
never been there.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Listen and that's all right.
There's nothing wrong with thatand we're proud of it.
So Two Something Too Special isout now and, as of yesterday,
you can buy it anywhere wherebooks are sold amazon,
barnesandnoblecom, like you cango on lost boys press website uh
, lots of options here.
Dina, talk, talk us throughyour emotions right now.

(08:20):
This is your second big release.
We're getting back to cerner'sfeel.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
I need you to feel, dina yeah, um, it feels great to
be able to celebrate and not bepregnant.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
That's cool cheers to that no, this, yeah, cheers.

Speaker 4 (08:39):
It feels pretty cool that, um, I got to continue this
series when I never thoughtthat Nothing Special would be a
whole series.
I never thought that I wasactually going to successfully
have a trilogy coming out.
I mean, that's pretty doperight.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
Yeah, that's incredible, and I heard it's on
the rundown, so I don't know ifyou're willing to say it yet,
but I heard there's already atitle for book three, for anyone
that wants to get out ahead ofit.
Are we discussing this?

Speaker 4 (09:06):
oh, I mean I guess we can't set it on the show before
yeah, it's not even written,though, like I still don't know
if I'm gonna finish it.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Everything special is book three everything special
out, sometime finish it becauseI just read book two and I'm I'm
like oh, did you?

Speaker 1 (09:22):
finish.
Yeah, yeah, hold on, hold on,that's spoilers.
We're going to get to that.
We're going to get to thatbecause I know exactly, heather.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
This drink is disgusting and I'm very
disappointed it tastes like ahangover.

Speaker 1 (09:38):
It tastes like.
Is that because you are stillhung over, though?
Like like?
That's the question.
Probably, man.
We are so excited about thisrelease.
Guys, as always, we are goingto be giving out prizes, we're
going to be giving out copies ofthe book, we're going to be
drinking and having a great time, and we got a couple of games

(09:59):
that we're going to be playingthis time, but we got a lot of
friends in the audience Sean,who's joining us so far.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
All right, let this time.
But uh, we got a lot of friendsin the audience.
Sean, who's joining us so far?
All right, let's see who's inthe chat.
Y'all, of course we have ourfriend shannon sink.
Picklebee, praise um shout out.
Oh my god, I'm gonna get thisright.
Levi, our friend and supporter,levi bersloff lut and they
specifically said it's lut likeslut.
Levi bersloff, thank you forjoining us today.
Um, let's see, we have issues.

(10:24):
Anthony laFousey's in the chat.
Everybody, we love that man, hi, anthony.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Antoine Starpuncher.
Okay, wait, I was just going tosay.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
I was filling out all the envelopes and everything
and shipping books out yesterdayand I almost put Antoine
Starpuncher on his book and Iwas like his mail lady is going
to like that would 100% getseized by the USPS, I think.
Yeah, Okay, go ahead Siri.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
Our friend Daniel Ruth is in the chat.
Hi, daniel Ruth.
Who else is here?
Rebecca Mickelson.
Hi Becky, we love you.
Thank you for coming by, becky.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
My friend Heather is here.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
Heather is here.
Hi, heather Heather, I don'tknow you but I already find you
acceptable.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
The executive producer.

Speaker 2 (11:12):
Kelly has joined us.
Kelly.
We can talk apparently.
Hey, I got Levi's name, let'sgo.

Speaker 4 (11:20):
This is so disgusting .

Speaker 2 (11:23):
Do you need to go get another drink, Tina?
We want you to be happy withyour beverage choice.

Speaker 4 (11:29):
I wonder if Tim will drink it.
But I got my snacks up already.

Speaker 2 (11:35):
Are you going to power through it?
I can power through it.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
I can do it.
No, I can power through.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
All right, while she's powering through it.
Sean sean, can you explain?
We?
We've got a special game thatwe're going to be playing over
the course of this episode.
Buddy, what are we doing?

Speaker 2 (11:50):
that is correct.
But first I want to remind youall about the drinking games
that we play on.
Don't make it weird.
Um, you're welcome to join inand play along responsibly, of
course.
Um, it's on you if you decideto play.
Okay, it gets pretty wild inhere don't be responsible, don't
do that we have a rule calledbuffalo around here.
Everyone has to drink with theiroff hand.
We're all right handed, whichmeans we all drink with our left

(12:12):
hand.
If you catch any of us drinkingwith our right hand, shout out
buffalo in the chat or we willyell buffalo at each other,
although it almost never happensbecause we just don't pay
attention.
Um, also, if you hear a buzzerlike this, that means someone
has said one of our fancybuzzwords or phrases and it
triggers a drink.
Now about the special gametonight.

(12:35):
We wanted to get you guys inthe audience a little more
involved with the games.
So, um, we need you to beeagle-eyed tonight, not just for
Buffalo, but for sneak attack,because if you saw us with Uncle
Bobbo, I don't know 20 or 30episodes ago, we played a game
called sneak attack whereeveryone had a secret thing.

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Oh, did Daniel just do a shot?
I'm very sorry.
I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
I didn't know why he was gagging on.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
I was like that's disgusting Okay, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
That was weird.
Um, that wasn't part of thegame.
We've adapted sneak attack tothe live show here, which means
I'm going to give daniel anddina um secret tasks.
They have to perform throughoutthe night and you, the audience
, have to call it out if youthink they're doing their secret
task.
And if you call it, you'reentered to win a hard cover

(13:23):
special edition copy ofsomething Special by Dina S,
like the one I'm holding righthere To Something Too
Special-ing.
To Something Too Special, sothey don't even know what the
tasks are.

Speaker 1 (13:33):
Yet In her third book coming out soon.
Nothing Special, tokyo Drift,yeah, tokyo Drift.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
So right now I'm sending Dina and Daniel their
first task, alright can you?
Hear us dude, or are you justlike so delayed?
It's horrible.
I can hear you what yeah, thatwas like a solid four seconds
what I don't feel any delay herewe go, here we go.
I'm gonna finish.

(14:02):
Let me finish fuckingexplaining the game, daniel.
Listen, oh, coralie's in thechat.
Hi, coralie, we love you.
I don't feel any delay.
Here we go, here we go, I'mgoing to finish.
Let me finish fuckingexplaining the game, daniel.
Shut the fuck up.
Listen, oh, coralie's in thechat.
Hi, coralie, we love you.
I said that to my mom.
Okay, so we want you to playalong Throughout the show.

(14:24):
Daniel and Dina will be givensecret to win a special edition
copy of Dina's book.
As soon as someone guessesright, I'm going to give them a
new task to replace it.
So keep an eye out.
They might even try to distractyou and do random shit.
That isn't their actual secrettask and you just have to kind
of go with it.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
So I'm so excited for this game, so I'm so excited
for this game.

Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm sending them their secret tasks right now,
and this will be going all night.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
We'll pick a winner of the book at the end of the
night, all night long.

Speaker 4 (14:54):
We don't even have our tasks yet, daniel.

Speaker 1 (14:56):
I just I have a song in my heart, dina.

Speaker 2 (14:59):
I have a song in my heart, by the way this was
Dina's idea, so I had to make ithappen for her special night.
You're too late, okay, so youguys both have your instructions
.

Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yes, I'm going to forget to do this.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
Becky just called out your.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
There shirt.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Show your shirt to the crowd the there.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (15:22):
Dina Look at on, hey, dina, dina, dina look at me,
dina darling.
Don't, don't be putting yourboobs out on display like that.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
This is a family show this is how you get a better
audience, though this isinappropriate.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
I will not be a part of this.
Sean, will you be a?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
part of a giveaway because we want to do a giveaway
for a copy of the sean.
Will you be a part of agiveaway because we want to do a
giveaway for a copy?

Speaker 4 (15:45):
of the book right now , so I don't know how to help
you are you just gonna makeharry potter references?
Yeah, because my backgroundnever mind um.
Did you announce a giveaway?

Speaker 2 (16:02):
I wasn't listening yeah, you guys aren't listening.
You're like petulant children.
Um, we are doing a giveawayright now.
If you want a chance to win a,a hard sorry, a, a paperback
copy of something special bydina s type hashtag special into
the chat right now oh, is thatoh yeah, look at all these

(16:23):
people I just saw on here thatis.

Speaker 1 (16:27):
That is sam hi sam.
Oh my gosh, we have so manypeople that want to be special
hashtag special in the youtubechat for your chance to win.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
So, dina, did someone guess your thing already?
What no, it's not that you didit, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
You keep doing it until someone catches on yeah,
yeah, it's not a one like holyshit it's me, it's me all right,
we'll give you guys anotherminute to enter the giveaway.
Oh, I'm loving this.

(17:04):
No, that's stupid, Sorry.
Does anyone remember the nameof like in Lady and the no, not
Lady and the Tramp.
The other one, 101 Dalmatians.
What the people's names werethe owners?

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Oh, the owners.
I don't know the owners, I justknow Perdita and Pongo.

Speaker 1 (17:22):
Why did I?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
say Pongo.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
Pongo, I don't know, is that, is that your word?
Is that what you're doing,roger, and?

Speaker 2 (17:27):
anita radcliffe is who you're looking for, roger
and anita radcliffe I never knewthey had a last name.
All right, last call to enterhashtag special into the chat
for your chance to win.
If you don't win, this oh,ashley's here.

Speaker 1 (17:43):
Hi ashley, hi ashley, I'm definitely working on my
line edits right now.
Ashley, I promise I'm sorry Ilove you.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
Can you like not step over me while I'm trying to
talk like seriously sorry,you're so beautiful, I'm delayed
.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
I don't know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (17:56):
I'm in the middle of a sentence and you're screaming
I might kick you out and makeyou come back in, because this
is pretty bad.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
All right, I'm going to, I'm going to leave, I'll be
right back.
You do the, you do this thing,all right.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
Sure, hi, ashley.
Yes, anita and Roger, thank youso much for your help.
Okay, you guys, I think we'regoing to roll it.
Let's see who won the firstbook.
Oh wait, a second.
Okay, we're not done yet we'renot done we're waiting for one
more entry oh okay, oh, I seenow levi, I don't mean I'm gonna

(18:35):
kick him out, like ban him fromthe stream, I just mean he
needs to.
Sometimes, when we're streamingtogether like this, like some
delays happen and then wires getcrossed and then there's like a
five second like pause betweenpeople talking and Daniel's
experiencing internet issues.

Speaker 3 (18:53):
So I asked him all right, how's it going?

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Just tell Sean that it's not easy being a wizard
sometimes, you know.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
That's true, this isn't a real thing.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
This is a red herring what hey, daniel, this game's
for the audience, so just yeah,just sorry, I'm sorry.
Do the show like you normallywould.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
Just yes, darling hey , man be better shannon, are we
good?

Speaker 1 (19:24):
oh my god, shannon, shannon please, I think it's
time, man, let's, let's get,let's get a winner.
Sean, I want to do he's noteven logged in.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay, he you know what.
There's gonna be more chancesto win tonight.
He'll have more chances.
Here we go, let's roll itsomebody just buy Sean a book.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
That's so cute oh bless his heart that's my guy,
that's my winner right there allright, levi's our first one of
the night.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
There will be more chances to win tonight, you guys
, so don't worry about it.
Hang out with us, have a drinkand have more chances to win.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Oh man, you know, Sean, do you hear that?
Sean, do you hear something?

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Voicemail Voicemail.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
Oh man.

Speaker 4 (20:25):
We have a voicemail.
We just got a voicemail.

Speaker 2 (20:27):
Let's see who it is.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Oh, my God.
It's Levi, isn't it Is this Ilove him so much.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
Yo hey Dina, the Olive Queen.
I hear that there is somethingspecial coming.
I just want to say massivecongratulations on your book
release, on your new book.
This is so exciting.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
You are amazing, my friend and you are going to do
so so well, and I cannot wait toread it.

