Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-10-29
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 57
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James Stout discussed The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton, Sabotage by Emile Pouget and others, The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey, and The Anarchist Cookbook by William F. Powell and others. Garrison Davis discussed Threatened Children by Joel Best.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Great Cat Massacre
Discussed“No, The Great Cat Mask is a book by Robert Dant. It's like a uh it it's a very like if you're doing a history graduate degree and you're reading like these sort of histories of everyday life or like uh histories of popular laughter, you will read the great cat massacre”
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Sabotage
Discussed“Here's Piggo from his pamphlet sabotage. That's um like his explanation of like what's going on here. The first part of it is him quoting a a British pamphlet.”
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The Monkey Wrench Gang
The Monkey Wrench Gang is an eco-anarchist novel by Edward Abbey that follows a group of activists engaging in sabotage to protect the American Southwest.
Discussed“Do do you want to tell the crowd what this book is about? Wrench gang. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, it's a group of people who have some fun times. Uh it's people who travel around. They play with some trains.”
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The Anarchist Cookbook
The Anarchist Cookbook by William F.
Discussed“And it's like, come on. Like, but on the other hand, there are a lot of people like we should maybe caveat for our British listeners that you absolutely can be prosecuted for having that book and multiple people have been prosecuted in the last two years for [laughter] the anarchist cookbook.”
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Threatened Children
Discussed“The world's leading researcher on Halloween candy tampering, Joel Best, a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware, has found little evidence to substantiate Halloween candy fears. Joel Best has published multiple studies analyzing the legitimacy of Halloween Candy Tampering, including his research paper, The Razor Blade in the Apple, the Social Construction of Urban Legends,”
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Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing The BFG
“He thought of Willy Wonka [music] in the BFG, but did you know he was a spy?”
Passing Matilda
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, [music] Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
Passing The BFG
“You know Rald Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, [music] Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he was also a spy?”
Passing The Last Emperor of Mexico
“I'm reading a great book right now about the the Hapsucker. No, it's it's called The Last Emperor of Mexico, and it's about that Hapsburg who tried to become the emperor of Mexico, and they hung his ass in like 3 weeks.”
Passing Matilda
“You know Rald [music] Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he [music] was also a spy?”
Passing The BFG
“You know Rald [music] Doll, the writer who thought up Willy Wonka, Matilda, and the BFG. But did you know he [music] was also a spy?”
Passing Lolita
“Also, this is something that I I did not know for a while, but Edward Abby also wrote one of the uh adaptions of Lolita to play on stage. OH [ __ ] I FORGOT about that.”
Passing The BFG
“You know Rald Doll, he thought of Willy Wonka in the [music] BFG, but did you know he was a spy?”