Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2026-08-01
Books mentioned on Selects: How Peanut Butter Works
No food is more all-American than peanut butter – 80 percent of homes in the country have a jar of it in the pantry right now. And while the rest of the world might find peanut butter peculiar, maybe even gross, the rest of the world is wrong.
Josh Clark discussed Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Consider the Lobster
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace is a critically acclaimed collection of essays that uses sharp journalistic observation and deep intellectual inquiry to explore disparate topics, ranging from the ethics of eating lobsters at a gourmet festival to the mechanics of language.
Discussed“Have you ever read Consider the Lobster that um Wow, man. I I want to say David Lee Roth so bad, but I know that's not his name at all. Who wrote Consider the Lobster? I've never heard of that, but I I know about the lobster. Who was End of Tour about? That movie. Oh, David Foster Wallace.”
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