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This whole thing started to kind of change with a book in 1963 that I kind of want to read now from yeah, Jessica Mitford called the American way of death where she really kind of exposed The US funeral home industry is being not so great.

Yeah, basically she she portrayed it as a an entire industry built around taking Advantage of people in a really predatory way.

I think she wrote an article at first and it got very little attention and then it was turned into a book I think she went on TV and it ended up becoming a book and really had a huge effect on how People viewed funerals from that point on

Yeah, and I guess maybe we should just caveat this now and say if we have listeners that work in the funeral industry We're not coming after you here this was a book that was written in the 1960s and we realize it's a business a for-profit business and upselling is part of that business and it just takes on a bit of a I guess Sort of an untoward feeling when it's dealing with people while they're grieving, but that's also the business you're in.

It was like like you just did not get cremated Before then and then all of a sudden and she by the way, she had a very cheap funeral including being cremated I read that she spent less than I think $800 in today's dollars. Oh nice on her own funeral

This whole thing started to kind of change with a book in 1963 that I kind of want to read now from yeah, Jessica Mitford called the American way of death where she really kind of exposed The US funeral home industry is being not so great

Yeah, basically she she portrayed it as a an entire industry built around taking advantage of people in a really predatory way.

I think she wrote an article at first and it got very little attention and then it was turned into a book I think she went on TV and it ended up becoming a book and really had a huge effect on how People viewed funerals from that point on

It was like like you just did not get cremated Before then and then all of a sudden and she by the way, she had a very cheap funeral including being cremated I read that she spent less than I think $800 in today's dollars.

I think her book came at a really like good time totally.

Jessica Mitford called the American way of death where she really kind of exposed The US funeral home industry is being not so great

basically she she portrayed it as a an entire industry built around taking Advantage of people in a really predatory way.

I think she wrote an article at first and it got very little attention and then it was turned into a book I think she went on TV and it ended up becoming a book and really had a huge effect on how People viewed funerals from that point on

It was like like you just did not get cremated Before then and then all of a sudden and she by the way, she had a very cheap funeral including being cremated I read that she spent less than I think $800 in today's dollars.

I think her book came at a really like good time totally.

And then there was a definitive book that was written as well by a pair of authors, one of whom I believe was like a doctor who had like all this great research, but his writing was a little over the top. So they assigned a ghostwriter with them, and they basically wrote the definitive book on Joseph Merrick's life and medical condition.

And then there was a definitive book that was written as well by a pair of authors, one of whom I believe was like a doctor who had like all this great research, but his writing was a little over the top. So they assigned a ghostwriter with them, and they basically wrote the definitive book on Joseph Merrick's life and medical condition.

And then there was a definitive book that was written as well by a pair of authors, one of whom I believe was like a doctor who had like all this great research, but his writing was a little over the top. So they assigned a ghostwriter with them, and they basically wrote the definitive book on Joseph Merrick's life and medical condition.

The book he wrote, by the way, is called Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. And it's like 600 pages, I believe.

But he does not paint a very flattering picture of Miriam at all.

The book he wrote, by the way, is called Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. And it's like 600 pages, I believe.

The book he wrote, by the way, is called Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright. And it's like 600 pages, I believe.

said he remembered an unnatural silence when the phone call came in, except for his father's labored breathing.

said he remembered an unnatural silence when the phone call came in, except for his father's labored breathing.

And in the autobiography of John Wright called My Father Who Was on Earth, said he remembered an unnatural silence when the phone call came in, except for his father's labored breathing.

Well, one of the women jurors on the case said, like, no woman would carry around a love trinket from a man who raped her and that that really ruined her credibility. At the same time, though, Jeffrey Toobin, who wrote a book on this, American Heiress.

Yes, but he still had a legitimate book, despite what he's done since then.

He made a really good point, though, that I think is worth repeating here.

Jeffrey Toobin, who wrote a book on this, American Heiress.

And that is that regardless of, you know, maybe how she ended up feeling about Willie Wolf or anybody that were her captors, she was kept in a closet for 57 days.

And he said we need to be sure to give a shout out to Jim Rasenberger, who's a author of the book The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, which is I've seen his work referred to in multiple places.

And he said we need to be sure to give a shout out to Jim Rasenberger, who's a author of the book The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro and America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, which is I've seen his work referred to in multiple places.

So he wrote a pretty good book about it. And I guess Dave Ruse learned a lot from him. So thanks a lot, Mr. Rasenberger.

And he said we need to be sure to give a shout out to Jim Rasenberger, who's a author of the book The Brilliant Disaster: JFK Castro in America's doomed invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs, which is I've seen his work referred to in multiple places.

So he wrote a pretty good book about it. And I guess Dave Ruse learned a lot from him. So thanks a lot, Mr. Rasenberger.

women will pluck their unibrow into nothingness, like religiously. And that it takes a woman who is above fashion to flaunt her unibrow.

Julie Bloom's Forever is one that's always on the list too for that reason because it deals with a young girl's burgeoning sexuality and the confusion and the awkwardness and the thrill that comes along with that.

Judy Blume, of course.

Julie Bloom's Forever is one that's always on the list too for that reason because it deals with a young girl's burgeoning sexuality and the confusion and the awkwardness and the thrill that comes along with that.

