Also weird stories like the time they locked a raccoon in a bathroom tub and just recorded for an time as it went nuts.
The other things which stuck out was that Ben Burtt's family had a audio recorder as he was growing up and he used it to record movies as a kid. (old school bootlegger!) and this paid off later in life since he knew these old movies in a greater depth then the studios themselves at the time he was doing SW and was able to visit the studio archives sound libraries. trying to figure out how they did the old sound fx and how to improve in SW.