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The Worst Bestsellers

Episode 46 – Killing Lincoln

The Worst Bestsellers

Worst Bestsellers

Books, Comedy, Arts

4.5609 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly & Martin Dugard

Kait, Renata, and their guest Caitlin read Killing Lincoln by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard. And–because we care about the youth of America–we also read the young readers’ adaptation, Lincoln’s Last Days, by Bill O’Reilly and Dwight Jon Zimmerman. These books put forth the truly shocking thesis that Abraham Lincoln was a good dude and John Wilkes Booth was a bad dude. But also that they were both pretty sexy? And most importantly: USA! USA! USA! Listen now to hear three sockdologizing old mantraps play a rousing game of Fucking, Marrying, Killing and speculate on how history might have turned out differently if only Abraham Lincoln had taken a cat to the theater with him.

Readers advisory: Here.

Footnotes: Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Lincoln Homestead State Park

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum

Kait + Creepy John Wilkes Booth (sorry, these are scanned in from Early Internet Days and we don't know where the originals are to re-scan)

Kait + Creepy John Wax Booth
(sorry, these are scanned in from Early Internet Days and we don’t know where the originals are to re-scan)

Renata + Creepy John Wilkes Booth (sorry, these are scanned in from Early Internet Days and we don't know where the originals are to re-scan)

Renata + Creepy John Wax Booth
(sorry, these are scanned in from Early Internet Days and we don’t know where the originals are to re-scan)

Candy pairing:  Caitlin says fancy old timey hard candy, Kait says Boy Scout popcorn, Renata says mystery Dum Dums.

Coming up next: One For the Money by Janet Evanovich.

 

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(But no pressure, we’re also happy if you get these items from your local library or independent bookstore.)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about sexy assassins, sexy horses, and sock-dologizing old man traps so you don't have to.

0:19.0

I'm Kate.

0:19.8

And I'm Renata.

0:21.0

And for this episode, we read Killing Lincoln by Bill O'Reilly.

0:25.1

Joining us to discuss this Fox News-approved biography and its equivalent children's book is

0:30.7

Caitlin, archivist and certified Master of the Art of History.

0:35.5

Welcome, Caitlin.

0:36.6

Hi.

0:38.2

We should have, I think we could fill a bingo card now with like spellings of Caitlin

0:43.4

that have appeared in worst bestsellers.

0:47.0

Because just to be clear, this is Caitlin with a C and an I.

0:51.6

But not the same Caitlin with a C and an I who was our guest for Christmas sweater and the

0:57.8

mistletoe promise.

0:58.9

Right.

0:59.1

Yeah.

1:00.1

And definitely not Caitlin within A-T-E.

1:03.7

No.

1:04.1

Not that one.

1:05.1

Totally additional Caitlin.

1:06.5

Totally not that one.

1:07.9

Yeah, no.

1:08.5

Different Caitlin's.

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