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A podcast where we discuss books that appear on the show Ted Lasso
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Four engaged readers turn Ted Lasso's literary references into searching conversations about character, culture and the stories beneath the series.
Coach Beard's Book Club - A Ted Lasso Podcast uses the series' books as routes into its characters, conflicts and moral questions. Michaela, Andrea, Bex and Marita bring a lively roundtable energy to discussions that connect literature, sport and screen storytelling without…
A Ted Lasso book reference can pull you into a debate over Nate's moral compass.
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A New Year catch-up that turns reading plans into Ted Lasso lore.
The episode opens the year with an easygoing sweep through what the panel hopes to read in 2024, then circles back to Ted Lasso's Bird by Bird references and the episodes where the book surfaces.
A conversational book-club discussion that uses Ted Lasso fandom to open a sharper look at identity and gender norms.
Coach Beard's Book Club uses Johnny Tremaine to frame a Ted Lasso theory about one character, then widens into a discussion of subversion, gender norms, and the rules men and women are expected to live under.
A Ted Lasso book club episode tying belief, superstition, and self-worth together.
Coach Beard's Book Club keeps its focus on Colin's Book, The Alchemist, while Michaela, Andrea, Bex, Marita, and guest Professor Scott Henderson from Furman University shape the discussion.
Ted Lasso's kindness gets a literary and trauma-focused close reading.
Coach Beard's Book Club opens in a loose, chatty register before settling into a sharper point: Ted Lasso's kindness only really lands because it is tested by hostility and still holds.
A warm Ted Lasso conversation that turns reading habits into character insight.
Coach Beard's Book Club uses a guest chat with Adam Colburn, best known to Ted Lasso viewers as Baz, to tie reading habits to character perspective.
A thoughtful look at football, belief, and the odd logic of miracles.
Coach Beard's Book Club uses The Miracle of Castel di Sangro as a springboard for bigger questions about football and belief. It moves from Billie Jean King and the Battle of the Sexes to miracle stories, Italian football culture, and the logic of relegation and promotion, so…
A book-club argument over football and soccer becomes a smart, funny look at how sports travel through place and memory.
Coach Beard's Book Club turns a title joke into a loose, funny discussion of Football Against the Enemy, or Soccer Against the Enemy, depending on who is talking.
A measured Ted Lasso discussion that links psychedelics and middle age to Beard and Jane.
Coach Beard's Book Club uses How To Change Your Mind to connect psychedelics, middle age, and the shifting shape of Ted Lasso's world around Beard and Jane.
Sharp TV arguments, faster than prestige can posture.
Star Trek commentary with the brakes off.
After the episode, inside the scene.
Classic Perry Mason, case by case.
A fannish map of Mindy’s TV universe.
The hosts discuss 'The Miracle of Castel di Sangro', a book featured in Ted Lasso, exploring its themes of sports journalism ethics, underdog stories, and football culture.
The panel opens with holiday greetings and a New Year reading check-in.
Coach Beard's Book Club opens with a familiar club-style welcome and a reminder that the show runs through books mentioned or seen in Ted Lasso.
Coach Beard’s Book Club ties Ted Lasso season 2, episode 1, “Goodbye, Earl,” to Hamilton by tracing Ted and Beard’s “put down your beer” exchange to Hamilton’s “Right Hand Man.” Bex uses Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ron Chernow, and the 2015 Broadway run of Hamilton to explain why the musical matters before connecting it to color conscious casting in both shows.
Bex tees up a shared Ted Lasso episode while listeners wait for the new season.
Michaela welcomes Greyhounds back with Andrea, Bex, and Marita for a conversation about *Kafka on the Shore* and one of its oddest ideas: a character who can talk with cats.
Coach Beard’s Book Club gathers around *A Life of Pie* with an animal question to kick things off.
Michaela opens the discussion and brings Andrea, Bex, and Marita into a book club chat about the book and how it connects to Ted Lasso.
Coach Beard's Book Club is back with Colin's Book, The Alchemist.
Michaela opens Coach Beard's Book Club with Andrea, Bex, and Marita, the four women Beard handpicked to dig into books mentioned or seen in Ted Lasso.
Coach Beard’s Book Club gathers around Football Against the Enemy and quickly settles into the football-versus-soccer argument.
The hosts analyze The Wizard of Oz, drawing detailed parallels to Ted Lasso, including character comparisons, feminist themes, and narrative structures.
The hosts of Coach Beard's Book Club analyze the historical novel Johnny Tremaine, exploring its connections to Ted Lasso through setting, trauma, narrative structure, and a queer reading of the text, featuring an interview with an academic expert.