Stuff You Should Know

Oh okay I knew I knew that name.

Yeah, we should totally do that.

Oh okay I knew I knew that name. Yeah. He should have entitled this The Toll House parentheses Those Ain't Cookies.

Is that like a 70s disco group?

No, it's the Watchmen. It's a character from the Watchmen.

He had like a glowing thing underneath his skin, right?

No, he had - it was on his forehead. He had a circle. But it was glowing.

No, no. It didn't glow. I mean he could glow sometimes.

Well, you know, also Roald Dahl, the guy who wrote James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he was a spy for the British.

Well, you know, also Roald Dahl, the guy who wrote James and the Giant Peach and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he was a spy for the British.

I definitely remember the book Helter Skelter being a huge, huge thing and I remember a time before like media was so robust when the idea of Charles Manson was just so terrifying to me.

I got an invincible Boogliosi who wrote a book called helter-skelter like a 600 page book basically this the definitive true crime book on the Manson family and the Manson family murders

And so most of the most of what we said in part one and most of what everybody knows about the Manson family murders are come through this lens that was established by Vincent Boogliosi

I've never read American Gods, the Neil Gaiman book.

So I'm surprised I've never read his novels, but in American Gods, um, one of the characters is a Slavic God named Zurnbog.

And every time the benders killed somebody, he gained strength from their sacrifice, which is pretty neat little take on the whole thing, you know?

Supposedly also, um, I've never read American Gods, the Neil Gaiman book. Have you, have you read any of this stuff? Never have. I've read some of the short stories and they're amazing. So I'm surprised I've never read his novels, but in American Gods, um, one of the characters is a Slavic God named Zurnbog. That's what I'm going with. And every time the benders killed somebody, he gained strength from their sacrifice, which is pretty neat little take on the whole thing, you know?

So Andre did not stop drinking during the film shoot.

And he said we needed a giant. This guy was a giant. I just hired the giant.

And he was like, what? I know. It's like more famous than Muhammad Ali.

And he said, just hire Andre the Giant. Trust me, he fits the part and he's one of the biggest stars in the world.

He also, when he checked out of his room at the London Hyatt after the end of his shoot, he had a $40,000 bar tab to pay to settle up, which means that he drank nearly all the contents of the mini bar in his room.

So, yeah. Fans of that movie? Anyone?

So Rob Reiner hired him on the advice of the writer of the book.

Rob Reiner had never heard of him. He's like, what?

And he couldn't understand what he was saying.

He said we needed a giant. This guy was a giant. I just hired the giant.

thanks in large part to Michael Poland's Omnivore's Dilemma, which came out in 2007 and basically introduced everybody to the concept that like we're eating all wrong, essentially.

thanks in large part to Michael Poland's Omnivore's Dilemma, which came out in 2007 and basically introduced everybody to the concept that like we're eating all wrong, essentially.

Anne Rice then came along and Nothing happened in between Bela Lugosi and Anne Rice.

I didn't think the books were very good, but it's just not my bag.

Oh yeah. No, I read the first one and it's just not my thing.

Anne Rice then came along and Nothing happened in between Bela Lugosi and Anne Rice. But Anne Rice definitely brought things more into the forefront as far as this range of emotions and these really complex characters.

I didn't think the books were very good, but it's just not my bag.

No, I read the first one and it's just not my thing.

Yeah, I'm not sure that he actually came up with it, but he certainly popularized it starting in his 1921 book Psychological Types.

Yeah, I'm not sure that he actually came up with it, but he certainly popularized it starting in his 1921 book Psychological Types.

And there's a photography book called Shelter and this guy roamed around Europe and took photos of homeless like impromptu makeshift shelters like blankets hanging over a limb in the woods or someplace under an overpass, but in every single picture it's just the shelter. Not one homeless person appears in this whole book.

And there's a photography book called Shelter and this guy roamed around Europe and took photos of homeless like impromptu makeshift shelters like blankets hanging over a limb in the woods or someplace under an overpass, but in every single picture it's just the shelter. Not one homeless person appears in this whole book.

Heinrich wrote a book if you're like, I need to know more about this, it's called How the West Became Weird.

Weird as in Western educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.

Heinrich wrote a book if you're like, I need to know more about this, it's called How the West Became Weird.

Weird as in Western educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.

Have you ever read the book A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson?

