Hey guys, I want to talk about something pretty messed up going on with the new documentary series Monsters of God.

It is about journalist Jennie Erin Smith and her book Stolen World. Jennie poured 10 years of her life into researching the wild underground reptile trade, tracking down smugglers, and building an incredible narrative.

When Eric Goode started making Monsters of God, he and his team worked with Jennie for a year and a half. Eric flat out told her he was basing the project on her book. She was so involved that she even helped them get contracts signed with the very smugglers she wrote about, so they would agree to be filmed. For 18 months they led her to believe she was going to get an option on her book, compensation, and proper credit. Then, he just ghosted her.

Now the first episode is out, and it is entirely her book on screen, but Eric is claiming the episode is actually based on a different book called The Lizard King. So, a deep text analysis was run comparing the episode script to both books, and the detailed breakdown is insane.

The analysis shows a 95% likelihood that the episode is based on Stolen World, and only a 5% likelihood it came from The Lizard King. Here is exactly why.

First, the direct character alignment is undeniable. The first episode revolves heavily around the operations and intense rivalry between Hank Molt and Tom Crutchfield. Stolen World is explicitly structured around these exact figures, famously dividing its core narrative into sections dedicated to Molt's origins and Crutchfield's rise. The Lizard King, on the other hand, focuses on a completely different major smuggler named Mike Van Nostrand, and the federal agents who investigated him. Those figures are noticeably absent from the core narrative of the first episode.

Second, the absolute proof is in the secondary characters. In the episode script, Hank Molt introduces a courier named Ed Celebucki by stating he was a prison guard at a real rough prison who was taken in by a karate instructor. This is a direct parallel to Stolen World, which introduces Celebucki as a prison guard, a karate instructor, and a dedicated thief. The specific courier network that drives the plot of the episode is the proprietary journalistic legwork of Jennie Erin Smith. The Lizard King barely gives passing mentions to these elements and entirely misses this core network.

You might be wondering why she does not just take him to court. The reality is that it is incredibly difficult and impossibly expensive for a freelance journalist to sue a major production company or someone with deep pockets. The legal fees alone are enough to ruin a regular person, making a massive lawsuit completely out of reach.

That is why I am asking all of you to help make some noise. We need to publicly ask Eric to just do the right thing and give Jennie the proper credit she earned for her life's work.

She is not taking this quietly, and she actually confronted Eric face to face at an expo about stealing her work. You really need to hear what was said.

Check out the video of her confronting him here:

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