On this episode we tell an Icelandic tale about black magic and men who aren't good with rejection and a Grimm's Fariytale of a girl boss who just wanted to break the glass ceiling and instead got criticized by a fish.

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It's an October Friday the 13th, the spookiest day possible and to celebrate we are talking about all the lore around The Exorcist. I mesn what really caused that fire, a bird or a demon?

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Watch out for demons and projectile vomit because we are talking about the horror classic, The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. This is the book that spurred the movie that shocked and horrified the world but really we are more shocked and horrified by the mounting medical bills this demon racked up.

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Since it's Banned Book Week, we are talking about one of the most banned authors, Toni Morrison. Not only has she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction but also a Nobel Peace Prize, her work describes the experience of being black in America and will remain a cuturally important piece of our history no matter how many racists try to keep people from reading it.

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Has science gone too far in the name or creating slave labor? Yes, obviously. Silvia Moreno-Garcia's take on the HG Wells classic is disturbing, compelling, and makes us want to take a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula (or maybe just have some jaguar DNA). 10/10 would read again.

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Get out your umbrella's and your forks because it is raining food. Listen to hear about the book vs movie adaptation of this classic picture book that solved world hunger but decided to ignore it.

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What is better than two Audrina's? One Audrina faking a pregnancy and making a big deal out of it. Join us on this kind of V.C. Andrews not-so-wild ride and learn about the joys of sexism!

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It's the geese love story we all needed. Today we are talking about some spooky scary stories and some more animal transformations. Truly everything anyone could ever hope for.

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Specials are icy, you are random, what else can I say? Today we talk about the 3rd book in the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld where Tally and Shay go a little too far and there are even more insane surgeries. Snakes for pinkies, anyone?

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We are talking about something super relevant, the revisionist psuedo-history of the Civil War (the American one). Since Twilight doesn't address what the Civil War was all about it gave off real lost cause vibez and we wanted to make sure everyone knows that the confederates were in fact very racist.

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