Ep 73 Answering YOUR UNHINGED Would You Rather & Bookish Smash or Pass Questions! (Reddit + Fan Submissions!)

What time is it? Unhinged would you rather time!! Get to know Liz and Ashley, your wonderfully open-bookish podcast hosts through a series of would you rathers, generally off the rails asks, and smash or passes that don’t hold back. Oh! And this episode is entirely spoiler free! 

We gathered a collection of would you rather submissions from you, our lovely listeners, so buckle up to hear all the inappropriate answers that you indeed asked for! We also prepare and blind-answer a series of rapid fire book related (and some random AF) would you rathers, then we even dive down into the dregs of the internet to come up with some even more inappropriate asks from Reddit and Threads.

Would we rather have a step dad or a step brother book boyfriend? Have Cheeto fingers or mayonnaise mouth? Be Bella or Anastasia? Fight Erewan or Maeve? Marry Dain or Tamlin? If you need to know where we stand on these extremely important topics, make sure to stick around for plenty of laughs. 

We also kick it off with a fave and fail podcasting together edition, and a smash or pass with an unlikely heart throb and a buff sea creature. 

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Besties and the Books!
• 3:39 Favs and Fails of the Week
• 12:00 Would You Rather - Community Submitted
• 22:29 Unhinged Would You Rather - From Us!
• 48:09 Answering Reddit Would You Rathers?
• 54:50 Unhinged Smash or Pass?

Transcript

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Would you rather? One of three action. You've seen that high on the tower, right? It's like the opposite of like the brave heart. They can take my freedom. It's a lot of cream. Even non cream. Cream. Non-dairy cream. Stop saying cream. No duh that there's aliens in space. Hey everyone, I'm Ashley. And I'm Liz. And this is the besties and the books. would you rather podcast episode slightly unhinged more or less. Some of them are unhinged. Yeah. Some of them are regular. It's kind of to get to know us. Yeah. And what we would do under pressure do under pressure in ridiculous situations that don't matter. Are you a foe or a fawn or a freeze? I think there's five pillars of panic. I don't know. Wait, what? What's a foe? A foe. A fawn. A fawn is like play Katie. Fe. Are you a f a fi? A f or a fumb? I'll tell you what I am. I'm a fumb all the way. So nothing. What's the f with you? Okay. Uh freeze. Uh freeze fawn run. I don't know. What are they? Let's move on. Hey guys. Now I'm curious. Now I'm curious. We should know these. Hey Siri, what are the five pillars of panic? Pillars of panic? What am I even talking about? It works. No. Mindset, gut, health, nutrition, and movement. That's not it. Okay. All right. Well, now I'm curious, but I guess we'll have to look it up later. Fear. Flight. Flight or fight? Duh. That's like the most common one. Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. So, fawn is keep the bear happy when there's no other option. Do whatever it takes to avoid diffuse danger. Okay. Freeze, play dead, or literally do nothing. Um, fight, you fight the bear. Self-explanatory. Flight, you run away from the bear. So, so which one am I? Sure. I mean, it depends on the situation. Exactly. And you don't know it because it's a natural response your body does. Yeah. I feel like most of the time my initial response would be to flee. I think my response would be to freeze. I'd be like, assess. I might freeze for like half a second and then I'm out. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Anyway, not that you guys needed to know that, but here we are. Uh, today we're going to be answering a lot of your guys's submissions for Would We Rather. Um, and then we also have some from just ourselves to each other. We haven't shared ahead of time, so they will be an on the spot answer. We also have some from the good old internet. Yep. So, from Reddit, threads, etc. Um, so if that sounds good to you, just a spoiler-free good time. Stick around. But before we get into that, we just want to say thank you so much for being here. Yeah, thank you so much for being here, taking time out of your day and your book to just listen on and us goofballs as we clearly have shown you. Not serious whatsoever. Um, so yeah, not necessarily a book video today, but we do have some book related videos. I have a lot actually. So I'll uh, you know, you guys can still get some of that and some silly things too. So spoilerfree. And make sure to like, follow, and subscribe anywhere you like to listen to your favorite podcast, including YouTube. We're hanging out there. And then you can also find us on Instagram and Tik Tok. Instagram is where we put these question box and these polls up and we'll do them again. So in case these spark any ideas, any would you rathers, you can submit them over on Instagram. We're at besties in the books podcast everywhere. So come check us out. Come check us out. Give us more to answer next time. Give me give me more. Give me more. Okay. So all right, let's just kick this off with a fave and fail of the week. Okay. This is just a regular of the week because we haven't done one of those in a minute. Yeah. Um, so for any of you guys who don't know, Ashley and I are filming together. Yeah, she's up here visiting me this time. We're in my book room hanging out. And so for the week, I mean, really, my fave so far has been watching the Ann of Green Gables movies together. Yeah. With your daughters who are watching it for the first time. It's just a time. It's so cute. It's very cute. I mean, I grew up loving, you know, these books and movies and I mean, I've seen the movies a million times and so just to have the excitement. Yeah. Everyone's pumped. Everyone's into it. It's very cool. Yeah. We got to learn what Gables are and and Gilberts and Gimlets. All the G's are truly though. Okay. You guys will have to let us know. We'll post something on our story. Yeah. What do you think? Okay. Like if someone were to say in a derogatory way, you look like a gimlet. Yeah. What does that mean? What is a gimlet? Yeah. Mhm. We had a lot of weird guesses and none of which were correct. Yep. None. Not even one. So that's my favorite so far of this week for sure. Um my fail. I didn't really have a fail. It's hard to have a fail when I'm off work. Yeah. I'm hanging out with my best friend 247. Yeah. And we're just like working on stuff like this that we want to do cuz we it's fun and like it interrupted only by like eating food and doing stuff. How about a fail is that everybody knows about the hot tubs and so you had to call two days in a row to get an appointment. Yeah. I mean you guys know if you're here local that Cafe Mocha, the Finnish hot tub and spa in Arcada, shout out to them. um are very popular and so that's something that we like to do and Ashley and Jeff are in town and I called repeatedly yesterday right when they open because you cannot make a reservation ahead of time. You have to do it that day. Okay. Um I called for 27 minutes straight. Yeah. Finally got through and they didn't have any time that was left that worked for us. So we did take two this morning. I want to say this time I only called them maybe 18 or 19 times. Did get through. Yeah. And we were able to get an appointment earlier today, so that was fun. So we're nice and relaxed. So was it a fail? Not really. No. No. Um I did We're grasping at straws here. We are grasping at straws. The one thing I put is uh you know, I technically quit drinking caffeine like four years ago. Good luck. Um so what I'm It's a treat yourself situation. Treat yourself. Treat yourself all the time. Yeah. When I'm on vacation, I just let myself have what I want. And so subsequently I'm like, "Oh no, please do not get yourself readicted to caffeine because it's been like a protein coffee in the morning, sometimes a Starbucks, and probably a diet soda of some kind in a day." And so, is it

