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00:00:48.640 Hello, hello, hello.

00:00:51.280 So it is nearly summer.

00:00:53.860 My kids are in school for one more week.

00:00:57.080 summer is often promoted as a time for reading. You know, we've got the whole

00:01:03.920 beach reads thing going on. And I think it's funny because for moms, summer is not necessarily

00:01:14.020 leisure. For a lot of us, we're really just handed an extra full-time job of child care

00:01:23.760 for two and a half months. I will tell you, I am trying to give myself a bit of a break

00:01:30.300 this summer. I'm trying to slow down, which I mean, if you listen to this podcast, you know,

00:01:37.300 I'm real bad at. I'm not good at slowing down. I've been sick for a week and I still have not

00:01:42.440 properly rested. I'm just not good at it. But a couple things that I have done, I have severely

00:01:50.100 restricted my calendar. I'm only doing interviews and meetings two days of the week. It seems crazy,

00:01:58.080 right? Like I'll take one outside of it if I have to. And trust me, like all of my meetings for TV

00:02:02.920 stuff are probably going to be at like seven o'clock on a Friday because Los Angeles. Anyway,

00:02:09.380 but still I'm trying to restrict myself to just these two days, just certain hours. And I'm hoping

00:02:15.180 that that will free up some time for me to do things for me. And I'm also putting me things

00:02:21.300 on my to-do list. I'm like, oh, you should go get your nails done. You should go for a walk.

00:02:27.060 You should just lay in bed and read. I'm actually going to put that on my to-do list.

00:02:32.780 Maybe that's psycho and I don't care. But yeah, lay in your bed in the middle of the day and read.

00:02:38.520 read i mean reading is also part of my job and still i don't make enough time for it during the

00:02:45.320 day i always do it at night before i'm going to bed and then i stay up too late and that's not

00:02:48.880 good because i need my sleep i love sleep and speaking of reading you know i do believe that

00:02:54.940 it can be really hard to find books right like that's why so many people love the celebrity book

00:03:00.480 clubs because they tell us what to read and i want to help you i want to help everyone today

00:03:04.960 my friend Jane Rosen actually wrote a great story for Katie Couric Media about the best

00:03:10.800 beach reads of summer. She's great. She has her own book, Seven Summer Weekends, coming out June

00:03:17.380 4th. She's just, she's a delight. She's a delight. And so I thought I'd bring her on to talk about

00:03:22.660 the beach reads that she highlighted for the Katie Couric piece and other things that she's reading

00:03:27.880 right now. We're going to bring on some of the authors to talk about their books, just to give

00:03:32.400 you a little taste of what's out there so that you can decide what to read for this weekend and

00:03:37.360 all of your summer weekends. And I also hope that all of you are taking care of yourself this summer

00:03:43.280 because we're so busy taking care of everyone else that we have to take a step back and be like,

00:03:48.040 nope, nope, nope. What am I going to do for me? For me. Me, me, me. It's not selfish. It's not.

00:03:55.380 It's good for everyone. Okay. Summer reads. Summer reads. Let's do it, friends.

00:04:02.400 hello my love jane rosen how you doing hello hello joe piazza i'm doing well i'm having you

00:04:10.780 on today because you are an expert in summer books and you just did that big piece for katie

00:04:17.680 your book seven summer weekends was just on the bustle list of what to read for the summer

00:04:22.980 i'm halfway through it right now and i love it seven summer weekends it has so much in common

00:04:29.560 with Sicilian inheritance in terms of an inheritance from a mysterious aunt that completely

00:04:36.600 changes your life and I'm just I'm very invested in it I tried to finish reading it on the plane

00:04:42.540 today um with a baby on my lap by the way because I fucking multitask but but I've got I've got like

00:04:50.440 I think only two more chapters to go and I think I'm I've already had a little bit of spice you say 0.94

00:04:56.120 the word cunnilingus in this um and it didn't even make me cringe and usually i see the word

00:05:01.300 cunnilingus and i'm like yeah um but it was more said as a joke it was a joke no i mean you said

00:05:08.580 the word cunnilingus um you know in the right way which is as a joke um also throbbing member which

00:05:15.160 you can also also only say as a joke like if someone is seriously writing throbbing member

00:05:20.260 i don't want to be friends with that person and i'm probably not going to write their books is

00:05:23.760 all i'm gonna say but when i was a kid we had in camp there was this book that people shoved like

00:05:30.200 on the top of the bat of the um you know in a way right right it would go in the senior bunk and

00:05:37.920 every year the seniors would read it it was called couch treatment and it was a dirty book and we'd

00:05:42.680 sit in the closet and read it and it had so many throbbing members in it so many throbbing members

00:05:47.980 But the books that the books we're going to recommend do not have throbbing members.

