The Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast

This Week! We finally begin our review of the Alex Jones Book “The Great Reset and the War for the World” a book so crazy we think we might have finally found that dragon we’ve been chasing for so long. This week we reviewed chapter 1 “What is the great reset” in which he completely fails to answer that question. The Great reset, in Alex’s mind, appears to be just about whatever he wants to yell about in that particular moment, but like Icarus, Alex has most certainly gone too close to the sun and decided to put claims down in written form to be laughed at by the rest of us. We are excited to get this review going and hope you join us along the way! Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Show Links: Alex Jones thinks Childish Gambino is doing Voodoo dances: https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-warns-childish-gambino-donald-glover-doing-voodoo-dance-his-america-video “8 Predictions for the World in 2030” World Economic Forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/8-predictions-for-the-world-in-2030/?utm_content=bufferdda7f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR22J4C-0y0M81Pt3_yhchD3yezrH11mpYrVXbUs21HkSTBYf13_LGFgFl8

This Week, we begin a mini series within the Lunatic Fringe series on the militia movement in the united states by looking at three of the inciting incidents in the history of the militia movement’s history, Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the Oklahoma City Bombing. Through to today individuals on the far right still claim The Weaver Family, and Members of the Branch Davidian cult as martyrs for their cause, as well as proof that the government is trying to kill them all, round them up, or whatever their personal conspiracy presence is. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Show Links: PBS American Experience Ruby Ridge: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/ruby-ridge-part-one-suspicion/ Sinful Messiah – Waco Tribune - https://culteducation.com/group/1220-waco-davidians/24414-the-sinful-messiah.html David Koresh Radio Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z800s0DZLf8&t=379s

This Week we begin our review of “The Great Reset” by Alex Jones with our review of the man himself. This time around, because we covered the basics of Alex in our Lunatic Fringe episode on him, we spend more time looking at him in his own words, listening to clips of Alex throughout the years to try to understand the man who has done possibly more than anyone else to drag the republican party towards its current conspiracy focused state.   I have to give a huge amount of credit to the Knowledge Fight podcast, expert on all things Alex Jones, and my personal source for the vast majority of my information about the man himself. You can find them wherever you get podcasts, or at https://knowledgefight.com/.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod   Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com   Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod   Show Links:   Our Lunatic Fringe Episode on Alex Jones -https://open.spotify.com/episode/6z8Nyv6nMBf70ZJA8lFV1v?si=be9ea228290b4a44 https://www.nygbcpod.com/2022/07/06/nygbc-conspiracy-jones/   Police State 2000 – Archive.org https://archive.org/details/police-state-1   America: Wake up or Waco - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiP3vYnWpU   Stewart Rhodes incriminates himself on the Alex Jones Show - https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/militia-leader-stewart-rhodes-says-his-group-will-be-polling-locations-and-ready-kill   Stewart Rhodes incriminates himself on the Alex Jones Show again - https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/militia-leader-stewart-rhodes-says-he-has-men-stationed-outside-dc-ready-engage-violence   Alex Jones licks the Paul Family Boot - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn6DbHxSWzg   Alex has a moment of awareness via Glenn Beck - https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/conspiracy-king-alex-jones-beck-talking-about-things-15-years-ago-i-was-called-lunatic   Alex betrays Ron Paul and says he’s anti-libertarian - https://twitter.com/scrowder/status/1570153287919222791   Alex says the KKK are actually Jews in costume - https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-lot-kkk-protesters-are-jewish-actors-who-look-cast-seinfeld-their-hoods   Alex does lots of racism - https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-warns-whites-being-wiped-out-africa-says-black-south-africans-think-more   Alex Jones Great Reset Episode - https://www.bitchute.com/video/dbpXcT1p3Biz/   Alex Jones ADL Profile - https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/alex-jones-five-things-to-know   Great Reset - ADL - https://www.adl.org/blog/the-great-reset-conspiracy-flourishes-amid-continued-pandemic   Alex Jones Extremist Profile Southern Poverty Law Center - https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/alex-jones   Alex Jones Drunk Adam Schiff Rant - https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/trump-ally-alex-jones-threatens-beat-rep-adam-schiffs-goddamn-ass-anti-gay-tirade

