The Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast

This week we try to distract ourselves from the impending doom of the fascist takeover of America about to occur after the midterm elections by finishing our mini-series on the militia movement in the United States. This time around we focused on happenings after 2008, when a second wave of militia activity definitely, absolutely, in no way or purpose had anything to do with the election of a blac...

This week we read the first half of chapter 3 of “The Great Reset” by Alex Jones’ ghostwriter, in which Alex bores the hell out of us, but Kevin found a lady who calls herself a “Citizen Ninja” and don’t worry we talked about that for a while. This chapter covers one crazy man’s ramblings about Jimmy Carter, David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzeziński, and the “Trilateral Comission” otherwise known as...

This week we finally, at long last actually do our episode on the beginnings of the militia movement in the U.S. After many Benedict caused delays (I assure you) we take a peek at the wild world of woodland camouflage LARPing and the ocassional anti-government terror attack from its roots in the 1990s through its decline in the early 2000s. We take a look at some of the seminal figures like Linda...

This week, we return to our book review of Alex Jones’ “The Great Reset” a book so bad it sold tens of thousands of copies to republicans and two to us. We dive in to Chapter 2 “Developing the System of Control” which could easily be summarized as a D- 6th grade book report of the scary European man’s book nobody read. Through skillfully i9ntentional misinterpretations of block quotes he forgot to...

This week, due to a scheduling error (See Benedict’s fault) we’re doing a round of Prager Roulette with the cream of the crud of video selections. We’ll be back next week with chapter 2 of The Great Reset by Alex Jones, but for now, sit back, relax, and enjoy some of these awful videos. Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show! Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod Find this episode on...

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 a...

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...

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 tow...

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 Colleg...

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 o...

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 redp...

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 t...

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 informatio...

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 betw...

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 me...

This week, we cover something that is probably long overdue for this show given the subject matter we deal with. We take a look primarily at the question of what is fascism? And how fascism plays out in our modern world. Make no mistake, while the number of actual nazis or phalangists walking around may be few, the world has no shortage of fascists in prominent places of society. We first talk abo...

This week we continue our review of “American Marxism” by Mark Levin, the platonic form of old man shouting communism at a tree. This time we read chapter 6 “Propaganda, Censorship, and Subversion” in which Mark desperately tries to present the same complaints the right has held for years about actual journalism in a way that appears to the uneducated reader as something other than the same old ti...

This Week!   Kevin has Covid, which sort of threw everything out of whack so instead of the planned episode we decided to do a Prager U episode so you wouldn't have to listen to me the entire time. This week we got clips from Dinesh D'Souza, Alex Jones, Prager U, and the John Birch Society.   Thanks as always for listening and enjoy the show!   Become a patron at patreon.com/NYGBCpod   Find this e...

This Week we dive back into our lunatic fringe series about how the far right has become the center of the modern republican party with a look at the second great harbinger of American conspiracy theory, Alex Jones, and the era of the commercialization of conspiracy. Today we talk about Jones, and the man who arguably paved the way for the success of InfoWars, Bill Cooper. Without Bill, and Bill’s...

This Week, with Benedict away on vacation we have another pre-recorded show for you. While the subject matter this week is famously unfunny, we hope it helps distract you from the death spiral of the fascist nation from which Benedict and I send our dispatches.   I would write more this week but I would prefer you check out the links below than read my words.   Thanks as always for listening and e...

This week, we return to Mark Levin’s Magnum Doofus, American Marxism, to finish off the second half of Chapter 5 “Climate Change Fanaticism.” In this half of the chapter, nearly 30 pages in, Mark decides to finally make the lame attempt at denying climate science by presenting fake experts funded by stacks on stacks on stacks of oil and gas money who conveniently support his position while not hav...

This week we return to our “Lunatic Fringe” series covering the core of the modern American Right, the hard right extremist base. This time we begin what will be at least a three-episode series covering conspiracy theories among the right. This week we focus on the “Classical” conspiracy theories of the pre-Alex Jones era. In this time period, no matter what the conspiracy was, or who was pushing...

This week, we dive back into Mark Levin’s hasty copy/paste of a book “American Marxism” with the first half of chapter 5, “Climate Change Fanaticism.” In this chapter, or at least in the portion we read for this week’s episode, Mark completely ignores climate change, pollution, environmentalism, and anything having to do with the concept he’s supposed to be discussing in favor of whining about all...

This week we take a look at another persistent myth of American society the “Lost Cause of the Confederacy, which like “American Exceptionalism” “meritocracy” and the “protestant work ethic” remain strong cultural beliefs despite all evidence directly to the contrary. Indeed, this week we take a deep dive into one of the primary GOP platform positions, that of the glory of the south and the desper...

This week we jump into second half of chapter 4 of American Marxism by Mark Levin which continues the crazy we have come to know and love from this small shouty man. This week we pick back up with Mark telling us how the 1619 project is CRT, and of course CRT, is Marxism, so the 1619 project is Marxism. He follows that up by complaining that the media talks about issues of race and white supremacy...