Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
You are going to read the last note in your notes app. Uh-oh. Oh my gosh. Let's see, what if it's like, password to bank. Uh-oh. Wait, you guys, I can't read this one because it's the premise for my next book.
No!
I literally can't read it. That'd be so exciting.
Can you pass the phone around?
Yeah, no, okay, hold on.
Welcome back to House of Mar, A Wave Original. Help yourself to whatever is in the fridge. The Wi-Fi password is POPPY, all caps. You should know that we have a few house rules. Girls are magic. Reading is hot. And so are you. Make sure to like and subscribe on YouTube so you can look at how amazing we are. We've already been complimented on our shoes, but don't look at our feet. Freaks.
That's disgusting. I see you looking. Stop. Yeah. Blur it, actually. Blur it. That costs money. Book content for free. You get it.
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Chapter 2: What is the significance of the Wi-Fi password and house rules?
Seriously. Our fourth Mars sister today is the queen of modern romance novels. She's a number one New York Times bestselling author who has sold over 10.5 million books worldwide. Her novels have won She won the Goodreads Choice Awards for best romance and unprecedented five years in a row.
And Hollywood is in a full blown obsession with her work, with five of her books currently being adapted for the screen. People We Meet on Vacation is out now on Netflix. She writes characters that feel like your best friends and love stories that feel like coming home. Welcome to the family, welcome to the family, literary superstar, Emily Henry.
I can't believe I had such bad times reading that with an author here.
That was bad. I hate reading aloud. It's so stressful. It's a nightmare. It's the worst. And then especially when you're reading from like a screen or a teleprompter, it's, I don't know, I get a full body sweat. Chill. You did great.
I just saw a tweet recently that was like, any man you're thinking about bringing into your life, make him read out loud first to you. and see how that goes. And I was like, I'm going to implement that on my next date.
You're like, does he do the voices of the characters?
Does he do the voices? Can he read?
Can he read first of all? Prove it.
Prove it. First and foremost. I'm not going to go on assumptions here. You can't live like that. No, you can't. I'd rather know early. Rip off that bandaid. At the time of, as we're recording this right now, we had the premiere, or John and I attended your premiere last night for People We Meet on Vacation. How was that for you?
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Chapter 3: How did Emily Henry's night at the premiere unfold?
I actually do because my, my sister-in-law has always called me M hen. Oh, get out. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. So when the, when the readers started doing it, I was like, this is like, it makes me feel like they actually know me. And also like, I am a millennial named Emily. So I spent my entire life being Emily Henry.
You know what I mean? Just to differentiate you.
Because there were seven of them in every classroom. You could not like sneeze without like getting six other Emily's sick. So I was always Emily Henry. I was never really Emily age. There were a few dark years in middle school where I was just Henry. No, what kind of cool? It is cool. Now I'm like, that's cute and cool. But at the time I was like, I'm a woman. I'm 12 years old. I'm a girl.
And my best friend at the time was a soccer player. And so her last name was Berger. So she was like, I already go by Berger because I'm like a soccer player. And also I'm sure there were 12 Emilys on her team. Clearly I don't know how many people are on a soccer team. I'm sorry, I know you all know about sports.
But so she was like, she started calling me Henry and I was okay with it when she did it. But when boys did it, I was like, okay, so. I will never have a boyfriend. Yeah, too far. Yeah, I will never have a boyfriend. In the corner. There she is though. Get the images out of there. Oh, I love the shoes. They're silver.
Reflecting. I'm trying to get to be there. How was it? They loved the movie. Good.
I mean, you said you did, but you never know if you're lying. You're going to catch. You're going to tell me on camera that you're like, it's bad. Now we have you here. We have some notes. Is it too late? Can we unlock this edit? Let's get back in there. Let's get in there. Let's get in there. I'm ready. I'm ready to do some work. No, it was so it was really magical. Like.