This week we continue the lunatic fringe series about how the far right became the moderate center of conservatism with an episode about the toxic sludge that is conservative youth culture. We explore this vapid pool of nuclear waste through the lens of three different groups, the traditional college republicans of Ben Shapiro, the hype-beasts over at TPUSA, and the openly white supremacist College Republicans United. All three of these groups have contributed to the scariest lurch rightward in conservatism of the last decade, and fostered the rebirth of fascism in America in their own ways. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Show Links: College Students are Falling in Love with White Supremacy – MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/college-students-are-falling-love-white-supremacy-rep-paul-gosar-n1261270 Even David Brooks is scared – The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/scary-future-american-right-national-conservatism-conference/620746/ Ben Shapiro vs. What he Thinks he Is – Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRF3r3zUGqk TPUSA’s history of falling backwards into a puddle of white supremacy – Media Matters https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/short-history-turning-point-usas-racism All the receipts of CRU’s white supremacist founders - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5778874-CRU#document/p9/a488238 White Supremacist Jared Taylor Speaks at Arizona State University for the College Republicans United – Left Coast Right Watch https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/articles/white-supremacists-speech-at-asu-attracts-groypers-pedophile-outnumbered-by-protestors/ POPlitics – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw8yFPIROGQ

This week! At long last we finally come to the end of our review of Markl Levin’s book “American Marxism” in which we have—I am sad to say—Not been convinced of Mark’s premise that Biden and Nancy Pelosi are in fact Marxist infiltrators bent on destroying capitalism and turning your child trans. This final chapter is the first really in which Mark writes in his own words rather than gigantic out of context block quotes, and the end of the book leaves us thinking really that if Mark had written the entire book in this way it really could have been one of the most entertaining works of fascist propaganda we’ve read yet. Sadly, we got this crap instead. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Show Links: Mark Levin wishes he could do a genocide: Media Matters https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/fox-news-host-mark-levin-says-bidens-criticism-republicans-what-genocidal-regimes-do

This week, we take an official detour from the lunatic Fringe series to journey into the wild woods of grifter political candidates who make a living and a following off of hopeless campaigns for office to “take America back.” Those we are talking about today include Deanna Lorraine, a California based failure to launch who took on Nancy Pelosi, and still appears to be working on getting that redpilled dating coach business off the ground. Omar Navarro, Deanna’s ex-boyfriend who spent 2020 primary season in jail for harassing Deanna, and the crème de la crème Laura Loomer, who not only once shackled herself to Twitter HQ, she also shackled herself to a losing proposition. These colorful figures of the right continually give it their all, but wouldn’t you know it, they just don’t have enough to give. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Show Links:   Infowars Jan 6: https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/infowars-guest-host-praises-patriots-who-are-trying-violently-take-over-us-capitol   Lorraine FB video with Alex Jones: https://www.facebook.com/1024047269/videos/10220155533011589/   Lorraine takes on Antifa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1PqspDeqE   Omar Navarro wrecked by Maxine Waters: https://www.newsweek.com/maxine-waters-tells-gop-opponent-they-got-tricked-running-against-her-2022-midterms-1679715   Omar Navarro FEC filing: https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/112/201904159146368112/201904159146368112.pdf#navpanes=0   Omar Navarro fake letter: https://www.theroot.com/auntie-maxines-gop-opponent-to-speak-with-fbi-after-twe-1828657830   Web Archive of Laura Loomer Website: https://web.archive.org/web/20201106093201/https://freeloomer.com/   Loomer on Infowars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYgF4RbNlA   Loomer handcuffed to Twitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6KXy4xW5v8   Loomer Won’t Concede: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t9OgyOGblOc

This week, with Benedict on vacation once again we pull out the old low effort clip show format to fill some time and entertain your earballs. Of course given the time frame in which we are currently existing the right wing media-sphere is so completely controlled by one issue and one issue alone, the FBI search warrant on the home of a white supremacist compound in Florida. Despite that I tried to create a bit of variety for all of you and pulled in a few other videos with different topics. We’ll be back next week with the next episode in the Lunatic Fringe series. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Episode Links: Prager U anti student loan forgiveness propaganda: https://www.prageru.com/video/the-student-loan-forgiveness-scam Jesse Waters gives thinly veiled racism a ride and decides he wants a thinner veil: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jesse-watters-claims-law-and-order-has-become-meaningless-new-york-city-because-people Mark Levin has had a minute to cool down and its not enough: https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-mark-levin-compares-search-mar-lago-slavery-segregation-kkk-jim-crow-and-so Art (Garfunkel) Thompson of the John Birch Society sells his books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpwpw0Mlu3s Steven Crowder gets melodramatic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsP6BAks5MQ Elijah Schafer is a neo nazi: https://www.mediamatters.org/blazetv/youtube-blazes-elijah-schaefer-and-guests-make-antisemitic-remarks Owen Shroyer is not talented enough for this: https://www.mediamatters.org/infowars/infowars-responds-news-attack-fbi-office-calling-bureau-terrorist-organization Charlie Kirk has a dumb face and no idea how anything works: https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-says-states-should-refuse-comply-irs

