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Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Mentioned 1 week ago

Selects: The First Road Trip

The episode highlighted the audiobook of Andy Weir's sciencefiction novel, noting that Ray Porter was the narrator and describing it as a massive scifi adventure about survival and science.

I'm sitting down with Ray Porter, the narrator of Andy Weir's audiobook Project Hail Mary. Massive scifi adventure about survival and science and what happens when you wake up alone very far from earth.

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The Body

Stephen King

Mentioned 1 week ago

Selects: The First Road Trip

The hosts introduced the novella as the source material for the film Stand By Me and noted that Will Wheaton narrated its audiobook version.

I'm sitting down with Will Wheaton, who played Gordie Lachance in Stand By Me 40 years ago, and now narrates Stephen King's The Body, the novella that inspired it all.

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Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

Mentioned 2 weeks ago

Kola: The World’s Deepest Hole

The hosts said John Steinbeck visited the early Project Mohole drilling and that experience gave him the idea for the ending of Of Mice and Men.

That's where he got the idea for the end of, of Mice and Men.

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The Pearl

STEINBECK JOHN

Mentioned 2 weeks ago

Kola: The World’s Deepest Hole

They wondered whether Steinbeck had written The Pearl, mentioning it in the context of his involvement with the drilling project.

Did he write the Pearl? Because that was about pearl diving. So I'm pretty sure that was Steinbeck.

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Smartest Guys in the Room

Bethany McLean

Mentioned 3 weeks ago

Selects: How Enron Fooled the World

The hosts highlighted the book as the source material for the Enron documentary, noting its thorough investigation of the scandal and its authors' backgrounds. They recommended watching the film and reading the book for deeper insight into Enron's rise and fall.

I finally watched The Smartest Guys in the Room today. Yeah, the documentary based on the book, and we'll get to the authors and stuff. It was Peter Elkind, and who was the co-author? Bethany McClain. I knew she wrote the original articles in Forbes, so she co-authored the book.

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Crime and Punishment (Vintage Classics)

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Mentioned 3 weeks ago

Short Stuff: Why does it feel good to be scared?

One host mentioned having read the novel the day before while discussing the idiom "sixes and sevens".

I was reading a book last yesterday. It was Crime and Punishment. And I'm not just saying this just to show everybody I'm reading Crime and Punishment. But somebody mentioned something being like sixes and sevens.

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Scream with Me

Eleanor Johnson

Mentioned 3 weeks ago

Short Stuff: Why does it feel good to be scared?

The hosts highlighted the book as discussing why people pay to experience haunted houses or scary movies, describing it as voluntary engagement with negative higharousal stimuli.

There's a book that we want to shout out called Scream, Scream with an exclamation point from Margie Key and her colleague, Dr. Greg Siegel, who is director for the Cognitive Neuroscience Program at University of Pittsburgh. But their description of what we're talking about, like paying to go to a haunted house or something or a really scary movie as voluntary engagement with negative high arousal stimuli.

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A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole

Mentioned 4 weeks ago

Some Interesting Curses

They mentioned the wellknown novel as a great book that, despite many attempts, has never been turned into a movie.

the very famously, the great, great book, A Confederacy of Dunces, has never been made.

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The Incomparable Atuk

Mordecai RICHLER

Mentioned 4 weeks ago

Some Interesting Curses

The hosts said it was a 1963 satirical Canadian novel that the cursed Hollywood script was based on, and they discussed its plot about an Inuit poet in Toronto.

There was a script based on a book. It was a 1963 satirical Canadian novel called The Incomparable Atuk by Mordecai Rickler.

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Jurassic Park

Michael Crichton

Mentioned 1 month ago

The Stuff You Should Know Doin’ Science Playlist: How Chaos Theory Changed the Universe

They noted that the novel was published in 1990 and introduced the character Ian Malcolm, a chaotician, which later influenced the film's depiction of chaos theory.

