Please also watch Disc 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vMqDlU9r0kAM
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/" Brain Droppings is a 1997 book by comedian George Carlin. It was Carlin's "first real book/" and contains much of Carlin's stand-up comedy material. According to the cover, the book contains "jokes, notions, doubts, opinions, questions, thoughts, beliefs, assertions, assumptions and disturbing references" and "comedy, absurdities, satire, mockery, mirth, sarcasm, ridicule, stupidity, bluster and toxic alienation /". For longtime Carlin fans, the book also contains complete versions of two of his most famous monologues, /"A Place for My Stuff/" and /"Baseball and Football/".
The hardcover edition was on the New York Times bestseller list for 18 consecutive weeks. The following year, the pocket edition was published. It remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 20 weeks. Both editions were published by Hyperion.
As of January 2001, the book has sold more than 750,000 copies in total.
As there was a 3 year gap between the printed book and the audiobook, some things were changed due to changes in Carlin's personal life and the world at large.
His wife, Brenda, died shortly after the book was published, which is why in the audiobook he said /"I had a great marriage…/" instead of /"I …/"
He mentions being happy that the Yankees annihilated the Braves in the World Series in the book, but mentions that it happened twice in the audiobook when the two teams played again in 1999.
When mentioning teams that could never win the big title after so many years, he mentions the Vikings, Broncos, Bills, Cubs and Red Sox in the book. In the audiobook, he omits the Broncos when they win two Super Bowls.
At the end of his discussion about when super celebrities die, in the book, he says he can't even imagine Frank Sinatra or Ronald Reagan dying. He omitted Sinatra from the audiobook after his death in 1998.
In a non-chronological change, in his segment "Baseball and Football" he adds the odd fact that baseball is the only one of the four major American sports that is substantially impossible to look at in a mirror.
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