This week, in our penultimate episode on this book we begin the long horrible wind-down of Mark Levin’s fiction masterpiece “American Marxism” with the first half of the final chapter “We Choose Liberty,” in which Mark Levin tells his readers that they ,must ban together in “citizens committees” for the purpose of restricting the liberty of public school children to learn any unapproved information, and to attack teachers, principals, school administrators and all the other Marxists who might think schools should teach about why we needed the civil rights act or that its ok to not be straight and cisgender. In a true tour de force, reminiscent of such triumphant finishes as those of Dinesh D’Souza and Julius Evola, in not as many words Mark concludes like so many of his forebears that the solution to all of the Marxist infiltration of America today, both the virtually nonexistent real, and the imagined which makes up the majority, is of course, fascism. SO come join us and enjoy as we laugh over the persistent right wing slide into open support of fascism that we’ve been seeing for the last 20 years with the final chapter of Mark Levin’s book. As a reminder Benedict will be on vacation next week so we are pre-recording next week’s episode which will be a round of Prager RoUlette. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Episode Links: This Week’s Mark Levin Clip – Andrew Feinberg on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/status/1557184640993345536?s=20&t=mfG2qTap8VD7VizHBWQqGQ

This week we step back into the lunatic fringe for another ride down the slip and slide of fascism, taking a look at the topic we left off our first episode on fascism, Christian nationalism. On this week’s episode we discuss Christian nationalism as the most prevalent form of fascism in the US today. Make no mistake Christian Nationalism is Christian Fascism, there is no significant daylight between the two terms. If you haven’t already listened to our episode about fascism go back and check it out so you can be on the same page with us for this one. In recent months, and certainly at an seemingly increasing pace in the last several weeks, figures of the republican party, from fringe to center have more and more openly embraced the term Christian Nationalist as a description of themselves. As this pattern continues many are worried that if the right is ever to regain power they will embrace the call to institute a theocratic state, and the best I can honestly say is that you genuinely should be worried about that.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Episode Links: Post by Listener Mocking Bird Nation ”Bckaww” https://tgshepherd.com/2018/07/03/oh-captain/ Charlie Kirk’s Little Scrunched Face Homophobia Rant -Twitter https://twitter.com/JasonSCampbell/status/1556620465669554176?s=20&t=Y61PF4OhTbW0JKqnqmm71A Baylor University Religion Survey - https://www.baylor.edu/baylorreligionsurvey/doc.php/292546.pdf Fascist Antisemite Viktor Orban embraced by republicans with open arms at CPAC 2022 Dallas - https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/right-wing-media-spend-week-rallying-around-viktor-orban-after-he-gave-what-his-own Laura Loomer Bombs with LGBTQ hate at Geriatric Church Meeting Tent - https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1556684450913730561?s=20&t=Y61PF4OhTbW0JKqnqmm71A Woke Pope! - https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-condemns-pope-francis-white-apology-tour Lauren Boebert Hates Letters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tApnkKi7Suc Antisemite Oklahoma GOP Christian Fascist - https://www.mediamatters.org/diversity-discrimination/jarrin-jackson-i-largely-agree-anti-miscegenation-and-jews-taking-over Doug Mastriano Tik Tok - https://twitter.com/keyavakil/status/1554129730000936965?s=20&t=Y61PF4OhTbW0JKqnqmm71A Conservatives Vs. KKK Spot the Difference - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk-TLXKlubk Additional Resources: What Did Christian Nationalism Have To Do With Jan. 6 – The Week - https://theweek.com/religion/1015400/explainer-about-the-rise-of-christian-nationalism The Far Right Christian Quest for Power – The New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/08/us/christian-nationalism-politicians.html Christians Against Christian Nationalism (They Probably Still Suck Though) - https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/statement

This week, we get back into Mark Levin’s magnum doofus, American Marxism, to go over the second half of chapter 6. In the first half of this chapter we got Mark complaining primarily about the “Mainstream Media” which of course must not include “America’s Most Watched News Network” which he works for. In this second half we get Mark going shallow into the “Marxist” influence of academia, social media, big tech, and oh hell why not, CEO’s are all Marxists too. While Mark provides us with nothing really new this weekend, he of course gives us plenty of crazy to enjoy. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on our website at NYGBCpod.com Follow us on twitter at @NYGBCpod Episode Links: This week’s Mark Levin Clip – Media Matters - https://www.mediamatters.org/mark-levin/fox-news-host-mark-levin-launches-blistering-attack-republicans-who-voted-protect-same InfoWars Lawsuit Deposition Videos – YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeeCy2sW9BRXjlfsIOA5DgA NIH Study on Responsiveness Rates - Response Rates and Responsiveness for Surveys, Standards, and the Journal – Jack E Fincham PhD - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2384218/