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FELICIA DAY: Hello everybody.
I believe that we are live right now.
This is "Vaginal Fantasy Book Club." It is a book club where
me and my very lovely lady friends talk about a
romance-ish book and discuss that, and one other book
that's an alt once a month.
Here are my co-hosts--
Bonnie Burton.
BONNIE BURTON: Hey, how's it going?
FELICIA DAY: Nice googly eyes.
Kiala Kazabee--
KIALA KAZABEE: That's me.
FELICIA DAY: And the lovely, always
awesome, Veronica Belmont.
VERONICA BELMONT: Cheers.
FELICIA DAY: What is everyone drinking tonight?
VERONICA BELMONT: Just wine--
random, nameless wine.
BONNIE BURTON: I'm drinking lots of stuff.
Should I go down the list?
VERONICA BELMONT: Yes.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah.
BONNIE BURTON: OK, so I'm drinking cranberry juice and
*** out of this custom Felicia Day Vaginal Fantasy
tumbler that someone left at Emerald City Comic-Con.
Felicia, don't worry, I am going to give it to her
tomorrow when she visits.
But I'm drinking out of it now.
But I've got a wine glass that I will also be filling later.
And I also have *** with googly eyes so
I never drink alone.
And then, I have a Veronica glass that I'm going to fill
with regular wine, but I also brought tiny wine.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh my god.
FELICIA DAY: What is going to happen by
the end of the Hangout?
VERONICA BELMONT: You are well-stocked my friend,
well-stocked.
BONNIE BURTON: I don't want to ever not have a drink for this
show, you know?
VERONICA BELMONT: You know it's only about an hour long.
BONNIE BURTON: I don't care.
It doesn't matter.
VERONICA BELMONT: Just putting that out there.
FELICIA DAY: What are you drinking, Kiala?
KIALA KAZABEE: Well, I have this Inversion IPA that I have
been drinking since dinner.
I've just sort of been sipping at it.
But then, this is water.
That's what they call it in Russia.
It's ***.
VERONICA BELMONT: Spoiler alert--
it's ***.
KIALA KAZABEE: It's ***.
BONNIE BURTON: It's ***.
KIALA KAZABEE: So that's what I'm drinking.
FELICIA DAY: I'm having a rum and Coke,
because that's my default.
And it was either that or hard whiskey,
because I've had a day.
Veronica, are you a big wine person?
Do you know a lot about wine?
VERONICA BELMONT: I know a fair amount about wine, not a
huge amount.
FELICIA DAY: Do you distinguish
between the kind of wine?
Do you know what you're drinking now, and you're like,
oh, that's--
VERONICA BELMONT: Right now, I'm drinking a Rioja, (SPANISH
ACCENT) Rioja.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, I love Spanish wines.
VERONICA BELMONT: But typically, I go for Rioja, or
I'll go for a Syrah, or a something--
Pinot Noir.
I go for reds, mostly.
FELICIA DAY: You're mostly a red drinker?
Yeah, I'm allergic to the tannin thing.
I don't know what that is.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's common, that's pretty common.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, I think isn't it white wine you're OK
if you have the tannin problem, but not--
I'm drinking Muscato, but that's dessert wine.
And I'm drinking it with a screw cap,
because it's just easier.
KIALA KAZABEE: I love that you're drinking the Australian
Yellow Tail wine.
And it always reminds me of that Monty Python thing, that
Australian wine is not for drinking, it's for
lying down and dying.
BONNIE BURTON: It's true, it's true.
VERONICA BELMONT: There's actually a big movement to get
people to accept screw-on caps as a viable
alternative to the cork.
KIALA KAZABEE: I like them.
BONNIE BURTON: The last time I went to Zap, which is the big
wine festival at Port Mason in San Francisco--
all the wineries go there to show off their wines-- even
the really ***, fancy wineries were doing screw cap.
Because they said, you won't get corked wine, and it's
fine, and it's really just aesthetics.
It has nothing to do with the quality of the wine, the cork.
FELICIA DAY: Well, also the cork trees are going extinct
or something, I read.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, there's some weird cork deficiency.
FELICIA DAY: There's a cork fungus, yeah.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, it was like a fungus or something
like that, like a parasite.
BONNIE BURTON: Every time you say cork, I think of "Star
Trek."
VERONICA BELMONT: Cork, Quark?
BONNIE BURTON: Quark-- was it that guy on "Star Trek" that
was a really annoying business man?
FELICIA DAY: Oh yeah, what happened to that guy?
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, on "Deep Space Nine"--
Quark.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, you don't want to touch his ears.
It was like touching his ***.
FELICIA DAY: He was like the Scrappy-Doo of "Deep Space
Nine."
VERONICA BELMONT: So racist.
FELICIA DAY: Scrappy-Doo?
VERONICA BELMONT: Ferengi, no Ferengi.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, the Ferengi.
FELICIA DAY: That's racist?
Why are Ferengis racist?
VERONICA BELMONT: This is a discussion
for a different time.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, no, I think people were racist
against Ferengi.
VERONICA BELMONT: No.
BONNIE BURTON: It was like in "Star Trek" as in "Star Wars."
There are fans that want to--
well, don't want to.
But they think they've noticed racist characters, because the
species has qualities that are stereotypical.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, I gotcha.
BONNIE BURTON: Certain
religions or races or whatever.
KIALA KAZABEE: They're close to another
cultural whatever, I gotcha.
BONNIE BURTON: I don't know.
VERONICA BELMONT: Anyhow, anyhow--
we digress.
FELICIA DAY: We should skip over that.
Before we get to our book, which is "Daughter of Smoke
and Bone" by Laini Taylor this month, I just want to give a
shout out to our local Hangouts.
We have a really active forum that is on Goodreads.
It's called Vaginal Fantasy, as a group, and you can go
there and you can join and participate with a lot of--
there's usually hundreds of comments on the books that we
read every month.
So you can enrich your vaginal world there.
That was weird.
And we had a lot of local Meetups that
happen around the world.
And this month, I wanted to give a shout out to the ones
that are happening upcoming.
We have a couple of TableTop Day events happening this
Saturday, one in San Francisco at Wicked Grounds, and one in
New York City at one of the member's houses.
So if you're interested in that, they're all listed on
the forum under Events.
BONNIE BURTON: I think I might have to go to that, because I
realized, I don't have enough friends in San Francisco to
play a tabletop with.
How sad is that?
VERONICA BELMONT: That's not true.
BONNIE BURTON: Really, would you come over, Veronica?
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, if you invited me ever
to your house, ever.
BONNIE BURTON: OK.
VERONICA BELMONT: You've been to my house.
BONNIE BURTON: You have to promise not to tweet that my
place looks like "Hoarders," and you can come over.
VERONICA BELMONT: OK, I will not tweet that your place
looks like "Hoarders."
FELICIA DAY: Does it look like "Hoarders"?
Because you look clean.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, this--
my couch-- is clean.
Everything else around my apartment is just stacks and
stacks and stacks of books and craft supplies.
And I realized, I have more taxidermy in my house than my
favorite taxidermy store in San Francisco.
FELICIA DAY: Wow, oh, that's awkward.
VERONICA BELMONT: I like how you have the favorite
taxidermy store, just to differentiate between all the
other stores.
BONNIE BURTON: There's two.
KIALA KAZABEE: Well, there's Paxon Gate, right?
We have one here in Portland.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, there's Paxon Gate, and then there's
Love to Death.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh yeah, right.
BONNIE BURTON: OK, anyway, I just didn't mean to interrupt,
but if there's San Francisco people here, just come over.
FELICIA DAY: All right, don't do that.
OK anyway, so there's TableTop Day events in San Francisco,
New York City, and the OC, Orange County.
And there's an Australia G+ Hangout.
If you're from Australia, they're having one of these,
like this, a live Hangout.
In Phoenix, there's a Meetup on the 31st.
In the Twin Cities, there's one on 4/5.
In New York City, there's one at Argo later in April, and
Ottawa at Second Cup on April 21.
And lastly, there's one in North Hollywood at the
Steampunk Cafe on April 28.
KIALA KAZABEE: I think you're forgetting about a very
important one, Felicia.
FELICIA DAY: Which one, what?
KIALA KAZABEE: March 30 here in Portland, Oregon at Things
From Another World.
FELICIA DAY: Oh yeah, yeah-- well, you didn't put it--
I just took the events off the group.
But there is, no-- if you want to participate in TableTop
Day, there's like 2,500 events all over the world.
And there's a lot happening in particularly in Portland,
because Powell's and Things From Another World are both
blowing it out.
And you can get all this awesome stuff.
And there's schedules of D&D and Pathfinder and everything.
So if you're into playing tabletop games and making this
a huge event, just go to the website, tabletopday.com, and
find an event.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, and I'll be there.
FELICIA DAY: Are you going to play, Kaila?
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, I'm going to go to the Things From
Another World one, absolutely, yeah.
VERONICA BELMONT: I did not know there
was one in San Francisco.
I was going to go up to one in Concord, but if there's one in
San Francisco, I will probably go to
the one in San Francisco.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, it's probably a little easier.
It's at Wicked Grounds I guess.
BONNIE BURTON: Veronica, if you want someone to go with--
I just don't want to go by myself, because I get weird
around strangers.
VERONICA BELMONT: Me too.
BONNIE BURTON: So if you want to go together,
I'll go with you.
VERONICA BELMONT: OK, it's a date.
BONNIE BURTON: Or we could just do one here at my place.
VERONICA BELMONT: We could do either of those things.
BONNIE BURTON: Because I've got a bazillion games.
Because when I went on TableTop--
didn't they give you a big old box of awesome stuff?
Yeah, we've got nothing but zombie games and Mouse Guard
and Cards Against Humanity.
We could play drunk-- we could play stripper
Cards Against Humanity.
FELICIA DAY: Oh my god, you guys should stream that.
We just want everybody to share it and use the hashtag
and all that stuff.
So yeah, if you do anything, just share pictures, because
everyone wants to--
BONNIE BURTON: Oh, I'm taping it.
It'll be a web series at this point.
FELICIA DAY: Anyway, so that's the deal.
And I guess we should get to the book.
The book is "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" by Laini Taylor.
BONNIE BURTON: I got it, hold on.
I've got the cover.
FELICIA DAY: So Bonnie, model it while I read the
description.
