I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
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The book was mentioned as an example of someone being open about abusive narcissistic parents, resonating with Brooke's own experiences with emotionally abusive upbringing. Both hosts reflected that writing the memoir must have been difficult after the author's mother had passed, noting the content would likely have been different if she were still alive. They treated it as a noteworthy, challenging read without explicitly recommending it.
Tana mentioned reading Jeanette McCurdy's book and thought it was hard for McCurdy to write given her mother had passed away. It was mentioned that the book would have likely been different if her mother had been alive.
I've been reading a lot of books like I just read Jeanette McCurdy's book and even that like that must have been so hard for I guess her mom died so that was like a cool thing that she was able to like probably would have been a completely different book had her mom been alive
It was discussed as being a difficult but ultimately positive read. It was mentioned that the book's content would have differed significantly had her mother still been alive.
I've been reading a lot of books like I just read Jeanette McCurdy's book and even that like that must have been so hard for her.
I guess her mom died so that was like a cool thing that she was able to like it probably would have been a completely different book had her mom been alive and I think I'm right.
The book was mentioned in relation to the speaker's own experiences with emotionally abusive parents, and how McCurdy's book resonated with her feelings about her own upbringing. It was discussed as an example of someone being open about their experiences with abusive narcissists.
I haven't actually read her book but I've seen her interviews and she talks about how like there was a lot that she felt ashamed to say while her mom was still alive because it's like obviously like like I still love my mom and stuff and like there I don't want to you know like if I told the truth like it would be crazy you know what I mean but it's so frustrating to be in a text thread with only me and try to convince me that I'm making things up.
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The hosts referenced the title as an example of a classic novel that people often say they’ve read but probably haven’t. They used it to illustrate how listeners claim favorite books without actually reading them. The overall tone was light‑hearted and not a recommendation of the book itself.
It was mentioned as a book that the speaker is familiar with, but they feel others just say they have read it.
Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read. You did not read that.
The book was mentioned in the context of talking about classic books that people say they've read but probably haven't.
Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read.
The hosts briefly mentioned the title when noting that Rachel McAdams had starred in both Mean Girls and the book in the same year, pointing out that she was only 22 at the time. No further discussion or recommendation was offered.
Rachel McAdams starred in both Mean Girls and The Notebook in the same year, 2004.
You know what fucks me up is Rachel McAdams did Mean Girls and The Notebook in the same year.
Rachel McAdams was mentioned to have starred in both Mean Girls and The Notebook in the same year, 2004.
Rachel McAdams did Mean Girls and The Notebook in the same year.
And she was 22.
During a conversation about cremation, the host referenced the title as an example of a classic people often claim as their favorite without actually having read it, comparing it to other well‑known works. The discussion highlighted how frequently listeners cite this book as a favorite, only to admit they never opened it. The tone was light and observational rather than an endorsement.
It was mentioned during a discussion about what to be cremated with and how books burn at a certain temperature. The speaker discussed how often they hear people say their favorite book is "Fahrenheit 451" when they have never actually read it.
Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read. You did not read that.
The book was mentioned in the context of talking about cremation. It was also mentioned as a classic book that people say they've read but probably haven't.
Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read.
Fahrenheit 451 like books. They burn books.
In two segments of the episode, the host noted that the book was the last one he had read, saying he loved it despite not being an avid reader. He mentioned it alongside his interest in Stephen King and history books, indicating a casual appreciation rather than an in‑depth endorsement.
It was mentioned as the speaker's most recent book read, but they admit they are not a big reader.
I love The Outsiders. I think with the last book was that I read not a reader. I am very weird things. I love like Stephen King books and I love history books. So like the most fiction and the most true.
The speaker mentioned it as the last book they read.
I love The Outsiders. I think with the last book was that I read not a reader.
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The title was brought up as an example of a classic that many people claim to have read, but the host doubted that listeners had actually done so. It was mentioned in a casual, somewhat critical way to illustrate how popular books are often cited without genuine familiarity.
It was mentioned as a book that the speaker is familiar with, but they feel others just say they have read it.
Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read. You did not read that.
The book was mentioned in the context of talking about classic books that people say they've read but probably haven't.
Fahrenheit 451 like Tom Sawyer like just like do you ever ask someone their favorite book and they're like Huckleberry Finn and you're like yeah like you did not read.
