Cover of The Wizard of Oz

Book · 1997

The Wizard of Oz

by L. Frank Baum, Harold Arlen, E Y Harburg · Recommended by 1 person on 1 podcast

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Apparenty The Wizard of Oz, and I'm sure we've mentioned this before, but it was supposed to be an allegory for this debate over whether to go with the greenbacks, Emerald City, go with the gold standard, um the uh yellow brick road, road. uh or um to go with uh the ruby standard, which were the slippers.
Josh Clark · Stuff You Should Know · Mar 2026 Listen at 21:02

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Josh Clark Apparenty The Wizard of Oz, and I'm sure we've mentioned this before, but it was supposed to be an allegory… 1
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“Apparenty The Wizard of Oz, and I'm sure we've mentioned this before, but it was supposed to be an allegory for this debate over whether to go with the greenbacks, Emerald City, go with the gold standard, um the uh yellow brick road, road. uh or um to go with uh the ruby standard, which were the slippers.”
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“um i just want you to know something which is that when i was a kid i was in an all jewish production of the wiz not the wizard of oz but little jewish boys and girls playing all the characters from the wiz”
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“Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz.”
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“Like the wi like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz. Like, let me get the broom. Let me do this.”
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“He was also the son of the legendary producer of The Wizard of Oz, Mervin Leroy, which explains Warner Leroy's daughter's name.”
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“and oh my god oh what they're on your side have you seen that video of of somebody hanging in the background of The Wizard of Oz”
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“and then I see the it's the end of The Wizard of Oz so I put it on and it's spoiler alert it's the part where there's some [ __ ] weird I want a goddamn hot air balloon and they [ __ ] leave”