The Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast

Hi all, first off Kevin has to apologize because somehow he eneded up screwing up and not releasing last week's episode. This is what was released to patrons last week and now to all of you. We apologize and will make up for it in the future. 

This week, we start off the first half of Chapter 8 of Ted Cruz’ “Unwoke” all about how the science is on Ted’s side, as long as the science you want to believe in comes from creepy race science obsessed weirdos.

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https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/candace-owens-im-not-flat-earther-im-not-round-earther-actually-what-i-am-i-am

This week, we finish start off a two-parter episode about project 2025, the right wing plan to step on their own D*cks by watching one of the private training videos videos that Pro Publica and Documented released over the weekend. We find it… lacking.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/video-project-2025-presidential-training-academy-trump-election 

This week, we finish off the second half of chapter 7 of Ted Cruz’ “Unwoke” in which we don’t get any more stupid statements about Marvel or Watchmen, but do get a smorgasbord of bad takes about the dumbest media for an old man to yell about.

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This week, we dip into a little round of Prager Roulette to look at just how weird JD Vance and some of the folks defending his weirdness really are. 

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Prager U James Lindsay’s New Buzzword: https://www.prageru.com/video/what-is-critical-immigration-theory 

Vivek’s Woke Inc: https://www.prageru.com/video/when-big-business-went-woke 

Rod Dreher is a creepy weirdo: https://www.prageru.com/video/totalitarianism-can-it-happen-in-america 

JD Vance: Weirdo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiCTw6EBag 

This week, we sincerely tried to read Chapter 7 of Ted Cruz’ abortion of a book “Unwoke” but had to spend an hour and a half talking about how wrong he is about popular media instead. From Watchmen to Avengers, Ted doesn’t know what the hell he’s talking about. 

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This week, on Kevin’s ADHD roller coaster topical tour, we take a trip to cryptocurrency mountain, where the water tastes like Lambos and the grift flows like wine. That’s right, cryptocurrency is a ponzi scheme, but somehow more environmentally destructive than Bernie Madoff even tried to be.

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Line Goes Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g&t=1s

Bitcoin transaction fees: https://ycharts.com/indicators/bitcoin_average_confirmation_time 

Nicholas Weaver explains why crypto is a scam: https://www.vox.com/conversations/2018/4/11/17206018/bitcoin-blockchain-cryptocurrency-weaver 

SPLC tracked donations to Alex Jones and white supremacist groups: o   https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022/04/29/updated-anonymous-donor-drops-2-million-bitcoin-alex-jones

EIA In Depth Analysis on Crypto energy usage: https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364

Coindesk reports the cost to mint bitcoin: https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/16/bitcoin-mining-cost-estimate-drops-to-45k-as-inefficient-miners-exit-jpmorgan/

The Real World Costs of the Digital Race for Bitcoin: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/09/business/bitcoin-mining-electricity-pollution.html

Bitcoin magazine on crypto electricity usage vs global banking system: https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/research:-bitcoin-consumes-less-than-half-the-energy-of-the-banking-or-gold-industries

Digiconomist on the real cost of bitcoin: https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

Bitcoin transaction fees hit record highs: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/04/21/bitcoin-miners-reap-windfall-as-runes-debut-sends-transaction-fees-to-record-highs/#:~:text=Bitcoin%20transaction%20fees%20averaged%20a,based%20on%20coordinated%20universal%20time. 

Bitcoin transaction fees hit 2020 lows: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-transaction-fees-lowest-2020

Financial Times explains why bitcoin is worse than a Madoff style Ponzi Scheme: https://www.ft.com/content/83a14261-598d-4601-87fc-5dde528b33d0 

This week, we return to our review of the future required high school reading in Texas under supreme leader Abbott, Ted Cruz’ “Unwoke” or how I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cancun. 

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This week, we depart from our usual formula to discuss the supreme court, their absolutely F**ked up rulings to shepherd in our new terrible world. On a serious note, I apologize for the way the episode ended but we decided we just needed to finish where we were. I cannot tell you it will get better, but we will be here no matter what happens.

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The 5th circuit is messed up: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2023/11/fifth-circuit-conservative-supreme-court/676116/ 

This week, we return to our book review of Ted Cruz’ “Unwoke” with chapter 6 “The long march reaches the boardroom” In which Ted never bothered to think about his own premise of.

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Ted Cruz hates woke baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAJNkZ1iJUo 

https://consumersresearch.org/

This week, with Benedict away we finished off the cultural marxism propaganda film we started weeks ago and it ends with exactly the whimper we would expect. We’ll be back with a new episode next week.

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Watch along with us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIdBuK7_g3M&t=4178s