Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

You have written multiple books beneath a restless sun, the Pulitzer Prize winning The Devil in the Grove, as well as the execution of Willie Francis.

King's work on his book Devil in the Grove actually led to the exonerations of the wrongly accused men known as the Groveland Four.

You have written multiple books beneath a restless sun, the Pulitzer Prize winning The Devil in the Grove, as well as the execution of Willie Francis.

The podcast Bone Valley brings that same level of investigative rigor to the story of Leon Schofield. So Gilbert, thank you so much for being here with us.

King's work on his book Devil in the Grove actually led to the exonerations of the wrongly accused men known as the Groveland Four.

This story comes from an author named John Evangelist Walsh.

In 2000, John writes a book called Midnight Dreary, the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe and proposes that Poe was murdered because his first wife died in 1847 and he wanted to he became engaged to the lady who would have been a second wife.

This story comes from an author named John Evangelist Walsh in 2000.

John writes a book called Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe and proposes that Poe was murdered because his first wife died in 1847 and he wanted to he became engaged to the lady who would have been a second wife her name Sarah Elmira Shelton and that her three brothers were very much against it and threatened him.

This story comes from an author named John Evangelist Walsh. In 2000, John writes a book called Midnight Dreary, the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe and proposes that Poe was murdered because his first wife died in 1847 and he wanted to he became engaged to the lady who would have been a second wife.

an author named John Evangelist Walsh in 2000, John writes a book called Midnight Dreary: The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe and proposes that Poe was murdered because his first wife died in 1847 and he wanted to, he became engaged to the lady who would have been a second wife, her name Sarah Elmira Shelton, and that her three brothers were very much against it and threatened him.

It reminds me of how Daniel Tammet who - there's this book called Born on a Blue Day.

It's very similar.

It's very similar.

Yeah, it's like Daniel Tamet, the gentleman who wrote Born on a Blue Day.

It's like SCP or House of Leaves.

the first one is The Plutonium Files colon america's secret medical experiments in the cold war and that is by eileen welsom

the first one is The Plutonium Files colon america's secret medical experiments in the cold war and that is by eileen welsome

the first one is The Plutonium Files colon america's secret medical experiments in the cold war and that is by eileen welsom

the first one is The Plutonium Files colon america's secret medical experiments in the cold war and that is by eileen welsome

But I can't tell you the parts that he got right. And my instinct was like, oh, this dude's going to go in there and wreck everything. He's going to like feed him disinformation.

And the big thing about the book Secret Machines was that there was a crashed flying saucer alien ship. The American government reverse engineered it and was able to create a vehicle that a pilot could sit in and fly without controls.

You'd think it, the aircraft would do it, right? And that's how the aliens fly around, right? They they don't have control panels. They just sit there and it's telepathy or remote viewing or clairvoyance.

His first book that's already been released, Secret Machines. With a K.

But they're going to tell real stories through these fictional avenues and then throughout that process will also via social media be releasing pieces of information, documents, videos that also help correspond with the disclosure.

The first way in which he said he's taking or took the first step was writing the book Secret Machines part one.

Yeah, the series. I read it.

It's a fictional book. It's a fun read. I have no problem with the book.

For instance, his first book that's already been released, Secret Machines - Trevor Burrus With a K. Ben Stillman With a K. With a K. Lots of hidden meaning there, he would tell you.

But they're going to tell real stories through these fictional avenues.

And then throughout that process will also via social media be releasing pieces of information, documents, videos that also help correspond with the disclosure.

It's like a typical mystery action book.

There's a there's a daughter of a financial magnate who he dies under mysterious circumstances. And she tries to figure out what's going on. His alleged suicide wasn't really a suicide.

And he comes in and he's saying, oh, I read this book that Tom DeLonge was a part of about secret machines.

And that was kind of the that's his book.

was that there was a crashed flying saucer alien ship. The American government reverse engineered it and was able to create a vehicle that a pilot could sit in and fly without controls.

You guys remember the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

In 1974 a repair enthusiast named Robert Persig published a book that proved highly influential and sold millions of copies Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance came to define a spiritual and mental outlook by contrasting the approaches of two bike owners.

