Deep in the mountains of Greece, the country's most-wanted man has been on the run for over a decade.

He's a bank robber, a kid napper, but to many Greeks, he's a hero.

His name is Vasili Spaliokostas and we're on the trail of the man behind the men, a modern-day Robin Hood

who steals from the rich and gives to the poor.

I'm Miles Gray, listen to the Good Thief on the iHeartRadio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of iHeartRadio.

Hey Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here with another classic episode from our archives.

Especially since the COVID pandemic, we've lived in a very germ-conscious world,

but it turns out that we don't have to worry about sharing books.

The only parallel in them is to their characters.

Hey Brain Stuff, Lauren Vogelbaum here.

You remember books, words printed on paper bound between two covers.

When Gutenberg introduced the printing press in 1450, books became objects of extraordinary wonder

that would change the world. Throughout the centuries, these fascinating tactile objects

educated and amused, instructed and advised, and curled up with us on rainy nights, sparking our

imaginations. In 18th century America, lending libraries became egalitarian sanctuaries of knowledge

where farmers and financiers alike could access for free all the mysteries of the world.

But in our current virtual, ephemeral, device-driven culture,

books have become marginalized clutter, sometimes casually thrown away.

Books, just like the rest of us, can end up in some truly grungy places.

In some cases, bonafide treasures have literally been tossed into garbage bins and kicked to the curb.

A couple of cases in point. In Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2017, a homeless man salvaged

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