Two-Person Book Club
18 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 4 years ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTWO-PERSON BOOK CLUB is a new podcast from Amanda Bermudez and Rony Josaphat, offering an accessible, insightful, and eclectic approach to contemporary bibliophilia.
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Episodes
12 - FUCKED:... by Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson
March 27, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBSeason 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...
11 - WAR AGAINST ALL PUERTO RICANS by Nelson Antonio Denis
February 28, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.9 MB(#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'...
10 - The Babysitter's Club #37: KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER by Ann M. Martin
December 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBAmanda 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 #37, 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, anony...
10 - The Babysitter's Club #38: KRISTY'S MYSTERY ADMIRER by Ann M. Martin
December 27, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 50.9 MBAmanda 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, anony...
Bonus Holiday Episode - 'Twas the Poem That's Not Called What You Probably Think It's Called
December 24, 2019 10:00 - 3 minutes - 2.68 MBAre 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
December 13, 2019 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBAmanda 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 ...
9 - 8-BALL CHICKS by Gini Sikes
December 02, 2019 11:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MBRony 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 ...
Bonus Episode - Keren Taylor, Executive Director of WriteGirl
November 15, 2019 10:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBAmanda 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 ...
8 - 100 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT THE NEGRO by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
October 25, 2019 09:00 - 2 hours - 96.5 MBAmanda 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...
7 - THE PSYCHOPATH TEST by Jon Ronson
September 27, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBAmanda 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 every...
6 - CASINO ROYALE (James Bond #1) by Ian Fleming
August 30, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBAgent 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 scramble...
6 - CASINO ROYALE by Ian Fleming
August 30, 2019 09:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBAgent 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 scramble...
5 - BULLSHIT JOBS by David Graeber
July 26, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBGas 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 ca...
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.
July 19, 2019 10:00 - 12 minutes - 8.57 MBInspired 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
June 18, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBAmanda 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. Katha...
3 - (This is) MAUS by Art Spiegelman
May 24, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 28 MBAmanda 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. Em...
2 - LOST IN THE COSMOS by Walker Percy
April 19, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 34.2 MBAmanda 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 TREAT...
1 - POETICS by Aristotle
March 01, 2019 10:00 - 1 hour - 31.3 MBAmanda and Rony vet the philosopher's ideas on what makes a story a story. Can one still Oedipus Rex in a Black Mirror world?