Stuff You Should Know

He was there was a very famous movie and I believe book called The Mandus of King George.

Great movie.

I had not seen it, but I do know that he was considered barking mad as they would have put it back in the day.

He had, they're not quite sure what he had. They think possibly even had a metabolic disorder called porphyria and wasn't mentally ill at all. But these were just symptoms of porphyria.

He could have also had severe mental illness, but he was confined in a straight jacket very famously by his doctor Francis Willis.

a folklorist named Steve Roud traced it back to an 1891 book called the boys modern playmate

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 seriously just bone chilling how good it is.

I wonder if we could, uh, get in touch with her and read that for our Halloween episode this year.

She's probably not just the greatest American writer, but the greatest American horror writer too.

I would read any of her stories. 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.

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.

It was just it took over. Well not took over but it made a huge splash in the just people's consciousness about what this is.

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

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

And we also want to shout out a book that both Anna and we, and we used Kevin Fedarko wrote a book called The Emerald Mile about this river run, this record breaking timed river run down the Grand Canyon river, Colorado river.

So I highly recommend into the Canyon as well as the book, The Emerald Mile and big thanks to everything that Kevin Fedarko does in terms of raising awareness for the Grand Canyon.

that for the first time, probably for the only time in his lifetime, Kenton Grua had a chance to take on the Colorado river, the same river that John Wesley Powell took on in 1869.

He read a book in 1968, it was a backpacker named Colin Fletcher who did that hike. Well, sort of, we'll see.

The man who walked through time was the book and he said, I'm the first person to hike the entire length of the Grand Canyon.

Yeah, that was, by the way, that was by Anna Atkins, whose 1843 book, Photographs of British Algae, get this Chuck, colon, cyanotype impressions.

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 was like it's Fabio basically with a woman, except it's got Rodney Dangerfield's face on it. And it's available on Audible.

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

Victoria Finley, who's a historian who wrote a book called The Brilliant History of Color and Art

He wrote a book awkwardly titled The Billion Dollar Monopoly in Swindle Colon. During a David and Goliath battle, Anti-Monopoly uncovers the secret history of Monopoly.

The author Patricia Highsmith, who was a very interesting person in her own right. She wrote the Strangers on a Train and the Talented Mr. Ripley novels.

And I know we got a lot of ideas and just for some reason, I thought snails might've been one of those. Not a single one of those kids came up with the idea of snails.

Picked up this nugget from Peter Stark's book Astoria that covered the origins of Astoria, Oregon, being set up as a private trading colony by John Jacob Astor in an attempt to monopolize the Pacific fur trade.

John Hale wrote a book on Freedom Summer and Freedom Schools, which we're going to talk about.

And he actually helped Dave out with this article.

I read For Esme with Love and Squalor as recently as last night.

It was great. I actually feel like I really missed out not reading Salinger 20 years ago or 30 years ago, something like that.

And, uh, eventually, uh, well, you read it for SMA with love and squalor, uh, is a story about a world war II that recovering from PTSD in Germany.

Yeah. It's a wonderful story.