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And he wrote a book called white collar crime.

And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes.

And just basically ignored the crimes of the upper class.

Like if a guy's going to steal $1,000 from a cash register with no gun or anything like that.

And a guy steals $1,000 from an investor and he's rich.

And he wrote a book called white collar crime.

And his point was that there is a huge bias in the United States where law enforcement and the courts leaned heavily on the working class crimes.

And said this is not okay.

Well, they don't believe it, like there actually is a book in the Bible. But there in this book, Book of Revelations, I think chapter 13 or no, chapter 3, verse 18 says this, here's wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast for the number is that of a man and his number is 666.

And in fact, one of the first books on origami was called Folding 1000 Cranes.

Well according to Pliny the Elder it wouldn't they think that that's where the phrase take this with a grain of salt really finds its origin

That that's where it finds its origin That's actually kind of a referential thing to that to a recipe he gave under the walnut section

take two dried walnuts two figs and 20 leaves of rue pound them all together With the addition of a grain of salt.

Okay, because it's not metaphorical it's literal if you want to talk about metaphor

He wrote a romance novel called La Contessa. And if you Google the image for this, it's disturbing. It's basically like your typical, it was like it's Fabio basically with a woman, except it's got Rodney Dangerfield's face on it. And it's available on Audible.

He wrote a book awkwardly titled The Billion Dollar Monopoly in Swindle Colon.

And then right now neither I'm reading the right stuff, Tom Wolfe classic and it's that I think Tom Wolfe might be the greatest Reporter of all time.

But also Pliny the elder mentioned it in his naturalist Historia from 77 Ce.

It's called the famous Flea Act and it teaches you everything. You need to know to do a Humbug flea circus.

I just want to read it just for funsies, you know Christmas is coming up I bet you someone out there.

So so they trace it back even further to there was a famous hobo, I can't remember his name, but he wrote a series of like fantastic books that were really popular. And they think that the signs were introduced in there.

Remember that amazing 2007 book, The World Without Us by Alan Weissman?

So this guy basically went to the trouble of figuring out in five years, 10 years, 50 years, 100 years, 1,000, so on...what the planet would be like after, if humans just suddenly vanished.

I saw an article called How Can I Become a Fossil by John Pickerell from 2018 on BBC, really well worth reading.

John Pickerell cited an estimate that 1/10th of 1% of all the species that have ever existed has had one of their individuals fossilized.

Barbara Bizantz Raymond. And the book she wrote was Baby Thief, colon, The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, comma, The Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption.

there's some stuff out there to read on the internet. But you will probably keep running into Barbara Raymond's book.

a writer named Barbara Raymond who wrote probably the most exhaustive account of this whole horrible chapter of American history.

Jack Reed wrote a book called Roadside Americans.

John Waters is a pretty fun one uh because he hitchhiked and enjoyed it as a kid and then eventually wrote a book he hitchhiked as a 68 year old grown man uh in the like 2013 from his home in Baltimore to his other home in San Francisco and wrote a book about it called Car Sick John Waters hitchhikes across America

Tom Robbins Even cowgirls get the blues the Gus Van Sant movie um Sissy the main character was born with a um an abnormally large thumb so you know she obviously had a talent as a hitchhiker and that's kind of one of the um subplots of the of the book in film right

The first book about fire investigation was called Fire Investigations.

It was published in 1945 by Harry Righterette of the Fire Underwriters Investigation Bureau of Canada.

I got a Paul Kirk, biochemist this time and forensic scientist at the University of Cal Berkeley, published a different book called Fire Investigation.

So Paul Kirk being a scientist, he's like, no, you really want to track down what started the fire and then start making your assumptions after you've collected evidence and analyzed it.

Don't start from the premise that this is arson and then look for signs that support your premise.