Episode 07 – Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2014
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this shocking episode, Kait and Renata have their first-ever white male guest, Renata’s brother Reid, to discuss Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims by noted white male Rush Limbaugh. In this book Rush Revere, an irresponsible substitute teacher/iced tea mascot and his talking, time-traveling horse take children of an alarmingly indeterminate age back to meet the Puritans. Listen now to learn about how much the Pilgrims hated socialism!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: American Indians in Children’s Literature’s review of Rush Revere
Two if By Tea, Rush Limbaugh’s actual real life iced tea company
DailyKos article featuring creepy Rush Revere illustrations
Candy pairing: Kait says Mary Janes, Reid says Flags of Freedom, Renata says Boy Scout popcorn.
Coming up next: The Christmas Shoes by Donna VanLiere
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the evils of socialism and the glories of ice tea, so you don't have to. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:19.1 | And I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.4 | And for this episode, we read Rush Limbaugh's book, |
| 0:23.6 | Rush Revere, and the Brave Pilgrims. Joining us to discuss this work of historical fiction is |
| 0:29.7 | artist slash socialist Reed, who also happens to be my brother. Welcome, Reed. Hello. |
| 0:37.5 | So glad he could join us. |
| 0:40.3 | Especially since this is the first one that we've read that has illustrations. |
| 0:45.4 | So it's great that we can have your artistic eye to help us break down why exactly they are so frightening. |
| 0:54.3 | They're so frightening, guys. |
| 0:58.9 | I do really like the time portal itself that they jump through. |
| 1:06.8 | We're going to have to see if we can put a couple of these up on the website for you guys to see if you're listening because they're truly, truly horrifying. |
| 1:16.5 | The Time Portal looks a lot like, um, like my little pony effects. |
| 1:24.9 | Yeah, or just like a lucky charms thing |
| 1:28.2 | where like I feel like comes through a weird rainbow |
| 1:30.9 | yeah |
| 1:31.8 | all right so this book that we read |
| 1:36.2 | this is Rush Limba's um |
| 1:38.0 | first book for the young adult market |
| 1:41.0 | is it young adult |
| 1:42.8 | um young adult I don't know we haven't in young adult because I think really the only |
| 1:48.7 | people who read it are adults. I'm not clear on what age these kids are supposed to be |
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