Julie Bloom's Forever is one that's always on the list too for that reason because it deals with a young girl's burgeoning sexuality and the confusion and the awkwardness and the thrill that comes along with that.

Judy Blume, of course.

My Mom's Having a Baby, a Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy.

My Mom's Having a Baby, a Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy.

My Mom's Having a Baby, a Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy.

And so books like Daddy's New Roommate gets banned.

About a boy whose dad has a new boyfriend now. He's a divorced dad and his new roommate moves in as gay.

Yeah, and Sarah Palin herself asked for that to be removed from the library when she was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

And so books like Daddy's New Roommate gets banned.

About a boy whose dad has a new boyfriend now. He's a divorced dad and his new roommate moves in as gay.

Yeah, and Sarah Palin herself asked for that to be removed from the library when she was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

And so books like Daddy's New Roommate gets banned.

About a boy whose dad has a new boyfriend now. He's a divorced dad and his new roommate moves in as gay.

Yeah. And Sarah Palin herself asked for that to be removed from the library when she was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Well, everybody go read that. It's in Roughing It, which is his book about traveling the US and he surfs in it. Did you know that?

Well, everybody go read that. It's in Roughing It, which is his book about traveling the US and he surfs in it. Did you know that?

well everybody go read that it's in Roughing It which is his book about traveling the US

I'm reading the Beatles biography from Bob Spitz. That's like a thousand pages.

I'm reading the Beatles biography from Bob Spitz. That's like a thousand pages.

I'm reading the Beatles biography from Bob Spitz. That's like a thousand pages.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we're conscious of because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

It's like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it.

And his point is, is wherever your conscious mind looks, there's consciousness. But that doesn't mean that there's consciousness all over the place.

My God has forsaken me and disappeared. My goddess has failed me and keeps at a distance. The good angel who walked beside me has departed.

David Bowie loved it. He said that the origin of consciousness is the breakdown of bicameral mind.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we're conscious of because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

It's like asking a flashlight in a dark room to search around for something that does not have any light shining upon it.

And his point is, is wherever your conscious mind looks, there's consciousness. But that doesn't mean that there's consciousness all over the place.

David Bowie loved it. He said that the origin of consciousness is the breakdown of bicameral mind.

It's a very Bowie thing.

I know one of the things he wrote a lot about in his book in 1976 was Homer's Iliad because he's kind of like, here's proof right here...

Life and Adventures of Nat Love, and it's spelled N-A-T on the autobiography title.

Life and Adventures of blank love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick by himself, colon. A true history of slavery days, life on the great cattle ranges and on the plains of the wild and woolly west based on facts and personal experiences by the author.

They say that they're not entirely certain where fact departs from fiction in his autobiography, but it's apparently a heck of a read.

Life and Adventures of Nat Love. And it's spelled N-A-T on the autobiography title.

Life and Adventures of blank love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick by himself, colon. A true history of slavery days, life on the great cattle ranges and on the plains of the wild and woolly west based on facts and personal experiences by the author.

They say that they're not entirely certain where fact departs from fiction in his autobiography, but it's apparently a heck of a read.

Life and Adventures of Nat Love. And it's spelled N-A-T on the autobiography title.

Life and Adventures of blank love, better known in the cattle country as Deadwood Dick by himself, colon. A true history of slavery days, life on the great cattle ranges and on the plains of the wild and woolly west based on facts and personal experiences by the author.

They say that they're not entirely certain where fact departs from fiction in his autobiography, but it's apparently a heck of a read. So go check it out.

One is called Curtain. That's Poirot's final book.

And the other is Sleeping Murder. That is Marple's final case.

the New York Times ran a front page obituary for him, the only fictional character to have that honor bestowed on them.

One is called Curtain. That's Poirot's final book.

One is called Curtain. That's Poirot's final book.

But when she survived World War Two, she was like, well, I don't I'm not ready for these guys to be retired yet. So she kept those books and had them posthumously published. And they were in the 70s.

And when Hercule Poirot's last book came out and he died, the New York Times ran a front page obituary for him, the only fictional character to have that honor bestowed on them.

And then she's traveling around, she's doing these archeological digs and trips. She's going to Syria and Iraq. She fell in love with Syria and the Syrian people.

And then she's traveling around, she's doing these archeological digs and trips. She's going to Syria and Iraq.

And that's when Ms. Marple comes along as a, as a detective in 1930 with The Murder at the Vicarage. That was her first one. That was the first Ms. Marple book.

And then she's traveling around, she's doing these archeological digs and trips. She's going to Syria and Iraq.

Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

Books like Murder in Mesopotamia and Death on the Nile and Murder on the Orient Express were all written during this period.

And this is what really catapulted her into international superstardom as an author.

We talked all about going from The Bachelorette to writing her debut novel, and what she's learned about love along the way.

I have had to redefine what love is. And love to me really is about feeling safe and seen at the same time and it's creating a relationship.

Like our recent episode with reality TV star Hannah Brown. We talked all about going from The Bachelorette to writing her debut novel, and what she's learned about love along the way.

I have had to redefine what love is. And love to me really is about feeling safe and seen at the same time. And it's creating a relationship. Like we built this relationship and that's really what love is.

I didn't know any of that at 24.