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Bring Your Own...Favorite DILF | S1Ep14
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In celebration of Father’s Day 2023, we’re sharing some of our favorite fictional Dad’s found in romance books (aka the hot fictional DILFs of our dreams). We gush and moan on why we love these fictional daddies, the relationships they have with their kids, and why they’re all worthy of #1 Dad status.
Major Spoilers for:
All Rhodes Lead Here: 16:40
In A Jam: 33:14
Funny Feelings: 48:41
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Transcript
Introduction of Hosts and Podcast
00:00:07
Speaker
Hi! Hey guys, welcome to Bring Your Own and catch all bookish most of the time podcasts. I'm Brandi. I'm Kendra. And I'm Kayla.
00:00:19
Speaker
You paused way too much that time. That was you. That was you. That was you. It's you every time. Oh my god. You're such a liar. It was you. It was literally you. Anyway, continue, Brandy. I'm sorry. Oh no. Literally never be. It was! It was you!
00:00:38
Speaker
I'm just laughing. If you guys say so, whatever.
Theme Announcement: 'Daddies' in Books
00:00:44
Speaker
In honor of Father's Day, we are bringing our own dills. So today we will be talking all things daddies in books. So can't wait. But before we jump in. So excited. What are
Drinks of the Day
00:00:59
Speaker
you guys reading? What are you guys drinking? I am drinking iced coffee that I made at home. I use different creamer. I use oat milk.
00:01:07
Speaker
creamers that taste like an oat milk cookie. Oat milk. Does it taste like water? No. I mean, a little bit, but not as much. But guys, I saw this thing and it was like oat milk makes your boobs grow. And I'm like, Oh, I gotta, I gotta stop. Gotta stop? Yeah, I don't want, I don't want them to, like, I don't, I don't want them to grow. I think mine are fine.
00:01:31
Speaker
Yeah, I don't like because mine won't grow the way I want them to grow. They'll just grow down. And I want them to be like perky
Reading Habits and Current Reads
00:01:40
Speaker
and nice. Like I just want to wake up one morning and they're like, you know how people are like, they sit so pretty. And I just have to live with the fact that nobody's ever gonna say that about me. Nobody's ever gonna say they sit so pretty for me. This is like kind of self deprecating. But like, do you ever look at like a dog that like gave birth? No, like,
00:02:01
Speaker
I sometimes look at a dog and I'm like, why are we twinning? Like that's really sad. But that's what I'm drinking. I will be throwing out my oat milk if that is true. And in terms of reading, I'm listening to Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly. It's okay so far. The pacing in this book is like wild, like really weird.
00:02:28
Speaker
I'm not like really feeling the connection between the two because it was kind of like thrusted upon us like I didn't we didn't walk into this relationship it just like happened so listening to that and then I started this book called nemesis by I saw a really cute fan art for it on instagram so let me download it
00:02:47
Speaker
It's Nemesis by, I don't know the author's names, Sariah. Sariah. But guys, I have been DNFing books left and right. I have mentioned that I'm reading so many books on this podcast. They're nowhere to be found. Like I post my tracker like, I don't know what's wrong with me. But will I continue with this book? Who knows? I don't know. It's been a weird reading time.
00:03:09
Speaker
for me. Nothing's captivating me. I want to be taken away, swept off my feet. Like, it's just not working, guys. I'm really down bad. It's not fun. I feel you. I was sitting there like February, March. It'll come back, I promise. Hopefully. Kayla Anne. I am drinking my tried and true Coke Zero, but this is a cherry vanilla Coke Zero. So I'm different today.
00:03:37
Speaker
Yeah, very different. Um, and I'm reading. Okay, I'm reading two books. I'm reading physically. The true love experiment by Christina Lauren. I'm really liking it. It's so cute. Okay, I'm, I don't think I'm in a reading slump like Kendra is but I'm taking
00:03:53
Speaker
forever to read books right now. I don't know what it is about me. Like usually I can finish like a typical romance book in like two days. No problem. I started this one Tuesday. It's currently Saturday and I have not finished it yet. I'm like 75% in right now. I'm like just at the conflict right now but I'm really liking the book so far. I really like the tension between Fizzy and Connor.
00:04:19
Speaker
I really like I really like Fizzy she's so much fun um so I'm really having a good time with that one and then I'm also listening to this really long literary fiction book I mean I say really long because like I said right now I'm just taking forever to read books so it could just be me it might not even actually be that long it's called Hello Beautiful by Anne
00:04:40
Speaker
Napo Letano, it's a new to me author, but I saw it like in Target like a while ago and I was like, oh, this looks interesting. And I don't read literary fiction often, because usually it's like really sad, really emotional, takes a lot out of me. And I so far that is correct about this book. It's very sad. It's very emotional. It's basically about this, like, this guy who grew up in a rich family, but he was
00:05:08
Speaker
very, his parents were very neglectful. Anyway, he marries into this other family full of young women, of four women. And basically, it's just about like, their life, like the struggles that they go through and lots of depression and anxiety and things going on in each other's lives. Anyway, it's really good so far. It's just very sad. So just keep that in mind if you ever decide to go into that. This is why I read romance books because they make me
00:05:38
Speaker
a lot happier. But, but it's still good. So that's what I'm reading.
Library Apps and Reading Experiences
00:05:43
Speaker
Amazing. So long brand for you to be reading a true love experiment on our DILF day. Correct. Yes. Yeah, I really liked Connor in that book too. But fizzy
00:05:56
Speaker
carried that book so I enjoy her a lot. I'm doing mostly just audio this month because I just haven't had a lot of fun like eyeball reading recently and I was beating myself up about it a couple weeks ago where I'm like oh like I'm just doing audiobooks and I feel so bad about it and I was like that's weird of me to be thinking that way. So then I just like it like literally pulled me out of a reading cell. Stopping trying to force myself to read physical books like
00:06:26
Speaker
And now I'm having a great reading month with just audio. And I'm also, I already texted Kendra and Kayla about this, but please clap. I finally started using the library apps for my audiobooks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And it's already saved me like 45 dollars. Yeah. Yeah. Because my last three audiobooks I listened to were on audiobook apps. So right now I am re-listening to Juniper Final.
00:06:59
Speaker
Yeah, so yeah, I'm re-listening to Juniper Hill for the billionth time, but I also just finished my reread of Ignite by Melody Harlow, which I did on audio this time because I read it the first time and the audio is so good. Steven Dexter is so good. And those kids are my favorite fictional kids that exist, like Hallie and Luna from Ignite are so fucking funny.
00:07:23
Speaker
like Melanie wrote them so well and Steven Dexter voices them so well. So I highly recommend that one on audio if you're looking for, if you're looking for a dill book after we get done, you really should. It's like, you really need to do that one. It's, it's really good. It's like a really solid 4.25 for me. Like I really enjoy that book. Like it's a little silly goofy at times. Okay.
00:07:46
Speaker
Yeah, but low stress fun. Yeah, she's like a love junkie. That's like, that's how you're introduced to her. She like falls in love really, really easily. And I just think that's so funny. Because like in romance, most often times it's like they've never felt this before. You know what I mean? Like, that is not Winnie Winnie's like falling in love with people like every other day. So I love that. Yeah. Yeah, it was cute. And so yeah.
00:08:07
Speaker
Even better the second time, even better on audio. Highly recommend. And it fits the theme of the episode. I was almost going to talk about Ignite today. I was almost going to talk about Dex. Changed my mind last minute. You did? Wait, who? Who are you talking to? I'm going to talk about Meyer from Funny Feelings. Yeah, he's good too. From what? From Funny Feelings. Okay, cool. Cool. Maybe this will convince you to try it. No, I want to. I want to. I want to. I want to.
