Tomefoolery

While on the road, Cody is joined by Los Angeles comedians and podcast masters Brandie Posey, Barbara Gray, and Tess Barker to get down and dirty with the ludicrously old-timey pick-up artistry of 'Let's Make Mary'. You can find this book on Amazon.com and anywhere people donate books they inherited from their creepy grand-uncle. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

Chicago comedians Rachel McCartney and Sam Norton decide to get into the thick of it and train to debate some lefty-pinko-Commies in this pamphless pamphlet written by Breitbart.com editor, Ben Shapiro: "How to Debate Lefitists and Destroy Them: 11 Rules for Winning the Argument". You can find this booklet on Amazon for Kindle and if you hang out in the waiting room at Fox News. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

Chicago comedian Sonia Denis throws her life away to join Cody and Hasz (in her final show as co-host) with this "book" written by P R Resurrector. You can find 'Horny Ghost of Osama bin Laden' on Amazon for Kindle and for free if you draw a circle in blood on your mirror and say the title three times. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

Apologies that the audio is subpar, but we had a fantastic time when Chicago favorites, The Nerdologues (Chris Geiger, Mary Beth Smith, Claire Friedman) join Cody and Hasz to discuss the book ‘A Christian Response to Dungeons and Dragons’, written by Peter Leithart and George Grant in 1987; it was on the forefront of the Dungeons-and-Dragons-as-Satanism campaign in the 80s and 90s. This live episode benefits 826CHI, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6-18. Go to 826CHI.org for more information. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

Atlanta comedian John-Michael Bond joins Cody and friend-of-the-show Peter-john Byrnes in an in-depth analysis of anti-semitism, conspiracy theories, and Dick Van Dyke. You can find 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion' for free on the internet (it's all part of the conspiracy). Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

In this episode, Chicago comedian Katie McVay joins Cody and Hasz to look for love and talk about lesbians AND horses (not lesbian horses). You can find 'The Big Book of Lesbian Horse Stories' on Amazon or in your erotic nightmares. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

In this episode, LA comedian Barbara Gray joins Cody and Hasz in one of the most confusing episodes ever. We talk Brent Spiner, temporal paradoxes, and moving to Portland. Oh, and Cody and Hasz's brains practically melt at multiple points during this episode. You can find "—All You Zombies—" for free online! Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

In this episode, LA comedian Andy Sell join Cody and Hasz in the search for the seemingly endless number of ghosts who just hang around like a thick pea-soup-like fog in the book, 'People Who Don't Know They're Dead' by Gary Leon Hill. It's spooky, but mostly because of theological confusion. Follow TOMEFOOLERY for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please rate and review on iTunes!

In this episode, Cody is joined by friend of the show, Peter-john Byrnes, and their guest: comedian and actor Chad Briggs to discuss the feminization of the great American cowboy/pioneer in the book ‘The American Boomerang’ written by “one of the orators of our generation”, Nick Adams.      

This is an important episode. Ranjit is leaving the hosting mic for greater and greener pastures, but we take the opportunity of his final show as co-host of Tomefoolery to introduce everyone to our new co-host: Stephanie Hasz (and also vampires)!      

In this episode, Cody and Ranjit are joined by comedian and actress Sayjal Joshi to talk about everyone’s favorite topic: castration. Specifically, the book ‘Castration: The Advantages and the Disadvantages’ by Victor T Cheney. And, boy howdy, do they learn a lot.   Follow ‘Tomefoolery’ for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please feel free to rate and leave feedback on iTunes!  

In this special episode, Cody and Ranjit decide to get to know each other better by discussing their commitment to bubble light and the PDF booklet “How to Refuse Alien Abduction”. They learn all about good aliens, bad aliens, and Cody goes on a rant about Old Testament misinterpretation. You can find “How to Refuse Alien Abduction” here: http://www.thelightside.org/PDFbooklet.pdf Follow ‘Tomefoolery’ for information about upcoming episodes & books: @Tomefoolery and Facebook.com/Tomefoolery. Please feel free to rate and leave feedback on iTunes!   Special Thanks to Olin Kidd for the logo design and Rob & John Scallon for the awesome theme song. More Scallon music can be found at youtube.com/RobScallon.

Cody is joined by friend-of-the-show, Peter-john Byrnes, and Chicago comedian and fantastic human Goodrich Gevaart to discuss the “Punk Manifesto” ‘Days of War Nights of Love’ from CrimethINC AND many things that Cody knows nothing about, like music, parties, being cool, and–apparently–modern sports attire. ‘Days of War Nights of Love’ can be found for FREE here: http://www.daysofwarnightsoflove.com/    

Cody is down in New Orleans for the New Orleans Comedy and Arts Festival and is bringing on friend-of-the-show, Peter-john Byrnes, as well as San Marcos comedian Kelly Stone to discuss the SCUM Manifesto, the kill-all-men mynifesto written by Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol. And, boy, does this episode get intense.    

Ranjit and Cody find themselves mired in a mine-field of mistakes women make in Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s book, ‘Ten Stupid Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives’ with comedians and hosts of Drunk Monkeys on YouTube (Youtube.com/FuzzyGerdes). This book is not only a digestible list, but also a horrible glimpse into the mind of a woman who refuses to take bullshit!  

Cody and Ranjit revisit some of their favorite moments of the first 21 episodes of Tomefoolery. Some of the weirdest, craziest, most heartfelt, and insane parts of the show from Edgar Allan Poe’s only novel to #ReptiliansBeTrippin and everything in between. We hope you enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed making it over the last year and a half.   Follow Tomefoolery for information about upcoming episodes & [...]

Ranjit and Cody dive head-first into the insanity of ‘Children of the Matrix: How an Interdimensional Race has Controlled the World for Thousands of Years-and Still Does’ w/ Erin Lane (comedian & playwright). Usually, you’d imagine that a book about secret reptilian overlords and sub-dimensional planes would be rather straightforward, but no, this episode gets quite silly. #ReptiliansBeTrippin  

Ranjit and Cody are dragged through the desolate desolation of Stephenie Meyer’s ‘Twilight’ by Rachael Mason (Second City, our hearts). The good news is: everyone survived! The bad news is: this entire podcast is about the book ‘Twilight’ written by Stephenie Meyer! Somehow, this book was worse than a book about the Holocaust being caused by homosexuals. Listen along as Cody has a nervous breakdown under the realization that Stephenie Meyer has a career as an author.    

Ranjit and Cody are joined by Bruce Jarchow (Second City, ‘Ghost’) and Mark Belden (Second City) to discuss the curmudgeonly genius of Charles Bukowski and his collection of short stories ‘The Most Beautiful Woman in Town and Other Stories’. More specifically, we’re talking about “The Most Beautiful Woman in Town”, “Six Inches” (which made Cody VERY uncomfortable), “The Gut-Wringing Machine”, and “The Beginner”. Stick around after the closing song for a special Bukowski Bukowstreat (Cody apologizes for the pun).  

FINALLY! Our One-Year Anniversary LIVE episode is here! Live from Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois, Ranjit and Cody are joined by comedians Sherman Edwards, Nick Johne, Katie McVay, & Rebecca O’Neal to talk about all things Dr. Seuss (specifically There’s a Wocket in My Pocket, Green Eggs and Ham, Fox in Socks, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish). The audio isn’t our normal quality on this one, but it turned out a lot better than expected. ENJOY!