The book came out in 1990. And in the book, uh, Ian Malcolm, who's a chaotician-

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Merchants of Doubt

Naomi Oreskes

Mentioned 1 month ago

How Global Warming Works

The hosts referenced the book while discussing how think tanks spread doubt about climate science, noting they had mentioned it earlier in the episode.

Well, plus also that it's been proven, I've mentioned that book before, The Merchants of Doubt, that think tanks have been set up to basically influence public thought and point out like scientists aren't 100% certain, scientists aren't 100% certain.

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Mash

Richard Hooker

Mentioned 1 month ago

M*A*S*H: The Story of the 4077th

The hosts explained that the 1970 film was based on a 1968 paperback novel about three army doctors, written by veteran surgeon Richard H. Hornberger under the pen name Richard Hooker. They noted the book was a loose collection of anecdotes that was later expanded with a cowriter.

the movie was optioned from a book written in 1968 called MASH colon, a novel about three army doctors by a MASH veteran doctor named Dr. Richard H. Hornberger under a pseudonym Richard Hooker.

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John Steinbeck

Cannery Row (Penguin Drop Caps)

It was mentioned in a quick list of John Steinbeck's books, with no further discussion.

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What's the Cannery Row one?

— Episode: Pearls: Second Best Thing About Oysters

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Episode: Pearls: Second Best Thing About Oysters

It was mentioned in a quick list of John Steinbeck's books, with no further discussion.

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What's the Cannery Row one?

Episode: Pearls: Second Best Thing About Oysters

It was briefly mentioned by Chuck while discussing Steinbeck's works and the context of 'Of Mice and Men'.

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Of Mice and Men. What's the Cannery Row one?

Cannery Row of Mice and Men. Of Mice and Men, man.

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Gordon B Rose

"Ride, Cowboy, Ride"

Romance Blossoms and Danger Threatens on the Pony Express Trail...

It was described as a book containing some of the only real documentation from surviving Pony Express riders, but a few chapters were lost during printing, and it's now considered a collectible.

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And apparently that is some of the only like real documentation we have from some of the real riders that she eventually published in something called The Pony Express Rides On!

— Episode: Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

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Episode: Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

It was described as a book containing some of the only real documentation from surviving Pony Express riders, but a few chapters were lost during printing, and it's now considered a collectible.

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And apparently that is some of the only like real documentation we have from some of the real riders that she eventually published in something called The Pony Express Rides On!

Which apparently you can still buy if you have a lot of money. Yeah. It's like a collectible, I'm sure.

Episode: Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

It was discussed that Mabel Loving, an amateur poet, had collected some of the only genuine accounts of Pony Express riders, which were later published in a book called 'The Pony Express Rides On!'.

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And it finally took a woman named, a poet, apparently not a very good one, named Mabel Loving, who said, why don't, you know, why doesn't someone actually write letters and get in touch with some of these people and get the true dirt? And she did that.

And apparently that is some of the only like real documentation we have from some of the real riders that she eventually published in something called 'The Pony Express Rides On!' Exclamation point.

Which apparently you can still buy if you have a lot of money. Yeah. It's like a collectible, I'm sure.

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Jean Van Leeuwen

The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper

It was mentioned as a children's book that was sent to Chuck by a listener named Becca, and he planned to read it to his daughter.

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Becca sent me a library copy of a book, my children's book that I was so fond of as a kid, The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper.

— Episode: Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

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Episode: Selects: How the Pony Express Worked

It was mentioned as a children's book that was sent to Chuck by a listener named Becca, and he planned to read it to his daughter.

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Becca sent me a library copy of a book, my children's book that I was so fond of as a kid, The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper.

Episode: How the Pony Express Worked

A listener thanked the hosts for sending a children's book they loved as a kid, called "The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper."

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my children's book that I was so fond of as a kid The Great Christmas Kidnapping Caper

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Tom Wolfe

The Bonfire of the Vanities

A Novel

It was mentioned as a book written by Tom Wolfe as a result of his new journalism work, showcasing his writing style.

