Bibliophools

THE PHOOLS LOVE THEM APPLES THANKS FOR ASKING!!!! When Christopher Nolan makes a film and there's literary source material for that film. Ya'll KNOW the Phools are reading that book!! Homer's Odyssey, the oldest adventure story ever probably! Are Cyclops people too? Are the gods chill? How hot were the Sirens? Was Odysseus a good guy? Is every Matt Damon film really just the story of h...

🤫 --- Episode Summary: The Phools dive into Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club," exploring its themes of masculinity, rebellion, and societal critique. The discussion centers on an unnamed insomniac Narrator, the influence of his friend Tyler Durden, and the book's commentary of consumerism and nihilism. They analyze the cultural impact of "Fight Club," comparing the book t...

There's no good "Night of the...". That's always gonna be a bad time. Living Dead? There's gonna be zombies. Long Knives? There's gonna be Nazis. Grizzlies? Well.. you get it. Until the night of August 13, 1967, The grizzlies of Glacier National Park had a body count of 0. But on that night, everything changed. This book reads like a true crime! The killer is a bear obvs,...

HELLO CRAWLERS!!!  That’s right. The Phools are back with Carl, Donut, a velociraptor, a shotgun crocodile, a demigorgon mother goose, a severed latex head, a shape shifter named juice box and two Floridians. Fighting their way through chainsaw birds, a sharktopus, a ghost pterodactyl, and some racist fish.  May this series continue forever, amen.

What would it feel like to be a star nosed mole? What would it be like to have a fourth primary color? Do fish have feelings? Was Kurt Cobain actually murdered? What would a movie about a mudslide made of Tigers be called? How many movie references even fit in a podcast about books? How many science books in a row is too many? What’s wrong with Mac’s tummy? What’s going on? What are we doing? Find...

GRAY GOO! --- Episode Summary: The Phools Explore the future of AI, automation, and societal impacts with futurist Ray Kurzweil. Discusses job automation, economic shifts, and potential societal upheavals in a post-scarcity world. In this episode, we explore the complex risks and defenses related to AI, nanobots, and existential threats, with insights from Ray Kurzweil's predictions and sci-fi...

Do you ever feel like the rate of change just keeps accelerating and nothing is normal and maybe we've lost the concept of normal entirely? The Bibliophools sometimes feel that way. And Ray Kurzweil is here to tell us all about how the next 20 years is going to be whack-a-doodle-doo. Superintelligent AI, the cure for all disease and aging, the end of scarcity, and most importantly, those nanob...

The fools are not smart men. But they know what love is. And they know more about how brains work thanks to this book!!!  Last week’s episode how intelligence evolved from sponges, to nematodes, to fish, to mammals. This week we pick up with primates and humans! How did primate grooming evolve into human ass-kissing? What happened to that baby gorilla at Hogle Zoo? Is gossip responsible for our jo...

Artificial or no, intelligence is confusing… What does that word even mean? If you can answer a lot of questions about octopus anatomy but your brain doesn’t move fast enough to play Guitar Hero very well and you don’t know why, are you intelligent? (asking for a friend) On their quest to make sense of Artificial Intelligence, the Phools are starting with the fundamentals. What is Intelligence eve...

An AUTHOR guest host AND a TOLKIEN BOOK!?!?!? What is even happening right now!? The Phools are joined by Aaron N. Hall, who some have called the literary voice of a generation. Together they break down the iconic adventure story that kicked off the Lord of the Rings, and thereby discover their their courage, various trinkets, and possibly the greatest idea for a heist ever fathomed.

Is AI freaking you out? Well that just too damn bad because this weeks book is IROBOT!!!  Not the vacuum, not the movie, the original anthology by legendary sci-fi founding father Isaac Asimov! Robot babysitters face off with tractors, a Robot becomes mayor by punching a guy in the face, and a mind-reading robot becomes fatally insecure. Hope you brought a raincoat cause the Phools are about to do...

Two Olympics books back to back, are the Phools out of their minds!?! Always were baby. This week's book is a deep dive into the stories behind the MIRACLE ON ICE!!! Often called the greatest upset in sports history, this is the legendary 1980 Olympic hockey game where a team of scrappy US college students defeated the unstoppable Russian jugggernauts. --- Episode Summary: The Phools explore t...

It’s OLYMPICS season folks and you know what that means! TIME TO TALK ABOUT TRUE CRIME!!! An Olympic Gold medal winning wrestler is murdered by his coach. His brother (also an Olympic Gold medal winning wrestler) wrote this book about their meteoric rise to athletic superiority, and the insane, egotistical, cocaine-fueled, megalomaniac millionaire who tore it all down. Is being an olympian a menta...

