Ed Helms

It's basically like the military left a box in the woods, and it turned out to have this creature that they'd done all these experiments on, and the box...

and opened up and it came, this creature came out of the box and terrorized all these children in this little town.

Are we good?

And the two kids are like wide-eyed and then it cuts to the morning and the kids are still just sitting there

That's what I think most of these stories would do to my kids.

So they're not sitting on your laps going, Daddy, tell us more.

Tell us more about nuclear warheads and the Cold War.

Radioactive urine.

But I will say that you do raise a great point, which is that reading this book...

will make you a killer at dinner parties.

Because you will have so many fun, quick little zinger stories that you can just drop.

And they're funny, and people will think you're smart.

I've been sitting here honestly thinking, wow, Ed is a smart guy.

Oh, wow.

The World Wars.

just a cavalcade of snafus.

There's so much written about those.

They're so heavily researched.

And that's kind of, again, outside of where I've been the most charged up with my curiosity, the things that have fallen out of popular memory.

But the Lusitania is a crazy World War II story.