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The book discussed the Crutchfield-Jacobs disease and its relation to cannibalistic practices in New Guinea, which influenced the speaker's decision to avoid eating brain matter. The speaker found it in a bookstore and purchased it for five dollars.
I was in a bookstore one day and there was a book called Deadly Feast and it was by Richard Rhodes and he's the man that wrote the making of the atomic bomb and of course the book was only five dollar...
— Episode: Ep. 124: Live from Columbus
Episode: Ep. 124: Live from Columbus
The book discussed the Crutchfield-Jacobs disease and its relation to cannibalistic practices in New Guinea, which influenced the speaker's decision to avoid eating brain matter. The speaker found it in a bookstore and purchased it for five dollars.
I was in a bookstore one day and there was a book called Deadly Feast and it was by Richard Rhodes and he's the man that wrote the making of the atomic bomb and of course the book was only five dollars I skimmed through it real quick since I'm gonna buy this baby so I took it home and started reading it and it was about a scientist that found the the the Crutchfield-Jacobs disease or something like that in the humans but he went down to New Guinea to study a tribe of people down there and the children and the women were coming down with tremor disease and they would shake and die the men did not have this disease and he sat down he was studying that tribe trying to figure out what was going on and he read a lot of technical journals about human beings and people like sniffing gold dust it would go and deposit in certain locations in your brain he read one article where a scientist trained these tapeworms roundworms to run a maze you know we all think of something the maze being complicated and I just kind of kind of said well it's probably just like a real simple maze you know from point A to point B to eat this food but for some reason I don't know what the scientist was doing he took those those worms that he trained to run the maze he killed them ground them up fed them to worms that never ran the maze the worms could run the maze.