Stuff You Should Know

Did you ever read any of Castaneda's books?

And he wrote these books that were supposedly ethnographic studies about Don Juan Matis.

And it was him being indoctrinated into the peyote way of life by a peyote magician, a Yaqui Indian named Don Juan Matis.

And he basically lied and made all this stuff up and was exposed later on by some colleagues who really went to great trouble to expose him and undermine him.

it all goes to The Book of Revelation in the new testament where as everyone knows if you've read the bible revelation is when they talk about it's when the bible gets really good and it's when it talks about the apocalypse and the beast and you know raining fire down from the heavens and stuff and it says this he causes all both great and small rich and poor free and slave to receive and he is the beast right sure yeah satan yeah uh to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads didn't say back on the neck no uh that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name

Koresh was in the final stages of his book of Revelation.

He said he would write his own version of like an updated book of Revelation, basically.

And her biographer named Claire Mully put it, she wrote a book called The Spy Who Loved.

And the whole thing kind of like tilted. The world showed that it was ready to appreciate Christine Granville when Claire Mully, the historian, released the book The Spy Who Loved, colon, The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville.

If you want to know more about Christine Granville, you can check out Claire Molley's book, The Spy Who Loved.

One of the books that came out of the Club of Rome in 1972 was called Limits to Growth by Danella H. Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Juergen Randers, and William Behrens at MIT.

And they had a very dire apocalyptic outlook of the future, as did a lot of other people at the time.

The, yeah, the Limits to Growth book basically saying that it's often miscited as predicting the collapse of civilization due to renewable resource overuse.

No one was really paying attention to it until 2010 when a guy named Christopher McDougall came out with a book called Born to Run.

And it's basically, it makes the case that like paleo does for dieting. That like we have evolved to be a certain way to behave under certain conditions.

And our modern world has kind of taken that and co-opted it and messed everything up. And as a result, we're suffering from all these maladies.

But rather than eating ultra processed food as the paleo diet whole thing is based on, this was that these modern running shoes we're running in are actually causing injuries.

I've seen it referred to as the most influential running book of all time.

There's a movie called KILLDOZER from 1974. It was an ABC suspense, Saturday suspense TV movie that was based on a 1944 short story by fantasy writer Theodore Sturgeon.

Fred Kaplan who wrote a book about the history of cyber war called Dark Territory.

And apparently Reagan saw this film, was so freaked out by it that he got the joint chiefs together and was can this happen? Somebody go find out. And the chairman of the joint chiefs, a guy named General John Vesey went and investigated and came back and he said, quote, Mr. President, the problem is much worse than you think.

The song was written and released just months before the Berlin Wall was brought down and became hugely popular throughout the Soviet Union.

At the time, a political leaning song was very out of character for Scorpions.

I just picture a bunch of scorpions.

It's not like Jethro Tull.

The Scorpions claim the song was inspired during a rock festival called the Moscow Music Peace Festival, where the bands were surrounded by CIA and KGB handlers.

When Adam Smith wrote a book in 1776 called An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

Thomas Pynchon, the famous author of Gravity's Rainbow, among others, in 1984, he wrote an essay essentially saying like, I'm not so sure we should scoff at Luddites.

In 2008 called Pieces of My Heart.

She wrote a book called The Sixth Extinction. That's a good, it's a good article. Yeah. And like they, she wrote an article in the New Yorker. She's a New Yorker journalist. That was basically the predecessor to the book.

Beth Vumanic Lopez sent us a copy of Unbound, colon, how eight technologies made us human, transformed society, and brought the world to the brink by Richard L. Currier.

Jack Kerouac said you can't fall off a mountain.

I read that one.

All right. I think where we left off the United States was a version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Yeah, yeah. And The Walking Dead.

And he wrote a book called On The Construction, Organization and General Arrangements of Hospitals for the Insane.

And he literally wrote the book on this and changed everything.