The Perfect Storm
A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Sebastian Junger
The bestselling book that became the blockbuster film starring George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Diane Lane.
In October 1991, three weather systems collided off the coast of Nova Scotia to create a storm of singular fury, boasting waves over one hundred feet high. Among its victims was the Glouces...
The podcast hosts mentioned a reference to a passage from this book regarding studies on how long it takes for the body to react to a lack of oxygen during drowning.
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I got this from a reference to a passage from the book the perfect storm okay
— Episode: How Drowning Works
Episode: How Drowning Works
The podcast hosts mentioned a reference to a passage from this book regarding studies on how long it takes for the body to react to a lack of oxygen during drowning.
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I got this from a reference to a passage from the book the perfect storm okay
Episode: How Drowning Works
The podcast hosts mentioned a reference to a passage from this book regarding studies on the effects of drowning on the body after about 87 seconds. Information about the book itself wasn't discussed further.
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I got this from a reference to a passage from the book the perfect storm okay
Bill mentioned reading the book about the perfect storm, and how his reality of it was different than the movie with George Clooney.
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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has th...
Bill mentioned reading the book about the perfect storm, and how his reality of it was different than the movie with George Clooney.
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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has the ability to fucking Override your brain going I need some air
He talked about how unrealistic the movie was in comparison to the book, referencing the book as a more grounded reality.
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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-22-17
It was described as the most uncomfortable book Bill Burr had ever read, specifically due to a chapter detailing the experience of drowning.
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it was the most uncomfortable book since I read I read the book The Perfect Storm
and if you don't want to buy the book just fucking open it up and just there's a chapter maybe like a three-page thing maybe where the guy describes what happens when you drown and it's just like I don't know you fucking blood goes cold man it's fucking freaky as hell
Bill mentioned the book and the movie adaptation, where George Clooney's character acts as if he could survive in the worst storm ever, underwater, without a mask, and in salt water.
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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has the ability to fucking Override your brain going I need some air
Bill referenced the book and how it illustrated a real-life storm and the struggles faced by those at sea, contrasting it with Hollywood's portrayal of survival.
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I want to go fishing Because they saw a perfect storm, and I read the book And that's my reality Fucking George Clooney Ships going under and he pushes himself back into it as if the human body has the ability to fucking Override your brain going I need some air
Bill Burr commented that the book was incredible, but that the movie adaptation was not as good, stating that it lacked character development and was mostly focused on a single event, the large wave.
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That movie, the book is unbelievable. The movie sucks.
The whole movie, you're just waiting for the fucking wave and that's it.
Episode: Monday Morning Podcast 5-22-17
It was described as the most uncomfortable book Bill Burr had read, particularly a section detailing the experience of drowning.
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it was the most uncomfortable book since I read I read the book The Perfect Storm
and if you don't want to buy the book just fucking open it up and just there's a chapter maybe like a three-page thing maybe where the guy describes what happens when you drown and it's just like I don't know you fucking blood goes cold man it's fucking freaky as hell
Bill Burr thought the book was incredible, but the movie adaptation was underwhelming, as it focused too much on the wave and lacked character development.
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That movie, the book is unbelievable. The movie sucks.
The whole movie, you're just waiting for the fucking wave and that's it.
Other than that, they didn't develop the characters and I didn't give a fuck about anybody I liked George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg and the guy who played the creepy fisherman. I liked him too.
Bill Burr described the book as unbelievable but found the film adaptation lacking, particularly in character development and being focused solely on the wave.
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That movie, the book is unbelievable. The movie sucks. The whole movie, you're just waiting for the fucking wave and that's it.
The book, about sword fishermen, was mentioned in relation to a discussion about near-death experiences and the recollection of memories while drowning. A past experience of the speaker was shared, where people who drowned recalled their entire life flashing before them.
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There's a book that I read, Perfect Storm.
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The book, about sword fishermen, was mentioned in relation to a discussion about near-death experiences and the recollection of memories while drowning. A past experience of the speaker was shared, where people who drowned recalled their entire life flashing before them.
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There's a book that I read, Perfect Storm.
One of the very few books I read, The Perfect Storm, about those sword fishermen.
About the fishermen? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And a couple of guys, they got sucked down there with some of the bait and they drowned. They thought they were dying, but then they pulled them up eventually and they said, when you're drowning, you just see your whole life from childhood to having your first baby. All of these big major events just start flashing.
Episode: Tuesday Post Show (2-13-24)
One of the podcast hosts mentioned having read this book previously, and that a movie was made about it starring Mark Wahlberg. They recalled it being a good book.
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I've read the perfect storm, which is they made a movie about that like Mark Wahlberg, you know,
The interviewer mentioned it as one of the interviewee's previous works, referencing it fondly from his early days as a writer.
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It almost feels like I was a little kid when I first saw The Perfect Storm.
— Episode: Sebastian Junger on the Wonder of Existe...
Episode: Sebastian Junger on the Wonder of Existence and th...
The interviewer mentioned it as one of the interviewee's previous works, referencing it fondly from his early days as a writer.
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It almost feels like I was a little kid when I first saw The Perfect Storm.
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This book was mentioned as one of the sequels to Mutiny on the Bounty.
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but I highly commend the film. The most recent it's been made into a movie four times but the best of it I think is the relatively recent one simply called Bounty and it's absolutely terrific couple of riveting performances and it really explores the character of William Bligh which was one of the most complicated to say the least.
The book was brought up by war journalist Sebastian Junger, who explained that one chapter of a larger work he was writing about hazardous professions evolved into this title, recounting a 1991 storm that sank a Gloucester fishing boat. He mentioned it in passing while discussing his project on dangerous jobs.
Episode: Be Necessary with war journalist Sebastian Junger
It was mentioned as one chapter of a book he was writing about dangerous jobs. He was living in the town of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when a local boat was sunk in a huge storm in 1991.
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One chapter of that book that I imagine became The Perfect Storm. It was a chapter that was going to be on commercial fishing.
