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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talk ZEDB twenty.

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Speaker 2: To twelve on News Talks. 'd be another text here, Jack,

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Speaker 2: eighties children here, Disposable nappies were just becoming a thing.

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you, they were disgusting in the eighties, big, heavy,

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Speaker 2: cold and wet, so my kids just stayed in cloth.

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Speaker 2: They were cheaper, and the kids were all toilet trained

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Speaker 2: by the age of two. So what disposables have evolved?

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Speaker 3: Though?

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Speaker 2: They are no longer wet and cold, and that, in

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Speaker 2: my theory, is why children today don't toilet train nearly

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Speaker 2: as early, and disposables are pretty comfy. Gotta say thank

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Speaker 2: you for that. Ninety two to ninety two, Yes to

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Speaker 2: all of that. I think they can't possibly disagree. They're

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Speaker 2: probably also, they're more company, probably also slightly cheaper relative

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Speaker 2: to income compared to what they were back then, which

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Speaker 2: is not to say they're cheap. But you know my drift.

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Speaker 2: You can see me a text if you like. Catherin

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Speaker 2: Rain's our book reviewers here with her two reads for

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Speaker 2: the weekend. Hey Catherine, Jack, let's begin with your first recommendation.

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Speaker 2: Tell us about the forsaken by Matt Rodgers.

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Speaker 3: So Logan Booth the main character in this thought he

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Speaker 3: had been a rogue assassin for this group of vigilantes

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Speaker 3: for the past ten years, and he's absolutely devastated to

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Speaker 3: learn he's actually been used by the CIA as a

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Speaker 3: contract killer to further government interests, and so he's kind

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Speaker 3: of in a path that's not great. And then his

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Speaker 3: longtime friend and a guy who's an investigative journalist, Chill Gromero,

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Speaker 3: is murdered for attempting to cover for attempting to uncover

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Speaker 3: political corruption, and Logan's very determined to seek justice, and

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Speaker 3: he ends up forming this very unlikely bond with witness

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Speaker 3: girl called Alice, who's our homeless drug addict, and they

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Speaker 3: both sort of joined forces to seek revenge. And through

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Speaker 3: the story you learn about Alice in her life on

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Speaker 3: the streets, but what her life was like before then

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Speaker 3: and the aftermath, some of the decisions that she makes,

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Speaker 3: and she's a really lost soul and she's feeling very worthless.

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Speaker 3: And you follow Logan and Alice's story in this friendship

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Speaker 3: of people who actually you think it from do very

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Speaker 3: different worlds. But as the story move through, you realize

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Speaker 3: that they aren't that different than the both got fairs

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Speaker 3: and things that they are struggling to break through from

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Speaker 3: and a pass that they just don't want to know about.

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Speaker 3: And it's perfect for readers who like revenge stories, conspiracy,

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Speaker 3: corruption thrillers. And you can see it as you're reading,

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Speaker 3: playing out as a movie at some point. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a good read, a little bit violent, but a

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Speaker 3: good read all the same.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Nice. Okay, that's The Forsaken by Matt Rodgers. You've

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Speaker 2: also read Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson.

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Speaker 3: So this is Holly Jackson's first adult novel. She's more

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Speaker 3: known for her young adult novels, and this one is

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Speaker 3: set in Woodstock in Vermont, and twenty seven year old

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Speaker 3: Jet has a week weirdly to solve her own murder.

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Speaker 3: She receives several blows to the head during her attempted murder,

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Speaker 3: and the doctors have told her that she's got a

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Speaker 3: week to live until her injuries course this huge aneurysm,

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Speaker 3: and we'll leave her dead. And she's determined she's going

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Speaker 3: to use that time to catch a killer, and so

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Speaker 3: she teams up with her childhood billy, who's this amazing

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Speaker 3: human being and everything jack could want and a friend.

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Speaker 3: There were lots of suspects, her family, her ex boyfriend,

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Speaker 3: her best friend, and she's determined in those seven days

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Speaker 3: to figure out who might want to see her dead.

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Speaker 3: And she discovers, of course, some secrets about people close

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Speaker 3: to her, and it's all about that, the secrets and lies,

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Speaker 3: and Holly Jackson has this really amazing way of giving

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Speaker 3: you everyday characters full of complexities, and managers to kind

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Speaker 3: of show you all of their characters and their backstory.

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Speaker 3: And there's lots of twists and turns, and as I said,

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Speaker 3: those characters are complex and interesting and a really engaging

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Speaker 3: plot from a premise that sounds a little bit weird,

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Speaker 3: but actually, for some reason, this story just really works

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Speaker 3: and it's a very good readon.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the Preyers are sound a little implausible

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Speaker 2: to say the least.

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Speaker 3: But I don't think you'd probably, I don't think you

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Speaker 3: probably feel like solving your own murder in that seven days.

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Speaker 3: This story, Yeah, Jetnist just decides that she's going to

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Speaker 3: find out and yeah, some interesting characters that appear and

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Speaker 3: some interesting backstories that she discovers along the way.

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Speaker 2: Right, Okay, cool, So That's Not Quite Dead Yet by

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Speaker 2: Holly Jackson. Catherine's first book is The Forsaken by Matt Rodgers,

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Speaker 2: and both of those will make sure up on The

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