For The Record!

Join us in this week's episode to listen to the RPH team compete for the Birthday girl's hand in marria- I mean bragging rights! In this episode Sydney quizzes us on all things romance and RPH. Who do you think will win? Please send us book recs and follow us on our socials @theRPHpodcast https://linktr.ee/raunchypowerhour

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Raunchy Power Hour, a book club for discussing romance from the erotic to

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the erroneous. As always, this is an explicit podcast and contains strong language, adult
themes, and sexual content. If you are sensitive to these things, we urge you calmly but sincerely
to turn off your radio now.
This month we are celebrating my birthday! It's Sydney's birthday episode. To go ahead

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and grab a snack and grab a drink, unless you're driving.
I'm your producer Ashlyn.
I'm your host Sydney.
And I'm Sydney's birthday present, always in my birthday suit just for you.
Oh my god.

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Now get ready to get raunchy.
Hey Lauren.
I have a question for you.
You have a question for me? Is it my birthday?

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No actually, I have a quick question. Who is that? Who's this other person who's also
in our recording studio today?
Yes, who is she indeed?
I don't know. I think we need to introduce her. Is this who? Hi person, who are you?
Hey, I'm a reoccurring character.

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That's right listeners, we've got another victim for the podcast.
Hi, I'm Christina.
Yeah, welcome to the podcast Christina. As many of long time listeners may know, this
is, we've met her before, this is Christina, who is our unpaid intern. Even though none

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of us get paid for this.
Hi, I can't believe I've been promoted. This is so exciting. I'm actually a voice on the
podcast.
Isn't it so crazy? Actually, I think you are our second special guest. I think we've only
had one other person on the podcast.
Yeah, how's it feel to be let out of the basement?

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Yeah, welcome.
It feels great. I haven't seen the light in a while, but it's really beautiful outside.
The seasons are changing.
Well, I guess it's a present for you as well as it is for me. Because this week guys, it's
my birthday. Happy birthday. Happy birthday, everyone.

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And this week listeners, we will not be reading a fan fiction or reading a little book. No,
no, I have devised a little game for my other hosts here and my little producer. I have
created something which will be very fun. Now, before we begin, since this is an audio

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format, and I did tell them beforehand that we will be buzzing in for answers. So everyone,
I kind of want you to go ahead and say out loud what your buzzer noise will be just so
listeners know who's answering in first.
I'm your loving producer and my buzzer noise will be the duck.

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There we go.
I am your slutty secondary host and mine will be the sad horn.
Just like a fail direction.
Oh my god.
I'm your reoccurring character, Christina, and my sound will be the air horn.

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And I do it more than once because I'm annoying.
There we go. Beautiful.
Now players, do you know the rules of the game?
No, but do share Jigsaw.
So some of you may know this game. Some of you may not. This is both for listeners and

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for participants. I have been a big long time fan of a certain dropout TV show, dropout
TV show. And I've decided today that we will be playing our version of Um, Actually. And

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we will be calling it today for the record instead of Um, Actually. So all credit to
how this game is set up is going to the Um, Actually team because I love them so much.
I basically just copied their style. But instead of other nerdy questions, it'll be all about
romance books. So get ready to get so, so romantic.

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So how the rules go is that I will have a statement, majority of it. So I'll have a
statement and there's a part of the statement, which is not true. And at any point during
while I'm saying the statement, a player can buzz in and say, for the record, and interrupt

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me and tell me what is the, how to correct the statement. If they get that, they get
the point. However, if they do not say for the record before they begin their statement,
they do not get the point. Players, are we ready?
Can I make a request? Sure. For the Um, Actually uninitiated, do you have any examples of how

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this would work? What a incorrect statement would look like?
Okay. Let me actually pull up an Um, Actually question and I'll just read that to you. So
I read a lot of them in preparation for this. So for those who have never seen Um, Actually
by Dropout TV, it's a show where nerds come on and they're quizzed on their favorite nerdy

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things. And as I said before, there's a statement and then you have to answer the question with
the phrase Um, Actually. So for example, let me find a quick one. Okay. Here's a good one.
Knuckles, the last surviving Echidna in the Sonic universe is bound to his home in the

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Greenville zone, protecting by the master emerald. For the record, I don't think he's
from the Green Hill zone. That is actually correct. He lives in the
Angel Island. I'm a Sonic fan girl. So that is how they would get a point. Uh, so that

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is how they will get a point. And you guys will be playing questions that I have been
working very hard on and maybe at some point we'll have some special questions. I don't
know. We'll see. Are we ready to begin? I'm so excited. I've been working so hard on this.

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Oh my God. This is like deviously good. Oh, just wait, just wait. All right. Question
number one. Well, statement number one. It's not really a question. Nowadays, it's common
for women to be prolific and well-known romance authors. However, back in the 1900s, it was

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a common practice for women to hide their identities behind an anemone to save their
social standings. In fact, some of history's, do we get an accidental buzz in? Okay. I'll
give that to you. In fact, some of history's most famous female authors would use gender
neutral or masculine pseudonyms to hide their identities. For example, Emily Bronte used

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the name Ellis Bell when publishing Weathering Heights. Emily Dickerson used the name David
and Braun to publish her book of poetry. And Jane Austen went by Ashton Dennis for Pride
and Prejudice. Ashlyn? I heard the record Emily Dickerson published after death. That

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is correct. Emily Dickerson never actually uses a pseudonym in her lifetime. However,
she did. Ten of her poems and one of her letters were published in her lifetime, but they were
anonymous and it's unknown whether or not Emily published them herself. That is one

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point for Ashlyn and I am keeping score. This isn't going to look good for me. I don't know
about you, Christina. I don't. Yeah, it's already looking bad. We're never going to
hear the other one. Oh no, you will. All right, we got one point for Ashlyn, zero for Lauren
and zero for Christina. I'm sure you peaked with honor for Sonic. Now for listeners out

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there, this one may sound familiar and for two of our hosts, this should be familiar,
our producer and one of the hosts, because we've read this stupid book. In Jack's Head
by Siggy Shade, Bess leaves her fiance Will at his Halloween party. In doing so, she runs
into the venthyl spirit of 16 string Jack, who tells Bess that if she satisfies him until

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sunrise, which is when he will return to hell, that she will leave with her head and seven
sovereigns of gold. Bess and Jack then perform a number of lewd acts, including pony play
insertion of deadly weapons, which includes Jack's knife, axe and pistol, breeding kinks,
impact play, degradation and so much more. At the end of the book, due to Jack's mercy

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of Bess. Yes, Lauren. For the record, that book deeply traumatized me. But I don't recall
a breeding kink being used. That is incorrect. No. Ashlyn. For the record, it's not seven

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sovereigns. It's more. It's incorrect. It is seven sovereigns. Dang. You got this, Christina.
All right, let me finish the end of this. Finish the statement. At the end of the book,
due to Jack's mercy on Bess, he's able to kill Bess' fiance and his uncles and then
possess the body of said ex-fiance and live out the rest of it days with Bess and their

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two children, John and Lizzie. There's the horn. They didn't have two children? For the
record. For the record. So that is also not quite what we were looking for. OK, Lauren.

