EPISODE · Jul 29, 2020 · 58 MIN
Episode 19: You Know What Darling? You're Flaming Well Right! Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins
from Old Boys Book Club · host Andrew Mole and Jonny Lennard
Uh oh! It's Episode 19, and you know what that means? It's finally time to hear what the Terrorist Plan is from the self-appointed 'realist' Jones the Bomb. No doubt throughout the novel you have, as a deeply engaged Johnson-Universe fanatic, hypothesised as to what Jones' plan may be? We absolutely guarantee that you didn't think it was this. --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We have reached peak 'Old Boy' with Johnson, Trump, Farage et al leading the world towards a leather-clad man cave of environmental catastrophe. But what exactly is an Old Boy?In what will almost certainly be called the pinnacle of modern satire, but is as yet unreviewed, Jonny and Andy introduce the world to Old Boy after Old Boy in the best way they know: by decoding the literature they have willingly created.
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Uh oh! It's Episode 19, and you know what that means? It's finally time to hear what the Terrorist Plan is from the self-appointed 'realist' Jones the Bomb. No doubt throughout the novel you have, as a deeply engaged Johnson-Universe fanatic, hypothesised as to what Jones' plan may be? We absolutely guarantee that you didn't think it was this. -- Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, ...
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