The description of the book is, "Around the world, black
handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by
winged strangers who have crept through
a slit in the sky.
In the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art's student
is about to be caught up in a brutal, otherworldly whirl.
Meet Karou.
She fills her sketch books with monsters that may or may
not be real, she's prone to disappearing on mysterious
errands, and she speaks many languages.
Who is she?
That is the question that haunts her, and she's
about to find out.
When one of the strangers--
beautiful, haunted Akiva--
fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh,
the results are blood and starlight.
But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about
herself?" That is the back of the book.
Anyway, this is a young adult book.
And it's about, I would say, angels and demons.
But it's a really interesting mythology.
Lets go down the line and see what everybody thought.
Veronica first-- you go.
VERONICA BELMONT: I loved it, I loved it, I loved it.
I thought it was great.
Yeah, what didn't I love about it?
Nothing, I didn't love nothing about it.
I mean-- what?
BONNIE BURTON: Wait.
VERONICA BELMONT: I liked everything
about it, pretty much.
I wish--
as we usually say, typically when we delve into the young
adult side of things, the sexy times are a little more muted,
a little more not there.
But I thought it was OK without that.
I mean, it was a wonderful book.
And it was quite a cliffhanger at the end, man.
That was--
got to read the next book now.
FELICIA DAY: So you're going to read the next book?
VERONICA BELMONT: I think I will, yeah.
FELICIA DAY: Oh good.
VERONICA BELMONT: If I finish the next "Sword & Laser" book
in time, then I will jump into this next one.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, what are you reading this month on
"Sword & Laser"?
VERONICA BELMONT: We are reading "Dragonflight" by Anne
McCaffrey, the first book in the
"Dragonriders of Pern" series.
So we are just going to be kicking that off on the 1st.
FELICIA DAY: "Sword & Laser" is Veronica's book
club that's a sci-fi--
not "legitimate," but I kind of think of it as the
"legitimate" sci-fi and fantasy books.
What did you think, Kaila?
KIALA KAZABEE: I loved it too, I really did.
I loved the setting.
I loved that even though it was young adult, it was
something--
like they got to draw naked dudes in high school.
So even though it's young adult, it was definitely more
adult than young adult.
And the only problem I had, and we can get into this
later, is that I didn't like-- and this seems to be an
epidemic or something, or endemic, I don't know--
is that how obviously perfect the
heroine is from the beginning.
That always seems to happen.
And that always kind of annoys me a little.
I would prefer her to be more awkward, and then she
discovers her powers and her beauty later, or something.
I don't know, there's something about that that
makes me always feel like it's the beginning of a Penthouse
Forum letter.
But other than that, I really loved the book.
And I do, I want to read the next one.
FELICIA DAY: That's awesome.
What about you, Bonnie?
BONNIE BURTON: I really loved this book.
It's weird, because I haven't read any fantasy fiction with
angels really.
Every once in a while, they'll show up as side characters,
like "Neverwhere," something like that.
Or even "Supernatural"--
obviously, I'm a huge "Supernatural" fan.
So Misha Collins' character on that is probably one of my
favorite characters.
And I'm a huge fan of any angel fiction that's in
comics, like in Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" and "Lucifer." So I
do like that.
But just straight-up book fiction, especially romance,
I've never read anything with angels in it.
So I was really pleasantly surprised.
I thought I was going to be kind of bored with the young
adult book, because in all honesty, sometimes I have a
weird prejudice against that, thinking that maybe they won't
capture my interest.
Because I'm not a big romance reader, I'm more about action
and storytelling stuff.
But this book got me right away.
I really liked the language and how it was written.
I could visualize every single character.
It wasn't problematic for me.
And it was a fast read, because I
couldn't put it down.
And that's a pretty good sign for me if I can't
put the book down.
Because sometimes, if books are just bad, I will
procrastinate reading them until the last minute, and in
a painful way where I have to stay up till 5:00 in the
morning reading a book I don't want to read.
That's happened with a couple of our books.
We've had a couple books in this book club
where it's like [WRETCH].
But that's not a shock.
We've all disliked books in this book club.
But I'm just saying, this is one of my favorite books.
Including my own picks, this is one of my favorite books,
and this wasn't my pick.
There were no testicles.
VERONICA BELMONT: I agree with you, too.
BONNIE BURTON: Not that that's a precursor, but I
really like this book.
And it's interesting, because I have-- and I know you guys
already think I'm a weirdo.
But I have books on angels, so I have this
dictionary of angels.
And then, I have this other angels book, which has been
around forever, called "Angels--
An Endangered Species," which I got my tattoo design from.
When I was 18, I got Lucifer tattooed on my back.
VERONICA BELMONT: I didn't know you have a tattoo of
Lucifer on your back.
FELICIA DAY: Wait, what?
BONNIE BURTON: Lucifer-- not scary Lucifer.
It's Morningstar when he was still an angel.
So it was right before he fell.
But it was my, oh, I'm going to get this cool tattoo that
signifies me questioning authority because Lucifer
questioned God.
So I had this whole back story when I was 18.
And then I found out later it was a Skinny
Puppy record cover.
So, you know, it wasn't that cool.
FELICIA DAY: Wait, do you still have this tattoo?
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, it's on my back right here.
I never show it off, because I just don't show off tattoos.
I just am not that type of person.
But I was going to say though, I did a lot
of research on this.
So if we get to the nitty gritty of Enochian and angel
languages and stuff, I have pictures of what the language
looks like and things like that.
So if we want to go the Giles route, and you want to see
some info with our fiction, I've got that as well.
But I really, really like this book.
I have to say, it struck a chord in me.
I'm going to read all of the books in the series.
I'm stalking the author on Twitter now, sending her
gushing praising tweets.
And I've now become that person that I feared I was
going to become.
VERONICA BELMONT: Well, it's interesting, because I've read
lot of books recently, within the past year
or so, about angels--
"Good Omens" for example, and the "Bobby Dollar" series from
Tad Williams.
So I've actually been pretty into the whole angel fiction
genre, I guess.
But this was the first one that dealt with a female in
the main role, even though she was not of course the angel.
But it was an interesting perspective into that angel
versus hell, heaven versus hell, even though it wasn't
specifically the heaven in the Christianity sense or the
Catholic or anything like that.
I kind of liked that it was a lot more ambiguous.
A lot of the times, when we delve into angels and devils
and demons, it definitely has a particular
religious tang to it.
But this did not, which I thought left it open to a lot
more readers, and made it more ambiguous and interesting in
trying to figure it out.
And also more realistic really, because I think if
there were a heaven and a hell, I don't think it would
necessarily be one religion.
It would be just a different plane of existence.
KIALA KAZABEE: Right--
yeah, well, like "Supernatural."
VERONICA BELMONT: I don't watch that show.
I wish I did.
KIALA KAZABEE: I'm sorry.
VERONICA BELMONT: It's OK.
BONNIE BURTON: You should, you would really like it,
Veronica, and not just because Misha's in it.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, no, no, no, but especially the second
and third seasons were very much--
they dealt with that.
And also, yeah, "Good Omens," and I'm trying to think of--
what was that movie that just came out a couple years ago?
I think it was based on a comic book.
I don't want to say it was "Priest."
BONNIE BURTON: Oh, it wasn't that angel war thing, was it?
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, where they're in the diner.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh god, it's based on a video game.
KIALA KAZABEE: With Dennis Quaid?
I loved that.
FELICIA DAY: "Legion"?
KIALA KAZABEE: "Legion," I loved it.
FELICIA DAY: That was not a good movie, but it was fun.
It was like popcorn, it was like Paul Bettany, right?
He's so attractive.
What happened to him?
What's he doing right now?
BONNIE BURTON: Are you kidding?
He married Jennifer Connelly.
KIALA KAZABEE: He's just married to Jennifer Connelly,
that's what he's doing.
BONNIE BURTON: He married one of the most beautiful women
who ever existed.
He's doing fine.
FELICIA DAY: They are so attractive together.
Do they have children?
They're probably the most attractive children ever.
I've got to look this up.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, they've got cute kids I think.
KIALA KAZABEE: But, so the same thing--
I really agree with you, Veronica.
I really like that idea of angels and demons.
They're not concerned with the human race, they're concerned
with their own stuff.
Because they're not the same race, or whatever.
I don't know, we're like ants to them, you know?
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, we're definitely like
sea monkeys to them.
We are expendable.
We're kind of in the way.
Most of the angel comics that I've read, especially anything
that Neil Gaiman writes--
the "Lucifer" series does this really well, too.
"Hellblazer" does this as well with Constantine.
It's just, we are in the way.
And also, the angels are pissed off at us, because we
get forgiven for everything, and they do one little thing
wrong, and they're banished from heaven forever.
KIALA KAZABEE: And I love the idea of a bad angel.
I just really like that.
It's sexy.
FELICIA DAY: I actually had on my list of picks for a month--
this was picked by the forum.
This was the number one choice in the pole.
So I didn't actually know it was about angels and demons.
But I had an angel and demon month picked out.
And there are two really great series about
angels that I love--
the "Archangel" series by Sharon Shinn, which doesn't
really have a lot of sex in it or anything.
But it's very beautiful and classic and definitely
something I would recommend-- and then the "Guild Hunter"
series by Nalini Singh.
We read a book by her last year, but it has angels and
vampires in kind of contemporary urban fantasy.
And it's so good.
It's kind of ***, but it's so good it doesn't matter.
So if you're looking for more angel books, those are really
interesting.
But the cool thing about this book is that
the lore is not familiar.
It was completely just taking the concept, and took it to a
whole other place, which I really appreciated.
And I thought the world building was the strongest
part of this book.
And the pros--
I thought she had a beautiful writing style.
Some of her prose is like poetry.
VERONICA BELMONT: The descriptions were amazing.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, I agree with you.
BONNIE BURTON: But her dialogue's believable, you
know what I mean?
I could envision 17-year-old art students talking this way.
And I could envision creatures from another
parallel area talking.
I don't know how to explain it.
She didn't sound like she was faking the dialogue.
It felt really real to me.
Even though clearly it's fiction, I could hear all the
accents, I could hear everything.
And I have to admit, having the skill to know so many
languages perfectly, that's always been--
FELICIA DAY: Oh my god, that's the dream.
That's my dream.
