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Discover the Best Audio Stories in Romance, ModernRom Com Lovers Collection by Kendall RyanPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/719751to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Rom Com Lovers Collection
Author: Kendall Ryan
Narrator: Ava Erickson, Virginia Rose, Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 20 hours 52 minutes
Release date: November 9, 2023
Genres: Modern
Publisher's Summary:
Calling all rom com lovers, this collection features four full-length standalone novels by New York Times bestselling author Kendall Ryan in one complete volume. Love Machine She says she needs some help ... in the bedroom. Come again? No, really come again. Sweet, nerdy, lovable Keaton. She's my best friend and has been for years. Sure she likes numbers and math, a...
2023-11-098h 52
Trance All Over The WorldRyui Bossen - TAOTW 028Tracklist:
01. Aurosonic & Stine Grove - In Euphoria We Rise (Progressive Mix) [Aurosonic Music (RazNitzanMusic)]
02. Scolario & Basstakil - Timewatcher [Intricate Records]
03. Born 87 & Igor Elshin - Time [Melancholy Records]
04. DT8 Project & Clea Llewellyn - We Own The Night [Maelstrom Records]
05. Protoculture - Titan [A state of Trance]
06. Adrian Alexander - Free Yourself [Elliptical Sun Recordings]
07. AxelPolo & Bodo Kaiser - San Francisco (Airo Remix) [RaveUp Records]
08. Paul Oakenfold & Alexander Popov Feat. LZRZ - With You (Club Mix) [Armada Music]
09. Lior E & Kobi White...
2023-02-081h 11
The Bimbo Industrial ComplexTrue Crime and the Podcastification Industrial ComplexThis episode we talk Dahmer, OJ, and the podcast that we owe our very medium to - Serial. Not only is true crime everywhere right now, but it's starting to impact active cases and change the way we think about crime and punishment. So why on earth do we love using it as a way to relax??? And is it ever ethical to produce true crime content?
CW: discussion of violence, abuse
Recommended Reading:
Bloody History of the True Crime Genre
Serial is My Favorite Murder
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2022-10-1250 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexBarbie and the Fairytopia Industrial ComplexWith all the photos of neon-clad Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling going around, how could we not do a Barbie episode? We take a wild ride through Barbie's chequered history in an attempt to discover whether she's actually a feminist, or a role model for eating disorders, or simply a vessel for our wildest fantasies. Naturally, we also talk Bratz and MyScene, and the incomparable Barbie Cinematic Universe!
CW: disordered eating, body image
Required Reading:
http://www.barbiemedia.com/timeline.html
https://www.rd.com...
2022-08-011h 01
The Bimbo Industrial ComplexRainbow Capitalism and the Pride Industrial ComplexHappy Pride Month!
We look back on the month that was as we take a deep dive into Rainbow Capitalism: examining the big questions like 'Can a brand ever be truly socially progressive?' and 'Who signed off on that marketing release?!' We also chat some of our favourite queer books and films!!!
https://equityfwd.org/defund-the-bans
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/07/cancel-culture-and-problem-woke-capitalism/614086/
https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/pride-month-corporate-campaigns-ads/
https://guides.loc.gov/lgbtq-studies/stonewall-era
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/25/17476850/pride-month-lgbtq-corporate-explained
https://popular.info...
2022-06-3055 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexTaylor Swift and the Cringe Industrial ComplexToday we talk cringe - so-bad-it's-good TV, car-crash moments we can't look away from, and years-old memories that decide to resurface just as we close our eyes for a good night's sleep. We discover that blushing makes you more trustworthy, Fleabag's awkward family scenes are political, and Taylor Swift really is the queen of cringe. Finally, we try to make sense of Cara Delevigne's erratic BBMAs behaviour, and try to decide whether it should make out hangxiety better or worse...
Required Reading:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1527476418777838
https://www...
2022-05-2749 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexThe Met Gala and also...the collapse of reproductive rights in AmericaCW: Abortion, reproductive health
This week the USA travelled back to the 1800s to seek inspiration for their Met Gala outfits and their abortion policy. We break down what 'Gilded Glamour' was actually supposed to mean, who nailed and failed the theme, and whether any of that actually matters in a world where Roe v. Wade is likely to be overturned. We also come to the earth-shattering discovery that Jason Derulo did not actually fall down the stairs at the 2015 Met Gala, and will be taking some personal time to process this.