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I don't think the kid's name is Lizzie for the record. That is incorrect. Her name is
Lizzie. They do have a daughter named Lizzie. Ashlyn. For the record, he doesn't technically
kill them. He just like reaps their souls. They're not dead. They are dead. Not yet.

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He's very clear they're not dead yet. That's not what I'm looking for. No. OK, so how I
have written this. So here's the thing. How I have written this, it does specifically
say kill. But they do say that the uncles then will live in a catatonic state even though

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their souls are no longer there. So Ashlyn, while that's not what I'm looking for, I will
give you a point. Unless someone can actually find the correct answer. Yes, Lauren. For
the record, among the list of weapons that were used in weapon play, I don't quite remember

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like, wasn't it just one weapon? No, no, it's not. It was not one weapon. It was not. That
was my chapter and it was not. Here's the thing. You've stumbled upon what is wrong
in this question. I will allow Christina to have one more guess since you two have both

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already guessed twice. But if she gets it, she gets the point. Oh God, we stumbled upon
it. Yes. That's a bad, bad clue. I don't know. Yes. For the record. I really thought I was

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going to come up with something as I said that. For the record, it wasn't the seven
whoevers. Seven whoevers? It was someone else. No, that was not what I was looking for. Ashlyn,
I will give you the point because you stumbled into a writing thing. The correct answer I

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was looking for was Jack does actually not insert a knife into Bess. It is just his bloody
axe and his pistols, which he then said pistols to Bess. I almost said that and I chickened
out at the last second. I swear. Oh, I didn't hear a knife. I only heard the axe and the

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guns. By the way, Christina, they were also both the handles, so it wasn't the sharp bit.
That's good. That made you concerned in any way, shape, or form. That makes it so much
better. Honestly, I know, right? It's just like the handles and the pistol and all that.
Yeah, you know, it's fine. Did I ever tell y'all about the Raylow fic I read where Ben

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Solo uses the butt of his lightsaber? No. Okay. Add that to the list, Ashlyn. No, take
it off. Take it off the list. No, that stays. Oh, no. It's actually really what we're looking
for. Oh my god. I hate this. Literature. All right, guys. Moving on to the third question

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here. Ashlyn's in the lead with two and Lauren and Christina are at zero. Okay, here's your
next statement. According to Amazon's Kindle Store and Good Reach Choice Award, Collin
Hoover's most popular books are It Ends with Us, It Starts with Us, Verity, and Things
We Never Got Over. She did write Things We Never Got Over. Yeah, she did. She did? I

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don't have that on my list. Yes, Lauren. For the record. Oh, right, Ashlyn, you did not
say that. For the record, it's not The Things We Didn't Get Over as one of her top books.

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It's Ugly Love? That is not correct. I'm sorry, Lauren. However, you have stumbled into there
is something wrong. You're very close to what is wrong with this statement. Yes, Christina?

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For the record, it's not whatever the last one you said was. It's November 9th. Did you
mention that one? I did not mention November 9th, no. So, no, that is not what I'm looking
for either. Yes, Ashlyn? I am going to go much more vague. For the record, the fourth

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one is not in her top four most popular books. It's something else. That is not correct.
That is not what I'm looking for. See, you got warm and now you guys are going cold again.
Are we allowed to have you repeat the question? Yeah, of course I can repeat the question.

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According to Amazon's Kindle Store and to the Goodreads Choice Award, Colleen Hoover's
most popular books are It Ends With Us, It Starts With Us, Verity, and Things We Never
Got Over. Yes, Lauren? For the record, It Starts With Us is not in that list. Lauren,

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you are correct. Yeah. So here's the pedantic thing about it. It Starts With Us is not a
Goodreads pick. However, it's boosted up in the list because it is an editor's choice
on Kindle. So yes, I am being pedantic here for a reason because I think it's fun and

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it's my game. I'm representing the cohort. Let's go. All right. All right. With that,
we've got Ashlyn with two points, Lauren with one, Christina with zero, and I am avoiding
that cringey comment. All right, guys, moving on to our first, what I'm calling, collector's

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edition question. So this is very similar to Shiny Questions on Um, Actually, where it's
a different question. So it's a different type of question set up. However, it's worth
the same amount of points. So whoever gets this right, we'll only get one point, no more.
All right. So what I'm calling this is we're calling it, da da da da da da da da da da

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top 10. And basically what this is, is that I'm going to give you a list of the top selling
romance books of all time. And you are going to have to try and put them in order from
most popular book that has ever been published to least popular. Now I do have authors listed

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here as well as what years they were published. So yeah, if you guys want to use notes, go
ahead, go ahead and let me drop it into important links. It's just a little PDF that you guys
can open. All right. Are we ready everyone? Confirmation for everyone? So this is going

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to be bad. So we can see the import important links and we see all that now. Yeah, also
okay. I see the hot men. Okay. Okay. All right. Are we ready? Yes, ma'am. All right. So just

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to double check Christina, you can see important links and info and everything. Yes. And I
have clicked on things and they work. Perfect. All right. All right, ladies. Enjoy. Here
you go. I'm dropping it in. Click on that PDF. And while my beautiful ladies look at

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that, I will tell the audio listeners exactly what they're looking at. In front of them,
they have a short list of titles of the most popular romance books through the years, honestly.
And the ones we have here are specifically Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, Pride

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and Prejudice, Jane Austen, Love Story by Eric Sagal, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. Don't
know how to say the name. Hope it's okay. Pitchy Shits of Grey series by E.L. James,
The Time Traveler's Wife, Bridget Jones Diary, Fear of Flying, Jane Eyre, and Thornburns
by Colleen McCull- McColgo? McCull? McCullo? I don't know. I'm sorry if I'm saying that

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wrong. But now the players will have to put these in order of the bestselling romance
books to least bestselling books. And when you're done listeners, just give me a buzz.

