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And he took this time to write a book called self and self was a really interesting tone from what I can tell where there was kind of a scientific treatise on endocrinology psychological treatise on basically what would come so later be known as trans identity.

Well and everything gender identity homosexuality. Yeah like he was kind of tackling it all except not saying like this is who I am right.

He was approaching it like I'm a scientist right and this is this is what's what yeah and it got published in 1946 it was obviously not some huge bestseller because it was 1946.

And finally in 2017 it was published and now the world knows about Michael Dillon and his contribution.

There's got to be a movie in the works. It's coming.

So that's what free-range parents seem to be kind of getting back to is like the Dr. Spock school of thought, Benjamin Spock, not the other Spock, not 'Live long and prosper' Spock.

Yeah and Priscilla says this in her book he was obsessed with the narcotics badge the narc badge and she said he felt that if you had that narc badge then you could fly to any country with your guns and your drugs and get away with it.

In 1818 there was a writer named E.T.A. Hoffmann that wrote Der Sandmann with two N's and it's just like the Grimm's brother stuff.

It's this horrifying nursery rhyme or not nursery rhyme but sort of a story, a kid's story about a nurse telling a story about this creature who throws sand in your eyes of little kids who don't go to sleep and your eyes fall out of your sockets.

Then the Sandman collects those eyeballs, puts them in a bag and lives on the dark side of the moon, goes home and carries them there and then feeds those eyeballs to his children.

Flash forward a bit to 1841 when none other than Hans Christian Andersen put out a fairy tale. Do you want to pronounce this?

I can. Are you ready for this? I was practicing. I looked it up. Really? Ulla Luke E. It's not dead on but it's okay.

And I guess, I mean it doesn't really say would he do the same thing basically? He would not. He would squirt milk in your eye rather than sand.

Yeah and he also it says in here that he introduces a boy in the story to death and sexuality.

Because in 1882 he published a book called Atlantis the Anti-Diluvian World and in it he's saying okay the Azores the Azores man I wish I'd looked that one up. I think that's right. The islands in the middle of the Atlantic that's actually the highest peaks of the highest mountain tops of Atlantis.

And wait there's more the incredibly advanced civilizations in Egypt and high up in the Andes of Peru, Pre-Inca those were colonies set forth by Atlantis that survived because they weren't there for the sinking of Atlantis.

and she started collecting all these different reports and and published the reports along with sketches from the people who'd had who's made these reports into a book called More Than A Legend in 1957 and it took the Loch Ness frivolity and turned it back into a potentially scientifically studyable thing.

he talked about it in his book without, there wasn't a name for it though that shows just how new it is because this was in 1990 and he said they are crazies who become so obsessed with celebrity that their fantasies are lived as though they're a reality.

They can walk your streets, follow you everywhere, telephone you, send you letters, generally harass you.

They can threaten you, discuss of CNX. They're planning to perform on your body, can do almost anything they wish but as long as they do not physically hurt you the police have limited power and elaborate rules to follow.

Actually, in their national epic Chuck, it's called the Kalevala.

She was an author herself.

She wrote quite a few books one called Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday.

One called I Know What You Did Last Summer.

One called Why I Built The Boogle House

and one called I Was Kissed by a Seal at the Zoo.

He wrote on the origin of the species. And it was a pretty groundbreaking book.

So if you want to know more about it, that's a pretty good place to start.

William Dawson sent Ukulele for Music Teachers and Music Therapists, it's a book that he put together about how the ukulele can be used as music therapy.

and it's very cool and I do have a ukulele so I'm gonna I'm gonna take a look at that for sure.