{"id":4751,"date":"2021-10-11T12:01:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T16:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?p=4751"},"modified":"2021-10-21T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T14:48:23","slug":"episode-182-michelle-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-182-michelle-remembers\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 182 &#8211; Michelle Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Michelle-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4759 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Michelle-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Michelle-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Michelle-1-145x220.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Michelle-1.jpg 329w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were joined by our Caftan Club sisters, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gracetopia\">Grace<\/a> and Ashley, to discuss a bestseller that was so bad it had to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michelle_Remembers#Investigation_and_debunking\">removed from publication<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Ylwcps\"><em>Michelle Remembers<\/em> by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder<\/a>. The book represents irresponsible therapeutic practices as well as irresponsible journalism, but at least it&#8217;s also uncomfortably horny! Listen while assembling your 13-piece evil bench from evil Ikea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Content warning<\/strong>: This book and our discussion of it contains non-graphic discussions of miscarriage, child abuse, animal abuse, sexual assault, and a lot of generally gross stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers advisory<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/readers-advisory-episode-182-michelle-remembers\">Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Footnotes:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/show\/youre-wrong-about\/episode\/quarantine-book-club-michelle-remembers-week-1-68326504\">You&#8217;re Wrong About: Michelle Remembers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wondery.com\/shows\/shrink-next-door\/\">The Shrink Next Door podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"heading large-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitaldaily.ca\/news\/satanic-ritual-abuse-michelle-remembers-lawrence-pazder-victoria\">&#8220;The destructive conspiracy theory that Victoria unleashed upon the world&#8221; by Jen Gerson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2014\/01\/fran-and-dan-keller-freed-two-of-the-last-victims-of-satanic-ritual-abuse-panic.html\">&#8220;The Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse&#8221; by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/transcripts\/141514464\">&#8220;Real &#8216;Sybil&#8217; Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake&#8221; by Lynn Neary<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Coming up next: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3lpvSz0\"><em>Jay&#8217;s Journal<\/em> by Anonymous<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0<em>Worst Bestsellers<\/em>\u00a0<em>is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b?_encoding=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;node=1000&amp;site-redirect=&amp;tag=worstbests0e-20&amp;linkId=Z2A4ORUYFZJ4UA6Q\">Amazon.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(But no pressure, we\u2019re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8993\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4751-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/182MichelleRemembers.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/182MichelleRemembers.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/182MichelleRemembers.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/182MichelleRemembers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/?powerpress_pinw=4751-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/the_worst_bestsellers\/frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-content\/uploads\/audio\/182MichelleRemembers.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"182MichelleRemembers.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were joined by our Caftan Club sisters, Grace and Ashley, to discuss a bestseller that was so bad it had to be removed from publication: Michelle Remembers by Michelle Smith and Lawrence Pazder. The book represents irresponsible therapeutic practices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/episode-182-michelle-remembers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2114,2112,2113,6,2122],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-lawrence-pazder","tag-michelle-remembers","tag-michelle-smith","tag-podcast","tag-satanic-panic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4785,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frowl.org\/worstbestsellers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}