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And the only reason we're going to talk about Mark Twain for a moment is because in 1873 he co-wrote a novel, a satire called The Gilded Age, a tale of today where it followed a poor country farmer who is sort of I mean, does he move to the city trying to get in on the second industrial revolution?

It's exactly that kind of migration that you're talking about just a few minutes ago. And it didn't work out so well, right? I don't know. I've never read the book.

But from what I can tell, no, it didn't work out very well because he is taken advantage of by all manner of bad people like crooked politicians and crooked businessmen and is basically run through the ringer from what I can tell.

But I've also seen that that wasn't it wasn't exactly the best piece of writing Mark Twain's ever come up with.

In 1873 he co-wrote a novel, a satire called The Gilded Age, a tale of today where it followed a poor country farmer who is sort of I mean, does he move to the city trying to get in on the second industrial revolution?

Yeah, totally.

It's exactly that kind of migration that you're talking about just a few minutes ago.

And it didn't work out so well, right?

But from what I can tell, no, it didn't work out very well because he is taken advantage of by all manner of bad people like crooked politicians and crooked businessmen and is basically run through the ringer from what I can tell.

And the only reason we're going to talk about Mark Twain for a moment is because in 1873 he co-wrote a novel, a satire called The Gilded Age, a tale of today where it followed a poor country farmer who is sort of I mean, does he move to the city trying to get in on the second industrial revolution?

It's exactly that kind of migration that you're talking about just a few minutes ago. And it didn't work out so well, right?

But from what I can tell, no, it didn't work out very well because he is taken advantage of by all manner of bad people like crooked politicians and crooked businessmen and is basically run through the ringer from what I can tell.

But I've also seen that that wasn't it wasn't exactly the best piece of writing Mark Twain's ever come up with.

And then about 15 years later you had Sybil and Sybil was the one that blew this thing wide open.

Sybil the book came out written by... Flora Rita Schreiber about her treatment with psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur.

Yeah to protect her her identity. But eventually the name came out right.

I remember my mom reading the book it was all the rage in the 70s.

Yeah it was huge. Huge.

And then about 15 years later you had Sybil and Sybil was the one that blew this thing wide open.

Sally Field.

It just happened I guess to arrive at a time when America was really ready to undergo or be party to psychological exploitation like big time.

And in 1973 is when Sybil the book came out written by. Oh let's see Flora Rita Schreiber about her treatment with psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur.

Yeah. And she was actually an artist a painter and like taught painting too I think but they found 103 paintings in her basement after she died and she only signed the ones that she felt like she the host had painted like she wouldn't sign the ones that an altar had painted.

And then about 15 years later you had Sybil and Sybil was the one that blew this thing wide open.

And in 1973 is when Sybil the book came out written by... Flora Rita Schreiber about her treatment with psychiatrist Cornelia Wilbur.

Yeah. And she was actually an artist a painter and like taught painting too I think but they found 103 paintings in her basement after she died and she only signed the ones that she felt like she the host had painted like she wouldn't sign the ones that an altar had painted.

So many of them are unsigned but it's when you look at it it's really like they're all different. Like some are like real as some are abstract some are impressionistic.

So Sybil's a smash hit it's based on the wave the first wave that was brought about by All About Eve and the public is just fully aware of multiple personality disorders like these two are like the cream of the crop.

But they wrote a book really quickly that exploded on the scene.

And she came out and wrote a book called I'm Eve and said dude this guy's a total fraud.

Like yes I do have multiple personalities.

Right. But they didn't cure me. No.

He he shot me up a sodium penethol and like just used the power of suggestion. And he's just a huckster basically.

But they wrote a book really quickly that exploded on the scene. Super popular made them a ton of money.

There was a big blockbuster movie. It was just it took over.

And she came out and wrote a book called I'm Eve and said dude this guy's a total fraud.

Like yes I do have multiple personalities.

Right. But they didn't cure me.

But she came out and wrote a book called I'm Eve and said dude this guy's a total fraud.

Like yes I do have multiple personalities. Right. But they didn't cure me. No.

Yeah. Like this guy kept insisting I was cured. It didn't work. He he shot me up a sodium penethol and like just used the power of suggestion.

And he's just a huckster basically. He was after the story.

He suffers from DID and he wrote a book called Breaking Free and he has no memory of winning the Heisman Trophy.