BONNIE BURTON: I know, me too.
I wish I could, too, because I butcher every language,
including English.
VERONICA BELMONT: Just even the ability to have any--
even a small wish would be so neat.
It's something that taps into something that's human about
us, or something that's youthful about us, where we
just want that one wish to be able to happen.
And that's all you want, just that one little thing, just
for a little bit.
And I think it was interesting to see some of the effects
that making those little wishes would have on people,
for good or for bad, and how they affected her.
And I thought it was a really interesting--
we talk about magical systems a lot.
And this is a totally new take on a magical system, something
that we haven't really read about before.
This idea of--
it's almost like an artifact or a talisman that enables you
to do some kind of magical ability, like grant a wish--
that being the teeth.
So I thought that was a new take that we haven't really
seen too often in the books that we've read before.
FELICIA DAY: And it's also balanced out.
There is a cost that you find out later.
What is the cost of all these wishes?
Obviously, it's something bad.
You can't think that you can have everything you want
without somebody else suffering for it, almost.
Because there's always a give and a take.
And I thought the way that she handled that, and the truth
behind that-- that there was the pain--
I just thought that was really super interesting, and made it
more realistic.
And the stakes were higher, because she realized her
actions had repercussions.
BONNIE BURTON: It kind of makes you think twice when you
blow out candles now, doesn't it?
Birthday cake--
make a wish?
I don't know.
VERONICA BELMONT: What?
No-- oh, birthday cake, oh.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh yeah.
VERONICA BELMONT: I was trying to think about that in terms
of the book.
I was like, when did that happen?
What was that--
KIALA KAZABEE: Did I miss that part?
VERONICA BELMONT: You're like, oh, no, I mean IRL.
BONNIE BURTON: Maybe it's just me, but I make small
wishes every day.
VERONICA BELMONT: Eyelashes.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, I do eyelashes, and I really
believe it.
VERONICA BELMONT: Ooh, I just got one just now.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, I actually believe it.
VERONICA BELMONT: Can you see it?
FELICIA DAY: You can't say.
BONNIE BURTON: There's so many weird rules.
If you find an eyelash on your friend's face, you can take
your finger and then you can make the wish.
Or do they have to make a wish?
KIALA KAZABEE: They have to make the wish.
VERONICA BELMONT: It won't come off.
It means I'm never getting a wish again.
KIALA KAZABEE: No, it means that you get a wish forever.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, well I am not even going to tell you
what I just wished for, because the fact that I'm not
getting that wish is really bad.
FELICIA DAY: What?
VERONICA BELMONT: I just wished that I would never get
cancer, and it didn't work.
Now I'm totally going to get cancer.
FELICIA DAY: No, you just said it, so it can't happen.
VERONICA BELMONT: I just said it, so now it
cancels itself out?
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, and also, the next eyelash wish I get,
I'll just wish that you don't get cancer.
VERONICA BELMONT: OK, can everyone out there wish on an
eyelash that I please don't get cancer.
FELICIA DAY: No, I will.
KIALA KAZABEE: I still lift my feet up any time I drive over
any kind of train tracks or street-- even if I'm driving.
I lift my feet up.
I'm an adult, and I do this.
FELICIA DAY: Wait, I didn't know-- what is this?
What are you talking about?
KIALA KAZABEE: I lift my feet up any time I go over any kind
of train tracks or streetcar tracks.
FELICIA DAY: But what is that supposed to mean?
Is that a superstition?
KIALA KAZABEE: Yes, if you don't you lift your feet up,
it's bad luck.
VERONICA BELMONT: I thought it was, step on a crack, break
your mother's back.
FELICIA DAY: Oh god, I haven't done that.
KIALA KAZABEE: There's that, too.
I still do it, even though it's ridiculous.
FELICIA DAY: I've never done it.
BONNIE BURTON: I pick up pennies all the time.
FELICIA DAY: No, you're never supposed to pick up a penny
unless it has heads up.
If you pick up--
KIALA KAZABEE: Really?
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah.
FELICIA DAY: Oh yeah.
VERONICA BELMONT: I threw out an entire handful of pennies
out my car door this morning.
BONNIE BURTON: You're never supposed to throw out money.
That's bad.
FELICIA DAY: Canada just got rid of pennies.
I was just in Canada.
VERONICA BELMONT: They're germ vectors.
They're disgusting.
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't pick up pennies,
because they're gross.
I just don't pick up pennies.
VERONICA BELMONT: And also, I'm just so wealthy, I can
just throw money away.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, you're just making it rain.
VERONICA BELMONT: Just like-- pennies everywhere.
BONNIE BURTON: I pick up a lot of gross
things from the ground.
[INAUDIBLE]
talking about what we pick up that's dirty.
VERONICA BELMONT: I pulled a chicken bone out of my dog's
mouth yesterday.
That was disgusting.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
BONNIE BURTON: We're in a modern age, right?
We're all fairly adult-like, and yet we still hang on to
superstitions.
We still care about these things, even though there's no
fact in them.
I'm sure there's a zillion people that walk under ladders
and don't die instantly.
KIALA KAZABEE: But they're so weird.
I'm an atheist.
I consider myself an atheist, and yet I
still do these things.
I don't know why.
BONNIE BURTON: I do, too.
VERONICA BELMONT: Are they all religious-based?
FELICIA DAY: I am very superstitious like that.
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't know, but obviously I believe in
some kind of energy or spiritual something.
BONNIE BURTON: Some of them are religious.
Some of them are pagan.
Some of them are just carried from family
to family to family.
I don't know, I feel it's more tradition than religious.
But there's so many.
My dad--
and he's a cowboy--
he would not put his hat on the bed.
Because if you put your cowboy hat on the bed,
that is a bad omen.
FELICIA DAY: Really?
BONNIE BURTON: Yes.
VERONICA BELMONT: That just means you're
getting laid by a cowboy.
BONNIE BURTON: He's an old man, he's not going to get in
any different gunfights, he's not [INAUDIBLE], and yet he
still believes that.
FELICIA DAY: That's amazing.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, you just do not do that.
That's a bad omen.
And think of all the sports fans and all their
superstitions.
Veronica and I live in San Francisco during
World Series week.
It's like, god, you better not do anything wrong.
Because if you do, the team--
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah Ryan, my husband, grows out his
playoff beard.
KIALA KAZABEE: What?
FELICIA DAY: See?
KIALA KAZABEE: People are just--
they've got their stuff.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, and if it comes true, then who's not to
say it wasn't a wish?
I don't know.
But it's funny, because when you read a lot of fiction that
has wishes in it, or fairy tales, or any of that stuff,
there's always a string attached.
I always think of monkey's paw with "Twilight Zone," or
"Bedazzled." Was it "Bedazzled"?
What was the one with-- it was a British movie, and then it
was a remake with Mrs. Hugh Grant, what's her name?
FELICIA DAY: Elizabeth Hurley?
BONNIE BURTON: Elizabeth Hurley--
remember that one where he kept wishing--
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, "She Devil."
FELICIA DAY: "She Devil," yes, that was not a good movie.
BONNIE BURTON: I don't think it was "She Devil." That's a
different movie.
KIALA KAZABEE: No, that was with Roseanne Barr, but it was
something like that.
I know what you're talking about.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, but every time you make a wish, if
you're not really, really precise on what you want, you
end up with a wish that's totally screwed up.
FELICIA DAY: That makes sense.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, so you've just got to be careful.
And that also stems for white magic where, if you try to
curse someone, you will get double cursed.
So you can't wish bad things upon people, or bad things
will happen to you twice as bad.
VERONICA BELMONT: I remember that from the old Wicca days.
BONNIE BURTON: Yep.
FELICIA DAY: Were you a Wiccan?
VERONICA BELMONT: What?
FELICIA DAY: Were you a Wiccan, Veronica?
Were you?
VERONICA BELMONT: What?
I can't hear, what?
What?
KIALA KAZABEE: Were you Wiccan?
VERONICA BELMONT: I can actually hear you--
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
FELICIA DAY: Oh, OK.
BONNIE BURTON: Wait, wait, wait, back up.
Because this is something we should talk about.
So Felicia and Kiala never went through a Wicca phase?
Because I went through a Wicca phase.
FELICIA DAY: My mom wouldn't let me, but I
wanted to so bad.
VERONICA BELMONT: Your mom didn't let you?
My mom was super into me being into Wicca.
BONNIE BURTON: My mom thought I was the devil incarnate.
She used to have ministers come over and try to talk me
into anything but wearing black.
VERONICA BELMONT: No, this is good.
This is how awesome my mom is.
When I left CCD, when I stopped going to church
school, my mom ran into the headmistress, the teacher.
And she was like, what happened to Veronica?
Why doesn't Veronica come to class anymore?
And my mom was like, oh, she's a witch now.
BONNIE BURTON: Wow.
VERONICA BELMONT: I still have a lot of fondness for--
I don't practice anything these days, so it wasn't
anything like that.
FELICIA DAY: You're mom is cool, though.
VERONICA BELMONT: My mom is cool.
FELICIA DAY: The more I hear about it.
BONNIE BURTON: I was a bad, selfish witch.
I was just in it to get the popular guy.
I was all about love spells and trying to make
cheerleaders sick.
I was like a John Hughes witch movie waiting to happen.
I never did any-- it never succeeded.
It was always me burying poems in parchment that I burned
with my grandmother's lighter so it looked like parchment.
And then I put flowers and seeds in it, and then say a
bunch of stuff in Wiccan.
And that was supposed to be this thing.
And that never happened.
VERONICA BELMONT: I just did a lot of sage cleansing.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, I've done some sage cleansing.
VERONICA BELMONT: A lot of sage cleansing, a lot of
meditation.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, I've saged a lot of things.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
BONNIE BURTON: I had an awesome candle collection.
I had a lot of candles.
KIALA KAZABEE: Well, that's just being a girl.
BONNIE BURTON: When you went down into my bedroom, it
either looked like a shrine to Stevie Nicks, or it just
looked-- yeah.
I'm surprised I didn't burn down the house, actually.
I had a lot of candles.
KIALA KAZABEE: I never went through any kind of Wiccan
phase like that, because I have a problem with any kind
of organized anything.
I don't like joining stuff.
I don't like anything where somebody's going to tell me
what to do.
I do what I want.
BONNIE BURTON: You're such an anarchist.
