Hot Messes & Hot Takes

About Hot Messes & Hot Takes

Hello Podcast nation! We're just two gals sharing some funny stories, spilling some chai, and giving our opinions on pop culture! Join us on this outlet for our bullshit. We're the hot messes and these are our hot takes!

Publisher

Shritha and Matangi

Category

comedy

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Sept 2019

Latest episode

25 Sept 2023

Latest episodes

16 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Sept 2023

   E9: 2022 Book Countdown/ The Rewind

   Helllooo Girliess! Yes it is more than halfway through 2023 but here are the best/worst and noteworthy books from 2022. We finally have these episodes edited and ready for your ears. We're also predicting the plot of "The Rewind" by Allison Winn Scotch. Here are the books we talked about this episode: "Spanish Love Deception", "My Big Fat Indian Wedding", "It happened one Summer", "Hook Line and Sinker, "Love on the Brain, "Something Wilder", "Partners in Crime", "Nora goes of Script, "Weather Girl, "See you Yesterday", "Book Lovers", "A Show for Two, "Mr. Wrong Number", Off Campus + Briar U Series, "Kaikeyi", "Stuck with You, "Below Zero", "Under one Roof", "After I do", "Funny you should Ask", "Where the Crawdads Sing", "People We Meet on Vacation", "After I do", "The Roughest Draft", "One True Loves" As per usual: Peace Luv and Everything in between girliiieeees bye <3

2. 

   12 Sept 2023

   E8: Tweet Cute/While we were Dating

   Helllooo girlies! We're back again with another episode. This time we're FINALLY revealing our results for "Tweet Cute" by Emma Lord and "While We Were Dating" by Jasmine Guillory. We end the episode with just some cute lil book updates! As per usual disclaimer that whatever we say are just our opinions, we love all the authors and their content: just giving our takes on the books. Okay, Peace, Luv, and Everything in Between <3

3. 

   29 Aug 2023

   E7: We're back and more Delulu than ever!

   Hey what's up everybody! We're back again (hopefully forever this time!) We have some updates: We'll be releasing new episodes every 2X weeks (until we can get into a weekly posting schedule) But in the meantime here are our recent book OBSESSIONS! warning contains SPOILERS for "The Fourth Wing" by Rebecca Yarros and the "Reckless Series" by Catherine Cowles. We'll be back next episode with our results of "Tweet Cute" and "While we Were Dating"

4. 

   18 Jan 2023

   E6: Weather Girl/Tweet Cute/ While We Were Dating

   Hey lovely people, we're back again with another episode! We're seeing how we did on last week's predictions on "Weather Girl" by Rachel Lynn Solomon and giving our reactions and ratings on the book. This week we're also mixing it up and instead of a choosing a book we both haven't read, we're choosing a book for the other person! Shritha chooses "While We Were Dating" by Jasmine Guillory for Matangi to read and Matangi chooses "Tweet Cute" by Emma Lord for Shritha to read. See how we do and catch us on the next episode! As usual peace, luv and everything in between besties!

5. 

   11 Jan 2023

   E5: Mr. Wrong Number/ Weather Girl

   We're back with our usual bullshit. Here about our most important boba takes, we're right and and all other opinions are wrong. We'll be seeing if our predictions for "Mr. Wrong Number" by Lynn Painter and discussing what we loved about it. We'll also be giving our prediction for our next book, "Weather Girl" by Rachel Lynn Solomon. Check out these great books, make a prediction with us, and join us next week to see if we were all right. As usual all these books can be found at your local or e-library! Peace and luv besties...bye!!!

6. 

   4 Jan 2023

   E4: Nora Goes off Script/Mr. Wrong Number

   Hellllooo book lovin people! We're back after reading "Nora Goes off Script" by Annabel Monaghan. Join us for our hearty review of this super sweet book! We also have another prediction! This week we try to guess what happens in "Mr. Wrong Number" by Lynn Painter. Were we right? or were we wrong? Join us again next episode to see how we did! And as alway's predict with us. Okay Peace, luv, and everything in between besties....Byeeeee!