Speaker 2 (21:06):
Something special coming your way.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Thomas Anthony Lay Guys.

Speaker 4 (21:12):
I love you so much.

Speaker 2 (21:15):
Levi was worried that was one of their fucking
voicemails.
No, you're good.

Speaker 1 (21:20):
He's like no, no, no, no, no, it's fine, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah, I had to get Tom to come by and leave you a
message because he can't makeit's like 3 a.
No, no, it's fine, it's fineeverything to me.
Uh, yeah, I had to get tom tocome by and, uh, leave you a
message because he can't makeit's like 3 am where he is right
now I was messaging him and Iwas like come on the show and
then we did the map.

Speaker 4 (21:35):
Yeah, that wasn't gonna happen.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
Oh, man, I, I love it anytime we can get him to stop
by.
Man, that's, that's my dude,and uh, we, we miss him.
We need to get him back on theshow, as he's got to write his
next book, so we can get him inhere, right you know, it's
really Hard being a wizard, andhe's Just got things to do.
Dina, I Swear to god.
I swear to god.
But listen, here's, here'ssomething that, that, that I

(21:58):
want to, I want to talk about.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Are you gonna tell the audience how to leave Us a
voicemail before you move on?

Speaker 1 (22:04):
I mean I could, but then I'd have to go back to the
rundown then he'd have to.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
It's literally on the screen I would have to.

Speaker 1 (22:12):
It just says do we have a voicemail?
It's 347 69, weird.
347 699 347 699 3473.
It was on the screen, wasn't it?

Speaker 2 (22:28):
right in front of you the entire time.
You didn't even have to referto the muscles to flex how dare
you.
Becky's got it.
Our first sneak attack winneris Becky you're releasing me
from these shackles.

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Our first entry in the sneak attack raffle is Becky
, you're releasing me from theseshackles.
You're releasing me from theseshackles.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Our first entry in the sneak attack raffle at the
end of this is Becky.
The secret prompt, for Dina wasrepeatedly saying it's not easy
being a wizard.

Speaker 1 (22:59):
Heather is asking if I'm exposing myself for a reason
.
I'm lucky, heather, that myshirt's still on right now, like
if, if Sean wasn't going to bereally mad at me, I it would be
off.
I'd be popping this shirt off,all right?
People don't understand.
Listen, dina darling, can Ijust can I say something really
quick?
Don't ever call me darlingagain.

(23:20):
I can't help that.
That's how I feel about you.
We've been doing this show forthree years now, and I need us
to be a little bit more intimate.
Is that okay, dina?

Speaker 4 (23:30):
I don't ever want to be intimate with you.
I want you to stay the fuckaway from me you're gonna give
me the hunter treatment anthonylay on the other end, just
kidding listen, I need to getserious for a second.

Speaker 1 (23:46):
Guys, sean, do we have the sarah mclaughlin music?
Sarah, mclaughlin music yeah,yeah, like you know, when the
the song they play, wheneverit's like for, like you know, a
charity drive the arms of theangel, or whatever it's called.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
No, I don't have that cuta.
Why would I have that?

Speaker 1 (24:03):
just sing that for me right now.
Sean just no because, no,that's not the song, but I love
that song, and don't get mestarted one one or the don't

(24:24):
make it weird podcast, somethingto help Sean.
A whole much money on for thehave.
So for just one dollar a monthyou do support don't make it
weird.
Link to the patreon in thedescription shout out to our
current patreon you guys, chrisCotta, rm, hamrick, thomas

(24:45):
Staples, levi.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
In the description shout out to our current patreon
you guys um chris cotta, rm,hamrick, thomas staples, levi,
bersloff, lutte, stephen, howard, rance, denton, shannon, bright
and matthew s.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Thank you so much, you guys uh it means the world
to us patreoncom slash dmiw,you're welcome.

Speaker 3 (25:03):
How does that?

Speaker 4 (25:06):
Mulan song go, you're welcome.

Speaker 3 (25:09):
Let's get down to business.

Speaker 2 (25:13):
That is, you're welcome is not from Mulan oh
Moana Moana.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
You were doing.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
Moana.
Yeah, you're welcome.
No, becky's Moana, you weredoing Moana.

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Yeah, you're welcome.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
No, Becky's screaming in the chat.
It's Moana Just screaming.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
She is mad alright.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
Okay, do you guys want to play a game?

Speaker 4 (25:41):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
Darling, you want to play?

Speaker 4 (25:51):
7 am usual morning.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Okay, okay, you guys, we're gonna, we're gonna have a
game segment.
It's called discern the emojiare you saying darling?

Speaker 4 (26:02):
because mckay says darling all the time in discern
the emoji.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Each player takes turns reenacting an emoji sent
privately to them, withoutspeaking or using props.
The other player I'm referringto Dina and Daniel will then try
to guess which emoji is beingacted out.
The player who guesses theemoji correctly first earns a
point.
There's one little caveat herethe emoji correctly first earns

(26:26):
a point.
There's one little caveat hereeach of them get what's called
the discerner's touch that theycan use one time during the game
.
That will give them theopportunity to ask a question of
the person reenacting the emojito kind of get a better
understanding of what they'retrying to act out.
And that can only be used once.
So use it wisely, you two allright, I'm excited.

Speaker 1 (26:44):
Uh, you might need to check the chat real quick bud
why am I checking the chat?

Speaker 4 (26:49):
somebody guessed his thing, I think.
I assume thank god oh, rebeccathank you she's.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
The eagle eye is daniel's thing calling dina
darling?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
yes, it is and that is a reference to.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Dina's book Something Special.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Okay, who wants to go first?
Who wants to act first?
I do.

Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, Dina's going first.
Dina, can I go?

Speaker 4 (27:14):
first.
So is that door.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, actually, dina, can you go first?

Speaker 4 (27:20):
No.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Okay, dina, your first emoji is in your DMs.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
Ew, let's see what you got.
Okay, and I just have to act itout right, yeah, no words, just
emotions.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
No words just emotions, fuck.
Yes.

Speaker 3 (27:35):
Oh, I'm doing it.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
She's doing it right now.

Speaker 1 (27:39):
Completing emoji.
You know, here's the problemwith this game, Sean.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
I don't actually know what the emojis names are
called.

Speaker 1 (27:48):
Yeah, but you can describe it okay.
Uh, it's like the halo, likeit's got the halo around it and
it's like looking innocent andshit like yeah, no, can, I can I
do daniel, would you like totake the l on this one, or do
you want to use your one timeper game advantage?
The discerners touch no, it'stoo early.

(28:11):
It's too early.
I'm gonna take the L on thisone.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
Shannon, do you want to tell the people what it was?

Speaker 3 (28:20):
oh.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
Shannon got it right.
You guys thank you.

Speaker 1 (28:23):
Oh, Shannon got it right.
You guys, Thank you.
Oh, it was hard eyes.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
Because you're going like this, but it looks like
you're going like this.
That's what you mean in love.

Speaker 1 (28:33):
Oh, you're so bad at eye flirting I don't know how
you would have survived the cold, Dina.

Speaker 4 (28:38):
Because, okay, because eye babies is not like,
it's sensual and I don't want tobe sensual with you.

Speaker 1 (28:48):
Dina darling please.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
Oh, I need to give you a new thing.
Hold on, hold on Pause.
I need to give Daniel his nexttask.
Darling is over.
You can stop with that nowbefore she kills you.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
I had to do it one more time.

Speaker 2 (29:03):
Also, you guys remember that you can like throw
in red herrings.
So the audience what it is soeasily.
And so, daniel, there's a newsecret task.
I don't know, just that was anew secret task for uh sneak
attack and here I'm sending youyour emoji for dina to discern

(29:26):
all right, I'm ready.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
I'm ready.
The day is mine.
Where is that?

Speaker 4 (29:34):
oh, oh, cowboy hat the shocked emoji with the with
the blue.
Oh the mind blown the brainblown, she got it it's hard to
be such a experience.

Speaker 1 (29:54):
People just don't get it.
They don't get how talented Iam.

Speaker 2 (29:57):
It's unbelievable okay, that's one point to Dina.
How many points to Daniel?
Remind me zero, yeah, zero,that's right.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
I feel like a winner for how great I did.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Okay, dina, I am sending you your next emoji.

Speaker 3 (30:15):
Okay, emoji.

Speaker 1 (30:19):
Dina's hair looks really nice today.
I feel like we haven'tcommented on that and we should.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
Is Dina's thing singing disney songs?

Speaker 1 (30:25):
yes, it is shannon I was just really excited to be
singing disney songs.
That was a part of it all right, good job, shannon.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
So becky has two entries, shannon has one, and
now I need to get dina her nextsecret task, which I didn't
prepare.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Many of these I totally underestimated how
quickly people would go throughthese.
Sean, can you just look at mereal quick?
Can we do eye babies real quick, can we please?

Speaker 3 (30:53):
God damn it.

Speaker 4 (30:54):
I need my eye condoms .

Speaker 3 (31:02):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (31:02):
Corley, we already checked voicemail for our
voicemail segment.
This time did you send onetoday.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
I can just bring my mom downstairs, so we can just
have my mom just come and say hito Dina at some point now has
her new emoji and her new secrettask.
Okay, that's just your face.
Has her new emoji and her newsecret task.
Okay, that's just your face,dina, that's not an emoji,
that's just literally your face.

Speaker 2 (31:32):
That's because I'm constantly doing this, daniel is
not a discerner, y'all.

Speaker 1 (31:40):
That's just your face .
I don't see anything different.
Okay, hold on it.
Do it again, dina.
Okay, so it's like an eyebrowraise, like it's like uh, I, I
don't jesus you're an authorright yeah, I am.
Uh, if it's a smirk, I swear tofucking god I will.
I will end this right now.

(32:02):
I will fucking end this rightnow if that's a smirk.
Emoji he got it.
That's a point for Daniel.
God damn it.
I hate that word so much.

Speaker 2 (32:14):
That was the smirk Daniel's favorite word from the
English language.
Everybody.

Speaker 4 (32:20):
What's up?

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Okay, daniel, we'll do this a couple more times,
okay, daniel hey, can I ask aquestion you?
Have your next one.
Wait, wait, before you do it,dina what's a mukbang?
That's when someone eats waytoo much food in a sloppy manner
and people watch it oh, like asex thing, I mean, it depends on
who you ask it's not.

(32:44):
It's not like explicitly a sexthing.
I mean it depends on who youask.
It's not.
It's not like explicitly a sexthing, but I can see how people
would be into that in a kinkyway.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
I can see why Dina would not be into that, but yeah
, that's fine.

Speaker 1 (32:57):
Daniel, you have Dina can we pay attention please?
Alright, you ready, hold on mymom's.
My mom's coming down here, solet me do the emoji and then
we're my mom on.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
Oh my god, we're my mom on oh my god, we're firing
through these way too quick,becky.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
The people know it Fuck.

Speaker 1 (33:12):
Becky already got the accent.

Speaker 2 (33:17):
And now my sound's just died.
What's going on here?

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Oh no, the sound's just died, all right.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
Well, can I at least do my emoji first?
Well, this wouldn't happen,yeah, oh no, the sound's just
died.
Can I at least do my emojifirst?

Speaker 1 (33:26):
Yeah, do your emoji, alright.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
Oh, I wasn't looking at you.
The startled face.
The startled face, like withthe big eyes.
Are you trying to move youreyebrows right now, like it's

(33:54):
gotta be scared?
Are you scared?
That's fear.
Five head Blowing out of themouth.
Another one, um, uh, blowing,blowing out of the mouth.
Another one stressing I don'tknow, I can, I can I use the

(34:16):
discerner's touch from theaudience you want the
discerner's touch.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
So that means you get to ask daniel a question that
will give you a better idea ofwhat he's trying to do.