2022-05-1152 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexPirate Parties and The Democracy Sausage Industrial ComplexWelcome to our 2022 Election Special!!! Tune in to find out which iconic bimbo matches your preferred political party, why Antony Green is the hero we don't deserve, and what on earth the Great Australian Party is (CW: Pete Evans :/). We also de-mystify the minor parties and their sneaky name changes (Smashed Avocado Party for Senate, anyone?) Oh, and we discuss major issues and policy platforms, if that's your thing.
Required Reading:
https://votecompass.abc.net.au/
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-s-presidential-politics
https://www.abc...
2022-04-291h 07The Bimbo Industrial ComplexAFL and the Homoeroticism Industrial ComplexFooty szn is well and truly underway and, unsurprisingly, we have a lot to say about it. We break down AFL through the lenses of race, class, and gender and ponder whether teammates smacking each other on the bum is the best thing to ever happen to masculinity. Also: Clea defends her thesis against allegations of 'pick me-ism' and if being a WAG is wrong, we don't want to be right.
CW: DV, intimate partner violence, violence against women - please skip 36:00-41:50 if needed
Family and domestic violence support services:
1800 Respect National...
2022-04-131h 12The Bimbo Industrial ComplexConfidence Girlies and The Scammer Industrial ComplexThis one goes out to all the wannabe Anna Delveys, Jordan Belforts, and Joanne the Scammers of the world (we're right there with you). What does it say about us that Netflix drops a new scammer series every week and yet we still can't get enough con-man/-woman/-person content? Probably that we like to see rich people suffer and feel smug that we would NEVER have fallen for that...although history and psychology suggest otherwise...
Required Reading
http://rhizomes.net/issue37/pdf/king-carroll.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch...
2022-03-311h 12The Bimbo Industrial ComplexVoluntourism and the White Saviour Industrial ComplexWe try to unlearn our private schoolgirl white saviour complexes and grapple with the harsh truth that travelling to African countries to build structurally unsound houses and take photos with cute kids might not actually be changing the world...today we talk fake orphanages, foreign aid, and the fact that Mother Theresa was actually kinda shady. But the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel is that there are myriad ways to help out in your local communities (and that Clea will research charities for you if you like)!
Required Reading
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2022-03-161h 10The Bimbo Industrial ComplexDrinking Culture and The Natural Wine Industrial ComplexIt's raining pet cats and pet nats! In today's episode we take a deep dive into drinking culture in Australia and around the world, bemoan the oversaturation of coke no sugar in the market and slander craft beer and wine bar snacks (as they deserve!). We investigate whether natural wine truly does prevent hangovers, become possessed by our pretentious French alter egos and wander down Beer Street and Gin Lane.
Required Reading:
Shoutout to Ava's dad for this one: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-10/how-natural-wine-has-disrupted-australias-wine-culture/100196930
https://www.vice.com/en/a...
2022-03-021h 06The Bimbo Industrial ComplexHookup Culture and the Tinder Industrial ComplexIs everyone getting some but me??? Why the hookup culture moral panic is a tale as old as time and there's no 'normal' when it comes to sex and relationships. We review the Big 3 (Tinder, Bumble, Hinge) and debate the new ethical dilemmas brought about by dating apps and Call Her Daddy's brand of sex-positive feminism.
Required Reading:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0891243213493960?casa_token=7dX9fO2MD8MAAAAA:9Slhso7b_UHsXFWAcfjKr5DccmrQGWaO-LJF7lLwVhwJebnyYq4V6Z2RSOLzTUVDBa-m9QYIyC8
https://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/casual-sex-everyone-is-doing-it
https://www...
2022-02-021h 01The Bimbo Industrial ComplexLady Gaga and the Multi-Hyphenate Industrial ComplexPrepare yourself for some serious House of Gucci slander, balanced out by some hearty Wordle adulation. Next, we ask why it seems like everyone is an actor-model-DJ-dog walker-sushi chef-pupeteer these days (and whether we should be polishing our marionette skills). Also @Rihanna, please drop the album sis...
Required Reading:
https://theoutline.com/post/8301/everyone-you-know-is-a-multi-hyphenate
https://www.brookings.edu/essay/the-history-of-womens-work-and-wages-and-how-it-has-created-success-for-us-all/
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-gen-z-is-3x-more-likely-to-change-jobs-than-baby-boomers/
Music Credit:
https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
License code: PPH9FBEMASHOI7...
2022-01-191h 09The Bimbo Industrial Complex2022 and the The New Year's Resolution Industrial ComplexWelcome to a new year of the same old tomfoolery! Join us as we gaze into the oracle to predict what 2022 will bring (spoiler alert: it's mainly natural disasters and the death of world leaders). Then hear why you don't need a new year's resolution - both because you're perfect just the way you are and because the #grind is a big ol' grift.