00:05:52.680 Before we talk about books, I want to talk about something awesome that you did with other authors whose books are also coming out on June 4th.

00:06:01.540 You all banded together as authors releasing on the same day to promote and hype one another.

00:06:09.400 And I fucking love it because women supporting women, I mean, it's it's what we have to do to survive in this world. 0.99

00:06:16.380 And women who don't support women have a special place in hell for me. 0.99

00:06:20.760 Tell me tell me about how you guys how you guys did this.

00:06:24.800 I mean, somebody just rang me up and said, hey, all these women publishing June 4th would like to get together, support each other.

00:06:32.520 And we banded together.

00:06:34.600 it's been so much more than just a social media post or recommending each other's books

00:06:42.220 it's been a sounding board it's kind of been like author therapy we just get support from each other

00:06:47.740 i i think i never want to publish without these women again i don't know i mean i think that i 0.96

00:06:52.380 don't think you should i am not publishing on june 4th but i want in on this shit uh

00:06:57.280 and i and i and i love i love all the authors that are publishing on june 4th can you tell us

00:07:03.300 the authors whose books are coming out on june 4th that people should be reading absolutely we

00:07:08.960 have myself seven summer weekends which we already discussed a rom-com set on fire island

00:07:14.700 and then we have summer romance by annabelle monaghan love me love me some annabelle monaghan

00:07:20.820 right i mean she's really becoming like the queen of the book rom-com and we have anna bright is

00:07:27.180 hiding something by suzy orman schnall i i blurbed that book i blurbed that book and it's you

00:07:32.840 I did. I did. I loved that book. You know, it's like if you are a person who loves reading about narcissists and scam artists, this book is for you. And in fact, I just talked to Susie and let's have her on right now to describe the book a little bit.

00:07:47.780 OK.

00:07:49.300 And now we've got Susie giving us her quickie elevator pitch for Anna Bright is hiding something.

00:07:55.080 it is a ripped from the headlines and propulsive story about the fascinating world of female

00:08:03.500 founders it is set in both silicon valley and new york city and it takes the reader behind the

00:08:09.880 scenes of both of those worlds of the female founder startup tech world and of the journalism

00:08:16.500 new new media world in new york city and it features two main characters the first is anna

00:08:22.780 who is a female founder who has invented this incredible product and is about to go public with 0.98

00:08:29.880 it and is about to take her company public with an IPO. But she's committing fraud and nobody knows 1.00

00:08:35.860 it yet. Not her board, not the media, not all the millions of people who are signing on to get this 0.68

00:08:41.960 new product of hers. My second main character is Jamie, who's a journalist, and she uncovers the

00:08:48.160 fraud of Anna and works to take her down. So it's a cat and mouse game between these two women,

00:08:54.040 and it's basically been called The Dropout Meets Inventing Anna. So for those who aren't familiar 0.67

00:08:59.440 with The Dropout, it was the television show on Hulu based on the book Bad Blood about Elizabeth

00:09:06.720 Holmes, who was the CEO and founder of Theranos. And she was a nightmare committing fraud all over

00:09:13.600 the place and is now in jail. Inventing Anna features a journalist who's played by Anna 0.58

00:09:19.220 Klumsky, who reveals what scam artist Anna Delvey is doing. So it's the combination of those two

00:09:25.500 characters all wrapped up in one book. So it's a lot of juicy fun. It's a page turner. And it's

00:09:32.140 basically about women in the workplace, ambition and the true meaning of success.

00:09:37.520 All right. We're back with Jane. What else you got for me?

00:09:39.280 We have a debut author in our group named Olivia Muencher, such a fan of the influence.

00:09:46.000 The debut, it's a thriller.

00:09:47.520 She's young and she's beautiful and so is her book.

00:09:49.660 I also blurbed that book.

