Episode 18 – Not Cool
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2015
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Kait, Renata, and their guest Amy read Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and their War on You by Greg Gutfeld. It’s the idle musings of a Fox News correspondent who hates “cool” things, such as Sean Penn, the environment, and minorities. We struggled to unpack the double-speak inherent in Gutfeld’s argument that “uncool” things are actually “cool,” but then, we’re women, and as such are easily swayed by trends (or so we learned). Listen now, if you’re cool enough to have an MP3 player, or uncool enough to listen to podcasts on vinyl!
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Footnotes: In Praise of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld
Candy pairing: Amy says old gum, Kait says broken glass, Renata says a bag of dicks.
Coming up next: Modelland by Tyra Banks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the hipster elite so you don't have to. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Kate. |
| 0:16.6 | And I'm Renata. |
| 0:18.1 | And for this episode, we read Not Cool, The Hipster Elite and Their War on You by Greg Gutfeld. |
| 0:24.9 | Joining us to delve into why hipsters are poisoning our nation is Amy, a young adult librarian slash cool feminist hipster. |
| 0:33.9 | Hi, Amy. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello. |
| 0:36.9 | First question, Amy. |
| 0:38.1 | Why have you declared war on us? |
| 0:40.9 | I just really hate veterans, mostly. |
| 0:47.7 | Just freedom in general. |
| 0:49.9 | I want to take it. |
| 0:51.7 | I want it to be mine, and I want us to live in the Stone Age. |
| 0:56.5 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:57.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:58.3 | Sounds pretty reasonable. |
| 1:00.0 | At least that's what the pamphlet they gave me in the cool induction ceremony then. |
| 1:05.5 | Okay, cool. |
| 1:06.7 | I mean, not cool. |
| 1:08.7 | Oh. |
| 1:10.2 | Okay, so this, I had never heard of Greg Gutfeld. |
| 1:13.5 | I guess he has, he's a Fox News anchor, which, you know, I'm just not really in the habit of watching, to be honest. |
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