{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Crubcast","title":"How reading has been changing us","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3986,"description":"The median American read two books in 2025. You can outdo them with a copy of Curious George and The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and then that Joe Pera book about being stuck in the bathroom. In the meantime, we wanted to talk about how nice it's been to just sit down and read.\nMORE PLACES TO FIND US\nCrubscribe ► https://bit.ly/Crubcast\nGet the show early and get exclusive content at our Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/crub\nOur Crubcasts are recorded LIVE at https://www.twitch.tv/crub_official every Tuesday at 7pm Eastern, with EXCLUSIVE Pre- and Post-Shows\nJoin our Discord ► https://crub.org/join\nBlueSky ► https://bsky.app/profile/crub.org\nCome join our Steam group ► https://steamcommunity.com/groups/crubclub\nPodcasts are available on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other platforms are available at ► https://crub.org\nSHOW NOTES\nThese are the books Nicco read. These aren't affiliate links, for disclosure. If we were better at what we did these would be, but they aren't:\n'Verity' by Colleen Hoover:\nhttps://www.colleenhoover.com/products/verity\n'The Silent Patient' by Alex Michaelides\nhttps://www.alexmichaelides.com/silentpatient\n'The Night of the Storm' by Nishita Parekh\nhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/722885/the-night-of-the-storm-by-nishita-parekh/\nTODAY'S CRUBCAST HOSTS\nCassandra: https://www.youtube.com/@ThatTravGuy\nChris: https://www.youtube.com/@MykonosFan\nNicco: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl56kbl3tb-KiGEHT7MUGUg\nMoriarty: https://www.youtube.com/@reallycool\nCHAPTERS\n00:00 Heartwarming: This man read book\n04:42 Heart more warmed: It was three books\n06:03 What Nicco has been learning bout himself\n08:46 The first book Nicco read\n15:08 What commonly happens when someone returns to reading\n21:45 What got Cass wanting to read again\n26:02 Just read anything, please\n30:28 It's okay to leave some things unexplained in media\n36:23 The acceptance of uncertainty\n42:14 Second-person perspectives and The Life of Pi\n50:50 Cass finished Twin Peaks (watchcast...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AjQ5qm41WguVaZ28iWtSCQbj1WdztL8944SntpYfFWY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQxMjMyLzE2ODI5/ODEyNzEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}