Mike talked about the title as a major inspiration for his own writing, saying he loved it and would read it again. He highlighted how the book’s candid discussion of addiction and personal struggles helped him shape lessons for his audience. The overall tone was enthusiastic and supportive of the book’s impact.
Mike described his book as an attempt to provide lessons from his experiences. He explained that he had to come to terms with putting things out there that might make him uncomfortable later, but ultimately he wanted to help people. He mentioned that he doesn't read much, but he really enjoyed Tana's book and it was an inspiration for his own.
So like so like when I wrote The Fifth Vital I had to come to terms with the idea of putting shit out there that I like the stuff we're talking about today is one thing and I'm okay saying oh my hair is thinning.
I so there's a it's a balance. Yeah, I was actually going to say with you you were like you need to make a lesson.
I'm about like I just signed my first book deal and so that's my first my goal with the book for sure is definitely to actually like create some lessons from things. I've gone through versus just being a transparent asshole, but I was good.
But with that being said one of my biggest inspirations with writing a book was your book. I you know, I don't read a lot big shock. I read your book and I loved your book. I would read it again and we talked about this.
We were at Tao like a couple like a month ago at dinner you and me. And literally we're at a table and this is rare for you.
Mike talked about how much he enjoyed Tana's book, 'The Fifth Vital,' and how he admired the book and her for talking about addiction. He said he also got advice about his own book from her. Mike also said Tana's book was his biggest inspiration when writing his own book.
But with that being said one of my biggest inspirations with writing a book was your book. I you know, I don't read a lot big shock. I read your book and I loved your book. I would read it again and we talked about this.
We were at Tao like a couple like a month ago at dinner you and me. And literally we're at a table and this is rare for you.
We were at a table full of bad bitches and people with more clout than me and Mike spent the entire dinner sitting with me talking about his book and talking about like, you know, giving me advice for like what I'm about to embark upon.
You also gave me kind of the I don't know what you call it, but the spark notes of your second book a bunch of highlights of things you're writing about and your second book. I got it. I got it too.
Special Collector's Edition
The title was first cited in a debate over the author's controversial merchandise tied to a serious subject, with criticism that such products were inappropriate. Later, Tana Mongeau mentioned she had just finished reading the book and enjoyed it. The conversation balanced concerns about the author's promotional choices with a personal endorsement from a host.
It was mentioned as a book Tana Mongeau had recently finished reading and enjoyed.
And I read, It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover.
The book was mentioned in a discussion about the controversy surrounding the author's work. Specifically, it was mentioned because of the backlash the author received for promoting merchandise, like coloring books, related to a serious topic such as domestic violence.
But do you know the drama with Colleen? So she wrote 'It Ends with Us', and she got like a lot of backlash because she was putting out like 'It Ends with Us' like coloring books and stuff, like really it's like wait, that's like not, you know, sorry, appropriate.
Tana mentioned how she really wanted to meet Rachel Zegler, who played the role of Lucy Gray Baird in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', at the People's Choice Awards.
So I think she was probably just like what the fuck is Rachel doing with Bryce Hall, but the thing is is people's choices, like people's choice. It's about pop culture. Yeah, which does involve and it...
— Episode: TANA AND BROOKE’S FIRST FIGHT ON TOUR… -...
Tana mentioned how she really wanted to meet Rachel Zegler, who played the role of Lucy Gray Baird in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', at the People's Choice Awards.
So I think she was probably just like what the fuck is Rachel doing with Bryce Hall, but the thing is is people's choices, like people's choice. It's about pop culture. Yeah, which does involve and it like brings the numbers up, right? Like a lot of the most viewed glam bots and different things were influencers of you that I think the most viewed Lambo that they posted was you, if that's true that's such a lie.
You think he'd be more in like our area. Like I thought he would do a little closer to Bryce and that's what she said. So I think she was probably just like what the fuck is Rachel doing with Bryce Hall.
He was with Rachel's egg like he was literally at the Hunger Games table and I kept thinking myself like how the fuck did he end up there not no shade to Bryce Hall, but like Hunger Games.