Speaker 1 (34:29):
That's not okay, mom.
It's universally known, but Istill had to hear you singing
those lyrics, mom.
Okay, my mom was singing touchme, the rock horror picture show
and I can't unhear that.
Now, guys, I can't, I can'tunhear that dino thoroughly

(34:50):
enjoyed that moment.

Speaker 4 (34:51):
Um yeah, daniel right .
Um yeah, are you?

Speaker 1 (34:58):
ask your question.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Oh, I don't.
I don't know how to ask aquestion about this.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
I just realized that um you can't ask what it is
obviously right, so what wouldhelp?
So are you thinking about,thinking about the time you can
ask him like yeah, what wouldmake you react this way, or
something like that oh, I'll,I'll steal that one.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
What would make you react with this emoji?

Speaker 1 (35:24):
Shitting my pants in public.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
So you're the embarrassed face.

Speaker 3 (35:31):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Embarrassed face.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
I'm going to switch seats with my mom real quick so
that she can give it.

Speaker 2 (35:40):
A quick cameo from the lovely Coralie All right,
here we go, mom.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
You got to get her right over here to the mic.
Oh okay, here we go.
Lovely Coralie, All right, herewe go.
Mom, you got to get right overhere to the mic.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, here we go here we go.
All right, give Dina yourmessage.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Dina, I'm so proud of you.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
You're doing so well, hi, coralie, and I'm just
wondering if curls arecontagious because, Sean, I've
known you since you guys were inmiddle school.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
where were those girls back then?

Speaker 2 (36:04):
I had my head shaved.
They were shaved off.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
I don't have any curls, mom.
I'm sorry, I'm not as cool asSean and Dean.
I don't have any curls.

Speaker 4 (36:15):
You got bupkis.

Speaker 3 (36:17):
You got bupkis.
Thank you, mom, I love you,love you.

Speaker 2 (36:21):
Carly.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
They all say they love you Mom, I love you Love
you, carly.

Speaker 4 (36:26):
They all say they love you Mom.

Speaker 1 (36:27):
She's so amazing.

Speaker 4 (36:28):
I literally said it when she first came up.

Speaker 1 (36:32):
All right, all right, we're going to do one more
round, buddy.

Speaker 2 (36:34):
Yeah, let's do one more round.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
Also.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Daniel, you have your new secret task in your DMs.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Okay, can I still call Dina darling, though, like
I really don't want to stop that.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
only if you want to be murdered tonight um, I will
drive up my ass to georgia okay,um, I need to give one to dina.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Here we go, getting my wires crossed between two
games going at the same time.
There you go, dina.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
Okay, no, no, that's still just my face all the time,
though that's still just myface, that's just your face.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Emote Anger emoji yeah, ah, you got it.
Emote, emote Anger emoji yeah,ah, you got it All right, so
we're tied up at two.
Dina needs to get this one inorder to win the game.
You guys?

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Dina's winning already.
I don't know.
She doesn't know what you'retalking about.

Speaker 1 (37:39):
Hey Dina.
Dina, did you know thatduck-billed platypuses are the
only animals that are mammals,that can lay eggs?

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Did you also know that they're poisonous?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Yes, I did.
I love duck-billed platypuses,sorry, continue.

Speaker 4 (37:53):
All right, let's try another one.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Why do you keep fucking doing random shit?
Okay Wait, last one for Daniel,here we go.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
ASMR, this you didn't do it, it's fine.

Speaker 2 (38:05):
No, shannon, that's not correct.
Nice guess though.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Thanks for trying to get me out of this one.
Shannon Dina appreciates it.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
I need to come up with more, because I only
prepared three each for you guys.

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Thank fuck.
Thank you, Levi Jeez Louise.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Dina is talking in the third person.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Oh my god, got her, got her.

Speaker 4 (38:30):
Oh, that's good.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Which one are you drinking now?

Speaker 4 (38:34):
Zero sugar.
That's why they taste weird.
I didn't know.
I grabbed a zero sugar one.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
It's better.
They are better for you.
Some of us don't want to havesugar in our diets alright.

Speaker 4 (38:44):
Aspartame is not better for you.
Some of us don't want to havesugar in our diets.
Aspartame is not better for you.
It causes cancer.
Drink responsibly.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Alright, Daniel, do you want to go ahead and act out
this last face?

Speaker 1 (38:54):
I've been acting it out, but no one's been paying
attention to me.

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Yeah, I don't like looking at you.

Speaker 4 (38:58):
Yeah, oh um the green emoji.

Speaker 3 (39:10):
She nailed it right away.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
It's because I'm a tremendous actor, tremendous.
All right, you guys.
This has been discern the emoji.
Congratulations to our champion, dina, who won 476 to 2.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
That math does not math correctly, sean.
Okay, I think it does.
And what would Teddy Rooseveltthink, sean?
What would Teddy Rooseveltthink of your lies right now?

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Oh my god, you know what I love the movie Night at
the Museum.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
That is a great movie .
Robin Williams, as TeddyRoosevelt, is like peak.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Did you know they also have an animated cartoon?
My kid loves it.
It's pretty freaking amazing.

Speaker 4 (39:53):
You know what else causes cancer, levi, walking
around barefoot, I'll drink tothat.

Speaker 1 (39:57):
Oh shit, do not come to Levi and those bare feet.
He has a right, they have aright good save all right so,
daniel, what are we doing nextbud?
Uh, john quincy adams I willmurder you.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
What am I hosting this show?

Speaker 1 (40:21):
okay, here we go you guys give away sean are we gonna
do another giveaway?

Speaker 2 (40:28):
let's do another fucking giveaway.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
We're gonna give away all the books today, you guys,
yeah, but first I need to changethe hashtags don't look at it
okay, don't look at the hashtag,and while you guys do, I want
to tell you about abrahamlincoln, because he was the
first president that actuallycould tell you that pigeons and
doves are the same animals.
There's no difference.

(40:50):
We could ask Stevie Wildcardabout this right now, and he'll
agree with Abraham Lincoln.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
Bring him on the show .
Let's go.
Bitches Is.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Stevie Wildcard here, because that would be great.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
God.

Speaker 3 (41:00):
I want to talk about the.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Waco.
All right, you guys, for yourchance to win a paperback copy
of Something Special toSomething Too Special by
Dinosaurus, type hashtagDiscerner into the comments,
into the chat.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
Oh, hold on, I have to take this real quick One
second.

Speaker 1 (41:18):
You have to take this .
Oh my god, she's.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
You're literally taking a phone call right now.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Who's calling her right now?
Sean, this is gonna be dead.
Air hold on stevie.
Wild card.
Sean carrier pigeons were itwas.
Oh, sorry I, I had to come upwith more facts oh, there's
becky, the quick trigger fingerof of becky mickelsonkelson.
God, becky's so fucking quick.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
That's what she said, okay, damn it, I'm never doing
one of these games again, youguys, so enjoy it thank you I
appreciate it.
Shannon, beat me to it.
Daniels is bringing uppresidents.
No, it's not.
Daniels is naming presidents.
No, it's not, daniels is randomfacts.
Well, I'll give you that,shannon, it's not.
Daniels is naming presidents.
No, it's not, daniels is randomfacts.

(42:07):
Well, I'll give you that,shannon, it's actually random
facts pigeons but he didn't dothat that right.
He just started naming randomfacts about anything it was.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
It was specifically about pigeons in two things
about pigeons.
I was trying to be more subtle.
I wanted the red herrings, seansorry, you can't listen.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
This is the same thing with fucking true
confessions.
You can't just change it a tinybit and call it something
different.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
You have to do something completely different I
do this with my wife all thetime yeah, and she fucking hates
it click, click, mute okay sothat's two entries for shannon.
Now, all right, did everyoneput?

Speaker 2 (42:48):
hashtag discerner in the chat.
Oh sean is here, let's go seansean is here, yes, by the way.
Uh, anthony, I saw your commentabout my t-shirt earlier.
You should wait till you seethe back.

Speaker 4 (43:00):
It's awesome when am I gonna get my t-shirt?

Speaker 2 (43:04):
oh yeah calm down bitch.
I'm on a package coming for you, do you?

Speaker 4 (43:08):
ever like have your like glasses case in front of
you and you just want to likeshut your mouth in it absolutely
not.

Speaker 2 (43:16):
I don't have those intrusive thoughts, hey it's
matthew yeah, that whatmatthew's here, that guy's here
that guy's here.
Matthew, you have a chance towin a paperback copy of the book
if you type in just hashtagdiscern to the chat right now.
Hurry up, go do it, do it, doit do it oh.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
While we wait, hold on one second.
I gotta take this oh wait, Ididn't mute hold on one second
why, oh my what the the amountof disrespect and disregard that
she's shown.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
Oh, and she just fucking knocked her mic over and
it was muted so we didn't getthat sweet sweet audio oh god

Speaker 1 (43:56):
what do we need to do with ourselves?

Speaker 2 (43:58):
all right, I'm gonna roll this giveaway while dina
repairs her entire life.
Good luck everybody.
This is not our last giveawayof the night while Dina repairs
her entire life.
Good luck everybody.
This is not our last giveawayof the night.
Thank you so much for hangingout with us.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
We love you all.

Speaker 4 (44:16):
We got an interview with our author coming up.
Oh, I got to stop drinking.
If we're going to do that, youknow how to throw a shot.
I love the shot.

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Yeah, let's go Sean.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Oh my god.

Speaker 1 (44:30):
You can bring this to Nuclear Power Plant and it's
going to be amazing.
Let's go.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
I love that Coralie has had the same intrusive
thoughts as me.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Oh, Samantha's got it .
Dina was pretending to takephone calls well, yeah, I mean
did you not have anything to saythere, bud?

Speaker 1 (45:00):
I just I feel like I got shit on for being low effort
with my my.
Thing.

Speaker 4 (45:06):
And we all.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
my thing was so obvious, Like I had no choice
and she wasn't trying to do.

Speaker 4 (45:11):
Oh my God, everybody shut up.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
Peter.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
Sean's here.
That's our bay, oh my.

Speaker 1 (45:22):
God, that's our bite.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
Denfis style bitch.
I heard a thing was happeningtonight.
Tonight, daniel, can you saythis in a scouse accent for us?

Speaker 1 (45:36):
it's like a scottish accent though, so it's like,
really, the scouts is almost thesame uh oh shit, I'm sorry,
heather.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Heather actually guessed the dina's taking calls
thing first and I totally missedit.
That's my fault.
I will give you both an entryfor that, because I I fucked up
this game is hard it's hard tokeep track you guys.
It really, really is it's, it'sfucking hard.

Speaker 1 (45:59):
I mean peter sean wants us to do the accent.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Scall.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Scall.

Speaker 4 (46:02):
Scall, scall, scall, scall, scall, scall, scall,
scall, scall, scall, scall,scall, scall, scall, scall,
scall, scall, scall, scall,scall, scall, scall, scall.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
Scall, scall.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
Scall, scall.
Go on and do it.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
Yeah, I can't do.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
That was shrek, but close that was basically the
same same.
All right, uh, dina, do youhave a tissue or a neckerchief
handy?

Speaker 2 (46:49):
per chance.
Oh wait, it's that guy'sdaughter's birthday, remember.
Can we do a quick happy?

Speaker 3 (46:53):
birthday.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Yeah, yeah, happy birthday happy birthday to you
happy birthday to you, happybirthday, dear god, greeting
card that that he can keep inhis vent for his child.

Speaker 2 (47:11):
Give me two minutes.
Is he gonna bring the goat tothe room?

Speaker 4 (47:15):
hey, oh my god, we can give him two minutes.

Speaker 1 (47:20):
Yeah, we can do that.

Speaker 4 (47:22):
That's amazing, um yeah are we doing the cha-cha or
are we doing?