He has no memory of putting a gun to his wife's head something that's happened in his life.

No memory of any of these things and he says he has as many as 12 alters and his wife I don't know if they're still together. I don't think so but his wife of many years thinks like it all makes sense now.

Like when she finally he came out with this and he just came out a few years ago.

Wow. She was like well this totally makes sense because I saw very different people through the course of our marriage out of nowhere that made no sense.

He suffers from DID and he wrote a book called Breaking Free and he has no memory of winning the Heisman Trophy.

Oh no.

He has no memory of putting a gun to his wife's head something that's happened in his life.

No memory of any of these things and he says he has as many as 12 alters and his wife I don't know if they're still together.

I don't think so but his wife of many years thinks like it all makes sense now.

He suffers from DID and he wrote a book called Breaking Free and he has no memory of winning the Heisman Trophy.

He has no memory of putting a gun to his wife's head something that's happened in his life.

No memory of any of these things and he says he has as many as 12 alters and his wife I don't know if they're still together.

Like when she finally he came out with this and he just came out a few years ago. Wow. She was like well this totally makes sense because I saw very different people through the course of our marriage out of nowhere that made no sense.

He's a really interesting guy.

The whole reason he got into, you know, being a Cenobite in hell was, um, he was disillusioned by the chaos of World War I and lost like all, all faith in any meaning to life.

So he started to, he just ditched this world for hell instead.

Oh yeah. There's a bunch of it. It's kind of been built up over the course of some of Clive Barker's novels.

The movies have contributed to it. Some other people have kind of contributed to it. And there's like this robust kind of mythos around that guy.

He's a really interesting guy.

The whole reason he got into, you know, being a Cenobite in hell was, um, he was disillusioned by the chaos of World War I and lost like all, all faith in any meaning to life.

Oh yeah. There's a bunch of it. It's kind of been built up over the course of some of Clive Barker's novels.

He's a really interesting guy.

The whole reason he got into, you know, being a Cenobite in hell was, um, he was disillusioned by the chaos of World War I and lost like all, all faith in any meaning to life. So he started to, he just ditched this world for hell instead.

Oh yeah. There's a bunch of it. It's kind of been built up over the course of some of Clive Barker's novels.

The movies have contributed to it. Some other people have kind of contributed to it.

And there's like this robust kind of mythos around that guy. It's really interesting stuff.

I read a great book on death in London through the ages that talked about it that was called Necropolis. I highly recommend it.

I read a great book on death in London through the ages that talked about it that was called Necropolis. I highly recommend it.

I read a great book on death in London through the ages that talked about it that was called Necropolis. I highly recommend it.

It's called The Bartender's Guide or How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion.

Especially when you're like wearing diamonds on both hands and rats on your shoulders. It's the Bon Vivant's Companion.

And he tossed Dale DeGroff a book, a very important book. What book? The Bombay Boss Companion. Yes. From 1862.

Everything came full circle.

If you ever pick up a copy of the Balm of the Invalids Companion and try and read this thing, it doesn't translate that great to today's proportions.

It's called The Bartender's Guide or How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion.

Especially when you're like wearing diamonds on both hands and rats on your shoulders. It's the Bon Vivant's Companion.

And he tossed Dale DeGroff a book, a very important book. What book? The Bombay Boss Companion. Yes. From 1862.

Everything came full circle.

If you ever pick up a copy of the Balm of the Invalids Companion and try and read this thing, it doesn't translate that great to today's proportions.

It's called The Bartender's Guide or How to Mix Drinks or The Bon Vivant's Companion.

I like the Bon Vivant's Companion. That's the best.

Everything came full circle. Yeah. And Dale DeGroff was like, this is amazing. We can bring craftsmanship back into bartending.

And he tossed Dale DeGroff a book, a very important book. What book? The Bombay Boss Companion.

Yeah. And that's what they did. And the bar was saved.

And there's a guy named Martin Fogg who wrote a book called Terraforming, Engineering Planetary Environments.

And there's a guy named Martin Fogg who wrote a book called Terraforming, Engineering Planetary Environments.

And he basically laid out what you have to do to get Mars going.

And again, Mars is the easiest one to do because it has that planetary rotation already.

And there's a guy named Martin Fogg who wrote a book called Terraforming, Engineering Planetary Environments.

And he basically laid out what you have to do to get Mars going.

