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Enough About Me with Kirk Minihane

Ep. 58: Mike Finkel, Author of True Story and The Stanger in the Woods

Enough About Me with Kirk Minihane

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4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kirk Minihane talks to the author of the best selling book "The Stranger in the Woods" Mike Finkel. It is a crazy story of a hermit leaving in Maine. Mike is also the author of "True Story" which was made into a movie staring Jonah Hill and James Franco. Mike talks about how the movie came out, his thoughts on Jonah Hill portraying him, and if it was true to the book.

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0:14.0

Kirk will never say this but I will thank you. Thank you for downloading this week's edition of Enough About Me with Kirkman and brought to you by

0:18.1

Milton's The Store for Men. On this week's show Kirk talks to author Mike Finkel, who wrote the best-selling book, The Stranger in the Woods,

0:25.3

the Extraordinary Story of The Last True Hermit. He also wrote the book True Story, Murder,

0:30.5

Memoir Meioculpa, that recently got turned into a movie starring Jonah Hill and James

0:35.2

Franco. I'm going to waste no more of your time and we'll get straight to the show right now.

0:40.8

So I remember on the morning show when this happened, we're you know we're in Massachusetts and I have a place in Maine

0:46.8

And so is one of the other hosts we talked about the story for a couple of days

0:50.7

The Christopher Knight story that kind of you know as these stories do this sort of the kind of, you know, as these stories do,

0:53.0

this sort of this fun story for a day or two

0:56.0

and think, oh, wow, this guy is in 27 years,

0:58.0

as a hermit, and you know, it was charged with a thousand crimes,

1:00.0

whatever.

1:01.0

Then it kind of floats away.

1:02.7

And I have to be honest, Mike.

1:05.1

I had essentially forgotten the story

1:07.4

until I was walking around a little local bookstore

1:09.3

in my hometown, saw it and grabbed it right away.

1:12.7

First of all, I thought it was great.

1:14.3

Secondly, it is funny though, and I'm sure you see this all the time.

1:17.4

These stories just kind of go away and you forget they even exist and you see it.

1:21.0

You think, oh, Jesus, that's this happened and it is a it is a

1:24.5

wild story. Yeah I mean I think we're all bombarded with so much information that

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