58. The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
BUGS!!! A man wakes up as a bug and gets up to shenanigans in Franz Kafka's highly Kafkaesque and absurd novella THE METAMORPHOSIS. What kind of a bug is he exactly? Why does his thorax hurt. What...
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The Odyssey by Homer and Emily Wilson
This week the Phools chat Homer's Odyssey, the oldest adventure story ever. Or in western literature. Mac, Evan, and Kyle cover Odysseus's decade-long journey home from the Trojan War — the Cy...
56. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
🤫---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 inso...
55. Night of the Grizzlies - Jack Olsen
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...
54. Dungeon Crawler Carl 4: The Gate of the Feral Gods - Matt Dinniman
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 Flo...
53. An Immense World (How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us) - Ed Yong
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 mad...
52. The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil (Part 2)
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...
51. The Singularity is Nearer - Ray Kurzweil (Part 1)
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...
50. A Brief History of Intelligence - Max Bennett (Part 2)
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...
49. A Brief History of Intelligence - Max Bennett (Part 1)
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...
48. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien (feat. Aaron N. Hall)
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...
47. I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
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...
46. The Boys of Winter - Wayne Coffey
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...
45. Foxcatcher - Mark Schultz
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...
44. The Fisherman - John Langan (Part 2)
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...
43. The Fisherman - John Langan (Part 1)
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...
42. The Boatbuilder - Daniel Gumbiner
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...
41. The Wager - David Grann
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...
40. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
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...
39. Dungeon Crawler Carl 3: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook - Matt Dinniman
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...