FELICIA DAY: I like that about you.
I'm the same way.
Actually, if somebody tries to tell me something, I will do
the opposite.
And it's bad.
It's not a good character trait.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, it's just how we are.
VERONICA BELMONT: There's a lot of Wiccans
in the YouTube chat.
I'm loving this.
A lot of pagans and Wiccans-- you guys are awesome.
KIALA KAZABEE: Really?
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, represent.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, I was just going to say, a lot of
the Wiccans I knew just turned into women's
studies majors, and then--
I don't know.
I think it was a thing that was really big, for me at
least, in the late '80s, early '90s.
You're trying to figure out who you are and what you want
out of life.
But yeah, I thought of it really as a way to empower
myself, I guess.
So I was in it for all these selfish reasons.
VERONICA BELMONT: No, for me, it was about finding a
connection, figuring out your place in the world, finding
where you fit in, how you're connected to all the other
things, to other people, to nature, to the
elements, to the world.
It was kind of more like that for me.
BONNIE BURTON: But did you do the women's studies thing
where instead of saying, oh my god, you say, oh my goddess?
Because I went through that for a while.
VERONICA BELMONT: Nope.
FELICIA DAY: Women with a Y, "womyn."
VERONICA BELMONT: Womyn, womyn.
BONNIE BURTON: No, I never did that, because I was just like,
that's stupid.
I don't care about spellings of things, because who cares?
VERONICA BELMONT: Well, we are deviating.
BONNIE BURTON: I was a women's studies
major for like a month.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, we really went off course here.
FELICIA DAY: I should get us probably back on course.
I'm sorry, I had a little rum.
BONNIE BURTON: Angels.
FELICIA DAY: So let's talk a little bit about--
just in general, there was a lot of
controversy on the forums.
Because this is I think the first young adult that we did.
BONNIE BURTON: Is it?
VERONICA BELMONT: "White Trash Zombie" was also young adult.
FELICIA DAY: No, "White Trash Zombie" wasn't.
You know what, the alt that month was-- "Dearly Departed."
KIALA KAZABEE: "Dearly Departed," yes,
the Victorian one.
FELICIA DAY: I mean, "White Trash Zombie" was kind of
written pretty simply, but I don't think it was aimed--
it's in the sci-fi fantasy.
Yeah, that one is definitely young adult.
But we had a lot of comments about people like--
I don't like young adult, or I don't read young adult.
We even have a thread about, why don't you like young adult
books, and why can't we read them here?
To me, I personally don't like young adult books.
Because I don't like reading romance
novels about teenagers.
Because I kind of assume that they're not going to ever stay
together forever.
And I guess to me it doesn't feel like I'm investing in a
relationship.
It's like, oh, you hit 22, it's over.
KIALA KAZABEE: You guys are going to break up when you go
to college.
FELICIA DAY: Exactly, that's what I always think.
VERONICA BELMONT: Two things--
number one, Hope in the chatroom said that "Poison
Study" was also technically a young adult novel.
And number two-- but the thing that's so romantic about being
young and in love is, that is the most intense you will ever
feel about anything.
Having an emotion like love when you're 15, 16, 17--
the first time you really get hit with it--
your feels are so much stronger when you're that age.
Everything is so much more intense and passionate and
more like end of the world type ***.
So that's kind of why it's so romantic.
Because being women in our '30s and '40s and whatever,
you get a sense of remembering how passionate that was.
And it gets me kind of even more exciting.
Because I'm like, oh, I remember how it was to fall in
love for the first time and feel like it's the only thing
in the world.
And there's nothing else you can think about.
And you don't really have the troubles and cares of being a
fully-formed adult woman yet, so there's not all that other
stuff going around.
FELICIA DAY: I know, and I just want to yell at them.
I'm like, you're so naive.
You don't have anything.
Their dramas don't mean--
I'm not as sympathetic.
Because I'm like, you don't know anything.
KIALA KAZABEE: I would like to say
something about this, though.
I would just--
BONNIE BURTON: OK, Kiala, be our voice of reason.
KIALA KAZABEE: OK, from personal experience, I feel
exactly the same way about all of that.
And then, I met Jeff, who is my boyfriend now.
And I never thought that I would feel that
way ever, ever again.
BONNIE BURTON: Is he in the room?
KIALA KAZABEE: No, he's downstairs.
He can't even hear me.
Shh.
BONNIE BURTON: Is there a gun to your head off-camera?
VERONICA BELMONT: Well, now I'm going to have to feel bad
that I'm not talking this way about Ryan, Jesus.
BONNIE BURTON: Nah, you're married.
Once you're married, all that--
FELICIA DAY: Obviously, young adult fiction is not popular
right now only because teenagers read it.
Obviously, people of all ages read young adult fiction, and
it's interesting that there seems to be a dichotomy.
And it's not only about the sex, because I
think partly it is.
I'm like, they're never going to get it on in any way that I
want to read.
But at the same time, I don't want to invest in the
relationships for those reasons.
And you're saying the opposite, which is obviously
the majority opinion.
And I think it's interesting that there's such a dichotomy.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, but I would also just like to say
that I understand that this is an anomaly.
And I don't know why it happened to me, but it did.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh shut up, you're awesome.
KIALA KAZABEE: No, but maybe it just did, and it was--
I mean, now it's regular
relationship lovey-lovey times.
But what I'm saying is that it was definitely just as intense
as when I was 16 and I fell in love for the first time.
In fact, more so, because I had all this adult
experience behind it.
So I'm saying, it can happen again.
So maybe that's why I'm OK with reading young adult
novels again.
BONNIE BURTON: I agree.
I think it just depends on what type of person you are,
but when I fall in love, I fall in love hard.
Which probably explains why I don't date a lot, because I
get destroyed on a regular basis.
But I try to always make--
what is Veronica doing?
VERONICA BELMONT: Now you guys are all making me seem like
the pragmatic sensible--
oh, you just fall in love and it doesn't
really have any feelings.
BONNIE BURTON: No, you didn't let me finish.
You did not let me finish.
KIALA KAZABEE: I've been through some bad experiences.
BONNIE BURTON: I suck at dating.
I was just saying, I still fall in love, I just don't
have as many suicide pacts.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's true.
BONNIE BURTON: You don't have as many suicide pacts when you
get older, because it's a lot of paper work, I don't know.
But I'm just saying that I like young adult books, but I
like young adult TV shows.
I'm beginning to think that Felicia just doesn't like
young adults, which I don't--
FELICIA DAY: I don't not like young
adults, I just feel like--
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't like young adults.
BONNIE BURTON: I don't like them.
They're annoying.
KIALA KAZABEE: I go on the bus, and they're annoying.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, they have no manners, they're not afraid
of anything.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
FELICIA DAY: I was just a *** when I was that age,
and looking back, I don't like myself when I
was 15 through 19.
I just did not have my stuff together.
So I think maybe going back there for me is not as
interesting to me as somebody who's--
BONNIE BURTON: No, I was more mature when I was
15 than I am now.
My 15-year-old self would be really
embarrassed by me right now.
I'm not joking, I would be a joke in my diary.
I would be like, who the hell is that girl that thinks she's
so cool with her stupid pillows and her couch?
And she can't date any things that aren't dead things.
What the hell?
Seriously, I would be a joke.
KIALA KAZABEE: I'm embarrassed by myself right now.
I'll wake up tomorrow and be like, I'm so embarrassed,
Kiala, about you yesterday.
I'm going to be that way until I die.
BONNIE BURTON: Well, I just think that young adult books
can get some sexy times in them.
So it's just not full--
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, "Forever"--
Judy Bloom?
BONNIE BURTON: [INAUDIBLE]
FELICIA DAY: Nothing like our alt book though, guys, which
we'll get to.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh right, that was not young adult at all.
FELICIA DAY: I was almost embarrassed I picked this one.
OK, let's quickly go through the characters, and then we'll
get to our--
BONNIE BURTON: OK.
KIALA KAZABEE: OK.
FELICIA DAY: I think for me--
obviously, we really liked this book.
For me, the weaker part of this book was some of the
characterization.
I really liked the main character, although Kylie, I
agree with you that she was a little too perfect.
But most of the comments on the forums actually were about
Akiva, and how he kind of didn't
have as strong a character.
What did you guys think about that relationship between them
and the whole thing with her past life?
What did you guys feel about that?
BONNIE BURTON: Wait, no one's going to talk?
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
VERONICA BELMONT: OK, wait, the relationship between--
I was looking at YouTube comments.
The relationship between--
BONNIE BURTON: Don't read the comments.
FELICIA DAY: Akiva as a character--
a lot of people liked Karou, although they said she's a
little too perfect.
VERONICA BELMONT: A little too Mary Sue.
FELICIA DAY: I agreed that Madrigal was a little even
more too perfect.
Because it seemed like she was very--
wow, she's awesome.
She does everything great.
But Akiva was the one that a lot of people-- and his
widow's peak, which she talked about all the time.
VERONICA BELMONT: Well, at least he changed.
So the thing with Akiva was, at least he underwent some
kind of transformation during the book.
I mean, Karou, she learned about herself
throughout the book.
And she became a stronger version of her former self, a
little more of a badass version of her former self
going through the book.
But Akiva definitely turned from stony-eyed angel warrior
thing, to being a much more intricate kind of character.
So there was some growth there I thought, for sure.
FELICIA DAY: And did you buy their relationship?
Did you feel like their relationship was believable
and deep enough to understand their history together and
what [INAUDIBLE] them together?
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, I love going into the back story and
figuring out why they were connected to each other and
how that actually happened.
Because you knew it was something.
You knew that he had known her in some--
I mean, they get to that pretty quickly.
So you knew they were involved earlier.
But learning about how it happened I thought was great,
was an awesome journey.
So yeah, I don't know.
It didn't bother me.
Yeah, I think that was the number one comment on the
forums, about--
they thought he was a little bit flat.
But I agree with you.
As the back story emerged, you understood why he would be--
and as the layers peeled back.
I thought that was really the interesting part.
Yeah, it was kind of jarring to have these two books--
the first half and the second half--
that are very different.
But at the same time, you're really peeling back this onion
of their history together, which I thought was really,
really interesting.
FELICIA DAY: I kind of wish they had staggered it a little
bit more, instead of getting a really true second half of the
book where we learn all that back story.
