Book · 2009 · Fiction
The Silence of the Lambs
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They discovered that line is from the 1991 horror crime film Silence of the Lambs.
Megyn Kelly · The Megyn Kelly Show · Feb 2026 Listen at 3:56 The best things said about it
The book of of Silence of the Lambs is actually I think as good as or not if not when I got to that scene you're talking about I was lying in bed. I actually sat up in bed.
Andrew Klavan The Rubin Report · Jun 2025 It's sort of like that Buffalo Bill wasn't really the interesting bad guy in Silence of the Lambs.
Plum Island is an animal disease research facility at least according to Silence of the Lambs.
You know you know writing has gone like when you read Silence of the Lambs right it's just plain writing but sometimes you read these books with the writers go a little too far with their [ __ ] it's just too much.
Joey Diaz The Joe Rogan Experience · Oct 2017 Where and when it comes up
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The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris is a psychological thriller novel that centers on an FBI trainee seeking the help of an incarcerated serial killer to catch another murderer. Megyn Kelly mentioned the famous cinematic adaptation on The Megyn Kelly Show to trace the origin of a specific line used in a public video message by Savannah Guthrie and her siblings. On The Rubin Report, Andrew Klavan offered high praise for the original novel, recalling how a particularly suspenseful scene compelled him to sit straight up in bed while reading late at night. In the same interview series, Gregg Hurwitz referenced the story to analyze the psychological depth of its characters and villains, specifically noting the complexity of its antagonists. Additionally, Crystal K brought up the novel in an email featured on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know while discussing the animal disease research facility located on Plum Island. Joe Diaz also remarked on the writing style during an appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, contrasting its straightforward prose with more excessive contemporary writing. Overall, contributors across these various podcasts utilized the book and its screen adaptation as a cultural touchstone for discussing suspense writing, psychological complexity, and memorable genre villains.
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Andrew Klavan The book of of Silence of the Lambs is actually I think as good as or not if not when I got to that scene y… 1
“The book of of Silence of the Lambs is actually I think as good as or not if not when I got to that scene you're talking about I was lying in bed. I actually sat up in bed.”
Gregg Hurwitz it's sort of like that Buffalo Bill wasn't really the interesting bad guy in Silence of the Lambs 1
“it's sort of like that Buffalo Bill wasn't really the interesting bad guy in Silence of the Lambs”
Joey Diaz you know you know writing has gone like when you read Silence of the Lambs right it's just plain writing bu… 1
“you know you know writing has gone like when you read Silence of the Lambs right it's just plain writing but sometimes you read these books with the writers go a little too far with their [ __ ] it's just too much”
Megyn Kelly They discovered that line is from the 1991 horror crime film Silence of the Lambs. 1
“They discovered that line is from the 1991 horror crime film Silence of the Lambs.”
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“Plum Island is an animal disease research facility at least according to Silence of the Lambs”
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“So the first two seasons are sort of prequel and then season 3 is Red Dragon and then season four the plan was Silence of the Lambs but the show got cancelled.”
“Silence of the Lambs over here with gay dudes telling me how hot I was. And uh my girlfriend at the time thought I was cute.”
“Like if I was watching like Silence of the Lambs and I was watching like Buffalo Bill and I was like are they making fun of me? Like are they calling me out? I put the lotion on the skin. That's normal.”
“I saw it in Silence of the Lambs right oh yeah that's right”
“I've seen it compared very much to like the moth on the Silence of the Lambs poster”
“It reminds me of that weaselly little academic in Silence of the Lambs, you know, the late great Hannibal. The late great who just wants to establish his reputation.”
“I think real Seaman like in that movie um Silence of the Lambs yeah I don't know if it was real or not”
“our next shout out rather comes from Crystal K who says Plum Island is an animal disease research facility at least according to Silence of the Lambs This would certainly account for any perceived air of secrecy about the place Also Clarice was the one who suggested she could arrange for lecter's vacation to the island in exchange for identifying”
“oh Hannibal Lecter I have the Lambs crying yeah who is this man you see you look back on that and as terrorizing as that was it seems overplayed now”
“is that what Jodie Foster wills in Silence of the Lambs was she in West Point”
“Thomas Harris author of Silence of the Lambs how does this hold up how does it compare”
“I don't believe in that war anymore uh Silence of the Lambs doesn't hold up I don't know if that's”
“you know skeet out of the damn cage or something like in Silence of the Lambs it's not like silence of a HAMP's”
“homework it was to the point where he would rather lock himself in the bathroom and jerk off and ooh that's a little Silence of the Lambs II you know he's in there petting that black sheep and you outside looking for some wolf you know”
“I would walk backwards like I'm [ __ ] like I'm that dude in uh in Silence of the Lambs”