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This is so awful. There's so much to read. I assume there are more people now than before.
So I'm like, is population helping this? I don't know. Am I thinking too hard?
Alright, Lauren's good. We hope so. Okay, we're gonna wait for the other two to buzz
in and then we will figure that out. Okay. Oh, wait, we all have to buzz in? I was gonna

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wait till everybody got stuff wrong and then I jumped in at the end.
Well, I wouldn't reveal whether or not she was correct or not. I would just have her
list. Oh, okay. Yeah, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna tell you. I thought that was good. I
was like, she's pretty correct. And is our points gonna be awarded to who gets closest
because I imagine it's likely none of us are gonna get it right. Okay. Yes. Yes. So the

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person who is closest to the correct order will get the point.
If only I could read this would be easier. Based on what?
Based on book sales. Oh crap. So the older the better. Maybe. Oh, man, I'm losing so

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tragically. This could really help me.
Oh, Ashlyn's in. All right. I have eight. I'm missing two. Hold on.

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We are there only eight? No, there's 10. It's just 10. Okay. Okay. How am I? Oh, I found
it. Okay. Ignore me, everybody. Gone with the Wind is a romance.
It is. It is listed. Ashlyn is giving you like judgy blinks.

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I actually should. That's so fair. I've somehow missed that.
I don't know if it's because my formative years were spent in Georgia. But Gone with
the Wind is the romance. I'm horrified right now, actually.
Okay, crap. Let me switch this around. So new information has come to light. I have

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been educated in the past five seconds. All right. I'm gonna give you a 30 second countdown.
Okay, I'll just go with it. Let me let me buzz in. All right. All right, please. Roll
the dice. All righty. Okay. So let's start with Lauren, since you buzzed in first. Tell

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me what is your order? Do I have to say for the record?
No. Yeah, you can say for the record. Yeah. For the raunchy record. Okay, there we go.
From top to bottom is as follows. 50 shades. Okay. Pride and Prejudice. Pride and Prejudice.

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Jesus Christ. Gone with the Wind. Jane Eyre. Okay. So after Jane Eyre. Okay. So Jane Eyre
is. I will start from the top. Okay, please, please. 50 shades. Yes. Pride and Prejudice.

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Gone with the Wind. Jane Eyre. Bridget Jones. Time Traveler's Wife. The Thorn Birds. Outlander.
Fear of Flying and then Love Story. All right, sounds good. Ashlyn, what is yours?

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My order is as follows. Gone with the Wind. Pride and Prejudice. 50 shades. Okay. Jane
Eyre. Okay. Time Traveler's Wife. Okay. Bridget Jones. Okay. Outlander. Okay. Fear of Flying.

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Okay. Love Story. Okay. The Thorn Birds. Okay, sounds good. All right, and Christina, what
is yours? Hey, so starting from the top. Pride and Prejudice. 50 shades of gray. Gone with
the Wind. Bridget Jones's Diary. Okay. The Time Traveler's Wife. Okay. Outlander. Okay.

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Jane Eyre. Okay. Fear of Flying. Okay. Love Story. Okay. And the Thorn Birds. Okay.
So in a surprising turn of events, one of you got none of them correct. One of you got

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one correct and one of you stumbled into having two correct. With zero correct answers, we
have Ashlyn. No. You got none of those correct in order.
I got more than zero. With one in the correct spot, we have Lauren. And the person winning

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the point today is Christina. Because the proper order of the most sold copies and most popular
romance books goes as follows. We have the 50 shades of gray series. The Thorn Birds.
Which you all ranked nine or 10. Never heard of that. What is that? We have Pride and Prejudice

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in third. Gone with the Wind. Outlander. Love Story. Fear of Flying. Bridget Jones's Diary.
The Time Traveler's Wife and Jane Eyre. So yeah, basically Christina, you stumbled into

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having just the fear of flying in the right place. So I'll take a win right now.
I congratulate you on all that effort. So you do now you are on the board with one point.
Oh yeah. Gone with the Wind deserves better. E.L. James, are you kidding me?

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Guys, she kind of blew her out of the water. Everyone is at like double digits, like 90,000,
70,000. She sold 158 million copies. And I remember that from when we did our Mr. and
Mrs. episodes and we did the background and I was like, there's no way anybody surpassed
her. No, actually, in fact, I did look up in 2022, E.L. James, 50 shades of gray, outsold

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the Bible by two million copies. It's considerable. We pissed off the biggest romance author of
all time and bigger than Jesus. Yeah, I know. Our third ever book ever. No, it was our second.

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Oh my God. Yeah. The devil works hard, but our pH works harder. Oh my God. Welcome, Christina.
Welcome to the chaos. Maybe you too can be blocked by the largest author in human romance

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author and human history. All right. That was a great job contestants. Going into our
next statement now. Romance book covers have come in many different art styles, from illustrative
meet cutes to sexy black and white abs and bold titles. However, before all of that,

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there was Fabio Lanzoni. Fabio is famously known for featuring as a romance book cover
model and author from the 80s and 90s. Fabio's first appearance on a cover was on a Viking
romance novel called Gentle Rogue by Joanna Lindsay in 1987. But by the height of his
career, Fabio was modeling for 16 book covers a day. And by the late 90s, Fabio had appeared

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on 465 different romance book covers. Yes, Lauren. For the record, I'm not sure if you
can hear me. I want to say that final number of like 465, it was a lot more than that.
That is incorrect. All right, Ashlyn. For the record, his first appearance was on a,

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was not a Viking romance. That is incorrect. You are very close to what is incorrect in
this statement. Oh, crap. I hope this is what I think it is. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you,

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Lauren, for the Fabio gif. Love Fabio. He's everything. How can you not love Fabio? Okay,
wait, wait, can you, you don't have to repeat the whole thing. Mm hmm. But. I'm going to
repeat. Ashlyn, what did you say? So for the record, that the Viking novel was not his

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first appearance. Okay. And Cindy said that was not true. Can you repeat that part of
the question? Yes, of course. Fabio's first first appeared on a cover of the Viking romance
novel Gentle Rogue by Joanna Lindsay in 1987. By the height of his career, Fabio modeled
in 16 book covers a day. And by the late nineties, Fabio had appeared on 465 romance covers that

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we know of. Yes, Christina. For the record, it was not that many a day. It was that many
a week. That is incorrect. At the height of his career, Fabio claims that he was modeling
for 16 covers a day. Yes, Ashlyn. For the record, the Gentle Rogue was not the title

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of the book. Okay, so that is the incorrect part of the statement. I will give it to you
or to someone else. Someone can steal this if you tell me what the title of the book
in which Fabio was on is. Couldn't guess. Yes, Lauren. Before I say, can you repeat

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what the false title was? Gentle Rogue? For the record, I'm going to say it was Gentle
Giant. That is incorrect. Damn it. You wanna say Christina, do you have a guess? For the
record, the title of the book that he was on was Gone with the Wind. Fabio's just at

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home. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I don't give a damn. Just blows hair in the
wind and is just very fabulous. That is not correct. I'm so sorry. Ashlyn, you do get
the point for this round. The book in which Fabio was on in his first official appearance
was called A Heart of Flame, which sounds like a Fabio book. That just sounds like such

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an 80s to 90s paperback romance book and I love it. Is he still alive? He is. He is in
his mid 60s. But yes, Fabio does claim he was doing 16 covers in 90 minute increments
in his little spurts of romance book cover modeling. We only know of roughly 465. However,

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from what people have been able to collect, there's only 200 that people have been able
to find.
So there's maybe 200.
We don't know where half of them are.
Exactly. We don't know where half the Fabio soft covers are.
My grandfather at the height of his, I'm going to call it a reading addiction because he
was literally read anything he can get his hands on and that does mean harlequin romances.

