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Your Words Against Mine

Thomas Dempsey & Elizabeth Conner

A competitive reading podcast between two siblings. Over the course of 2023, Thomas Dempsey and Elizabeth Conner will assign each other various reading challenges, all the while vying to see who can read the most words overall.

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50:23

You Can Take the Girl Out of the Lab... (S3E5 - 2/26/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/02/27

As seasonal illness continues to weigh on our competitors, we look to nature for answers in this week's reading challenge, Hope Jahren's vibrant autobiography 'Lab Girl.'

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53:19

Don't Knock Rupert Grint (S3E4 - 2/12/23)

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2023/02/12

This week, YWAM is tackling The Cabin at the End of the World, the basis for the new M Night Shyamalan film! You'll also hear about our recent trip to Columbia, and thrill to a surprising upset in the reading challenge totals.

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45:06

The Themis Seminars (S3E3 - 1/29/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/01/29

The first reading challenge of 2023 takes us through Sylvain Neuvel's The Themis Files, a sci-fi series whose iron giants are anything but gentle. Before that, we share our pursuits of various accreditations by way of online and i.r.l. seminars.

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49:09

Quick Turnarounds in Indie Publishing (S3E2 - 1/15/23)

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2023/01/15

The race for wordcount is officially underway in 2023! Elizabeth is back from the Kindle Unlimited mines with a fresh crop of romance series, and Thomas has his first reading challenge of the year to issue, as well as some books you'll just have to wait until next episode to hear about.

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58:03

Third Season's the Charm (S3E1 - 1/1/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/01/01

The curtain closes on another season of Your Words Against Mine. Elizabeth and Thomas recall their favorite reads of 2022, share holiday stories, and finally reveal whose wordcount came out on top. Furthermore, with the new year dawning, your hosts are setting their next round of goals even higher! Join in the fun with a fresh new seasons of YWAM!

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48:54

Taking Stock of 2022 (S2E26 - 12/25/22)

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2022/12/25

A Merry Christmas and Happy Final episode of 2022! As our hosts prepare for next year's big new framing device, visions of cataloguing software dancing in their heads, we'd like to take a moment to thank everyone who tuned in. We hope we've been of some comfort to you, and we welcome you to join us again in season 3!

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41:57

Sparrows and Cocktails (S2E25 - 12/10/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/12/10

With 2022 winding down, there has been a lot of house keeping to take care of. Nevertheless, if there's two things you can always count on, it's reading and podcasting (way better than those other two things.)

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36:38

We Now Pause for Cornbread (S2E24 - 11/24/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/11/24

Happy Thanksgiving from Your Words Against Mine. This year, we're grateful to be recording in the same room again, and to both be on the exact same page when it comes to the latest reading challenge.

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50:37

One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest (S2E23 - 11/10/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/11/10

The end is in sight for this season of YWAM, but your hosts still have a lot of reading to go if they want to meet their goals. Life, as it will, throws some curveballs into the mix, but we're back again to talk Josh Malerman's Bird Box follow-up, Inspection.

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42:29

Lucky Number Mickey7 (S2E22 - 10/26/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/10/26

Plans for the week ahead lead off a relatively laid back episode, where we discuss Edward Ashton's thrilling and existential sci-fi adventure.

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50:06

Luckiest Girl Alive (S2E21 - 10/12/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/10/12

Fresh off a long overdue vacation, Elizabeth & Thomas get into a reasonably (and necessarily) spoiler-lite discussion of Jessica Knoll's bestseller and its recent Netflix adaptation.

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51:40

Where There's Smoke, There's 'Pale Fire' (S2E20 -...

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/09/28

Nabakov's beguiling and audacious 1962 novel makes for a surprisingly complementary topic to accompany an extended discussion of social media trends and celebrity drama. Add to that an impending storm and a long overdue vacation, and you'll hardly notice how little we actually read this week!

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50:38

Podcasting on the Rocks (S2E19 - 9/14/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/09/14

Whatever the multiple technical difficulties and interruptions would have you to believe, this episode was produced entirely sober. You might need something to take the edge off all the talk of tiktok rabbit holes, sexy dragon-folk, and cephalopod paintball.

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36:21

"Gothic" or Go Home (S2E18 - 8/31/22)

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2022/08/31

YWAM looks to the future with travel plans, career moves, and reading challenges. Right now, though, the question remains: how haunted is too haunted for a haunted house story?

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54:01

The Most Visual Medium (S2E17 - 8/17/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/08/17

The world does not stop for podcasting, as this week's discussion of non-reading events makes clear. With a potential spin-off podcast in the works, where will we find the time for reading at all? But let's not get all defeatist! There's always room for books!

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45:32

You Murakami on my Cell Phone (S2E16 - 8/4/22)

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2022/08/04

A highly, HIGHLY contentious episode of YWAM sees our hosts nearly coming to blows and having to walk back some truly hurtful claims. Granted, drama is pretty relative, so take all that with a grain of salt. Regardless, we've got the sci-fi romance and magical-realist ennui that you crave, so don't touch that dial!

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56:38

Manacles and Chainsaws (S2E15 - 7/21/22)

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2022/07/21

Fanfiction and manga are back with a vengeance in this dual reading challenge episode! A decidedly modern take on the Harry Potter universe is paired with a world literally overrun by demons. Nothing relatable about that at all!

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49:59

Gideondependence Day (S2E14 - 7/5/22)

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2022/07/05

This 4th of July, Tamsyn Muir's deliciously dark work of fantasy sci-fi has got your hosts seeing fireworks! With half the year left ahead of us, the show still has a long way to go, both in ambition and literal trips to be taken. Stick with us for more talk of romance, mystery, e-reading metrics, and cats.

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49:33

'Cemetery Boys' Summer (S2E13 - 6/21/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/06/21

Season Two hits the halfway mark with this discussion of Aiden Thomas' coming-of-age (& undeath) tale, along with some talk about baseball, Top Gun, manga, and more!

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46:00

One Hundred Years of Fan Fiction (S2E12 - 6/6/22)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2022/06/07

With Summer break under way, this year's reading competition just will not stop piling on the surprises. Join your hosts for a discussion of a classic of Colombian literature, some good old-fashioned mysteries, and a full-on dive into the world of other people's IP.

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