If you love karaoke, you have your go-to songs. This week on Ok Real Quick your host talks about her karaoke favs and the ones she'd love to have the confidence to take on in public. What are your "must sings" at karaoke? And what songs do you only sing in the privacy of your shower but would love to have the confidence to take on in front of people?

This week's Special Segment is the Chisme Chorner where we talk about the YouTube Channel MARKIE, run by Callum Markie. You can find the videos referenced here and here, and this is the link to the Encephalitis International fundraiser that he and his friends are running.

This week's episode was edited by Jacqueline J Basse.

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As the 1998 movie The Truman Show becomes ever more pertinent to our reality TV and social media obsessed minds, your host has fallen deep into a rabbit hole about the movie, and sees some parallels to modern times' family vlogger channels. Join us this week for an exploration of the theory of Christof as Truman's controlling father figure. Yes, there is ranting involved.

Here's the link to the Wikipedia entry for The Truman Show.

Link to Jessica Maddox's article about the financial protections recently put into place for FamTube kids can be found here.

Tiffany Ferguson's excellent video discussing Shari Franke's book is linked here, and you can support both her work and Shari Franke's book by clicking here to purchase it using Tiffany's affiliate link.

Link to Cinema Therapy's "Therapist Reacts To The Truman Show".

The article from The Guardian can be found here.

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A lesbian character in a 19th century novel? Mon dieu! If, like me, you've only ever read the abridged version of Alexandre Dumas's classic French historical fiction epic, you'll be surprised by what awaits in the unabridged version. Join Ok Real Quick as we dive into the textual evidence of Eugenie Danglar's romantic love for Louise d'Armilly.

This week's Special Segment is "From My To Be Read Pile", where we talk about the book "The Black Count" by Tom Reiss.

Heather Rose Jones's The Rise of Gay Paris can be found through this link.

Podcast music: “Couture Fantasy" and "Mid Western”, by Eino Toivanen, kongano.com Licenced under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0