I kind of wish it had been integrated more into the first
half of the book.
BONNIE BURTON: I agree, so the first part-- when I was
reading the first eight chapters, or not eight, maybe
four chapters, I kept thinking, is this a second
book in a series and I just didn't know everything?
And I hate that, I hate that self-doubt you get when you
read a first book in a series and you think you've picked up
the wrong book number.
And so you kind of freak out a little going, holy crap, I'm
missing all this stuff.
So at first, I was like, ah, I'm not getting all of this.
And I sped read ahead, and I'm like, oh, OK, they reveal some
stuff later.
But you're right, they should have integrated that a little
bit more seamlessly as opposed to just waiting until halfway
through the book to clear up a bunch of stuff.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, it did feel like it should have been like
this versus like this.
It would have been nicer that way, because basically, at a
certain point, Karou was not even
participating in the storyline.
It wasn't like he was telling her story, and then we cut
back and it was like, oh my gosh, is that true, and then
going back and forth, you know?
So yeah, there could have been a little bit more less
awkwardly [INAUDIBLE].
Somebody had a really good question about this.
They wanted to know--
if you could design a body that would be reincarnated
into, what would your next body look like?
What would you have?
Because basically the "chimera," or the "kimera"--
I'm not sure how you say that.
VERONICA BELMONT: I say "kimera."
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, I do too.
FELICIA DAY: OK, chimichanga.
VERONICA BELMONT: Chupacabra.
FELICIA DAY: Basically pieces of animal--
what would you want to be?
VERONICA BELMONT: I would want to have wings
of some kind, maybe--
what kind of wings--
like eagle wings, or an albatross maybe.
BONNIE BURTON: And you're OK with the mites?
VERONICA BELMONT: Sure, if that's what
comes with wings, yeah.
I'm down with mites.
BONNIE BURTON: There's got to be a
shampoo for that or something.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, there's got to be.
There's a spray.
I don't know.
Yeah, I think just wings--
that's at the top of my list.
I'm going to fly.
FELICIA DAY: Wings?
I would want hummingbird wings, because I want to be
vertical and go like this, and then this.
And I think I like the antler thing, although I'd like to
have big fuzzy ears.
VERONICA BELMONT: Like little fox ears?
FELICIA DAY: Fox ears, that's what I would want.
VERONICA BELMONT: Ooh, what are those really cute foxes,
the really cute ones?
FELICIA DAY: Yes, what are those cute foxes, what are
they called?
Oh my god, what are they called?
Foxes--
oh, a dik-dik.
I want eyes like a dik-dik.
KIALA KAZABEE: A what?
FELICIA DAY: A fennec fox, a fennec fox.
VERONICA BELMONT: A fennec fox, fennec fox ears.
FELICIA DAY: Oh they're so cute.
VERONICA BELMONT: Fennec fox ears.
BONNIE BURTON: Wait, say that again, Felicia,
you know, in case--
KIALA KAZABEE: Like a dik-dik?
FELICIA DAY: A dik-dik.
VERONICA BELMONT: I'm a dik-dik to dik-diks.
FELICIA DAY: Have you seen a dik-dik?
BONNIE BURTON: I'll drink to that.
KIALA KAZABEE: I have, but that is very personal.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, way to go Felicia.
Way to *** up the show.
FELICIA DAY: Stop it--
OK, come on.
I want to show you a copy of a fennec fox.
KIALA KAZABEE: OK, what is it?
I don't know--
FELICIA DAY: And you guys can say what you would want.
BONNIE BURTON: All right, what do you want, Kiala?
KIALA KAZABEE: I'll wait till we look at the--
VERONICA BELMONT: Ohh.
FELICIA DAY: Come on.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's cute.
Look at those ears.
FELICIA DAY: Is that not the cutest?
VERONICA BELMONT: Doe's ears.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh yeah.
FELICIA DAY: And then, I'm going to do a dik-dik.
VERONICA BELMONT: They're huge, so big.
BONNIE BURTON: So I thought about this.
I thought I might want antlers, but I have two deer
taxidermy heads, and those things are hard to maneuver
through doors.
So I keep thinking, I would just be the klutzy deer head
antler girl that couldn't get through doors, so I didn't
want antlers.
They're really cumbersome, and you can't sleep on your side.
KIALA KAZABEE: It's true.
BONNIE BURTON: So no antlers for me.
FELICIA DAY: Here's the dik-dik.
VERONICA BELMONT: Oh, are they from Africa?
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, I think so.
VERONICA BELMONT: I think my friend ate one one time.
FELICIA DAY: What?
You can't eat a dik-dik, they're like one
foot tall or something.
VERONICA BELMONT: Well, I think they ate that.
I think they ate it.
FELICIA DAY: You're a terrible person, Veronica.
VERONICA BELMONT: I didn't eat it.
FELICIA DAY: Your friend is awful.
How could you do that?
VERONICA BELMONT: I have awful friends.
BONNIE BURTON: It was Ryan, wasn't it?
VERONICA BELMONT: No, Ryan's a pescetarian.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh my god.
OK, do you guys want to know what I want?
VERONICA BELMONT: He only eats dik-diks of the sea.
KIALA KAZABEE: OK, so I want wings too, because I'm a lady.
BONNIE BURTON: Wait, you want what?
KIALA KAZABEE: I want wings, too, but I
want them to be like--
BONNIE BURTON: A fairy?
KIALA KAZABEE: Fully formed, yeah, but in a really--
not white ones.
BONNIE BURTON: Like a phoenix?
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't know, just kind of--
VERONICA BELMONT: Are you talking about your wings?
BONNIE BURTON: Phoenix are [INAUDIBLE].
KIALA KAZABEE: It's almost apple colors.
VERONICA BELMONT: Emerald is the Pantone color of the year,
so maybe you should go with emerald.
KIALA KAZABEE: OK, so I'd want that, and then I would want my
eyes to turn into doe eyes, but slightly--
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
VERONICA BELMONT: Like Madrigal,
Madrigal had doe eyes.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yes, yes, I would absolutely want that.
And then, I would want little talons.
VERONICA BELMONT: OK, so I've got fennec ears, hawk--
I'm going to do hawk wings.
KIALA KAZABEE: I might also want hooves.
VERONICA BELMONT: What has a really cute tummy?
What's a really soft tummy?
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, a lemur.
BONNIE BURTON: A meerkat.
FELICIA DAY: A panda.
VERONICA BELMONT: A panda?
FELICIA DAY: Oh, a red panda--
you want to see a red panda?
KIALA KAZABEE: Red pandas-- oh my god, they're like
raccoons but cuter.
BONNIE BURTON: Why do I feel like we're doing reincarnation
Garanimals.
VERONICA BELMONT: Ooh, they said koala.
OK, so I want a koala belly, and I want the pouch, too.
KIALA KAZABEE: You hate koalas.
VERONICA BELMONT: Oh, I forgot, I hate koalas.
I don't hate koalas.
BONNIE BURTON: What I love is that we all want pudgy animal
tummies, but in real life, we don't want
pudgy animal tummies.
KIALA KAZABEE: No, I want that in real life, too.
BONNIE BURTON: You do?
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh yeah, I want a place to put my burrito.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, I want a pouch for burritos.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, burrito pouch right here.
BONNIE BURTON: I don't know what I want.
VERONICA BELMONT: Wait, why do I hate koalas?
KIALA KAZABEE: Because they have chlamydia.
VERONICA BELMONT: Because why?
FELICIA DAY: They don't have chlamydia, guys, they don't.
I've held a koala in Australia.
VERONICA BELMONT: Did you get chlamydia?
KIALA KAZABEE: Did you get chlamydia?
VERONICA BELMONT: Do you now have chlamydia
because of the koala?
FELICIA DAY: I had it already.
No, but listen--
I was holding the koala and I started--
VERONICA BELMONT: Wait, did you give the koala chlamydia?
KIALA KAZABEE: Did you give all koalas chlamydia, Felicia?
BONNIE BURTON: Wow, Felicia.
FELICIA DAY: Just call me Chlamydia Day.
BONNIE BURTON: Chlamydia Day.
VERONICA BELMONT: I will call you that now.
KIALA KAZABEE: That is happening.
That's already happening.
FELICIA DAY: Bonnie, hurry-- because we have to talk about
a whole other book.
BONNIE BURTON: What?
Oh, oh-- my body parts.
So I guess I'm a big fan of wings, too.
I don't care about the mites.
I want raven wings, though.
I want black wings.
VERONICA BELMONT: Goth.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
BONNIE BURTON: Duh, I'm goth.
FELICIA DAY: I would want butterfly wings.
Why would nobody want butterfly wings?
BONNIE BURTON: I don't want any wings that are easily
damage, and butterfly wings to me--
I have a whole collection of butterfly taxidermy.
They're not the most sturdy of insects.
FELICIA DAY: Good point, good point.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, and I don't
always want to be hungry.
You do realize as a hummingbird you're going to be
constantly starving, because your metabolism is going to be
through the roof.
FELICIA DAY: I feel like if I were going to have a totem
animal, it would be a hummingbird--
super fast, and incredibly neurotic and can't stop.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
VERONICA BELMONT: I got the greatest question of all time
on YouTube. "Are red pandas the ones with the giant
testicles?" asks Brie.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yes, they are.
VERONICA BELMONT: Are they?
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't know, I just wanted to
sound like I knew.
VERONICA BELMONT: They are now.
BONNIE BURTON: Well, you know what?
I do like the idea of tails.
I would love a squirrel tail.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, I would like a tail.
FELICIA DAY: Oh yeah, a tail would be fun.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, and then the rest of me, I don't know.
I'll just take leftovers of whatever's left.
I just don't want scales.
I don't want scales, that's too weird.
KIALA KAZABEE: Or gills, I don't want gills.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, I don't want gills.
I don't want anything where I have to shed my
entire body at once.
That's gross.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, that would be gross.
KIALA KAZABEE: Ooh, it's like the ultimate
exfoliation, though.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, I don't like that.
I don't like those masks that you peel off your entire face,
and it's like a death mask.
I don't--
VERONICA BELMONT: Maybe I should be a dragon, because
dragons would shed everything.
KIALA KAZABEE: They would.
FELICIA DAY: You know, a platypus mouth would be cute
for a second.
