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The Phantom Tollbooth

Norton Juster

“Comes up bright and new every time I read it . . . it will continue to charm and delight for a very long time yet.” --Phillip Pullman, New York Times bestselling author of His Dark Materials

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The Joe Rogan Experience

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The Joe Rogan Experience

The book is about a boy who gets a car and tollbooth as a gift and goes through the tollbooth into different universes. The book is about arts and sciences and restoring order between the two. It was said to be a brilliant book.

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If you remember the phantom tollbooth, myelo gets this present of a car and a toll booth and he goes through the toll booth. What is that from uh I see norton jester was the author and Jules feiffer w...

— Episode: #1320 - Eric Weinstein

Episode: #1320 - Eric Weinstein

The book is about a boy who gets a car and tollbooth as a gift and goes through the tollbooth into different universes. The book is about arts and sciences and restoring order between the two. It was said to be a brilliant book.

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If you remember the phantom tollbooth, myelo gets this present of a car and a toll booth and he goes through the toll booth. What is that from uh I see norton jester was the author and Jules feiffer was to deal illustrations which is this brilliant book where there's like the land of letters in the land of numbers so it's arts and sciences oh and you know like there's a there's a person who starts from his head and grows down until his feet reach the ground and there's a numbers mine and he has to rescue the princesses of rhyme and reason in order to restore order between the two kingdoms of you know like left and right hemisphere it's some incredibly exciting story and the idea is that after he goes and does all of these like there's an island called conclusions and when you make an assumption you leap to conclusions so you suddenly jump I mean it's all very clever word play and stuff um at the end of the adventure the toll booth disappears because it has to go to the next kid who needs you know.

The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

A beloved children's novel that follows a bored boy's fantastical journey through a land of wordplay and numbers, teaching the value of curiosity.

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The Phantom Tollbooth.

— Episode: Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have...

Episode: Should We Dim the Sun? Will We Even Have a Choice?

A beloved children's novel that follows a bored boy's fantastical journey through a land of wordplay and numbers, teaching the value of curiosity.

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The Phantom Tollbooth.

Fresh Air

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Fresh Air

The interview noted that JulesFeiffer had illustrated the classic children's book The Phantom Tollbooth.

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He illustrated the classic children's book The Phantom Tollbooth.

— Episode: Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

Episode: Trump's Foray Into Cryptocurrency

The interview noted that JulesFeiffer had illustrated the classic children's book The Phantom Tollbooth.

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He illustrated the classic children's book The Phantom Tollbooth.

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

It was mentioned as a book and movie adaptation that sparked the speaker's interest in cartography, particularly the maps and cartographers within the story.

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The book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth and the book. There are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers.

— Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

It was mentioned as a book and movie adaptation that sparked the speaker's interest in cartography, particularly the maps and cartographers within the story.

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The book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth and the book. There are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers.

Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

It was mentioned as a book and movie adaptation that sparked the speaker's interest in maps and cartography, specifically the fantastical maps within the story.

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I bet that y'all experience or had experience with this to the book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth.

And the book, there are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers.

I think that was the first place I ever learned what a cartographer was.

It's like something out of the Phantom Toolbooth.

Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

It was mentioned as a book that sparked interest in maps and cartography, featuring a whimsical world with numerous maps.

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The book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of the Phantom Tollbooth and the book. There are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers. I think that was the first place I ever learned what a cartographer was.

Well, it's just thinking about a flood. This conspiracy has flooded social media. And as more and more people make videos about this on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok, the thing that you're talking about, Ben, the expansion of the theory itself, it's the ones that I'm seeing now are saying it was a global civilization, covering everything, including Antarctica. And New Zealand and the Maori were part of it.

Oh yeah. Well, it's just thinking about a flood. This conspiracy has flooded social media. And as more and more people make videos about this on YouTube and Instagram and TikTok, the thing that you're talking about, Ben, the expansion of the theory itself, it's the ones that I'm seeing now are saying it was a global civilization, covering everything, including Antarctica. And New Zealand and the Maori were part of it.

Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

It was mentioned as a book and movie adaptation that sparked an interest in maps and cartographers in the speakers' childhoods.

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The book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth and the book.

There are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers. I think that was the first place I ever learned what a cartographer was.

Oh yeah. Well, it's just thinking about a flood. This conspiracy has flooded social media.

This seems like some sort of magical kingdom, you know, like something out of the Phantom Toolbooth.

Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

It was mentioned as a book and a Chuck Jones movie adaptation that featured many maps and helped one of the speakers learn about cartographers.

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I bet that y'all experience or had experience with this to the book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of The Phantom Tollbooth.

And the book, there are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers.

I think that was the first place I ever learned what a cartographer was.

It's like something out of the Phantom Toolbooth.

Episode: The Tartarian Conspiracy

It was discussed as a book and movie adaptation, which featured numerous maps and introduced the concept of a cartographer to one of the speakers during their childhood.

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The book and Chuck Jones movie adaptation of the Phantom Tollbooth and the book. There are tons of these maps of this crazy world of that of that book. And they talk about cartographers. I think that was the first place I ever learned what a cartographer was.

Well, it's just thinking about a flood. This conspiracy has flooded social media.

Oh yeah. Well, it's just thinking about a flood. This conspiracy has flooded social media.

It's like we have Atlantis, but at home, you know?

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