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PODCAST

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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All Episodes

64:05

What's the Score on Season Four? (S4E1 - 1/1/24)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2024/01/01

May old podcast formats be forgot! We're back after a brief hiatus with a new vision for YWAM going forward. We hope you'll enjoy this return to our roots as much as we enjoyed recording it. As always, we've got reading updates to share, as well as some book-haul chronicles and a bit of general media deliberating for the more reading averse of our listeners. Thank you all for seeing us through to another year of podcasting. We'll do our best to make this our best year yet.

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28:10

Short Stories, Short Podcast (S3E23 - 11/12/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/11/12

Life, uhhh... finds a way... to delay our recording this podcast. We're back now, however briefly, to discuss Samanta Schweblin's NBA winning short story collection Seven Empty Houses, as well as lay out our plans for the rest of this year's reading! We're entering the final stretch!

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35:55

On Plagues Past (S3E22 - 10/28/23)

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2023/10/28

This week's episode concerns discussions of mass illness; if that sounds too heavy, just be glad we didn't go with our first plan. Join us as we go over Veronique Tadjo's In the Company of Men, as well as our own recent reading achievements and some programing changes for the near future.

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42:58

The Season of the Witch (S3E21 - 10/10/23)

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2023/10/10

Cooler weather, a new job, and a school year in full swing shouldn't cause us to lose sight of the spookiness of the Halloween season! We got a bit more of that than we bargained for with this week's reading challenge, Thomas Olde Heuvelt's Hex.

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41:22

Rhymes with "Poofy" (S3E20 - 9/26/23)

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2023/09/26

Read up, me hearties! This week we're going in depth on Eiichiro Oda's pirate adventure phenomenon One Piece. And yes, one of your hosts has a new job, but he just wants you to know that he still loves this podcast very much.

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36:06

Over Stuffed (S3E19 - 9/11/23)

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2023/09/11

There's plenty of stuff going on in your hosts lives right now, not to mention our scheduled discussion of Shruti Swamy's acclaimed short story collection 'A House is a Body.' Any of that would have sustained an episode on its own. And yet, something tells me this will go down as "the one about the pillow romance."

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37:53

A World without Books (S3E18 - 8/31/23) [fixed]

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2023/08/31

As hurricane winds assail the southeast, Elizabeth and Thomas have shouldered once again through illness and technical difficulties to bring you a discussion of Miya Kazuki's hit light novel, Ascendance of a Bookworm.

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40:27

A Scandinavious Episode (S3E17 - 8/15/23) [fixed]

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/08/15

YWAM heads to Sweden for a discussion of Let the Right One In, John Lindqvist's hit vampire novel and film. We too will be staying out of the sunlight during this oppressive heat-wave, opting instead to catch up on our respective fantasy romance and pirate series.

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41:41

Woolfing Down Some Serial (S3E16 - 7/31/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/07/31

Work is rearing it's head back into the lives of your hosts, with a return of students for one and some interesting prospects for the other. Meanwhile, on the reading front, Virginia Woolf's modernist classic Mrs. Dalloway poses some surprising challenges.

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53:58

To Be Continued... (S3E15 - 7/18/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/07/18

The heat is on, in a very real sense, with the latter half of 2023 getting underway. The two hosts had themselves some vacation goings-on to get into, before diving into all the books they have, and have not, finished.

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60:51

Carl (S3E14 - 7/4/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/07/04

The dew point is rising, and life has some curve balls for your hosts, but the books get read regardless. This week we discuss Hank Green's debut novel, 'An Absolutely Remarkable Thing.' Come for the giant robots, stay for the nuanced yet entertaining ruminations on fame and power in the internet age.

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36:21

Summering at 'Wolf Hall' (S3E13 - 6/21/23)

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2023/06/21

On the first day of Summer, your podcast brings to thee: a contrived premise for an overdue episode. Would like to say the wait was worth it for an in-depth discussion of Hilary Mantel's award winning novel 'Wolf Hall,' but nope! Instead you'll have to make due with more general ruminations on the historical fiction genre, some recommendations in the manga and sci-fi romance categories, and an eager anticipation for the summer's full potential now that we're almost finished with education seminars /

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40:50

Quit Your Podcast! (S3E12 - 6/6/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/06/06

Summertime is upon us! This week sees your hosts beating the heat with Ian F Martin's comprehensive journalistic chronicle of Tokyo's various music scenes in Quit Your Band!

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44:06

This is How You Lose the Reading Contest (S3E11 -...

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/05/23

YWAM has always been a war against time: time enough to read. All too appropriate that we should have to compete with end-of-year work and hit videogames to get in a discussion about the recent viral sensation, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone's 'This is How You Lose the Time War.'

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49:02

I Can't Get No Adaptation (S3E10 - 5/8/23)

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2023/05/08

In light of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces' notorious unadaptability, this week's conversation winds its way around to other literary adaptations, from Bridgerton to Nimona. IRL, the last couple weeks have been particularly hectic for her, but Elizabeth powered through with a triumphant return to the world of genre romances.

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48:31

"No Self-Editing Here!" (S3E9 - 4/24/23)

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2023/04/24

Samanta Schweblin's phantasmagoric debut novel Fever Dream has your hosts asking a lot of questions, some of which they (re: Thomas) may feel a little embarrassed to have on record. Meanwhile, the competition hits a surprise milestone!

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43:52

Banned Book Club (S3E8 - 4/9/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/04/09

Today's episode about Jason Reynold's acclaimed young adult novel Long Way Down provides us with a jumping off point for a broader discussion on the topic of banned books.

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49:27

"When were Zeppelins a Thing?" (S3E7 - 3/27/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/03/27

Looks like that bonus episode was just what we needed to kick this reading competition back into high gear. Both hosts rebound nicely this week with stronger book and word totals, as well as a burgeoning interest in the history of airships.

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43:37

Bonus Episode - Rated N.C. 2023! (S3B1 - 3/23/23)

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/03/23

Here's a special episode that even managed to surprise us a few times. Thomas and Elizabeth make their way through North Carolina, from Carrboro to Durham, hitting up every bookstore in their path! Will we ever financially recover from this latest book haul? Well that's kind of up to you, if you think about it.

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43:15

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Never Dies (S3E6 -...

Your Words Against Mine ·

2023/03/14

When it comes to interrupting our recording schedule, life - uh... finds a way. And speaking of movie references, the intervening weeks have afforded both your hosts rare opportunities to get back out to theaters. Enjoy the movie talk as we build up steam to discuss Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.

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