And again, Mars is the easiest one to do because it has that planetary rotation already.

And after Mallory, you have Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote The Idols of the King.

Yeah. That creepy looking dude. And great poet. Yeah. But scary looking.

So after Mallory, you have Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote The Idols of the King.

Yeah. That creepy looking dude. And great poet. Yeah. But scary looking.

So after Mallory, you have Alfred Lord Tennyson, who wrote The Idols of the King.

Yeah. That creepy looking dude. And great poet. Yeah. But scary looking.

And there's a lady that there's this woman that wrote a book called Soda Shop Salvation named Ray Catherine Igeme or I-may.

And there's a lady that there's this woman that wrote a book called Soda Shop Salvation named Ray Catherine Igeme or I-may.

And she kind of makes a case for the good that came out of Prohibition, which was pre-Prohibition.

She said the USA needed a reset was how she put it.

And there's a lady that there's this woman that wrote a book called Soda Shop Salvation named Ray Catherine Igeme or I-may.

An Uncle John's bathroom reader. That would do it.

An Uncle John's bathroom reader. That would do it.

I've heard before and I don't remember where I read it may have been the uncle John's bathroom reader that he used to get so worked up about the idea of drug dealers in Memphis down the street that his he'd want to go out and shoot him and his and he'd be wasted on drugs at the time and his entourage would have to like calm him down and keep him keep the guns away from him keep him just in his house to keep him from going out in exacting vigilante justice of the local Memphis street drug dealers around town.

There was a an anatomy professor named Samuel Thomas von summering and in the 1800s he incorrectly suggested that these were bats another paleontologist named Harry Seeley even wrote a book called dragons of the sky in which he said birds were the descendants of these

Another paleontologist named Harry Sealy even wrote a book called Dragons of the Sky. In which he said birds were the descendants of these.

Another paleontologist named Harry Sealy even wrote a book called Dragons of the Sky in which he said birds were the descendants of these.

He is a 34 year veteran or was at the time of the USPS worked. It says here nearly every capacity.

He was a workplace improvement analyst.

He saw this Califano report as a whitewash.

He said, and he used their own statistics, but he also used his own personal experience anecdotal from his own point of view and the research he did as that workplace improvement analyst.

So that was one thing, was he just basically said, like, yes, going postal is real. And here's the stats that prove it. Yeah. And here's why.

He is a 34 year veteran or was at the time of the USPS worked. It says here nearly every capacity. I think he had a lot of jobs at the postal service and he wrote a book called Beyond Going Postal.

And he saw this Califano report as a whitewash.

I mean, he said, and he used their own statistics, but he also used his own personal experience anecdotal from his own point of view and the research he did as that workplace improvement analyst.

and in it she talks about how not only was she worried and afraid for her kids but she was afraid herself about just these images that she was seeing on MTV an Ozzy Osbourne crawling out of a swamp as a swamp beast and instead of laughing at that like everyone else on the planet it scared her.

she talks about how not only was she worried and afraid for her kids but she was afraid herself about just these images that she was seeing on MTV an Ozzy Osbourne crawling out of a swamp as a swamp beast and instead of laughing at that like everyone else on the planet it scared her.

And this book got published and that was the one where he first made his name as a children's book writer you're right.

had he been walking on the other side of the street that day he may have never become a children's author.

it was about a kid named Marco who sees a horse and cart on his street and as he's retelling it it just becomes this bigger and bigger and more like bizarre and grand thing that he saw.

it had the word Chinaman in there it was worse than Chinaman and he he changed that to Chinese person right like in the publication of the book for future printings right

He created a children's book on that anapestic tetrameter called and this is a story no one can beat that was later changed and published in 1937 as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

He his friend from Dartmouth was a new children's book editor at Vanguard you said.

And it was so new that he was looking for material and Dr. Seuss happened to be walking around with the manuscript on him and just happened to be down there and they ran into each other

and this book got published and that was the one where he first made his name as a children's book writer you're right.

It's about a kid named Marco who sees a horse and cart on his street and as he's retelling it it just becomes this bigger and bigger and more like bizarre and grand thing that he saw.