00:08:36
Speaker
We'll talk more about it in a second anyway. You guys, why do you think people value Mother's Day more than Father's Day? Like even at my job and we're like doing content for like holidays, everyone's like, oh, let's always do stuff for Mother's Day. And then Father's Day comes around and they're like, no. I'm like, as a daddy's girl, I love my dad. I'd love to celebrate him. I'm also
Mother's Day vs. Father's Day Discussion
00:09:01
Speaker
a daddy's girl. That's like crazy to me. Me too. Yeah.
00:09:05
Speaker
I love my mom, but I think like probably, okay, if we're gonna, sorry, I'm about to get on my soapbox. I think it's because a lot of the only ways that mothers are appreciated are on specific days that are designated like time for women to be appreciated, especially mothers whose labor is like implied in a lot of like societal situations, right? So it's like, oh, Mother's Day, we have to go all out for your mom because we're not doing anything else for her for the rest of the year.
00:09:34
Speaker
Which is probably why like corporate places go that hard. I think it's also interesting because like we've talked about this before, or like why do we tend to like fawn over single dad romances more than single mother romances, because like, just
00:09:52
Speaker
The, a single mom is like, or just a mom is like a very, I don't quote unquote, like normal thing. Like you're a mom, you're expected to do all these things where it's like a daddy, like, Oh my God. Fair minimum. Oh, you know what I mean? Like that's just.
00:10:11
Speaker
So when they're literally doing the bare minimum, we're like fawning over it, you know? We're all three of us are so lucky to have dads that we really love and that are so important to us that I think it's it is sometimes like, damn, like, let me appreciate my dad. Yeah. Yeah, cuz I was like, Mother's Day always gets like so much love, like, oh, like, don't forget the flowers, like,
00:10:34
Speaker
celebrate moms and, you know, the moms that also have to be dads. And I'm like, okay, but what about the dads that have to be mothers? And then I'm like, Kendra, am I just like, am I just like such a menace sometimes where I'm like, men, men, men, men, men, like support men?
00:10:51
Speaker
You're not wrong though because Jared and I were out of town on Mother's Day and I like the first thing I did when I woke up was like oh my god I need to text my mom right now I got her a gift and I like sent it to her house prior but then I like later during the day I was like did you text your mom Jared and he's like no and I was like you need to text your mom you need to text your mom right now like I thought like she was gonna like think that he she hated her or he hated her or something like that
00:11:14
Speaker
you know, text him immediately. So I was like worried about that. But like, like, it's like, yeah, Father's Day comes around, I'm like, Oh, yeah, she probably takes my dad, you know, so weird. Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah, you're so right, though. Because like Mother's Day, we would always like go to brunch and see my grandparents and stuff. And Father's Day was like, usually just like a low key event for my family.
Single Dad Romance Tropes
00:11:40
Speaker
My dad also just leave that alone. Yeah.
00:11:43
Speaker
My dad just like also hates public spectacles about him. He hates gifts. Like Christmas is his worst nightmare, opening gifts in front of other people. He hates it. So he was always like, please don't look at me. I prefer to not be perceived, you know? Yeah, my dad is the type he's like, don't get me anything. Like, don't get me anything. Like, please just like, don't get me anything. Like, like, you're my daughter. Like, that's a gift enough. And I'm like,
00:12:07
Speaker
like help me out a little bit yeah he's like very selfless as a person so like he doesn't react i mean like he does he loves getting gifts but like he genuinely is like he rather give than receive um yeah i don't know like i just have like that day that of the year which is so funny because i fucking love dilfs right
00:12:26
Speaker
but I don't have daddy issues. And so Madison was like, why do you love all these older men so much? That just doesn't correlate to me, because she doesn't have the best relationship with her dad. So you would expect her to be the one constantly chasing that stereotype of girls having daddy, and she's always going after the older ones. But I don't know. It's just something about a hot, older dad. My friend Brie, her dad is so hot. And every time I talk to her, I'm like, Brie,
00:12:55
Speaker
How's your dad? Like, I make her so uncomfortable. And like, she'll put me on FaceTime and her dad will be in the room like, oh my gosh, like you didn't give me a warning. Like, he's like, he's so married and in love with like her mom's where she like just fucking doesn't even pay me any attention. And I'm like, there's still a chance. I know like me and your brother, Brandy. I'm like, I don't care. Oh my God.
00:13:22
Speaker
Oh, yeah.
Introduction to 'All Roads Lead Here' by Kendra
00:13:24
Speaker
I'm the same. Like, I've always just thought that old men were hot. Like, my celebrity crush that I get clowned for all the time is Gordon Ramsay. That old man, that old blonde British man. Yeah, I don't know. It's the same for me. If I really unpacked it, there's probably some kind of daddy issues there for me. Just, you know.
00:13:47
Speaker
But I love my dad. It's not like that kind of daddy issues. It's more like constant need of approval. Brandy, you're such a good girl. I want you to know that. My love language is words of affirmation. So thank you so much. Kayla, do you need me to tell you you're a good girl too? I'm good, thank you. But I appreciate it. I appreciate it. You can tell me I'm a good girl too.
00:14:16
Speaker
Brandy, you're such a good girl. Thank you so much. Wow, I'm preening right now. But yeah, should we should we talk about our our favorite single dads? Let's do it. Now, I do want to say that like, we all ended up actually picking single dads slash guardians. But we we didn't like limit it to that we didn't have to pick single dads like we could pick just guys who become dads canonically later or something like that. But we all ended up
00:14:45
Speaker
picking single dads slash guardians anyway, so yeah. Yeah, so true. We didn't limit ourselves. Yeah, but it's kind of like what we were saying. Like we just kind of gravitate more towards single dads because it's like, wow, look at all the shit that they're doing. Like with my pick, I think that's the reason why I'm like, he didn't have to do that. But then I'm like, maybe he should. Yeah, I am just so far up single dad romance ass. Like if if anybody wants me to read a book,
00:15:14
Speaker
if they tell me it's a single dad, I'm like already 75% of the way there with being convinced. Yeah, I don't know. I can my first single parent book that I ever read was Nora goes off script, which is a single mother romance. But I was like, why would I want to read about kids for so long? I was like, why would I ever want to read about kids when I just trying to like watch people bone. But the interactions with children are like the best part about these books for me is like the people learning to love kids that aren't their own.
00:15:44
Speaker
or like be there for somebody like I don't know I just like I just love it so much um and I yeah like like we were just saying I especially love single death will that make a breakup look for you guys like if it's single parent does that like get you more excited about it or yes um I don't really care all that much it's not like uh it's not a deterrent in any way deterrent
00:16:09
Speaker
It doesn't steer me away from it, but I'm never like, oh my gosh, I need to read this because it's single parent. It's just there half the time. Okay. Got it. Usually for me, I would say yes, it gets me more excited than other tropes. If we're talking friends to lovers, enemies to lovers, and then single parent, it's above that for sure, or above those tropes for me for sure. Amazing.
00:16:38
Speaker
Who wants to go first? I think Kendra should go first because she already kind of talked a little bit about hers so go ahead. My dad I'd like to fuck for this episode is none other than Tobias Rhodes himself from All Roads Lead Here by Mariana Zapata. This is my favorite Mariana Zapata book. This man, okay there are lots of men that I read about where I'm like he's so hot I definitely like would want to be like
00:17:06
Speaker
I want to like sleep with him or like you know like I love admiring him or like I think he's perfect like for the girl that he's with. I met Tobias Rhodes and I was like holy shit like that like that is exactly what I want who I want in a partner like he was just so oh my gosh he's so great like the grumpiest little man
00:17:26
Speaker
ever and then you have aurora so how to describe this book it follows this book this book is about a woman named aurora who is like recently getting out of a really long-term relationship that has that is like shrouded in a lot of secrecy like you kind of don't know what there's like the extent of the relationship like how it was made up but she's looking for a place to live in colorado um and she ends up in the hometown where her mother went missing when she was like
00:17:52
Speaker
I don't know how old, like a child. And so she rents a room in this guy's garage who happens to be Tobias. But Tobias didn't know that she was renting the room because Tobias' son, who was a teenager, his name is Amos.
