Studs Terkel
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Oct 9, 2026
speaker_3HOST
Right, an oral history of a zombie war.
speaker_2HOST
Modeled heavily on the nonfiction work of Studs Terkel, but it is so much sharper and so much more cynical than that premise suggests.
speaker_3HOST
We have to look at the era Brooks was writing in.
speaker_3HOST
He was writing in the mid 2000s, in the deep shadow of the Iraq War, the SARS outbreak, Hurricane Katrina, and massive systemic institutional failures.
Tim FerrissHOST
This is not a new book.
Tim FerrissHOST
This is a book by Studs Terkel.
Tim FerrissHOST
Talk about a good name.
Kevin RoseHOST
Mm-hmm.
Tim FerrissHOST
T-E-R-K-E-L, Studs Terkel.
Tim FerrissHOST
He won the Pulitzer Prize at one point, I think for Working.
Tim FerrissHOST
I might be getting the title wrong.
Tim FerrissHOST
There was an entire book written about this called Moonwalking with Einstein.
Stephen Kramer GlickmanGUEST
And I turn to him and I go, "I have this idea for a book or for a documentary that I, I think is a really good idea.
Stephen Kramer GlickmanGUEST
I, I, I really think doing it as a book would be a qu- like, a great move." And the idea was I'm a huge fan of, there's a book called Working by Studs Terkel, which was written back in, like, the '50s.
Stephen Kramer GlickmanGUEST
And it's a book where he interviewed every single person, every one person in every single job in America.
Alexa PenaVegaHOST
Oh, wow.
John RayHOST
Mm
Samuel HalpernGUEST
... by a journalist out of Chicago 50 years ago, Studs Terkel.
Samuel HalpernGUEST
It has sold millions of books, and it consists of interviews, three or four-page interviews, of all sorts of people in all walks of life, including a waitress, and she talks about a customer who said, "Honey, you don't have to smile at me.
Samuel HalpernGUEST
I'll still give you a tip." And she was very disrespected by that.
Randy FisherGUEST
Okay? And why? Because these ATS, these application tracking systems, are like Amazon or Uber.
Randy FisherGUEST
What I mean by that is I, I'm, I'm a believer of the Studs Terkel, um, uh, approach of, you know, if you wanna learn about a job, get it, and then you do it from the inside.
Randy FisherGUEST
So I went and I got a job for Whole Foods, for Amazon, okay? And in order to get a shift for Whole Foods, you've gotta get on an app, you gotta punch in your availability [chuckles] and hope to God that you've beaten out the other people in just getting the shift.
Curtis ForbesHOST
Right.
Jesse ThornGUEST
He cares.
Jesse ThornGUEST
He cares as much as Studs Terkel cares, you know? So that was the piece that actually changed me the most.
Jesse ThornGUEST
I mean, I loved getting to talk to people that I love and admi-- You know, Ira Glass came on the show and I felt so lucky.
Jesse ThornGUEST
I got to talk to Katie Couric about the ways that morning news people try and steal each other's guests by, like, finding out what hotel they're booked into and then sending them a car service and saying, "Why don't you do the 'Today Show' instead of ABC?" Like, all that stuff was really fascinating, but to me, that idea of presence and curiosity was the most important.
Danny FuntHOST
As the impact of the confession sank in, the American people were at first shocked and then sickened.
Danny FuntHOST
That's author Elliot Asanoff on the Studs Terkel show in 1963, reading an excerpt from his book about the scandal, Eight Men Out.
Danny FuntHOST
What came to be known as the Black Sox scandal was so significant that we still know some of the players' names.
Danny FuntHOST
Lefty Williams, shoeless Joe Jackson.
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Danny FuntHOST
I'm Danny Funt.
Danny FuntHOST
We'll see you next time.
Danny FuntHOST
HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, The Wall Street Journal, PBS, KPIX, Scripps News, The Associated Press, Bayou Barristers, Fox Business, The Studs Terkel Radio Archive, The Supreme Court of the United States, Legal Sports Report, TSN, Toronto Maple Leafs, and CNBC.
Danny FuntHOST
The executive producers of CBC Podcasts are Chris Oak and Cecil Fernandez.
AC WilsonHOST
Right.
AC WilsonHOST
Max Brooks published this novel in 2006, and he explicitly modeled it on the mosaic methodology of the great oral historian Studs Terkel.
speaker_6HOST
The premise alone is just fascinating.
AC WilsonHOST
It is.
Dan RobertsHOST
I mean, well, let me give you an example, and I'm not sure if this is in your book.
Dan RobertsHOST
People love to talk about Studs Terkel.
Dan RobertsHOST
I'm sure you've heard of Studs Terkel.
Dan RobertsHOST
And Studs Terkel's book, The Good War, Well, there's a point in The Good War where Studs Terkel interviews a member of the Roosevelt administration about the effectiveness of aerial bombardment on Germany.
Dan RobertsHOST
And Studs Terkel- One of my
Tim GarsonGUEST
controversies.
Dan RobertsHOST
One of your controversies, yes.
Tim GarsonGUEST
The Dresden bombing.
Paul BonacciSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I didn't ask who they were.
Paul BonacciSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The only ones I really knew was, uh, Studs Terkel.
Paul BonacciSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Uh, one of the state senators from Nebraska as far as I remember.
Ted GundersonSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Did you recognize, uh, aside from the fact that you had sex with some of these politicians, at some of these parties, did you recognize any prominent senators or congressmen or anybody? Even though you may not have had sex with them.
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