October 20, 2025 • 8 mins
We're talking famous book trilogies in today's Plenty of Twenty!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Grab a never ending possible because we're headed to Italy
for our new hero of the week. It's broken Jeffrey
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This week's hero, yeah, the same place.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Based on it at least. This week's hero is a
man named Enzo Fiorenzi.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Name language is so great.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
He's a septagenarian, which means he's over seventy years old.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, you could have just said that, I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Want to sound fancy. But back in his early twenties,
Enzo got in a work related accident which left him
blind entitled him to government compensation.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, as it should. Okay, it changes your whole life.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's why over the past fifty three years he has
been collecting disability checks in the sum of over a
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay that is the year, right, a year.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Until just a few months ago. That is when the
government decided to look a little deeper and cross check
to see how things were going for.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
A wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
In fact, they decided to follow and video record him.
And here's what they captured. Enzo working in his garden
using dangerous tools. You can do that if you you know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Also, Enzo walking around all over the city unaccompanied to
do his shopping where he would hold products up and
visually inspect them.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, but maybe some people are blind where they can
only see like a pinhole, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Then he would go to the cash register and pay
for said products with cash, counting the money out in
front of him, miscounted there in all different sizes based
on the denomination. No, clearly Enzo was not blind, and
he was charged maybe, but he was charged by prosecutors
(02:07):
for fraud for pretending to be blind over the last
half of a century.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That was like one day, it just happened.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm not saying anything. It was the whole time. But
the thing is, with that level of dedication to fake
being blind, we gotta give Endzo.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Our hero of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, it's just amazing. We can't even pretend to be
smart during the shock collar question of the day. So
you'd think Jake would try and take it easy on
us a little bit. You have a feeling he's not
gonna do that, So let's get right to it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Let's someday they're going to write a book about the show.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and when they do.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It'll probably be more of a pantlet because I don't
know how much material they have to work with.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, it'll probably be AI writing, it'll be half wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But some stories have so much going on they can't
contain it all in just one book. They had to
spread it out across three volumes. Called a trilogy.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's more than a brochure.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It is way more.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
In fact, on this day, in nineteen fifty five, the
third Lord of the Rings book was published. Interesting, but
of course that's not the only three part series that
went on to become iconic in literature. And that's why
today you'll have to name others during a special thrilling
Threequels edition of twenty oh Man only.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I know this may be a struggle for you, since
this is exactly a big book reading crowd.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But here's how it works.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I have a randomized list of the top twenty best
selling three part book series of all time. You just
have to say a number one through twenty. I'll give
you a hint, and you have to name the book
series to.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
All right, Okay, we'll start with the woman who's the
most academically decorated among her trilogy of siblings.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's my brothers are way smarter than me.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Really, After that school picture I've seen that award.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
In fact, I'll post it today. We got to get
to this. Alexis number seven. Alexis, you may receive no
help from the room, but just because you're so smart,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The first book publishing your trilogy happened in two thousand
and eight, and your hint is maybe the odds be
ever in your favor less you're bad at archery games.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hung before you look. That was the most confident I've
ever heard of her.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's our Brook answers. Yeah, hunger game series like Catching
Fire mocking Jay.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You got that. Alexis over Brook. Okay, give me number twelve,
number twelve, oh miss book club herself.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
This first book published in your trilogy happened in two
thousand and five in Swedish, two thousand and eight in English,
and your hint is hacking murder and Swedish coffee breaks?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What could go wrong? What book series is this? Coffee break?
I know it, I read it. It's the Girl with
the dragon tattooed would go. The other two were named
something different, but it was all part of it. It
was like the girl with the Blizzer tattoo. It wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Touch gets are tattoo removed in book two and then
gets it back again over three girl.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Laser removal tattoos. Yeah, you guys know all the titles.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That movie A Girl with Tracking Tattoo actually two hundred
and thirty two million dollars when it came out, and.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It was not a film. Thanks Sweden. All right, Jose,
were over to you. Seven and twelve are off the board.
Will you hold your haird numbers? The easiest number, like
three or four dimes. I can't tell you a number.
I can just say there's eighteen left for you to pick. Okay,
go three. It's a trilogy number three. There you go.
All right, Jose.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Your book trilogy was first published in nineteen eighty seven.
