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Nicole Collins D.O. Doctor of Osteopathy sent us a copy of her book 'Insight', which is on vision, like real vision and the miracle that is vision. So check it out.

Nicole Collins, DO, Doctor of Osteopathy, sent us a copy of her book, Insight, which is on vision, like real vision, and the miracle that is vision. So check it out. It's called Insight.

Iacocca told everybody clam up.

We were so afraid of this PR crisis bankrupting Ford that they just said no one talk. Don't talk to anybody. Just clam up.

Iacocca told everybody clam up. That's actually a direct quote From his book

1922 Etiquette in Society, not a colon, everybody. Comma. Etiquette in Society and Business and Politics and at Home.

She talked about belonging to the best society. And in her eyes, that meant, well, you know, you're born into it in Europe or you're born into it or earn it in the way of wealth in the US.

But what I'm really trying to talk about is just how to belong in those worlds because you're polite and you have good behavior and a charm of manner.

Vanity Fair, Laura Jacobs from Vanity Fair said it was one of the 20th century's great acts of democracy.

She said the three principles of Etiquette are consideration, respect and honesty.

the bachelor dinner is popularly supposed to have been a frightful orgy. But in reality, it was a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Although if that floats your boat, you should read 1493 because stuff like that comes up a lot.

Man, I just need to read both of those at some point.

I can't believe you haven't.

Man, you need to read 1491 and 1493.

if you read 1493 or 1491, I can't remember which one it is, but both are excellent books by Charles C. Mann. He talks about the passenger pigeon and how they've recently realized that there were so many passenger pigeons because a century before their, one of their, um, great predators, the Native American.

And Robert Anton Wilson went on to co-write the very famous Illuminatus trilogy.

Okay they're fascinating books. They're wonderfully written. They're hilarious, they're engrossing, they're really interesting.

But he was friends with Burroughs and so the number 23 is a major foundation of the Illuminatus trilogy,

And Robert Anton Wilson went on to co-write the very famous Illuminatus trilogy.

Okay they're fascinating books. They're wonderfully written. They're hilarious, they're engrossing, they're really interesting.

But he was friends with Burroughs and so the number 23 is a major foundation of the Illuminatus trilogy, which also draws from another kind of underground school of thought I guess in the 60s and 70s which is called discordianism.

we published a book called The Whistler's Room about so-called uh deformed German soldiers and she puts that in quotes as if to say you know right it's not the proper nomenclature

the men were called whistlers because due to the injury they could not breathe through their mouths or noses instead had holes cut in their throats oh my gosh which created a whistling noise

we published a book called the Whistler's Room about so-called uh deformed German soldiers and she puts that in quotes as if to say you know right it's not the proper nomenclature

We got Howl, Colin, Why Howl We Do Anything Means Everything by Dove Seidman

He's I love Alan Ginsberg great poet and he always had these kind of funny long titles like that

yeah, or very short like howl

And it was called The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space, which is just wonderful in the early 20th century when books like this would be written.

And he reads a book by a German engineer named Hermann Oberth and it was called The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space, which is just wonderful in the early 20th century when books like this would be written.

Which is a, you know, a book of rules for order that you can use if you're, you know, voting on stuff or you have some sort of parliament or whatever you're trying to do.

Which is a, you know, a book of rules for order that you can use if you're, you know, voting on stuff or you have some sort of parliament or whatever you're trying to do.

they very squarely placed the whole thing on Roy McCullough's shoulders

who had allegedly seen a guy who ratted him out in prison and that he'd set The Fire after he left the poker game because he was trying to kill the guy and ended up killing 119 people.

they very squarely placed the whole thing on Roy McCullough's shoulders

they thought that there was an accelerant and it was in another part of the hotel, it wasn't near the mattress at all

that somebody had carelessly tossed a cigarette somewhere around the fourth floor stairwell and it had gone up

We should shout out to Mary Bellis who wrote a thought code little Brief thing called a brief history of writing and kind of ran down some points that will cover

we should shout out to Mary Bellis who wrote a thought code little Brief thing called a brief history of writing and kind of ran down some points that will cover

Kitty Dukakis, wife of Michael Dukakis, former presidential nominee, Tilly Rodin, a tank, wrote a book because she had it. And it's called Shock, the Healing Powers of Electroconvulsive Therapy. And it helped her out.

And she doesn't like championing it for everyone or anything. But gives a lot of great history and then says how it has helped her in her journey through depression.

