Do you remember when you first heard the song, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen?

It's a classic, you know the song.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Is obviously performed by a much better vocalist than I.

But you know, it's just one of those songs that was kind of around, floating around in the general consciousness.

However, if you are under a certain age, there is a very, very large possibility. The first place you ever heard that

song was on the soundtrack of a movie about a large disgruntled green ogre.

It's a tiny little fact in the book that I loved and really surprised me

was that the song Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen became a big hit because of Shrek and I was like, that can't be right like that's been a huge but like no that's right you know we chart it out basically here's all these

Lindercomb covers and the covers just blow up after after Shrek comes out because it introduces a song to a new

generation. That's writer and data journalist Walt Hecky. His new book, You Are What

You Watch, is a joyous celebration of all of the surprising and fascinating ways

that film and television have impacted the real world.

Trek is the tip of the iceberg.

Hollywood has shaped the way the military thinks about how technology should work, about things

like government policy, how we think about where we should travel, or what kind of fictional characters

we should identify with.

For our modern media world, a world of intense fandoms and lots and lots of merch.

There is one particular store in fact that helped shape it all.

I was just kind of blown away by just how much of our lives and our world and our you know our

livelihoods and our professions and our families are our reflections a lot of the time of the

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