Two-person Book Club

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TWO-PERSON BOOK CLUB is a new podcast from Amanda Bermudez and Rony Josaphat, offering an accessible, insightful, and eclectic approach to contemporary bibliophilia.

Episódios

  • 12 - FUCKED:... by Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson

    27/03/2020 Duração: 01h03min

    Season finale! Amanda B. (@AmandaJBermudez) and Rony J. (@ronyphat) try and distract you from the fact that this is only the fourth female-written book they've done out of 12, with a book by TWO ladies: FUCKED: BEING SEXUALLY EXPLORATIVE AND SELF-CONFIDENT IN A WORLD THAT'S SCREWED by Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson. It's like-- feminism, but make it fashun. Along that runway, discover...Alt clit-lit is a thing, right?Heartworm pills and peanut buttle.At-home workouts.BYO Blanket fort - Diagram here.I hope Amanda's 6th grade yearbook doesn't have a faculty section, or someone's iiiiiiin trouble.Who's on your Mount Rushmore of fictional U.S. Presidents?Where ChatRoulette at?Dicks! YIKES!(No but fr the #dickdigression in this episode is lengthy.)La. CROY. NOT a discussion.BREAKING: Rony is not Drake.Help us get to a million downloads! I mean, as if we're not there already, pshhh.There's nothing out of the ordinary surrounding this episode that was recorded in

  • 11 - WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS by Nelson Antonio Denis

    28/02/2020 Duração: 01h15min

    (#prisonbreakforcover)While Amanda B. is off re-hiding the Holy Grail because we've proven we can't have nice things, Rony J. (@ronyphat) and producer Josh N. (@theincomparablejosh) reveal the greatest unknown revolution in (Latin, but also normal) American history with WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS. What's in the secret warehouse behind the barbershop toilet? Well, guns, obviously. And...OMG THE PIPES. THE BUTTERY, BUTTERY PIPES. It's like an audio version of a dish by... some chef who's well known for using lots a butter, idk if there's ever been one.Communism? GET THEM. Aloha, ohana! Sorry for the reminder.Josh uses the world "excelsior" 100% seriously.Men don't cry, they shed tears.A little something for the #2A crowd!Wait for the brownsploitation version of this book.Puerto Ricans in 1955 = millennials?J. Edgar Hoover = got his own movie, played by DiCaprio; Albizu Campos = ???And one tiny insignificant question.We're not players. We just engage in close

  • 10 - The Babysitter's Club #38: KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER by Ann M. Martin

    27/12/2019 Duração: 01h14min

    Amanda B. and Rony J. do the serious-book-club equivalent of hitting on a girl that's obviously...uh... not interested in you, by seeking to break down Babysitter's Club book #38, KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER. Y.A.? YNOT! Ok so here's why not:1.) Pretty dresses; 2.) fellatio; 3.) ????Treatise on being "interesting looking".Woman as object --> woman as subject.(Kristy's going to Smith, not Wellesley.)Babysitting over 18 = whoring minus the sex.The do's and don'ts of writing secret, anonymous notes to someone you don't know insisting that you essentially want to possess them.The do's and don'ts of sending body parts to crushes.Simmering class warfare in Stoneybrook, y'all.HEAVY frock talk.GET 'EM NANNIE.OK so obviously we're doing the quiz. Guess who we got!(Hand to God, there were drums.)Everyone's a little gay.But no seriously, Kristy's gay. And that's fine!Not even fine. It's distant.RURTHER FEEDING:BSC slash fictio

  • Bonus Holiday Episode - 'Twas the Poem That's Not Called What You Probably Think It's Called

    24/12/2019 Duração: 03min

    Are mice nocturnal?Where's dad?No dad?Tiny reindeer?Fur is murder!Smoking??? INDOORS!Santa's an elf?Explains the chimneys.YOU'RE a jerk.Happy Christmas! G'night.

  • Bonus Episode - Gini Sikes, Author of 8 BALL CHICKS

    13/12/2019 Duração: 51min

    Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez) sits down with 8 BALL CHICKS author Gini Sikes (@8ballchicks) to discuss Gini getting in, her subjects getting out, and women getting on equal footing in America. Along the way, the Midwesterners cover...Lucille Ball goes to the ghetto!MTV, PBS, at the SAME DAMN TIME"Where are you guys gonna go now?" "Nowhere."The girls are always worried about you.*gasp* And ShyGirl?????"Have you heard what's going on with The ERA?" (Say it out loud, don't be shy.)Story is everything.Gini is Team... Sheik ("SHEEK")!More costume changes than Madonna.