VERONICA BELMONT: Ooh no, you can't do anything with that.
BONNIE BURTON: Fish lips like Angelina Jolie.
KIALA KAZABEE: Are you kidding?
BONNIE BURTON: [INAUDIBLE]
fish lips.
VERONICA BELMONT: I am a sexy platypus.
KIALA KAZABEE: (LISP) Hi guys, hi guys, I'm a platypus.
Want to have sex with me?
FELICIA DAY: Oh my god.
BONNIE BURTON: No, Veronica--
VERONICA BELMONT: Isn't this a face you could love?
KIALA KAZABEE: (LISP) I'm just the sexiest
platypus that there is.
VERONICA BELMONT: So how about that alt pick?
BONNIE BURTON: Why didn't you pick Grumpy Cat, Veronica?
VERONICA BELMONT: I could be a cat.
But the cat's an easy answer.
BONNIE BURTON: All right.
VERONICA BELMONT: The cat's too easy.
FELICIA DAY: I'm sorry we didn't get to your question.
Oh, we didn't do casting.
Let's do casting really quick, and then we'll do our alt in
like seven minutes.
It's fine.
OK, here's my casting--
Audrey Tautou and Jude Law, go.
BONNIE BURTON: As what?
Oh, the main two?
FELICIA DAY: As the main two.
BONNIE BURTON: OK.
VERONICA BELMONT: There's a very specific guy I had in
mind, but I don't know who he is.
FELICIA DAY: What's his picture?
BONNIE BURTON: Is he an actor on TV?
VERONICA BELMONT: He's an actor on TV.
KIALA KAZABEE: On what show?
VERONICA BELMONT: I don't know, that's the problem.
I can see his face, but I can't picture where he's from.
So this is why I'm bad at this game.
BONNIE BURTON: My guesses are easy.
You could probably guess what my guesses are going to be if
you want to try it.
FELICIA DAY: You always do that one guy.
Who is it?
Who does she always do, guys?
KIALA KAZABEE: Richard Armitage?
FELICIA DAY: No.
VERONICA BELMONT: Benedict Cumberbatch?
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah.
BONNIE BURTON: That was hard, because Benedict Cumberbatch
is also an angel in "Neverwhere," that radio
series of Neil Gaiman's.
FELICIA DAY: Wow, I love that book more than anything.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, well they did a BBC Radio series, and
Cumberbatch, who has the voice that can melt lead, is the
voice of [INAUDIBLE].
VERONICA BELMONT: Who was the guy in "Clash of the Titans"?
KIALA KAZABEE: The new one?
BONNIE BURTON: The old one?
VERONICA BELMONT: The new one.
KIALA KAZABEE: The guy from the last "Terminator"--
that guy, right?
VERONICA BELMONT: Let me see, what's his face.
FELICIA DAY: "Clash of the Titans."
KIALA KAZABEE: It's the guy from the last "Terminator."
VERONICA BELMONT: Sam Worthington.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, Sam Worthington.
FELICIA DAY: He's so manly though.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, as Akiva.
KIALA KAZABEE: He's blandly handsome.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, he's more like boy next door.
FELICIA DAY: Akiva's pretty.
VERONICA BELMONT: This is why I don't play this game--
OK, fine.
KIALA KAZABEE: Wait, I have picks.
I have picks.
I want to say my picks.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh wait, I didn't finish.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, I'm sorry.
BONNIE BURTON: Can I say the girl real quick?
KIALA KAZABEE: Of course.
BONNIE BURTON: So Ksenia Solo, who plays the girl in "Lost
Girl." What's her name on "Lost Girl," I totally forgot?
Not "Keesha," that's a singer.
KIALA KAZABEE: And it's "Kesha," I was informed by
young people.
Young people yelled at me.
BONNIE BURTON: Kesha is her real name, Kenzi is her
character name on "Lost Girl." So I picked her, because she
kind of looks like--
FELICIA DAY: Oh, the young friend.
VERONICA BELMONT: Wait, Kesha has an acting--
BONNIE BURTON: No, no, no, forget I said Kesha.
Forget I said Kesha.
KIALA KAZABEE: We're not talking about that anymore.
BONNIE BURTON: It's Kiala, let's just say Kiala.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh yeah.
BONNIE BURTON: But I pictured Brimstone as Tim Curry from
"Legend."
VERONICA BELMONT: But he's a chimaera.
I just pictured him as a chimaera.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, but he had the horns and the hooves
[INAUDIBLE].
He looked like the devil in "Legend," no?
FELICIA DAY: OK, I'll give you that one.
What about you, Kiala, who?
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh well, for the two lovey things, I was--
oh crap.
Oh, OK, have you guys been watching "The Americans"?
BONNIE BURTON: Yes.
KIALA KAZABEE: OK, so that guy, the
guy who's the husband.
BONNIE BURTON: Yep, I could see that.
KIALA KAZABEE: And then, for the lady, I
thought Natalie Portman.
FELICIA DAY: Oh yeah.
BONNIE BURTON: Really?
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, well they said she had a dancer's body,
and that even though she was 5'6", she looked taller.
BONNIE BURTON: She's short.
VERONICA BELMONT: I was picking kind
of a Lisbeth Salander--
blue haired Lisbeth Salander.
KIALA KAZABEE: Well, but I could
picture Natalie Portman--
she could have blue hair.
BONNIE BURTON: By the way, Ksenia Solo was in "Black
Swan" as well.
KIALA KAZABEE: Really?
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, she's a ballet dancer by trade.
She was a dancer before she was an actress, so she was one
of the side dancers.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, interesting.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, when I stalk my actresses, I know
everything about them.
FELICIA DAY: It's good to be thorough.
VERONICA BELMONT: How can you guys not see Sam
Worthington as Akiva?
FELICIA DAY: How?
BONNIE BURTON: OK, I can see it.
FELICIA DAY: He's supposed to be so beautiful that people
stared at him.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, but nobody looks like that.
Just imagine a more hot Sam Worthington--
the same kind of brooding eyes, a shaved head.
BONNIE BURTON: I was thinking, it's got to be someone with
really stand-out features, like features that could cut
you kind of features.
FELICIA DAY: Young Jude Law--
so pretty.
KIALA KAZABEE: Jude Law in--
what's the Philip K *** movie with him and Ethan Hawke and
Uma Thurman, where he's in the wheelchair?
BONNIE BURTON: "Reality Bites"?
KIALA KAZABEE: No-- "Reality Bites," yes, that one.
No, where he's in the wheelchair?
FELICIA DAY: What?
BONNIE BURTON: "Gattaca," you're thinking "Gattaca."
KIALA KAZABEE: "Gattaca" Jude Law is beautiful.
VERONICA BELMONT: I almost said "Existenz."
BONNIE BURTON: Oh, I love that movie.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's not Jude Law, it's--
BONNIE BURTON: No, but I know who you're talking about.
FELICIA DAY: Oh my god, all right.
KIALA KAZABEE: Wait, is it weird for me to say
13-year-old Christian Bale in "Empire of the Sun"?
Is that weird?
BONNIE BURTON: No, that's hot, hot.
KIALA KAZABEE: Is that something?
BONNIE BURTON: It is a young adult novel.
KIALA KAZABEE: Should I not say that?
VERONICA BELMONT: Oh, it was Jude Law in "Existenz." Never
mind, I'm awesome.
BONNIE BURTON: Wait, let's check Twitter real quick.
I feel like we're not Including our readers.
Did anyone have casting suggestions on Twitter?
FELICIA DAY: We had Alex Pettyfer--
a lot of those.
Alex Pettyfer, and then there was a lot of
Jude Law on the forums.
BONNIE BURTON: There you go.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, see?
Oh, some Summer Glau-- a lot of people want Summer Glau.
VERONICA BELMONT: On YouTube as well.
BONNIE BURTON: I could see that.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, well, she's so pretty.
VERONICA BELMONT: Everyone wants to see Summer Glau in
everything.
KIALA KAZABEE: Well, and she's a dancer just like Felicia.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh wait, someone said in our group John
[INAUDIBLE].
Who the hell is that?
FELICIA DAY: No idea--
Ian Somerhalder from "Vampire Diaries." And then, there were
a lot of Nina Dobrev from "Vampire Diaries," too.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, and Ian "Somerner."
VERONICA BELMONT: That's what she just said.
She just said that--
BONNIE BURTON: Oh really?
How do you pronounce it?
VERONICA BELMONT: --that name that none of us can say.
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't like Ian Somerhalder.
I mean, I'm sure I'd like him as a person.
As an attractive human being, he's just too--
BONNIE BURTON: Is he too pretty?
FELICIA DAY: He's too pretty, but he's
supposed to be too pretty.
VERONICA BELMONT: I know who I would pick.
FELICIA DAY: What?
KIALA KAZABEE: But not pretty in that way that--
VERONICA BELMONT: (WHISPERING) Felicia,
guess who I would pick.
KIALA KAZABEE: I know who you'd pick.
BONNIE BURTON: I know who you'd pick.
FELICIA DAY: I know who you'd pick.
BONNIE BURTON: By the way, I'm one degree away from that guy
if you ever want to meet him.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, so am I.
BONNIE BURTON: So is Felicia.
KIALA KAZABEE: I'm not, but I would like to be.
FELICIA DAY: People are like, what are they talking about?
BONNIE BURTON: OK, next book, next book.
FELICIA DAY: Guys, we've got to move on, I'm sorry.
We read everything, we're just a little bit unfocused.
BONNIE BURTON: Next book.
FELICIA DAY: Listen--
OK, so we picked a young adult main.
And everybody said, if we're going to pick a young adult
main, we have to pick a racy alt.
And I looked at the list of suggestions you guys
nominated, and I picked "Pleasure
Unbound" by Larissa Ione.
Guys--
zing--
here's the description.
"She's a demon slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure--
but fears it will always be denied her.
Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in
disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon"--
"Eidolawn"?
"--makes her body burn with unslakable desire.
Two lovers will dare to risk all."
Guys, this was so nasty.
BONNIE BURTON: It was, it was awesome.
VERONICA BELMONT: It was pretty good.
BONNIE BURTON: I love this book.
KIALA KAZABEE: I didn't read it, and I'm really upset.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh, it was so good.
FELICIA DAY: Kiala.
VERONICA BELMONT: Oh, it was so short.