00:18:08
Speaker
put the room up for I don't know he's the one who accepted the rental agreement and so Tobias is like who the fuck is living in my like what but Tobias is like secretly such a good person he's not gonna kick her out um and it is like this slow burn romance and you see them go from just being like landlord tenant to friends to lovers it's so cute and so good yeah Tobias has a son named Amos who
00:18:37
Speaker
is older, which I think is another thing that I really like. Like, Brandy, do you like it when the kids are younger? Like, do you like, is that like more your gem? Because I think that's maybe where I struggle with single parents. Like sometimes the kids are so, like I make fun of the kid from Heartless all the time because like, sorry, like we weren't gonna get through this episode without me bringing him up. I think about him all the time. Cause I'm like, he was just like so young, but like so unrealistic. Like four or five. Yeah. But he talks like he's 10.
00:19:06
Speaker
so but i liked amis you guys just like work each other up like no he doesn't like you guys are psychos i'm gonna go back through heartless and like find all of his i'm not gonna read it anyways so like why i i just love that amis in this book was older because i think
00:19:33
Speaker
He just came across the page better and it allowed him to have an opinion about his dad's like new partner and I feel like when the kid is younger like I just like that the kid was older so that they could have like a lot of agency in the story and they can like have really thought-out opinions about like their parent about who's in the parents life like their friends everything like I thought Amos was just like such a cool fucking kid like we knew his and his hobbies so
00:19:58
Speaker
well like he wanted to be a musician which like really worked out because aurora herself was like really musically talented and so like that was something that they got to bond over but my favorite part about uh all roselee here is it's painted at the beginning that like maybe tabias is a single dad because it didn't work out between like him and his ex like that's kind of the vibe that you get but later on you realize that like no there's like really no bad blood whatsoever and that he um you know that amis has like a step
00:20:27
Speaker
you think it's his stepdad, but he's like, no, like that's my dad. And you find out that it's because Tobias like donated his sperm to like one of his like best friends or a pair of his best friends who were a couple. And he was like, well, I'm going to like do that. Like I want to be in this kid's life. Like I want to make sure that like I'm there. And that's what I'm saying. Like he didn't have to do that, but like he did. And he stuck around and he like made sure to like raise him. And I want to say Tobias was also, he was in the military, I think so like for a
00:20:57
Speaker
right like for a big chunk of Amos's life like he was sort of like in and out and I think like my dad was also in the military so like he also was like in and out a lot um for his work so I just like kind of related to that too of like a dad who like constantly like wants to be there but like because of their job like they just cannot um but yeah I just I love me some Tobias and he is a great dad he's a he in this book he's a park ranger right
00:21:26
Speaker
Yeah, so he gets out of the military and then becomes a park. There's a specific word they call him. Yeah, I forget what it is. It's not specific. It's not specifically a park ranger, but it's something along those lines. Oh, is it game warden? Isn't that what it is? Oh, maybe. Yes, it's a game warden because he goes and makes sure people aren't hunting because they shouldn't be. Yeah. And like he was always like, he's just so fucking dependable guys. Like the ways that he showed up for Aurora in this book,
00:21:53
Speaker
when again he like did not have to like he did not owe this woman anything like he she was just renting a room from him like he did not have to interact with her make sure she was safe whatever but like he went out of his way to make sure of all these things i love this man so so so much like this is just truly such a good fucking book can you think of a like specific moment um from this book that was very uh uh dilfy
00:22:23
Speaker
of them in particular or a favorite moment from him in this book in general, I guess. Well, I loved at the end when they kind of when he finds out about Aurora's past and like they get in that big fight and she like doesn't run away but she like goes to say at somebody else's house who she's become like friends with in this small town and
00:22:45
Speaker
her mind in our mind as a reader like you think it's over right like because I mean Tobias was pretty hurt learning that like you know she was actually married to this like were they I forget if they were married or not like it was I forget the technicality around her exes her and her exes relationship but he found out that Aurora was like hiding a lot of secrets from him and so I thought it was going to be like over for them and that like it was going to be a long journey back to them getting together
00:23:10
Speaker
But no Tobias and Amos like both show up at this house and he's like, no, like we got in a fight. I'm so sorry. Like I handled that like completely wrong. Like I was just being really emotional. Um, but like that's something that I know I have to, yeah. He's like, this is something like I need to work on. Like it's okay. Like we're going to fight. Like this is what families do. And it like, he was just like, he showed up like that's, I think Tobias is great as quality. He shows up as a dad. He shows up as a friend. He shows up as a lover. Like, and when I think of a dad, I'm like, that's what I want in a father.
00:23:40
Speaker
It's just a mature guy. He's just so fucking mature. Isn't this book an age gap, if I remember right? Yeah. She's in her 30s and he's in his 40s. Yeah.
00:23:52
Speaker
So nothing like crazy, but yeah, he, I was gonna say his age showed, but that makes him sound really, really old. But he's just, yeah, in his maturity, in his, I guess I hope if you're that age, then you're super mature anyway. But yeah, the maturity of not just like walking away from something like that. I think it not only showed that he will, like you said, be a good lover and partner to Aurora, but also just a good father in general to Amos. And so, yeah, I love him too.
00:24:20
Speaker
what I also love about this book, because in a lot of Mariana's books, like the couple doesn't get together until like the end, like that is her specialty. But in this book, they got together, I think around like the 60 ish percent mark, which I really enjoyed because then we got to see them navigate
00:24:36
Speaker
another struggle together as a couple and like you find out that Aurora's mom like was they find her her mom's remains and so she goes through this like really big like grieving season in her life and that Tobias has to like be there and like uplift her through that while like also taking care of his kids still and like doing his job and I really appreciate that I appreciated that in this book because that's usually not my honest specialty like
00:25:02
Speaker
you they get together and it's like oh happily ever after but like they got together and they had to like go through a lot of shit in this book afterwards and i thought it was just so well done and then and like they're married and like he got her pregnant and how many kids do they have were they having twins i'm probably making that up i'm probably making that up in my head they probably have twins
00:25:26
Speaker
You're reminding me, yeah, about that, because I haven't, I read this book almost two years ago now. And I haven't read it since then, but you're reminding me, wasn't it like, you haven't read this book, I guess, slight spoiler, but when they get together, like one of their, one of their like sex scenes is, isn't it like at Christmas time? That one was so good. I remember that one. I remember,
00:25:55
Speaker
They're like trying to be quiet upstairs. Such a good one. It's so good. There's two sex scenes in this, which is like not normal. There's always usually only one because I can't decide to get together at the extreme end of the book. So this one you get two. Wow. Two. In like a 500 page book. I just flipped to like one of my tabs.
00:26:21
Speaker
And this is like when Rhodes is apologizing to her and he's like, I'm sorry, I was jealous. I don't give a shit about your money or your notebooks or if you never write a single word down again. And he goes, we love you. I love you because you're mine. Because being around you is like being around the sun. Because seeing you happy makes me happy and seeing you sad makes me want to do anything I have to to get that look off your face. I want you to come home. Like he fought for her. Also, like kind of switching gears,
00:26:51
Speaker
Tobias gets a lot of shit because he gives Aurora two nicknames. One is Angel, which is like the sweetest thing. And the other is Buddy, which is like so crazy. I remember I didn't like, oh, I hated that when I read that. You're like, why is he calling her Buddy? Like, that's so like...