Please me, doctor Susa, attend to this hint. A billionaire
with trauma decides therapy is too easy and he buys
gadgets instead. Do you know a billionaire who uses gadgets?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, the only thing I can think of a billionaire
with gadget.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It gets to the dark and different fire in my
brain makes me think of fifty shades of gray. Oh,
he's got a lot of joys.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He is a billionaire and he likes his ladies and
he likes his room.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm going to go fifty shades of gray.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Let me finish, all right, take that answer, fifty shades
of gray, incorrect, Jose. This is actually the Dark Knight Trilogy,
the graphic novel series from.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Frank Miller, also Batman. It was Batman. Yeah, oh book
The Wrinkling Time. Comic books don't count. Yeah, comic books.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I said, graphic novel if you were listening, and he
did big pictures.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Jeffrey, we're on to you now. Seven, three, and twelve
are off the board. Five.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We're talking book trilogies in honor of the Lord of
the Rings coming out on this day in nineteen fifty five. Jeffy,
your trilogy hnts a little bit different from the others.
I'm going to give you two of the book titles
from the trilogies.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You have the name, uh, the final one?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, oh my god, Jeffer. Your titles are The Sports
Trial and The Death Cure. The first book was published
in two thousand and nine. What is this series?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Me? Uh, apparently yeah, Scorch Trials, Death Cure. It's clearly
a very happy type of book action.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'm sure everyone's treated fairly in this book a life
or death.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Situation doesn't sound dystopian adult no scorch trials.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's got to be something like Horrible Burned Alive, Burned Alive.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Series in correct, jeff that book was called The Maze Runner.
She became a very popular Danes wake up in a
maze with no memory, no phones, no snacks, scorch trials,
and the death cure eventually happened after that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I won't spoil the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
What I will say, though, is that Brooke and Alexis
have one today's edition of twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, so the girls get the choose who gets
shocked today, and whoever it is, we'll be singing levitating
by dua lipa.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I say we do a joint shock you guys. I
love joints. Oh wait, joint Okay, sing together if you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Want to run away with me a new galaxy and
I could take your phone a ride, really good listeners,
wanted so much more, that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my gosh, about to do.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Work talking about the death cure. Ask your shock collar
question of the day.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We got your phones tap?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Coming up Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,
Grab a never ending possible because we're headed to Italy
for our new hero of the week. It's broken Jeffrey
in the morning.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
This week's hero, yeah, the same place.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Based on it at least. This week's hero is a
man named Enzo Fiorenzi.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Name language is so great.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
He's a septagenarian, which means he's over seventy years old.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Okay, you could have just said that, I.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Want to sound fancy. But back in his early twenties,
Enzo got in a work related accident which left him
blind entitled him to government compensation.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yes, as it should. Okay, it changes your whole life.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
That's why over the past fifty three years he has
been collecting disability checks in the sum of over a
million dollars.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Okay that is the year, right, a year.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Until just a few months ago. That is when the
government decided to look a little deeper and cross check
to see how things were going for.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
A wait a minute.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
In fact, they decided to follow and video record him.
And here's what they captured. Enzo working in his garden
using dangerous tools. You can do that if you you know.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Also, Enzo walking around all over the city unaccompanied to
do his shopping where he would hold products up and
visually inspect them.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, but maybe some people are blind where they can
only see like a pinhole, you know.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Then he would go to the cash register and pay
for said products with cash, counting the money out in
front of him, miscounted there in all different sizes based
on the denomination. No, clearly Enzo was not blind, and
he was charged maybe, but he was charged by prosecutors
(02:07):
for fraud for pretending to be blind over the last
half of a century.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
That was like one day, it just happened.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
I'm not saying anything. It was the whole time. But
the thing is, with that level of dedication to fake
being blind, we gotta give Endzo.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Our hero of the week.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Yeah, it's just amazing. We can't even pretend to be
smart during the shock collar question of the day. So
you'd think Jake would try and take it easy on
us a little bit. You have a feeling he's not
gonna do that, So let's get right to it.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Let's someday they're going to write a book about the show.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Yeah, and when they do.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
It'll probably be more of a pantlet because I don't
know how much material they have to work with.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, it'll probably be AI writing, it'll be half wrong.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
But some stories have so much going on they can't
contain it all in just one book. They had to
spread it out across three volumes. Called a trilogy.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's more than a brochure.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
It is way more.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
In fact, on this day, in nineteen fifty five, the
third Lord of the Rings book was published. Interesting, but
of course that's not the only three part series that
went on to become iconic in literature. And that's why
today you'll have to name others during a special thrilling
Threequels edition of twenty oh Man only.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I know this may be a struggle for you, since
this is exactly a big book reading crowd.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
But here's how it works.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I have a randomized list of the top twenty best
selling three part book series of all time. You just
have to say a number one through twenty. I'll give
you a hint, and you have to name the book
series to.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Stay in the game.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
All right, Okay, we'll start with the woman who's the
most academically decorated among her trilogy of siblings.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
That's my brothers are way smarter than me.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Really, After that school picture I've seen that award.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
In fact, I'll post it today. We got to get
to this. Alexis number seven. Alexis, you may receive no
help from the room, but just because you're so smart,
thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
The first book publishing your trilogy happened in two thousand
and eight, and your hint is maybe the odds be
ever in your favor less you're bad at archery games.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Hung before you look. That was the most confident I've
ever heard of her.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That's our Brook answers. Yeah, hunger game series like Catching
Fire mocking Jay.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
You got that. Alexis over Brook. Okay, give me number twelve,
number twelve, oh miss book club herself.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
This first book published in your trilogy happened in two
thousand and five in Swedish, two thousand and eight in English,
and your hint is hacking murder and Swedish coffee breaks?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
What could go wrong? What book series is this? Coffee break?
