Stuff You Should Know

Have you read The Catcher's Companion?

No, we got that as a gift, right?

No, I haven't read it yet.

It's pretty neat. It's just like footnotes and extrapolations and explanations. This guy went into the world of Catcher in the Rye and made footnotes of the whole thing.

It's actually thicker than The Catcher in the Rye.

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.

And he was the first dude to really bring this to light, wasn't he?

And he wrote a book called white collar crime.

And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes.

And just basically ignored the crimes of the upper class.

Like if a guy's going to steal $1,000 from a cash register with no gun or anything like that.

And he wrote a book called white collar crime.

And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes.

Like if a guy's going to steal $1,000 from a cash register with no gun or anything like that.

And a guy steals $1,000 from an investor and he's rich.

They should be treated equally and they're not.

According to Pliny the Elder it wouldn't they think that that's where the phrase take this with a grain of salt really finds its origin

That that that's where it finds its origin That's actually kind of a referential thing to that to a recipe he gave under the walnut section

Yeah, take two dried walnuts two figs and 20 leaves of rue pound them all together With the addition of a grain of salt.

Oh if a person takes this mixture fasting He will be proof against all poisons for that day

I want to give a shout out to Harold the Smith H-A-R-A-L-D he wrote an intro to iron smelting that talks all about making bloom himself with pictures it's pretty cool it's worth checking out

And then right now neither I'm reading "The Right Stuff", Tom Wolfe classic and it's that I think Tom Wolfe might be the greatest Reporter of all time.

If they choose to play at times when male golfers are feeding or resting no one can object But at other times must we say it they are in the way

But also Pliny the Elder mentioned it in his Naturalist Historia from 77 CE, you know what else the romans were into? Yeah, or Jesus. I do they were into a lot of stuff.

It's called the famous Flea Act and it teaches you everything you need to know to do a humbug flea circus.

I just want to read it just for funsies, you know Christmas is coming up I bet you someone out there.

Montesquieu, for example, wrote in 1748, The Spirit of the Laws.

He wrote a book about this called The Story of Mary and Her Little Lamb.

Henry Ford wrote a 60 page book just basically touting Mary Sawyer's story, much to the chagrin of the town of Newport, New Hampshire and its historical society.

And then the greatest short story involving seances in the spiritualist movement written by arguably the greatest American writer of all time, Joyce Carol Oates, it's called Nightside.

It's a short story. It's the same title as a collection of her short stories from the 70s, I think 1977, um, Nightside, look it up and thank me later.

It's seriously just bone chilling how good it is.

I would love to read that one.

So if you out there know Joyce Carol Oates, or are in contact with her, uh, and or her publisher, please, we would love to read in our ad free episode, one of her short stories for Halloween.

No, we got that as a gift, right? No, I haven't read it yet. It's pretty neat. It's just like footnotes and extrapolations and explanations. This guy went into the world of Catcher in the Rye and made footnotes of the whole thing.

It's actually thicker than The Catcher in the Rye.

A few of these are the Color of Earth series by Kim Dong Hua

and the Reasons Why, nudity, sex education,

Can you believe this? And these cases are going to start to grow by leaps and bounds in number and all can be traced back to a single book which is based on a single case history.

Yeah well a couple of books. Yeah but to start it was all about Eve.

That's right. The Three Faces of Eve was a book written in 1957 by two psychiatrists and it was about a woman whose real name was Chris Costner Sizemore.

Super popular made them a ton of money. There was a big blockbuster movie. It was just it took over.

Like for the first time it was everyone you know like you said it's kind of super sexy and interesting.

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.