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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 upheaval...
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 Kurzwe...
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 fi...
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...
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 do...
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...
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 upse...
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 winnin...
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...
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...
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, c...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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 rui...
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...
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 getti...
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 lege...