Episode 09 – The Christmas Sweater
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2014
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This is it: Kait, Renata, and their guest Caitlin have found the very worst bestseller. It’s The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck and it is truly terrible on every level. Listen now to hear our spirits get fully crushed by this holiday story of a young boy who loses everything because he selfishly wanted a bicycle for Christmas. Or you could spend an hour appreciating your family, so you won’t be wracked with guilt when they die. The choice is yours!
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: Little Libertarians on the Prairie
Candy pairing: Caitlin says Violets, Kait says Werthers Originals, Renata says no candy, get a job.
Coming up next: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the virtues of poverty so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.1 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:20.0 | And for this episode, we read The Christmas |
| 0:21.9 | Sweeter by Glenn Beck. Joining us to discuss this delightful piece of holiday cheer is |
| 0:27.7 | Caitlin, a sweater enthusiast who spells her name differently from Kate. Hi, Caitlin. Thanks for |
| 0:33.9 | joining us. Thanks for having me. |
| 0:38.5 | Did reading this book make you, |
| 0:40.9 | did it make you appreciate your sweaters even more? |
| 0:44.0 | I mean, none of them are hand-knit, so... |
| 0:46.7 | Oh, so they're garbage. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.6 | All right. |
| 0:51.0 | Well, I'm sorry to hear that. |
| 0:53.6 | So I want to say right off that this book is my fault |
| 0:56.2 | when when Glenn Beck came out with this book he also came out with a um like a children's |
| 1:06.0 | edition that was a picture book and it was when I was working as a bookseller and I was reading like |
| 1:11.2 | all the new books that came in every day. And it was the worst book I had ever read. I was so |
| 1:18.4 | offended by it and angry about it that like I made everyone else read it. Because I was like, |
| 1:23.4 | you won't believe this thing that we're trying to sell to children. Like, it's so awful. |
| 1:28.4 | So when I saw there was an adult version and we decided to do a Christmas theme for the month of December, |
| 1:34.0 | I was like, well, I bet it'll be even worse than the picture book version. |
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