I know it, I read it. It's the Girl with
the dragon tattooed would go. The other two were named
something different, but it was all part of it. It
was like the girl with the Blizzer tattoo. It wasn't that.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Touch gets are tattoo removed in book two and then
gets it back again over three girl.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Laser removal tattoos. Yeah, you guys know all the titles.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
That movie A Girl with Tracking Tattoo actually two hundred
and thirty two million dollars when it came out, and.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
It was not a film. Thanks Sweden. All right, Jose,
were over to you. Seven and twelve are off the board.
Will you hold your haird numbers? The easiest number, like
three or four dimes. I can't tell you a number.
I can just say there's eighteen left for you to pick. Okay,
go three. It's a trilogy number three. There you go.
All right, Jose.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Your book trilogy was first published in nineteen eighty seven.
Please me, doctor Susa, attend to this hint. A billionaire
with trauma decides therapy is too easy and he buys
gadgets instead. Do you know a billionaire who uses gadgets?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
Well, the only thing I can think of a billionaire
with gadget.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It gets to the dark and different fire in my
brain makes me think of fifty shades of gray. Oh,
he's got a lot of joys.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
He is a billionaire and he likes his ladies and
he likes his room.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm going to go fifty shades of gray.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Let me finish, all right, take that answer, fifty shades
of gray, incorrect, Jose. This is actually the Dark Knight Trilogy,
the graphic novel series from.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Frank Miller, also Batman. It was Batman. Yeah, oh book
The Wrinkling Time. Comic books don't count. Yeah, comic books.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I said, graphic novel if you were listening, and he
did big pictures.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Jeffrey, we're on to you now. Seven, three, and twelve
are off the board. Five.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We're talking book trilogies in honor of the Lord of
the Rings coming out on this day in nineteen fifty five. Jeffy,
your trilogy hnts a little bit different from the others.
I'm going to give you two of the book titles
from the trilogies.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
You have the name, uh, the final one?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, oh my god, Jeffer. Your titles are The Sports
Trial and The Death Cure. The first book was published
in two thousand and nine. What is this series?
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Me? Uh, apparently yeah, Scorch Trials, Death Cure. It's clearly
a very happy type of book action.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I'm sure everyone's treated fairly in this book a life
or death.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Situation doesn't sound dystopian adult no scorch trials.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's got to be something like Horrible Burned Alive, Burned Alive.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Series in correct, jeff that book was called The Maze Runner.
She became a very popular Danes wake up in a
maze with no memory, no phones, no snacks, scorch trials,
and the death cure eventually happened after that.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I won't spoil the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
What I will say, though, is that Brooke and Alexis
have one today's edition of twenty.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
All right, so the girls get the choose who gets
shocked today, and whoever it is, we'll be singing levitating
by dua lipa.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I say we do a joint shock you guys. I
love joints. Oh wait, joint Okay, sing together if you.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
Want to run away with me a new galaxy and
I could take your phone a ride, really good listeners,
wanted so much more, that's true.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Oh my gosh, about to do.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Work talking about the death cure. Ask your shock collar
question of the day.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
We got your phones tap?
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Coming up Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,
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Jeffrey "Young Jeffrey" Dubow
Alexis Fuller
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