Episode 63 – The Immortal Nicholas
The Worst Bestsellers
Worst Bestsellers
4.5 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2016
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
The holidays are upon us, and that, unfortunately, means that Caitlin read The Immortal Nicholas by Glenn Beck with us. We have to admit–we liked it a lot better than we liked The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck (who has shocked us all by getting moderately woke since the publication of these books)! But The Christmas Sweater was the most soul-crushing book we’ve ever read, so that’s a very low bar to clear. Tune in now to hear us make sense of this Biblical hurt/comfort fanfiction that somehow is supposed to be a heartwarming story to read to your good Christian children at bedtime! Happy holidays from Worst Bestsellers!
Note: Apologies for the audio issues with this episode! Our noble editor Becca did her best to salvage it, and we’re going to do our best to investigate and resolve the underlying causes. (It’s probably ghosts.)
Readers advisory: Here.
Footnotes: “Nicholas Was” by Neil Gaiman
Comedy Bang! Bang! – Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Jesus Christ Superstar Rap
Glenn Beck Says Voting for Hillary is a ‘Moral, Ethical Choice’
Glenn Beck Becoming a Voice of Reason is More Surprising Than Donald Trump Becoming President
Glenn Beck: Empathy for Black Lives Matter
Ophios Pteros (Winged Serpents)
Candy pairing: Caitlin says white chocolate Kit-Kats, Kait says an orange in your stocking, Renata says Christmas peppermint nougats.
Coming up next: Bests & Worsts of 2016, Part 1
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read another Glenn Beck Christmas book so you don't have to. |
| 0:18.8 | I'm Renata. |
| 0:20.2 | And I'm Kate. And for this episode, we read The Immortal |
| 0:24.1 | Nicholas by Glenn Beck. Joining us to discuss this Bible fan fiction is Caitlin, a glutton for punishment. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello. Hi, Caitlin. Welcome back. Thank you. |
| 0:47.8 | Right off the bat, I would like to state for the record that we did give Caitlin the opportunity to choose not to read another Glenbred Christmas book. |
| 0:49.8 | I hadn't complete the trilogy. |
| 0:53.0 | We're not monsters. |
| 0:55.4 | Yeah, Caitlin. |
| 0:56.6 | Not about this anyway. |
| 1:05.1 | If you haven't listened to our episode about it, we did read Glenn Beck's other Christmas book, The Christmas Sweeter with Caitlin. |
| 1:13.1 | And, I mean, if you haven't listened to that episode, I mean, I guess I recommend it. |
| 1:23.1 | Like, just honestly, no book that we've read has filled me with more actual genuine despair than the Christmas sweater. |
| 1:27.0 | Like, I'm still a little fucked up about the Christmas sweater. |
| 1:30.1 | I still can't believe I made it through that entire book. |
| 1:32.9 | Like, not just, oh, this book was bad. |
| 1:39.9 | Like, to my soul, it felt, it was just, like, so raw and so sad. |
| 1:45.2 | But in an unintentional way, I think. |
| 1:52.1 | Like, I feel like, we go back and forth a lot about what the worst book we've read is, or I do at least, |
| 1:56.6 | because, like, we read Dianetics, and that thing was nine million pages long, |
| 2:04.4 | and nonsense garbage that I could not keep track of as I went. So I feel like I hated that book the most, but the Christmas sweater is maybe the worst book. Yeah. The worst in different ways. |
| 2:13.8 | Yes. And so this is a thing, by the way, plug, thank you again to our Patreon supporters. |
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