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Just straight point. There were six black garbage bags taken out of his house after
he died. All harlequin romances and they are still in the thrift store in that town.
Oh my God. I love that.
We for your birthday, Sydney, we need to pay for a cameo from Fabio and ask him to buy

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them where the remaining 200 something covers are.
I know. I don't think he knows. I think that's the problem.
We need to put them in a corner and make them spill.
Also fun fact about Fabio, because originally this was going to be the question. Fabio is
actually a romance author himself and he has written nine different romance books. And

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of course he features on the cover of all nine of them.
Can we read one please?
Of course we can. I will find, Ashlyn's already looking it up. You're welcome.
Yes we can read one. And I'm trying to see if Fabio has a cameo.

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Oh my God.
Oh Lord.
All right. Are we ready to go on to the next statement?
He's too good for cameo.
He is too good for cameo. I mean that hair. I'm jealous. However, I will say a gentle

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broke is another one of Fabio's covers that he was on. However, that one came out in 1990.
So it just was switched.
Next statement.
The Ice Planet Barbarians series, a spaceship full of 12 women crash land in the hostile
ice planet, not Hoth, where they are taken in by the Sakui. Even though the Sakui are

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very friendly, their planet is not. To survive, Sakui and the humans must have a kui or kuri
that helps filter out the toxic gas from the planet's atmosphere and decreases the host's
body temperature to live in the hostile environment. However, that is not the only effect kui has
on their hosts. It also increases the feto and fertility of any viable partner, AKA when

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they resonate, causes one's eyes to go glow blue, increases healing and causes smell and
taste to dull.
Yes, Lauren.
For the record, unless we haven't read this in the two that we've read, I don't think

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a kui dulls your sense of taste and smell, right?
You are in fact not correct, because when in the second book, Kira mentions how the
food is very spicy and when she has the kui, she's now able to stand the spicy flavors

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of the food that the Sakui put on their food.
Yes, Ashlyn.
For the record, it's not 12 girls.

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It is 12 girls. You are not correct.
She got a lot of books that are 12 girls.
There's more girls added later, I found out.
That makes sense.
Yeah, yeah. I looked into the whole fandom wiki thing and there was a whole bunch of
other girls and I was like, I don't know these girls. I don't know where they come from.

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Christina, are you doing research?
No, no. I'm sadly looking at my baby Yoda for inspiration of something that aliens could
do.
I hope baby Yoda doesn't do that.
Yeah, I hope not.
Can you repeat the question?

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The whole thing?
Yeah, of course.
In the Ice Planet Barbarian series, a spaceship full of 12 human women crash into the hostile
ice planet, not Hoth, where they are taken in by the Sakui.
Even though the Sakui are very friendly, their planet is not.
To survive, Sakui and the humans must have a kui or a kuti that helps filter toxic gas

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from the planet's atmosphere and decreasing the host's body temperature to live in the
hostile environment.
However, that's not the only effect the kui has on their hosts.
It also increases libido and fertility of a viable partner, which is resonating, causes
one's eyes to glow blue, increases healing, and causes smell and taste to dull.

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Alright, I'm going to go with Ashlyn because Ashlyn came in first.
It doesn't decrease their- oh, for the record, it doesn't decrease their body temperature.
That is correct.
Yeah.
Dang it.
It actually increases their body temperature.
Because they're like freezing to death and then they get the kui and it warms them up.

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The benefits of writing notes.
That is Ashlyn with four points.
You better not be using those notes during the game.
They are not up.
I swear all that's up is my LinkedIn.
I love that for you.
Alright, so we've got four points for Ashlyn, one for Lorde, and one for Christina.

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Get wrecked.
Alright guys, going on to our next statement.
In Erotic Encounters with Mothman by Gwendolyn Rose, Meredith is a reporter for the supernatural
tabloid called The Paranormal Chronicles and is tasked to go to Point Pleasant, West Virginia,
where she must interview a local woman who says she's had an encounter with Mothman.

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That woman is named Dreama.
Meredith is in for more than what she signed up for because she ends up having a threesome
with Dreama and the Mothman, who uses his glowing red eyes, moth tongue, and his foot
and a half long dong to pleasure the two women, as well as using his psychic abilities and
purring noises to communicate with these two women.

(41:23):
Oh, Christina.
What the record?
It's not a moth tongue.
That is incorrect.
I hate that I said that.
Okay, Ashlyn first.
Actually no, I'm going to give this to Lauren first.
I think I heard Lauren first.

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For the record, the newspaper she or the journal she works for is not The Paranormal Chronicles.
That is correct.
Ashlyn, you can steal this if you can tell me what the paper is actually called.
Fuck.
See, I knew I knew that's what it wasn't called.
Oh God.
Also Lauren, did you say for the record?

(42:13):
She did.
Okay, just double checking.
It's a cryptids anonymous.
I don't remember.
Damn, I knew it too.
That is not correct.
Just for funsies.
If you can get the name of this paper right, I will give you two points.
I almost want to say like the Supernatural Times or something.

(42:37):
Lauren, you are correct.
The paper is named the Supernatural Times.
Oh my God.

(42:58):
I got to stuff up my game.
Alright guys, I'm out.
With that update, we've got Ashlyn with four points, Lauren with three points, and Christina
with one.
Oh man, where's the bonus round?
All these bitches screaming.

(43:18):
Yeah, two points.
Oh my God.
And with that, we go into another collector's edition question.
These are hard.
Alright, so this is going to be a different version of the question and we are calling
this one, make a match.

(43:41):
What I'm going to be dropping into chat here and for listeners, I am putting in a list
of very famous love interests in romance books.
I need you guys to try and match up who's with who.
So I got those.
Alright, are we ready?

(44:01):
Let me check.
Yep.
Okay.
Triple checking it in next.
I'll only give you guys the one that has the answers on it.
That would be so good.
I know it would be so good for you guys, but so bad for me.

(44:23):
So I work so hard on this.
There would just be aggressive buzzing.
Yeah, I mean like damn.
Guys got that fast.
Alright, and for listeners at home, since you guys cannot see what they are seeing,
I will tell you what we have.

