Elton Reads A Book A Week

Elton hits the bar to drown a depressing night when, while there he meets a mysterious man who wants to discuss a book he's recently read, all the while concealing his...true intentions. Music by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com/) Additional music by Unheard Music Concepts (www.unheardmusicconcepts.com) License: CC BY  (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Abducted, tied to a chair to wake up in a dank warehouse in the middle of nowhere can be tough, especially when being interrogated via speaker about a Pete Townshend book you'd recently read. Pete Townshend is the legendary guitar player for the band 'The Who' of course, and the person tied to the chair...is Elton. Will he live? Will he die? Will he piss off a cantankerous comic book like super vi...

 "The Science of Evil" by Simon Baron-Cohen, a psychology book about "lack of empathy" being interpreted as "evil" that was so good, it inspired a game show that tortures a contestant with farts, hornets, and much, much more. Oh, and it's spelled "Rikishi", so feel free to Google...and be...AMAZED. I'd also like to thank Nate Winters for the writing help.

 In this episode, Elton talks to kids, the Angel of Death, and Ed Sullivan himself to discover why Ed's Christmas book is so oddly morbid and death-ridden. So, you know, it's a family episode, but for adults; adults with death issues...and Christmas.

This episode is about The Founding Fathers, a time traveling jack-in-the-box invented by Benjamin Franklin, and a bong. Yep. No joke.

Elton uses his depreciated cunning, lack of wit, and The Reader's Digest Legal Question & Answer Book to construct a sound legal defense, in hopes of fending off imprisonment...for a crime he may--or may not have commited. "Hard Boiled" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Lobby Time" Kevin MacLeod...

ERABAW - Episode 006 - Judy Garland by Anne Edwards A painfully good book about the life, consumption, and death of Judy Garland I found on a shelf in a Goodwill store. The perfect read for traffic jams, Coors Light commercial shoots, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. https://www.facebook.com/EltonReadsTooMuch/ https://twitter.com/Eltonreadsalot https://www.instagram.com/eltonreadsabookaweek/ https://soundclo...

ERABAW - Episode 005 - Tower of Basel by Adam Lebor A crazy book about an actual secret bank that...may just rule the world. https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek https://www.facebook.com/EltonReadsTooMuch/ https://www.instagram.com/eltonreadsabookaweek/ https://twitter.com/eltonreadsalot

The wonderful world of the brain partially reveals itself in this disturbingly funny take on a medical textbook. Yeah. A muthaf#ckin' medical textbook. Listen, enjoy, and repeat the phrase, "Better this chump, than me." He'll take it. He's easy like that.

ERABAW - Episode 3 - The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper Oh, the fun filled world of Revolutionary War spies. Can it be more wicked? Maybe, if the women would just...stop...crying. Listen to the latest episode of Elton Reads A Book A Week...The Spy. Contribute here: https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek Follow the podcast here: https://www.facebook.com/EltonReadsTooMuch/ Tweet? Here's the podc...

This week's episode enters the wonderful world of flatness with 3 time Pulitzer Prize winning author Thomas Friedman. It's connected with connections all over connected...dom. You'll like it. Friends of the podcast contribute and support the love here: https://www.patreon.com/eltonreadsabookaweek Messages for the podcast write their love here: https://www.facebook.com/EltonReadsTooMuch/ Strangers...