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🗓️ 27 May 2025
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This is a free sample of the May edition of Book Club, with the full show available on the POST Wrestling Café
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein released All the President’s Men in 1974, covering one of the biggest political scandals of all time.
John Pollock & Neal Flanagan discuss the famous Watergate scandal and how two Washington Post reporters built their reputations from their coverage, piecing together who was involved and following the trail up to President Richard Nixon.
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0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. It's John Pollack, and today we are presenting you a preview of the new series that Neil Flanagan and I have launched called Book Club. This is an exclusive series that we have made available to Double Double and Espresso patrons up at post-dressingcafe.com. We started back in February, and thus far we have gone four books deep into our series of reviews starting off with there's just |
0:22.0 | one problem by former lead wwee writer brian goerts the queen of the ring by jeff lean helen boots |
0:28.3 | clawing my way through nine lives by serrea and this month's edition is focusing on all the |
0:34.3 | president's men by karl bernstein and Bob Woodward covering the Watergate scandal in |
0:38.6 | 1974. It's our first non-wrestling review. So we are going to be throwing out this half-hour |
0:44.8 | preview of the show. If you are so inclined, feel free to jump on board the post-wrestling |
0:49.7 | cafe at the double-double or espresso levels where we put this show out monthly. In June, we're going to be reviewing Under the Black Hat, which is the second biography by |
0:58.5 | Jim Ross, along with co-writer Paul O'Brien. |
1:01.9 | So here it is Neil Flanagan and I chatting all the president's men. |
1:06.9 | Hello, everybody, and welcome to the May edition of Book Club. Here we are for our Double Double and Espresso members. And it is the busiest man at post wrestling this week, Neil Flanagan. I mean, this guy, not only reading books, providing his wisdom on the wellness policy, it's going to sit back for a cool three hours of |
1:28.4 | Smackdown and the man has time for coffee dates. I mean, the busiest man that I know. Neil Flanagan, |
1:34.2 | how are you doing, Neil? Quite the intro, John, and all shocks. But at the same time, |
1:40.5 | the wellness policy was me just more or less opening my personal life to our listeners so |
1:47.6 | there wasn't much prep or effort really needed there just some pro wing from the other two guys |
1:53.0 | asking me a few questions is that daunting is that are you comfortable chatting about that aspect |
2:00.2 | of your life on a public forum? |
2:02.3 | I'm fine talking about things like that. |
2:04.0 | As long as the people I'm talking to are people I'm friendly and comfortable with. |
2:09.4 | As way he pointed out, then it's like it's out there on YouTube, but I don't care. |
2:15.7 | At this point in my life, I don't sound like a 90-year-old, but like, you know, I've always been the sort of person who puts their real photograph and real name on social media and stuff like that. |
2:26.4 | I don't really have any alter egos going around here, so I don't care. |
2:30.8 | Are you trying to tell us you're an open book? |
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