Speaker 2 (47:27):
we should do just a regular happy birthday okay,
making sure and make suredaniel's so frustrated right now
because he's delayed still andhe can't get a word in edgewise
it's so amazing.

Speaker 4 (47:40):
It's the best night of my life.
You guys remember when we hadeverybody that's ever hosted on
our show at once.
That was amazing.
Dewey's here everybody let's go, Go, Dewey.
Okay, go, go, go, go go.
One, two, three Happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (48:01):
It's going to be a shit show.
We're all delayed.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
Happy birthday to you .
Happy birthday, dear Dewey.
Happy birthday, happy birthdayHappy birthday, dear goat.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday to you, cha chacha.
Oh, I hope that sounded.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Better than it did just now in my headset For you
guys at home.
Oh my goodness, happy birthdayand goodnight.
Golden is your birthday, happybirthday that's great.

Speaker 1 (48:31):
Yeah, that was good.
Um, but can we go back to dinacrying for us on camera?
Dina crying for us, can you?
Because?
Because she needs a neckerchief, because it is time for deeply
personal, hard-hitting questionsas we peel back the layers of
the potato with Dina.
Source Dina.
First question If you could adda word to the dictionary and

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you get to add what it means,what would that word be and what
would it mean?

Speaker 4 (49:02):
Dacklesphere.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Dacklesphere.
What does d dackel sphere mean?

Speaker 4 (49:07):
it's just an alien planet that I came up with okay,
the dackel sphere, that's alienplanets.

Speaker 1 (49:14):
I'm in for it.
I'm yeah.
No, I love it.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
That's a great question, sean um dina, if a
jedi were constipated, wouldthey just use the force to pull
the poop out?

Speaker 4 (49:25):
uh, yes, absolutely.
I don't really know how theforce works, but I think that
they could definitely surroundsus.

Speaker 1 (49:33):
Yeah, but I but like do they have to see the object?

Speaker 4 (49:37):
it penetrates your gut, they could get a mirror and
like do one to see the objectsone foot on the toilet, just
force it out let's say, I don'tknow.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
I actually don't know either, but I really like the
idea of them having to see theobject that they're manipulating
yeah, but like think about likethis, for, like dark side users
, they could force choke theirown colon in order to get the
poop out like when you'regetting a sausage out of a bag
like squeezing out of jimmydean's into the pan.

Speaker 4 (50:11):
Yeah I don't think the poop is a part of you once
your body processes all of thenutrients that it needs right
it's just like a parasite,basically, so it would
differentiate, for sure.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
Aw, she said.
Matthew said she cried, sheloved it so much.

Speaker 4 (50:27):
I love making children cry, oh God.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Dina, that's what we do here on the Domated Weird
Podcast.
Dina, if you could swap thelegs from one animal to a
different animal, what would thetwo animals be that you would
have swap legs?

Speaker 4 (50:47):
Owl and goat.
Oh God, can you imagine an owlwith goat legs, bro?

Speaker 1 (50:56):
Yeah, that'd be satanic shit.
That's how fucking like Are wetalking about hind legs?

Speaker 2 (51:01):
And we're talking about just legs, so it's like
fully the owl body and then likethe legs only are replaced with
goat legs yeah it's not like,and then the bottom half of the
animal is goat and then the tophalf is his owl it's just the
legs that is an unholyabomination gonna be found in

(51:21):
peter sean tyrell's next bookincredible yeah, sean, what do
you got?
buddy, I'm.
I had no idea that dina had 70of these fucking questions in
the document, so like I'm, I'm,I'm flipping through you know,
find one that that I know shehasn't answered yet all right,

(51:43):
you know what?

Speaker 1 (51:43):
I'll ask another question while he's looking dina
, according to you, it's time toget a little controversial.
All right, you ready to getcontroversial?
The most mind-numbingly dullmovie ever made say tremors levi
will kill us we cannot say trip.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
Why would you even bring that up?
Why would you even I love up?
Why?

Speaker 1 (52:05):
would you even?
I love Tremors, I love KevinBacon.
I just want to be controversialright now.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Lost Boys Anthony's in the chat, bro, I know I just
wanted to have him talk to meagain.
I just miss him, that's fair.

Speaker 1 (52:19):
No, so you just lashed out in anger, you just
lashed out in anger what's the?

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Oh, Deadpool 3.
That's what I'm going to gowith.

Speaker 2 (52:27):
Oh you, son of a bitch.
She's pandering to Shannonright now.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
Yeah, I am.
She's so nasty.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Now Anthony's leaving .

Speaker 4 (52:37):
No, I'm picturing this movie and I can't remember
the name of it.

Speaker 2 (52:41):
So you're just naming other people's favorite movies
that you happen to see in theroom yeah, no, I know which
which one.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
Um, I just lost it again.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
Oh, the new flash oh yeah, I haven't seen that I do
want to watch that, just becausekeaton's supposed to reprise
batman in that movie, but Ican't really bring myself to
watch it.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
So I've never not finished a movie in my life, and
that was the first movie that Ididn't finish interesting yeah
you dnf'd.

Speaker 2 (53:11):
Okay, I have one last one for you, dina um, if tomato
is a fruit, then is ketchup asmoothie no, smoothies have to
be cold I keep my ketchup in thefridge yeah you, yeah, you keep

(53:32):
your ketchup in the fridge, brooh yeah, you're right.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
Um no, no, because you can't taste, there's no
texture to it, so smoothies havetexture.

Speaker 2 (53:43):
Texture defines a smoothie, not what's necessarily
in it, but what the texture isyeah, smoothies have seeds.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
Ketchup doesn't have seeds.

Speaker 1 (53:53):
So last question, dina, are you ready?

Speaker 2 (53:55):
Smoothies have seeds.
That's the defining thing, yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:00):
Dina, you have a long history with cults, is that
correct?

Speaker 4 (54:07):
Sort of yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:09):
Your job, because we're upgrading here.
You are going to create thebest cult of all time, the cult
of the potato.
What is your tagline?
Oh, the freedom of choice, thefreedom of choice.

(54:34):
Oh shit, that's a good onethat's a good one.

Speaker 4 (54:37):
Right there, you can have it any way you want it this
cold is however.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
You want it, baby, I like it.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
Matthew said, salsa is a fruit salad.
That's a good take, you knowwhat.

Speaker 4 (54:49):
It's pretty accurate, I feel like.

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Pico de.

Speaker 1 (54:50):
Gallo fruit salad or, if you like, a pineapple mango
salsa or something like that.
You know.

Speaker 4 (54:57):
Fun fact mango salsa from Target is the only salsa
that I can have because there'sno onions in it.
Oh, wow, really yeah the onlysalsa that I can have, because
there's no onions in it.
Oh Wow, really.
Yeah, the Fridom of Choice.
Peter Sean, I want you to knowthat in my head that's how I was
spelling it, but it didn'toccur to me what I was thinking.
That's beautiful.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Potato cult.
What was the?

Speaker 1 (55:20):
movie that we were watching for this show.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
What are you?

Speaker 1 (55:27):
talking about are we the candy?
Is that not?
Is that not why we're here?

Speaker 2 (55:32):
daniel, what the fuck are you okay.

Speaker 4 (55:34):
Are you having a stroke?

Speaker 1 (55:36):
we're doing the pilgrims uh thing with liam
neeson yeah, that's what we'redoing tonight.

Speaker 2 (55:41):
Did you just go back in time um?

Speaker 1 (55:44):
oh, oh shit.
Do you have a serious?

Speaker 2 (55:46):
author hat nearby that you want to swap out with
your current hat, or you knowwhat I don't, but I'm I'm happy
to I'm so glad he came preparedfor your special show, got the
right drink too look, look, itbalances on my head.
This is perfection oh my god,corley.

(56:08):
She said join the potatoes andput some skin in the game I like
that one.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
Listen, we're starting a great religion here.
I love it, um, all right.
So, dina, we're gonna put onour serious author hats and we
are gonna be talking aboutsomething special your second
book, book two of the discernerstrilogy, man, and I'm so
excited, so can we, can we givethem a little bit of the blurb
sean?
Can I, can I, can I hit him?

Speaker 2 (56:33):
with that blurb.
Yeah, before you hit him withthe blurb heather.
No, that's.
That's not quite the thing thatdina is doing right now, but
you're you're getting warmer'shot, that's hot.
Okay, Shannon.
Okay, the instructions were forDina to slowly pick up a random
object and stare at itintensely for a few seconds and

(56:55):
then put it down like it's nobig deal, which.
I feel like Is Dina sayingsomething to Opening things in
her face glasses, face glasses,case clip.
I feel like that's not closeenough.
Although you were getting warmheather, shannon said, is dina
playing with random objects, andI feel like that's good enough.

Speaker 1 (57:13):
So good enough.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
That's the title of our show the good enough podcast
I think oh sorry listen, Ididn't prepare any more of these
, so I'm gonna see if I have onemore for Dina.
If I do, then that's going tobe the last one, because I've
got too many fucking platesspinning right now.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Okay, no, that's fair , that's fair, all right.
So, Dina, are you ready?
Are you ready for this?
Are you ready?

Speaker 4 (57:41):
You ready for this.

Speaker 1 (57:43):
You ready for this?
Paisley Adams isn't like theother girls.
She is a discerner.
Surviving high school wasn'teasy for somebody who can
manipulate emotions and auras.
But life threw Paisley anothercurveball when she had a chance
to encounter, a chance encounterwith the school outcast, james
Bennett, a discerner like her.
Together they discovered whatit meant to trust and love

(58:05):
completely without barriers, orso they believed.
After their relationship fellapart, paisley entered the next
phase of her life, attendingcollege at Columbia University,
ready to get a degree, changethe world and reconnect with old
friends.
See, she searches for normalcy,hoping to leave the past and
James behind her.
Enter Nathaniel Aroth, amysterious man with dark secrets
of his own.

(58:25):
With another chance encounter,paisley is once again thrust
into the wondrous world of magic.
Except this time, the strangeand seductive world is much
bigger than she ever realizedSecret societies and powers yet
unknown.
Is Paisley truly ready for thefresh start with someone new, or
will the ghost of James Bennettreturn to haunt her?
So, dina, before we get startedwith our serious author

(58:47):
questions, can I just start outby saying how dare you.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
How fucking dare the audacity, the audacity.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
The lion, the witch and the audacity of this bitch.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
How dare the lion the ?

Speaker 2 (59:17):
witch and the audacity of this bitch
no-transcript.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
You threw the editor under the bus.
Is that how this is going?
Huh?

Speaker 4 (59:22):
Yeah, I'm definitely blaming the editor.
Oh, under the bus, is that howthis is going, huh?
Yeah, I'm definitely blamingthe editor.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Oh yeah.
So now to circle this back upwith what happened in the
beginning part of this episode.
Dina says I don't know if I'mgoing to write book three, while
leaving book two on a goddamncliffhanger.
And you're going to tell methat you're not going to write
book three.
How dare.
Ashley is still here to bethrown under the bus here,
ashley we love you, ashley allright, but for for realsies

(59:50):
though we I have so manythoughts because this is such a
giant departure from what youdid in the first book, with
nothing special.
So in the first book this is ayou wrote from the voice of
angsty high school girl.
Now she's a college student,much more mature, she's a little
bit more warm, like world weary.
What was it like to change yourown character's voice, to grow

(01:00:14):
them up and have to kind ofchange how they talk because it
feels like you?
You can feel her getting olderin this book.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Honestly, I loved writing her older.
I kind of feel, like in mytenure at Lost Boys and
everything that I've writtensince book one has come out,
that my abilities as an authorhave leveled up quite a bit.

(01:00:44):
And well, I mean, I don't thinkthat something special is
necessarily better than nothingspecial.
I think that it was really funand enjoyable to write a more
mature voice and, honestly, likeI'm now working on a new book
that's adult romance instead ofYA, because I really enjoyed
aging my characters up and beingable to play around outside of

(01:01:06):
the ya rules and restrictionswithin that genre so kind of
piggybacking off of that, likematuring the characters and
their relationships.