You guys remember the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

In 1974 a repair enthusiast named Robert Persig published a book that proved highly influential and sold millions of copies Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance came to define a spiritual and mental outlook by contrasting the approaches of two bike owners.

One rides an expensive new bike and relies on professionals to repair. The other rides an older bike and he repairs on his own and by doing so hones his problem-solving abilities and unexpectedly connects to a deeper wisdom that enhances his sense of dignity and endows his life with greater meaning.

You guys remember the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?

In 1974 a repair enthusiast named Robert Persig published a book that proved highly influential and sold millions of copies Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance came to define a spiritual and mental outlook by contrasting the approaches of two bike owners.

It just goes to show that, you know, mental health is not someone's mental health is not always apparent, you know, if they can seem very happy and they can seem like they're living their best life. But then, you know, there can also be kind of demons underneath the surface and certainly turned out to be the case with Bourdain.

And it's really caused a lot of news agencies and publications, etc. to really start to have, you know, kind of ethical conversations around this stuff.

So obviously, a documentary film is intended to be entertaining. But what happens when you take the voice of a man who is beloved as Anthony Bourdain was and recreate it using artificial intelligence by feeding it dozens and dozens of hours of available recordings?

And if you're someone that says a bunch of a public figure as Anthony Bourdain, it's going to be, you know, tenfold that what it would be for, you know, folks like us.

So it's like almost like the whole idea or the the I guess the gimmick for lack of a better word is that it's Anthony Bourdain telling his story in his own voice, you know, pulled from different audio books and all the sources that I just mentioned.

And it just goes to show that, you know, mental health is not someone's mental health is not always apparent, you know, if they can seem very happy and they can seem like they're living their best life.

But this is about ethics in film making.

And it's really caused a lot of news agencies and publications, etc. to really start to have, you know, kind of ethical conversations around this stuff.

But what happens when you take the voice of a man who is beloved as Anthony Bourdain was and recreate it using artificial intelligence by feeding it dozens and dozens of hours of available recordings?

So it's like almost like the whole idea or the the I guess the gimmick for lack of a better word is that it's Anthony Bourdain telling his story in his own voice, you know, pulled from different audio books and all the sources that I just mentioned.

It's a new documentary about the beloved traveler, world traveler, chef, you know, rec on tour, Anthony Bourdain, who tragically took his own life.

And it just goes to show that, you know, mental health is not someone's mental health is not always apparent, you know, if they can seem very happy and they can seem like they're living their best life.

But this is about ethics in film making.

So it's like almost like the whole idea or the the I guess the gimmick for lack of a better word is that it's Anthony Bourdain telling his story in his own voice, you know, pulled from different audio books and all the sources that I just mentioned.

So it's like the next level kind of powered up version of what they do in the reality television, a lot of what's called frankenbiting, where they take clips of audio, the things that people have said.

I love that We're mentioning The Anarchist Cookbook. I have several versions of that book from back in the day Uh It is the height of an unreliable narrator because some stuff is put in a couple of versions there as pranks But you can easily find this As a pdf and it's a reference work. It's a bootleg collection of all sorts of interesting projects from Old school telephone hacking all the way up to here's how you build a bomb. Here's how you can dial Uh, here's how you can concentrate nicotine from tobacco products into an actual poison Here is how you can make lsd at home just like owsley but not as good as owsley's lsd probably

Or is it better that we just don't have that knowledge? And then how in the heck do you control it?

I have multiple versions of that work and it's important, but they're not all the same version. There's some trolling in there, but it is how I found out about nutmeg, the sailors high.

And a delightful seasoning for your hot cocoa. It's pretty great.

I love that We're mentioning The Anarchist Cookbook. I have several versions of that book from back in the day Uh It is the height of an unreliable narrator because some stuff is put in a couple of versions there as pranks But you can easily find this As a pdf and it's a reference work.

Old school telephone hacking all the way up to here's how you build a bomb. Here's how you can dial Uh, here's how you can concentrate nicotine from tobacco products into an actual poison Here is how you can make lsd at home just like owsley but not as good as owsley's lsd probably

Carl Hoffman in 2014, he writes a book called Savage Harvest, A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art.