keeping me awake until 1 or 2: 6:38

00 in the morning when Ashley and I finally go to sleep? Yes, it is. So, that's good. But I am a little bit concerned about how things are going to go for me next week. Yeah. Yeah. It's going to be a colossal crash. But hey, that's where we're at. What about you? Sometimes you got to just enjoy the ride, baby, and deal with it when you land. That's true. It's true. Yeah. So, what about you? Yeah. My favorite is just being here. Having a great time. It's all good. Chill. We do what we want. I'm finally sleeping because like we were camping before this and there's like no sleep till Brooklyn over there. Not good. and uh you know prepping for leaving for two weeks, you know. So, it's been a lot of work. So, I felt like I finally when we do get it's like I was told like we we

stay up till 2: 7:26

00. Oops. Oh well. Um but at least when I fall asleep I stay asleep until morning here. Whereas everywhere else I've been like up every two hours, you know, is it a bear in our campsite? Like is that the wind? Did I remember to pack this thing? Yeah. So yeah, my fail would just be that it doesn't matter how long I prep for a trip, it's still down to the wire almost every time. But it was good that we went to my parents the day before day before. So I had to be done and I was less tired going into the trip. Yeah, we have another one coming up. So I'm going to do that again because Good idea. Most of the time, especially I don't pack for my husband, but I pack for the kids and the dog and that's a lot in myself. Most of the time I'm packing until like 2 or 3 in the morning and then we have to like leave for the airport at 5 or something crazy and then I'm just like groggy and it's it's off to a bad start. So pro tip, give yourself a day buffer at least. Like tell yourself you have to leave the day before, the morning before, you know, something like that so that you can be done. So um it was still good and I'm here and it's great and everything's a fave. Yeah. So so far so good. Can't go wrong. There you go. Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, the fail would be there's never enough time. There's never enough time. We want to do all the things, but we're getting a lot done. I was going to say like we're actually so, you know, Ashley and I are pretty organized. Our whole entire brains literally consist of like a good hundred Google Docs at this point. Um, we made one that was just a schedule for this week that consisted of literally like what we wanted to film, but then also like what we're cooking for dinner, what props we might need for episodes, like etc. That way it's like everything's all in one place. What leisure activities we wanted to do that day cuz otherwise like our brain it's hard to keep everything on track. It's hard to keep it all on track and I just at the end of the day of like getting the things we want to get done like slash need, you know, is like the last thing we want to think about is like deciding what we're doing for dinner. Yeah. So if we did pre-id it, it's just like we don't have to think about it. We're still excited for it. We're still going to have it. And then it's not like, oh, we had tacos yesterday. Let's not do Mexican again. It's that conversation that we can totally decision fatigue was avoided. Yeah. Exactly. And that is what the key is. Yeah. Um and so we are actually Yeah. Recommend. Highly recommend. You don't have to be like, you know, because we've changed plan. The hot tubs was supposed to be yesterday. So instead, we just chilled, you know, at home and moved around. Didn't rush to what we needed to do. And then we today we did it in the morning instead of filming in the morning, you So, he's filming in the afternoon. It's great. So, the key is flexibility, but having a plan. Having a plan and like, yeah, this is what we're doing for a meal, and this is a time frame that we need blocked out, you know, or whatever. This I just want to make sure I get these reasonable things done. And then we have bonus stuff that if we can get to or we can do, great. If not, okay, great. Well, we're actually like sticking very very on schedule. Yeah. Which I'm proud of us. In a nonstressful way. No, that's I feel like people assume lots of times that if you like plan things that it like makes it more stressful, but trust me as some it's like I, you know, own and run my own business. Ashley is always managing an entire household and everything that goes into that. It's like actually the more you can loosely plan ahead of time, the more you can take away the consistent decision- making. Yeah. And that actually makes your life a lot less stressful. Yeah. Especially if there's a lot of like cooks in the kitchen. Like you're on vacation and you have different people that you're lots of moving parts. Moving parts. And Yeah. And we're somebody that this is exactly it. Life is about balance. Vacation's about balance. It's good to have a little bit of wants want to do, you know, a loose schedule that you could be flexible with, but it's good to have there or else you're just dust in the wind. Dust in the wind. Yeah. All we are is so All we are is just dust in the wind. There you go. Dust in the wind. No, really. So, hey, and we do that on vacation, too. We'll have places. It's like, okay, I want to make sure, you know, we're going to Hawaii. We want to go to these four places. Like, let's just make sure we do that. And we already kind of have a pre- idea in our head, you know, and we're type of people that we don't overchedule each day. You know, I'll do one outing a day and I want to chill for the rest because I prioritize the chill time idea. Yeah. So, okay. Should we just get into the would you rathers that our listeners sent in? Yes, let's do it. All right. So, let's start off with those ones first. Okay. Okay. So, uh the first user submitted. Um first part is Sam Wise or Pippen. H. Is this like a smash or pass situation? I'm assuming so. Mary F. Mary, I am assuming it's a smash or pass like like which one are you picking if you have the option? The older I get, the more I just say, you know, let's just go with Sam Wise. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, he's reliable. He's a ride or die. I mean, really, truly. Yeah. Mhm. I mean, he's a little annoying, but he'll be with you until the end, but he'll be with you for better. Yeah. Yeah. Like it or not. Cuz it's like if it's a marriage situation, it' be super helpful, you know? Yeah. So, um, yeah. So, between Sam Wise and Pippen, we both picked Sam Wise. Okay. What about between Gimley or Sauron? Gimy is the dwarf guy. Yeah. Okay. Sauron. Sauron. Sorry, Gimly. You seem nice, but necessary to think it out. No, you guys have seen the rings of power, right? You've seen that Eye on the Tower, right? Which I'm That's all we needed. We don't even need the the hot version. Yeah, just Eye on the Tower. It's the vibes, man. The vibes. Yeah. H I mean I'm sad to say that I went to a cheesecake factory recently and there were no Eye of Siren anymore. That's weird. They take them all away or is it just like the new ones that they're remodeling or something? Go to all of them. So I didn't go to every Cheesecake Factory to see. That's all I can report. You guys let us know your local Cheesecake Factory. Interesting. Interesting. It's my favorite part. All right. What's the next one? Okay. You might need to look up these because I'm terrible with actor names. Okay. Dylan McDermott or Dermit Maloney. Okay, that's part one. It says, "Because too many people think that they're twins." So, which one? I guess I know who Dylan McDermott is because I know him from Anatomy. Uh, no. Oh, great. Uh, he I know him from um American Horror Story season one. Oh, yeah. Okay. And he's also X Files. He was in the X Files. No, he's a guy that looks like he's in the XFiles. Okay. Well, that's Dylan McDermott. Okay. So, you know, you guys probably know who he is. I feel like most of you guys probably watch um American Horror Story. Okay. The Who's the other guy? Dermit Mcderone. There's Dylan McDermott and Dermit Milone. Somebody sent this in just so I know, right? Oh, he's fancy man. He's fancy man. What do you mean fancy man? Fancy man's a new girl. That's hard. That is hard. Oh, you got us, guys. That's a terrible picture of him, though. Got to say, it is. But you guys know he's Fancy Man. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Feel as though I would always choose Fancy Man. Man, same. Cuz there's something while I like the other guy, there's something off about him. Um him, he's great all around. He's great all around. He's like a perfect example of like do you like age gap romance? There you go. He gives that energy. Yeah. You know, just he has that like uh lip too all the time where it's like Yeah. It's like a little bit of a snarl. Yeah. But like in a good way. In a good way. Um you know, I always just think of like when he gives Nick his sweater. Yeah. And and the iPhone or whatever. Yep. You know, there's just he had a sexy office. Yeah, he did. Oh, there you go. It's a good sweater. There you go. Um, yeah. So, we're going with Dermit Molrron. Yeah. For anyone who was curious, if you said, "Hey, what's his name?" That would never He's only fancy man forever. Or like the guy from all the things that we'll name. But like give him a name. It wouldn't be Dermit Malone. Dermit. What an interesting name. Dermit is. Is that his god-given name? God-given name. Nobody will forget his name is Dermit now. I will forget. So, okay. I'll forget by tomorrow. If you were to quiz me tomorrow, I would forget it. Be great. Cuz he's only a fancy man forever. Yeah. My Best Friend's Wedding. Oh, there's so many good things that he's in. He's such a classic. Well, he's in Sex in the City at some point, too, I think. Sure. He looks like he would be. Yeah. Yep. Okay, this one's rough. Okay, you ready? No, never. Okay. Uh, still on user submitted. So, thanks for this one, you guys. Uh, tongue kiss a Trump supporter or never taste anything again. Oh no. Oh no. Ashley's face right now. Oh no. I love food. But I mean I know my answer. Oh, it's one time though. Exactly. Forever. Yeah. For one time I suck it up and just do it. Mhm. Because like never taste food again. I'm not letting them take that from me. Yeah, they can't take that from me. They can take my rights away. Oh god. But they can't take my tasting of food. It's like the opposite of like the brave heart. They can take my freedoms. But at least I can still eat s'mores. I mean, I'm not like changing the world or stopping like things from happening by h having to do this for myself. It's a personal problem that I'm taking one for the team and the team is me and the team is me and my happiness and I'd be very unhappy for a while. Well, you'd be unhappy for like a few seconds, but then you'd be able to ditch them and move on with your life. Yeah. Eat and taste 16 hot dogs. Yep. If that is what you so choose. So, thank you for that one. Great. What do you say? You said that's exactly what I said. Yeah. Because it's one time versus a lifetime. Yeah. Yeah. If it was if it was every week, every week. If it was like be with forever or like Mary, I'd be like I guess I am tasting nothing again ever. Yeah. But if it's one time, then sorry about it, but that's the way it's going to have to go. Yep. All right. What else we got now that we weeded out all the outliers that Yeah. Exactly. to us. Just in case you were curious about how we felt way. Um, so hey, how how about this? Hey, Liz, would you if you were a if you were a rib, um, would you eat yourself? User submitted. Would you rather read minds when you so choose or be able to come become invisible at will? I would rather become invisible at will. I don't necessarily really want to read people's minds at all. I don't. The responsibility seems too great. Yeah, cuz there is that whole debate about, you know, eth ethics ethical. Um, that's not really what I meant by that. Oh, great. I guess I was fine with unethically going into people's mind. Um, I more so feel like then it would be my obligation to use that manipulation for the greater good somehow. I wasn't even thinking that. And I don't want that kind of responsibility. Yeah. I just feel like in my life, in my lifestyle, neither would come in handy cuz like even disappearing, I can do that right now. I just walk out of the room. I just go, "No, bye." I don't say bye. I just walk out away. Just I feel like becoming invisible. I would love to be invisible. When would Why? Uh cuz I live in a small town where like most of the time I'd prefer to be invisible. You like pranks, too. So, it would be some good pranks you could do. I would just like to be able to go like peruse the bookstore without like running into 12 people. I know see floating books like freaking Do you know what I mean though? It's like I would like to be invisible for that or like you know go to like a Pilates class and just be able to like do