I felt like it was at my wedding. I did not sit down. I did not eat. I did not drink. At the end of the night, I saw a tray of sliders going past, and I was like, I should eat this. So I was just eating a slider on my way out the door, my feet, which we'll get to. We're not in good shape. So I like put on these thick Books Are Magic. Shout out to Books Are Magic, the bookstore.
Socks with like these little ballet flats. It was a real look. And I was just shuffling down wearing a cowboy hat because they were giving out. Did you get to the cowboy hat and wig station? Oh, we passed by a pound away. You're like, what's this? What's that? What's happening now? No, that was a brilliant touch. That was really great.
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Chapter 4: What is the story behind the Midwestern goodbye?
Amar wrote that up. She penned that. The Great Scribe. I want to... Be more like assured in spaces I walk into and feel like, oh, I deserve to be here and whatnot, which I do feel. But I think I can be better with it because at times, you know, I said I'm like, oh, this person has done this or this or this.
So I'm going to try that. Wow. I mean, that is like I'm so happy that's one of your requests. But I also that's like a little bit heartbreaking because it's like just I would first I would just assume that you feel like you belong in every single room, like you are like everything.
It's not you who. I think it gets from trauma. I hate the word trauma because we throw it out so much. I think it comes from back in the day not feeling very welcome in spaces and feeling uncomfortable in spaces. And so now I'm like, I want to always make sure I'm right for the space or there. And then I'm like, okay, first off, Alona, you are Alona.
You deserve to be here, whether it's in film or whatever. So I'm always trying to get better because I am a very confident person, but I also have...
some things that hold me back. For sure. I mean, I guess that's probably everyone to some extent, but I feel like the more that like you do that and you go on that quest of assuredness, you're making more room and space for other women and girls to like do the same thing and be like, oh, I guess I'm okay. I guess I'm allowed to exist. Wait, can I be here? My quest.
This is a noble quest. I love that, noble quest. You should put noble on top of that.
Spend more money. Very noble. I'm very noble of you. I should say that same friend who spent all of her money on dinner and lip gloss, we do joke that she's my financial advisor because she is the one who will be like, just buy it. Just buy it. What is wrong with you? And I'm like... I don't know. Like, yeah, my upbringing, I can't do that.
Yeah, no, exactly.
And, like, if you can do something for free, you don't pay someone to do it, even if you're going to do a bad job. Like, I've finally kind of broken through that. Yeah. No, like, I'm not an electrician. I'm not going to, like, try to hang a light, you know? That's exactly my thought, too.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of cooking vegetables?
I don't know how people can be like, I have salad for lunch every single day. It's like once a week, your body's like, give me a salad. Like I need the greens now.
Sometimes if I go too long without a sweet green, I'm like, I haven't had enough vegetables.
But you know what also is great is broccoli or Brussels sprouts that have been sauteed with a lot of oil and garlic.
Or deep fried. That's crazy because the first time she had a Brussels sprouts was because she never liked them. And then we went to this place and they're like, I want to see the Brussels sprouts because I would eat them. And they're like, you want to add bacon? Of course you want to add bacon to it.
She loves Brussels sprouts. It changed my life. Deep fried. Okay, I have to ask you guys this. We're going to put all of our parents on blast for a moment. Do you feel like your parents were serving you vegetables that were all steamed?
all steamed so you thought vegetables were disgusting no it was they didn't oversteam yeah butter nutmeg salt pepper okay then that helps i feel like i was eating steamed vegetables so i did think brussels sprouts were disgusting oh yeah you need to get that char on the outside that's really important no our parents loved to steam vegetable yeah and then i went to one friend's house who i just remember she was like
A very tiny. Yeah. And her family was healthy and they just put lemon on their broccoli.
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Chapter 6: How did Emily's childhood experiences shape her taste in food?
I remember coming from my house. I was like, you're like, we're having sour broccoli. I was like, yeah, I do do that.
Yeah.
