South African national Luben Smit and Daihtasu air-conditoner salesman Dracule take guest hosting duties this week.

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The Cool & Smart Book Club is a literature lovers/improv comedy podcast by Barney and Matt.

Barney & Matt are away this week so uncle/nephew duo John Horncastle and Kenneth Rose step in lend a hand. They discuss family dynamics, COVID denial, horny Presbyterian sects, the difference between podcasts and radio, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and much, much more.

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Blood-Soaked-Shirt Man and the Undead Hulk chat all things lethal as they ask each other which book characters they wish lived, died, or would do them the honour of killing them.

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Spider Man and Nude Man get together to guess what famous TV characters would read, quiz Matt on Harry Potter, and discuss the most literary video games.

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Barney and Matt battle through a lockdown fugue state to discuss prophecies and spoilers, Matt's unearned confidence, the books you have to read to be Barney's friend, the Census, and a few bloody silly characters.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
• Oedipus  Rex by Sophocles
• The Harry Potter  Series by J.K. Rowling
• The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
• Exhalation/Stories About Your Life by Ted Chiang
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
• The Count of Monte Cristo by  Alexandre Dumas
• Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
• The Fifth Season/The Stone Sky (Broken Earth Trilogy) by N.K. Jemisin
• Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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Barney returns fire and asks Matt a bunch of difficult questions about books, free will, and the self. They also discuss cookbooks, comedy, and Matt brings in some comic books for show & tell.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• It by Stephen King
• The Northern Lights (His Dark Materials) by Philip Pullman
• Obadiah by The Story Box
• The Magician's Nephew/The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C.S. Lewis
• Free Will/Waking Up by Sam Harris
• Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Yes Please by Amy Poehler
• The Humor Code by Dr. Peter McGraw
• The Cheeky Monkey by Tim Ferguson
• Comedy Writing Secrets by Mel Helitzer
• Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The cookbooks of Heston Blumenthal
• 5 Ingredients/Comfort Food/Save with Jamie by Jamie Oliver
• In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
• Watchmen/V for Vendetta/Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore
• Joker by Brian Azzarello
• Ronin by Frank Miller
• Marvel Greatest Comics: 100 Comics That Made A Universe
• The Gospel of Judas/The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
• Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar 
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito
• Upright Beasts by Lincoln Michel
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon

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Matt asks Barney fifty questions about books, but they don't get through all of them.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• The Frontiers of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• How to Raise An Ox by Francis Dojun Cook
• Against Creativity by Oli Mould
• Bumface by Morris Gleitzman
• The Bugalugs Bum Thief by Tim Winton
• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
• The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
• A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
• Calypso by David Sedaris
• Change Your Thinking by Dr. Sarah Edeleman
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
• Normal People by Sally Rooney
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
• Copywrong to Copywriter by Tait Ischia
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Zen & the Art of Improvisation by Jason Chin
• Dune by Frank Herbert
• Conversations With Friends by Sally Rooney
• The Turning by Tim Winton
• Stories About Your Life/Exhalation by Ted Chiang 
• The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
• His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
• The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
• Eragon by Christopher Paolini
• The Dry by Jane Harper
• Three Hours by Rosumand Lupton
• Room by Emma Donoghue
• Ulysses by James Joyce
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• The Bible
• The Seagull by Anton Chekhov
• Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Dark Tales by Shirley Jackson
• Less  by Andrew Sean Greer
• Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan
• The Iliad by Homer

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Also grab tickets to The Cool & Smart Very Funny Comedy Hour on August 7th!

Matt and Barney talk capitalism, existentialism, and anti-natalism, they talk Tony Hawk Underground and Rick & Morty, they talk Masterchef, but most importantly, they talk BOOKS.

BOOKS MENTIONED:

• The Fear of Doing Nothing by Valery Hazanov
• How to Raise an Ox by Francis Dojun Cook
• Against Creativity by Oli Mould
• Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? / The Weird and the Eerie by Mark Fisher
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Capital in the Twenty First Century by Thomas Piketty
• The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
• The Frontiers of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Upright Beasts by Lincoln Michel
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
• Three Hours by Rosamund Lipton
• Hover Car Racer / Ice Station by Matthew Reilly
• The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
• Heaven by Mieke Kawakami
• The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus

The Cool & Smart Book Club is a literature lovers podcast by Barney and Matt. Click our names to find us on Instagram!