Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2026-10-22
Books mentioned on Listener Mail: Bad at Math, Flock Maps, Australia's Moth Plague, and More
Ron B. checks the boys on math.
Mentioned: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Catch-22
Catch-22 is Joseph Heller's famous satirical novel about the absurd bureaucratic paradoxes and psychological toll of military life during World War II.
Discussed“It's an old, like, catch-22 Joseph Heller thing that people used to talk about, where they would say, hey, if we don't know what the hell we're doing, then maybe the enemy is scared, because how would they know if we don't know?”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“oh, wow, that's Harry Potter. Harry Potter, and by Harry Potter, I mean the gentleman, Daniel Radcliffe. I love it when someone with that level of media notoriety or of pop culture kind of a sensation, like something as huge as the Harry Potter movies, is able to continue to do weird stuff.”
Passing The Wind in the Willows
“I don't know. Wind in the Willows? I'm combining literary ones. Mr. Badger. I love that guy. He was a bit curmudgeonly, but he was a good dude, Mr. Badger.”