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  • Milton William Cooper's "Behold A Pale Horse": A deadly shootout with the IRS, Epstein's eugenics plan, the real difference between Gen Z and millenials
    2025/10/09

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    We're cancelled! Charlie Kirk signature Javelin rockets. Training Palantir's AI to recognize the faces of Palestinian children. The Illuminati. The free-masons. The WHO giving AIDS to Africans during its small-pox eradication campaign. George W. Bush ties a ribbon around his testicles. Epstein's private ranch in New Mexico. The dividing line between Gen Z and Millennials is remembering 9/11. Ray Dalio's "Changing World Order". Political activism in modern America. Our personal political lines. Fear of authoritarianism. Giving a Protestant from the rust belt the boner of his life.

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    1 時間 41 分
  • Stephen King's "Wind Through The Keyhole": Clint Eastwood's mummified asshole, ancient Americana, revolution in Nepal, Charlie Kirk assassination, the US is at a tipping point.
    2025/10/01

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    Clint Eastwood's mummified asshole. Addiction in literature. We hogtied our friend and forced him to join. Stephen King dismantled the van that nearly killed him. With a Sledgehammer. Stephen King vs. George R.R. Martin philosophies of writing. The Covenant Man. The stick shift of a Dodge Dart. Revolution in Nepal. The US is a concrete dam and cracks are showing. Charlie Kirk's Assassination. Fucked up incentives in the American Economy.

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    1 時間 45 分
  • Anabasis Part II: October 7th but funny, Mr. Beast is a billionaire, Shel Silverstein is dead to me.
    2025/09/24

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    Lebanon. October 7th. September 11th. When can terrorism be funny? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. Sniper Elite V3. Watching our childhood heroes live long enough to become villains. Mr. Beast's net worth. Cable news is dying. Hamas uses Blue-Chew. Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came. Iambic Pentameter. Robert Frost. Runny Babbit is dead to me. JREG's horseshoe theory. A return to the stone age. The anti-clanker movement. Robot government. Implanting a Sega Genesis into the heads of the heads of state.

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    37 分
  • Xenophon's "Anabasis": Trump vs. a Chinese spy, Bear wrestling, Psychedelic Honey
    2025/09/17

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    Trump ate a baby on national television? Better Call Xenophon. Cyrus The Younger is Leeroy Jenkins. Scaphism. Zorbing but with spikes. Psychedelic honey. Disillusioned Japanese tourists commit suicide in Paris. An abandoned soldier in the snowy mountains of Armenia. A regiment of pretty boys. Aurexion, a dope-ass name. We need a modern Xenophon.

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    1 時間 6 分
  • Terry Pratchett's "The Light Fantastic": Kobe's legacy, Capitalism in politics, Joe says some slurs and comes at me with a knife
    2025/09/10

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    Joe comes at me with a knife. Bag of bolts vs. anti-depressants. Sir Terrance Allen Pratchett and the tragic comedy of death. Everything is funnier on shrooms. Asking directions from talking trees. Ruthless 80's corporatism. Ankh-Morpork. Something unpronounceable. Death's hot daughter. Honoring Kobe's ghost. Banning insider trading, paying congress more, keeping money out of politics. The awesome Assyrian empire. There's a new sucker born every minute.

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    1 時間 5 分
  • Siddhartha Part II: Solving Racism, The Rise of China and India, Trump's Cutting the Brakelines, I fear a Winter War
    2025/09/03

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    The second half of our Siddhartha discussion: it's all bits this time.

    The mysteries of youth. Mysterious notes I left myself three years ago. 9-year-old me thought we'd solved racism. The Hunger Games as a metaphor for societal collapse. Unsolicited opinions on falling birth rates and Somalia. The rise of India and China as super-powers. Trump cuts the brake lines on the car he's driving. We're officially Nazi sympathizers.

    Check out our socials here:

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    47 分
  • Herman Hesse's "Siddhartha", Part I: Life is a river, Kamala teaches us the ways of love, the Buddha is our landlord, and we're getting evicted.
    2025/08/27

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    The futility of teaching through language. Samana of the woods. Kamala teaches us the ways of love. The buddha is a degenerate gambler. The buddha is my landlord and I'm getting evicted. Good friends who took separate paths in life come together once again. All humans are children and it's disgusting. The caged bird is set free, or it dies in its cage. We have forgotten the face of our father. The river flows, each drop rippling past rock, waterfall. Each drop replaced with the next, and the sound the river makes is "Ohm".

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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  • David Epstein's "Range", learning through struggle, being gay for Trump.
    2025/08/20

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    Epstein's views on the acceptable range. The power of changing course late in life. Disfigured venetian orphans. High-school test-score cartels. Our ancient brains and the modern struggle. The danger of liberal c*cks. Trump's diverse, inclusive and equitable fan-club. Reform! Antidisestablishmentarianism vs. Lugubrious.

    Check out our socials here:

    https://lnk.bio/TheIlliterates

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    ## Current Booklist:

    1. Dune, Frank Herbert

    2. Sun and Steel, Yukio Mishima

    3. Range, David Epstein

    4. Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

    5. The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchet

    6. Anabasis, Xenophon

    7. The Wind through the Keyhole, Stephen King

    8. Behold a Pale Horse, Milton William Cooper

    ...

    These 8 books (and a few bonuse episodes) will be the end of Season one. We will be back for Season 2 if the beatings continue.

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    1 時間