IT’S SPOOKY FISHING PART 2 of 2!!! With Zombie Mom out of the way, it’s time now to travel to the black ocean where The Fisherman and his zombie fish minions toil endlessly to ensare a primordial evil and gain mastery over life and death. Re-read that sentence. You can’t make this stuff up! Unless you’re John Langan!!! The Phools are made a deal with the devil this week! Episode Summary: The Phool...

What do you get when you mix grief, fishing, and PRIMORDIAL EVIL!?!? This freakin book that’s what. THE FISHERMAN is an award winning cosmic horror with all the fixins. Greiving widowers, a barkeeper’s spooky tale, black magic, zombie moms, and gargantuan monsters older than the earth itself! The Phools are gone fishin, and may never be back… --- Episode Summary: The Phools delve into the cosmic h...

BOATS AGAIN!?! They said it couldn't be done... Berg moves to a coastal town to get clean from drugs, and takes a job with old boatbuilder to build boats to smuggle drugs. Sort of a full-circle, coming of age, "Eat-Pray-Love" situation. The Phools are on a journey of self discovery this week!!! --- Episode Summary: The Phools delve into the themes of addiction, redemption, and the cr...

Piracy, Shipwreck, MUTINY!!!! The Phools are shivering their timbers this week! On the way to steal some treasure for England, the Wager is shipwrecked in Patagonia! They get rescued but they get too horny and ruin it, a poet abandons his captain but changes his mind, against all odds they somehow still get the treasure, and the best part, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED!!! --- Episode Summary:...

This has nothing to do with Capitan America. And for the record, that movie had nothing to do with this book. It's a Utopian nightmare!!! In a future where everyone is happy, why does it feel so wrong? Why do they grow babies in labs? Where did all these twins come from? What is the best Jason Statham movie? The Phools are questioning everything!!! --- Episode Summary: In this episode, the phools...

CHOO CHOO!!!!! Everything you love about Dungeon Crawler Carl, except this time... TRAINS!!! That's right. The Phools are back with the greatest LitRPG series of all time. Will Carl and Donut be able to navigate an endless maze of train tracks? What do you call a centaur with another human body where the horse body should be? Can you power a steam engine with flaming demon babies? WILL MCKYLIN BE...

HOW IS IT NEW YEARS!?! It’s time once again to award the Phoolies (It’s new). The Phools reflect on this year’s books, how they’ve changed as people, and most importantly, which characters get a place on the apocalypse survival team. Thank you all for joining us this year! There’s more where this came from!!! WE CAN’T BE STOPPED!!! BIBLIOPHOOLS FOREVER!!!

IT'S AGATHA CHRISTIE TIME!!!! It's the most wonderful time of the year! With the kids jingle belling and everyone telling you "DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING!" because it's poisoned. The Phools are celebrating the only way they know how. With a holiday whodunnit by the queen of crime!! --- Episode Summary: In this festive episode, the Phools engage in humorous banter...

AND WE’RE BACK!!! For part 2 of 2 of WUTHERING HEIGHTS!!! Last week, the Phools left the Heights at the heights of tension. Heathcliff pulled a Count of Monte Cristo and came back rich and ready to ruin some lives!!! Sure hope nobody dies and that everyone learns their lesson! --- Episode Summary: In this engaging conversation, the phools explore various themes from Taoism to classic literature, p...

The Heights… are Wuthering A dreary manor on a dreary moor is haunted. Metaphorically by an exceptionally angry man, and literally by the ghost of the woman he loves. Is it the greatest love story of all time? Yes, probably. Does Evan have a hard time listening to that Charli XCX song from the trailer because that reminds him of this book, and that evokes feelings he can’t explain. Jury’s out. NOT...

NONFICTIONAL!!! This book is BONKERS!!! And it really happened! Basically, a poacher got eaten by a Tiger in Eastern Russia. But since it’s written by our main man John Vaillant y’all KNOW we’re getting neck deep in the details!! We’re talking the whole backstory of Eastern Russia, an anatomical breakdown of Tigers as the murder machines they are, a full biography of poacher, investigator, and Tig...

FREEWILL IS AN ILLUSION!!! 1/3rd of the Phools believe that, but thats the third writing this description so HA! Got em. The Phools are back with Part 2 of the sci-fi epic SIRENS OF TITAN by the legendary Kurt Vonnegut. A martian learns he’s actually an earthling, a cosmic spiral pretending to be an earthling throws a tantrum, a Tramalfodorian waits on Titan while his buddies manipulate earthling...