Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2023-07-18
Books mentioned on Part One: Why Kidnapping Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere
Robert and Sarah Marshall sit down to talk about the wave of kidnapping conspiracy theories that recently led a random woman to murder an Uber driver in El Paso. (2 Part Series) https://shatterzone.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Book of the Dead
Book of the Dead by Foy Scalf is an academic exploration of ancient Egyptian funerary texts and religious beliefs surrounding the afterlife, the underworld, and the journey of the soul.
Discussed“one example that he picks out that he this is what he says is like kind of the earliest example that you can find of Chain Letter like content is from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Blood Meridian
“uh I started chatting with uh with with a a good friend of mine Cormac McCarthy about bringing one of his books to life and the way he'd always intended which was by having me read Blood Meridian in my award-winning Boston accent”
Passing Finnegans Wake
“like there's much there there I don't know what to say about it but it's like I feel it's like Finnegan's wake we're like somewhere trapped in that post is like the secret to The Madness of the United States”