00:27:09
Speaker
like what is the reason and then you find out it's because he said that she reminded him of the elf of buddy the elf from the movie elf but when you think about it isn't that such a dad thing to do it's not cute it's like it's like very cringy dad humor like oh like she reminds me of this like this movie character like i'm gonna call her buddy because the whole time you're reading you're like why is he on this girl he wants to sleep with buddy like she's not your fucking friend like you want to sleep with her but
00:27:38
Speaker
Like, I don't mind it as much. Like, Angel's the superior one, but Buddy's like, oh. Yeah, if somebody called me, like somebody that I had a really big crush on and was calling me Buddy, like that, I would kill myself.
00:27:50
Speaker
Jared's going to start calling you pal. He's going to be like, hey, pal. Hey, pal. I'm at a stage in my relationship where it feels not enough to call him my boyfriend, but we're not engaged or married or anything. So a lot of the times I just refer to him as my buddy. I'm talking to people. My good buddy over there. My good buddy. Maybe you and Tobias are twinning a little bit. Yeah.
00:28:19
Speaker
You know what's crazy is I read All Roads Lee here and I think Tobias was my first ever like, well he was my first ever single dad because I had read a couple single moms prior. It was my first ever single dad and he was also my first, he popped my nature daddy cherry because then after Tobias came Jonah, right after I read All Roads I read The Simple Wild.
00:28:46
Speaker
so yeah he's like the ultimate nature daddy because he's also a real life daddy which is like so like i remember my nature daddy season it was a really fun time in my life yeah because it was like it was like all roads uh we had simple wild i had just read previously it happened one summer so you had like fisherman brennan that was a good time i love me some
00:29:10
Speaker
some guys in nature also me like barely goes outside. Kendra, do you have a moment between Tobias and Amos that you think of when you think of this book like a sweet moment between the father and son?
00:29:25
Speaker
Well, I read this a while ago, so I can't think of anything specific, but when I do look back on their relationship, I just remember Amy, I mean, I remember Tobias being the right amount of supportive for his kid.
00:29:40
Speaker
right like was very realistic about Amos and his dreams but like still like bought him a guitar like allowed him to like practice his music like but was never like my son's gonna be the next big thing like he was very practical and i feel like that to me was like very nice to see so and again like just learning about all the times that he tried to be there for him and the fact that he just like again he like did not have to be in that kid's life whatsoever but the fact that he like actively chose to be his dad and like wanted time with him and like wanted him to live with him and
00:30:10
Speaker
was just he's just dad of the year yeah i'll have to like go back and like i now you're just i just need to reread it because like that's what i was saying like this podcast has caused me to reread so many books this year because we start talking about them like shit like i i'm gonna reread all roads now yeah you know i just looked though i read this book when it was on kindle unlimited and i have the physical now it's not on there anymore it's not even on the kindle
00:30:36
Speaker
Well, a lot of them got picked up. Oh, that's right. And so, yeah, when you look it up now on the Kindle store, it says it's coming out in January of next year. Oh, how about with an ugly ass cover? Maybe, yeah. Well, when it pegs me one... Hey, Anis. Yeah. Hey, Anis, who is that man? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, it's really ugly. But I keep flipping through my copy right now, and I forgot that Aurora would call him Mr. Rhodes. Cute. Hot. Oh, so hot.
00:31:05
Speaker
that's like so like that's love to bias that's like mariana was like i'm gonna make this the ultimate dulf ever like mr mr are you kidding me that's like that's a dad if i'm calling you mr you better have a fucking child like that's crazy oh good night mr rose and he goes just rose is good from now on so remember the scene with the tent
00:31:33
Speaker
where she wanted to go camping with her friends and then they canceled last night. Yeah, that was so sweet. So cute. And I can't. And I was like, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss. Ugh, my God, yeah. Yeah, now I realize how to write definition. I know I should, I should read, and like, when I read this book, like, her books are chunky. So it usually takes me a while to get through them. But I want to say I, I,
00:31:57
Speaker
was around the time Summer Walker's album just came out like however long ago that was her last one and it was just me this book and that album like I was off my phone like I was trying to like say off my phone I just like was so immersed and I would just like read hundreds of pages like in one sitting and it was like it was just such a good time and it was like set in Colorado which I really liked like
00:32:22
Speaker
It was just like not like it just felt cozy and nice and sweet and romantic. And you know, Mariana put her signature mushroom tip. And I was like.
00:32:34
Speaker
if you're if you're asking me like what I remember from these books yeah it's it's how hot of a dad Tobias was how good he was to Aurora how good like father yeah and then it's his dick was in the shape his yeah his mushroom tip dick which I'm like wrong on it like not every fucking man has like that shape like what are you doing anyway
00:33:00
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Thank you, Kendra. That was lovely. We love to buy this.
Kayla's Insight on 'In a Jam'
00:33:04
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Yeah, that was a little all over the place. But if I hope I represented Daddy Rhodes perfectly. You did. So my pick is Noah Barden from Inner GM by Kate Canterbury. This book follows Shay, who has recently been left
00:33:27
Speaker
by her fiance, and she goes to, well, she discovers that her step-grandmother, who just recently died, left her this tulip farm. Anyway, she has to go to this tulip farm, and she discovers that her next-door neighbor is Noah, who is a boy that she was friends with and knew in high school, and Noah is now the guardian to his niece.
00:33:56
Speaker
I don't know if it's Jeannie or Jenny. I can't remember how it said in the audio book because I haven't actually the audio book, Jenny. Okay. Her full name is Imogen, but they call her Jenny. Um, so Brandy said that Cal, um, Cal is it Callie and Luna? Callie and Luna. Callie and Luna. Callie. What did I, yeah, not Callie.
00:34:18
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Halle and Luna are her fave fictional kids. Jenny's mine from In a Gym. She was just so funny. She made me laugh so much. I have, I physically read this book and I have the audio book, but I haven't finished it yet because like once, like I want to reread that book, I will. But, so yeah, Jenny is Noah's niece, but he's her guardian because Jenny's mom is currently in jail and she like went through foster care for like a short period of time before Noah took guardianship over her.
00:34:48
Speaker
So Noah is not her biological father, but he basically acts as one. And so I really love Noah. He's also kind of a grumpy guy. And I'm actually kind of glad, Brandy, that you ended up going with Myer because I get that when we first picked all of our dads, they were all very similar. They were all like the grumpy, brooding,
00:35:08
Speaker
kind of man you know the um nature daddy I guess Dex isn't a nature daddy but but you know they were like bearded all whatever so they all were very similar so I'm glad that you ended up with like going with somebody else but I really love Noah um like he's kind of like thrown into this guardianship right like he's not previously raised uh Jenny before but I think that even being thrown into that situation he still does
00:35:33
Speaker
like an amazing job. And Jenny, you know, is like feeling, um, she's like, I think she's six is how old she is in this book. Um, so she's not like, you know, super young, but she's still, you know, aware enough. Um, she knows what's going on. Well, sort of like with her mom. And so she knows that, um, or she feels very, uh, not chosen, I think.
00:35:57
Speaker
And she feels very lost a lot of the time. And so I think Noah does his best to try and make her feel that he's not going to leave her. And I think that's a big fear of Jenny's is that people leave her and she is tired of being left. And one of my favorite moments with specifically relating to Noah and Jenny in this book is
00:36:24
Speaker
Um, when Noah, uh, or excuse me, when Jenny runs away, Noah and Shay are like out and they leave her with a babysitter. Um, but Noah makes a point that like every time that they leave.
