Book · 2004 · Fiction
The adventures of Tom Sawyer
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In Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly tells him his Saturday chore is to White Wash or paint this really tall fence and he's bummed because you know he'd rather be fishing or swimming or playing and then he decides well what if I persuade people that this is not grunt work but a novel and awesome.
Stephen Dubner · No Stupid Questions · Jun 2020 Listen at 2:29 What they say about it
- Discusses fence painting scene“paint the fence”4
- Mentions book banning and censorship“banned Tom Sawyer”4
- Read it in youth2
The best things said about it
Tom Sawyer using reverse psychology to trick his friends into taking over painting the fence for him because he talks about how much fun it is and he doesn't want to share.
I enjoyed Tom Sawyer a lot.
It's true that in the beginning of Mark Twain's 1876 story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Aunt Paulie finds Tom hiding in a closet covered in Jam.
When i was in i guess it was uh seventh grade sixth or seventh grade i really got into tom sawyer tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books and uh they were always chewing tobacco so i bought some and uh i tried and i got very sick just like drool pouring out of my mouth.
They banned Tom Sawyer. They banned a lot of Mark Twain's work because of the N-word.
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain uh not huckman um unique business idea with limited competition in the market.
Jason Calacanis This Week in Startups · Jul 2023 Where and when it comes up
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Why people recommend it
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is a classic American novel featuring memorable episodes of boyhood mischief, including the iconic fence-painting trick that demonstrates reverse psychology and irony. Josh Clark referenced the story on Stuff You Should Know to highlight classic trickster archetypes in literature. Jason Calacanis brought up the fence-painting episode on This Week in Startups as a clever business analogy for transforming routine chores or cost centers into community engagement. The host of Timcast IRL mentioned the title while discussing book bans in California schools. Steven Rinella shared on The Joe Rogan Experience that reading Twain's books in middle school inspired him to try chewing tobacco, an experiment that ultimately made him very sick. Stephen Dubner used the famous fence-painting anecdote on No Stupid Questions to compare modern gamified user engagement strategies to Tom Sawyer's clever persuasive tactics. Additionally, Joe Rogan referenced various literary and true crime investigations across different episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience while discussing detailed investigative research.
Every mention
Jason Calacanis which is, you know, he had to paint the fence. Or was it Huckin? It was one of the two. And he said, "Hey,… 3
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“which is, you know, he had to paint the fence. Or was it Huckin? It was one of the two. And he said, "Hey, painting the fence is a lot of fun. If you guys give me an apple, I'll let you paint the fence."”
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“Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain uh not huckman um unique business idea with limited competition in the market”
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“oh my lord that is some huck finn right there man it's like hey you want to paint this fence it's really a lot of fun to paint this fence if you give me your apple i'll let you paint my f is that huck finn or tom sawyer”
Joe Rogan Did you ever read that book 'Chaos' by Tom O'Neil? Have you heard of it? 3
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“Did you ever read that book 'Chaos' by Tom O'Neil? Have you heard of it?”
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“I don't know if you've read Tom O'Neil's book, Chaos. Yeah, insane. It's insane because Tom is so detail oriented.”
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“pulled up the censoring of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn”
Steven Rinella i really got into tom sawyer tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books 2
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“when i was in i guess it was uh seventh grade sixth or seventh grade i really got into tom sawyer tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books and uh they were always chewing tobacco so i bought some and uh i tried and i got very sick just like drool pouring out of my mouth”
Discussed
“i really got into tom sawyer tom sawyer and huckleberry finn yeah i read all his books”
Bari Weiss they tried to well they i think they did successfully at least in some venues edit tom sawyer and huck finn… 1
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“they tried to well they i think they did successfully at least in some venues edit tom sawyer and huck finn because the n-word was used prolifically”
Jason Bateman I enjoyed Tom Sawyer a lot 1
Josh Clark Tom Sawyer using reverse psychology to trick his friends into taking over painting the fence for him becaus… 1
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“Tom Sawyer using reverse psychology to trick his friends into taking over painting the fence for him because he talks about how much fun it is and he doesn't want to share.”