  • 9 - 8-BALL CHICKS by Gini Sikes

    02/12/2019 Duração: 01h26min

    Rony J. (@idontreadthis // @ronyphat) and Amanda B. (@amandajbermudez // @a.j.bermudez) do '90s nostalgia all wrong by focusing on the women-on-society's-fringes part of the decade with Gini Sikes's portrait of girls in urban gangs, 8-BALL CHICKS. What does this view of the years-we-all-love-to-forget-the-bad-parts-of have to show us?"I'll be there for you" has a few socio-economic asterisks!Girls (literal girls, lol) in gangs have the advantage over boys in gangs cause the cops overlook them!Girls (LITERAL girls, lol) in gangs give all that advantage back and then some by suffering comical levels of physical and sexual abuse.Rony calls out the antelope community. #lawofthesavannahH&M Gang Gang!Crip = BLUE; Blood = RED. Got it?Jesus is a white woman. #feminismAmanda likes locuses! NOT LOCUSTS, LOCUSES.Rony will man-splain the female psyche to everyone, don't take it personally.Trust SOME bitches, at least.Who cares who's smoking crack in the bathroom? Focus up and k

  • Bonus Episode - Keren Taylor, Executive Director of WriteGirl

    15/11/2019 Duração: 51min

    Amanda B. interviews Keren Taylor (@kerentaylor), Executive Director of the young women's creative writing and mentoring organization WriteGirl (writegirl.org) and publisher of their multiple-dozen-award-winning anthologies. They discuss...The collective's new book, This Moment: Bold Voices from WriteGirl.Self-expression as an unshakable anchor for young women in a world that imposes upon them.The role of non-competition in fostering strength.Being in it for the long haul.Receiving an award from part-human, part-deity Michelle Obama.(Do "volition" and "volunteer" share a root word? Meet me below for the answer.)The change in communication styles of girls over the past 19 years.The scratch of a pen vs. the clack of a keyboard.The unique badassness of good journal design.The prospective worth of the first WriteGirl anthology. Likely a billion Euro.When you should underestimate the power of a girl and her pen (SA: never).The female-led revolution is imminent, sure, but is it a good

  • 8 - 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

    25/10/2019 Duração: 02h20min

    Amanda B. and Rony J. face a choice between a.) silently choking down their guilt at not knowing or b.) reveling in the glory of learning the rich history in 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO, by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. In this, the Mansa Musa of podcast episodes, our heroes spend a couple-odd hours (MORE than enough time to cover 800 years, tbh) rooting through the ignor-gotten history of y'know, a fifth of the inhabitants of this planet. Along the way...Take a peek into the Platform 9 and 3/4 of internal black politics!Explore lacrosse! #fairandbalancedDiscover that black people did stuff outside of the American slave story!Severed heads, so sexaaayyyyyySlavery (wait for it) is bad.Slave rebellions, though, are awesome!The little-told story of Lt. Jack Robinson!Seven-eighths ain't enough!The Black press! Well shoot, what did they use, white ink?Amanda coins the phrase "knowledge is power!"Sorry, knowledge :(General Sherman = OG #allyLincoln... come on, Lincoln.You'll NEVER guess what

  • 7 - THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson

    27/09/2019 Duração: 01h39min

    Amanda B. and Rony J. take on (and spend way too long taking) THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson. Lean back, pop a (Pro)Zac, and descend into hell with us. Spoiler alert! We're boring and will likely not murder you. Of course, that's exactly what we'd WANT you to think...Rony goes back to misremembering people's names!Amanda shares her disappointment at not having become your divine ruler by age 25!What makes a conning linguist?What would YOU do with a white baby?Hot boots are for everyone!Who knows their reality TV? These two! Like a mobster knows the trash business.What's your favorite perversion of the name "Elizabeth"?And many, many, many, MANY digressions they'll probably regret.Too much demon voice. Sorry.FRAPH = Front pour l'Avancement et le Progrès Haitien. They killed innocent people. A lot of them. On purpose.What are those things way down there?Are those rails?Must be, 'cause we WAY OFF 'EM.P.S. They let Tony the (allegedly) Sane Man out, by the

