This week, we covered the Hunger Games prequel book, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, written by Madame Suzanne Collins! We start the episode talking about how much we love Dolly Parton and Gaia gushes over their longing to be Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom’s third (a possible Pirates of the Caribbean series may be under way?). We talk about Madame Collins finding yet another way to speak to the zeitgeist, how this book crafts a really fascinating character study, and the parallels between the trajectory of the Hunger Games and of actual reality television series’. We somehow reference both the Stanford Prison Experiment and the creation of the Electoral College, Harris’s Hot Take is completely in sync with the content of the episode, and we come to the conclusion that this book is the DRIVER’S LICENSE of BOOKS (stream drivers license!!!!)  ...