He created a children's book on that anapestic tetrameter called and this is a story no one can beat that was later changed and published in 1937 as And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street

it's about a kid named Marco who sees a horse and cart on his street and as he's retelling it it just becomes this bigger and bigger and more like bizarre and grand thing that he saw.

an earlier version of and I end to think I saw it on Mulberry Street yeah it had the word Chinaman in there it was worse than Chinaman and he he changed that to Chinese person right

It was a big deal when it came out just I think in 2017 if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, and we're endorsing that book as a good read.

It's pretty exhaustive.

He's basically saying drugs drove the Third Reich initially.

And then just like anybody becoming strung out on a drug it led to the deterioration and ultimately downfall of the Third Reich.

It was a big deal when it came out just I think in 2017 if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, and we're endorsing that book as a good read.

It was a big, big thing to say.

He seems to be the first author to really say yeah the Nazis did a lot of drugs and this was the result.

That's certainly how Ohler characterizes the whole thing

It was a big deal when it came out just I think in 2017 if I'm not mistaken.

Yeah, and we're endorsing that book as a good read.

It's pretty exhaustive.

He's basically saying drugs drove the Third Reich initially. And then just like anybody becoming strung out on a drug it led to the deterioration and ultimately downfall of the Third Reich.

And he's not the first person to say yeah the Nazis did a lot of drugs. He seems to be the first author to really say yeah the Nazis did a lot of drugs and this was the result.

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his last book that he wrote and published while he was alive was oh the places you'll go right which I had no idea was published in 1990 did you I didn't know anything about it

it's also his top selling book so some of these other books have been around for decades longer than all the places you'll go but all the places you'll go is this top selling book because it's given to grads every spring there's a new batch of graduates yeah who get all the places you'll go as a gift

like 10 million copies have been sold because it's about like your future from what a way to yeah just like doing things and taking risks and like trying stuff and you can do it and it'll be hard and you're gonna run into problems but you know you're you're a good person and you're going to make good choices

I'm like this is an amazing even for Seuss it's an amazing book like an article I read said that somebody somebody said like you can tell that he knew this was the last book that that was going to be published while he was alive that he wanted this to be his his swan song

his last book that he wrote and published while he was alive was oh the places you'll go right which I had no idea was published in 1990 did you I didn't know anything about it

so it was not it was his last book that was published while he's alive it's also his top selling book so some of these other books have been around for decades longer than all

the places you'll go but all the places you'll go is this top selling book because it's given to grads every spring there's a new batch of graduates yeah who get all the places you'll go as a gift

and like 10 million copies have been sold because it's about like your future from what a way to yeah just like doing things and taking risks and like trying stuff and you can do it and it'll

be hard and you're gonna run into problems but you know you're you're a good person and you're going to make good choices and I have a story about this oh yeah so last night um I was

his last book that he wrote and published while he was alive was oh the places you'll go right

it's also his top selling book so some of these other books have been around for decades longer than all the places you'll go but all the places you'll go is this top selling book because it's given to grads every spring

and like 10 million copies have been sold because it's about like your future from what a way to yeah just like doing things and taking risks and like trying stuff and you can do it and it'll be hard and you're gonna run into problems but you know you're you're a good person and you're going to make good choices

I was like just out of nowhere I was like did you know that oh the places you'll go was only published in 1990 but it's Dr. Seuss's greatest selling book

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ooh i remember that one

Big thanks to Brad Ashmore for sending us his book of short weird fiction, Had He Worn a Different Body.

big thanks to Brad Ashmore for sending us his book of short weird fiction Had He Worn a Different Body.

He wrote a comic novel called Antique Hay. It was about post-World War I decadent like upper class society.

he just basically mentioned like a goth coming into a vomitorium.

from the line I saw it didn't even really seem to be like he was talking about the goth was going to come throw up or anything like that.

But that was the first instance they could find if somebody using it not in the way that Macrobius was using it as that portal thingy.

So they think that he was the first one to say this or put it down and pen to paper and you have to give him a break because he just injected a tremendous amount of LSD into his own eye before he started writing this right?

he wrote a comic novel called Antique Hay. It was about post-World War I decadent like upper class society.

he just basically mentioned like a goth coming into a vomitorium.

from the line I saw it didn't even really seem to be like he was talking about the goth was going to come throw up or anything like that.

he just mentions that in passing in a single line he wrote a comic novel called Antique Hay.

he just basically mentioned like a goth coming into a vomitorium.

from the line I saw it didn't even really seem to be like he was talking about the goth was going to come throw up or anything like that.