  • 6 - CASINO ROYALE (James Bond #1) by Ian Fleming

    30/08/2019 Duração: 53min

    Agent Amanda B. and Rony "Double-O" J. (aka Mr. License-to-Find-the-Real-Killer) jump the shark in rocket-powered skis by doing fiction-- specifically, the novel that introduced 007 to the world, CASINO ROYALE, by Ian Fleming. Did Sir Ian debut with the cool gadgets, exotic locales, and clever women that we expect nowadays from James Bond? Dr. HELL No.Get the living daylights knocked out of you when:Rony wonders why they keep referring to M as "he"!You experience the sexiness of scrambled eggs for dinner!There's a weird digression into the nature of evil for some reason!Amanda flashes her golden eye for drink science!Also: aaaaaaaahhh, my thunderballs!"Do you really expect me to judge a book published in 1953 by 2019 moral standards?"No, Mr. Listener. I expect you to die.(#notgreatforwomen)RURTHER FEEDING (AND VIEWING):"The Tipping Point: When Do Female Leaders Become the Norm?" by Susanna Schrobsdorff, TIME Magazine, October 12, 2017 (Good news! It's at THIRT

  • 5 - BULLSHIT JOBS by David Graeber

    26/07/2019 Duração: 01h21min

    Gas station impresario Amanda B. and Walking Zipper-Face Emoji Rony J. dive into the "work"-for-money system and how and why it's driving us mad via BULLSHIT JOBS, by David Graeber. They had so much fun, the unspoken Western economic contract demands that they not be paid at all! NONE CAN ESCAPE THE BLOOD SACRIFICE, ALL MUST SUFFERRRRRRRRR *cue "Raining Blood" by Slayer*Marvel at how giving a homeless person $10 is a waste while giving a consulting firm $1,000,000 is an efficient use of capital!Uncover the secret financial jiu-jitsu of the Mexican military!Despair at... just about everything!Leave the hairdressers alone!And (are you sitting down?) women do a lot!This was supposed to be a light, breezy book. My B!RURTHER FEEDING (AND LISTENING):"On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs: A Work Rant" by David Graeber; STRIKE! magazine, August 2013"A Good Walk Spoiled" by Malcolm Gladwell; REVISIONIST HISTORY podcast, Season 2, Episode 1, 2016PRINCIPLES by Ray Dalio. Rony b

  • Bonus Episode - (Spiritual) Milk for Babes. Drawn Out of the Breasts of Both Testaments. Chiefly, for the Spirituall Nourishment of Boston Babes in Either England: But May Be of Like Use for Any Children.

    19/07/2019 Duração: 12min

    Inspired by THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS, Amanda B. and Rony J. put on their tri-corns and dive head-first into a jug full. Ask not what your podcast can do for you, but how much shrimp you can throw on the barbie!I'm sorry.(Intro by David E. Lessard II)

  • 4 - THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS by Jill Lepore

    18/06/2019 Duração: 01h56min

    Amanda B. and Rony J. follow Harvard professor and professional NEW YORKER-er Jill Lepore through birth, adolescence, work, and death, via a Puritan board game called THE MANSION OF HAPPINESS. Amanda antagonizes a (maybe) dead man, while Rony comes face to face with a giant conundrum."Impure thought!" the child ejaculated. "Go back three spaces!"We joke because otherwise we'd remember that women didn't get the vote until 1920.Who has the movie rights to the Anne Carroll Moore vs. Katharine White story?--RURTHER FEEDING:"Are Robots Competing for your Job?" by Lepore, Jill.Email us! [email protected]

  • 3 - (This is) MAUS by Art Spiegelman

    24/05/2019 Duração: 01h01min

    Amanda B. and Rony J. pick through a tender family drama in the looming shadow of the hallmark horror of the 20th century. Come for the cute animal allegory, stay for the holy-crap-they-force-marched-these-people-miles-in-the-woods-at-night-and-left-them-packed-like-sardines-standing-up-in-train-cars-only-opening-the-doors-to-collect-the-dead-and-that's-AFTER-the-war-was-basically-over. Remember-- these are people, that did this to other human beings.That being said, OMG those antlers.Email us! [email protected]

  • 2 - LOST IN THE COSMOS by Walker Percy

    19/04/2019 Duração: 01h14min

    Amanda and Rony dive into Walker Percy's super-casual hybrid parody-self-help-theoretical-space-narrative centering on a dense mid-century theory of language and the self. What they find there is unspeakable! Pro-tip: don't look at the sun.Also, Charles Bronson, not Richard. He knows.**This book, and this episode, makes short mention of suicide. If you're having any suicidal ideation (visualizing, contemplating methods) or planning, take heart-- you're showing clear SYMPTOMS of a TREATABLE disease. Tell someone you trust, and get help. 1-800-273-8255, or text TALK to 741741.**

  • 1 - POETICS by Aristotle

    01/03/2019 Duração: 01h08min

    Amanda and Rony vet the philosopher's ideas on what makes a story a story. Can one still Oedipus Rex in a Black Mirror world?