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So we have two columns here and in the two columns, we have.
Alright, so in the two columns, we have the names Buttercup, Stella, Allie, Evelyn, Thea,
Edward, Daphne, Henry, Elizabeth.

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And on the right column, we have Noah, Cecilia, Fitzwilliam, Simon, Wesley, Reese, Alex, Bella,
and Aiden.
I have a question.
Yeah, what's up?
Were these copy and pasted or if there's something that I think is misspelled, is it actually
spelled right?

(45:27):
It wasn't copy and pasted, so there could be a possibility I misspelled something.
Cool.
Thank you.
Yeah, you're welcome.
Because if it was intentional, then I know I'm wrong.
But if it wasn't.
Which one do you think is spelled wrong?
Daphne is spelled wrong.
Probably.
Yeah, Daphne doesn't have a Y.
Yep, I just spelled it wrong.
So it's Daphne.
Perf.
Thank you.

(45:47):
You're welcome.
Not me seeing Daphne and then looking for Fred and I don't see it.
Testing the-
I don't know what the name is.
I need to be able to-
I might actually eat this up.

(46:07):
Me too, Laura.
Me too.
Okay, well I'm so glad to not be eating it.
I gotta cross these off.
If you heard clicking, I'm sorry.
I have to cross these off so I don't get confused.
Lauren saw the name Edward and Bella and said, I'm gonna eat.
Oh my god, this is easy.

(46:33):
Is it?
Where is Fred?
That's my question.
Stella, is there Pip?
Like, I'm confused.
Oh yeah, I know for sure that Sydney wrote these off top of her-
Okay well I'm happy to be the agent of chaos here, let's see.

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Who could Buttercup be with?
I can reason out loud here because I know you guys are gonna eat this up and I won't.
Buttercup could be with Simon, because Simon says.
What's a plus in when you have gotten your list all together?

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What's the R1 in the second column said?
The R1 in the second column?
Rees.
Rees.
Yep.
And that is spelled correctly, that one was a copy and paste.
I believe it, I actually think you pronounced it right.
How else would you pronounce that?
R-E-Y-E-S?

(47:49):
Reyes?
Reyes?
I don't know.
Riz?
Riz?
Riz!
I wonder what kind of name Fitzwilliam is.
Alright, there we go.

(48:13):
I thought this was gonna be easy and I'm stuck now.
My thought process for Fitzwilliam is that it sounds like Fitz and I'm like who has the
closest name to Olivia Pope?
No one.
I will say I am just noticing that I have messed up one of the pairings so I will be

(48:39):
giving you all one point towards this.
Dang.
Now I'm stressed.
Yeah.
Oh wait crap!
Oh my god.
Okay.
Hold on.
Hold on.
I'm reading things for once.
That was not what I was hoping for from Christina.

(49:06):
Alright, I'm gonna give you guys 30 more seconds to lock in your answers.
Okay, the problem is that I don't know which ones I've already written down.
I had to start marking mine off.
Do I have to do it in an order that you can go from the left side?

(49:29):
No.
Okay.
Because I did not do that.
Okay, I'm done mom.
Wait, where's my buzzer?
I'm about to say Ashley got buzzing.
Alright we're all done.
I'm verbally committed but whatever.
Okay whatever.
Alright, so just off the bat I realized that I completely messed up one of these so you

(49:54):
all will be getting one point towards this.
And that was actually Reese.
Thank you Ashland for pointing that out.
Because yeah, his pairing is meant to be none other than with Thea because that was meant
to be social distance.

(50:17):
I know Ashley.
You can't change your answers.
No Ashland, nope, nope.
You can't change your answers.
You already buzzed in so you cannot change them.
Okay, not that it matters but shouldn't we get two points because that means that we
would have screwed someone else up as well.
Yeah true, I'll give you two points.
But if everyone gets two points it doesn't really matter.
We'll see how messed up it is and then we'll figure it out, okay?

(50:41):
Actually yeah.
Yeah we'll figure it out.
Okay.
Alright we'll start with Lauren.
Lauren tell me your pairings.
So I definitely got some wrong because of that but that's okay.
I've got Edward and Bella of course.
Henry and Alex from Red, White and Royal Blue.

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Daphne and Simon from Bridgerton.
I actually said Evelyn and Reyes or Reese so that was probably screwed up.
And then I put Thea and Fitzwilliam together so there's that.
Okay.
I put Halle and Aiden, Buttercup and Wesley from The Princess Bride, Stella and Cecilia

(51:24):
and then Elizabeth and Noah.
Alright sounds good.
Christina?
No I didn't buzz in second.
Yes you did.
This is Ashley.
Technically didn't buzz in until third.
Alright I am gonna give you guys two points since that did mess up two pairings so it
just makes sense.
Alright Christina go.

(51:46):
Okay I have Edward and Bella because I'm super late.
And I have Henry and Alex because I have Red, Red, White and Royal Blue.
That's where it stops.
I've got Buttercup and Simon.
Okay.
I had Stella and Reyes.
Okay.
Evelyn and Fitzwilliam.

(52:06):
Okay.
Elizabeth and Wesley.
I couldn't remember what I knew them from.
Thanks Lauren.
I had Stella and Cecilia, Daphne and Aiden.
Alright sounds good.
Alright Ashlyn what are your pairings?

(52:29):
With confidence I have Daphne and Simon.
Okay.
Edward and Bella.
Okay.
Buttercup and Wesley.
Okay.
And then Henry and Alex.
Okay.
And for the ones that are definitely messed up, Thea and Fitzwilliam are definitely wrong.
And then Stella and Reyes, I don't know.

(52:50):
Definitely wrong.
Yeah you got two for that.
Yeah so then Evelyn and Cecilia.
Okay.
Allie and Noah.
Elizabeth and Aiden.
Alright sounds good.
Alright so with the least amount of points, which two were given?

(53:12):
It is Christina.
Oh wait I only got two.
I knew we were bad when she didn't get Buttercup.
Lauren this was very close.
Like it almost came to a tie between Ashlyn and Lauren.
However Ashlyn did beat out with one more couple over Lauren.
So here are your couples.

(53:33):
You got Allie and Noah from the notebook.
That's the one that you got.
Oh my god.
And then we of course have Henry and Alex from Red, White, and Royal Blue.
We have Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam because that is none other than Mr. Darcy himself
from Pride and Prejudice.
That is his first fucking name.
I had to put them together originally that I chickened out.

(53:59):
So Thea and Gabe aka Thea and Reese were meant to be social distance so you guys got two
points for that so those don't count.
Then we have Stella and Aiden and I'm disappointed in you Ashlyn and Lauren.
That's from fucking window shopping which we read the damn book.
That book sucked okay.
And then we have Edward and Bella Twilight.

