Just Gonna Read This

A terrifying medical pamphlet from 1885 is the basis for this...thing. This is not your Gramma's Just Gonna Read This.

Ghost stories. Bobby Orr. Boopy boop.

An old-time lesson on the pitfalls of gluttony by the mother of the author of Frankenstein.

FIG. 35. Bent wood propellers and the methods of fastening them to the shaft.

A kind and wholesome story about some kids from 1898 and their quest for pie, with a special appearance by The World's Most Infectious Band!

A reading of T'was The Night Before Christmas.

An invisible red thread connects the elements of the improperly-stored microwave. Cows, calfs, and horses.

From An American Crusader at Verdun, by Philip S. Rice, this is Chapter 13, Under Fire in an Ambulance. Published in 1918.The horrors of The Great War had to be renamed World War 1, because we didn't learn our lesson the first time.Lest We...

A look at the inquest into the death of Levi Pinkerton in July 1889.

The dumb little podcast, Just Gonna Read This, is back with the first episode of season 4:REDACTED: I Fought The Lawyers and The Lawyers WonSometimes you just have to give in and admit that your original plan wasn't, in the legal sense, a very good...

From the makers of Just Gonna Read This comes a new video series, 5 Minutes of Relaxation. Relax and unwind to the reading of random passages from really old books.Think of it as a brief reprieve from the horrors of the world, and in 2020, we’ve had our...

This special season 3 bonus episode is a cringey reading of the virally retweeted poem, The First Lines of Emails I've Received While Quarantining, by Jessica Salfia, the first live author to be featured!

Monstrously dumb, the season finale of Just Gonna Read This Season 3 is a measles fever dream breaking at the zoo.

Times are getting desperate.

This episode can best be described as a plea for help. Alternatively, it is what happens when an astronaut loses consciousness and slowly comes back. Very slowly. If you listen, say hello at [email protected]

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Have you ever actually read any of the real Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes? Let's just say, I am of the mind that the woman liked the sauce. Have a listen and you tell me.

This special March 14 episode is a memorial, of sorts, to a dear friend and former bandmate. Yeah, it's a little personal, but sometimes ya just gotta. Not a typical Just Gonna Read This episode, but not a drag either. Join us for the ride and hear...

Ever wonder what THE celebrity chef of the 19th Century had to offer? Me neither. Regardless, here is a selection of his best recipes for us working folk. Random (or are they?) selected recipes from A PLAIN COOKERY BOOK FOR THE WORKING CLASSES. BY...

Everybody likes fried eggs for breakfast, but would a chicken?

“It's not so bad, being on trial for murder.Of course, it's a little embarrassing—whenthe principal witness is the corpse!”

A sci-fi short story about nearly 1.5 million Marlon Brandos, and an appearance by a member of the next generation.

The first 3,005 words of A Christmas Carol, awkward and Christmas cheery.

The Season 2 finale is here! S2E10 The Gettysburg: A Dress

A reading of In Flanders Fields by Lt. Col. John McCrae.

Um...

Just in time for Halloween, an unexplained and supernatural tale from 1904: The Dead Woman's Photograph.

The first and last chapters of an old book by Hugh Walpole, more Robert Service, two attempts at the same joke, more sketchy recipes, and a trailer, literally a trailer.

To salt, or not to salt, that is the question. Whether 'tis blah blah blah. Lemons. Tasty animals. Non-sequiturs. Light and fluffy drama.

In this back-to-school episode, your intrepid reader reads Cause Of Death by Max Tadlock, from the November 1955 edition of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine.

Hell hath no fury like a tree used for murder.

A sincere apology and a shoeless kid.

In the Season 2 premiere, Judd goes off on a tangent and butchers a classic. He's just a Poe boy.

Simple Remedies - Truly Outrageous. A terrifying look at why we should never travel back in time.

It starts with a toosh and ends with a swoosh.

Find out who was famously beheaded on this day over 400 years ago!

Even for a kid from Winterpeg, this polar vortex thing is so not cool, man.

Obliterating the comfort zone and introducing narrative. An episode not for the faint of heart. I'm not kidding.

Wedding and engagement announcements from 1940 are coming back in style.

Published in 1922, these recipes are timeless in their disgusting appeal.

Highlights from The Prairie Farmer – A weekly Journal for The Farm, Orchard, and Fireside – Saturday January 5, 1884.

A soothing, dramatic, and confusing countdown from 300.

Highlights from a city directory circa 1920.