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Mort's Relation written in 1622 by William Bradford, who was clearly the governor, longtime governor of Plymouth.

But as it turns out, as you point out, because you wrote this, Mort's Relation was written to attract funding for Plymouth.

And what are you going to say? You're not going to say, we're starving to death over here.

We're having a really hard time. We're probably not going to make it. People are committing bestiality.

And they're not going to say this. They're going to say, things are great. We're really living by God's will.

Elizabeth Henry sent us a signed copy of Who Killed Mr. Moonlight by the one and only David Jay of Bauhaus.

And you know, it's not like he wrote a book called Garter Snakes.

Oh, wait a minute. He did.

It's published by Power Kids back in 2001 and it's probably basically evergreen.

Plus it's not like he's just a slouch too. He's with the Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University in Philly.

So he's not just some guy, you know, he's just promoting a terrible, terrible explanation for where the garter snake gets its name.

So now we need to talk about the Icelandic sagas, which were transcribed in the 13th and 14th centuries.

These are prose narratives. These aren't history books. These are novels, basically.

Yeah, and they were written by the descendants of these same Viking conquerors who would have revered and looked up to and probably exaggerated the legends of these guys.

But it's apparently in the Icelandic sagas, and they've been compared to like historic novels, like definitely based on real things, but just maybe a little more overblown.

So you got to take them a bit with a grain of salt.

But apparently it was in the Icelandic sagas that Ivar gets his boneless nickname, I guess.

It's really, really worth reading. Uh, it's called why Baltimore blew up. It was in Rolling Stone like a month or two ago.

The first mention of palindromes in English is in Camden's Remains by John Philippot from 1636.

His record Stoneflower is just a masterpiece from beginning to end.

Whereas Muzak's intention is to brighten the environment by adding stimulus to it, Ambient music is intended to induce calm and space and a space to think.

Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular. It must be as ignorable as it is interesting.

They have an album, like a double album called Life Forms and it's about as amazing as Ambient gets. So you should check that one out.

Future Sound of London stuff is normally a lot a little more, you know, super cerebral and intelligent, but it's also fairly dancey.

Life Forms is probably their most ambient stuff around.

And there's a guy named Eric Klein, who's a professor of ancient Near East studies, who also wrote a book called 1167, The Year Civilization Collapsed.

If you're talking about a printed book in the understanding of printing that we have here in the modern world, well then that's easy to settle. The Gutenberg Bible or the book printed right before the Gutenberg Bible.

But I think it was Edward O. Wilson who, he's kind of known as the, you know, the 21st century Darwin. He's a biologist and a writer and a philosopher and an ant specialist. But he wrote a book in 1984 called Biophila.

And I think that was where, huh? I think it's biophilia. Oh, I didn't see an I in that case. I'm pretty sure. Okay, sorry, go ahead. I didn't mean to correct you necessarily.

That's the first use of it I actually saw of that word. Yeah, it's biophilia, like for love of life or love of living things basically.

Yeah. And there's like a whole book called the light list where it has pictures of them and it has...

And she said for the children, 70s, 80s and 90s, the shopping mall was the place to be a space where we defined as our own. The mall taught us how to fit in, how to be a consumer, ultimately how to be an American.

There's a dude, I love this guy. His name is Carl Bantz. Ugh. And he, you're not a Carl Bantz fan? Well, I'm not quite sure I understand unless. Did you read the article?

He goes so far as to say that they most likely only produced one or two offspring at a time because the females of the species had two breasts and that was it.

Like this is the thought that this guy put into this article and the fact that he writes it totally straight Yeah. and like really gives it its due attention, like it wasn't that like this is going to be a great idea and just the idea itself is hilarious so I don't really have to put any effort into actual execution.

He put effort into the execution and he did pretty good. I'm not knocking him, I guess. I just don't see why this journal would put something like that out there even.

It's called Mermaids, Their Biology, Culture, and Demise. You can find the full PDF online.

I don't know if it was the guy who writes Passing Strangers, which huge shout out. This is actually kind of a somewhat well-known mystery. The body in the cylinder is what it's called.

But Passing Strangers did far and away the best job of kind of getting this point across.

And that guy describes it as a pillow.

And if you haven't been on that blog yet, go. It's very good.

big thanks to we need to mention Dave used a book for this research by a man named Peter Bronson who wrote Easily I would say the the quintessential book on the Beverly Hills Supper Club fire and northern Kentucky Forbidden Fruit colon sin cities underworld in the supper club inferno

There was a man, there's a man named Gene Starzynski, Pittsburgh native and former paramedic who directed a documentary about 10 or 11 years ago called Freedom House, colon, Street Saviors.