Oh yeah. It's one of those best in your late teens, early twenties, but I think you would appreciate it no matter what your age. It's just a great book and he's such a great writer and his companion on the trail is just such great like foil and comic relief. It's just a really good book, but in it he described Myron Avery as blazing two trails from Georgia to Maine. One was of hurt feelings and bruised egos. The other was the AT.

Have you ever read the book A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson?

Oh yeah. It's one of those best in your late teens, early twenties, but I think you would appreciate it no matter what your age. It's just a great book and he's such a great writer and his companion on the trail is just such great like foil and comic relief. It's just a really good book, but in it he described Myron Avery as blazing two trails from Georgia to Maine. One was of hurt feelings and bruised egos. The other was the AT.

He sent us a copy of his book Avalon and you can get Avalon on amazon.com.

He sent us a copy of his book Avalon and you can get Avalon on amazon.com.

So there's a really neat poem that I hadn't heard of until I ran across it in this article by James A. Linden called Doppelganger.

I puzzled over it, hiding alone, watching the woman as she neared the gate. He came and I saw him crouching, night after night, night after night. He came and I saw him crouching, watching the woman as she neared the gate. I puzzled over it, hiding alone.

So there's a really neat poem that I hadn't heard of until I ran across it in this article by James A. Linden called Doppelganger.

I puzzled over it, hiding alone, watching the woman as she neared the gate. He came and I saw him crouching, night after night, night after night. He came and I saw him crouching, watching the woman as she neared the gate. I puzzled over it, hiding alone.

The Exorcist was based on a book by William Peter Blatty who wrote this in 1971 and then in 73, the movie was made.

He said, hey, wouldn't it be funny if the little girl's head spun around and she puked green bile? Wait, wait till you hear what I have her do with the crucifix.

The Exorcist was based on a book by William Peter Blatty who wrote this in 1971 and then in 73, the movie was made.

He actually wrote the book because he wanted to scare America back to church.

there was a dude named Brian Benison who wrote a book called Robin Hood colon Case closed.

he says he's a lot he's in the camp that Robin Hood is a name like a title similar he says to Billy the Kid right Billy kid was a real dude though right.

he claims it's a nickname and that of a man named Roger Godbird or Gobert and he said he's the real guy.

He said he lived in the 13th century. He was a friend originally of the Sheriff of Nottingham Reginald de Grey.

after what four years as an outlaw the dude was captured went to jail pardoned and then farmed peacefully for the rest of his life.

Only 14 years ago in 2004 and probably since then but there was a dude named Brian Benison who wrote a book called Robin Hood colon.

he says he's a lot he's in the camp that Robin Hood is a name like a title similar he says to Billy the Kid right Billy kid was a real dude though right.

he knew at the time that he was called Billy the Kid right.

Because it'd be like Robin Son of Le Fever right but you call him Robin Hood not even close.

he claims it's a nickname and that of a man named Roger Godbird or Gobert and he said he's the real guy.

And we'll get to the authors and stuff. It was Peter Elkind and who was a co-author? Bethany McLean.

And it really is worth the watch.

But just want to point out that this is an overview of the Enron scandal.

The reason the documentary is called The Smartest Guys in the Room is because I think unequivocally everyone would admit that Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling and we should introduce you to a younger recruit named Andrew Fastow who is a key player, eventually becoming the CFO and was up to all kinds of shenanigans. But these were brilliant guys with amazing ideas.

If you want to know more about Enron, go watch the Smartest Guys in the Room. Definitely will leave you wanting more.

And we'll get to the authors and stuff. It was Peter Elkind and who was a co-author? Bethany McLean.

And it really is worth the watch.

But just want to point out that this is an overview of the Enron scandal. It's pretty clear once you start poking around that this could be like a 10 part series.

The reason the documentary is called The Smartest Guys in the Room is because I think unequivocally everyone would admit that Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling and we should introduce you to a younger recruit named Andrew Fastow who is a key player, eventually becoming the CFO and was up to all kinds of shenanigans.

If you want to know more about Enron, go watch the Smartest Guys in the Room. Definitely will leave you wanting more.

And interestingly, that may hold a little bit of water because there was a book called the Handbook for Recreational Leaders where they literally spelled it as Ro-cham-beau and not how he spells his name. And that book was published in Oakland.

Now that I look at the title of the book, Handbook for Recreation Leaders, not recreational. So it was probably like a handbook for local rec centers.

It's called Surrender, I think. But really good book.

It's called Surrender, I think. But really good book.