Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2025-02-25
Books mentioned on CLASSIC: The Bizarre Clown Panic of 2016
It began in August -- five photographs of what appeared to be a sinister figure dressed as a clown loitering in a Green Bay, Wisconsin parking lot went viral. Eight days later, a local filmmaker admitted this was just an attempt to garner PR for an upcoming indie film... but the clowns kept coming.
Ben Bowlin discussed Bad clowns by Benjamin Radford and Social Physics by Alex Pentland.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Bad clowns
Discussed“there's a guy named Benjamin Radford goens who is the author of a book called bad clowns and in his work Radford busts some myths that we have about clowning in the modern day”
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Social Physics
Discussed“and let's also consider Alex pentant he's author of a book called social physics how good ideas spread”
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