Speaker 2 (01:01:21):
Even um, michaela plays a really significant role
in Paisley's life and kind ofcomes back into it and I was
wondering, after their dynamicchanged and everything, what?

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
what message were you trying to convey with their
friendship, especially afterthey had their time, the secrets
that they kept from each other,etc um, I, I think that with
paisley and the discernerstrilogy I I get to explore

(01:01:55):
emotions on like a really deeplevel, because when you're a
teen and you put yourself backin that mindset you can, um,
you're learning howrelationships work right.
So in reality, like a lot oftimes, friends will drift apart.
You'll be friends as kids andthen you drift apart because
somebody moves or something likethat.

(01:02:16):
And I, in an ideal world likeyou, you reconnect right and you
want to oh, hold on one second,I'm sorry that wasn't a prompt
guys tiktok just like closed onme.
Okay, um, in an ideal worldlike you, reconnect with those
young friendships that you missso much because they do leave
holes in you.

(01:02:36):
And I thought that that's whatshe said.
I thought that it was nailed itI thought that it was very um,
therapeutic, um, and it feltlike every kid's dream to
reconnect with an old bestfriend and have it be the same

(01:02:57):
strong relationship that youremember it as like that
idealism of remembering and andso I kind of want to go on that,
because you know we talkedabout a little bit beforehand
that this is a bit of a genrehop.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
So not only you know the first book is the coming of
age story, it's a YA story.
The focus is very much so onthe romance and on discovering
yourself, on battling through,you know, tragedy.
And this next book, it dealswith a lot of, you know, kind of
heavy themes.
But you know, the first bookyou kind of dabble a little bit

(01:03:30):
in the magic, the magic is justlike a little kind of topping,
and in the second book it's the,the meat and potatoes of your
story.
And so you've really kind of Idon't want to call it a
departure, but you have createdsomething that what that was
slightly paranormal to now fullyparanormal, and you've opened
up this world into magic andmystery.

(01:03:50):
What was it like?
Just kind of expanding and kindof leaning into the fantasy
elements.

Speaker 4 (01:03:56):
That's actually like where, before I started writing
this new adult romance that I'mworking on, that's kind of where
I was most comfortable andwhere I thought that I shined
the most was in pure magic andpure fantasy.
The um and nothing special wasactually like the first thing
that I had ever written wherefantasy and magic weren't the

(01:04:19):
full focus.
So I really enjoyed coming backto that and that's why I made
the decision to pull in allkinds of different magic and a
full magic system within theworld rather than just having it
be like that icing on the cake,essentially like it was in book
one.
I really enjoyed having thatfull immersive while still also

(01:04:43):
being believable.
All of the magic that I used inbook two is still within the
realm of reason where somebodycould believe it because it
can't be proven.

Speaker 2 (01:04:51):
So that was really fun we already have a believer
their name is levi levi, I'vetagged that uh question to come
back to later when we do q awith the audience, so we'll get
to that.
Um, great question.
By the way, dina, I'd be remissif I didn't mention the James
versus Nathaniel thing.

(01:05:12):
Um, I think that Paisley has areally complex relationship with
both of them and it made mewonder what your thought process
was behind creating these twolike super different love
interests and how they representdifferent aspects of Paisley's
character.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
I kind of um.
So the whole discerners trilogyis super emotion based and it
dives into this like sort ofintrospective, super deep,
annoyingly emotional reality ofthe world and like thinking

(01:05:51):
through things on a very deeppsychological level.
And I wanted to take because inmy experience I think that
there's two different kinds oflove, like well, there's a
couple different, a fewdifferent kinds, like you've got
true love, you've got yoursoulmate, you've got your first
love, like there's and there'sdifferent levels and aspects to

(01:06:12):
each of those.
So I thought that if James isPaisley soulmate, then what
other kind of love can Paisleyexperience.

Speaker 2 (01:06:21):
That's what I got for the first half of the book.

Speaker 4 (01:06:26):
It was very, very, yeah, just horny love.
That's why I liked going intothe adult aspect of it.
Um, there's like and I justwanted her to experience like a
different one of those and thenleave it up to the audience for
now to decide which one of thoseloves is best suited for her if
they're, if she's, if she wantsto be with her soulmate, or if

(01:06:47):
she wants to be with true loveor first love, or like all those
different aspects, and whichone is more well suited for her.
Because I think that as we growas people, every one of us has
a different kind of love that wedecide to choose to be with
sorry, what were we talkingabout again?

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
what the fuck is wrong with you?
What do you have?
A question or not?

Speaker 1 (01:07:15):
thoughtful corny love .

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, I checked those are so much better
than my first interview.
I'm just saying I need to startdrinking more so.

Speaker 1 (01:07:25):
So, dina, let me, let me ask you something for for to
be serious for a second, thefirst book was about finding
love, finding yourself and, Iwould say, dealing with tragedy.
And this second book you know,underneath the magic and the
love interest and the lovetriangle and all these other
things that goes on, I would saythat this is a story about
grief, about acceptance, aboutmoving on, and I know that, as

(01:07:47):
much as we like to joke around,you know this obviously is not a
, a self-insert.
This is, you know, a fictionalcharacter, but I think that
there's aspects that you drawfrom yourself and your own
personal tragedies and ownpersonal things that you
experience.
So what was it like channelingyour own grief and loss and
experiences, moving on, andchanneling that into paisley and

(01:08:08):
and did you find it?
You know, cathartic?

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
honestly, I I think that's why I struggled with
writing book two a lot more thanI did with book one, because
book one was definitely a lot ofme working through my grief
after I lost my dad, becauseobviously book one was like my

(01:08:35):
promise to him that I wouldpursue writing and publication
again.
Book two was never planned.
I never had an idea for it.
In fact, book two was neverplanned.

(01:08:57):
I never had an idea for it.
In fact, I spent a lot of timebothering Ashley like
brainstorming how to continuethis story, because what book
one process those emotions formy grief and book two was not
that at all.
Book two was me trying toconnect with myself as an author
.
So I just I don't know, Ididn't feel super emotionally

(01:09:21):
drained by it, but instead Ifound it to be more fruitful and
an opportunity for growth as awriter, not necessarily as like
the individual, me, which isexperience that I had with
nothing special I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
Answer um before we move on before we move on,
samantha, daniel's thing is tospace out.
Actually, I believe.
I believe what I told him waspretend to forget what the show
is about and ask wait, what arewe doing, what are we talking
about?
Again Right in the middle of aconversation.
And I think your answer is goodenough.
So yeah, samantha nailed it.
Now Daniel's released from theclutches of the game.

Speaker 4 (01:10:02):
I just want to say that this mic is there for me in
so many ways that Daniel isn't,and I really it's there for me
more than it's there for anybodyelse.

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):
If we're being honest , that is hurtfully accurate.

Speaker 4 (01:10:20):
I'm gonna fucking kill myself.
Sean's never gonna do this gameagain, but thank you, sean,
it's been a very fun game.
It's been a very fun game.
I I'm going to fucking killmyself.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
It's been a very fun game.
I've gotten it wrong about halfthe time.
Okay, I'm just going to takeyour word for it, shannon,
because I'm not going to flip.
Oh, there it is.
It's Daniel pretending toforget about what you're talking
about.
Yeah, she said it, I needanother.

(01:10:47):
I need an associate producerhere with me.

Speaker 1 (01:10:49):
That's what I need.
Yeah, where is executiveproducer Kalei?
She's ordering dinner.
Okay, that's fair, that's fair,all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
So, Dina, you've survived.
I have another question, dummy.

Speaker 1 (01:10:54):
Oh, sorry, sorry, Please go, isn't he?

Speaker 4 (01:10:56):
so bad at interviewing with people Like it
sucks being on his team forthese things by the way.

Speaker 2 (01:11:01):
By the way, no, shannon, you're fine.
I fucked up.
You're fine.
Um, I uh I'm not gonna spoilanything, but I will say this um
a year or however long ago, itwas dina when we did this for
your first book.
Um, you said that you do havelike fantasy elements in your
book, of course, but you don'treally have a big bad in the

(01:11:22):
story.
Um, oh yeah that most fantasyreaders might expect, and I
don't think that's necessarilytrue.
Like we already touched on ittonight, the big bad in the
story is kind of like grief andloss, and it's not necessarily a
tangible big bad, but it's likeit's there.
Um, in this book there is anactual big bad and I'm going to

(01:11:45):
say who or what it is.
But was that a big jump for youto have like a main antagonist?

Speaker 3 (01:11:51):
I hated it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
Yeah, I figured you hated it, but can you like talk
to us about that and how ithelped shape the newer
characters in the story?

Speaker 4 (01:12:03):
Yeah, so I and other work that I've written, I'm used
to having a big bad.
I did not like having a big badin the discerners world because
I never wanted Paisley to be asuperhero that was fighting the
big bad and destroying evil andI didn't want that for her.
I just her to be super, supernormal, which is why I think

(01:12:26):
that this series is so niche forpeople, um, and it kind of
struggles to grab a new audiencebecause I, I don't have the
hero's journey necessarily inthe traditional sense, um, that
fantasy lovers want, and I don'thave a big antagonist keeping
the couple apart really at alleither.

(01:12:48):
Um, but I did want to do like alittle bit of the superhero
element and the hero's journeywithin book two because, um, I
opened up the world of magicentirely and gave it to paisley
on a silver platter.
So I I did write the big badand I I think it turned out good

(01:13:10):
.

Speaker 2 (01:13:11):
I just it wasn't the original plan, it turned out
really good, and it totallysurprised me, because I wasn't
expecting that at all that'sgood.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
All right, dina, it is time for a segment that
producer Sean has actuallyalways prepared for Off the wall
questions with Sean DariusHolden.
Sean, what's your, what's your?
What's your question bud?

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Let's see Um what if Paisley could only activate her
magic, if she broke out into aspontaneous musical number?
What song would she singspecifically when she what
moment?

Speaker 1 (01:13:52):
Oh shit, that's a good question.
What's the music, what songthat activates her powers?

Speaker 2 (01:13:58):
Yeah, what song would she have to sing to activate
her powers?

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Oh no, I was going to pick a specific moment, but
let's just go with in generalpink pony by chaperone oh god,
let's let the author answer.

Speaker 4 (01:14:12):
Pal, don't write the witness, I'll just apologize it
would either be yes, it wouldeither be um, are you ready for
it?
By taylor swift, but like youhave to have a whole orchestra
going like like that, or um, itwould be uh, um, uh.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
Let's get down to business it's oh my god, that
would be so badass.
Oh my god, that would beintimidating.
Put that in the chat.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Just walk in.

Speaker 2 (01:14:44):
Oh my God, that would be, intimidating.
Put that in the chat.

Speaker 1 (01:14:49):
Oh shit, I love that and actually I think that you
should incorporate that nexttime.
The opening scene of book threeis Paisley humming to herself
as she fucking magic subs andpeople.
No opening scene of book threeis some Paisley and ropes and
chains with somebody.

(01:15:09):
I'm just kidding.
Whoa, oh fuck whoa.
50 shades of paisley adams, um,all right.
So, dina, it turns out that thereal big bad isn't nathaniel
eroth's dad, it's someone muchhigher up.
Just fucking spoil that it'snot a spoiler, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
It was obvious from sean was so careful it's
definitely a spoiler, you're socareful.
It's, it was so careful it's.

Speaker 1 (01:15:36):
It doesn't give away anything because the real big
bad, as it turns out, is thecookie monster.
How does this change your book?

Speaker 4 (01:15:48):
bringing it back to peter sean tyrell baby the
cookie monster is actually theshaman that saves life, and
paisley appreciates that wow, Idid.