00:36:39
Speaker
Jenny with a babysitter, she gets a little bit panicked, because she thinks that Noah is not going to come back. And so then once Shay and Noah come back, they find that Jenny has gone and left her. And so they have this whole thing where they're trying to find her. But I don't know. I love that moment when he does find her. And he's just reassuring her that I'm not going to leave, because she's so scared that she's going to be left again. And yeah, I just love
00:37:09
Speaker
I love their little family that they created at the end of that book, especially because Shay was also so understanding of who Jenny was and how to interact with her like ADHD that she has. Anyway, love Noah. He's also really hot. Yeah. He is hot.
00:37:29
Speaker
I love the choice that Kate Canterbury made of making Shay a teacher because it made it so much more realistic that she was able to understand Jennie's educational needs because that's how Shay kind of reenters their life is she's tutoring Jennie because they're neighbors. And she's trying to get her caught up because she missed all the school when her mom was going through legal stuff. So I thought that was such a beautiful way to have
00:37:55
Speaker
to build a relationship between them. I know this is a DILF episode, but I feel like any single parent romance, it's always really beautiful to watch the love interest build a relationship with a kid. And I thought that was such an organic and thoughtful way for Jennie and Shay to be able to interact and build a relationship. Yeah, especially because when Jennie runs away, she goes to Shay's house.
00:38:16
Speaker
And yeah, so you can like tell that Jenny feels a real, you know, kinship and feels really strongly for shade too, because she doesn't want either, she doesn't want Noah or shade to leave. And so she's like feels really strongly about both of them. She just wants to feel connected to them. And so yeah, I love that part. And like I said, Jenny's also just really funny. Like she curses all the time. And like, whenever she goes to have to do her chores, like she's always like calling the chickens like shitheads or,
00:38:42
Speaker
I don't, I don't remember what it is, but there's like a scene, um, when she like is told to go do all of her chores. And, um, she's like, what'd she say? Don't peck. Oh, I literally had it open. Don't peck at me, you nasty old winch. Get away from me, stupid ass hat. Give me the egg, you shithead. It's so funny. I love her. And Noah's just like, like tries to get her to stop, but yeah.
00:39:08
Speaker
know what else I really liked about that book was at the end they decide to like not have any other kids which um I don't know I just I thought that was really nice I mean again breeder here and I just talked about Tobias and Aurora like they went on to have more kids and I love that but like I thought that was like perfect for their situation like they just wanted to give jenny all the love and all the attention they they felt like their life was already complete which is so interesting because like she biologically is not theirs whatsoever I mean well she's half
00:39:39
Speaker
I don't know how it works with uncle or whatever, but I know. I thought that was just so, it was just so nice. Like they're going to be like such a cute little, cute little family in their little town. Yeah. Yeah. Tulip farm. And then what is, I already forgot. He like does a bunch of stuff. He has like a bakery and he, why can't I, Oh, the obviously jam. He does like berries and stuff like that. Did they do like ice cream?
00:40:05
Speaker
Like I said, he does a bunch of stuff. He's kind of become like the go-to person in town when people need things done because his dad was that person, I believe. So then when he inherited the farm that he became like this go-to guy in town, which I love that aspect of small town romances, like the very trophy.
00:40:26
Speaker
parts of a small town romance. Like I love that. So like he's like the guy that all these like eccentric town people are like, we need to set up for a farmer's market. Like we need help like that kind of stuff. I eat that shit up. Yeah. Yeah. And then again, not this isn't this this is a deal episode. But yeah, Shay and Noah that is also the marriage of convenience book. But when they finally get together, they're having sex like all the time. And it's really nice.
00:40:53
Speaker
Kendra was reading this book and she texted me one thing that happened. She's like, it's kind of funny because whatever we like are reading books, any of us will be like, guys, can I tell you something that happened in this book? Like, usually it's about a smut scene. And we're like, of course. And then all the people, like all either of us have to do is just say like one small thing that happens during a smut scene and we're like, solo. Yeah, we're like, yeah. She told me one thing about this book and I said,
00:41:20
Speaker
Let me go get it real quick. And so I was like- Was it that he bites her pussy? Yes. I like was not expecting that whatsoever. Yeah, that was, yeah. Jason Clark also narrates the audio book for Anna Jam and he's like the perfect Noah. Like he's so good. Yes, very hot. All right, Tina again, like you were talking about all roads and now I want to reread that and now I'm like, maybe I need to continue.
00:41:51
Speaker
listening to the audiobook, because yeah, I want to listen, there are some scenes in this book that I really need to hear. She's a ordinary. Kayla, was this like the first one we decided to do Dilith episode? Was this the first one that popped into your head? Or were you debating others? Like what why did you pick Noah over? I was debating others. Um, because I again, like I wasn't sure if I actually wanted to do like a single dad slash guardian or if I wanted to do just like somebody who becomes a dad, like later in a book or later in a series.
00:42:20
Speaker
Um, I was debating between actually Noah and rake from Lizzie Blake's best mistake, who, who isn't a dad at the beginning of the book rape, but he becomes a dad because the book is an accidental pregnancy. So none of that is a spoiler, but, um, I think I like Noah a little bit better than I like rake. I just think Noah is very, um,
00:42:44
Speaker
In terms of being a dad, obviously we see more of him being a dad than we do Rake. Not that Rake is a bad father. I don't think he is. I think he's an amazing father. But yeah, we just see more of him being a dad and I liked his journey too with Shae and I felt like he was very communicative. And yeah, I love Noah. I think I would rather be with Noah than... I don't know why I'm making this competition between Rake and Noah because I really like both of them, but...
00:43:14
Speaker
noah is more for me than you don't want the like hot australian yeah but not honestly yeah yeah but that's really hot too right he's australian yeah that's that's pretty nice huh there's this really good to lizzie you right like there's a scene from lizzie's very good about all the time yeah like you said like rake isn't like my favorite like hero like i'm not like foaming out the mouth over him but um it's the scene when they're like
00:43:41
Speaker
in her bedroom and he's just like reassuring her in her childhood bedroom and he's just like reassuring her of like everything and like such a good scene yeah you're right Maisie Eddings did such a good job writing that like i was shook
00:43:55
Speaker
I will say too that there's a really good scene between Noah and Shay when Shay runs into like her ex and she's really shaken up after that. There's also a good scene with Noah where he's also really like reassuring her, not like, cause she, Shay I think has always had issues with like body image and things like that. And so not only is he just reassuring her that he's like, you know, literally obsessed with her, but just like her mind and everything else too. Like he loves that. And so I love that. Hi Casper.
00:44:28
Speaker
But anyway, I just love that Noah, we all love men obsessed, right? And I know that like a woman doesn't need a man telling her all these things, but I think that he, like I said, was really communicative about how he felt about Che and how he is always reassuring her of how much not only does he find her beautiful and sexy and whatever, but he also just loves who she is too. And so I love scenes like that.
00:44:57
Speaker
And I have to stop now because Casper is will not shut up. I love my dog. I promise you guys he's just the worst. Yeah, Anna Jam is such a good one. I had it on my TBR forever after these two read it and loved it. And then when I saw the audio book with Jason Clark, I was like, snetchies. I read it immediately or listened to it rather. I guess I'll go now.
00:45:27
Speaker
I mentioned at the beginning of the episode that I was really, really, really close to bringing Dex from Ignite by Melanie Harlow, 100% influenced by the fact that I just reread it. And it was just so good. And I really loved that book. And like I said, Hallie and Luna are my faves. But I realized, as I was finishing that reread, everything that irks me about that book, which again, I still love that book.
