Episode #2508
Joe Eszterhas
Books mentioned
The Bible
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Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse
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Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
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The Rum Diary
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Letters from the Earth
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The Mysterious Stranger
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Tom Sawyer
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Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas joins the podcast to discuss his career, including films like "Basic Instinct" and "Flashdance," his early journalism days covering crime and civil rights, and his friendship with Hunter S. Thompson. He also talks about his conversion to Christianity, the Shroud of Turin, and Mark Twain's unpublished notebooks.
What they talked about
- Dogon people's cane and origin myth
- Zelensky and wife watching Basic Instinct 15 times
- Writing Basic Instinct in 13 days on cocaine
- Covering the 1968 Glenville shootout as a reporter
- Interviewing Otis Redding the night before his death
- Conversion to Christianity and historical Jesus
- Shroud of Turin authenticity debate
- Hunter S. Thompson friendship and suicide
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