Speaker 2 (01:16:07):
I did like that scene specifically because of
challenges and needing to besaved.
Um, I also.
Before we move on, I just wantto like point just off the top
of my head, like shoot out somereferences and maybe easter eggs
that you threw in that Inoticed and appreciated.
Um yeah um, you mentioned armveins a lot which really

(01:16:29):
resonated with me.
There's at least two or threetimes that you mentioned arm
veins, so I thought that wasworth noting.
Um, you made paisley fuckingadams like a plot point which I
loved, like you took like a bitthat we created on the show as a
passing joke that we've kept upthis whole time into an actual

(01:16:53):
plot point in the book yeah thatwas so cool professor denton oh
yeah, professor denton, who washaving some type of medical
procedure, I hope he's okay.

Speaker 4 (01:17:03):
hopefully he's good, don't worry.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Shannon, the new friend in class, who always has
pockets full of chicken nuggets.

Speaker 1 (01:17:10):
Pocket nugs.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
Pocket nugs for the win.
Paisley has a we have Issuespodcast hoodie and it's her
favorite hoodie apparently.

Speaker 4 (01:17:20):
Yeah, her butt looks good when she wears it too.
Yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
I love that.
I love that.
The shorts that definitely.
That was one of my absolutefavorites.
I I had a little chuckle thereoh, levi, don't go back don't go
back, levi, he really fucked up.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
If I knew he was gonna do that, I would have
don't say it again don't repeatit um, there was a ton of easter
eggs in here, like all thenames that mckayla and paisley
called each other the whole time.

Speaker 4 (01:17:51):
Um, I thought robin's so much research because I do
not know my pop culture thatwell guys, dina, I have been.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
I read dina's annotated copy where she like,
points out a number of theseeaster eggs and a number of them
I would have never caught.
But you also didn't write notesout a number of these Easter
eggs and a number of them Iwould have never caught.
But you also didn't write noteson a number of them that I did
catch.
So I thought that was cool.

Speaker 4 (01:18:10):
Really I didn't.
I thought that I caught.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Mostly no, I'm not sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:18:15):
References and stuff.
Oh, you also specifically namedBennett from every wish way in
your book, another Shannon shoutout.
So that was cool.

Speaker 1 (01:18:26):
No, listen, it was a winner and we're going to be
talking about our thoughts andfeelings about your book here in
a second, but before we do,because that's unclear.
So, sean, are we doing numbertwo here in bold?
Are we moving on to the nextone?

Speaker 2 (01:18:40):
No, we're not doing number.
We're not doing a number two.
That's what you're not taking anumber two.

Speaker 1 (01:18:44):
We're not doing a number two.
What about?

Speaker 2 (01:18:45):
a big number, three we could do a three.
We could probably do a fewthrees yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:49):
Well, you know what, while we're getting worked up
for a big number three, can Ijust say, dina, it's time for a
part of our show.
Proud tradition, it's calledthe one second pitch.
You've got one second to sellthese motherfuckers on your book
and why they need to do it, andthen you know, we'll give you a
one second pitch.

Speaker 3 (01:19:06):
Did you?

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
know I forgot.

Speaker 3 (01:19:09):
I think I got it.

Speaker 1 (01:19:12):
That's a hundred percent.
So you can lie, cheat, seduce,threaten the audience, whatever
it takes him to buy this book.
But, dina, you got one second.
Are you ready?
You can give him the white.

Speaker 4 (01:19:22):
Yeah, give him the white P.
Give him the white P here we goThree, two.
Magic Mafia Daddy.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Got it.

Speaker 4 (01:19:29):
Magic.

Speaker 1 (01:19:29):
Mafia Daddy, I love it.
So, dina, give them the fullelevator pitch, man.
Why should they check this bookout?

Speaker 4 (01:19:40):
So this book follows Paisley off to college where
lots of crazy things happen andyou know, people just find
themselves and it's all hot andbothered.
And, yeah, they experiment andlearn about themselves in
college and you can followPaisley with her hot professor
and the club owner that you justwant to swoon over and Magic

(01:20:04):
Maf, mafia daddy is an entireworld of magic out there.
Um, she travels to othercountries and embarks on a
journey to actually save theworld.

Speaker 2 (01:20:16):
So there's an Indiana Jones fantasy in there that I
that I particularly liked, ohyeah.

Speaker 4 (01:20:21):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good one.
Ben Barnes, baby Ben Barnes.

Speaker 1 (01:20:27):
Yeah, that's a good one, Ben Barnes, baby Ben Barnes
.
But um so, sean, are we doingthis?
Are we going to bring it in?
Are we doing this?

Speaker 3 (01:20:36):
I don't want that.

Speaker 1 (01:20:38):
Yep, it's going to happen.
Guess what, Dina?
Your book gets the no SpaceBell Prize from the Don't Make
it Weird podcast.
You are a no Bell Prize winningauthor, Dina.
How does it?

Speaker 4 (01:20:50):
feel.

Speaker 2 (01:20:50):
The seal of approval this cup.

Speaker 4 (01:20:52):
I just want to say to this cup right here how much I
love this cup, and this cup hasgotten me through a lot of
really hard times and Iappreciate it a lot.
I love you so much, baby, thankyou.

Speaker 3 (01:21:02):
Thank you cup.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
Thank you, thank you, cub, thank you, thank you, cub,
thank you.
I think you're projecting thosefeelings that you meant for us
onto the Cub.

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Yeah, 100% for us, but that's okay.
So listen, we're going to openthis up to author questions in a
second with the chat and we'regoing to let you guys after Dina
does pee.
Oh, we're going to take a quickpee break, all right, so so,
sean, are we gonna do?
Oh my god, you got the graphicup yes yes, so.
So, sean.
This means that we can sing toher while she pees, right, is

(01:21:29):
that?
Is that what we're doing?

Speaker 4 (01:21:30):
yeah, I guess so no, I'm gonna take off my headphones
.
I don't want to listen to youguys while I pee.

Speaker 3 (01:21:38):
Okay, dina is not the third white pee the regular pea
because she's hydrated shannon,your favorite bit is the nobel
prize, is it really?

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
thank you, shannon, you're just gonna feed daniel's
ego like that we are veryserious podcast with very
serious awards here.

Speaker 1 (01:21:59):
Okay, not just everyone gets the nobel prize
here just everyone.
Actually I okay, but here Justeveryone actually Okay, but the
people before I thought of a bitnever got it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:10):
Dewey never misses a chance to insert the whip gif,
you guys.
It's at the top of hisfavorites, the top of his
favorites.
Dina is giving a lot of love toinanimate objects tonight.
Yes, she is matthew, and youjust earned yourself an entry

(01:22:31):
into the raffle for the sneakattack contest oh my god, she
had another one yeah, that wasthe last one too.
So that game's over.
Don't look out for more bitsanymore there's no more bits,
guys.
This is just our own stupidityat this also, I really, really
hope that matthew was the firstperson to mention that it'll be

(01:22:53):
fine, it'll be fine, it's fineeverything's fine, um so.

Speaker 1 (01:23:00):
So, sean, could you sing the dean a little bit,
could just.

Speaker 2 (01:23:05):
She took her earphones out, dude, and she's
not listening.

Speaker 1 (01:23:07):
Allegedly the camera's off.
We don't know that.
It could very well still be inher ears.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
I mean it is the kind of thing she would do.
But I really did believe herwhen she said she didn't want to
hear us while she pees.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Or something special.
Now, this is come on.

Speaker 1 (01:23:26):
This is yeah.
It's like it's like the othersong that we did what?
No, it's like we're gonna dothe something special song.
I thought we were doing this oh, is that?

Speaker 2 (01:23:34):
is that a song?
Is that a real?

Speaker 3 (01:23:38):
song special now, page the adams don't know how to
frown.
If you like to get on down, getsomething special now, see I
got a new drink because I turnedoff my opportunity to get a new
drink I

Speaker 1 (01:24:00):
know, perfect, all right, so.
So, dina, before we open thequestions up to the audience, I
I just want to take a second andand tell you how freaking proud
I am now you could be a sponsorbaby.
This is shit's good, tina Idon't even like mango dina, I
need you to focus up right now,dina, need you to focus up.
You focused.

(01:24:21):
I need, I need eye contact.
I need like daniel, get to thefucking point because I'm really
fucking proud of this book andand this one.
I know that you've said all thetime this is a harder book.
This was a harder book for youto write Because the first book
was your emotion, was everythingit was, and the second book,
you didn't know how to writethis book.
Series was never meant to be aseries, it was meant to be a
standalone and you opened it upand what you did with this magic

(01:24:54):
magic honestly for you sayingthat you were less emotionally
connected.
I was more emotionallyconnected with her journey in
this book than even the firstone, and you've sold yourself
short by how good this book isand people need to understand
that.
You said it yourself.
You are leveling up as anauthor.
You are already fucking greatbefore and you are even better
now and I'm so proud of you andI'm so happy I got to read this

(01:25:16):
book, man, and I can't wait tosee you keep on going on this
journey.
Dina, I absolutely love you todeath, man.

Speaker 4 (01:25:20):
I'm so proud of you thank you, daniel, that was
actually really nice you get oneof those a year.

Speaker 1 (01:25:26):
Maybe I just need to not connect one of those per
book.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
So, matthew, no, I did not let her know, and I
assume that she was being honestwhen she said she took your
headphones off.
So, um, the game's over.
Matthew guessed your thingabout loving inanimate objects
okay, yeah, you know, I saw hiscomment oh, okay, so you were
still looking at the comments Imessaged you about it while I
was peeing.
Oh, you did Well, I happened tonotice before you, but I

(01:25:56):
noticed your message, so here wego.

Speaker 1 (01:25:58):
And Dina.
I want to put on top of thisbecause Sean is going to be too
humble about this.
Sean, as you guys know and thisisn't like a slight, I'm not
actually making fun of him herebecause we've talked about
before.
For anyone that doesn't knowwhat the show Sean's not a big
reader.
Before this podcast, it'd beenprobably since high school since
the last time he'd read a bookthat like from beginning to end,
because it's just not how heconsumes media.
And so not only did he read thefirst book, but he wanted to go

(01:26:27):
out of his way to make surethat he read this whole book for
you before, before this show,and him texting and talking
about how much he was loving itand how just gripped he was with
it.
It made me so freaking happybecause we're turning this guy
into a fucking reader.
I will send you screenshots, Ipromise you.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
I got you, not my private messages.

Speaker 1 (01:26:45):
Well, it's not the nudes man, those don't exist.
Well, they they do.
I'll send you my search historyokay.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
So before we get to q a, you guys, we're going to ask
you guys for questions for dinaabout the book or about her
series or whatever, so cue thoseup.
While you do that, I'm going tocue up the sneak attack raffle.
So these are all the peoplethat guessed a sneak attack
thing correctly on a wheel.
We're going to spin this thingand whoever lands on Dina will

(01:27:14):
send them a special editionhardcover vomit copy of the book
$500 and I'll throw up on itfor you.
Yeah, $500, actually live streamspecial 50% off $250.

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
She'll vomit on it for you.
I have a birthday coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:27:32):
Guys buy the book.

Speaker 1 (01:27:33):
300 birthday special guys, start putting those
questions into the chat rightnow.
Any questions that you haveabout dina's book, dina her hair
, sean's hair hair, I meanwhatever.
Just start throwing down somequestions.
Man, let's get after this.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
And I'm going to spin the wheel.
Let's see who won the hardcover.
Ooh, no sound for the spin,though.
We've got to fix that.

Speaker 4 (01:28:00):
Here's the spin sound .
Let's go, matthew.

Speaker 3 (01:28:05):
Matthew.

Speaker 2 (01:28:11):
Man Matthew drops in at the end after his kid's
birthday, gets one entry andtakes it home.
What a guy let's go, let's gothat guy deserves it, though,
because he's our faithful swordin the chat sword and shield you
know he's.
He's always been there for us,so I'm really really happy to

(01:28:33):
see that um you guys.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
We are going to give away a couple more paperbacks.