it in peace. Go for free. I don't even need to go for free. Ghost me would still pay. I just don't want to have to talk. Yeah. I socialize. You're selling me. You're selling me on it. I want to just be invisible. Yeah. Cuz it's like what do I need to read minds for? Do I want to know? Exactly. I don't want to know. I don't know if I want to know. I don't want to know. Literally, it would be good for safety, but then you could just be invisible if you see a Exactly. I'd rather be invisible than read his mind. I know cuz I know it's bad. I know it's bad. I don't want to know what's in his mind. I would rather just avoid it all together. Yeah. Okay, that's You sold sold me. Invisible it is. Invisible it is. Let us know your thoughts. We'll do we'll do votes on these the sto in the stories on the internets. Okay. Uh would you rather read on the beach during summer or a cabin in the woods in winter? Cabin in the woods in winter. It is so hard to read at the beach. It is really hard to read at the beach. Funny. Mhm. Which it is. Yeah. I mean, as much as I love summer at the beach and I love that. Yeah. Reading specifically, Cabin in the Woods in winter is better for that. Yeah. And I think it's also summer at the beach like you know you're people watching you're watching the ocean you're checking things out it's cool it's a vibe you're eating you're hot you're sweaty where a cabin in the woods you'd be like that's beautiful and you read your book it's not like things are constantly happening to distract you also see this question could have been completely different though if the question would have been read by the pool during summer cuz for me read by the pool during summer that's a ton out of 10 That's all I want to do. I want to be on a cruise ship, sitting by the pool, reading my book in peace in the sun, baking away, drinking my Diet Coke. That's what I want to be doing. Lizard life. Yep. Lizard life. But um yeah, on the beach. No, it's like it's sandy. Yeah, it's just it's not the same. It's windy probably. Mine's still the same. Cabin in the woods in the winter, but you pretty much do that already. So Yeah. Exactly. I think that's what it is. It's like grass is always greener kind of a thing, you know. Yep. Okay, that wraps up the user sent in questions. Please send us more. We love it when you guys do that. Um, okay. So, we're we have prepared ahead of time uh for you a uh reading of the poem. No, I'm just kidding. We We have some questions that we'll ask each other and then we'll move on if we have some time into the Reddit questions. All right, so let's rapid fire it back and forth. Okay, let's go. Would you rather eat 16 hot dogs or 16 ice cream cones? 16 ice cream cones. Why? Because I like ice cream better. Okay, great. Um, 16 hot dogs. Cuz that's a lot of dairy. Or even non-dairy. That's I was going to say mine would be It's a lot of cream. Even non cream. Cream. Non-dairy cream. Stop saying creamy, please. But like ice cream. I don't know, man. I'm going with hot dogs. I like a good cone. Yeah. What can I say? Yeah. Hey, uh, you also like sweets more than me, so it makes sense that we say what we said. Okay, hit me. Uhuh. Um, would you rather read three 300page books or one 900page book? Say it again. I'm bad with numbers out loud. Would you rather read three 300page books? Great. Or one 900page book? Oh. Um, it depends what the book is. I know. Which if you have to choose If you have to choose what is it? Let's say if it's fantasy I need to say let's say it's same genre. Fantasy. Um 900 page. Yeah. Yeah. Same. Yep. Cuz then I'm in it. Yeah. If it's romance, give me three 300 pages, baby. Uhhuh. Yeah. Exactly. The genre matters. The genre matters. Yep. Okay. What do you got? Oh, I forgot. Okay. I forgot. We were just doing one each and now we're done. We're done. Goodbye, guys. It's only 25 minutes in. Best record ever. Um, would you rather be stuck in the labyrinth from Labyrinth or in the swamp of sadness and have to figure a way how to get out of either situation? I mean, a thousand% the labyrinth and labyrinth, right? The swamp of sadness is going to eat you right up. And there's no David Bowie there to make it better. Yeah. And it's going to happen real fast. Yeah. The labyrinth, you might just become one of the worm people. That's okay cuz it'll be fun. Okay. You won't be dead. So, you'll be stuck in a labyrinth. Good. Glad we're agreed upon that. Uh, would you rather be Bella or Anastasia? So, for anyone who's curious, that is Bella Swan from Twilight or Anastasia Steel from Fifty Shades of Gray. Thank you for reminding me cuz I blocked it out who Anastasia was. I was like, like the princess, the Russian princess. I lost Russian princess. No. Um, Bella, vampires. Duh. Mhm. What about you? I struggled with this. Really? Yeah. You surprised me at every turn. I made the question. I struggled with it. Um, okay. You know what? I could pull Edward Bella Shrine slightly to the left of the camera or right, whatever it is. Okay. So, in your defense, there is 50 Shades up there. But, um, Christian, I know Christian sucks. Okay. This is why I struggled. Okay. Because if Christian wasn't Christian but it was the same story, I think I would choose to be Anastasia because I would like you're making up rules. I know. I know. This is why I parameters. This is why I also choose Bella. Okay. But I'm just saying because Bella, we like her character, you know, and we also obviously like the fact that she gets to be a vampire. She gets to be with Edward who's a vampire, right? Okay. All those things. She obviously has the better deal. Yeah. Immortality. Hello. Yeah. Mhm. However, on paper, if Christian wasn't terrible, right, if Christian was just a straightup dom daddy billionaire. Yeah, that sounds pretty good. Yeah. And he didn't even make her do a prenup, so might as well. But he sucks at the end of the day, so we're going to choose Bella. Yeah. Cuz you literally have to It's you subbing in to their life. Yeah. So that case and no I don't need to take care of a manchild even if he is a billionaire. Edward is better on all counts and can get unlimited money and he can get it. Yeah. Yeah. Even though he's a Yeah. He can get They are super rich too. They are super rich. So maybe not billionaire rich but he could be. That house in the woods, the glass house. Beautiful. I know. I think that might be the Lego I'm going to build for my birthday. You should do it. You should do it. Okay. Would you rather live in Mordor or Maro? So Mordor for the listeners out there is the place in Lord of the Rings where Sauron is at fireplace. Very similar places is the bad Val place in Throne of Glass. Yeah. Uh, I think that I would choose um Mordor even though that's I mean either way. State your case. Less of horrific treatment of females specifically. It's true. Yeah. Gave me a lot to think about. I'm a female, so got to think about it. Mhm. I mean, cuz both options are not good. Not great. Oh. Um, but specifically it seems like um