HeyJaredRead the Room: A Culture Club
Follow along with our podcast week after week as we ensure you can read any room you're in, by dissecting literature, media, and pop culture until we're blue in the face.
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Read the Room will be back in the Fall! (opens the original)
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Your hosts are taking a little Summer Break! Our twice weekly episodes with return in the fall, and rest assured we will have many stories to tell and media to review then. In the meantime please catch up or re-listen to our 38 available episodes and let us know which are your favorites and what we should cover next! Please follow us on instagram and tiktok to see our current reads, pop culture opinions, podcast clips, and your hosts being a little silly. Thank you for reading the room with us,
38: Mini - Back to School Shopping (opens the original)
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Do you have your new lunch box picked out? How about a fresh pair of tennis shoes? They'll need to last you all year! Get in Roomies, we're going Back-to-School shopping for this nostaglic mini episode, where hosts Alexys, Kaylin, and Larsen look back fondly on the, unfortunately, capitalistic trend of late-summer wishlists and early-fall mall visits. We explore the history of the Back-to-School shopping phenomenon, from the early days of department stores, to the neon flecked walls of 1980's ma
37: Deep Dive - July Book Club Edition: Yesteryear (opens the original)
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Why are we all so obsessed with watching trad wives? In this special Book Club deep dive hosts Alexys, Kaylin, and Larsen dig into our July pick, Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke. Whether you read along with us this month, or have just picked up on all of the online buzz surrounding Burke's first literary release, this episode will be sure to fill you in on all the biggest talking points and thematic discussions at the heart of the novel. And with a movie deal signed by Anne Hathaway before its r
36: Mini - Off Campus, Outlander & Octavia Butler (opens the original)
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What does Ali Hazelwood have to do with concerts in the park? Welcome back Roomies for another Weekly READ mini episode, where hosts Alexys, Kaylin, and Larsen let you in on all they've recently read, ate, endured, and did. You're in for another ecletic media roundup, as we talk about our latest literary fixations, from Donna Tart's The Goldfinch to Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, as well as our current TV temptations, like Maxton Hall, Off Campus, and Outlander. There are some lowlights, of
35: Deep Dive - A Midsummer Transformation: Summer Vacation in the Media (opens the original)
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What holds more transformative, coming-of-age power to a teen than the promise of summer vacation? Perhaps maybe a pair of traveling and universally flattering pants? In this deep dive, hosts Alexys, Kaylin, and Larsen research the modern day media trends and patterns associated with the setting of summer vacation. We investigate the origins of summer vacation itself, examining the social, academic, and economic roots of the now near universal public school calendar, and how ulitmately, America'
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