No Returns
Formerly known as A Reasonable Day, No Returns finds hosts Alyssa Savino and Kevin Krein discussing books that they find in Little Free Libraries.
Episodes
This week, Alyssa and Kevin crack open the 1989 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records! Which records have been broken in the last 35 years and which have been maintained? The No Returns duo discuss this most impressive compendium AND even try to beat some of its listed record holders.
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As the change of seasons approaches, Alyssa and Kevin gather to discuss Carley Fortune's Every Summer After.
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This week the No Returns duo welcome Alyssa's spouse, Jarred, for a conversation about the hit 90s series, Animorphs.
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This week, Alyssa and Kevin watch "Scientology: An Overview," a DVD found in a Little Free Library. They also discuss Going Clear, the HBO documentary. And if you're a Scientologist reading this, they are just jokin about it all!
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This week, the No Returns pair attempt to bamboozle and charm their book club with tricks learned from this episode's text, The Magic World of The Amazing Randi by James Randi.
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IS BLOOD THICKER THAN WATER!?? Alyssa and Kevin will get to the bottom of it in this week's episode about My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.
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This week Alyssa and Kevin gather ingredients and prepare dishes from a 1979 church cookbook, Cooking Collectibles. Many things have changed in the kitchen, but fun cooking with friends is everlasting.
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This week Alyssa and Kevin discuss Lena Dunham's book of essays, Not That Kind of Girl. They also touch on the overlap between this book and Dunham’s HBO series, Girls, and Kevin takes another quiz!
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This week Alyssa and Kevin crack open a celebrity wedding special edition of People Magazine from 2005 that likely spent years in someone’s basement, but made its way to them blessedly via Little Free Library. They discuss the fate of many of the couples featured, the extravagance of celebrity weddings, and even 2005 teeth trends versus teeth trends of today.
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This week Alyssa and Kevin watch the modern classic, The Notebook, as found on DVD in a Little Free Library.
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For this week's episode, we read Roald Dahl's The Witches, as well as watched both the 1990 and the 2020 film versions!
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To close out 2024, Alyssa and Kevin play a round of "Would You Rather" utilizing a discovered partial book. Additionally, they assemble a Costco-themed puzzle selected from a Little Free Library of puzzles.
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It's a merry mid-December for us on No Returns! This week we discuss L Frank Baum's The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus.
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Found on the state of Utah’s list of banned books in this year 2024, Judy Blume’s 1975 novel, Forever, is the subject of this week’s episode. Alyssa and Kevin discuss this book’s controversial reputation, and how it’s held up over time.
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This week, Alyssa and Kevin are joined by an illustrious guest to discuss William Golding's 1954 debut novel, Lord of the Flies. Friend of the podcast and writer, Julia Oschwald-Tilton, join the duo to consider Little Free Library neighborhood dynamics, and this literary classic.
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In part two of our reasonable election special, Alyssa and Kevin pick back up with the second half of the conversation about the book Presidential Sex, discussing the sucio to rotted behaviors of Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Bill Clinton.
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In part one of a special two part episode, and in serving as a very reasonable election special, Alyssa and Kevin discuss the salacious book, Presidential Sex, published in 1995. In part one we learn more than we wished to know about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, James Garfield, Grover Cleveland, and Woodrow Wilson.
Part two will be available on Monday, November 11th.
Listener beware, we're in for some scares. This week we read two books from the Goosebumps series. We also welcome local internet person, Liz Brooks, to share some of her spooky experiences working at Minneapolis’ most notable First Avenue.
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To kick-off the Autumnal season and to celebrate its film’s tenth anniversary, Alyssa and Kevin are discussing Gone Girl, the book and the movie. For Alyssa, it’s all a revisition but for Kevin, it’s the first time he’s finding out where that girl has gone.
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This week Kevin and Alyssa gather for a page-through Mary Engelbreit's Autumn, a brief book featuring a variety of Fall crafts and activities.
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