First and foremost, there is a spoiler in here for “The Pitt,” so listen/watch at your own peril.

Social media is all a-chattering about America’s literacy crisis, so we weigh in. If you didn’t know, the Book-It program is back!

On a related note to the literacy discussion, we have the Wall Street Journal’s story about how much YouTube students are watching during school (sorry for the paywall—if you subscribe to Apple News, here’s that link instead).

Here’s a link to our latest Golden Sower pick, “The Scarlet Alchemist.”

And finally, as we’ve been revisiting our old vlog over the last 19 episodes of this podcast, here’s the last episode of our vlog from 2012. It is a must watch, if for no other reason than to see the t-shirt Stueve is wearing.

Thanks for listening. We’ll be back with an episode or two over the summer.

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