This movie might be iconic but is the book better? We don’t know because we’ve never seen the movie. If you like books where it is a little annoying, then very sad and sweet and then ends with one of the most inappropriate endings then listen to this episode!

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Watch She's the Man for Dirty Little Secrets by All American Rejects and listen to this episode for a confusing description of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (why so many characters Will?)

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Today's episode is a little different, you get two books at once! Delaney read Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul and Sydney read Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul and, while none of these books actually gave us soup recipes, we still share what we learned. Listen for a surprise celeb trying to buy a dog, lots of Jesus saving inmates, and lots of fun dog names.

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On this episode Delaney takes us through the life of Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the Disc World series. He got published as a teenager and went on to have a prolific writing career leading to him getting knighted by the Queen for his work in literature, just in case you felt bad about not accomplishing anything. 

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Barbara says just do it. Today we are talking about Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want, A Unique Step-By-Step Plan to Pinpoint Your Goals and Make Your Dreams Come True by Barbara Sher with Annie Gottlier. This book is all about living out your childhood dreams and going to a library to do research. Besides being outdated af, it has some solid advice for actually making yourself do what you always dreamed of doing, even if it is being a vet with a pet allergy or a rockstar with terrible stage fright. 

If your childhood dream was to be a writer then get to writing and send us your short stories to [email protected]

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Lucky number 13! On today's story time Sydney takes us through Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe and Delaney tells us a famous Mike story about a connection to a tragic murder. 

If you are a writer we want to hear your stories so please send us your short stories to [email protected]

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Sylvia might be a fraud but she has some decent advice. Today we talk about "Blessings from the Other Side: Wisdom and Comfort from the Afterlife for this Life" by Sylvia Browne. Of course, no talk about the afterlife is complete without libraries, the sims, and the location of the North Pole so stay tuned for all the answers of the universe.

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On today's mini Syd tells us about the author, motivational speaker, and podcast host Malcolm Gladwell (aka the fastest teen in Canada at one point). We go over his books and why he is kind of to blame for the NYPD using stop & frisk. So listen up for some racial profiling.

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WTF Sherry?!?!?!? Today we’re talking about “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dream Girl” by Sherry Argov and we are not fans. This book has some terrible advice and some batshit crazy stories so listen in and try to count how many times we say “fuck you Sherry”

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On today's story time Sydney tells us some scary stories from a dimly lit room about a dead man, a skeleton stalker and a witch riding a horse. Delaney has the least disturbing story from Chuck Palahniuk's "Make Something Up Stories You Can't Unread" that is about a tennis ball who really is just trying to help his wife keep her house. Let us know if you wanna hear the story about corn cob dick, it will make you sick.

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