Jacob Shymanski

Let me understand you.

What could change you?

Personally, these people drive me crazy.

But they do really well.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's A Man Called Ove by Frederick Bachman, who's also written My Friends, which was very popular this year.

But A Man Called Ove was one of his previous books.

A series that I touched on earlier this year because I interviewed the author, Rachel Reed.

She's the author of the Heated Rivalry series, which that is a very well-known title nowadays because it kind of blew up when the TV show edition came out.

And I read book three of the series.

I read the first two for the interview with Rachel Reed and then I read book three during the holidays.

And Red, if you're not aware, and for the listeners, heated rivalry has become a Twilight-esque, a Fifty Shades of Grey-esque phenomenon in romance and erotica, quite frankly.

And I just had to shout it out because it was so cool that...

On this show, I got to interview Rachel Reid before all of this blew up.

Now, to be clear, her series was fairly successful.

It was a Canadian gay hockey romance series that Crave, a Canadian company, picked up to produce a Canadian TV show.

Small budget.

And then HBO picked it up to distribute it across the U.S.

And when that show came out, it absolutely blew up.

And as a result, has kind of brought a ton of attention to hockey as a sport.