And I lost, yes, I was like that was my mission of the night was like I have to meet Rachel. You were being so funny, you were like going on and on and on about the Hungry Ames and how much you love the Hungry Ames and Brianna chicken fry was like she said something to you. Don't me, I don't like musicals, I said your life is a fucking musical like you popped on her for a second. I was like, no, I mean, you don't like musicals you're dating the songbird of our generation. They're so cute. They are, but doesn't matter. All I wanted to do with meet Rachel, and I made it my life's mission, and I looked for her every like every single break that would be you, there's like 30 seconds that you can like walk around and then you have to sit down or someone takes your seat at the people's choice awards just trying so hard to meet her and then I was like, oh I just give it up, and low in the hold at the after party I'm standing next to the chicken sliders and she's just wandering around alone. Well, not alone with her boyfriend, her also very talented boyfriend, who plays Syjaneis in Hunger Games, oh my god, I had to, I went up to them and they were so fucking nice and I was like that is absolutely amazing. I do love that we did I'm spending like our entire night at the people's choice awards with Natasha betting field which was so iconic.
Oh my god, I had to, I went up to them and they were so fucking nice and I was like that is absolutely amazing. I do love that we did. I'm spending like our entire night at the people's choice awards with Natasha betting field which was so iconic.
The Scriptures
It was mentioned in the context of a funny moment, but no details about the book itself were provided.
What did you call it? Still bird?
— Episode: PAIGE IS BEEFING WITH ANOTHER INFLUENCER...
It was mentioned in the context of a funny moment, but no details about the book itself were provided.
What did you call it? Still bird?
Fleabag.
Amanda Please
They talked about dressing up as the cast of the Amanda Show, but did not discuss the book.
Imagine she's like, I've heard you say that every year.
— Episode: PAIGE IS BEEFING WITH ANOTHER INFLUENCER...
They talked about dressing up as the cast of the Amanda Show, but did not discuss the book.
Imagine she's like, I've heard you say that every year.
Imagine she's like, I've heard you say that every year. Every lobster when we did the, the powerpuff girls, she was already a lobster.
The book was mentioned in a discussion about artists releasing multiple copies of a vinyl. They speculated that Billy Eilish might be criticizing Taylor Swift's release of multiple copies of this album.
It was something along the lines of like I can't stand when artists put out like multiple copies of like a vinyl just to like make it's like a money grab essentially and it was coming at Taylor becaus...
— Episode: PAIGE IS BEEFING WITH ANOTHER INFLUENCER...
The book was mentioned in a discussion about artists releasing multiple copies of a vinyl. They speculated that Billy Eilish might be criticizing Taylor Swift's release of multiple copies of this album.
It was something along the lines of like I can't stand when artists put out like multiple copies of like a vinyl just to like make it's like a money grab essentially and it was coming at Taylor because Taylor had put out like three or four different versions of the Tortured Poets department I don't know she was like talking shit about that.
They mentioned the movie 'Planet of the Apes', but did not discuss the book.
Mccullough just went and saw Planet of the Apes and he was like you would love this movie babe because the entire time they're doing few more do trick and I was like oh my god oh I th...
— Episode: PAIGE IS BEEFING WITH ANOTHER INFLUENCER...
They mentioned the movie 'Planet of the Apes', but did not discuss the book.
Mccullough just went and saw Planet of the Apes and he was like you would love this movie babe because the entire time they're doing few more do trick and I was like oh my god oh I think I'm so like because it's I'm so fewer do trick coded I was saying that I think that that's a big reason why I don't know how to drive.
The Visual Encyclopedia
They talked about a driver's ed teacher who used Star Wars references, but no specific books were mentioned.
And it's like oh my god I would call him on zoom every week and I'd be like how do you turn left you know I know nothing starting from the basics right what the fuck does yield mean right and I would...
— Episode: PAIGE IS BEEFING WITH ANOTHER INFLUENCER...
They talked about a driver's ed teacher who used Star Wars references, but no specific books were mentioned.
And it's like oh my god I would call him on zoom every week and I'd be like how do you turn left you know I know nothing starting from the basics right what the fuck does yield mean right and I would ask him these simple questions and then this man would like go on a fucking wraparound tangent with like Star Wars references about and like I've never seen Star Wars and like trying to teach me and I just I love few word do trip that's it.
Jeff mentioned Eastbound & Down, a show about a washed-up baseball player addicted to cocaine, and he said the character, Kenny Powers, put all his money into a jet ski and didn't have enough to store it.
