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This is episode One of our brand new series In The Waterweeds - where we revisit and re-read Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. This is the very beginning (it’s a very good place to start after all)!

Today we are joined by fellow Caitriots, Hueghligans and all around Davey Hollywood fans: Nikki, Beth, Amy and Karen! Ok, they’re just Outlander fans and they’ve been kind enough to join us on this journey back through the stones as we re-read the third book in the Outlander series: Voyager.

Today’s chat covers parts 1 and 2 which includes chapters 1 through 6 aka BP or before prison, or when Jamie’s living in a cave and Claire’s in the 50s and the 60s and we’re back to the 18th century. With all the jumping around who needs stones to time travel, we have the pages of Voyager!

Thanks for listening! Email us, tweet us, yell at us with your comments and definitely Join us next time when we dive into Part III or as Diana calls it “When I am Thy Captive” and as we call it: Chapters 7-13 on January 16th!

See you then Sassenaches!

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Welcome to the Totally Normal podcast where getting drunk and talking about books is totally normal.

For Boozy Book Club our September books were Gayle Forman’s Leave Me and Neil Gaiman’s American Gods.

One was the adult debut of one of our favorite Young Adult authors, and one is the highly acclaimed fantasy novel that we are super anticipating coming to our TV screens and laptops on Starz next year.

Amy and Beth were joined by Hangout newbies: Courtney and Danelle. We had a great time trying to figure out why we just couldn’t relate to Gayle Forman’s protagonist Maribeth and why American Gods is totally and completely indelible.

We hope you enjoy this Boozy Book Club and join us for the month of October as we read Melina Marchetta’s newest Tell the Truth Shame the Devil and The Regulars by Georgia Clark.

We will see you Tuesday, Nov 1st at 10pm EST for another live Hangout. 

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This podcast is only 3.5 weeks late. Sorry about that.

In August for our Boozy Book Club we read one of our most favorite books EVER: The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. Most of us read it TWICE and stayed up all night to read it.

Check out our chat about The Hating Game plus Arcana Rising by Kresley Cole and join us for our NEWLY RESCHEDULED Book Club on Tuesday 9/27 at 10 pm EST.

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It's the #Hangoutlander Season finale! We were so excited to come together this past Monday night to discuss the finale of season 2 of Outlander, partly because it's exhausting to talk about Outlander week after week with only one break, but also because.. it was the finale! There was so much to discuss and that we did!

There were some varied opinions on our team which included Bekah, Nikki, Beth and Julie from That's Normal, plus Kyle from Hypable.com AND a very special guest and TN reader, Joanna. We definitely disagreed on some of the ways the finale fell short and on things we liked, but overall we thought it was a decent finale that was missing some key elements that, to be honest, were probably missing all along this season. Namely Jamie and Claire! We watch the show because we fell in love with their love while reading the books. And overall we just feel that the show has been lacking.

Beth wrote an incredible post this week that you should check out that talks about Putting down the book and looking at the TV show for what it is:

http://thats-normal.com/2016/07/putting-book-outlander-season-2/

Just because Outlander is over does NOT mean that the Totally Normal Podcast is over or that Hangoutlander is over!. Stay tuned as we bring you more podcasts (live from comic con anyone?) and we'll be back with Hangoutlander during the break between now and season 3- we have a lot to talk about preparing for Voyager. 

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Thank you so much for listening and participating with Hangoutlander this season!

Hey there! In this episode of the Totally normal Podcast, we discuss the penultimate episode of Season 2 of Outlander: Hail Mary. We were joined by some of our absolutely favorites in the fandom- the ladies from My Outlander Purgatory and Andee who blogs for TV after Dark.

We had a really great conversation about negativity within our perception of the show (as of late) and in reviews from the fandom. We also discussed Roger and Bree and what they are going to be doing in the finale. And we talked about Jamie and Claire and their lack-there-of a connection this season. Plus we made predictions for the finale and a little bit of season 3.

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Join us July 11th at 10 pm ET for the FINAL Hangoutlander for Season! RSVP here: http://bit.ly/hangoutlander213

This week we chat about the HERSELF of all episodes... Vengeance is Mine written by none other than author Diana Gabaldon herself!

We kept it all in the family this week with TN team: Heidi, Julie, Beth and Nikki

Watch this week's episode here!

Join us same time, on June 27th at 10 pm EST / 7PM PT as we talk about the next episode: bit.ly/hangoutlander212

Wow, we sure can't say Prestonpans, can we?

This week we start out a little differently and talk for about 20 minutes about the Fandom drama happening in the Outlander communities. It's a really great conversation about shipping, proper fan behavior and expectations and we could have talked about this for MUCH longer!

We are joined once again by Laura from Hypable.com

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Join us same time, on June 20th at 10 pm EST as we talk about the next episode Vengeance is Mine : bit.ly/hangoutlander211

We opened this episode trying to say "Je Suis Prest." And we failed. One thing was clear- none of us speak French! 

We had a great convo this week though it was a smaller than normal crew from That’s normal.  We talked about #HatGate- the name we’ve lovingly given our confusion surrounding a recent picture of Sam Heughan wearing what looks to be a photo-shopped cowboy hat.

Then, of course we talked about the episode which was Beth’s favorite of the series. We had some differing opinions on the PTSD edition that we don’t see in the books, and we ended the convo with a real quick chat about how Outlander is going to take over our Sunday nights from this moment forward since they announced both season 3 AND 4 would be made!

Plus this week we gave away a copy of the Outlander Kitchen cook book to a lucky LIVE viewer!

Watch us Live

Join us next week on the 13th at 10 pm EST as we discuss episode 210: bit.ly/hangoutlander210

Hope you enjoy the conversation!

Don't miss this awesome convo with our team from Thats-Normal.com plus Kyle from Hypable.com (a NON book reader) Kyle is always a good time!

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Join us next week for Hangoutlander 209: bit.ly/hangoutlander209 at 10 pm EST on June 6th

If you love Outlander, if you love Caitriona Balfe and if you hate really bad fake beards, then this is definitely the episode for you.

This live hangoutlander was all about the best season 2 episode to date, entitled Faith.

We were joined by the always hilarious and gracious and awesome ladies from My Outlander Purgatory, Carol and Tracey.

Aaaaaand we all pretty much loved the heck out of this episode. Emotional gut punches and an amazing performances, and that one really awful scene we could have all done without. Also too bad about that beard, Jamie.

Don/t forget to join us next week on TUESDAY night - not Monday - Tuesday May 31st -  at 10:00pmEST (because of the holiday - stupid holidays!!!) so mark you calendars special this week because this is THE super contentious shark jumping episode. RSVP HERE

SO MUCH TO CHAT ABOUT. See you then, and in the meantime, enjoy the podcast. 

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