KIALA KAZABEE: I'm so sad, because I want to
read the sex book.
FELICIA DAY: I started reading it, and I was embarrassed that
I picked it.
VERONICA BELMONT: I was reading it on a five hour
airplane ride, and I was just like, mmm.
KIALA KAZABEE: I've got to go to the bathroom for a minute.
BONNIE BURTON: I have so many pages bookmarked.
Man, I love this book.
If I could laminate this book and read it in the
bath tub, I'd do it.
KIALA KAZABEE: Well, you probably should.
FELICIA DAY: OK, what do we think about the book?
OK, so listen.
There's some forum comments that I'm going to shout out.
Camille said, "We should praise Felicia for being true
to her word.
During the last Hangout, she promised us a nasty alt, and
we got the nastiest one anyone could think of."
BONNIE BURTON: We did, yay.
VERONICA BELMONT: Was it the nastiest book we've read?
FELICIA DAY: Oh yeah, it was.
BONNIE BURTON: [INAUDIBLE] erotica.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, it's actually erotica.
Bonnie Beau said, "Oh my god, I feel like a trashier person
just for reading this.
So was this a good book?
No, I wouldn't say that.
But I had fun reading it.
By the time they reached the zoo scenes, I couldn't stop
giggling, because I was trying to picture the expression on
the koalas' faces."
VERONICA BELMONT: I hate those koalas.
KIALA KAZABEE: You love them.
VERONICA BELMONT: They're always judging, koalas.
They're just judging you.
BONNIE BURTON: Koalas equal chlamydia.
That's all you need to remember.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's all you need to know.
FELICIA DAY: Chlamydia Day.
KIALA KAZABEE: Chlamydia Day.
FELICIA DAY: Just as a survey, a lot of people on our forums
were either shocked but they were into or they loved it, or
they were like, this is a terrible
book, and this is why.
And then, a lot of them were like, this is terrible, but
it's awesome.
And I read all four in the series.
BONNIE BURTON: Yep, yep, you know what this reminds me of?
This reminds me of people that preach and preach and preach
and preach about health food.
But secretly, they're at home eating a box of Ding Dongs.
FELICIA DAY: Oh, it's true.
BONNIE BURTON: Or Twinkies--
you know what I mean.
Was I being ***?
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't know.
FELICIA DAY: Wait, OK, so what did you think about the book
in general, Bonnie?
BONNIE BURTON: Loved it, but here's the thing.
This is not supposed to be great literature.
This is not supposed to be "Wuthering Heights." This is
not supposed to be some sort of book that's going to win an
award that doesn't have "***" in the title.
This is a book for what it is, which is a get your socks and
rocks off kind of book.
It's one of those books where you read, and you giggle and
blush and giggle, and then you reread stuff, and then you
look up stuff.
And then you post things on your Tumblr about it-- if you
can find my secret Tumblr.
And yeah, I like this book because it is what it is.
It's a fun read, it's horrible in a good way,
and it's just trash.
But these books-- this is what makes money.
People read these books.
We're not the only ones.
FELICIA DAY: I read all of them.
It's just, I didn't publicly--
it was weird.
Because I read this book quite a while ago.
And I remember being extremely shocked.
BONNIE BURTON: How did you find out about it?
FELICIA DAY: I'll just go down the rabbit hole.
I'll just go to Amazon, and it'll be like, people who
bought this buy these books.
Or on Goodreads, they'll be like, similar books.
That's how I used to find all my books.
Some of them I just get from our forum now.
But for that one, I was just kind of diving deeper and
deeper into this *** paranormal.
And I got to there, and I'm like, whoa,
I reached the bottom.
I've reached my comfort level.
KIALA KAZABEE: It's like with Ridiculous Fishing.
FELICIA DAY: It is like the Ridiculous Fishing of
literature.
KIALA KAZABEE: It is.
BONNIE BURTON: *** Fishing--
what should be a game?
Why isn't that a game?
I'd watch Ridiculous *** Fishing.
KIALA KAZABEE: I would play that.
BONNIE BURTON: The problem with these books, though--
because they aren't perfect, obviously.
The problem with these books is, they're really cliche.
Even the back cover description in all bold-- "Two
lovers will dare to risk it all." How many books have we
read use that same line in every description?
I just want to read a book just once where the two lovers
are super lazy, and they're not risking anything.
KIALA KAZABEE: No, they're just doing it.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, they're just doing it.
FELICIA DAY: I'm sure there's lots of books
out there like that.
KIALA KAZABEE: They're like, I could go out tonight, or we
could sit on the couch and do it.
I'm risking it all.
BONNIE BURTON: It could be like weird "Bevis and
Butthead" ***.
I don't know.
I don't know why I went there.
Actually, you know what I think this book should be?
I think they should give this out to people in hospitals.
KIALA KAZABEE: Why?
BONNIE BURTON: Because it takes place in a hospital.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's the only reason you have?
FELICIA DAY: That's odd.
BONNIE BURTON: And also, if you've ever spent a long time
in a hospital, you start wondering if the nurses might
not be human.
VERONICA BELMONT: They should also give it out to weird
people in demon killing cults, because it takes
place there, too.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, and I meet them a lot.
I have my regular weekly meeting with those guys.
VERONICA BELMONT: Or demons living in sewers--
they also get a copy.
KIALA KAZABEE: You mean Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?
FELICIA DAY: Oh, they pretty much are the Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles of the demon world.
VERONICA BELMONT: Oh yeah, I can't even talk about TMNT.
BONNIE BURTON: Have you ever been in a sewer?
Just a quick show of hands, has anyone actually been
inside of a sewer?
FELICIA DAY: No, you?
BONNIE BURTON: OK, sewers are not as big as
you think they are.
And I hate it when I see sewers on TV shows and movies.
They're not that tall.
You can't walk around like "Beauty and
the Beast" or something.
KIALA KAZABEE: I've been in the catacombs in--
BONNIE BURTON: A different country?
KIALA KAZABEE: Rome--
I've been in those.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, they have big sewers.
The United States does not have a big sewer.
FELICIA DAY: London.
VERONICA BELMONT: London.
KIALA KAZABEE: No, it was in Rome.
FELICIA DAY: London.
VERONICA BELMONT: I'm petting a dog.
KIALA KAZABEE: Or was it in Turkey?
I don't know.
I was drunk.
BONNIE BURTON: What were you doing in a sewer?
VERONICA BELMONT: That's the thing about catacombs.
You never know where they're going to show up.
FELICIA DAY: Veronica, what did you think of it?
VERONICA BELMONT: I liked it.
It was a little bit cheesy, a little bit fun.
But it was an enjoyable and fast read.
It definitely fulfilled the sexy attributes that we were
looking for in an alternate pick.
Yeah, it was a little bit predictable, but it was fun.
The characters were ridiculous.
But it is what it is.
FELICIA DAY: Have any of you read the "Black Dagger
Brotherhood" series?
BONNIE BURTON: No, what's that?
FELICIA DAY: It's a vampire series that has guys named--
their name is Wrath and "Rage," but it's R-H-A-J-E.
That's literally the name.
VERONICA BELMONT: Oh, so when you were
thinking about "Raith"--
FELICIA DAY: Yes, exactly, so some of the--
KIALA KAZABEE: Are those good?
Because I'll read them.
FELICIA DAY: You know, a lot of people love them.
When we come back around to wanting a vampire series, I
think I'll put them on the list.
I didn't love them.
But at the same time, it's been so long that--
I actually read four of them.
So obviously, I liked them enough to keep
going to four at least.
But it's interesting, because it's the dark broody tormented
guys who are the group of guys.
Because as the series goes along, basically his brothers
Wrath and-- what was the other brother's name?
I can't remember--
Shade?
VERONICA BELMONT: "Raith" and Shade.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, so they basically hook up with ladies.
And it's like the trope of this--
VERONICA BELMONT: I kind of saw that
coming, the series coming--
yeah, the future.
It kind of reminded me of that "Highland" book that we read
with all the brothers.
FELICIA DAY: It's like, we're going to marry you guys off
one by one.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, and these will all be new books.
These will be the next books in the series.
I like the way that they made new demons.
Sometimes demons had sex with vampires, and then they made
half-vampire demon people.
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah, it was almost like
Benetton of the sex world.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, and then all the mothers try to
eat or kill them.
KIALA KAZABEE: Can--
oh, go ahead, Felicia.
FELICIA DAY: No, go ahead, Kiala.
KIALA KAZABEE: Can I explain why I didn't read the alt?
FELICIA DAY: OK.
KIALA KAZABEE: It is because I have been--
BONNIE BURTON: Let's all look at Kiala in judgement.
KIALA KAZABEE: It is because I have been so obsessed with
waiting for BioShock Infinite to come out that I cannot
concentrate on anything else, and it came today.
BONNIE BURTON: He's pretty hot.
KIALA KAZABEE: It came today, and I hugged the UPS guy when
he dropped it off at work.
BONNIE BURTON: To be fair, UPS guys are
generally pretty hot, right?
VERONICA BELMONT: I love my UPS guy.
KIALA KAZABEE: I don't even know what he looked like.
I didn't even care.
I was so excited.
And then, the other thing that happened is, on Valentine's
Day, Ken Levine--
you know, the BioShock guy?
He followed me on Valentine's Day.
FELICIA DAY: In person?
KIALA KAZABEE: He followed me on Twitter.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yes, he physically followed her.
BONNIE BURTON: Oh, I thought maybe he followed you home.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, he followed me home,
and it's not weird.
BONNIE BURTON: What's the pay-off?
KIALA KAZABEE: No, he followed me on Twitter.
And then, the one time he chooses to retweet me was when
I this weekend said that I was no longer going to hold my
stomach in for society.
He retweeted that.
I don't know, but I love him.
That's all I'm saying.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's awesome.
FELICIA DAY: That is a huge compliment.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, so my whole point is that I've been
waiting for three years for this to come out.
And I have been so obsessed.
And this month, I couldn't concentrate on anything else.
And I can't wait.
But I love "Vaginal Fantasy" so much that I'm doing this
instead, and I still haven't played it yet.
VERONICA BELMONT: I'm only here because my download is
still happening.
FELICIA DAY: I don't have it yet, but I just
finished Lara Croft.
By the way guys, that game is so fun.
It's so fun.