(54:21):
I did that for you Lauren.
I did that for you.
And then we have Buttercup and Wesley from The Princess Bride.
Daphne and Simon from The Duke and I aka Bridgerton.
And then we have Evelyn and Cecilia from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
I knew that one was gay.
I knew that.
I knew it was Evelyn and I knew it was gonna be a girl.
That's all that I knew.
Yeah.
Yeah.

(54:41):
I knew it was Cecilia.
I forgot about Evelyn.
Stella is such a gay name.
I was like it gotta be Stella.
You know what?
In window shopping she could have been.
She could have been gay.
She could have been but she was confined to heteronormativity.
Uh aren't we all.
How dare Tessa Bailey do that to your characters.

(55:03):
How dare she.
How dare she.
And with that Ashlyn you get one more point.
That's Ashlyn with five.
Lauren with three.
Christina with one.
I'm not saying that the game is rigged.
You don't want it to be honestly.
You want to go back to the basement?
Oh no no.

(55:24):
I've been good I promise.
And then you'll like it.
You'll take your single point.
It's okay Christina.
They put me in the basement at the beginning too.
Yeah.
You were there too.
Yeah.
It's our hazing ritual.
That's fine I guess.
Yeah it's what it's.

(55:45):
I can't wait to be a problem.
Yeah I know it's the Stockholm syndrome that we all have which make us all flirt with each
other and love each other very very much.
That was so Midwestern.
I know.
It's Stockholm syndrome.
Oh no.
Oh no.
Oh no.
I don't have a day with this one.

(56:06):
Oh no.
The doll has this.
Oh no.
That's Irish not Midwestern.
This is bad.
No game.
It's not Irish.
It's not Irish.
Weird.
Is this Scottish?
Yeah.
Oh I'm bad.
Shrek is Irish.

(56:26):
Confirmed.
He is green.
Is that how that works?
No.
Moving on to the next statement.
In 2023, Goodreads announced its winner for best romance with 157,687 votes.

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Emily Henry's book Lovers, one first placed, followed closely behind by Ali Hazelwood's
Love Theoretically, and third is Abbey Jimenez's Yours Truly.
Yes Lauren.
For the record, it's not love theoretically.
It's the love hypothesis.

(57:09):
That is incorrect.
Yes.
Yes, Ashlyn.
For the record, it's not book lovers.
Book lovers.
That is what is incorrect about this statement.
If someone would like to try and steal and tell me what is actually correct.
It's for the record, it's beach read.

(57:33):
That is incorrect.
I don't want to risk my point, but I think I do know what it is.
I'm only allowing Lauren and Christina to answer.
I know.
I'm okay with that.
Alright Lauren.

(57:54):
For the record, it's the cruel prince.
I don't know.
I don't know.
That is incorrect.
Ashlyn, would you like to have a try at what was...

(58:14):
Is it People We Meet On Vacation?
That is also incorrect.
However, I will give you the point because you did find what was wrong with the statement.
Book lovers, 1 in 2022 and Happy Place by Emily Henry, 1 in 2023.
Robbie Place.
I could picture the cover.
Alright, so that puts Ashlyn with 6 points, Lauren with 3, and Christina with 1.

(58:37):
Listen, I also, you know what, I'm gonna agree with you, intern.
I'm gonna agree because here's the thing, here's the thing.
There are 4 of us in this Discord call if we don't count Craig.
2 of us actually read romance books, the other 2 don't.
I'm sorry.
Go to my Goodreads and find a romance that I read not for the podcast.

(58:59):
Fight me.
I'm not leaving Hoover.
Oh dear gentle listener, what you did not see is Ashlyn do the biggest spit take I've ever
seen.
All 3,000 of them.
Oh my god.
I only read half of her entire bibliography, okay.
And half is under.
Half is too many.
Half is too many.

(59:31):
Oh my god.
You know what, Christina, we should be proud of ourselves.
We're carrying the romance hater community.
Yeah, with my 1 point, it didn't even have gone with the wind.
For everyone in the deep south that is listening to our podcast, I'm sorry.

(59:53):
I know that you are Gone With The Wind lovers and I'm here for you.
The rest of these bitches are not.
Rude.
At least I mentioned Gone With The Wind, god damn.
And at least I knew how to reference Franklin Scholar, I don't give a damn.
Thank you, Sydney.
Also, why is he British?
He's in the south.
I have a lot of questions about that.

(01:00:17):
Yeah, about say, shouldn't it be Franklin Scarlett?
I don't give a damn.
He's not British, it's transatlantic.
I don't care.
I don't give a fucking damn on this high sunny ass day.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh lord.
You want to know the only reason I know that quote is because they reference it in Clue.
Oh true, true, true, true, true.

(01:00:39):
I always thought Scarlett was the Scarlett in question.
Nope.
Nope.
I love that for you, Christina.
Live love, Gone With The Wind.
Live love, Gone With The Wind.
And with that, moving on to our next statement.

(01:01:00):
Some authors have humble beginnings as fan fiction writers, like Cassandra Clare and
Ali Hazelwood, however, Twilight has the most number of fanfics turned books recorded in
examples like Sempre by J.M.
Dartho, My Roommate Is A Vampire by Jenna Levine, Beautiful Bastards by Christina Lauren

(01:01:20):
and famously Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L.
James.
Yes, Ashlyn.
Ali Hazelwood did not get her start in fan fiction.
I mean, her book's a Raylow fanfic, but is that does that count?
For the record, Ali Hazelwood did not get her start in fan fiction, my bad tigers.

(01:01:44):
That is not what's incorrect about this statement.
Yes, Lauren.
For the record, My Roommate Is A Vampire did not start as a Twilight fan fiction.
That is correct.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.

(01:02:05):
My Roommate Is A Vampire actually started as a Raylow fan fiction by a similar name
and which it is called My Roommate Is A Virgin Vampire.
And it's still available online.
The fanfic is still available online to read.
A Raylow fanfic.

(01:02:27):
Please can we please?
Yes.
I could feel the ha ha ha ha.
That was really good, wasn't it, Lauren?
Oh my gosh.
Also, fun fact.
Actually, I will give somebody a point.
If someone can tell me what fan drum Cassandra Clare wrote fan fiction in.