00:09:50.800 I did.

00:09:51.280 I did.

00:09:52.160 Look, people send me books.

00:09:54.440 They all end up being great.

00:09:55.940 And then I blurbed them.

00:09:56.920 And I love Olivia.

00:09:58.580 She is one half of the duo who does the Bad on Paper podcast, which I was on when I was promoting The Hot Sicilian.

00:10:06.600 And this book, I mean, I couldn't put it down.

00:10:09.040 I devoured it in one night. Such a bad influence. We actually, we're going to have Olivia on now

00:10:15.060 to talk about her book, too. And we will have Olivia on to talk about Such a Bad Influence 0.59

00:10:20.500 right after the break.

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00:11:36.200 one of the fun things that we are doing in this episode, which I love, is I'm just just having

00:11:42.500 authors pop on in to describe their books, because no one can describe a book as well as the person

00:11:48.940 who wrote it. And now we're going to hear from one of my favorite podcasters and authors.

00:11:55.820 I blurbed this book. I read it so long ago. Such a bad influence. I mean, it's delicious. It's just

00:12:03.620 freaking delicious here's olivia so my book is such a bad influence and this is sort of about

00:12:11.160 the first kind of imagine like a first youtube family everyone's famous the kids are famous and

00:12:17.440 there's two sisters and one of them becomes sort of the first major child influencer and the other

00:12:23.520 one just shies away from the spotlight entirely and this book is about what if the instagram famous

00:12:31.440 sister grows up and then goes missing and her older sister has to find her but it's told from

00:12:38.020 the perspective of the social media averse sister hazel so if you're like i don't know if i can read

00:12:43.380 a whole book from the perspective of an influencer there's there's both sides in this book both sides

00:12:48.700 both sides and i couldn't read a whole book from the perspective of an influencer and i can tell

00:12:53.080 you that because i've been writing one been writing my trashy trad wife novel um although

00:12:57.640 i like both the characters i do uh this book is so smart and as you said you're like if you've

00:13:03.820 ever imagined i'm like oh this is something i imagine all the time yeah um and yeah it's it's

00:13:09.440 so well done it's such a sharp critique of the world of influence and what we're doing to kids

00:13:16.120 in the world of influence right now and yeah i mean it's just it's it it does not read like a

00:13:22.680 debut and i mean that in like the best way possible it reads like someone who is a seasoned

00:13:27.100 novelist who wow you know just yeah no i i mean i said it in my blurb i gobbled it up in in one 0.96

00:13:34.000 night and the blurbs that i really want to do the publishers never like i'm like it fucking killed 0.88

00:13:38.180 me i i loved it so much i threw it against the fucking wall and decided to never write again 0.88

00:13:44.780 um but the publishers are somehow weird about those blurbs but i would appreciate that one 0.88

00:13:49.140 Thank you so much. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

00:13:53.400 I did. And I really I mean, I just think people are going to going to going to eat this up and it's going to be such a fun read for the summer.

00:13:59.300 It's great book club fodder. I will say that. I feel like it can really get people arguing, which I enjoy.

00:14:05.040 Sames, sames. Yeah. I mean, I've got people arguing in the Sicilian book clubs, but then I also get them real drunk in the Sicilian book clubs.

00:14:10.240 And it goes a lot of ways. Goes a lot of ways.

00:14:13.740 Also a good strategy, I think.

00:14:15.280 Get drunk. Get drunk and read this book.

00:14:17.660 Ideal.

00:14:18.060 ideal ideal and now back to jane for more book recommendations all right so who else you got

00:14:25.300 we have all the summers in between by brooke leah foster yes yes i am i did not blurb that one

00:14:33.860 but i'll give you the little blurb my own little blurb is that give me give me your give me your

00:14:38.900 blurb for that one it's a rich girl poor girl story a friendship story set in the hamptons

00:14:44.680 in dual timelines it's a true friendship saga kind of for fans of firefly lane i would say

00:14:51.980 yeah and um gorgeous cover and brooke is a wonderful writer such a pretty cover such a

00:14:58.140 pretty cover i love it i love it yeah and i am i've got brooke on to talk about her book too

00:15:02.540 yeah let's do it i know isn't this fun i've just got everyone popping in here it's like carpool

00:15:07.540 karaoke i want you to give me the quickest dirtiest description of your book possible

