{"podcast":{"title":"Book Squad Goals","slug":"book-squad-goals-7882","podcast_index_feed_id":7882,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/2299483/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://booksquadgoals.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/969d6f3d0ae2aa8200bb506327cbedbb.jpg","author":"#BookSquadGoals","episode_count":238,"summary":"Looking for a book club but don't have time to squeeze real-life meetings into your schedule? Join Book Squad Goals, a bi-weekly podcast about—you guessed it—books, plus all the garbage pop culture we consume when we’re not reading (that’s what our “othersodes” are for!). While you’re paying attention, check out our website & blog at booksquadgoals.com, where we have weekly posts about books, pop culture, and probably our pets. We love our pets.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/book-squad-goals-7882"},"episode":{"title":"BSG #108: Shocking and Revolting / El Dorado Drive","slug":"bsg-108-shocking-and-revolting-el-dorado-drive","published_at":"2025-07-09T04:01:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/book-squad-goals-7882/bsg-108-shocking-and-revolting-el-dorado-drive","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/book-squad-goals-7882","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/bsg-108-shocking-and-revolting-el-dorado-drive--66906527","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/66906527/shocking_and_revolting_leveled.mp3","summary":"Hey, hun! It’s your old friends, the Book Squad, with an exciting opportunity for you! We’d love to invite you to join us for our discussion about El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott. We talk about the sisters’ relationships, money troubles, good ol’ fashioned pyramid schemes, and all things shocking and revolting. Drop in for our next Othersode on 7/22 featuring guests Janet Dale and Allison Renner, co-authors of Green Light: A Gatsby Cycle. We’ll be revisiting Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby with them!. Then read along with us for our second Sayaka Murata Bookpisode pick, Vanishing World, on 8/5! Don’t forget to check out our Patreon and leave us a 5-star rating on Apple Podcasts! TOC: 30– Welcome! And icebreaker 9:00–Book intro 11:20–The Bishop sisters and their relationship 23:33–What’s their problem? 29:45–MLM business 46:00– The murder part 56:56–TWISTS that are SHOCKING AND REVOLTING 1:01:00–Ratings 1:04:40–Feedback 1:08:00– What’s up next? Links: The chefs at sororities: https://www.instagram.com/oldscoolkevmo/?hl=en","meta_description":"Hey, hun! It’s your old friends, the Book Squad, with an exciting opportunity for you! We’d love to invite you to join us for our discussion about El Dora…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4391,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/book-squad-goals-7882/episodes/bsg-108-shocking-and-revolting-el-dorado-drive/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/book-squad-goals-7882/bsg-108-shocking-and-revolting-el-dorado-drive.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}