Episode 23: Frig Me Spastic - Old Boys Book Club, Boris Johnson's 72 Virgins

Guess 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 for thousands of deaths, and an inevitable crash out of the EU with no deal. But in the world of the Old Boy, we're in Halcyon world of 2004, back when the only real concern was if the phone lines of TV channels could handle 3 billion simultaneous phone-ins. 

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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 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 Andy introduce the world to Old Boy after Old Boy in the best way they know: by decoding the literature they have willingly created.