00:15:15.060 oh my god okay two women meet become best friends become frenemies don't talk for 10 years

00:15:22.020 one comes back into the other's life with a really big secret and they have to figure out

00:15:26.820 how to make up i mean it's like the friend that got away right we've all had one the friend that

00:15:31.940 got away that would be a really good title actually you know it was a non-fiction book

00:15:36.640 I'm not going to lie. It was like 10 years ago. And it was about women who had a friend that,

00:15:41.940 you know, they left behind at some point in their past. And like the drama and the pain that we

00:15:46.520 carry over years from that. We carry. I mean, I still think about the friends that the friends

00:15:52.480 that got away. I do. I think of this all the time. And like they they occupy a weird place in my soul.

00:15:59.040 I have to say. I agree. You know, like I I wrote this book in part. I mean, I wouldn't say this

00:16:04.560 of like the whole shebang but in part because I had two best friends in high school we went on a

00:16:09.760 cross-country road trip together and we came home four weeks early not speaking so I'm still best

00:16:16.420 friends with one of those friends but one of them I you know we lost touch for probably 15 years and

00:16:22.580 then because of social media we kind of skirt around each other's lives and she's a perfectly

00:16:27.000 pleasant nice person but it was just you know stuff went down on that trip and there were some

00:16:32.180 truths and there was some pain. And there was a lot of confusion that I still don't really

00:16:36.820 understand what happened, you know, even in hindsight. It was just a lot of emotion at age 20.

00:16:41.920 It was like a lot of stuff. So much. And we've all been through that. I think that we can all

00:16:46.900 relate to this book. What makes it a delicious summer read to like throw in your beach bag to

00:16:53.720 read at the summer pool while you ignore your kids, which is what I plan on doing this summer?

00:17:00.440 Like, what parts of it do you think people are just going to be like, yes, I need this?

00:17:04.760 Yeah, I mean, I think the setting really helps.

00:17:06.860 I mean, being in 1967 and 1977 in the Hamptons is so much fun.

00:17:11.480 You know, the Hamptons get such a bad rap.

00:17:13.040 They can be such a nightmare today.

00:17:14.720 But back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, they were a delight.

00:17:17.420 It really was before the Hamptons was the Hamptons.

00:17:19.400 There were so many artists out there.

00:17:20.880 There were writers.

00:17:21.720 You know, you could run into Truman Capote at the bar at Bobby Vann's.

00:17:25.500 You know, you got Jackson Pollock out there.

00:17:27.260 So it was it was a really cool time.

00:17:29.900 But also it's escapist, you know, it's escapist. You're sort of going off into this beach world with these women. You're going, you know, you're riding bikes with them. You're going to the farms and you're doing all these things we all dream about doing all summer long, but you're doing it while this drama is unfolding with this sparkly setting in the background.

00:17:46.940 So I get so much inspiration from out there. You know, I grew up out there and as a local girl, not as a wealthy city girl, which is my two characters. And and so I go out there and I just the light and the natural landscape, like people see the big money houses on TV. That's not why locals love the Hamptons. We love the east end of Long Island because it really is undeveloped, unspoiled nature. You know, the beaches are beautiful.

00:18:10.420 it's beautiful it's beautiful I mean I went out there as a gossip columnist for years

00:18:14.200 and then stayed with my friends who had grown up there who just like knew the town who were not

00:18:21.500 the rich people and that was always the best way to do it it really is I mean you have a completely

00:18:25.760 different view of a beach town when you're a local girl right like a local person you just

00:18:29.580 I mean that's why I love writing all three of my books have been set in beach towns and that's why

00:18:33.540 I love it because you have the haves and the have-nots you have the people who can afford to

00:18:36.660 live there then you have the people who work for the people who can afford to live there

00:18:40.120 and even though everybody kind of gets along on the surface underneath all these tensions simmer

00:18:45.100 and I've always found that so interesting especially as someone who would go out there

00:18:49.500 in summer you know sorry who grew up out there and with all the people come out in summer and

00:18:54.220 so one of my characters is you know this hardscrabble girl her dad's a plumber out there

00:18:58.440 and the other one is you know a daughter of two media tycoons who come out or media stars I should

00:19:03.840 say who come out you know for the weekend but they both have their own problems and that's what I

00:19:08.200 think you realize out in the Hamptons, like when you get to know everyone out there, is it doesn't

00:19:12.280 matter how nice your house is. You all have the same baggage. You're all carrying around the same

00:19:16.480 stuff. Everyone's got baggage. We all have baggage. Rich, poor, in between. We've all got baggage.

