Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-06-06
Books mentioned on CLASSIC: Was Benjamin Franklin a serial killer?
Today Benjamin Franklin is known as one of the founding fathers of the US, and there’s no doubt that he played a tremendously influential role in the creation of the country. But Franklin, known then and now as a bit of an eccentric.
Ben Bowlin discussed The drinker's dictionary by Benjamin Franklin and The Constitutions of the Free-Masons by James Anderson and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The drinker's dictionary
Discussed“well um maybe because you don't have a copy of the drinkers dictionary published in 1737 with a list of over 200 alternative terms for drunkenness that Ben Franklin had overheard in taverns over the years”
Where to get it
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The Constitutions of the Free-Masons
Discussed“that same year 1734 Franklin also published the first Masonic book printed in America that was called the Constitutions of the Freemasons”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Frankenstein
“sort of like um Mary Shelley's character Dr Victor Frankenstein who dug up bodies for scientific research and and did Horrible Terrible Things to them and and reanimated them this idea of the Resurrection man”