yeah, they weren't treating the witches too well down there. There were just no females in Mordor, so we don't know at all. Yeah. I mean, as far as we saw, read. Yeah. So, that's what I'm going to go with Maro. Maybe I can hop on a wyvern and fly away. Maybe. But then you're not actually there. True. I think either way I'm going to be like swiping up swamp. wiping up swamps. I mean, like they're going to put me they're going to make me clean or they're going to make me breed in both situations. Okay. Well, you know, so I'm screwed. Yeah. No matter what. Yeah. So, a mouthful there cuz it's higher up and you can see out the windows maybe. Okay. There you go. There you go. Mhm. Cuz there's no rhyme or reason. Okay. What do you got? Would you rather go explore space or go explore the deep sea? Oh, neither. Neither. so bad. I hate both. Well, you got to pick one. I'm going to go with Deep Sea. Final answer. Yeah, same. Yeah. Yeah. They're both the same to me, though. But it's very by a very hair by a small tiny hair difference. I was just always really obsessed with that movie, The Abyss. Oh, that's great. So, you want to? I don't want to, but like it always really appealed to me because, okay, I've always been a very firm believer in aliens. And so to me, it's like a no duh that there's aliens in space, right? But I want to meet the aliens in the sea who have been here with us all along. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's more interesting to me. Yep. I feel like Okay. A fun fact that I hate and you got to hear it too. Uh we are in space right now and it makes me very uncomfortable. We're in space right now. Yeah, we are. Cuz it's not You don't need to go to space. You are in space. Congratulations. But we're not in the sea. I'm not in outer space of our space. Yeah, we're both at least you're still on Earth, so I could probably not have a panic attack about that. I makes me very uncomfortable to think about floating in space. Yeah. So there you go. There you go, guys. Mhm. Okay. Irrational fears. Okay. Would you rather have to fight Mave or Arowin? So, another Throne of Glass reference for those out there. There are the villains perhaps in the story. Mhm. So, which one would you rather fight? And let's say they can't use their magic. That's fine. Mave. Why? Why would you fight her? I don't know. She just seems like a more worthy adversary. Yeah. Mhm. More interesting. More interesting. Find out some things. Yeah, I think it would be a bestie. You find your best friend situation. Well, I was going to say there might be some like weird tension there. You know what I mean? Cuz I've always kind of had a little weird mini crush on Mave. She's great. She is great. But she's also terrible. She is also terrible. Um I think exist at once. But I think that Yeah, two things can exist at once. I think that's what makes her so interesting to me. I feel like with um what's his name? Awin. Yeah, probably. But he No, like I just I wouldn't like him. There would be nothing there. I would prevail, I'm sure, because I would be badass in the scenario and then that's it. I just move on with my life. I feel like with Mave, it would be like a we think we hate each other, but then we don't and we're actually end up both being really cool because we're both just misunderstood and then we ride off into the sunset together. That's great. Yeah, that's good for you. This is what I've imagined. I'm going to fight heroin because I think I could take him. Yeah. So, I mean, it's magic. It's a fake scenario. You can do whatever you want. They're gonna hold us to all these things. It's gonna be a really weird day. Okay. Um, go. Would you rather read a great book full of typos? Okay. Or a terrible book full of no typos. Full of no typos. Um, I'm going to read a good book full of typos. I really struggled with this cuz I agree with you, but like there I hate It's going to be hard. It's going to be hard, but I'd rather do it. I want to hate reading typos. It's cuz it pulls me out every two seconds. It's like typo. Like it's like all I can think about, you know? Yeah. And then it won't happen for a while. And then it'll get you then it'll get you again. Yeah. Yeah. It's the problem with it for me is I'd feel like the book almost would be able to gaslight me and be like, maybe it's just me. Maybe I don't know how to spell anything or write anything. That literally happened to me. What was it? I don't know. I feel like that did happen to me with something that we read where I was, oh, it was maybe I'm wrong. I think it was Fifty Shades of Gray. It was written so badly that I started second guessing myself. It was gaslighting me. I was like, maybe I don't know anything about grammar and I just think I do cuz it's the bestselling romance of all time and they haven't edited it yet enough. Like come on. I mean, why? They don't need to. That's crazy, man. That's crazy. Mhm. Gets people talking about it, though. I'll tell you that deep-seated advertising. Okay. Would you rather be roommates with Gollum or Dobby the house elf? Oh, Gollum. Yeah, it's an easy one. I would rather be roommates with literally anyone else. Than the house elves, any of them. Put me in a room with Dobby. I'm throwing myself out the window. Sorry. Self out Mordor. Yeah. Walking up to the Eye Tower. It's like that awesome video clip my sister sent me or whatever uh of, you know, when a board game comes out at the family function and it's just the guy jumping out the window into the pool. Yeah, that's me. That's me if um I ever have to hear the sound of a house elf's voice again in my life. Yeah, cuz here's the thing. Gollum will just like go off in the corner and like Yeah. talk to himself talk to himself about his ring. That'd be annoying, but not as annoying as a hell self that you know, you think about it, guys. At first, he seems really helpful, but he's going to mess everything up and it's going to make everything so much worse. Just so whiny. He's so whiny, too. And his shirt is so tattered. His shirt's so tattered. He's so dirty and stained and smelly. You know, he has to smell. Gollum has to smell, too. His loin cloth is very smelly looking. They both smell. So, it's neutral on that. Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to have to go with Gollum. Yeah. At least mind is business. Yeah. How else are such medders? They are metal medal medal medders. Okay. Uh Luther or King Fisher. Who would you rather King Fisher? Mhm. Why defend your case? Um because he is so brooding and he just seems darker, more angsty, but also um grumpier and they literally seem like the same person in my head though, like looks wise. They are not the same person in my head looks wise. Interesting. What would you pick? Uh King Fischer also. Yeah. I mean, we love a good Luther. We love Luther. We love Luther. Uh he's a little too soft for me. Yeah. Um, also King Fischer, I think, is taller. That's true. And at the end of the day, that's all that matters. That matters, honestly. That is more powers than Luther right now, too. We don't really know the extent of Luther's powers. Yeah. As much as Fisher. And he's older by a lot. By a lot. Yeah. Luther's like only 20s. Yeah. You know, Fischer's hundreds and centuries old. So, yeah, he's made some mistakes, but he's already seen some stuff. He's done the growing up and maturing. That's why he's a salty grump. Yeah, we love a good grumpy 500year-old 7 foot tall. Luther is still processing a lot of things I don't want to deal with. Come back and talk to us in 500 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Then maybe there you go. Mhm. Mhm. Okay. Would you rather be a main character in a dystopian or fantasy novel? Fantasy. Duh. Fantasy. Yeah. I want to live in a dystopian novel. Sounds great. sad. Okay. Um Okay. I have a series of uh like trope. Would you rathers? Okay. You have to choose a dark romance husband. Is he uh your stalker or is he in the mafia? Stalker. Because then I have to deal with all the extra people. Mafia seems like comes with a lot of people. It is. It's very family oriented. Yeah. No, but he's a family man. That's great. But they're all like his like little henchmen. I'm good. Yeah. Okay. Stalker is one and done. And he's obsessed with you. The mafia guys probably is too, but it might be for different reasons like making them children. Yeah. To carry on legacy. Yeah. Um I also would go with stalker at the end of the day. I think it's um probably more possibly emotional baggage but less actual baggage. Yeah. Tangible baggage. Yeah. One of them has bodies in a bag. One of them might, but probably trauma in a bag, right? Yeah. Okay. Okay. Glad that's settled. Uh, would you rather spoil the ending of a book for someone on accident or have the ending spoiled for you? I'd rather have the ending spoiled for me. Yeah. I don't want to be responsible. No. There you go. Look at how selfless we are, guys. Yeah. Don't want to be held responsible. Go. Okay. Uh, in the second installment of who would your book husband be? Great. Would you rather have a hockey husband or a cowboy husband? Hockey. Why? Defend your case. Cowboy. You did defend your case. You said cowboy. I plead the fifth. um hockey because they seem like um I don't know you got to have something. Cowboy we probably I'm generalizing but cowboys might not align with the same belief system as me. And what if he's a super like liberal cowboy then maybe because he's probably, you know, it takes a lot of successful thinking to be a cowboy. They work all the time though. It seems like they're very obsessed with the cowboying. The hockey player seems like out of sight of hockey though. Like they like eat pizza and like chill out. I don't know. We are generalizing very heavily by the way. As somebody who doesn't care for hockey or cowboy romance, this is very difficult. Um, I hockey a lot of cowboys and I don't really know a lot of hockey players, so I don't have as much jaded vibes. Okay. Um, sure. Okay. Why not? What about you? I'm going with cowboy husband. Yeah, unless there's a earring involved. Yeah. No, I mean earring would be bad on the hockey guy, too. Oh, yeah. The missing teeth. Sorry. I'm generalizing hockey players, but uh Yeah, I'd go with cowboy husband because in my fantasy they could be whatever political affiliation we so choose. Yeah. Um, and I mean I, you know, I could literally paint whatever I want, right? So like maybe he is a cowboy for a rescue center where they only treat these animals well. Yeah. And he only farms plants. Plants. I mean, that's the that's actual He doesn't have to do animals at all to be a cowboy farmer. He's just a farmer. Yeah. Just has animals that he rides. Yeah. I see. There you go. Just for fun that he treats very well. Yeah, there's all kinds of cowboys out there. Yeah, all kinds. All right. I'm still undecided. Cool. Um, it's it's whatever. It's a wash for me. They have pros and cons to both. Yeah. I mean, that's every question, though. Yeah, it's true. Okay. Would you rather lose all your books or never be able to buy a new book again? But you have your books. So, I just have to check them out from the library. I mean, you can you could just don't ever get to buy a new book again. You can't buy a physical book again, but you'll lose all your books is the other. But so, how do I read books if I can't buy them? Do I just check them out? You can do your apps. Okay, then that's what I would choose. I would keep all my existing books and then just not buy any new ones because I could still get them at the library and stuff. Same answer. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Uh, in the third installment of Who is Your Book Husband? Great. Uh, do you have a priest husband or a professor husband? Professor. Why? Duh. Duh. I'm not dealing with that. The priest husband. Okay. Just too much baggage. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What does your professor husband teach? English. English. Yeah. Talk about books. That's nice. I don't want to talk about much history. I don't want to talk about math. You were his student. It has to be taboo. Yeah. English. English. Okay. Your English like Edgaren Poe. Okay. You know, very Gothic. Little moody. Gothicana. Mhm. Yeah. Yeah. What about you? This one's so tough. Great. It's tough. Um, I'm going to go with priest. The reason why is because I feel like, okay, yeah, you're his student. That's a little taboo, right? For sure. Like as long as everyone's consenting adults though, it's like really just frowned upon, right? Yeah. But there's something about like a man leaving his faith in a deity for you. Yeah. Cuz it's like the ultimate uh Well, he doesn't though. No, no, but you're making up your rules. What? I said husband. So he did because he can't be married to you and be a priest. Sorry, I was generalizing. Just a church head figure. No, no, no. Like he's either married to God or he's married to you. I want a man who's married to God and then literally cannot resist me to the point that he leaves God. Wow. All right. That is something might be wrong with me. That's okay. I accept I accept the challenge. I accept the challenge, but I'm not going to turn my nose up to a good professor. Yeah. No, there you go. All right. I'm mostly done with uh bookish things for me. Okay. Um, would you rather have Cheeto dust hands permanently on your fingers or your tongue constantly tastes like warm mayonnaise? Vegan. Yeah, I don't even like vegan mayonnaise. I know. Mayonnaise is disgusting. Um, I can't even eat a Cheeto, so I feel like that would be extra mean. Vegan Cheetos when they ever invent them. How are they? I know. But like constantly having Cheeto dust on your hands. It get everywhere. It's like glitter. I don't even care. Warm mayonnaise you might get used to. I'm going to go with warm mayonnaise. I wouldn't even eat mayonnaise unless someone paid me like $5,000. That's pretty low. Just to get me to taste mayonnaise one time. Yeah. $5,000. It doesn't seem like that