Two friends obsessed with books and writing, we're Shannen and Gareth, and welcome to The Pleasure of the Text Podcast. Reading and writing aren't lonely pursuits, and The Pleasure of the Text lies in the shared imaginative space where readers and writers make meaning together. So tune in and join us as we talk about the books we love, interview remarkable authors, and discuss the writer’s craft.

Sex Talk With My Mom offers sex and relationship advice while exploring the hilarious dynamic between a sexually-liberated, "C.O.U.G.A.R." mom and her comedian son. With over 3 million downloads and having been featured on Esquire, Huffington Post, and TODAY, they are the best (albeit only) mom-son comedy duo talking about sex. Each week they respond to listener comments and questions about all topics that a mom and son don't typically talk about. To join the fam, shoot them a text at 310-35 ...

A lot happens in Boston every day. To help you keep up, WBUR, Boston's NPR News station, pulled these stories together just for you.

A weekly film podcast which follows three best friends on a quest to find the greatest movies of all time! Each week our heroes take on a new theme as they discuss actors, genres, and directors. Episodes are full of quizzes, games and plenty of humour. Unscripted, unedited and never serious, come join us.

A marketer stands in the smouldering ruin of their most excruciating failure, certain that their career will never recover. A small, but insistent voice makes itself heard... "You should go on a podcast and talk about this." Made by marketers for marketers, Marketing Hell uses interviews and discussions with marketing leaders to explore our most spectacular foul ups. We take pleasure in our failures and pick through the rubble to extract one or two lessons that might rescue a sense of profes ...

Mark Twain’s work on Joan of Arc is titled in full “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte.” De Conte is identified as Joan’s page and secretary. For those who’ve always wanted to “get behind” the Joan of Arc story and to better understand just what happened, Twain’s narrative makes the story personal and very accessible. The work is fictionally presented as a translation from the manuscript by Jean Francois Alden, or, in the words of the published book, “Freely T ...

The text of plain sight relentlessly questions notions of thinking and being, setting out various propositions about life, thought, and perception in a way that persuades not merely with argument, but with music. The resulting experience is a thrilling “excavation of the nous,” drawing us into a realm where point of view, connotation, misdirection, and other rhetorical and prestidigitational devices are deployed in a tender but unyielding attack on the illusions we share. It also manages to ...

Each week Russell IV and Brandi tackle conversations about love, marriage, divorce, family and everything in between. The two reunited high school sweethearts discuss personal stories, differing opinions, and all the things they wish they knew before saying "I do" the first time around. Join these two every week as they have tons of fun unpacking - What They Never Told Us!