Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2026-05-19
Books mentioned on Eels Alive!
Eels are pretty much objectively unsettling. They’re not quite fish (although they are) and if they’re snakes, they’re messed up snakes (they aren’t).
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Talking Heads
“Uh probably so, but I went to read a new book uh Talking Heads. It was I had two books in my hand, the Talking Heads book and Abel Ferrara's uh memoir, the filmmaker. And I went with the Abel Ferrara just uh cuz Bonnie Prince Billy recommended it and it's shorter, but Talking Heads is up next.”
Passing To Kill a Mockingbird
“In In To Kill a Mockingbird, Walter Cunningham from Old Sarum pays Atticus Finch in a thousand live eels at one point. Is that for real? No.”