7. 

   28 Dec 2022

   E3: The American Roommate Experiment/ Nora Goes off Script

   We're back with more reviews and predictions! Last we left off, we finished reading the "American Roommate Experiment" by Elena Armas. Shritha definitely had some hot takes! Disclaimer, we are not professional book reviewers or authors! These are all just our opinions and we respect all the authors of all the books we read and appreciate all that they do! Then we have our predictions for "Nora goes off Script" by Anabel Monaghan. Predict along with us and share your predictions with us too! Read with us and join us next episode where we review and predict another book! As always Peace, Luv, and Everything in Between. Byeee! All books are available at your local library on your library Ebook platform.

8. 

   21 Dec 2022

   E2: The Roughest Draft/ The American Roommate Experiment

   We're back with another episode! We'll be picking back up with our review of the Roughest Draft by Emily Wibberly and Austin Siegemund-Broka and we'll be giving our predictions for the American Roommate Eperiment by Elena Armas. Catch us be messy while we talk about these books and our Hot Takes on how we think they're gonna pan out. Despite what we say, we love both and respect both these authors and their work. We're not professional authors, we are just providing our opinions! As always, Peace Luv and Everything in between! Bye (All these books are available at any library or Elibrary format!)

9. 

   14 Dec 2022

   E1: Revamped again! How could you say again!

   We're back again with another new idea. That's right we're changing things up again. We're 2 girlies with a giant giant vault of romance books up our sleeve so we've decided we're just going to predict the endings of your fav romance books. See if we get things right as we predict the ending to the "Roughest Draft" by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka and join us for the next episode where we see how the ending actually played out. As always Peace, Luv and Everything in Between. Byeeeee

10. 

    22 Aug 2022

    From the Vault: The Books that started it allllll

    A podcast from the Vaults: Basically we've been recording episodes consistently since 2020, we just haven't gotten around to edit them. This series is a blast to the past of old recordings. This episode brings us back to summer 2020 where we reaaaaaaalllllllly got into reading romance novels. Nothing has changed since then (except maybe our opinions of the books) Okay peace and luv besties!

11. 

    15 Aug 2022

    Chaotic Book Corner: Josh and Gemma Have a Baby

    We're back with a chaotic book review. This episode's book is reviewing contemporary romance novel, Josh and Gemma Have a Baby by Sarah Ready. Tune in for only screams, screeches, and rants about this book. We're still working on our audio quality, but that's the hot messes for our episodes hot takes. There may also be a LOT of Spanish Love Deception chatter throughout. And as always Peace, Love and Everything in Between to y'all

12. 

    4 Aug 2021

    Revamped and Chaotic Thoughts

    We're back...again (and hopefully to stay this time). But we've got some new ideas and some new directions and listen to Shritha bully Tangs into making good decisions for 10 minutes straight. Okay Peace, Love and Everything in Between.

13. 

    17 May 2020

    Never Have I Ever S1: the official analysis

    Hey y'all, we're back at this podcast nation (a little late once again). This episode we did something a little different. We know no one asked....... but we did a full analysis of Netlfix's NEVER HAVE I EVER (by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher). We shared our full thoughts, mostly positive about how we related to the show.... so plz don't hate us. Disclaimer, we are not professional show analyzers, everything said in this episode is purely our opinion!

14. 

    30 Apr 2020

    More BS/The Grey's Intro/CampRock

    Ummm we back... again....post midterms this time. Get ready for the ultimate Alex Karev episode....poor boi amirite. Also some Camp rock VIBEZ But anyways hope you're all doing safe, excuse my (matangi's) shitty editing, I'm still learning okay. Have fun listening y'all!

15. 

    15 Apr 2020

    Sarah Dessen and Chill Vibes

    Y'all we're back pt.2, trying some background music out? Join us talking about some nostalgia books from our childhood, and probably yours too! Exciting things ahead, just you wait!

16. 

    1 Sept 2019

    Only Fun Intended introduction

    The introduction to No Fun Intended a lighthearted conversation podcast. We're just getting the ball rolling and trying something new!

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