Today, we’re chatting about the science behind nightmares, lucid dreams, and dream engineering, and the relationship between dreams and mental health; an exterminator who is hunting dangerous vermin in a deadly city to keep his sister out of debt; and a woman who will cross any boundary to seize the dream life she’s been chasing. NIGHTMARE […]
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Happy Half Hour (8/18/25)
Today, we’re chatting about four children discovering their resilience amongst the secrets of the city during the London Blitz; a mafia princess who is finally ready to enact revenge on the aunt that took everything from her; and an editorial assistant desperately trying to rise through the ranks at the world’s most prestigious fashion magazine. […]

Happy Half Hour (8/11/25)
Today, we’re chatting about two magicians faced with the responsibility of discovering an apocalyptic cataclysm and thwarting it; a graduate student who is pulled into a magical world in the heart of Los Angeles; and a woman who returns to her hometown for her grandmother’s funeral, only to discover that her grandmother’s body has suspiciously […]

Happy Half Hour (8/4/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a couple who decide to separate for a month to date other people before settling down; a group of teens fighting for their dreams at a brand new elite charter school; and a mother and son who reunite after many years and begin to finally see each other more clearly. OVERDUE […]

Happy Half Hour (6/23/25)
Today, we’re chatting about the owner of a magical curiosity shop and the cursed girl she meets who turns everything she touches into magic; a woman who returns home to become her father’s caretaker in hopes of repairing their strained relationship; and a historian on the hunt for an artifact at a prestigious and mysterious […]

Happy Half Hour (6/16/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a crown princess who becomes a prisoner in her own home and sets out to change her fate; a woman who gets pulled into a cult horror film that is determined to have a sequel; a podcaster and producer who fall in love over email without realizing they know (and hate) […]

Happy Half Hour (6/9/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a young woman who gets turned into a werewolf and must decide to either turn herself in or live a life on the run; a healer’s daughter who strikes an impossible bargain to save her mother from execution; and two feuding co-stars in a Jane Austen film adaptation who accidentally travel […]

Happy Half Hour (5/19/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a college sophomore who must survive becoming a vampire—and the cute boy who discovers his secret; a remarkable child who transforms a small, rural community; and a girl trying to piece together what really happened to her troubled, socialite sister two decades later. THE GOOD VAMPIRE’S GUIDE TO BLOOD & BOYFRIENDS […]

Happy Half Hour (5/12/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a young actress desperate to have a normal teenage summer at a small town book festival; Alyson Stoner’s memoir that shares their powerful story for the first time; and five sisters in a small village in eighteenth-century England whose neighbors are convinced they’re turning into dogs. WISH YOU WERE HER by Elle […]

Happy Half Hour (5/5/25)
Today, we’re chatting about a girl who sets out to prove there’s a murderer at large in her small town where legends haunt the present day; a mother who embarks on an odyssey through the afterlife to save her son who is literally and figuratively lost at sea; and two exes who go on a […]