Speaker 2 (01:28:37):
So so, if you didn't win yet, don't worry, there'll
be another chance yeah, man, ifyou win the paperback.

Speaker 4 (01:28:43):
Send pictures because I don't know what it looks like
you don't have a copy of yourown book.

Speaker 2 (01:28:49):
I have the special edition.

Speaker 4 (01:28:52):
I actually thought that I was going to have to do a
reading, so I saved my spot.
But no, I have the specialedition.

Speaker 2 (01:28:58):
You wanted to do a reading.
I wasn't going to make you do areading.
I didn't think you'd want to.

Speaker 4 (01:29:02):
Oh, I didn't care.

Speaker 2 (01:29:04):
See that's why I asked about the number two, yeah
, it was on the rundown and Ididn't.
I didn't ask you ahead of timeif you wanted to do it, so I
said just skip it.
Do you guys want dina to do areading right now?
I gotta do the reading.

Speaker 1 (01:29:15):
Dina, do the reading give me a chance I'm gonna do a
poll in the chat real quick allright, and guys again, ask any
questions you have about dina,her books, uh, her, any of her
previous books, anything thatyou man, this is your chance to
connect directly with Dina.
She will make iBabies withevery single person asking a
question in this chat.
Just trust us, it's fine, getthere, get there.

Speaker 4 (01:29:38):
Reading Rainbow.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
Butterfly in the sky.
The poll is in the chat.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
You guys should see it in the live chat right now.
Paisley is twice as high.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
It's in a book.
Just take a look, it's thesternus trilogy I think the the
results it's pretty obvious yes,I regret you're not getting it.

Speaker 4 (01:30:01):
Yeah, you didn't even have to say anything about this
.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
I regret you didn't even have to say anything about
this.

Speaker 4 (01:30:08):
Justin, next time we team at work, I'll make iBubbies
with you, okay iBubbies,ibubbies with you iBubbies, yeah
, oh my god, there's an actualpoll.

Speaker 2 (01:30:23):
Yep, every vote is yes, dina.
So you know the needful, youneed to do the needful.

Speaker 1 (01:30:29):
Go ahead and whip it out, dina, just fucking whip
that bad boy out do I?

Speaker 4 (01:30:33):
okay, wait, I.
I would usually dialogue aboutthis with you guys backstage, so
we're just gonna do it here.
Do I read the diary entry too?

Speaker 1 (01:30:44):
I love your diary entry, so the answer is yes.
All right, those are probablymy favorite little vignettes.

Speaker 4 (01:30:51):
Okay, I can't pronounce my chapter titles, so
don't ask me to do that.
Thank you, pain, you rottencancerous ulcer.
It's odd to see so little of myown perspective, to have no
idea what others do in theirworlds when they're away from me
.
They could be cheating and Iwould never know.
Not unless the fake world andthe real world collided.

(01:31:35):
That would be a disaster.
I wonder what James' real worldis doing right now compared to
the one in my head for him.
I wonder how Nathaniel feelsafter his real world crashed
into mine, signed World Walkerhands, I cut straight to the
chase, desperate to forget abouteverything else.
Part of me hoped I couldpretend he was someone else and
not a gross stranger who doesn'tsmell good.
I mean, put on some cologne ifyou're going to be out dancing
and trying to pick up women.

(01:31:55):
I pull away from him, tired ofbeing bored and miserable.
Sorry, this isn't working.
What do you mean?
He asks and tries to kiss myneck again.
I push him back and before heeven has a chance to get
frustrated, I slash across hischest with my magic and change
his feelings about me entirely.
He doesn't want to kiss me, hedoesn't want to do anything with
me.
He feels nothing for me.

(01:32:16):
It's not you, it's me.
I say he accepts the line,walking away with no hard
feelings.
I throw myself lazily on thecouch this is Nathaniel's club
Diacrino.
But he's not here.
Ezekiel assured me he wouldn'tbe here tonight.
I refuse to explain to Ezekielwhy I'm avoiding Nathaniel.
The last thing I need is forhis bro to be involved.

(01:32:36):
He'd lie and cover for him.
No doubt.
I've been ignoring dozens ofcalls and texts, leaving them
entirely unopened.
I'm quite proud of myself-restraint.
I made Ezekiel promise not totell Nathaniel we'd be here or
that.
I asked if he was going to behere or not.
Michaela reassured me he'd keepthat promise.
I don't want to know how she isable to make him keep that
promise.

(01:32:56):
Another drink from the barsounds ideal.
It'll help keep me distracted.
Maybe it will even make meinterested in kissing another
guy At the bar.
While I wait for my drink, Ihear his voice behind me, dark
and smooth like coffee.
I could have you kicked out forunderage drinking.
You know he shouldn't be here.
Ezekiel assured me he would beworking late at his lab.
Crap.
I shouldn't talk to him in thisstate.

(01:33:17):
I turned to Nathaniel with asensual grace I didn't think I
was capable of portraying.
I shouldn't act like this.
I should be flat out mad.
But I want to know if I wasmore than a stupid fling he used
.
You wouldn't dare play thatgame, would you, professor?
I raise one eyebrow and try torestrain my own smirk fucking

(01:33:40):
love it.

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Man leveled up for sure as a writer, I I can't.
I can't.
It was such a good scene.
Like I said, she starts kickingsome ass with her magic in this
one.
So, guys, here is youropportunity.
We got one question in the chatwe actually got two, because
we're going to get that one fromthe previous tag back but
anything you got, man, anythingyou got about magic, dina,
dinosaurs, her feelings On whichdays of the week, or even or

(01:34:03):
odd, just just fucking Ask somequestions.

Speaker 2 (01:34:06):
Man Like Our friend Levi wants to know, now that
you've met sean and daniel, whatare their colors?

Speaker 4 (01:34:18):
um, I would say that daniel Daniel is green and
yellow and Sean is purple.

Speaker 1 (01:34:38):
A purple man.
He's a purple man.
Okay, I can get on board withthat.
I don't know what those colorssignify.

Speaker 2 (01:34:49):
A little fuchsia, if will fuchsia um rebecca wants to
know um, I know you said youdidn't want a big bad but had
one anyway in book two.
So was it intentional that thebb big bad has more of an
emotional impact before largeworld implications?

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
I don't understand the question.

Speaker 2 (01:35:10):
What, what rebecca rephrase the big bad has more
large world implications oh,like like the external world,
that he has more of an emotionalimpact before it becomes larger
world implications I'm not mybrain's not following I'm sorry,

(01:35:37):
I'm not following your mouth,so I'm not gonna I'll wait, I'll
wait till she well before we,I'll wait for her to clarify and
then, before that, can we goback?
because, levi, I have been innumerous country clubs oh my god

(01:36:03):
so like I don't know if you yousaw all of the comments after
your excerpt but, like everyone,fucking loved it.

Speaker 4 (01:36:11):
I did not look.

Speaker 2 (01:36:12):
People are excited to read about it.
Oh, shannon wants to know.
Do we get a hint of who will beendgame in book three?

Speaker 1 (01:36:21):
Listen, I changed my answer from what I thought it
would be after book one to whatmy answer is now after book two.

Speaker 4 (01:36:26):
So I'm fascinated by this one to what my answer is
now, after book two.
So I'm fascinated by this.
I think that it is obvious whoendgame I know who endgame is.
Um, I did decide.
Finally, I think it's obvious,but logan, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (01:36:45):
I almost did that just to piss everybody off you
would have had a fucking riot ifyou'd done that how fucking
funny would that have?

Speaker 4 (01:36:54):
been um.
Rebecca said that loganredemption.
Rebecca can't rephrase herquestion without spoiling, so
rebecca, can you message me withthe spoiler and then, like,
I'll answer without?

Speaker 2 (01:37:06):
a call?
Yeah, yeah, slide into them,dms have we thought about?
Michaela and paisley's beingthe end game.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
I actually I stand this, I stand this oh shit thank
you, levi but are we not goingto talk about how michela and
Paisley should be the end game?
I I'm in.
I support.
Levi and I talked about Iwasn't going to say that, but
like I'm getting strong vibes,you know, I just feel like it

(01:37:37):
does not make that Shannon'slike the love triangle Like the
real love triangle is in bookthree is between Shannon and
Michaela.

Speaker 4 (01:37:43):
Michaela just needs some, you know arm veins and
then it'll be a done deal.
Yep 100.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
I yeah, I didn't realize that was happening, but
um, oh, I was about to answerthe audience, but I'll wait
ashley hutchison would like toknow would you say that the
standards paisley gives us forinterpreting the meaning behind
each color varies from discernerto discerner, as in?
Does perspective matter or dothose standards solid, or are
those standards solid?
That's a great question.

Speaker 4 (01:38:11):
Please hold.
No, put it back up there.

Speaker 2 (01:38:14):
Oh my God, I have a okay.

Speaker 4 (01:38:16):
I need to read it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
I read it aloud for you I everybody stopped talking.

Speaker 4 (01:38:22):
I'm way too drunk, Hold on.

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
I had it on for a second.

Speaker 2 (01:38:30):
Okay, I had it.
So when I pop comments on thescreen, it stays for 10 seconds
and automatically disappears,because I hate having to
remember to take it away.
So I had to go turn off thesetting to automatically remove
it.
So now it will stay okay, I'mso.

Speaker 4 (01:38:42):
Well, you, you can take it down.
Um, yeah, I would say that they, they definitely vary from
discerner to discerner what eachcolor means.
Every color means somethingdifferent to them and I think
that it has a lot to do with,like, with their um, I guess
background because, like,remember, let's remember that

(01:39:03):
paisley's dad is colorblind.
He, he's going to interpreteverything he sees very
differently, but it's stillgoing to be accurate to him.
But he's going to see somethingelse that Paisley doesn't see.

Speaker 3 (01:39:17):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:39:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's a great answer.
That's why she's been askingthe what color is math question
on our show for a year.

Speaker 2 (01:39:24):
Okay, Our friend Levi would like to know.
Paisley gets dropped into theworld of fast and the furious.
What's the plot of that movie?

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
bro, never, never seen any of them.
Um just family.
Just say family, it's fine justfamilia um perfect.
I just really love paul walkerin that song.
I would say that paisley wouldbe able to kick every bad guy's
ass Right and like just givethem to get there.

(01:39:55):
Yeah, Get them to give her thecars Right.
They steal cars.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
You know it kind of we talked about this before.
I want to do a thing where wehave Dina describe the plot of a
movie she's never seen before,because I feel like I'm so good
at it, like like of iconicmovies even movies you've seen
before, because I feel like youwould.
You would still be reallyentertaining you want to know.

Speaker 1 (01:40:20):
What's funny, though, is that, unintentionally, I
would say that fast and furiousis doing the same thing that
dina's doing with her books,because book one is very
grounded in reality every time.
The first fast and the furiousis very grounded in reality.

Speaker 2 (01:40:33):
Uh, the last fast and the furious involves tanks and
flying helicopters and like allthe car stuff like way over the
top and completely I can see whythey're gonna get to 10.

Speaker 4 (01:40:42):
oh, hold on everybody , daniel sing.
Hold on everybody, daniel singRebecca's messaging me.

Speaker 3 (01:40:48):
Oh, there's something special now, cause the autumn's
gonna frown.
If you like the magic, nowcheck out something special Are
you doing the His Ragged Company?

Speaker 2 (01:41:02):
look, right now, that's exactly what I'm doing
you, fucking dick.

Speaker 1 (01:41:10):
Oh God.

Speaker 2 (01:41:16):
I really Go ahead Dina.

Speaker 1 (01:41:18):
Sorry, yeah continue.

