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Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 29: You Idiot Mp! - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsIt's hard to know how to feel in writing the following words. Not because there is a mixture of emotions (there isn't) but because it barely seems credible that this has actually ended. Reading 72 Virgins felt like an act of interminable penance, forever pushing this agonising piece of work up a hill of dreadful literature, only to start afresh with each chapter. But we're here. This is the final chapter of the book. It can't go on any longer. There will be, at the end of this episode, literally no more pages to read. We wil...2021-07-081h 30Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 28: Pisser - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsOh man, is this still going? Yes! But fear not, Johnson's dross is approaching a swift end with this, the penultimate episode of reading.This episode is very much a Pickel-fest, so if you're a fan of sub-aquatic genocidal cuckolds, you've come to the right place. There is also a very small amount of plot development, as the author realises that he has spent 319 pages on exposition, but has an imminent print deadline to meet. Expect sloppy dialogue and non-sensical action.Let's go! --Join the Old Boys...2021-06-111h 07Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 27: Come With Me Stinky Pig - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode twenty bloody seven. 27. It's here, and it's almost the end. You can feel it can't you, coming down the track like an inevitable freight train of jingoism and frayed narratives. You already know nothing will be concluded, all stones will be left unturned, and it will have all been for nought. But, you remember, this was an exercise of Anthropology! Have we better understood the old boy through this reading? What can we draw down from the musings of their leader? Much, surely?Ponder these questions as we dive into epi...2021-02-1446 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 26: Towelh*ad Nutters - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsYep. That's the title. We went with it. It's a direct quote, from the literary musings of Boris Johnson. That's something the UK Prime Minister wrote, that was published in a real book, by a real publisher (Harper Collins). Think about that.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We have reac...2021-02-0354 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 25: Way to go Froggie - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsLet me dispel any confusion - there are no amphibians mentioned in this episode.As the pace quickens, the plot thickens, and publishing deadlines loom, Boris Johnson (the author) is running out of steam. Expect increased plot holes, lazy xenophobia, and un-concluded story lines as we enter the final few chapters of 72 Virgins.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old...2021-01-281h 12Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 24: A Taramasalata Coloured Tie - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 24! Where does it go eh? Certainly not into plot and character development.As you've probably established by now, the setting is going nowhere. We're in and our course is set. We'll be in Westminster hall until the book ends. And this isn't even a spoiler, this is an inevitability. One that you have come to accept long ago, but only now are letting yourself truly come to terms with what that means. So, we have a few tens of pages left, we're in Westminster hall, the terrorists have the president, and Johnson is running p...2021-01-1947 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 23: Frig Me Spastic - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsGuess who's back... back again... Old Boys are back... tell a friend (refrain)Of course, Podcasts being a potentially asynchronous media, there's a good chance that this caption won't make sense to you, but if you are a regular listener of the show, you'll have been waiting to read these words for weeks. In this week's episode more insanity prevails in Westminster Hall, as the terrorists grapple to maintain control of President, and Boris Johnson grapples to maintain control over his prose. In the real world of course Boris Johnson is now responsible fo...2020-12-1756 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 22: Like A Lingerie Model Only Cleverer - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsImagine, if you will, a teenage boy, sitting alone in their room, in the early 90s. They haven't yet had their mind invaded by the nefarious onslaught of globalised and easily accessible pornography wrought by the internet, and have little imagination to play with. Picture then, this adolescent, sitting alone, fantasising about their perfect partner. It would be a discredit to the intellectual capacity of this fictional teen to assume they could do even half as poor a job as our current Prime Minister in surmising their ideal paramour. Spoiler Alert: Boris Johnson (PM)'s at...2020-09-091h 19Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 21: Wanging The Old Donger In The Kedgeree, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins21 - legal age to drink in the country of the kidnapped president, and the number of Podcast Episodes we have brought you. Coincidence? Yes. Worth noting? No.This week is mostly based in Westminster Hall, with one unexpected diversion... to Westminster Hall. But which period? Lovers of pointless, word count filling tangents - this week is for you!Oh, and there's a plan to get Pickel his gun.Enjoy--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by...2020-08-201h 10Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 20: One Of The Tastiest Birds He'd Ever Seen, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsIt’s episode twenty! The big 2-0! And you know what that means? Plot-wise, nothing! Because we have arbitrarily sliced the book up into episode sized sections. But as an exercise in stamina, it’s quite something!This week we are treated to a bit more back-and-forth courtesy of the terrorists exacting their (completely I’ll-conceived) plot, and we are served up Johnson’s take on insight into the terrorist psyche. Spoiler Alert: it’s thinking about sex.