The Lightning Fast Field Guide to the Bible by me, based on this podcast, is coming out real soon.

It's available for pre-order, but I don't think I've told you what the subtitle is.

It's cool.

I'm excited to tell you.

It's your compact companion for exploring the best book ever.

There are two rounds of alliteration in there.

Okay, let's go have an episode.

Okay. in there. Okay, let's go have an episode. I'm going to give you a name here. Let's see if you know it. Frederick John Westcott. Does that ring a bell? It's okay if it doesn't. It's not an assassin, by the way. I know it sounds like an assassin because I said all three names, but no, no, he's not that. He's an entertainer. Let me give you his stage name. That was more famous. Maybe you've heard of this. How about Fred Carno? My guess is that almost none of you are going to have that. I didn't. I had to look it up. I couldn't remember the guy's name. Boy, let me tell you, if I was asking this question a hundred years ago to your great or great-great-grandparents, oh, they all would have known who Fred Carno was, and they'd be making fun of you for being totally out of touch. What do you not even old-timey radio? Kids these days, man, they just don't appreciate

the classics. Now, they all knew who Fred Carno was, because Fred Carno is the guy who invented

the pie in the face gag. He was an English comedian who did satirical silent slapstick sketch comedy

at music halls. He recruited and trained up young comedians. To this day, in Hollywood, if somebody's

doing slapstick, sometimes that's called doing a carno. So this guy was a huge deal, yet pretty much none of us have ever heard of him at all.

He recruited some very famous people, and he trained them up. And my guess is you have heard

of a couple of these people, like Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy. This is still really old-timey.

Or how about Charlie Chaplin, his most famous student and understudy?

He made Charlie Chaplin famous.

He gave him his big break.

Yet, it's funny the way history works, right?

Because if you wanted to explain Charlie Chaplin, whatever, a hundred years ago or so,

you would start by explaining Fred Carno, and then you'd be

like, and this Charlie Chaplin fellow, he was his understudy, and he would be like, oh, wow,

that's how we know Charlie Chaplin is important. But now, if you want to explain Fred Carno,

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