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And Tom Wolfe did that with his early work on what would become The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities.

— Episode: Rolling Stone Magazine

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Episode: Rolling Stone Magazine

It was mentioned as a book written by Tom Wolfe as a result of his new journalism work, showcasing his writing style.

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And Tom Wolfe did that with his early work on what would become The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities.

Episode: Rolling Stone Magazine

It was mentioned as an example of Tom Wolfe's writing in the New Journalism style, where he would write chapter-like installments for the magazine.

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And Tom Wolfe did that with his early work on what would become The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Denzil Ibbetson

Panjab Castes

Races, Castes and Tribes of the People of Panjab

It was mentioned as a book from 1881 that first explicitly discussed the concept of hypergamy, specifically in relation to parents seeking to marry their daughters into a higher-status tribe.

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I know that in 1881, it was first used or first found in a book kind of like explicitly written about in a book called Panjab Castes.

— Episode: Short Stuff: Marrying Up

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Episode: Short Stuff: Marrying Up

It was mentioned as a book from 1881 that first explicitly discussed the concept of hypergamy, specifically in relation to parents seeking to marry their daughters into a higher-status tribe.

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I know that in 1881, it was first used or first found in a book kind of like explicitly written about in a book called Panjab Castes.

That was a book by Sir Denzil Ibbotson where they talked about a man seeking to marry his daughter off to a member of a tribe superior to his own.

Episode: Short Stuff: Marrying Up

It was first mentioned in this book in 1881, as a concept of a man trying to marry his daughter into a tribe of higher status than his own.

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I know that in 1881, it was first used or first found in a book kind of like explicitly written about in a book called Panjab Castes.

That was a book by Sir Denzil Ibbotson where they talked about a man seeking to marry his daughter off to a member of a tribe superior to his own.

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James A. Michener

Hawaii

It was mentioned as a very long book by James Michener on the history of Hawaii, which was referenced in the context of the podcast's research.

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Oh, really? No. Do you remember? James Michener would write those thousand page epics about like, I think he wrote one on Hawaii.

— Episode: At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode

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Episode: At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode

It was mentioned as a very long book by James Michener on the history of Hawaii, which was referenced in the context of the podcast's research.

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Oh, really? No. Do you remember? James Michener would write those thousand page epics about like, I think he wrote one on Hawaii.

And one of them was Hawaii, but they would be like a thousand pages easily.

Episode: At Long Last: Hawaiian Overthrow Episode

It was mentioned as a thousand-page book by James Michener, detailing the history of Hawaii, which one of the hosts had read before.

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Oh, really? No. Do you remember? James Michener would write those thousand page epics about like, I think he wrote one on Hawaii.

And one of them was Hawaii, but they would be like a thousand pages easily.

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Theodore E. Hook

Gilbert Gurney (Classic Reprint)

It was a semi-autobiographical novel written by Theodore Hook about 25 years after the Berners Street Hoax, in which one of the characters confesses to the hoax, leading people to believe he was behind it.

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And he, I mean, he was the kind of person who would do this, but also he wrote a semi autobiographical novel about 25 years after. It was called Gilbert Gurney. And in it one of the characters says, I...

— Episode: Short Stuff: The Berners Street Hoax

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Episode: Short Stuff: The Berners Street Hoax

It was a semi-autobiographical novel written by Theodore Hook about 25 years after the Berners Street Hoax, in which one of the characters confesses to the hoax, leading people to believe he was behind it.

"

And he, I mean, he was the kind of person who would do this, but also he wrote a semi autobiographical novel about 25 years after. It was called Gilbert Gurney. And in it one of the characters says, I'm the one, I did it.

Episode: Short Stuff: The Berners Street Hoax

It was a semi-autobiographical novel written by Theodore Hook about 25 years after the Berners Street Hoax, in which one of the characters claims responsibility for the hoax.

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And he wrote a semi autobiographical novel about 25 years after. It was called Gilbert Gurney. And in it one of the characters says, I'm the one, I did it.

