The Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast

This Week!   We finally make tentative, halting steps towards our long planned deep dive into the world of libertarian weirdos by taking a look at the "think tank" started by one of the movement's leading losers, Ron Paul, who is most definitely not your friend.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week!   We finally begin what might be the best book we've read (by our incredibly low standards) in quite a while. Cracking the cover on this beauty was like the first sip of an ice cold coke fresh from the fridge, the first slice of hot pizza, cigarettes after sex, feeding all of the addictions we've been in withdrawal for at once. In American Marxism we've finally found the kind of abject crazy mixed with just enough lazy writing that we've been looking for for oh so long, and we are excited to take you along for the ride!   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   We take a look at two incredibly important figures in the history of conservative thought, Barry Goldwater, and Catholic Fascist L. Brent Bozell Jr. Together, one of these two wrote the central guiding tome of Conservative thought, and the other said it was ok tpo put his name on it, and soon you can hear us read it as our new patron only book review of The Conscience of a Conservative.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   We begin our next book review of Mark Levin's "American Marxism" a book so thoroughly researched and comprehensive that the first few hundred thousand copies went out with allegations that a mysterious "Franklin School" was responsible for Herbert Marcuse and all of that "Cultural Marxism" they're slipping in in-between the CRT. Levin may be one of the angriest, and certainly the scariest author we've ever read, and we're excited to dig into the 300-page hot steamer Amazon delivered to our doorsteps. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week! We are all not Witches! Because of Kevin's busy schedule we took the time to take a look at a political figure who probably otherwise would only ever be remembered as a one-liner from a halfway decent episode of SNL, Christine O'Donnell, a perrennial Senate Candidate in Delaware best known for losing to Joe Biden in 2008 and not being a witch. Thank you all for listening and enjoy the show! Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This week! We finally got to the end of the terrible awful, no good very bad book that is William F. Buckley's God and Man at Yale: the Superstitions of Academic Freedom, and boy are we glad to be done with this sad excuse for a classic of conservatism.  Thank you all as always for listening and enjoy the show! Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week! We reach an incredible, but ultimately we recognize unimportant milestone of 100 Episodes!!! Thanks to all the listeners and patrons who have stuck with us through all the inane ramblings of conspiracists and zealots on our little quest.   This week we took a look at a man who might be the single most important figure in right wing thought until 2015, W. Cleon Skousen, the man who gave John Birch conspiracism a new twist for a new era, and inspired some of the most virulent morons of our time.   We were joined this week by X from the Utah Outcasts. You can find more of him and all his compatriots doing their good work over at https://www.youtube.com/c/UtahOutcastsOfficial as well as wherever you get podcasts.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   We finally get to the penultimate episode of our review of God and Man at Yale. the Superstitions of Academic Freedom, by William F. Buckley Jr. What have we learned in 170 pages? Not a god damn thing because this is just a 25 year old complaining about his college.   If you would like to look at the posters from the American Social Hygiene Association you can find them at: https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/organizations/american-social-hygiene-association/.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   We jump back into our dumbest member of congress rundown to take a look at someone who is best epitomized by the phrase "Platonic Runner Up" Lauren Opal Boebert, representative of Colorado's Third Congressional District. Her illustrious business career involves going from giving people food poisoning to dozens as a manager at McDonalds, to giving food poisoning to dozens of people as the owner of her very own restaurant and then congress. Because mediocrity is the new excellence.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

This Week!   We finally begin to near the end of this nightmarishly bad 200 page anti-communist screed "God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of Academic Freedom" by William F. Buckley. Oh god... we still have 3 more episodes of this book at minimum... make it stop... please make it stop.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Music: "Say You Will" by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com