The Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast

With Benedict away on his vacation this week we are dropping the second half of our patron only episode of Michael Knowles and Dave Rubin pretending to have read 1984 by George Orwell. 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: https://www.prageru.com/video/dave-rubin-1984-by-george-orwell 

This week, we dive back into our current bok Manhood by Josh Hawley to learn that Josh, is the epitome of the everyman, a veritable paragon of middle class America, by which he means a former collegiate Rower. 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpbkTMDLCT4&t=257s

This week, we get side-tracked yet again from all of our best inventions by the election of the single worst human being the republicans could have chosen as Speaker of the House. That’s right, this week we’re talking about new House Speaker Mike Johnson. 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: https://x.com/BidenHQ/status/1720525403817746781?s=20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vU5KvYb-oE https://x.com/RepMikeJohnson/status/1648361786393911296?s=20 https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1328773794077552640?s=20  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFsM6b0IS8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j9NAkNX7WQ https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1717342823572259075   https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/10/speaker-mike-johnsons-old-time-religion.html https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/10/everything-to-know-about-mike-johnson https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/10/mike-johnson-urged-a-religious-test-for-politicians/ https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/10/26/mike-johnson-house-speaker-55-things-to-know-00123593

This week, we dive back into Manhood by Josh Hawley for another lazy attempt at creating metaphors, this time about how men need to... uh guard things I guess. 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:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imV3b0fBZYE

This week, we take a little break (or a little breaky IYKYK) and decided to release one of our recent patron only bonus episodes onto the main feed for you all to enjoy. In the month of August(ish) we watched an episode of the Michael Knowles Book Club on Prager U where he and future Minitruth functionary Dave Rubin pretended to have read 1984. We sure enjoyed it and we hope you will too. 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: https://www.prageru.com/video/dave-rubin-1984-by-george-orwell   

This week, we get into the absolute oh what the hell even is this? Like what am I supposed to do with this bible study for fascist morons? I can;t even describe how terrible this chapter is to read and even worse to try to explain. 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oKjbGF0AKs

This week, we dive into another round of Prager Roulette to dig up some tasty crumbs from the couch cushions over the last few months. From Jordan Peterson starting a “university” to Steven Crowder’s failed singing career. 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hCltqvbcE&list=PL3e1orPYt_4bEuJw6zF0E2UR_Epyt36Df&index=2   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nzTd5O7Pus&t=23s   https://www.prageru.com/video/want-a-revolution-start-a-business   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zq8jRqOMeg   https://www.prageru.com/video/lets-visit-a-california-mission

This week, we begin our review of “Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs” by the worst Muppet Josh Hawley with Chapter 1 of this christo-fascist nightmare, “In the Beginning’ 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRzvinE4IaE 

This week, after 35 years of promising we finally delve into the world of right wing comedy or what passes for comedy on the right. We take a look at up and coming acts like Nicholas De Santo, Old timer weirdos like Rodney Carrington and Dennis Miller, and the right’s funny boy in chief, Greg Gutfeld. We apologize for how unfunny this episode is in advance. 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: The Devil’s Advocates: https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/ The Science of Laughter:  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whats-so-funny-the-science-of-why-we-laugh/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyts9RWVr5M   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwntpO6YoRo   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejrxhNC7jRU   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLvOHsQBcSg   https://www.facebook.com/prageru/videos/1931033690272811/   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piSnG1AwC1w   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIUHQ59p7oQ   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvk2Da8tacc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F7UXxFz_iQ   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKEwB18lobk   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MNdfiBIuCc

This week, we begin our introduction to the next book review of "Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs" by Josh Hawley by talking about the man himself, small and sad as he 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: Hawley's high School Writing: https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article248663695.html Hawley's inaction on police murder: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/tory-sanders-mississippi-county-sheriff-5542146?storyPage=2 Hawley's Ladder Climbing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-6xJUkIVSw Other really weird ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhe0xOG6pQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKpY8PCut2A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6PJTcnkUhA Hawley's Fascist Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuhUfNufsnI&t=5921s The Devil's Advocates: https://the-devils-advocates.ghost.io/