My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark

Start reading some history books, World War II books, no joke.

It's about a group of little British schoolboys who find themselves stranded on an island after a shipwreck, I believe.

He told friends that he knew that there was a connection between this, his interests in these, because he also liked, shit, what's the other, the Narnia books.

The feeling I have right now is the feeling that probably most of the younger people in this audience have when I talk about the Dukes of Hazzard or something. Where you're just like, I don't really know what any of this is. You didn't read it to your niece?

I read the books. She read those herself.

The Handmaid's Tale. These people are...

I know why you're so excited because Shogun was that book mom and dad read in the 70s and that's what all their friends talked about.

It's kind of like, it seems like a Lord of the Rings, like a Japanese Lord of the Rings kind of a thing. But it's actually real.

It's said that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who, the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories, he was friends with Houdini and he genuinely believed that Houdini had magical powers.

But Houdini was having none of that and he wouldn't hesitate to remind Doyle or anyone else who made a suggestion like that, that his act was one of skill, wit and athleticism. No magic involved except the magic of human talent.

Oh, this is notably explained in Maya Angelou's 'I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings'.

It eventually becomes Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus, which is the full title. I never knew that. The condensed refresher that no one needs, but it will be fun to do, is that Frankenstein's about a young scientist who makes the very risky decision to play God, designing a creature that looks somewhat human and using electricity to jolt it to life.

It's released anonymously. So her name is not on the book in the beginning. And it's a small publisher, not particularly well known. There's only about 500 copies that they put out on very cheap paper and with no fanfare.

Oliver Twist. Yeah. Great Expectations. My favorite. And a Christmas Herald.

It was a wonderful book. The Hungry, Hungry Caterpillar. Oh yeah. Which makes me really happy.

It's called Burnout, the secret to unlocking the stress cycle.

It's called Burnout, the secret to unlocking the stress cycle.

It like the first three chapters were basically the last 10 years of my life versus thing where when you think you're in danger or you, you, you go into the stress response, you know, our, our old brains that are basically caveman brains need to either when, when the fight flight freeze response comes up, you either need to run, you need to go find people and then have people make the feeling go away.

And the poem Paradise Lost.

Also a 1997 episode of PBS's American Experience called Around the World in 72 Days. The book Damnation Island, Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York by writer Stacey Horn.

The phrase Taman Shud was torn out of a poetry book, Persian poetry book that was extremely rare. And local librarians identified the phrase as the very last two words. It's the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

I listened to a book that's a memoir that I really loved that made me remember that we wrote a memoir. Yeah. And in that way.

So this chick, Jeanette McCurdy, do you know her book, I'm Glad My Mom Died? She just, it just came out. I fucking listened to it too.

It was fucking unbelievable.

It was really good.

It's ballsy and hilarious and heartbreaking at the same time. And so good.

When my sister and I were obsessed with The Outsiders, when we read it, when we were 12, he took it and read it after us and then called me pony boy and my sister soda pop.

So horrifying. She's the scariest fucking thing in the world.

She, she won an Emmy Oscar. Whatever. She should have won both, man. She should have swept. She should have gotten it.

It's so good. We need to watch it.

Not to be a big nerd, but in his first memoir, Don McCarvey talks about if you have something scratching on the other side of a door, but you never show what it is, the reader's mind goes insane from fear.

And if you open the door and it's a 10 foot spider, they freak out for two seconds and then they go, well, if it had been a hundred foot spider, that would have been worse.