00:45:51
Speaker
But it's Dex. I just think Winnie is the best. I relate to her character a lot. She just really, really wants to find the love that she deserves and be loved in a way that feels worthy of the feelings that she is able to provide other people. I really don't. I found zero fault with Winnie through that whole book and I love the kids. So I realized that everything that pisses me off about that book is related to Dex.
00:46:18
Speaker
Let me just go to a tried and true DILF.
Exploration of 'Funny Feelings' by Brandi
00:46:21
Speaker
Now, I couldn't talk about Heartless again because I feel like I've talked about that book probably every single episode since we've started recording. We would also clown you because of how we feel about Luke. Yeah, whatever. You guys will post that book, don't even. We do.
00:46:38
Speaker
But Meyer Harrigan from Funny Feelings by Tara DeWitt is one of my favorite single dads ever. I love him so much and I think he is
00:46:50
Speaker
such a great character. So yeah, Funny Feelings by Tara DeWitt is about Meyer and Farley, who goes by Fi is her nickname, and they meet by chance one day at a comedy club. And Meyer was like a really well-known stand-up comedian and writer,
00:47:12
Speaker
And then once his daughter Hazel was born, he like really stopped performing publicly and stopped acting. He continued to write and that's how he makes a living is he's like a writer and a comedy writer in LA, but he stopped performing and he sees Fi and they meet and she's like, please like, let me like do a set for you. Cause she's also a comedian. She recognizes him immediately cause she's a fan. He's like 10 years older than her. So she was watching his stuff when he was younger.
00:47:42
Speaker
And she's like, please let me perform for you. And I would love some tips or feedback or whatever. So he watches her perform one night and becomes her manager that night. He's not a manager. He is his only client.
00:47:59
Speaker
And there's initial attraction there for him for sure, and of course she finds him hot, but he's a celebrity to her, so she doesn't think it's very realistic at first, but then over the course of him being her manager, they've developed this really beautiful friendship, and yeah, and then it bounces back and forth between past and present, and you watch their friendship develop and how they met, and then you watch them currently when they are thrust into a PR relationship.
00:48:27
Speaker
because Fi is going to be touring with two really, really, really well-known female comedians and these two female comedians are both already quite famous and they both have things outside of this show that are making them famous. One of them is dating an NFL star and that's kind of a big deal and the other one is, I think one of them is based off of Ali Wong.
00:48:48
Speaker
She does bits about being a mom and being pregnant and performs pregnant. That's her thing. She's like, yeah. So that was the vibes I got. So they were like, Fi, we would really love for you to just be in a PR relationship for the length of the tour to drum up some excitement about it. So they pitch one of the NFL players
00:49:09
Speaker
teammates. And Meyer's like, no, no, no, no, I'll do it. I'll be her fake boyfriend. And they're like, this is perfect, because everybody's gonna be talking about Meyer hair again, again, and whatever. So they're fake dating. And then it's a romance book. So they follow up. But yeah, so that's kind of like the plot. But obviously, throughout this Meyer is a single dad to Hazel, who at Hazel's death, and that's like a really beautiful part of this book is like, V went to ASL school
00:49:39
Speaker
when she was younger because she had really bad ADHD and her therapist suggested to her mom that doing something with her hands, learning to speak with her hands, would be really beneficial for her developmental growth or whatever. So Fi is fluent in ASL and that's one of the things that endears her to Maya really, really early on. She just immediately has this really sweet relationship with Hazel because Fi is really funny and she really loves Hazel. So they get along great and that's like how their friendship is so beautiful. It's like the three of them do stuff together all the time just as friends.
00:50:09
Speaker
Myer is her manager and Hazel's really funny too. She's really sweet and she's really really smart and yeah, so that's like a really nice part of the book and like there's times, obviously Myer's fluent as well. He taught himself ASL when he found out that Hazel was deaf and there's like little moments even when Hazel's not there where Bee and Myer will be signing to each other like when they're in a group of people so nobody else knows what they're saying to each other and it's, I don't know, it's really sweet.
00:50:39
Speaker
Yeah. I don't remember. Hazel's 10 in the book. So they definitely, now that I'm saying that, I think he's only been her manager for like three or four years because Hazel, I think was like six when they met or something like that. I don't know. Okay. Correct me if I'm wrong, but like, didn't, um,
00:50:59
Speaker
fee meet Hazel at like her birthday party or something like that? Yes, so they met at this comedy club because B just got fired from the comedy club the night before because she went up and did a set without anybody's permission. She's a bartender and she went up and did a set and they were having Hazel's birthday party because it was raining like the one day in LA it rained. They were going to go to a water park for Hazel's birthday but Meyer was like panicking trying to find something for them to do for their birthday so they went to this comedy club before it opened and they were just like
00:51:27
Speaker
hanging out and whatever. And the party was kind of awash. All the kids wanted to go to this water park and then Fee showed up and
00:51:34
Speaker
All of Hazel's friends are from her school, so the majority of them are deaf as well, or at least partially. And so Fi shows up and is just like hanging out with all of them and entertaining all of them and making them laugh and smile and having fun. And yeah, Meyer that night was like, I will do anything for her. So he's like, I will absolutely show up to watch your show because she's like begging him to see her set. Sweet. Yeah.
00:51:59
Speaker
So yeah, there's a lot of really, really great moments between me and Myer. I really want Kendra to read this book, so I won't do a ton of like, like some of my favorite parts of this book, like I don't want to say because like they like launched me in the gut the first time that I read them because they were just so fucking sweet. But some of like the reasons I think Myer is just such a good dad is he's just like always thinking about Hazel and
00:52:26
Speaker
because they're doing this tour eventually and they're doing like a couple shows and traveling or whatever. And Meyer's just always thinking about like, I don't want to leave Hazel for too long. They're lucky I'd left to have a nanny who can stay over at their house when they need it. It's V's friend Marissa, actually, who they meet through V. And so he thankfully has a support system.
00:52:50
Speaker
He's just always like, I don't want to leave Hazel for too long. And yeah, he's just really, really protective of her, which is is really sweet. And I think this is like this book has like the perfect single parent relationship to me. And this is gonna sound a little brutal. But unless like the relationship between the other parent in a single parent romance is like a plot point.
00:53:14
Speaker
This is perfect for me because it was a very casual one night thing. They slept together and then she contacted Meyer and was like, I'm pregnant. You don't have to be a part of it if you don't want to, but I'm keeping it. And he was like, no, I absolutely do want to be a part of it. But he spent the entire pregnancy assuming that he was going to be a co-parent. And then she died from complications of childbirth.
00:53:39
Speaker
So, it was obviously very sad because they had built this relationship while she was pregnant, of course, but they were never in love and they never were gonna be a family together. They were gonna co-parent and they were gonna be, you know, whatever. But then all of a sudden... That's so sad. Yeah. And he went through this huge bout of, I don't think it's postpartum depression if it's the person who's not giving birth, but he went through this huge depressive
00:54:08
Speaker
episode right when Hazel was a baby because he was a single dad. He never anticipated that part of it. He was anticipating being a co-parent with Hazel's mom. It was like he spent the first part of Hazel's life just in constant fear that he was messing everything up and he was doing everything wrong. Then when he found out that she was not hearing, that he was just so scared and protected of her. He just wanted to do everything right.
00:54:36
Speaker
He was teaching himself another language while trying to teach her this language. He's just such a great dad and he just loves Hazel more than anything. And there's this line in the book where he talks about the first time that he saw her. He just loved her so much that he knew that he would do anything to be the kind of dad that she deserved. It's just really beautiful. Yeah. I really liked this book. I read it earlier this year on audio.