00:19:23.120 And I love I love a book that transports me to a place. I mean, that's what I was trying to do

00:19:27.440 with Sicilian. And I really think that you did this here. I would transport you to a place and 0.60

00:19:33.100 a time. So if we are looking for an escapist read that we can all relate to, this is one

00:19:39.960 you're going to want to pick up, right? Yes. I love it. Time for one more quick break. I know

00:19:47.140 they're annoying, but podcasts got to be making money. They do. They do. So we do it. We do all

00:19:54.620 the things. You matched on Hinge. You're vibing. Then her energy completely changes. What do you

00:20:05.560 do? I'm Raven Smith, and I wrote and read a real love story about this exact sitch.

00:20:11.280 Listen to the free audiobook now. Okay, and we're back. What else do you have for me?

00:20:19.960 last but not least a memoir by chelsea davantes do you know who she is no i don't tell me more

00:20:26.740 tell me more i will she's the head writer for john stewart okay i haven't read it yet but i'm

00:20:32.380 i'm sure and confident that it's going to be hysterical because she's quite funny and her

00:20:38.380 life seems to be memoir worthy so if anyone's looking for a memoir i think it's perfect what's

00:20:44.640 and what's that one called that one is called

00:20:47.660 oh do you know no that's not what it's called i'm so sorry you're gonna have to edit this

00:20:57.380 i'm googling it i'll edit chelsea devontes i forgot what it's called good thing i have my cheat

00:21:06.300 sheet. Hold on. I shouldn't be telling you this. I shouldn't be telling you this. Good. I love it

00:21:16.780 when people shouldn't be telling me things. Well, I have a memoir, too, that I'm very excited about.

00:21:22.040 People who listen to this show know that I can't wait for my dear girlfriend Glynis's memoir. I'm

00:21:29.380 mostly here to enjoy myself, about her summer spent in Paris just having a lot of sex with a 0.87

00:21:37.140 lot of younger men, eating all the cheese and drinking all the wine and living her life to

00:21:42.700 the fullest as a 47-year-old unmarried child-free woman. Okay, that sounds fantastic. I won't say

00:21:50.580 the word that we're not going to say unless we're joking. Exactly. No, it's throbbing. Don't say

00:21:55.880 throbbing member but there's some throbbing members in this book well I'm I am also very

00:22:00.580 excited for uh Rufy Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles uh I've been I've been a weird Rufy

00:22:07.780 fangirl for a long time we used to share an editor and um yeah this one looks delightful

00:22:15.240 and also kind of weird it's got um you know someone with an OnlyFans account and professional

00:22:23.460 wrestlers and it's just I don't even want to describe it for people I just want people to

00:22:30.440 pick it up and then be delighted by it because it is laughed out loud funny and I've barely

00:22:36.560 barely even scratched the surface yet but so far I'm like oh oh fuck yeah I am also very excited

00:22:42.020 about Liz Moore's God of the Woods which looks just fantastic Liz is another Philly writer she

00:22:51.640 wrote long bright river um and god of the woods uh is much more suspenseful i think um yeah it's

00:23:01.400 an epic mystery is what it is uh and a family saga and set in 1975 a camp counselor discovers

00:23:09.540 an empty bunk yeah yeah i know i know it's got all the things all the all the all the all the

00:23:16.120 all the things and you know i like to give people you know some like flirty summer beachy reads and

00:23:22.900 then some some crazy dark shit because we like we like all the things here yes we like to mix it up

00:23:30.360 we are women who are not just one thing we contain multitudes we do well i'm very excited for the 0.98

00:23:38.820 launch of seven summer weekends i am just psyched for for people to get it in their in their grubby

00:23:44.940 little hands and I'm cheering you on. I'm cheering you and all the June 4th writers on. I love that

00:23:50.940 you all banded together. I think there's a lesson in that for all of us about how women need to

00:23:56.020 support other women. There's enough room for everybody. There's there's enough room for