dramatic. Just to get me to taste mayonnaise once. Yeah. In a regular setting. Yeah. Like that's how that's my price. Yeah. 500. Like if someone dared me eat mayonnaise like not even like a lot. 4,500. No. No. 5,000. Yes. All right. Then I might have a bite of a sandwich with saying raise your bar. A million dollars. Raise your price. $1 billion to get me to have a bite of mayonnaise. Yeah. I couldn't do the permanent Cheeto dust like everywhere. It would get everywhere. I get it. Just become a part of my life. Your mayonnaise isn't sitting in the mouth. It just tastes I hate this conversation. Literally, I hate it. That's what we're supposed to be doing. Okay. What do you got? Well, just for that, I'm giving you uh the ne the well the next uh installment of Who's Your Book Husband and the final installment because it's the most unhinged. Okay, let's go. And I'm doing this to you. I was on the fence, but I'm doing it because of this mayonnaise question. The mayonnaise and no $5,000. And no $5,000. Make you taste it. Okay, go. Who do you choose for your book husband? Stepbrother or stepdad? Oh, step brother. Oh, they're so They're both awful. That Credence book everybody talks about. How do you guys do it? Um because at least the like the brother would not like the dad really knows better. But what if like okay he didn't become your stepdad until you were like older? Still. Still, you'd still choose brother mom because it would be my mom he wants to be with but like then she to me I don't like this. I don't like it. I don't like it. That's how I feel about mayonnaise. It's like uh what is it? Cruel intentions. Yeah, exactly. It's just taboo romance. That's all it is. They're not related. Yeah, you're not related. So, I think the brother would be easier cuz he wasn't ever trying to be a father figure. Nobody in my family wanted to be with them. It's less messy. So, yeah, that's for me. I'm sure there's plenty of step siblings who have happily ever afters. Okay. What about you? Oh, I go stepdad all the way. Yeah. Sorry. Just as I'm usually an age up person, but doesn't mean the step brother isn't older. So, okay. We will not go into this further. Okay. Sounds great. All right. What do you have? Would you rather have to fight one horsesized duck every Monday for the rest of your life? This is so weird. Okay. Or be chased by 50 ducksized horses every time you hear the word Tuesday. So, it's a little scary. This I feel like I'm solving a riddle. Like, what now? What's happening? Okay, say it again. You have to fight one horsesized duck. So, it's a very large duck. Okay. But there's only one. And I have to do it every Tuesday. Every Monday. Monday. Okay. Whatever. Once a week. Okay. Or you have every time someone says the word Tuesday, 50 duck- sized horses are chasing after you. Tiny little horses. Are they? They're just chasing you. Okay, I'd choose that cuz I want tiny horses. They're so cute. They'd be so cute. Ducks. They're so small. Yeah, you would. Your ankles would get hurt. But maybe, but they might also be nice. What if they just when you hear every Tuesday? It's not every Tuesday. If somebody says Tuesday, very often, but you be like, I don't know what day should we go to the baseball field. Tuesday sound good. Tuesday. You just have to start running. You're like, don't say it. Don't say what? Tuesday. No. I love it. Okay. Uh, would you rather wake up as Fleetfoot or as Serinx? That's hard. They both seem like they have a good lifestyle. You could run in the meadows if you're fleefoot, but you get pampered and spoiled if you're shrinks. Shrink shrinks. That's a hard word for me. It is hard. Oh, I'm going to go with shinx cuz at least he has magic. Yeah, he does have magic. I'll go with that one. One's just like a regular dog. Yeah. Uh I too would choose that. For what reason? Hunt's going to pet you. I think I was going to say something along the lines of like I don't know how many nights would I spend curled up in Hunts Lap. I don't know. Probably every night. Same. Yeah. Also, I like I mean I like Alyn just as much as I like Bryce. Probably more actually. Um but yeah, that is my final. He's just like, you know, he's sweet and everything, but he's a farm dog. You know, it's like you don't get to like disappear in other rooms. Yeah. There's little special powers. Just get all the treats you want. But he was also enslaved, remember? So that's sad. But it sounds like he also lives a lot longer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He has some immortality. Immortality. Okay. So that's mine. I finished all mine. Okay. We can move on. Do you have one more you want to ask me first and then we can move on to Reddit or I have about a million. So don't worry guys, we'll have another episode. Okay. So we can do Reddit specifically if you want. I'll save the rest. I've got some that I put here in our schedule. Alternate. Okay, you go ahead. Okay. Would you rather your favorite saga remain unfinished? Okay. Or never be able to reread your favorite book again. Well, h I guess ooh I guess never be able to reread your favorite book again cuz that can happen that you're reading a saga that you love and remains unfinished. Usually authors are good enough that you can I mean it happens and you just kind of have to take a little guess to see where you want it to go. Take a little guess, make it up. Yeah, I guess I'm gonna go with that because I do like the opportunity to reread some of my real favorites because I'd be sad to never read them again because they'll at least be there in that spirit. What about you? Yeah, I would rather my favorite saga remain unfinished. Yeah, that way I could reread my favorite book. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, because it can always be unfinished in a way. Yeah. Exactly. You never really know. So, there's a lot of ways that they leave it just in case. Yeah. So true. Got real deep and serious philosophical. Yeah. Okay. Would you rather marry Dne from FourthWing franchise or Tamlin from the Acatar franchise? Tamlin. Yeah. Cuz like D looks alone. Yeah. Looks alone. Also Tam Tamlin's like got, you know, he's depressed and whatnot, but he's got a lot of powers. Yeah. He has the Supreme Court. the Supreme Court all to himself. He turns into essentially someone who I picture to look a lot like the monster form of the beast. Yeah. So, for those reasons, I choose Tamlin Dame. He could just read minds. It's not that impressive. Yeah. He's just got a real superpower. And he's like in his early 20s. That too. Yeah, that too. Okay. Would you rather be kidnapped by a mafia billionaire or abducted by an unreasonably attractive alien? M I mean, am I being kidnapped for fun reasons? Probably. I would say if you're in a romance book and you've been kidnapped by a mafia billionaire, it's probably um because he's going to force you into some kind of marriage. Yeah. Where we don't really know. really concerned about the alien having a tail or another extremity that I'm not okay