00:55:01
Speaker
And I definitely recommend it on audio. I think it was really well done. And I also think that sometimes I'm like iffy on comedians in books in general, like sometimes it just doesn't come across on the page super well, but I think that the audio really helped sell it better. I haven't listened to the audio yet. I liked it. I thought it was great. Yeah, there's like
00:55:26
Speaker
I struggle with comedy in books as well. I imagine that if you get the right audiobook narrator, it could really add to the effect at all. Definitely. One scene I think about a lot from this book for like a dab moment as well is there's this part where Marissa, who's like the nanny who looks after Hazel a lot, because I believe Marissa and Fi met at ASL school. So they're both fluent in ASL.
00:55:53
Speaker
and they're going over to Meyer and Hazel's house for Thanksgiving one year and Meyer's like pretty stoic. I wouldn't call him grumpy but he's just like a really stoic dude, very serious and it's a funny juxtaposition because he's a comedy writer so it's cute. Like he is very much like Sunshine. I don't think I'd call Meyer grumpy but he's just very stoic. So they're going over for
00:56:16
Speaker
Thanksgiving and they walk in but nobody heard them knock because the music is at full volume and they walk in and Meyer and Hazel are dancing in the kitchen together and singing while they're cooking dinner and you would with everything we know about Meyer up until this point in the book you'd think he'd be caught dancing with Hazel and be all embarrassed but they walk in and then they see Hazel and Meyer look over and see them and they just like keep dancing and singing and
00:56:44
Speaker
It's just the two of them cooking Thanksgiving dinner in the kitchen together. Yeah, I don't know. He's a really good dad. He's a really good dad. And he's really hot too. He's got this kind of longish salt and pepper hair. He's 10 years older than Fi. He's just like... It's like right up your alley, Kendra. I need that. Maybe this makes me just a little bit of a perv. But I love it in age gap books.
00:57:13
Speaker
these men are like, Oh, like, I should be thinking about her like that. Like she's so young and whatever. Like, I don't know. I think it's so hot. Like, so good. Right? Yeah. So like, it's good. When the person is above 18 years old, not perfect. Perfect segue. Father of the year. Truly. This girl is not this girl. He did not raise his children.
00:57:37
Speaker
Oh, he really did. But for a portion, he didn't raise his, he was locked up. I can't raise a kid from jail. No, that's the, sorry. I love Zeus, but I don't think he's following you. I'm just trying to get under Kayla's skin because she hates Zeus so much. And I just think he's like so fucking, he's just like such a good. What kind of woman would Lulu be without him is what we have to ask. He was, like I said, he was always raising someone. It just was never his biological child.
00:58:07
Speaker
It was the love of his life. Let's move on. What else do you have to say about Myer Brandi? Yeah, no, I don't know. I just think he's really funny and talk about boy obsessed like he's obsessed with V. And now that we're talking about it, I'm so incorrect about he's been her manager, I believe, for two years.
00:58:33
Speaker
you keep making you keep i said eight initially like that is ridiculous hold on let me find out well you know those memes that are like a person asking me like what the book i just read was about and it's like no thoughts like head empty that's me with every single book ever like i can tell you how it made me feel i can't tell you like every single exact scene but you know someone who's really good at that kimmy from at kimmy's books she can tell you like in detail
00:59:01
Speaker
like scenes from books that she has read like years ago like I was talking to her once about Josh and Hazel's uh guide to not dating and she I had just finished the book to keep this in mind and she was like oh yeah do you remember that one scene when they did it I was like how do you like remember that like I that already went out of my brain like that's crazy
00:59:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'm so sorry. I'm such a dumbass. It was like less than two years. It's okay. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, she was her manager for like the last two years. Almost two years. It's okay. Yeah, whenever we get ready for recording and we have to like pick something and it's been a book that I haven't read or thought about in like a long
Library App Pros and Cons
00:59:47
Speaker
time. I'm like, what happened? Like I have to really think about it.
00:59:51
Speaker
to remember. I have to usually go back and reread parts of the book. Yeah. So that is like such a good one. I love that book. Kendra, it's on Hoopla, available to download immediately. So. Look at you telling me to go to a library app. Wow. I'm like, it's come so locally now, so. I know. I'm proud of you. I've not been able to get anything from Libby, you guys. It's all been on Hoopla. Really? It's because of the wait. 36 weeks wait.
01:00:21
Speaker
two year wait. I have never seen that in my life. With Libby, I have found that like, I use it more for the books that like, I wanted to read a year ago or two years ago that I never got around to. And that's what's been really helpful. And then sometimes we'll give you like a skip the line pass. You can't keep the book for as long when you skip the line, I think, but it does help you get some of those newer releases a lot sooner. So
01:00:51
Speaker
I would just keep that in mind. Libby's interface is just nicer to me than Hoopla's. It's much nicer than Hoopla's. Yeah, Hoopla, I can't just browse very easily. I have to search specific titles on Hoopla.
01:01:07
Speaker
Yeah, I was gonna say, do you guys have any honorable mentions for your favorite dads?
Favorite Dads in Books Discussion
01:01:14
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Oh yeah, so fast. Lauren has a good one. He's such a good dad. Noah Slade from the Dirty Air series. I love him as a dad so much. Like any reformed playboy turned into a dad is just always like, it's gonna warm my heart every single time.
01:01:34
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You mentioned Lauren Hale. I have to mention Mr. Connor Cobalt, the king of the Cobalt Empire with his seven children. So thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Kind of not like I mean, never mind. He lets her eat like he literally lets her eat like sugar at all times. And I get the point of that. And I get the point of that of like, oh, like Daisy had a very restrictive diet growing up. So like they want Sally to eat whatever.
01:02:04
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Right, like you need to at least force her to eat a vegetable every now and then. Like, I don't care. She's pissing gold. Like, I know. Like, it has to smell so bad. Anyways. Ew, I just want to ask so much. Her dad's Kindra that you love? Yeah. I texted this to Caleb when we were talking about this episode, and I was like, this is a major, major, major. Well, it's not that major.
01:02:34
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spoiler for lessons in chemistry. And I was like, I was like, Calvin, what a great dad he could have been. He could have been a great dad. Oh, fuck. Hey, yeah. Who are my other other dads? Oh, I really like. And before I let go by Kennedy Ryan, Josiah, he pisses me off a lot in that book.
01:03:05
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But as a dad, them as parents, phenomenal. Kennedy Ryan, she made them the world's most gentle black parents. Because there are just things, growing up in a black household, that you just cannot say or do. And those kids were allowed to say and do everything. They were some badass kids. It was the daughter. The son was like an angel. The son was sweet. The son was sweet. It was the daughter. But she was just so bad and so defiant.
01:03:35
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And I was like, if my mom, this sounds so bad, but like my mom would have beat my ass if I did like half of the shit that she did in that book. Not even half, like a quarter of the shit that she did in that book, but she just made them like the best parents. And I think it was just really, it was just really good how she did it. So yeah. Speaking of Kennedy Ryan, Hookshot is a single dad romance. I thought about bringing Keenan Ross today.
