Stuff You Should Know

It's a super interesting article. Very controversial like when it came, well it still is. But yeah, it's very interesting.

And I think I've mentioned it before but I strongly encourage anybody, it doesn't even matter if lead's the most boring thing in the world to you, go read this article. You will just be riveted by it.

Kevin Drum does a lot of, he does a very good job of keeping his extrapolations down as low as possible. Although anybody can see by the evidence that he lays out that this is, it's pretty clear that lead is some sort of culprit in this.

It was written by Kevin Drum who's one of the all time greats working today.

And the whole idea is that when we started emitting lead into the atmosphere, kids started suffering these cognitive and antisocial behaviors. And then about 20 years after these kids were born, they started actually carrying out criminal activity and we saw a tremendous rise in everything from like murder to rape to muggings to everything.

It was called Tower of Waves and it's basically like a Romeo and Juliet-esque plot in that there are these young kids in love who are kept apart by something they can't control.

And in the last scene, the woman writes a farewell letter. It's very clearly Romeo and Juliet and takes a bottle of pills and goes into that very forest to die.

And so a lot of people say, well, this is the actual, you know, for the first time that forest has been linked to a suicide, at least in literature.

I saw the guy who wrote the book come speak. Oh really? That guy. Alex something. I don't remember his name, but like, I mean, how, whatever you think of his book or his journalism, that guy had brass ones.

He's the one who did it. He's the one who went after Scientology when no one else would touch it.

And apparently 5 million lawyers read that book before it was ever published.

Yeah. And this is after it had already been vetted by all of the lawyers in the book publishing world.

It's good. Yeah. Great book.

And there's a book called The History of Manners written in 1939 by Norbert Elias that said that, you know, medieval era through the 19th century, there was a big change in that.

It was called the Civilitate Morum Purillium, which means civility of childish manners.

And he took some time out from translating the New Testament to write down manners, which basically was like, hey, don't stir gravy with your fingers. Don't blow your nose on the tablecloth at the table.

Actually, just don't blow your nose on any tablecloth anywhere in any part of the house.

And then if they showed spoons a lot, there would be communal soup. So you would taste the soup with the spoon. And he instructed, OK, after that, wipe it with a napkin after your use of that spoon before you put it back, which seems highly civilized for 1530.

If you have to fart at the table, cover up the sound of the fart with a heavy cough.

And there was a Earl of Chesterfield, the fourth to be exact. His name was Philip Dormer Stanhope. And he was very famous for a series of letters that he wrote to his illegitimate son.

He talked about, Libby lists quite a few of these. These are pretty good. But long talkers, that's a pretty fun one. If one of these unmerciful talkers lays hold of you, hear him with patience and at least seeming attention if he is worth obliging.

Don't carve meat to so much that you bespatter the company with the sauce or overturn the glasses in your neighbor's pocket.

In scandal, as in robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.

Be not dark nor mysterious.

So he wrote a book in 1968 called Aerobics.

I think a couple years later, she published Jane Fonda's Workout Book, which became an extremely popular bestseller.

It was number one on the nonfiction list and stayed there for six months.

And in one of those panels, one of the characters says, I have this rule, see, I only go to a movie if it satisfies three basic requirements.

One, it has to have at least two women in it who to talk to each other about something besides a man.

Who did not? I mean, if you're a boy in the 80s, and I'm sure plenty of girls in the 80s, and you saw Weird Science and The Woman in Red, the great Gene Wilder movie, then you probably had a thing for Kelly LeBrock.

So Jackie Brown has Pam Greer in it as the lead, Jackie Brown and the whole movie.

Or Greer-Payne. Right. Greer comma Pam. Don't forget the comma.

She plays Jackie Brown and Jackie Brown, the whole movie is about Jackie Brown just being this BA who, I can't remember. She's like setting up this whole, I think an arms deal or something to help somebody get out of something.

Is that right? I haven't seen it in years.

Let's just say she's always one step ahead of the men in the movie.

So she's like. Outsmarting them at every turn.

To use a very tired phrase, she's a feminist icon in this movie.

And yet throughout this whole movie, she never once has a conversation with another woman.

So technically it fails the Bechdel test.

Although anybody who has any kind of feminist tendencies and watched Jackie Brown probably is very happy with that movie, including Alison Bechdel as well, who said like, I love that movie, but it definitely fails the Bechdel test, but it's still a really great movie.

If I live next to Whitey Bulger that book would be on the shelves right now. Sure. And it would be called neighbor to the mob.

She wrote a book, co-wrote a book with James Patterson, one of the best, most favorite novelists in the entire world. It's called 'Run, Rose, Run'. And it's a thriller based kind of loosely on Dolly's story of, of making it in the music biz.

There was a guy named Brian Benison who wrote a book called Robin Hood: Case Closed. The real story.

He says he's a lot, he's in the camp that Robin Hood is a name like a title, uh, similar, he says to Billy the kid.

He said he lived in the 13th century. He was a friend originally of the sheriff of Nottingham, Reginald de Grey.

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.

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.

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