Yeah. Or the worst is like broccoli that I've had people boil it and then it's too hot. So then they shock it with cold water. And so that's all they do. And so it's just filled with cold water. Oh, you bite into it?
You bite into it.
It's a cold, watery broccoli. Let's get into roasting vegetables, guys, in 2026. Maybe into roasting vegetables. But it's so funny. Okay, wait. But Olivia... Where is this going? Uh-oh. In our house, my mom is an amazing cook. She cooks with butter and carbs. Yes, the right way to cook. When I tell these girls to make a vegetable of some kind, they cannot make it. Oh, my God. She'll make...
in england when i had you make broccolini once and they don't know how to like physically don't know how to cook a vegetable so it's like the only thing i know how to do you are seeing you're still in in 20 if you ask me to make broccoli i gotta figure out how to steam this right now do you know you're gonna put any
almost anything you could just put in a pan with oil and salt and pepper i'm learning that now until it's dead and then i was doing hers like in the oven or something it was either totally raw still or like way overdone right and she was probably dripping in oil and dripping in oil i'm very thankful it was awesome but i was like okay olivia this is a good try at cooking vegetable yeah
Is your quest? Here's your gold star. I guess I need to add a gold to my quest.
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Chapter 7: What lessons does Emily share about adapting her novels for film?
She can make a pasta like a motherfucker. Okay, that's more important. That's a more important skill set. Thank you. To do a broccoli. She's like, oh, you had these gripes with my red vegetables. She's like, what is this broccoli? You remember one time, it was the beginning of last year when you made this broccoli and I was like, poof.
they've been cooked guys anyway we were in the group chat this is what happens in group chats where you just like somebody says something and then you keep going this is how a group chat actually functions and this is why it's the greatest modern invention when you have a group chat going and it's like on fire we're the funniest and when everyone's there at the same time how did this happen it's a drug there's nothing like it
Sometimes I yearn for it from like high school when everybody was on their phones. And I'm just like people, it's very rare when you get into that flow state.
It is the flow state. You're like, I'm in a trance. Yeah. I miss the G chat days. I don't know if you guys ever did G chat, but I love, I would be G chatting morning, noon and night.
And sometimes you would have like a status on G chat too. Do you remember that? It became AIM again for a second, for a moment there. I don't have friends. I don't know what G chat is. It was like a Google, like on your Gmail, like a little pop-up box.
Remember how Gchat is?
I loved Gchat when the homies were live.
It was so mad. Okay, I remember one of my first times having one of those like simultaneous conversations with the same person was on Gchat. And my best friend from college and I were just like pretending, like without talking about it, we just started typing like exactly how we typed in middle school on AAM. So it'd be like, what, like I don't even remember now what all the abbreviations.
W-A-T, what? Yeah, like all of it, yeah. And then we were just typing like, what are you up to, whatever, and being like, might go to the basketball game later, LOL. Yeah. Cool. Got a lot of homework though. LOL.
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Chapter 8: How do Emily's characters reflect real-life relationships?
N M H J C. Not much here. Just chilling you.
Yeah. Yeah.
And so we were doing that for so long and we couldn't quit, but then we needed to talk about something else. And so she texted me. And so we were like, okay, this is business. Yeah. The business is pleasure. It was the mullet of communication. What was Lylas? Love you like a sister. Love you like a sister. Love you like a sister. Only better.
Oh,
But you would only say that if you didn't have sisters, I think, and that's why I would use that one. Right, yeah. That works for you. You're like, she's like, I didn't ever say that to my friends.
Well, my good friend Joe, one of my, I love him, my gay best friend, he was like, Lylas. And I was like, what is that? And he was like, love you like a sister. I was like, oh, crap.
Kind of a cute baby name.
Is that crazy? Yeah, Lylas. And cigarette. Mommy, where did my name come from? You see, when I would G-chat. What about back in 2003?
Her little brother at NMHJC. BRB, shut up.
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