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Andy Stanley

Parenting

Getting It Right

It was mentioned as a 1996 book that expanded upon Arthur Okun's Misery Index, adding factors to create a clearer economic picture across a president's term.

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Robert Barrow, he wrote a 1996 book called Getting It Right. Markets and choices in a free society.

— Episode: Selects: What's the misery index?

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Episode: Selects: What's the misery index?

It was mentioned as a 1996 book that expanded upon Arthur Okun's Misery Index, adding factors to create a clearer economic picture across a president's term.

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Robert Barrow, he wrote a 1996 book called Getting It Right. Markets and choices in a free society.

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Alan Hess

Googie

Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture

Alan Hess's book on Googie architecture was mentioned, having been published in the late 80s and helped spark a renewed interest in the style, leading to preservation efforts.

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Hooray for Hess, right?

— Episode: Googie: The Architecture of the Space Ag...

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Episode: Googie: The Architecture of the Space Age

Alan Hess's book on Googie architecture was mentioned, having been published in the late 80s and helped spark a renewed interest in the style, leading to preservation efforts.

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Hooray for Hess, right?

That sort of helped reignite like an appreciation for these buildings and this architecture and more and more were protected that had not been demolished.

Googie: 50s coffee shop architecture

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Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

It was mentioned briefly as another book by Michael Pollan, following 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.

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And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

— Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

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Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

It was mentioned briefly as another book by Michael Pollan, following 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.

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And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

It was mentioned as a book following Michael Pollan's 'The Omnivore's Dilemma', furthering his discussion on the importance of choosing healthier food options.

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And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

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Michael Pollan

Food Rules

An Eater's Manual

It was mentioned briefly as another book by Michael Pollan, following 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.

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And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

— Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

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Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

It was mentioned briefly as another book by Michael Pollan, following 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.

"

And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

This book is another work by Michael Pollan, expanding on his previous works on food and nutrition, and was mentioned in the podcast alongside 'In Defense of Food'.

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And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

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Michael Pollan

Cooked

A Natural History of Transformation

It was mentioned briefly as another book by Michael Pollan, following 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.

"

And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

— Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

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Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

It was mentioned briefly as another book by Michael Pollan, following 'The Omnivore's Dilemma'.

"

And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

Episode: How Ultraprocessed Foods Work

It was briefly mentioned as a book by Michael Pollan related to food, and was mentioned alongside 'In Defense of Food' and 'Food Rules'.

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And then Food Rules and one called Cooked about eight or nine years ago.

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Sir Frederick Treves

The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences

It was mentioned in the context of Dr. Treves criticizing Tom Norman for exploiting Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, but Norman defended his treatment of Merrick.

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He was attacked specifically in a memoir by Dr. Frederick Treves called The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences.

— Episode: Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

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Episode: Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

It was mentioned in the context of Dr. Treves criticizing Tom Norman for exploiting Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, but Norman defended his treatment of Merrick.

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He was attacked specifically in a memoir by Dr. Frederick Treves called The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences.

Episode: Selects: How Freak Shows Worked

It was mentioned in the context of Tom Norman being criticised for exploiting Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, and he responded by defending his treatment of Merrick.

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He was attacked specifically in a memoir by Dr. Frederick Treves called The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences.

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The Yearling (Scribner Classics)

It was briefly mentioned in the context of a listener email, which confused the host about whether the book/movie was about a horse or a deer. It was mentioned that the cover of the book/movie had a deer on it.

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You mentioned that billy went to slice up a bit of yearling uh, aka horse meat for a post-coital snack i'm from wyoming and my family raises horses as well as beef and show cattle I just thought i'd s...

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Episode: How Soap Works

It was briefly mentioned in the context of a listener email, which confused the host about whether the book/movie was about a horse or a deer. It was mentioned that the cover of the book/movie had a deer on it.

