When a man named Cliff packaged book summaries in yellow and black booklets he changed the way kids learned. But was he just creating a cheat code?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: How did Cliff's Notes come to be?
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Chapter 2: What was the original intent of Cliff's Notes?
You mean the Scarlet Letter, the one with the great white whale? Oh, that's right. I got the name wrong. So sorry. Yeah. All right. Yeah, I saw that one. I was like, I don't know. It might be fun if we both read that. Okay. I have a feeling you're going to be like, you're still reading that two years from now.
Well, let's put it this way. Joey gave me a copy probably two years ago, and it sits untouched on my shelf.
All right. You give me a two-year head start, and then you start, and we'll finish at the same time and talk about it.
I got to put down this Mike Campbell book of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the R.E.M. one before that and the Mudhoney one before that. All I read is these rock books. I need to put them all away. And by the way, those are all called The Scarlet Letter. Right. My story in Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
Right. And also, Chuck, I mean, if rock and roll rots your brain, reading about rock and roll really does. Yeah.
Should we mention one more point that teachers make? Or I'm sorry, that problem with study guides. Some people are like, hey, these study guides just give you one lens to look through to view this thing. And what you need to do is read the book and go to a class and hear it from a teacher. But some people say, yeah, but that teacher is just looking at it through their lens. Right. I disagree.
As an English major in my classes, the teacher would present perhaps their analysis and then say, this is what other people think. And what do you think?
Right. And you have to have read the CliffsNotes to say what you think. What else? You want to talk about any of these parodies or spinoffs or competitors?
Yeah, I mean, we can just mention kind of quickly, Spark Notes became the biggest competitor in like 1999. There's one called Shmoop founded in 2008 that became a pretty good competitor.
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Chapter 3: Who was Cliff Hillegas?
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Interesting. I do want to mention this one spoof at least, Thug Notes.
Yeah, it's great.
Did you watch any of these?
I watched the one on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
I think you mean The Scarlet Letter.
Man, I got it too. We both went down.
Thug Notes is on YouTube.
I was talking about the movie.
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