(01:02:51):
Ashlyn.
Harry Potter.
That is correct.
Yeah, I know that.
I know that.
I know that.
I know that.
I know that.
I gave a presentation on that.
Oh, for Lauren and for me, my start for the podcast was by giving a presentation on how

(01:03:16):
the first Ice Queen of Barbarians book is a Raylow fanfic.
That was my that was my audition to be in the podcast.
Yep.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So funny.
We both gave fanfic presentations at different points in our lives.
Mine was to a we'll call it an organization that I was a part of an undergrad where we

(01:03:39):
had a PowerPoint night over the pandemic and I very boldly made a debate style PowerPoint
on why fan fiction could be should be considered a valid form of literature.
And I gave the whole background of like famous authors who got their start from fanfic and
Cassandra Clare was on there.
So beautiful.
In fact, the very first ever fan fiction ever recorded was a sequel to Don Quixote.

(01:04:02):
Yes.
Oh my God.
So I'm a nerd out.
Hi, I'm Ashlyn.
I speak Spanish and so I know a lot of things about Spanish.
One of those things is that Don Quixote wrote Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote and
then some guy was like, this is popular.
I'm going to write about it.
And then Miguel de Cervantes wrote a second part of Don Quixote where he includes the

(01:04:23):
fanfic and says actually F that here's what actually happened.
It is art.
That book sucks though.
I hate to break it to you, but it is art.
So beautiful.
I love this is exactly what this is exactly what this section of my birthday episode is
meant to be.
It's just for us to info dump about random things that we know about.

(01:04:44):
I was going to say we love history's first subtweet.
There you go.
That wasn't a sub tweet.
It was a call out post.
That's so good.
No, I can't speak about history, but I did write fanfiction for the three musketeers.
So what?

(01:05:05):
Okay, so I know what we're doing for Christina's birthday episode.
There's another fanfic writer among us.
Yes.
Oh, yes.
Lauren has been teasing, so I'll say Lauren has been teasing Ashlyn and I for over a year
now about the fact that she's written a Fennec O'Hare fanfiction that she will not share

(01:05:31):
with the class.
She will not share.
I said, oh dear.
Oh my God.
You said O'Hare.
Oh my bad.
Sorry, I'm thinking of Chicago, I guess.
Chicago.
Chicago.
I've written a smutty Scream fanfiction and then also a Fennec O'Hare ex-reader fanfic.

(01:05:53):
Oh, don't forget.
Oh, don't forget your Freddy Fazbear and Jacob Black fanfic you wrote for April Fool's Day.
Oh yeah, there's another thing floating out there.
That one was not serious, I promise, and not reflective of my real writing capabilities.
Disclaimer, disclaimer, disclaimer.

(01:06:16):
Lauren, please, I need one, one, one more soul, Fennec O'Hare or Scream.
I'll take either at this point, please.
I need the three musketeers having a threesome is what I need.
Did you know there was one of those three musketeers?

(01:06:37):
I love that it was a threesome.
Okay, but what version of the three musketeers?
Was it like Mickey Goofy and Donald Duck musketeers?
Or was it the old you, the old musketeers movie?
Not even the movie, the actual book.
I had to read it for class.
And my extra credit was the fanfiction.

(01:06:59):
Oh my god.
Did you need the extra credit that bad?
No, I just thought it was fun.
Some of my other friends wrote fanfiction for extra credit, but theirs was based off
real people in the class.
So is that really fanfiction if it's real?
T.
Well, I mean, if I say, I was just going to say like, well, I mean, like, you've got like

(01:07:27):
the Harry Styles kind of stuff and that's all fanfiction.
So true.
Okay.
So it was fanfiction and we performed it.
Wow.
I'm afraid I've been bested.
Here's my crown.
You take it.

(01:07:48):
Christina, you may have just earned your place out of the basement.
Lauren, you're going back in.
No, no.
All right.
On to our next statement.
And one last stop by Casey McQuiston.
The main character, August Laundrie is a bisexual college student who moves to New York City.

(01:08:11):
She moves in with a queer cast of roommates, including Nico, Maya, Wes, and Isaiah.
She gets a job at Pancake Billy's House of Pancakes.
Later.
Yes, Lauren.
For the record, she doesn't live with Isaiah.
Isaiah is their neighbor.
That is correct.
I was there.

(01:08:36):
And for a bonus point, can anyone guess?
Okay.
So let me finish this real quick.
Oh, wait, no, nevermind.
It doesn't matter.
As we know, Isaiah is not a roommate and is the drag queen across the hall.
Who can tell me what her name was?
I will award you a bonus point if you get close.

(01:09:02):
Miss?
Yes, Ashlyn.
Miss something.
That's my slide in for close.
I know it's miss something.
Hey, Ashlyn, you didn't say for the record.
Can she get points removed for not saying for the record?
No, it's only that they that she doesn't get points.

(01:09:25):
Okay.
Okay.
Haters?
What's happening?
Hey, I'm losing by a lot.
I can give you the villain edit.
Don't ask me.
Please make me your villain.
Another bombshell has entered the villa.

(01:09:52):
Exactly.
The villain.
Reoccurring villain.
Lauren, do you want to get a stab at it or Christina?
All right, Lauren.

(01:10:15):
For the record, I'm going to guess it's something along the lines of like two words smashed
into one, like a plan words of like Miss Andri or like misinformation or something.
I don't know.
Okay.
Okay.
You're you are you're close ish.

(01:10:37):
Like it's a good idea.
Christina.
Hold on.
I had it in my head.
Let me think about it.
No.
Okay.
Just kidding.
For the record, it was Miss.

(01:10:58):
Augeny.
I made that up.
That's actually pretty funny, though.
Ashlyn, I'm sorry.
You already gave your guess, so I'm not going to be able to give that to you.
I'm not going to let you guess again.
Fine.
So I've decided I'm probably not.

(01:11:22):
I'm not going to give a bonus point to either of you because you guys are really far.
You got somewhat close because her drag name is actually Annie Depressant.
Yes.
I knew it was a medicine.
So Misogyny would have gotten close, but unfortunately, we do not do half points here.
So I can't give you that.
I would.
Sorry with half points for funny.

(01:11:45):
You would you would.
And with that, we're coming back to our last collector's edition.
Oh, well, statement.
Let me get my paper and paper.
You actually probably won't need a pen and paper for this one.
Oh, well, I'm over.
And we're calling this one sing their praises.

(01:12:08):
So before I'm going to give before I give this to you, what I have in front of me are
different testimonials slash blurbs that are on the back of the R.P.H. books that we have
read.
Some of these are actually from like the actual back of the book.
So like given by other famous authors or they're out of context, Goodreads reviews.

(01:12:33):
And you guys have to basically assign the testimonial or blurb to the correct book.
And whoever gets the most points of this wins the point.
Are we ready?
Hell, yeah.
Christina, I'm basically quizzing you on if you've listened to the podcast or not.

(01:12:56):
OK, well, could I suggest that there's a secret extra points for me if I get it?
Correct.
I get the points of however many I get correct.
You know, that's not how the game goes.
All right.
With our first statement.
Blank unleashes her sparkling voice and wit on a paranormal Romeo and Juliet.