00:24:00.800 everybody. And I will tell you, the majority of other women off author, the majority of other 0.99

00:24:06.040 women authors are so supportive. And then there's like 10 percent who'd be bitches. And I'm like, 1.00

00:24:10.320 why you be bitches friends like there's room for all of us i will support other women until the day 1.00

00:24:17.080 that i die but the women who are nasty and snotty about it y'all can go yourselves okay um love love 0.99

00:24:25.380 what you guys are doing i'm just so proud of you i'm so proud of you i'm so i hope that you all 0.81

00:24:29.220 just publish books on the same day forevermore i really do i hope so too i don't know all right

00:24:34.280 think of that i mean i don't know what publishers think of anything now by the way we're doing this

00:24:39.240 interview while you're like literally getting your hair dyed in a hotel room uh oh i see yeah

00:24:43.240 yeah you got some you got some roots there girl you got some roots um all right so go go get your

00:24:47.860 hair did go out and enjoy enjoy this tour for seven summer weekends it really is i think i

00:24:53.280 think it's the perfect beach read i do um it made me me want to go to fire island i've never been

00:24:58.080 to fire island guys isn't that crazy i'll sign your book okay i'll come i'll i'll jane don't

00:25:04.260 Don't tell me that, because I'll show up with my children, with all three of them.

00:25:09.620 And just, you don't want that.

00:25:10.860 You don't want them in your home.

00:25:12.300 No one does.

00:25:13.140 I don't.

00:25:14.680 All right.

00:25:15.120 Okay, I'm coming.

00:25:16.140 Get on the next ferry.

00:25:16.940 Bye.

00:25:17.660 All right.

00:25:19.100 Bye, honey.

00:25:19.800 Take care.

00:25:20.140 Bye.

00:25:21.740 And that is all we have for today.

00:25:24.200 I am also reading Ministry of Time, which is a weirdo, weirdo book.

00:25:30.200 It is.

00:25:30.720 kind of a sci-fi time travel love story, and it's very well written, but strange. It's strange.

00:25:39.560 I'm enjoying it. I'm going to keep going with it, but it's an odd little duck. It is an odd,

00:25:46.680 odd little duck. I want to hear all of your reading recommendations, so follow us on the

00:25:53.760 sub stack over the influence, or, you know, I'm on the Instagram at Joe Piazza Author. DM me,

00:25:59.440 let me know what you're reading. I'm always looking for new books. I mean, I've got a

00:26:04.300 never-ending TBR. I'm actually staring at it right now. I mean, the pile of books on my nightstand

00:26:10.880 is so huge that it could injure my sweet, sweet husband, Nick Astor. It really could.

00:26:19.100 But alas, I love the reading. And I love Jane Rosen. Seven Summer Weekends was just such a

00:26:25.760 delight. You know, I like books that feel like a hug these days, because we all need more hugs.

00:26:33.300 And I love what the June 4 authors did for each other. Because you know, I've said it before,

00:26:39.000 and I will say it over and over again, there's a special place in hell for women who do not 0.99

00:26:43.520 support and help other women. There is. It's what we all need to be doing. There is a place for all 0.97

00:26:50.540 of us at the table. And you know what? If we run out of room at the table, we are women, we get

00:26:56.600 stuff done. We will build a bigger table, people. We will build that bigger table, okay, so that we 1.00

00:27:03.280 can all sit there and we can all eat all of the delicious things. Now, go do something nice for

00:27:10.060 yourself. You deserve it. Oh, oh, one thing that I totally forgot. This week and this week only,

00:27:16.340 There is a Kindle deal on the Sicilian inheritance. It's $5.99, which is gonzo bananas. I mean, it's like we're just giving it away for free at this point. And I know a lot of the library waitlists are very long. So if you want the book at the lowest price it is ever going to be, download it on your Kindle and read that at your public pool while you're ignoring your children.

00:27:42.560 and go do something else nice for yourself because you deserve it. You are amazing and

00:27:48.740 you deserve to have a wonderful, wonderful summer. Bye all.

00:28:12.560 Thank you.

00:28:42.560 you matched on hinge you're vibing then her energy completely changes what do you do

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Under the Influence (with Jo Piazza) - June 06, 2024

Beach Reads to Grab Now (Spice and Thrills and No Throbbing Members)

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