If you're interested in this story, it's very much worth your time to pick up a copy.

toward the end of the book, he ventures up the Outaw River, hoping to live within the community for a month and somehow elicit a confession.

But Hoffman gets the cold shoulder and senses that the villagers are guarding a terrible secret as he makes clear in this gripping book, keeping the real story buried may have been the safest choice for everyone involved.

And there's one quotation in particular that I think stands out to Hoffman and will stand out to readers of the book.

Carl Hoffman in 2014, he writes a book called Savage Harvest, A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art.

So he, uh, Hoffman researches the disappearance extensively and part of his research involves multiple visits to villages and communities in the area.

People are telling him, look, Michael Rockefeller did make it to shore.

And then it led to execution.

And Hoffman goes a step further along that cycle and says that after Rockefeller's murder or death, a cholera epidemic went through the area and community members believe that this was in turn retribution for killing Rockefeller.

And there's an author we're going to talk about a lot, a guy named Karl Hoffman.

Hoffman writes beautifully about Rockefeller, about this story in particular.

And Hoffman seems to argue that Rockefeller has another education, another moment that really speaks to him and shapes his destiny.

And he says, as they began to cross the mouth of the Betts River, conflicting tides and winds whipped up waves and cross currents water that had been gentle one minute was heaving the next. A wave drowned their outboard and the catamaran began to drift. Then the waves capsized it.

Carl Hoffman does this and describes it again beautifully in his work.

Also, the invisible hand is not mentioned near as often in that book as people might think.

Also, the invisible hand is not mentioned near as often in that book as people might think.

Also, the invisible hand is not mentioned near as often in that book as people might think. So so when you hear somebody talking about the invisible hand, make sure they actually read Adam Smith, just a pro tip there.

things like Lord of the Flies for example, certain books like Slowhouse Five, exactly books that are a little edgy potentially or have some other lore kind of associated with them.

things like Lord of the Flies for example,

things like Lord of the Flies for example

included in that list was the Bible all versions and and Frank's diary. Not the book though, a graphic novel adaptation,

which is interesting because it makes me think this is a very imprecise kind of methodology that goes into this because there were there was controversy around and Frank's diary in the past not because of what it said about you know the Nazis and then because of violence or whatever, specifically because in a certain version of the book, and Frank talks about getting her period. And there were certain people that thought that was inappropriate for kids of a certain age to hear about you know a young woman getting her period.

Not the book though, a graphic novel adaptation, which is interesting because it makes me think this is a very imprecise kind of methodology that goes into this because there were there was controversy around and Frank's diary in the past not because of what it said about you know the Nazis and then because of violence or whatever, specifically because in a certain version of the book, and Frank talks about getting her period.

included in that list was the Bible all versions and and Frank's diary.

Not the book though, a graphic novel adaptation, which is interesting because it makes me think this is a very imprecise kind of methodology that goes into this because there were there was controversy around and Frank's diary in the past not because of what it said about you know the Nazis and then because of violence or whatever, specifically because in a certain version of the book, and Frank talks about getting her period.

Like okay let's walk through the structural reasoning the idea there will be very quick about this obviously the idea there is hey I have no problem with children learning firsthand about the dangers of genocide but I don't want for some reason I don't want say the authorities for people to know about the idea of administration despite the fact that roughly half of the reading audience is going to have first hand knowledge about that experience if not while they're reading very soon what do you do as authority you treat that as Santa Claus it just feels very insincere

This is a concept that he popularized that you've probably heard. I know I've heard it.

And I believe it was called the 10,000 hour rule, perhaps.

Yeah, the idea being that if you started a baseline zero, then after 10,000 hours of regular practice, you will be not just competent but incredibly proficient at whatever you're trying to learn.

This is a con. There's a concept that he popularized that you've probably heard.

I think we've said it before on this show, but he at least popularized the concept that it requires 10,000 hours to become essentially a master of something right to master something.

And I believe it was called the 10,000 hour rule, perhaps.

We can look to Malcolm Gladwell in his book Outliers.

This is a con. There's a concept that he popularized that you've probably heard. I know I've heard it.

I think we've said it before on this show, but he at least popularized the concept that it requires 10,000 hours to become essentially a master of something right to master something.