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mol...2020-08-0658 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 19: You Know What Darling? You're Flaming Well Right! Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsUh oh! It's Episode 19, and you know what that means? It's finally time to hear what the Terrorist Plan is from the self-appointed 'realist' Jones the Bomb. No doubt throughout the novel you have, as a deeply engaged Johnson-Universe fanatic, hypothesised as to what Jones' plan may be? We absolutely guarantee that you didn't think it was this. --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies olde...2020-07-2958 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 18: Madder Than A Shithouse Rat, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 18 may well be pushing into the realms of 'brunch', flirting as Johnson is with 10.30am (the internationally held switch-over point) but that doesn't stop our breakfast-obsessed auteur sticking in a couple of last-minute branded references. See if you can spot them as a way to distract from the dreadful prose. Oh, and the president is still being held by terrorists in Westminster Hall. Nnd there may or may not be a bit more on Pickel.Over to you! --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by...2020-07-071h 04Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 17: Too Pale for a Palestinian Arab - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsWelcome, to the end game. Part 3: I come to bury Ceasar.Somehow, despite the supposedly overwhelming presence of security, the terrorists have made it through this chef-packed audience and are next to the president. What will Jones The Bomb's demands be? Have they planned this far ahead? Can we assume several broken plot-lines that resemble a Carry-On film?Listen on to find out.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and Andrew Mole, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to u...2020-06-241h 07Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 16 - Fear & Prostate Cancer In Norman Shaw North, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 16 brings a rare lock-down treat: a chapter double header, as we round of Part Two of 72 Virgins. The Eagle-eared amongst you may well think, 'but hang on, we've only just started part 2?' - and you'd be right. Because, whilst Johnson has adhered approximately to the 3 act structure, he has only committed ~ 25 pages to the second act, in effect rendering his work one of backstory and climax, each dragged out more laboriously than the last. Enjoy!--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny Lennard and A...2020-06-121h 08Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 15: Pickel's Left Testicle - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 15 of The Old Boys Book Club, or, the episode where it dawned on Jonny and Andy that they were going to have to read the whole thing.It's good news again for fans of Pickel, as we spend a lot of time up on the roof with him, including a semi-spectacular testicle biting extravaganza, courtesy of an unwittingly terrorist-enabling Indira. To say this chapter draws on the classic tropes of a french farce would be to do it a disservice. Enjoy! --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading g...2020-06-0447 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 14 - His Fingers Skittred Like Hamsters - The Old Boys Book ClubWelcome to Episode 14 of the Old Boys Book Club, where we entreat you to enjoy chapter 32 of Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins.This week we learn how the hosts have been celebrating their new found freedom, tearing along the country lanes, top down in the old XK8, before exploring the world of Johnson's creation:This week, we have an suspiciously errant ambulance, edging its way without proper checks, towards Westminster Hall, which as eagle-eared listeners will know, is currently playing host to the president. Can anyone stop the carnage? Enter Pickel.--J...2020-05-2941 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 13 - Dig Those Funky Buckles - Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 13 of the pod but Lockdown Episode 1 - the new normal.Firstly, and most importantly, we find out how are hosts are adjusting.Then, join us as we enter Act 2 of Johnson's seminal work, and insight into the rambling mind of the Old Boy. We have the President of the Gosh Darn United States of America giving a speech, and even though he's in awe of Westminster hall, he's still got the chops to ogle some of the women. You never lose it.--Join the Old Boys Book Club...2020-05-1432 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 12: He Pressed '16' on his phone - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 12 brings bad news for Raimondo, a character close to our hearts, but who seems not to know his own. Lefty Journo-shagger-lad, mouthpiece of the elite, or just bad writing? Only you can decide.Johnson also speculates on how natural intra-workplace-extra-marital affairs are within the journalistic community, perhaps slipping over Freud as he does so. And have the police finally realised the ambulance they're looking for has been right under their noses the whole time? Join us for Episode 12 of The Old Boys Book Club, where we, like the stolen ambulance, inch ever cl...2020-03-0453 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 11: His Grizzled Little Donkey Chest - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 11 is here, and Barlow is bemused by yet another journalist, constructing what newspaper men call a 'piece' (an article) against him! Meanwhile, the police guarding Westminster seem to have swapped roles with the Chuckle Brothers, and Pickel debates the meaning of the word Holocaust, because he thinks he's caused one. It's a heck of a ride.