Nudie Reads

Feb 09 2025 152 ep. 21 mins 4
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Great writing, read aloud. Sundays for classics, Thursdays for offbeat stuff. Clean. Relaxing. -- Nudie Reads.

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Nudie Reads Ali Baba And The 40 Thieves

Feb 09 2025 33 mins  
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves is one of the most well-known stories fromA Thousand and One Arabian Nights. It’s a tale of wit and cunning and it's all rather violent. Bugt it stands as proof that intelligence can triumph over brute strength. ✨🏺🔑💃

Nudie Reads Chesterton's Fence [S3E11]

Feb 06 2025 7 mins  
The Parable of the Fence is one of G.K. Chesterton’s most enduring ideas, perfectly, simply and shortly expressed. It reminds us that before we dismantle something, we should understand why it exists. A valuable lesson for any time, including February 2025 as President Trump and his DOGE team get to work. 🤨💡👀🔩

Nudie Reads Ordo Amoris: Thomas Aquinas [S3E10]

Feb 02 2025 14 mins  
Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas is one of the most influential works of medieval philosophy and theology. The Order of Love and charity remains a topic of debate centuries later, now even making waves in modern US political discourse in 2025 on Twitter! ✝️🇮🇹🥰

Nudie Reads Mary not Marie [S3E09]

Jan 30 2025 27 mins  
What happened to the crew of the Mary Celeste is a mystery beloved by theorists since she was found, abandoned, in 1872. The crew gone. Even the cat. Was she a victim of foul play or just unlucky? The Captain's nephew wrote beautifully, trying to get to the bottom of it all? 🌊⛵❓

Nudie Reads Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror [S3E08]

Jan 26 2025 28 mins  
The Dunwich Horror by H.P. Lovecraft is a gripping tale of weirdo cosmic horror first published in 1929. Dive into Lovecraft’s universe of the eerie and otherworldly to discover why his work continues to captivate readers to this day. 💀👺⛰👶🐐

Nudie Reads Booby Trap [S3E07]

Jan 23 2025 16 mins  
In 1914 a bra patent was filed in the USA that managed to avoid any mention of breasts. How did Mary Jacobs Phelps pull that off? With a lot of class and some great writing. 🇺🇸🧐🍈

Nudie Reads How To Win Friends And Influence People [S3E06]

Jan 19 2025 35 mins  
Dale Carnegie's How To Win Friends And Influence People was published in the height of the Great Depression. It was best-seller then as now, in our internet and smart-phone age. It's lessons are practical and ageless. 🇺🇸🤝😊🥳 Get in touch: Email: [email protected] Web: https://about.me/nudiereads Twitter / X: https://x.com/AlaskanRock Review: https://ratethi

Nudie Reads Effortless Elegance [S3E05]

Jan 16 2025 13 mins  
What did it take to be an admired courtier in Renaissance Italy? The same as being an influencer today. Effortless elegance. Seeming to be blessed with grace without even trying. Baldassare Castiglione captured the concept in his 1528 smash hit “The Book of Courtier” 🇮🇹 🤺💪🗣️

Nudie Reads Pinocchio [S3E04]

Jan 12 2025 32 mins  
In Italy 1881 kids were by turns delighted and terrified by Pinocchio, a serialised story by Carlo Collodi, of the adventures of a wooden puppet who wants to become a real boy. The 1940 Disney animated film adaptation is wonderful. The original literary work remains a brilliant, darker, exploration of what it means to become a good person. 🇮🇹🧒👦 🍷👀

Nudie Reads Reverend Spooner's Student [S3E03]

Jan 09 2025 6 mins  
In the 19th century Reverend Spooner of Oxford became famous for his mis-speaking. A unique butcher of the English language he inspired Terry Jones of Monty Python fame to pen a short poem of Spoonerist delight in homage. 🇬🇧🤣