I used to be a big fan, well I still have a big fan of Kenny Powers, Eastbound & Down Danny McBride.
— Episode: HOW JEFF WITTEK RUINED BROOKE’S HOOKUP……...
Jeff mentioned Eastbound & Down, a show about a washed-up baseball player addicted to cocaine, and he said the character, Kenny Powers, put all his money into a jet ski and didn't have enough to store it.
I used to be a big fan, well I still have a big fan of Kenny Powers, Eastbound & Down Danny McBride.
he did a show where he's a baseball player and he's like a washed-up baseball player because he was addicted to cocaine and it was like a maniac so he got cut from the MLB but he wanted to get back to the majors so this was like about his comeback and he put all his money into a jet ski and he didn't even have enough money to store it somewhere so he just left that out like some lake like tucked behind some bushes he's living with his brother in this show and he has like get back on his feet because you don't have enough money to have a house and they're like why don't you just sell the jet ski and he like would not keep up the fucking jet ski he loved it
Tana mentioned watching Adam Sandler's new movie 'Spaceman' and that she loved it, despite it not being a movie she'd usually watch.
I just watched his new movie last night, um, Spaceman, it's a type of movie I would absolutely never watch if it wasn't him, but kind of in her stellar vibes like you might like it, and I liked it bec...
— Episode: TANA AND BROOKE’S FIRST FIGHT ON TOUR… -...
Tana mentioned watching Adam Sandler's new movie 'Spaceman' and that she loved it, despite it not being a movie she'd usually watch.
I just watched his new movie last night, um, Spaceman, it's a type of movie I would absolutely never watch if it wasn't him, but kind of in her stellar vibes like you might like it, and I liked it because it was him, but he in the movie they kind of make him look a little older and more like he's going through it, you know, in the movie, and I was like I had a whole mental breakdown again about just like a life is losing Adam Sandler. Like I just I don't even know what I will do. The fact that we even got to see him and he talked for so long because you wanted people's icon, it was everything I love like that we didn't know anything about like who's gonna be there going into it.
A Handbook of History & Lore of the Undead
It was mentioned that she had made a reaction video to the book "Vampire" and was crying on the floor.
Well, no vampire came out.
— Episode: Jake Shane SPILLS on what REALLY happens...
It was mentioned that she had made a reaction video to the book "Vampire" and was crying on the floor.
Well, no vampire came out.
A Split Second Decision. A Lifetime Of Regret
It was highly recommended and the only book the speaker had ever read. The book discusses the speaker's sessions with her psychiatrist.
I love my book. He's a death of me. I love it. I love it.
— Episode: GETTING REVENGE ON OUR EXES WITH HANNAH...
It was highly recommended and the only book the speaker had ever read. The book discusses the speaker's sessions with her psychiatrist.
I love my book. He's a death of me. I love it. I love it.
I love it. It's the only book I ever read.
It's it was so good and the entire book is about her sessions with her psychiatrist and I was like, I need this person. I need this psychiatrist whatever and I go to reach out to him and Chelsea Eller made him so famous now.
The song was played during a story about a breakup that ended with the speaker being left at the Red Rock Casino.
It was the most embarrassing. It was such a sweet song. It was In Case You Didn't Know by Brett Young.
— Episode: BROOKE AND TANA’S HIGHLIGHTS OF 2023
The song was played during a story about a breakup that ended with the speaker being left at the Red Rock Casino.
It was the most embarrassing. It was such a sweet song. It was In Case You Didn't Know by Brett Young.
That's cute. In case you didn't know.
The title was referenced when the hosts dressed as the twins from the story for a Halloween shoot in a hotel hallway, describing the experience as funny and spontaneous. They noted that they had no room booked and had to change in the hallways while scaring strangers, using the book's iconic imagery for comedic effect.
Tana Mongeau and Brooke Schofield dressed as twins from The Shining for a Halloween look. They shot in hotel hallways and even scared strangers, enjoying the experience.
We shot a little Halloween look in downtown Los Angeles and we were the twins from The Shining and it was so fucking funny.
She didn't tell me beforehand that we did not have a room or anything booked so we had to change in the hallways. Titties out in the hotel hallway and then we shot as The Shining twins and then we were like scaring strangers.
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