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You mentioned that billy went to slice up a bit of yearling uh, aka horse meat for a post-coital snack i'm from wyoming and my family raises horses as well as beef and show cattle I just thought i'd share in the livestock industry technically almost all livestock Is a yearling Once they've hit a year of age

And then I looked up the movie The Yearling remember that it's about that little baby deer. So Oh, I thought that was about a horse too.

Well, that's probably about a deer that'd be very misleading if it wasn't Either that or like the person who is in charge of the cover design didn't bother to read the book

Episode: How Soap Works

During a discussion about the term 'yearling' in relation to livestock, a listener's email mentioned the book 'The Yearling,' which was possibly a source of confusion regarding the term and its association with horses or deer.

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And then I looked up the movie The Yearling remember that it's about that little baby deer.

Well, that's probably about a deer that'd be very misleading if it wasn't. Either that or like the person who is in charge of the cover design didn't bother to read the book.

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Neal Bascomb

The Perfect Mile

Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It

It was mentioned as a source for the episode, and the podcast hosts acknowledged it as a great book that provided information about the four-minute mile.

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He asked us to shout out to a guy who wrote a book called The Perfect Mile, Neil Bascom because he used it as one of his sources and I guess he thought it was so great that he wanted...

— Episode: The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story...

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Episode: The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?

It was mentioned as a source for the episode, and the podcast hosts acknowledged it as a great book that provided information about the four-minute mile.

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He asked us to shout out to a guy who wrote a book called The Perfect Mile, Neil Bascom because he used it as one of his sources and I guess he thought it was so great that he wanted to shout out Neil Bascom.

Episode: The 4-minute Mile: Greatest Sports Story?

It was mentioned as a source for the episode, and the hosts expressed gratitude to the author for the helpful information it provided about Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile.

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He asked us to shout out to a guy who wrote a book called The Perfect Mile, Neil Bascom because he used it as one of his sources and I guess he thought it was so great that he wanted to shout out Neil Bascom.

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Anton Szandor Lavey

The Satanic Bible

It was published in 1969 and discussed, and some passages were read aloud. It was mentioned that some consider it plagiarized from earlier work.

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So he wrote The Satanic Bible in 69? Published in 1969.

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Episode: Selects: How Satanism Works

It was published in 1969 and discussed, and some passages were read aloud. It was mentioned that some consider it plagiarized from earlier work.

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So he wrote The Satanic Bible in 69? Published in 1969.

And he also wrote a lot about ritual and stuff as well and prescribed certain kinds of rituals in The Satanic Bible.

Satanism has been thought of as being synonymous with cruelty and brutality. This is only so because people are afraid to face the truth. And the truth is that human beings are not all benign or all loving.

Just because the Satanist admits he is capable of both love and hate, he is considered hateful. On the contrary, because he is able to give vent to his hatred, through ritualized expression, he is far more capable of love, the deepest kind of love.

Episode: Selects: How Satanism Works

It was discussed as a key text in understanding the Church of Satan, and excerpts were read on the podcast, including passages about love, hate, and ritual.

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So in 1966 created officially the Church of Satan and in 1969 published The Satanic Bible, which is pretty interesting to read through. I haven't read it all, but I read quite a bit of passages.

Satanism has been thought of as being synonymous with cruelty and brutality. This is only so because people are afraid to face the truth. And the truth is that human beings are not all benign or all loving.

Just because the Satanist admits he is capable of both love and hate, he is considered hateful. On the contrary, because he is able to give vent to his hatred, through ritualized expression, he is far more capable of love, the deepest kind of love.

By honestly recognizing and admitting to both the hate and the love he feels, there's no confusing one emotion with the other. Without being able to experience one of these emotions, you cannot fully experience the other.

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Richard W Wetherill

Right is Might

It was published in 1890 and discussed in relation to Anton LaVey's work. It is a book that promotes social Darwinism and an individualistic, almost anarchistic, ideology.

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And there was a book. So he wrote the Satanic Bible in 69? Published in 1969. Yeah. And there was a book published in 1890, I think it was called Might is Right.