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the O...2020-02-2857 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 10: A River of Molten Chicken Wire - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsWelcome to Episode 10 of The Old Boys Book Club. Regular listeners will have learned to equate a deep dive into Dean's backstory with unequivocal sadness, and this episode is sadly not beyond that precedent. However we are lucky enough to have a Beatles joke, and some incredibly forced and inelegant similes, so that's something. --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We h...2020-02-191h 10Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 9: Put your nipple in my HOT mouth, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsWelcome to Episode 9 of the Old Boys Book Club. Technology is a long held source of despair for the Old Boy, mistrustful as they are of any innovation this side of the law necessitating the wearing of seatbelts. However, whilst a critique of technology (and computers/ the internet) from Johnson seemed inevitable, its delivery in this week's episode is nonetheless flabbergasting. Listen now and revel in Roger Barlow's baffling scenes at a public computer workstation in the house of commons. --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jon...2020-02-131h 13Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 8: The Excesses of Sweden, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsEpisode 8 of the Old Boys Book Club will delight fans of Dean, as we chart once again his torrid history, but its bad news for clock-watchers, as Johnson's obsession with particular back stories (especially those that facilitate an attack on left-wing social initiatives) means we don't really push the action forwards here. And a Trigger Warning for fans of supportive democracies like Sweden that look after their citizens: Johnson's coming for you and your bloated states. --Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by...2020-02-061h 01Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 7: Some Kind of Fa**ot Upside Down Cake - Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsAs we delve deeper into Johnson's mind, the insight we glean is ever more devastating.Chapters 18 and 19 bring us a disturbing vision of an ideal date, and what does, or doesn't, constitute homosexual behaviour in the mind of a young, female, neo-con. Plus, an archaic take on the role of hormones in diminishing the rationale capabilities of the female mind.And a total misunderstanding of the role in television aerials in military radio communication. It's as vintage OBBC as the smell of the Jag's freshly wiped-down leather.--2020-01-2957 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 6: A Mega-Titted 6 Footer, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsJohnson's obsession with breakfast carries on apace in Episode 6 of The Old Boys Book Club. Here we see him toying with variations beyond cereal, with his usual obsessive narration. We also explore a spectacular reaction to a border hedge dispute, that sets (one of the many) protagonists on a dark course.Oh, and we meet a mega-titted 6-footer, obviously.Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the...2020-01-231h 03Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 5: Let's Bomb France! Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsJoin us for chapters 13, 14 and 15 of Boris Johnson's Seminal, Semi-Autobiographical "fast paced thriller" (not our words) 72 Virgins. In this episode we meet one of literature's most wretched characters, and explore an inexplicable oral examination. It's all happening. --Uncovering Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins. Episode 5, Let's Bomb France! With the drama heating up, let's see how many racist slurs Johnson can crowbar into these chapters.Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of...2020-01-1651 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 4: He Loved Their Geranium SmellLove Geraniums? Love laboured, flawed metaphors spread over 5 pages? Then you'll love Episode 4 of the Old Boys Book Club, featuring a number of fruitless disquisitions on tedious topics from wannabe author and current Prime Minister Boris Johnson.Uncovering Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins. Episode 4, He Loved Their Geranium Smell. With the drama heating up, let's see how many racist slurs Johnson can crowbar into these chapters.Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies o...2020-01-0948 minOld Boys Book ClubEpisode 3: Extra Pickel, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsUncovering Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins. Episode 3, extra Pickel. With the drama heating up, let's see how many racist slurs Johnson can crowbar into these chapters.Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We have reached peak 'Old Boy' with Johnson, Trump, Farage et al leading the world towards a leather-clad man cave of environmental catastrophe. But what exactly is an Old Bo...2019-12-261h 04Old Boys Book ClubEpisode 2: Tethered Goat, Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 VirginsJohnson discusses tethered goats.--Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We have reached peak 'Old Boy' with Johnson, Trump, Farage et al leading the world towards a leather-clad man cave of environmental catastrophe. But what exactly is an Old Boy?In what will almost certainly be called the pinnacle of modern satire, but is as yet unreviewed, J...2019-12-1946 minOld Boys Book ClubBoris Johnson, 72 Virgins - Old Boys Book ClubUncovering Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins. Join the Old Boys Book Club - a weekly reading group led by Jonny and Andy, Anthropologists by training, cynics by choice, determined to understand one of modern societies oldest (and most incongruous) tropes - the Old Boy.We have reached peak 'Old Boy' with Johnson, Trump, Farage et al leading the world towards a leather-clad man cave of environmental catastrophe. But what exactly is an Old Boy?In what will almost certainly be called the pinnacle of modern satire, but is as yet unreviewed, Jonny and An...2019-12-111h 13