(01:13:20):
And this is a review from Ruby Dixon.
Now what R.P.H. book is this?
Lauren.
For the record, Bride by Ali Hazelwood.
That is correct.
All right.

(01:13:41):
Going on to our next to our next testimonial.
I am I'm speechless.
I'm not the same.
I need to go back to the Sonia from 10 minutes ago.
Sonia and Goodreads.
Ashlyn for the record, the fuck by the weird turkey, whatever the name of that book is.

(01:14:07):
That is correct.
It's stuffed by the weird turkey.
That one.
Thank you.
All right.
Are we ready for our next statement?
One Ashlyn, one Lauren.
Christina, you still have a possibility of getting into this.

(01:14:28):
All right.
Here's your next statement.
Exactly what I need right now.
A delightful, heartwarming, hilarious, historical romp overflowing with queer panic and terrible
jokes.
Ashlyn.
For the record, Gwen and Art not in love.
That is correct.
All right.

(01:14:50):
For your next for your next statement.
Now why did this man give her a gynecological exam just after meeting her?
Sir, what happened to Hello?
Riley on Goodreads.
Ashlyn for the record, Jack said that is not correct.

(01:15:14):
Lauren ice planet, Barbary.
For the record, I split up our variance.
Close but not quite right.
Christina could feel this.
Oh, crap.
Oh, crap.
Oh, crap.
Next one.

(01:15:35):
What's it called?
Wait, OK.
It was.
Barbay, Barbary, an alien.
Oh, yeah.
OK, yeah, I'm aware.
Let's go.
You've been promoted to paid interns.

(01:15:59):
Well, wait, why does she get paid before we get there?
That's the sound of one victory.
All right, guys, we've got one more here.
Are we ready?
Yes, ma'am.
Blank is yet another heartbreaking novel by the author that's full of blushing, gushing

(01:16:24):
and heartache.
This is written by I heard Lauren first.
No, it was Christina first by a mile.
It was Christina.
By a mile.
OK, never mind.
Sorry.
OK, this is a toss up.
Oh, my God.
For the record, it was November 9th.

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The author is correct.
Yes.
Come on, Christina.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it.
That's how you win.
Especially with that game.
We actually have a tie between Ashlyn and Christina.
So you both get a point.

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Yeah.
Oh, sorry.
Christina, I'm happy for you.
Can you not be happy for me?
I've been happy for you in the past.
Well, that's not today.
You know what?
Back to the basement.
Oh, no.
I'm in my villain era.
Yeah, she truly is.

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This is the villain edit that you asked for Ashlyn.
And with that, it is time for our final statement.
I know it's kind of sad, but this is what we're winding down to.
And like, um, actually, this is a question that actually pertains to real life.
So this has no relation to Romeo's books whatsoever.

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However, I have related it to tipsy fanfic night.
And I will say this is actually just a question from um, actually.
So yeah, I'm going to give them credit for writing the question.
So I did not write this.
You probably know that ordering a drink on the rocks means it will be poured over ice.

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But if you order a drink up, that means you'll get a drink that's been chilled and strained
into a glass.
But there is no ice.
And if you're ordering a drink with vermouth in it, like a Manhattan or a martini, and
you ask for dry, it will come with less vermouth than if you order them wet.
Christina.
For the record, you do not order a drink wet.

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It already is incorrect.
That is incorrect.
But good guess.
Yes, Lauren.
For the record, I've never had a martini in my goddamn life.
So this is going to be very funny when I say this.
Martinis do not have vermouth in them.

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That is incorrect.
I figured.
Ashlyn.
For the record, you don't order a drink up, you order a drink straight up.
That is incorrect.
Damn.
Does anyone else want to try a sub one last time?
Up, Lauren.

(01:19:19):
For the record, it's not up.
It's neat.
That is also incorrect.
Fuck.
Yeah.
Can you say it again, please?
Of course.
You probably know that ordering a drink on the rocks means that it'll be poured over
ice.
But if you order a drink up, that means you'll get a drink that's been chilled and strained

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into a glass.
But there is no ice.
And if you're ordering a drink with vermouth in it, like a Manhattan or a martini, and
you ask for it dry, it will come with less vermouth than if you order it then wet.
Wow.

(01:20:02):
Ashlyn.
Up.
Doesn't necessarily mean no ice.
That is still incorrect.
I didn't even say for the record.
You didn't say for the record.
Yeah, you didn't say for the record.
Yeah, you didn't say for the record.
It's not like you could steal it from me at this point.

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It would be Christina's point.
I'm gonna say Christina.
Do you have any more guesses?
Wow, with my extensive bar knowledge, which is not much.
There's something weird about the dry.
For the record, ordering it dry has nothing to do with vermouth.

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So you've stumbled into what is incorrect.
But what you've said is incorrect.
So I'm gonna call it here and say no one got it.
And the correct answer is that for the record, ordering a Manhattan dry will be made with
dry vermouth instead of sweet vermouth.
So that is the difference.

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Yeah I clapped.
I drink hard seltzer.
Yeah I know.
We're not really drinking gals.
I know we don't we don't all we don't frequent the bars.
I mean, hell, we run a romance book podcast.
I don't think we're exactly going out hanging out the bars all the time.
I didn't know vermouth was in a martini.
Is it too late for me to ask vermouth?

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And with that, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go teach them what hard liquors are in a second.
But before we go, let me announce our scores.
We've got Christina with two points, Lauren with five.
And Ashlyn, you have won this episode of For the Record with eight points.
Congratulations.

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You also won Sid's last birthday episode if I recall.
Oh you did?
The Mothman quiz.
Oh yeah the Mothman quiz.
Yeah the Mothman quiz was significantly harder I feel.
This just was because I put in a lot of background effort for the podcast.

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Didn't mean to tailor to Ashlyn but I guess I did.
And with that guys, thank you for celebrating my birthday with me.
I greatly appreciate it.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday but I won so whatever.
Yeah I know.
It's almost like the birthday present you get is the friends you make along the way.

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No the birthday present is winning.
Okay so the birthday present is losing.
And with that I will say good night to all of our listeners.
If you'd like to listen to more RPH you can go and go on Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube,

(01:23:09):
wherever you get your podcasts and go listen to a bunch of our episodes there.
If you want to go listen to my birthday episode last year or Lauren's birthday episode last
year or even Ashlyn's.
We have a ton of them.
Go check those out.
If you want us to actually read a damn book for once, that'll come out at some point.
We have a couple of those in the back burner too if you want to go check those out.

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Thank you for listening.
I just want to say good night to all of you birthday bashers.