Don't Talk To Me Unless It's About This

Caitlin Hudson
Don't Talk To Me Unless It's About This

This podcast is part book club, part musical analysis, part creator conversations, and all parts obsession. In season 2, we are re-reading our first loves: the first books we remember really loving! We have 3 main episode formats: 1. Book Club: Read-along conversations on our favorite books: we talk at the half way point and again at the end of the book. As co-hosts we alternate suggesting books we love or want to read. We mostly read novels, and we talk about the characters as if they are real people, because aren’t they? 2. Creator More-Than-Interviews: We got sick of listening to regular interviews, but still wanted to get to know the creators we love (authors, artists, musicians, comedians …) so what did we do!? We combined the book club format with the interview format. We invite amazing creators onto the show and together we read a book that is meaningful to them, and discuss both the book and their life and work. 3. Musical Deep Dives: Imagine the depth of a book club conversation, applied to music! We talk about musicians we love, exploring the meaning of their lyrics, the themes in their albums, the impact of their songs on our lives, and all the fun facts about the artist and their work. We take listener suggestions for episodes, feature listener audio messages on the show, and even bring on listeners as co-hosts! Find out how to be part of the show and our community at DontTalkToMePod.com

  1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Part 1 (+ Alone: A Love Story, the podcast!)

    07/02/2023

    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, Part 1 (+ Alone: A Love Story, the podcast!)

    Caitlin and Marie read and discuss the first half of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, AND discuss their shared love for the podcast Alone: A Love Story. We first talk about ELAIC, which we read up to page 186 in the paperback, to right before the chapter, "Happiness, Happiness." We talk about Marie's first impressions, and Caitlin's experience rereading this favorite of her's. We discuss the different narrators, grandma and grandpa's relationships, Oskar's search for clues from his dad, what it would be like if our skin color really changed to show our emotions, and our favorite quotes and scenes. At the end of the episode, we talk about the podcast Alone: A Love Story, by Michelle Paresi for CBC. This show gave us so much to think about and feel and we hope it will continue! And as always, we finish the show with talking about some of our most recent obsessions, linked below. Episode music by Ollella: Go listen to her new album, Back Back Back! How to support the show: Leave a review wherever you listen! Subscribe to the show on your podcast app of choice Sign up for our newsletter - we only send one out a few times a year Make a small monthly contributon on Patreon Mentioned on the show: Music: Ollella's album Back Back Back (You can hear her songs Head In The Clouds in the intro and Test of Time in the outro!) Maude Latour's EP Twin Flame Books: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr The Dutch House audiobook Podcasts: Andrea Gibson's interview on We Can Do Hard ThingsDead EyesNormal GossipDreamtown: The Story of AdelantoClassy People Who Knew...

    1h 27m
  2. Season 2: First Loves!

    02/06/2023

    Season 2: First Loves!

    Welcome to Season 2! This season, we are re-visiting our first loves! We'll be re-reading the first books we remember really loving, going all the way back to our elementary school days with books like Bridge to Terabithia and A Wrinkle in Time, and on into our teenage years and beyond. A biiig favorite of mine that I’m looking forward to reading is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer, and we will be reading old faves of Marie and Darla too. At the end of Season 1, we had announced Season 2 would be all about Portland and Portland creators, and this is still somthing we plan to do and really look forward to, but we are saving that for a future season. We just got too excited about rereading our first loves, so we had to do that first! The best way to stay up to date on the show is to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts and to sign up for our newsletter. For my own sanity and enjoyment of life, we are going to experiment with being entirely off, or at least mostly off, of social media this season. So don't rely on Instagram for updates - please subscribe or sign up for our newsletter! We do this because we love it and also, it costs money to make a podcast, so if you'd like to support us you can do one of 2 things: leave a review wherever it is you listen, or sign up to make a small monthly donation on our Patreon page. Thank you for being here and we hope you enjoy Season 2! Music by lesfm via pixabay Podcast website

    2 min
  3. Season 1 Wrap Up

    12/02/2022

    Season 1 Wrap Up

    We have finished season 1 of the show, and oh how much fun we’ve had! Thank you to all of you who are listening! Our most popular episodes about books were Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Part 1 and Part 2 Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney: Part 1 and Part 2 The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin: Part 1 and Part 2 Our most popular episdoes about music were Taylor Swift's Best Album: reputation vs folklore My interview with Chelsea Jade Kishi Bashi: Why We Love His Music We had so much fun recording all 27 episodes of this season and want to give a big thank you to all the creators who joined us: Chelsea Jade, Ollella, Julia Phillips, Lucy Tan, Caitlin Linden, and Carinn and Kate of Pop Fiction Women! Thank you also to our incredible co-hosts Marie and Darla, and our guest hosts Bianca, Luke, Sophie, Shawna, Kai, and Jess, and to all the listeners who shared audio messages for the show! We're taking a break before we share Season 2 next year, and to give you a preview of what's to come, Season 2 is going to be focused on Portland! Portland, Oregon, where I live, so we'll be talking with artists of all kinds from Portland and reading books by Portland authors! If you have any favorite books by a Portland author, please share and maybe we'll get to read it in Season 2. See you then! Intro/outro music by lesfm. Learn more and support the show: **Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! These mean more than you may know for supporting the show!** Follow us on IG Sign up for our free newsletter Join our Patreon community

    2 min
  4. Reading The Family Chao with author Lucy Tan (Part 2)

    10/21/2022

    Reading The Family Chao with author Lucy Tan (Part 2)

    Caitlin is back to talk with one of her favorite authors, Lucy Tan, for part 2 of last week's conversation. Lucy is the author of What We Were Promised, a story about a wealthy Chinese family, before and after they were wealthy, and the life of their housekeeper, all set in Shanghai. We talk about the people and lessons Lucy wrote about in her Acknowledgements, and what she's like as a reader. Then we discuss Part Two of The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang. Lucy chose this book for us to read together because she's been a longtime admirer of Chang's writing. The Family Chao is about a Chinese American family of three boys, their family restaurant, and the aftermath of their father's suspected murder. We talk about the big plot twist in this mystery, favorite passages, who decides what is authentic, and why it's so hard to move on. We finish with a song from the pod's fave musician, Kishi Bashi (listen to our episode all about Kishi here!). The Ballad of Mr. Steak felt like a fitting homage to Leo Chao. Books/authors mentioned in the show: The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Chloe Benjamin Intro/outro music by lesfm. Learn more and support the show: **Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! These mean more than you may know for supporting the show!** Sign up for our free newsletter Join our Patreon community Follow us on IG Show website

    1h 4m

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This podcast is part book club, part musical analysis, part creator conversations, and all parts obsession. In season 2, we are re-reading our first loves: the first books we remember really loving! We have 3 main episode formats: 1. Book Club: Read-along conversations on our favorite books: we talk at the half way point and again at the end of the book. As co-hosts we alternate suggesting books we love or want to read. We mostly read novels, and we talk about the characters as if they are real people, because aren’t they? 2. Creator More-Than-Interviews: We got sick of listening to regular interviews, but still wanted to get to know the creators we love (authors, artists, musicians, comedians …) so what did we do!? We combined the book club format with the interview format. We invite amazing creators onto the show and together we read a book that is meaningful to them, and discuss both the book and their life and work. 3. Musical Deep Dives: Imagine the depth of a book club conversation, applied to music! We talk about musicians we love, exploring the meaning of their lyrics, the themes in their albums, the impact of their songs on our lives, and all the fun facts about the artist and their work. We take listener suggestions for episodes, feature listener audio messages on the show, and even bring on listeners as co-hosts! Find out how to be part of the show and our community at DontTalkToMePod.com

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