Kitty Dukakis, wife of Michael Dukakis, former presidential nominee, Tilly Rodin, a tank, wrote a book because she had it. And it's called Shock, the Healing Powers of Electroconvulsive Therapy. And it helped her out.

And she doesn't like championing it for everyone or anything. But gives a lot of great history and then says how it has helped her in her journey through depression.

So in 1898 he wrote a book called A Carefree Future, Colon, The New Gospel, Semi-Colon. That's rare. Glimpse into the depth and distance for the selection of mankind, Comma, Comma for the reflection of all, Comma for consideration and stimulation and he should have just put an exclamation point at the end just to cover all the spaces.

He missed that Oxford comma after consideration though. But it was a kind of a kooky book he talked about life his lifestyle and what you know he believed his version of the Laban's reform was and then he also wrote poems about coconuts.

Yeah like Mother Coconut, The Coconut Spirit, How to Become a Coconut those were titles of some of the poems and tracks that he included in this book and like it's really hard to overstate just how much faith this guy placed in the coconut as the source of not just life but health and it was based on some somewhat unfounded ideas.

So in 1898 he wrote a book called A Carefree Future, Colon, The New Gospel, Semi-Colon. That's rare. Glimpse into the depth and distance for the selection of mankind, Comma, Comma for the reflection of all, Comma for consideration and stimulation and he should have just put an exclamation point at the end just to cover all the spaces.

He missed that Oxford comma after consideration though. But it was a kind of a kooky book he talked about life his lifestyle and what you know he believed his version of the Laban's reform was and then he also wrote poems about coconuts.

Yeah like Mother Coconut, The Coconut Spirit, How to Become a Coconut those were titles of some of the poems and tracks that he included in this book and like it's really hard to overstate just how much faith this guy placed in the coconut as the source of not just life but health and it was based on some somewhat unfounded ideas.

I think I heard about it from my Time Life Unsolved Mysteries books.

I think I heard about it from my Time Life Unsolved Mysteries books.

I think in 1955 there was a book written called Why Can't Johnny Read?

it was basically like an indictment of the American public school system, the education system and how we taught kids to read and it was equally an indictment of like Dick and Jane and the way that kids used to read or be taught to read was just basically here are words on a page memorized them. This is a red ball. This is the word red. Don't be an idiot. Red ball.

he said you know who would be a great children's book author to teach kids how to read is Dr. Seuss.

I think in 1955 there was a book written called Why Can't Johnny Read?

And a guy named Rudolph Flesh and I realized what we've jumped over. We'll get back to it.

A guy named Rudolph Flesh.

it was basically like an indictment of the American public school system, the education system and how we taught kids to read and it

was equally an indictment of like Dick and Jane and the way that kids used to read or be taught to read was just basically here are words on a page memorized them. This is a red ball.

Janet from Nano Girl Labs in New Zealand gave us a beautiful hard cover edition of their book Nano Girl Labs book The Kitchen Science Cookbook.

You can look up kitchensciencecookbook.com and it has all these different recipes in it and each recipe is a science experiment that uses ingredients that are super easy to find, is super cheap and...

Janet from Nano Girl Labs in New Zealand gave us a beautiful hard cover edition of their book Nano Girl Labs book The Kitchen Science Cookbook.

you can look up kitchensciencecookbook.com and it has all these different recipes in it and each recipe is a science experiment that uses ingredients that are super easy to find is super cheap and um it turns out Janet the chief operations engineer for Nano Girl Labs has been listening to us since her teens since she was in her teens.

he was obsessed with poop and masturbation wrote about it in a book called Plain Facts for the Old and Young about half of which were facts maybe

in small boys is circumcision the operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic

he was obsessed with poop and masturbation wrote about it in a book called plain facts for the old and young about half of which were facts maybe

which is almost always successful and small boys is circumcision the operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anesthetic

as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment as it may well be in some cases the soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice and this had not been previously become too firmly fixed it may be forgotten and not resumed

I believe he wrote Yurtle the Turtle which I know is an allegory for Hitler

and he was on record say yeah apparently the early drafts of it he had drawn a Hitler mustache on Yurtle the Turtle.

I believe he wrote Yurtle the Turtle which I know is an allegory for Hitler

and he was on record say yeah apparently the early drafts of it he had drawn a Hitler mustache on Yurtle the Turtle.

The Butter Battle Book was a clear like glaring allegory for the cold war in the mutual assured destruction is arms race of kind of a haunting book that ends without any resolution with

The Butter Battle Book was a clear like glaring allegory for the cold war in the mutual assured destruction is arms race of kind of a haunting book that ends without any resolution with