Required reading:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577708/full
https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/history-new-years-resolutions/
https://annehelen.substack.com/p/is-it-a-resolution-or-is-it-capitalism
https...
2022-01-0555 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexHOLIDAY SPECIAL: The Yassification of Organised ReligionMerry Christmas/Happy Hanukkah/Habari Gani to all who celebrate (and enjoy the public holidays to everyone else)! We draw on our years of Catholic guilt (Ava) and heathenry (Clea) to unpack how Christianity became hot again. We also share the religious education we have gained through TikTok, including 'Jesus is my Boyfriend', 'Christian Girl Autumn', and the truly disturbing phenomenon that is soaking. Enjoy!
Required Reading:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/17/joel-osteen-kenneth-copeland-10-televangelists-trouble/1471926001/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/05/us/carl-lentz-hillsong-pastor.html
https://businessnewsroom.deakin.edu.au...
2021-12-221h 05The Bimbo Industrial ComplexBBLs and the Body Positivity Industrial ComplexCW: eating disorders, weight, dieting, surgery
This week we take the body positivity discussion existential and ask whether have to love our mortal flesh prisons to be happy. Will conditioning ourselves to love our stretch marks and cellulite really dismantle institutionalised fatphobia? We also get into why we are so invested in celebrity body transformations and why BBLs are straight-up terrifying. Plus, we give you some hot girl Christmas present recsfor when you don't want to participate in consumerism for ethical reasons and also because you're broke.
Required Reading:
https://w...
2021-12-0856 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexConti Rolls and the Multiculturalism Industrial ComplexCome with us as we venture into the field for a first person investigation into Australian multiculturalism (by way of a Conti Roll). We follow the thread of colonial history in an attempt to work out how the descendants of the original boat people decided that we must 'Stop The Boats' at all costs, and how Australia's beautiful, bustling ethnic food scene may be concealing some unexamined ideas about race and culture. Plus: Clea tells you why straight, white men are better than the rest of us and Ava introduces you to her best ami Rémy...
2021-11-2659 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexEMERGENCY BROADCAST: Phaul Brescal*We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you some (semi-) breaking news that is breaking our hearts (in a good way tho)*
Please enjoy this bonus episode where we discuss the Sad Girl Superbowl™ (Phoebe Bridgers and Paul Mescal finally confirming they are dating) and some of our other favourite indie darling couples! And Madagascar 3 for some reason.
Music Credit:
https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/the-lowdown
License code: PPH9FBEMASHOI7PB
https://uppbeat.io/t/cruen/in-the-now
License code: 5WQG1LQRLH7QMYPC
...
2021-11-1334 min
art.fully.groundedChris ChalkChris opens up about how he gradually awakened to his deepest and truest sense of self, how he finds the spiritual in every aspect of day, and how he uses both a disciplined daily practice and consciously developed self-trust to navigate this thing we call life. He also finds time to help his old friend Janie through a tough moment. Born in Asheville, NC, Chris is an actor, filmmaker and coach currently living in LA. A near death drowning experience “woke” Chris from his productivity slumber two years into his journey in NY and he has been thri...
2021-11-121h 03The Bimbo Industrial ComplexMedical Discrimination and the Birth Control Industrial ComplexJoin us today to find out all the ways the healthcare system sucks!!! (But also please take us to the hospital if we get COVID...) We delve into how medical research and practice grossly underserves POC, the LGBTQI+ community, and people with vaginas (and we say 'vagina' a lot). PLUS: the publicly funded research into how hot women with endometriosis are that reads like an Onion article and why the male pill will never take off :///
Required Reading:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22985951/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/racism-in-healthcare
2021-11-101h 05The Bimbo Industrial ComplexSemiotics, Simulacra, and The SimpsonsThis week we put our square eyes to good use and apply a philosophical lens to one of our all time favourite topics, The Simpsons. We deconstruct how Barthes and Bart are two sides of the same post-modern coin and how Baudrillard would have loved to see Marge walk the Balenciaga catwalk. Somehow we also manage to touch on Kony 2012, androgyny, and Kim K at the Met Gala - buckle in for a wild ride!
Required reading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHESOq-Gkw
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264486622_From...
2021-10-271h 08The Bimbo Industrial ComplexArtificial Scarcity and the Luxury Industrial ComplexToday we live the hater lifestyle and talk about how Rancid Eddie managed to sabotage their 15 minutes of fame and why dubbed media is always* inferior. Next, we deep dive into burning Burberry, gatekeeping Hermès, and lining up to buy sneakers that you'll never wear. Plus: we know diamonds are a girl's best friend - but, in this age of conscious consumption, should they be?