01:03:59
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a huge plot point in that book is them navigating their very public, very messy divorce because he's an NBA star. And so it's like a very, it's a huge plot point in that book. And it's really beautiful to see how much Keenan loved his daughter. We talked about All Roads. That's like I think Mariana's main single parent moments. But I think Mariana's most underrated book and I haven't read Mariana's Pada in
01:04:26
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forever. Granted, she hasn't come out with a book in forever. Well, she had that superhero book that came out. Yeah. Well, I did. I never read that. Um, uh, I think her most underrated and probably if it's not my favorite, it's definitely in my top two books. Mariana of Mariana is the best thing, which is a, she's a single mom, but it's like a secret baby situation. Um, he doesn't know. And I,
01:04:55
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His name is Jonah, Jonah Collins, and he's from New Zealand. So he's got, he's like a rugby player. I love that book. I think everybody should read that book by Mariana. It's a great, great single parent romance. And so they're like learning how to parent together. I love that book. It's so good. Um, I think wait for it too is a really good, like guardian book and like seeing Dallas, like also love to learn, learn to love Vanessa's kids or her, the people, her guardians is really nice.
01:05:25
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Wait for it's really good. I forgot how good that book is. The Bluff by Willa Nash is one of my favorite single dad romances. Again, age gap grumpy single dad. It's my bread and butter. Can I put life too short by Abby Jimenez? Cause he's like, he's like,
01:05:45
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He becomes a dad, like, yeah, like helping raise this kid that like is not his. And he's so good at it. He's just the sweetest. Yeah, if we talk, we're just talking about single parent romances in general, where they do become a dad, then like River Riverpania. Oh, yeah. Nox Eden. River is such a good one. Like that is that's such a good book.
01:06:13
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I love that book so much. And like being the true love experiment being dual POV, I feel slightly cheated that I didn't get the summing equation in dual POV. Yeah, true love experiment. Yeah, Connor is a single dad in this book. And I feel like I like knew that in the back of my head. But for some reason, I totally like forgot when I started this book. And so when it like said that he had a kid, I was like, Oh, so fun. Love that. And
01:06:43
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Stevie, Connor's kid. She's so sweet and she's friends with Juno and so it's like really nice to be able to like see them. Oh, they're so sweet. I love them. Oh my god. He's a great dad. He loves her so much. All throughout the she-love experiment, anytime they talk about Juno's parents, they talk about Juno's dad, Juno's parents, Juno's dad, River. Oh my god. It makes my heart burst. Who are your favorite
01:07:09
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dads that became dads like in epilogues and stuff.
Epilogue Dads and Their Journeys
01:07:13
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Cause for me, Declan Cain loved that he's a dad now. Like he kept Iris pregnant. Oh my God, that poor girl. I mean, love that for her more than Mary. But I was like, well, he did not waste any time getting her knocked up. Daniel Grant, Alexis herself said before they even like, she said, she said that he would make such a good daddy.
01:07:39
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And he's because that's when she thought that they would never like, that's when she thought they would never have a future because she was like, yeah, great. What a great dad. No, Daniel Grant. What a great daddy he would be. Yeah, something like, oh, so sweet. Jonah. Yeah. Yeah. And he wanted kids so bad. He wanted a kid so bad with Kella. And so yeah.
01:08:02
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He never used to think about that shit until he got with her. Yeah. Yeah. And Calla even has a moment in, I think it's in the first book. Is it the first book where he's like holding somebody else's baby? Yeah. Cause like they just had the baby. Yeah. Yeah. And she's like, he'll be a really good dad too. I love those moments. They're just the best. I'm sorry. I feel like I can't shut the fuck up about this series recently. Um, but from the winter mages of Mistral, the winter King that there's,
01:08:31
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They have babies in that blog, they have twins. The whole book is about them needing to produce an heir because they're kingdoms. It's like a historical fantasy romance. Kendra, how am I just reading this right now? The breeder and you would fucking love that. They spend the entire book being like, we have to make a baby.
01:08:53
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They're just fucking all the time. Speaking of needing to breed, I haven't actually read this book, but I've watched the show and it has a book. Do you know what I'm going to say? Queen Charlotte. Yeah. King George, obviously. What a good dad.
Notable Dad: King George from 'Queen Charlotte'
01:09:10
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They had 15 kids. Brandi. They had 15 kids. Oh, 13? Is it 15? They have 15, but two of them die. Oh.
01:09:21
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yeah um but it's so you know it's so cool about queen charlotte and king george he never took a mistress as king which was like unheard of back then wow they're minimal he's so good but like i know i know i know i know like and and they like shared a bed which was also really unheard of back then too yeah they had all legitimate children
01:09:46
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bro he's there's an edit of king george set to i think it's pussy power i watch it all the time like like he like he's so attracted to her like the way he bites her lips bro he fucks her so good brandy they fuck in a bathtub they fuck uh everywhere in front of everybody yeah it was it's oh god it's so good and her first time was just so i'm very good with twins
01:10:14
Speaker
I need him guys I need him so bad or I need them together in real life like I try not to ship real life people anymore because like that can lead to some very toxic fandom behavior they have brought me out of retirement like I need them to be obsessed with her I have so many interviews he like he the way he looks at her like I saw a tweet that was like their real life names are Cory in India they said Cory in India went to the Kerry Washington and Tony Goldman School of Chemistry because like that is how
01:10:44
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that is how into one another they are that is so they did a photo shoot where like her foot is in his mouth i've seen that yeah wait what there's a photo shoot of them
01:10:56
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you probably have it's like the one of them on the couch and like she has her fro out and like it's I can I'll find the incentive to you but yeah I'm like down bad over over them so yeah Queen Charlotte and King George tons of kids he's a I mean I can't speak for how great of a father he was he had some difficulties obviously with his mental health when it comes to raising his kids but who did he want a lot of them and he made sure they they had a lot um another dad
01:11:24
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becomes a dad later on in a bonus chapter uh gus guys you just know that gus and january are gonna be like the most annoying ass parents on planet earth like that kid is gonna be like they're gonna be the most involved parents ever like every school function every they're gonna be the best fucking parents and i'm just like so happy that like he can finally be a dad and like
01:11:51
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the dad that he like never got to have himself, which I think is his kid every
Character Reflection: Gus from 'Beach Read'
01:11:57
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time. Yeah, literally. And like, I forgot to mention this talking about Tobias, but Tobias had such a shitty relationship with like his own dad. And I think that that was like another reason as to like why he wanted to be so involved in Amos his life and like not repeat the past.
01:12:12
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and i find that a lot in like um books where parenting is like a a plot point like it's usually they always dissect the role that they had with their previous parent and them trying to like course correct yeah because even in like in a jam like she had such a shitty relationship with her mom and so she tried to like not be that way with jenny even though jenny like wasn't her kid so just so good
01:12:38
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We love our daddies. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day, everybody. Yeah, to all the mothers listening, for Father's Day, just give the fucking kids to the dad. Make him be a dad on Father's Day. Don't do anything today. Make him do his one role. But if you're a single daddy and you're listening, I am very much single. You're listening.
01:13:01
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You can slide into our DM chat, bring your own pod. Yeah, I'd be a great stepmom. I am currently willing to move. So if you just want to fund my travels. I think our demographic is literally like 1% male for the listeners. And that 1% can be the hot single daddy of my dreams. It could be, but you know, likelihood is really small.
01:13:24
Speaker
Kayla, do you want me to be alone for this? I'm sorry. No, I'm trying to be realistic. I'm trying to help you. I just don't want you to be let down. That's all. I love you, so I don't want you to get out. We're supposed to be in delusion to get there. I don't know if you've looked in our message requests on the Bring Your Own Pod Instagram, but there's a couple of sugar daddies offering to pay for our lifestyles in there. Kendra, why haven't you said anything to those guys?
01:13:50
Speaker
I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I'm taking my time. You gotta play a little hard to get Sprinkle Sprinkles. I fucking love that woman so much. Sprinkle Sprinkles. Amazing. Stay tuned you guys for the next episode when Kino tells us how her single daddies are just going. Yes. And we'll see you then. Bye! Bye!