Hey y'all nardette is on spring break this week but we have something we are very excited to share with you

it is an episode from a show called the Culture Study Podcast and it is hosted by friend of nardette and

Helen petterson it is a show about exploring the nooks and

crannies of the culture that surrounds you. Each week Anne and a super smart

co-host answer listeners questions about the stuff they find interesting and perplexing.

Like why do clothes suck now? Is Paw Patrol Copaganda or is it just not that deep?

And what's the deal with everyone we know getting a divorce?

The Culture Study Podcast is funny, insightful, and kind of weird,

and it will help you become the most interesting person at the party.

Here it is.

How would you describe a court of thrones and roses

to someone who has never heard of it?

Okay, it's a series of romanticy books, which means that they are big fantasy world books, but they have a lot of romance stuff happening in them.

And it's about a young initially human woman who falls in love with a

super sexy old fairy daddy and he can shape shift into a lion beast thing.

And the first book is sort of beauty and the beast inflected, but after that everything goes off the rails in a good way.

This is the Culture Study Podcast and I'm Anne Helen Peterson.

And I'm Catherine Vanerandunk and I'm a critic at Vulture.

And I am like positioning myself right now at the beginning as someone who loves romance but does not consume a ton of it and

I think we can maybe unpack some of those reasons why as we go through but I have been

enthralled by various

franchises over the course of the last however many years of my adult life but that we should backtrack just a slight amount and say that today's episode is all about,

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