And I believe it was called the 10,000 hour rule, perhaps.

Did you read the books? The six part series herogasm?

Yeah. But watching love sausage like on the screen was a very different experience.

I think they're I think whoever is putting out this information is just a little too excited about how compound V.

Did you read the books? The six part series herogasm?

Yeah. But watching love sausage like on the screen was a very different experience.

I think they're I think whoever is putting out this information is just a little too excited about how compound V.

Did you read the books? The six part series herogasm?

Yeah. But watching love sausage like on the screen was a very different experience.

Oh, yeah. Nice. I'm sorry. I was hearing you say love so watching love sausage just does something to me. I don't know.

I'm glad he was in the in the adaptation but man, the series which is kind of Agility, the love sausage of the of the graphic novel series is more of a developed character.

I think they're I think whoever is putting out this information is just a little too excited about how compound V.

I interviewed both the author of the book Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe, and...

And I interviewed both the author of the book Empire of Pain Patrick Rad and Keith about his book about the Sackler family but also Kate Nicholson who started an organization you know to represent the interest of people who are using pain medications pharmaceutical opioids responsibly but now can't get to many more because doctors are afraid to prescribe them because there's the pendulum has swung so far the other direction

if I for instance wrote a novel on work machine And it became like the next song of ice and fire or something then there's a pretty valid legal argument that could be made

But if I for instance wrote a novel on work machine And it became like the next song of ice and fire or something then there's a pretty valid legal argument that could be made

And it became like the next song of ice and fire or something then there's a pretty valid legal argument that could be made

Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And glow! The hunter of the east has caught the sultan's turret In a moose of light

Dreaming when Don's left hand was in the sky I heard a voice within the tavern cry Awake, my little ones, and fill the cup Before life's liquor in its cup be dry And as the cock crew, those who stood before the tavern shouted Opened in the door

You know how little while we have to stay And once departed may return no more

That is from something called the Rubiot, which will, uh, specifically the English translation by a guy named Fitzgerald Which will become important, we promise, as this episode proceeds

TAMAM, TAMAMIN as in north this is the final phrase of an English translation by a guy named Edward Fitzgerald The thing he translated the actual rubyat of Omar Kayem is a bunch of poems It's an anthology of poems And they're about how you should live life to the fullest essentially

Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And glow! The hunter of the east has caught the sultan's turret In a moose of light

Dreaming when Don's left hand was in the sky I heard a voice within the tavern cry Awake, my little ones, and fill the cup Before life's liquor in its cup be dry And as the cock crew, those who stood before the tavern shouted Opened in the door

You know how little while we have to stay And once departed may return no more

That is from something called the Rubiot Which will, uh, specifically the English translation by a guy named Fitzgerald Which will become important, we promise, as this episode proceeds

The thing he translated the actual rubyat of Omar Kayem is a bunch of poems It's an anthology of poems And they're about how you should live life to the fullest essentially

Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And glow! The hunter of the east has caught the sultan's turret In a moose of light

Dreaming when Don's left hand was in the sky I heard a voice within the tavern cry Awake, my little ones, and fill the cup Before life's liquor in its cup be dry And as the cock crew, those who stood before the tavern shouted Opened in the door

You know how little while we have to stay And once departed may return no more

Which will, uh, specifically the English translation by a guy named Fitzgerald Which will become important, we promise, as this episode proceeds

TAMAM, TAMAMIN as in north this is the final phrase of an English translation by a guy named Edward Fitzgerald The thing he translated the actual rubyat of Omar Kayem is a bunch of poems It's an anthology of poems

I'd be like same with like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, you know some of the debates around that because of its You know problematic language and use of racial slurs

I'd be like same with like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, you know some of the debates around that because of its You know problematic language and use of racial slurs It is a work of fiction that is that was written in a specific time around a certain time period so it starts to be A little bit more about like is are we censoring history? Like are we editing history

If you're looking for a good book to read, there's a wonderful book about the history of rats, which is just called 'Rats'. It's available now. I would recommend thriftbooks.com.

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If you're looking for a good book to read, there's a wonderful book about the history of rats, which is just called 'Rats'. It's available now. I would recommend thriftbooks.com.