KIALA KAZABEE: It's fun, I just haven't been
able to get into it.
Because I feel like I've just been saving it up for BioShock
that I can't get into it.
But I did start it, and I really liked it.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, I was surprised about it.
Because I never played the ones before.
KIALA KAZABEE: Me neither.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, and I always
though, hey, that's stupid.
But it's actually really well written and fun.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, and she wears pants.
FELICIA DAY: Yeah, she has pants.
Her [INAUDIBLE].
VERONICA BELMONT: Pants are good.
Pants are important.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, it's a really fun game--
anyway, sorry.
FELICIA DAY: Next month, we're all going to say we were
playing BioShock.
And then, we didn't read all the books.
But that's OK.
BONNIE BURTON: Well if anyone cares, I'm kicking Grant
Imahara's *** on Words With Friends, so that's my game.
VERONICA BELMONT: Nice.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yay.
VERONICA BELMONT: Awesome.
BONNIE BURTON: Take that, Grant.
FELICIA DAY: So our next books--
OK, so we're going to shift gears next month.
And we're going to do some sci-fi.
Last time we did sci-fi, I picked a not great book that
everybody hated.
Hopefully, everyone will like this time.
Our main book will be called "Ghost Planet"
by Sharon Lynn Fisher.
And our alt is called "Song of Scarabaeus." I don't know if
I'm pronouncing it right, but it's "Song of Scarabaeus," and
it's by Sara Creasy.
So they're both sci-fi romance.
And I've read them both, and I like them a lot.
And I hope you guys will, too.
And go to our Goodreads forum and join the forums to discuss
the books throughout the month, and
discuss anything else.
Ladies, do you have anything you want to share with the
audience that you're doing this month that you'd like
them to attend or tune in?
VERONICA BELMONT: I have a PSA.
So Kiala and I the other day were talking
about bras on Twitter.
KIALA KAZABEE: Because it's appropriate to
talk about them there.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yes, and I recommended this website that
I use for bras.
This is kind of an advertisement, I guess.
It's called True&Co.
And they saw us tweeting about the company.
And so they decided to put together a contest that's
going to start tomorrow.
So you could win $250 worth of bras,
which is kind of awesome.
So pay attention to my Twitter stream.
BONNIE BURTON: Wait, is that a lot of bras?
Because a lot of bras-- that would just be two.
VERONICA BELMONT: I think most of their bras go
between $40 and $60.
KIALA KAZABEE: So that's a lot of bras.
VERONICA BELMONT: That's a good amount of bras.
But you can also use it on PJs and other things like that.
They've got a lot of stuff on the website.
So I'm going to be tweeting out some contest information
tomorrow on my Twitter stream @Veronica.
So pay attention to that if you want to win some bras.
Because you guys are girls, and you probably wear them.
KIALA KAZABEE: Also, they're real pretty.
FELICIA DAY: If you're guys, you can compete
for the bras, too.
It's an equal opportunity bra contest.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yes, whoever wants a bra.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yes, that is actually true.
You could actually win bras.
I talked to them today, and they're like, yeah, if guys
want to wear bras, that's cool.
If they want to win bras for their ladies, that's cool.
Whoever wants to win bras can enter.
You can use them for whatever.
If you want to wear them as hats, you could do that.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh, you know, if you put a bra on your head,
and you go like this, and then you put a scarf around your
neck, you look like a fighter pilot from World War II.
VERONICA BELMONT: There you go.
BONNIE BURTON: That's what they wore.
VERONICA BELMONT: Very debonair.
BONNIE BURTON: That's exactly what they wore.
VERONICA BELMONT: Very debonair.
KIALA KAZABEE: Also, their bras are super pretty.
VERONICA BELMONT: Yeah, they're really nice, I know.
I feel like I've got to step it up.
FELICIA DAY: I don't like stepping it up.
I need to go do my laundry, because I'm down to
the lacies that itch.
It's terrible.
KIALA KAZABEE: Oh yeah, I know.
BONNIE BURTON: By the way, that is one of my favorite "IT
Crowd" episodes--
when Moss builds the perfect bra.
FELICIA DAY: He does.
It's really funny.
BONNIE BURTON: It's a really good episode.
And it's true.
When you get a bra that you've had forever, and it suddenly
just basically betrays you, and you have [INAUDIBLE], it's
hard to really concentrate.
You're just getting poked with wires.
FELICIA DAY: And you're gaping open.
You could shove another person in that one, because it's
all-- pfft.
BONNIE BURTON: It's just horrible.
I hate it.
Honestly, this might be too much information, but as soon
as I used to get home from work, the first thing that
came off was the bra.
VERONICA BELMONT: There it goes, shoes and bra.
Shoes and bra.
BONNIE BURTON: Bra gone, gone.
VERONICA BELMONT: Done--
glass of wine, good to go.
KIALA KAZABEE: I have two things.
One, the "Womanthology"--
the little short comic that I did--
the whole "Space" anthology.
BONNIE BURTON: I'm in it, too.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, and you're in that one, the
"Space" one?
BONNIE BURTON: Yeah.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, so that one's
coming out as a hardcover.
So buy it.
BONNIE BURTON: It all goes to charity, so it's a cool
charity project.
So when you buy "Womanthology--
Space," it's like "Womanthology--
Heroic," where all the stuff goes to charity.
And it's a really good series.
And Kiala's in it, and I'm in it, so you should just buy it.
KIALA KAZABEE: You should just get it.
I'm going to buy it.
And then, the other thing is, I don't know if you guys ever
listen to "The Mental Illness Happy Hour."
BONNIE BURTON: Isn't that what this is?
KIALA KAZABEE: No, it's a podcast.
And just a ton of comedians have been on it--
Chris Hardwick, Mike Ferman, Maria Bamford, Rob Delaney--
everybody, a bunch of people.
I'm going to be taping a podcast.
I don't know if it'll actually ever air.
We never know.
It's with Paul Gilmartin.
He's the host.
But he's coming up here for Bridgetown Comedy Festival,
and so I'm going to do a taping with him and talk about
all my crazy.
And I will let you know if it actually ever airs.
But that's what's happening.
FELICIA DAY: That's awesome, congratulations.
KIALA KAZABEE: Yeah, thanks.
BONNIE BURTON: I'm on a podcast called "Rebel Force
Radio," which is all "Star Wars" fan-based stuff.
So they had me on I think last week, so you can still find it
on "Rebel Force Radio." And then, I've got a bunch of
things I can't talk about that I'm doing, but I'm also
jobless now, so if you guys want to hire me.
FELICIA DAY: Bonnie's looking for a job.
BONNIE BURTON: I'm looking for work.
I'm pretty flexible.
[INAUDIBLE].
I don't know what you're supposed to say.
Just go to my LinkedIn.
You'll see what I'm good at.
KIALA KAZABEE: You're really good at social media.
BONNIE BURTON: Huh?
KIALA KAZABEE: You're really going at social media.
BONNIE BURTON: I am, yeah.
So that's my thing is, I do social media and writing and
that sort of thing.
I'm working on two different book projects.
But if you really want to see me do something valuable, you
should follow me on Twitter @bonniegrrl.
And watch me do "***, She Wrote" Drinking Game.
It usually starts at 8 o'clock at night and ends at 2:00 in
the morning.
And I'm going through every episode of "***, She Wrote"
on Netflix Streaming.
And I turned it into a drinking game.
I'll repost the rules.
It's basically, you're going to get drunk.
So if you don't want to get drunk, just drink water, and
you'll be really healthy.
But I feel like that's just sad.
You guys are all super successful, and I'm all like,
I've got a drinking game on Twitter of the show that your
grandma watches.
KIALA KAZABEE: Are you kidding?
Bonnie, I've been unemployed for a year and a half, or
maybe seven.
I don't know.
BONNIE BURTON: No, no, I'm not feeling sad for you, because
you are madly in love, and you have like a "Mad Men" job that
you rock at.
FELICIA DAY: Everything is up and down.
It's all going to be good for you, Bonnie.
BONNIE BURTON: Ok, let's be honest here.
Who can't possibly date to save her
life, raise your hand--
yeah.
FELICIA DAY: Somebody needs to date Bonnie and get her a job.
KIALA KAZABEE: I'm not great at relationships.
I'm not amazing, OK?
BONNIE BURTON: Who has more dead
friends than alive friends?
VERONICA BELMONT: I don't know what that means.
That's horrible.
KIALA KAZABEE: It just means that I feel sad now.
VERONICA BELMONT: I'm going to eat my microphone in sadness.
KIALA KAZABEE: Slow down, Bonnie.
BONNIE BURTON: Who has to put googly eyes on their *** so
they're not drinking alone?
FELICIA DAY: Oh god, Bonnie.
KIALA KAZABEE: Bonnie, we love you-- group hug.
FELICIA DAY: We love you, Bonnie.
BONNIE BURTON: I'm such a Debbie Downer, sorry.
FELICIA DAY: No, it's totally cool.
No, I feel sorry for you.
BONNIE BURTON: I have all my own teeth.
FELICIA DAY: In a couple months, you're going to have
so much to brag about, it's fine.
OK, guys, thank you so much.
We hit a half a million subscribers here on "Geek &
Sundry," so yay for that.
BONNIE BURTON: Yay, cheers to that, yay.
FELICIA DAY: And this Saturday is TableTop Day, so go to
tabletopday.com and find a place to play a game and share
what you're doing.
Because we want to make this an international holiday and
it's going to be awesome.
So thanks for watching.
BONNIE BURTON: I do want to say that some of our "Vaginal
Fantasy" fans have suggested making a "Vaginal Fantasy"
board game.
FELICIA DAY: I love that idea.
KIALA KAZABEE: I love that idea, too.
BONNIE BURTON: So I just wanted to encourage our
listeners, viewers, and Twitterers, and Goodreaders to
do something like that.
Because I would play that game.
FELICIA DAY: We should figure it out ourselves later this
year, after we launch this channel and I don't want to
kill myself all the time.
BONNIE BURTON: I've got nothing but time.
I'll make it.
I'll craft something up.
FELICIA DAY: OK, good.
KIALA KAZABEE: Make it happen.
FELICIA DAY: All right guys, you're the best.
See you next month.
Bye.
VERONICA BELMONT: Bye.
BONNIE BURTON: Bye.
KIALA KAZABEE: Bye.