Stephen Dubner so in Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly tells him his Saturday chore is to White Wash or pai… 1
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“so in Adventures of Tom Sawyer Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly tells him his Saturday chore is to White Wash or paint this really tall fence and he's bummed because you know he'd rather be fishing or swimming or playing and then he decides well what if I persuade people that this is not grunt work but a novel and awesome”
Victor Davis Hanson They banned Tom Sawyer. They banned a lot of Mark Twain's work because of the N-word... 1
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“They banned Tom Sawyer. They banned a lot of Mark Twain's work because of the N-word...”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker3
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“under his administration they banned The Adventures of Huck Finn To Kill a Mockingbird and ofm Men wait... under the California has banned the the aventures of Huckleberry Finn to kill a Mony bird and of M man for being racist”
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“yeah I'm like same with like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn you know some of the uh debates around that because of its you know problematic language and use of racial slurs”
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“it's true that in the beginning of Mark Twain's 1876 story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Aunt Paulie finds Tom hiding in a closet covered in Jam”
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Other mentions (22: passing, ad reads, own books)
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“I, he's one who I have expected like Tom Sawyer to show up to his own funeral. Charlie is someone who, um, who was taken to us, uh, from us far too young.”
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“I didn't like Tom Sawyer.”
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“It's it's uh Tom Sawyer. It is. It's Tom Sawyer. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”
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“I Tom Sawyer. I'd get someone that could do it. Help me.”
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“one of those Huck fin Tom Sawyer things they if you whitewash the whole fence we'll give you an apple and he was excited”
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“Is it Tom Sawyer painting the fence or is it the other guy? Tim Ferriss: Yeah, I need more caffeine to be on my literary references. Matt Mullenweg: We should both know that. Wow, I'm embarrassed for both of us. Tom Sawyer, and — it'll be the first thing in the comments. Tim Ferriss: Huckleberry Finn. Matt Mullenweg: Huckleberry Finn,”
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“this is something like Tom Sawyer Huck Finn stuff like paint the fence that's a lot of fun you know that story are you aware of that one”
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“yeah I'm like same with like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn”
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“second that Trump's report reportedly on tape with a group of people doing Mark Meadows Memoirs uh admitting he has a classified document that he can't show them thus proving he didn't declassify it”
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“And kind of like that scene from Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, she was basically having me do all of her free labor weeding the garden.”
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“so like i'm listening to huckleberry finn not that i really care about huckleberry finn but nick offerman is the narrator you know the guy from community”
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“And so now I just say, "[ __ ] it," I just yeah, it'll come back to me in five or ten minutes. Who wrote Tom Sawyer?”
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“i tried it when i was a kid when i was in the tom sawyer and huckleberry finn and i almost threw up”
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“it's like reading tom sawyer but with your time with your lot with your body and and your time it's like basically wandering around inside of tom sawyer”
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“it has one of the largest ports in the world along the Mississippi River Tom huckleberry Tom and Huck stayed here Jim you know darker Jim and Tom and Huck and Mark Twain remember that”
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“you know when Tom Sawyer had to paint the fence but he schemed those other dudes into thinking it was fun”
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“because if you read like Tom Sawyer and everything to like hey you know if you if you whitewash my fence I'll give you an apple”
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“because if you read like Tom Sawyer and everything to like hey you know if you if you whitewash my fence I'll give you an apple and they're like boy oh boy you know cuz they didn't have any Snickers Bligh's so an apple was like a tree”
Passing
“you know they don't read books the way I used to you know 3 hours in I'm 17 pages in [ __ ] adds off the [ __ ] chart right sitting there reading about Tom Sawyer you know thinking about I don't know what you know the Queen Mary God knows whatever was said in that [ __ ]”
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“sitting there reading about Tom Sawyer you know thinking about I don't know what you know the Queen Mary God knows whatever was said in that [ __ ] book”
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“when you read the Tom Sawyer book right Huckleberry Finn the [ __ ] kids painting a fence just to get an Apple like that was considered like a a treat”
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“I treat tobacco when I was a kid cuz I read Tom Sor and Huckleberry F which is now censored like the chw chw like in the side of your mouth”