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Episode: Selects: How Satanism Works

It was published in 1890 and discussed in relation to Anton LaVey's work. It is a book that promotes social Darwinism and an individualistic, almost anarchistic, ideology.

"

And there was a book. So he wrote the Satanic Bible in 69? Published in 1969. Yeah. And there was a book published in 1890, I think it was called Might is Right.

And it was extremely into social Darwinism. It was individualistic to the point of being anarchistic. It had all of the requisite 1890s racism and sexism attendant to it as well.

But the point of it was, why would you love your enemies? This whole doctrine of love is BS. We're animals. And if you have an enemy, you should go out and beat him up because he's your enemy. You don't need to love him. You need to love yourself.

Episode: Selects: How Satanism Works

It was mentioned as a book published in 1890 that Anton LaVey may have plagiarized or built upon in writing The Satanic Bible. It explores themes of social Darwinism, individualism, and a rejection of the concept of loving one's enemies.

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But there was a book. So he wrote the Satanic Bible in 69? Published in 1969. Yeah. And there was a book published in 1890, I think it was called Might is Right. And it was written pseudonymously by a guy named Ragnar Redbeard.

Ragnar Redbeard wrote this book and it was extremely into social Darwinism. It was individualistic to the point of being anarchistic. It had all of the requisite 1890s racism and sexism attendant to it as well. But the point of it was, why would you love your enemies?

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Stephen Matthews

La Contessa (The Grub Series Book 2)

It was described as a romance novel, possibly a disturbing one, and was available on Audible with Rodney Dangerfield narrating the audiobook.

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He wrote a romance novel called La Contessa. And if you Google the image for this- It's disturbing. Yeah, it's basically like your typical, it's Fabio, basically, with a woman, except it's got Rodney...

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Episode: Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From...

It was described as a romance novel, possibly a disturbing one, and was available on Audible with Rodney Dangerfield narrating the audiobook.

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He wrote a romance novel called La Contessa. And if you Google the image for this- It's disturbing. Yeah, it's basically like your typical, it's Fabio, basically, with a woman, except it's got Rodney Dangerfield's face on it. And it's available on Audible.

Oh, is it really? Yes, it is. With Rodney Dangerfield reading it. No way. I kid you not. Would I joke about what's on Audible?

Episode: Selects: How Rodney Dangerfield Worked, Live From...

It was a romance novel that Rodney Dangerfield wrote, which was made available on Audible, with him reading the novel.

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He wrote a romance novel called La Contessa.

And it's available on Audible. Oh, is it really? Yes, it is. With Rodney Dangerfield reading it. No way. I kid you not.

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Italo Calvino

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Introduction by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

It was described as a quintessential postmodern novel due to its second-person narrative structure and its unconventional, non-linear progression and multiple beginnings.

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It starts out by saying you are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler. Relax, concentrate, dispel every other thought.

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Episode: “Postmodernism:”

It was described as a quintessential postmodern novel due to its second-person narrative structure and its unconventional, non-linear progression and multiple beginnings.

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It starts out by saying you are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler. Relax, concentrate, dispel every other thought.

So the author is directing you, the reader, to begin the novel that you're reading. So you're immediately the character. Like he's writing about you in this page.

And then it very quickly careens from what you would consider real. Like the book runs out on page 32 in the book. The book you're actually reading still goes on.

Episode: “Postmodernism:”

It was described as a quintessential postmodern novel due to its second-person perspective and its unconventional structure, where the story repeatedly starts over or breaks off.

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It's a book by Italo Calvino called If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler is from 1979.

It's written in the second person perspective. So he talks about you. So you're the main character.

And it starts out by saying you are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a Winter's Night, A Traveler.

So the author is directing you, the reader, to begin the novel that you're reading. So you're immediately the character. Like he's writing about you in this page.

And then it very quickly careens from what you would consider real. Like the book runs out on page 32 in the book. The book you're actually reading still goes on.

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