Speaker 4 (01:41:19):
Can we pull Rebecca's question up now, because I
understand what she's saying?
Sweet Jesus.
You're welcome Sean.
Thank you for making this sucha great night there you go, it's
back on the screen okay.
Question for dina.
I know you said you didn't wanta big bad, damn it, but had,

(01:41:40):
but had one anyway in book two.
So was it intentional that thebig bad has more of an emotional
impact before large worldimplications?
Yes, I wanted.
Even though I implemented a bigbad, I still wanted it to be
about an emotional journey,because that is the heart of the
Discerners trilogy.
Even if I didn't want to writethis book in a new way, I still

(01:42:04):
wanted it to be grounded in theoriginal sense of the trilogy
way and I I still wanted it tobe grounded in the original
sense of the trilogy.
So, yes, it was intentionalthat everything that happens is
about manipulating emotionsbefore it has an impact on the
exterior, greater world howfunny would have been if she
just answered yes and then leftit at that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:26):
After all that so catching up on some old comments
that came in after someprevious questions.
Matthew said Thanos is endgameFair.
Levi reiterated that give meMikaela and Paisley or give me
death.
Shannon is saying you arescaring me in all caps.
I assume that was in answer tothe reaction to the end game

(01:42:49):
question yes, it was uh,samantha wants to know do you
have to read book one in orderto read book two, or is it like
an interconnected standalone?

Speaker 4 (01:43:03):
ashley, close your ears, your muffs.
I don't think you have to knowwhat's going on from book one to
book two.
I think that you could get agood grasp of the people just in
book two.
I think that you would bemissing out on a lot of who

(01:43:28):
paisley is without book one.
But I think that you could readbook two and be like, okay, I
like you could fall in love withthe characters still.
But at the end of book two youwouldn't understand how grave
the the matter is.
You would be a little bit like.
You wouldn't like.
The cliffhanger wouldn't hit ashard.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
Yeah, for what it's worth.
Just as a reader, I kind ofwould agree with that.
You don't need to read book oneto understand.
You won't be lost in book twoif you did not read book one,
but book two won't have the sameemotional impact if you didn't
read book one.

Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
Shannon says everyone should ask their questions in
one syllable words thank youpoetry for one more question.

Speaker 1 (01:44:15):
Buddy, we can do this with one more can we do six to
twelve more?

Speaker 2 (01:44:20):
yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:44:21):
I'm in there was a lot of questions.
I can go fast if we want to tryto get to everybody's questions
.

Speaker 2 (01:44:24):
You don't have to go fast.
Remember when France was ourfriend lol hashtag.
I miss qbc in the chat.
Um how much of your writingcaptures the real world you live
in?
That's a question from justinyoung in the chat I would say
probably 80 percent.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Like, the relationships are all very real
and it's like 97.
These are all real people theexperiences are real hashtag
magic is real hashtag I miss qbcmost of it's real, minus the
magic allegedly levi would liketo know will there be a time

(01:45:09):
travel plot in book 3?

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
I will tell you that Dina was like it completely went
off the rails, so I'm notsurprised if there's time travel
, she said there was espionage,who knows?

Speaker 4 (01:45:19):
yeah, um, honestly, levi, when you asked me that a
while ago, I was like that's sosmart and I should totally do
that, but I don't have theenergy to do that right now.
So, no, I'll write a timetravel book for you eventually.
How about that?

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
love it love it, and becky is gonna round us out here
.
Who is your least favoritecharacter to write and why?

Speaker 4 (01:45:53):
James.

Speaker 2 (01:45:53):
Whoa, oh, I have to say why, fuck?

Speaker 4 (01:45:58):
I didn't expect that answer.
Yeah, because it was difficultto oh character that was so
realistic to my life, whilestill making other people fall
in love with him because I hopethis person chokes on their own

(01:46:20):
piss but like and I had to likemanipulate the character to fit
into what an audience would wantso that I didn't like, I don't
like writing him at all.

Speaker 1 (01:46:33):
Fair enough, fair enough, all right.
So, dina, you've survived,we've made it all the way to the
end here, and we only have timefor one more giveaway.
Sean, what's our word for thisfinal, final giveaway?

Speaker 2 (01:46:50):
the final giveaway, which I'm not furiously setting
up right here at the last secondI can sing again.

Speaker 1 (01:46:57):
Would you like me to sing again?

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
no the window is open , so is that floor?
It didn't know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
They did that and he more um the final keyword to win
a copy of something special bydns is paisley in the chat,
which is short form for paisleyfucking adams paisley, fucking

(01:47:24):
adams say her goddamn name whoknew we owned 8,000 solid blades
.
Becky says this was not theanswer I expected.
Yeah, me too.
I was shocked by that answer.

Speaker 3 (01:47:37):
Yeah, yeah, levi's got a good point here.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
They said colors are light particles, slash waves and
they can travel through time.
So there's all this set up forinterpreting sending messages
into the past, slash future,with the color pushing changes.
It's right there.
It's so close, right in frontof you.

Speaker 4 (01:47:53):
Here's the thing, though Particles and waves move,
and the theory within the bookis that, in order to time travel
, you have to be able to vibrateat the speed of light without
actually moving.
So it's a conundrum.
It's not possible using light.

Speaker 1 (01:48:15):
So if only someone built a really powerful vibrator
.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
Sabian machine.

Speaker 4 (01:48:20):
Maybe Daniel will.

Speaker 2 (01:48:25):
Sabian machine.

Speaker 1 (01:48:27):
I got you.
He has no idea what that, whatthat machine is, um, anyways,
back on topic hashtag in thechat oh, hi, josh, I don't know
who you are, but I Josh Holston.

Speaker 2 (01:48:45):
I saw your name a couple times in the giveaways.
You're just lurking.

Speaker 4 (01:48:49):
I was like intrigued.

Speaker 2 (01:48:52):
Justin says he loves your curls Dina.

Speaker 1 (01:48:56):
I bet Josh is a cowboy.
Josh Holston sounds like a guywho's out on the range.

Speaker 4 (01:49:03):
Honestly, I was thinking that too a little bit.
I was like hey, cowboy.
Felix is here, Hi boo hey.

Speaker 3 (01:49:13):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:49:16):
If only Felix and the Art of Floating was a book
title.

Speaker 4 (01:49:20):
I'm not going to say why, but I take back what I said
about Josh.
Hi friends Just got a message.
Hi friends, just got a message.

Speaker 2 (01:49:33):
Alright, I think everyone's entered who's going
to enter?
So let's roll it.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
If you can type fast, Not fast enough, let's go
Fucking roll it Sean.

Speaker 2 (01:49:45):
Rolling it now.

Speaker 1 (01:49:51):
Did it roll?
I mean, it has Levi as thewinner.
It's just Levi.

Speaker 2 (01:49:55):
Okay, hold on.
I need to reset it, hold on.

Speaker 1 (01:49:58):
Sorry, Levi.

Speaker 4 (01:49:59):
Levi, definitely DM me your theory.
Oh, thank you, Felix, forwatching.

Speaker 2 (01:50:03):
All right, eight participant, here we go.
Okay, so it just went to oneperson's name instead of
actually rolling.
So All right, eight participant, here we go.
Okay, so it just went to oneperson's name instead of
actually rolling.
So Okay, we're going to callthis.
Samantha want a copy.

Speaker 3 (01:50:18):
We don't talk about Samantha.

Speaker 2 (01:50:22):
It's supposed to have been for longer than that.
I like Samantha.

Speaker 1 (01:50:27):
It's been a fun addition to the show and,
samantha, I hope you will comeand hang out with us more often
because you're a delight beenfor longer than that.
I like samantha.
It's been a fun addition to theshow and, samantha, I hope you
will come and hang out with usmore often because you're a
delight samantha hangs out atevery live that I do, that you
don't come to, daniel dang.
Oh, so she's there a lot yeahyeah, let's roll it again.
I'm gonna roll it again yeah,fuck it, let's roll it again,
why not?
We're here for the money.

Speaker 4 (01:50:44):
Baby becky just wanted a copy and for the record
, rebecca it Becky just won acopy, becky and for the record,
rebecca, it has changed sinceyou last read it.

Speaker 2 (01:50:56):
And Becca?
And did you say Becca?
Hi babies.
Yeah, I said Becca.

Speaker 1 (01:50:59):
We've said Becky, we've said Rebecca.
It's time for her to be a Beccaas well.

Speaker 2 (01:51:02):
What about Reb?
You ever get that one.
Becky, you ever get Reb.

Speaker 1 (01:51:04):
Ooh Reb.
Yeah, Reb Rebby's a good one, Ilike that.

Speaker 4 (01:51:08):
Why call him Tim when Moth is right there?

Speaker 2 (01:51:12):
I know right Moth is right there, right there.

Speaker 1 (01:51:17):
Are we going to do one more, I guess.

Speaker 2 (01:51:18):
I have to read it again.
Yeah, I'm going to roll itagain.
Fuck it.

Speaker 1 (01:51:21):
Fuck it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:27):
We'll do it live.
Reset and roll.
I'm going to roll it again.

Speaker 1 (01:51:30):
It's just Becky.
Literally Becky's the only name, oh, and.

Speaker 2 (01:51:33):
Samantha Heather.
All right, heather.
Congratulations to our winnerstonight.
Thank you so much for hangingout with us.
Reach out to me at Sean, atdmiwpodcastcom, um, or at dmiw
podcast on twitter, and I willget your address and I'll send

(01:51:57):
you a copy of the book man andand so guys.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
I just want to thank you guys so much for hanging out
with us for this entire show.
Uh, this is such an incredibleexperience, even after now.
We've been doing this for threeyears.

Speaker 4 (01:52:11):
Why did his audio go out?

Speaker 2 (01:52:12):
Yeah, he just cut out .
Hold on, daniel, can you?

Speaker 1 (01:52:15):
hear me.
Yeah, no, we're good.
I accidentally hit mute.

Speaker 4 (01:52:19):
Okay, it's John and we have issues all over again.

Speaker 1 (01:52:23):
Oh no, that was a really funny God.
I forgot about that ending.
I'm going to have to rewatchthat, but I just want to thank
you guys all so much for being apart of this man, for being
part of our show, for hangingout with us for three years.
We started out doing thisbefore either of us had ever
written a or not written butpublished a single book.
And man, just to be here withyou guys.
We freaking love you all somuch much.

(01:52:47):
Dina, what do you got?
Any final thoughts and shotsfor your?
Uh?

Speaker 4 (01:52:49):
audience, your friends, your fans, everyone in
between.
Thanks for coming out when I'mnot pregnant, so I can actually
celebrate my book coming out.
Well, yay perfect.

Speaker 1 (01:52:57):
Uh, where can the folks find you?

Speaker 4 (01:53:00):
you can find me on threads at dinosaurs dmiw, and
you can find me on twitter atdininosaurusD.
That's D like D's nuts D, hey,oh my god, it's Tom again.

Speaker 3 (01:53:15):
I love him so much.

Speaker 1 (01:53:21):
I thought he had another message and I got
excited.
You can find me on threads atDaniel Quigley Author that's
just my fucking name andactually a really good title,
and I wish that I had done thaton both of my accounts.
You can find me on Twitter atDan Q writes things singular,
that's Dan Q.
Just thank you.
Thank you, sean.

(01:53:41):
Thank you Sean.
Where can the folks find youbud?

Speaker 2 (01:53:47):
You can find me on xcom at chase holdu what you
having for dinner night man uh,we ordered pizza, round table
pizza, not a sponsor I miss youround table.

Speaker 1 (01:54:00):
God, such a good time .
All right, guys.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Check out, uh, somethingspecial available now.
You will not it?
This is the indie book of theyear.
I'm calling it now.
I'm putting my hat on it.
It's that fucking good.
You guys need to check thisbook out.
Until next time.
We'll see you all later.
Jazz hands.

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