Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2025-05-10
Books mentioned on Listener Mail: Backmasking, More Meat Heists | STUFF THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Ben Bowlin discussed Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco is a complex, intellectually dense satirical novel that explores the labyrinthine world of esoteric conspiracies, historical secrets, and human gullibility.
Discussed“sort of similar to uh that novel uh Fakose pendulum wherein people create a conspiracy and then it becomes real for them and it has real world consequences.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“And this idea like of almost like what they call parcel tongue in the Harry Potter universe, you know, the idea of uh sort of these whispered backwardsy incantations that by learning to speak backwards like Allah David Lynch um you could you know in some way cast a spell.”
Passing Babe
“Start by watching Babe. True to the Mad Max film.”