with. I mean, that's not always a bad thing, but it is for me. So, I'm going with Mafia Billionaire. Mhm. Yeah. I'm going with Mafia Billionaire as well, just because we might not know what we're working with, but we kind of do. Whereas, like with the Alien, we don't really know anything. Yeah. I don't know what I'm signing up for. I don't know what I'm signing up for. Yeah. I mean, I'm assuming it's like semi like humanes, just like slightly different. So that's why I'm worried some something else is going to be at play. Well, they said unreasonably attractive. So either way, it doesn't really matter like what kind of form he's in. We would find that alien unreasonably attractive, which we Yeah. Okay. Which we're very inconsistent here. So that for that reason, we're picking the mill the mafia. Yeah. Billionaire. He's a billionaire. Yeah. Okay. Would you rather be able to pick, choose, and control your romance dreams every night or be a famous writer yourself? I'd rather be a famous writer. Yeah. I don't And I don't even have a desire to write whatsoever, but I just rather pick that because it's more substantial. Yeah. Like I mean, being able to control your dreams would be cool, though. It's cool. I'm like semi uh what is that word? There's a word for that. Lucid. I can purposely do that sometimes. It helped me a lot when I had nightmares as a kid to be able to like do that. Doesn't always work though, but like and it happens sometimes and it's fun. I sleep too deeply. I'm done. I'm out. It's a very It's a certain sweet spot you got to find and it takes practice. It's weird. Would you rather only be able to read audio books narrated by Gilbert Godfrieded, which is who? He's the guy who does Yago's voice in Aladdin. Okay. Okay. Or only be able to read books printed in comic sands type face? Comic Sands or Papyrus. You're out going with Gilbert Godfrey. Oh, no. Easy. Oh, I pick the opposite. Easy. I think I'd get used to it. I I think I would get used to it. Really? I would not. Pitchy. Too pitchy. Too intense. I really really dislike certain fonts. So, uh I do too, but I think that my eyes would just adjust whereas my ears would not adjust. Comic Sands. I would not get used to Papyrus. And there's one other one I'm blanking on. I like how uh like Papyrus was not mentioned here, but you're bringing it up because you hate it so much. I know. Cuz I'm like, what's the one I would hate the most? You know, y comic sands I probably could force myself to get used to for sure. Yeah. But I will not be happy about it and I'll tell everybody. Okay. Would you rather only be able to read young adult books or autobiographies? Young adult. Yeah, same. There's a very wide range. Autobiographies would be like I could only handle so much. Yeah. I get mundane after a while, I think. Yeah. All right, that wraps up all of our users submitted. Many of the ones we came up for with each other and also some off of the general internet. If you guys thought that this was fun, let us know. Send us over your um unhinged would you rathers or just regular get to know us would you rathers. Those are fine, too. bookish. All of the things, all of the above. We'll include a question box on Instagram sometime this week. Yeah. If you didn't like it, don't tell us. Don't hurt our feelings. That's We do not care. I mean, we'll just do it anyways, but thanks. Sorry you listened to the whole thing, I guess. Yeah. Why are you still here, dear? Dear Lord. Okay. It's like my husband telling me that he didn't like Thrown a Glass that much as he's on Kingdom of Ash. Yeah. Okay. That's a lot of reading. That's a lot you cuz he doesn't know about the dnfing stuff. like just like it's not a big deal. Yeah, just DNF it at that point. But apparently he likes it enough to continue on. So anyway, should we wrap this up with a smasher pass? Unhinged smasher pass. Let's go. Okay. I have to ask for the record. Okay. But also because I'm curious what you guys you guys know because this is part of my lore if you follow me over at the real life vegan wife, but I need it to be stated for the record on Besties in the Books as well. I need to know Ashley's standpoint on it and yours too. Smasher Pass Walton Gogggins. Who? Walton Gogggins. Who? Walton Gogggins. Who is that? I'll show you a picture. Okay. He's recently become quite famous, even though he's been famous for kind of a long time, but he just blew up. Um, he's in The Righteous Gemstones as Baby Billy. Oh, see, I'm terrible with names. I'm telling you. Telling you. Um, good old Walton Gogggins. He's great, but he's a pass for me. But he's great. He is great. Love him. Yeah, he's a smash all day. A lot of teeth. Like I said, that's part of my lore. It really is. Ever since I saw him in Fallout. Yeah. And DM'd you about how hot he is as a skeleton. They hear me out. Yeah. Hear me out. Yeah. And ever since then, I mean, yeah, I liked him and other things, but that was like my awakening moment. Yeah. It's great. So, we'll have to know what you guys think because I feel like it's there's a there's definitely a niche group of us that are out there for sure. Yeah. I don't know that you watched Spongebob as a youth. I don't think you did. I mean, I've never liked it, but I did a little bit because my sister loved it. Yeah. Me and my sister loved it. We watched it. But anyway, so I don't know if this is good for you, but for the people out there, I know that there's some that'll be a smash. So, let's see what you would be. Smash or pass. Handsome Squidward. Handsome Squidward. Yeah. So, for the people, for the you handsome Squidward. Uh, he kind of looks like a brain. Yeah. I mean, regular Squidward's fine, too, if you'd like to answer that. I'm going to say pass. I don't like it. Yeah. I mean, it's creeps me out. He's a squid. So, that doesn't stop me. Oh, there you go. Cuz it's just like that's just like a monster. No. So, yeah. Exactly. Like we were just talking about a skeleton zombie. Yeah. Um Yeah. I just there's something about like he reminds me of a brain. Yeah. And that freaks me out. I don't like it for some reason. I mean, squids do look kind of brainy in a weird way. You can see through them kind of. Yeah, I'm not freaked out by squids. It's just like that specifically did not resonate with me. So, for that reason, and the fact that I did not like Spongebob at all, I'm going to say that's a pass. But what what about you? It's a pass for me, but I'm curious to see who has it in their hearts for Handsome Squidward. So, there's probably some of you out there we know. Smash Handsome Squidward all day. You know, it's great. So, make sure to follow us over on Instagram and Tik Tok at Bessies in the Books podcast, where you too can participate in these polls, not only of Smasher Pass, but as many unhinged as we can fit. Yep, we'll do it for you guys. And make sure to like, follow, and subscribe anywhere you like. Listen to your favorite podcast, including YouTube. But you guys, we'll see you next Tuesday. Woohoo! Bye bye.