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Book Club: A Wrinkle in Time

March 27, 2026·39 min·1 clip

A Wrinkle in Time landed on the banned books list for being anti-Christian — despite containing Bible verses throughout.

This is an iHeart Podcast. That line pretty much tells you what this excerpt is, because the Book Club conversation is not in the provided audio. So, yes, mostly promos. The first stretch sells 2%, with Michael Easter talking mental toughness, fitness, resilience, and the stairs-versus-escalators choice. Then money takes over. Earn Your Leisure pushes financial literacy, investing, entrepreneurship, credit, real estate, and building wealth inside systems people already live with. The episode itself stays offstage. Soccer Moms gets name-checked through Will Ferrell's Big Money Players and iHeart before the clip cuts off mid-introduction. Then the ads keep going. A recovery show teases a Danny Trejo conversation about addiction, transformation, second chances, and a season with Tiffany Addish and Johnny Knoxville. Amy and TJ shift the mood with news and pop culture, filtered through a brisk facts-versus-noise pitch. Eating While Broke gets sharper. The excerpt ties Financial Literacy Month to money, family disbelief, venture capital, and the plain fact that communities need money moving through them. That section has some bite, moving from credibility to food, homes, kids, and entrepreneurship's material stakes. Then sports arrives. The Matchup with Aaliyah promotes a Wanda Sykes conversation about Undercard, trash talk, and what ladylike is supposed to mean. Lala Kent closes with life after Sir, Valley adulthood, an unruly persona, and the usual love-or-love-to-hate reality TV lane. For a PlayNext clip, screen this out. There is no grounded material about the actual book club discussion.

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A modest, theme-led book-club conversation that treats A Wrinkle in Time as a story still worth returning to.

Stuff Mom Never Told You's book-club episode on A Wrinkle in Time sets modest expectations and benefits from that restraint. Rather than treating the conversation as the final word on a much-discussed book, the hosts acknowledge that plenty has already been written about it and…

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A direct reset on mental toughness, fitness, and resilience.

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