*unless you have visual impairment or visual processing issues ofc
Required Reading:
https://www.marshall.usc.edu/sites/default/files/jnunes/i...
2021-10-1358 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexJohn Mulaney, Emma Chamberlain, and the Parasocial Relationship Industrial ComplexThis episode, we ask the age old question: if being emotionally invested in celebrities and fictional characters is wrong, do we really want to be right? We talk you through parasocial relationships and why people like Emma Chamberlain and John Mulaney seem to have such a vice grip on our collective consciousness. Plus: was the commercialisation of authenticity ever going to be a sustainable enterprise? And why aren't more people talking about Tony Armstrong from ABC News?
Required Reading:
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/on-parasocial-relationships-and-the-boundaries-of-celebrity
https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb...
2021-09-291h 03The Bimbo Industrial ComplexOlivia Rodrigo and the Nostalgia Industrial ComplexThis one goes out to all you 90s kids and y2k enthusiasts who feel like you were born in the wrong generation. Today we take you back to the good old days, and ask - were they really that good? We delve into the evolution and commercialisation of nostalgia, and origins of the collective need to make a remake/reboot/reunion of every piece of pop culture. Our main event is a discussion of the incomparable Olivia Rodrigo and her debut album Sour, which manages to tap into so many layers of early 2000s nostalgia it's easy to...
2021-09-1558 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexMulti-Level Marketing and the #GirlBoss Industrial ComplexHey boss babes and bros! Today we give you the lowdown on the rise and spectacular cultural fall of the mythical #girlboss, before delving into how on earth multi-level marketing organisations (i.e. pyramid schemes, but make it fashion) still exist. Somehow we also manage to cover how carabiners are inherently hot, the emergence of the 'gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss' movement, and how Clea is so lonely she'd pay someone to take her on a date (don't ask). Enjoy this deep dive into our collective neoliberal hellscape, and let us know if you'd like to get in on the ground...
2021-09-0154 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexWhy Astrology is Real and Money is FakeSPECIAL EPISODE
What's up all you co-star girlies and Robin Hood pundits. Today we bring you the ultimate controversial party quip and alllll the facts to back it up. Like for real - why??!?! can't we just print more money ?!
We take an astrological exploration into the stars and help you explore your feelings through your birth time. Then Resident economist Clea Sanders holds your hand and guides you through how to make even the most argumentative Reggie Murphy wearing commerce boy squirm!
Required Reading:
https://www.a...
2021-08-1852 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexMan Repeller and the Maximalism Industrial ComplexWelcome back to the Bimbo Industrial Complex! Today we delve into maximalism, minimalism, and whether less really is more (more materialistic, more rooted in white supremacy, etc. etc.). We pay our respects to our roots with a deep dive into Man Repeller and its (in)famous founder Leandra Medine and trace Tik Tok fashion back to its gaucho pant roots...
Required reading:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/02/03/the-pitfalls-and-the-potential-of-the-new-minimalism?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI65Xx4vHr6wIVivOzCh2RDgd6EAAYASAAEgIVEPD_BwE
https://pure.solent.ac.uk/en/publications/boredom-and-reinvention-for-the-female-gaze-within-personal-fashi-2
2021-08-0447 minThe Bimbo Industrial ComplexHimbos and the Heteropessimism Industrial ComplexWelcome back to the Bimbo Industrial Complex. On the agenda today - men are trash but make it intellectual by calling it heteropessism. We discuss what that word actually means and how you can use it to justify your continuing addiction to mediocre tinder dates. We dalliance into queer theory, drool over hunky himbos and Clea explains a table!
Required reading:
https://brobible.com/culture/article/short-men-must-earn-more-money/
https://home.uchicago.edu/~hortacsu/onlinedating.pdf
https://thenewinquiry.com/on-heteropessimism/
https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/n7...
2021-07-2145 min
The Bimbo Industrial ComplexHouse of Scammy and the Sustainability Industrial ComplexWelcome to The Bimbo Industrial Complex, where we take the theory and the memes and blend them together in a beautiful mish mash of academia and bimboism! This episode we tackle ecofeminist theory, why men are afraid to recycle and investigate the sustainability claims of eco-warrior instabrand House of Sunny...
Required reading:
https://mashable.com/feature/carbon-footprint-pr-campaign-sham/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/eco-gender-gap-why-saving-planet-seen-womens-work
https://www.mintel.com/press-centre/social-and-lifestyle/the-eco-gender-gap-71-of-women-try-to-live-more-ethically-compared-to-59-of-men
https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article/43/4/567/2630509?login=true
Music credit:
2021-07-0742 min