Have you ever wanted to hear what two middle-aged men think of Young adult novels? Well now you got a couple of book boys to do that for you as we read the first 5 chapters of 'The Golden Compass' by Philip Pullman. Enjoy. --- This episode is sponsored

Labor unions have nice homes, good schools, wide lawns... and guns. Also, Jack London gets a little racist on asians and Florida is called a 'waste-place' where Native Americans pray to their gods. Ugh. Enjoy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor

This episode isn't worth listening to. Ernest just goes off on another tangent for the millionth time. We learn that Being in a union isn't a 'seat in paradise'. Which was weird. Oligarchs love art! That was surprising. And that they will build 'wonder ci

We get an economics lesson. But not from Ernest this time- it's just the author flat-out telling us directly at this point. There's a war between the US and Germany, and the socialists 'kinda' helped. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The ea

Oh the poor bishop. First he's sent to an insane asylum because he keeps scooping up prostitutes in his "broham", and when he gets out he helps an old women with her pants while obsessing over potatoes. But then he runs into Avis and Ernest- and once agai

Bad news: Avis's dad lost his house. So the gang has to move to a San Francisco slum. Good news: Ernest marries Avis! Though, their pet-names for each other are horrible. And there's a bad poem. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest w

Finally we get a chapter where Ernest isn't talking all the time. Avis's dad's book gets blacklisted. So that stinks. We got some kind of action with the socialists fighting the oligarchs and we learn about a group of 'rabble-rousers' called the 'black hu

In this chapter, I had a guest as my temporary Pete for the evening. The story continued with Ernest STILL TALKING at the small business owners and it's the most boring thing on earth. Enjoy. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest wa