Stuff You Should Know

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 in 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.

It means old shut your eye.

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. What?

Which is a little odd but it is typical like children's fairy tale nursery rhyme, children's story kind of thing where there's this weird duality between people who are really, really kind.

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.

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 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 handled things like um segregation and discrimination like with the sneaches

they recommend in the complete wilderness training guy they recommend three feet long 15 inches high eight inches deep

And this book that he wrote called The Year 2000, a framework for speculation on the next 33 years.

It basically established this outlook that America and capitalism could do anything thanks to basically technological inventiveness.

There was a list in that book. 100 technical innovations, very likely in the last third of the 20th century.

But back in, I think, the 1910s?

Yeah, 1911.

He predicted everything in this.

He predicted solar power, like the realistic use of solar power. He predicted plastics, video phones, and so on.

Video phones, tape recorders, jukeboxes, loudspeakers. Tin foil, rust-proof steel, synthetic fabrics, all in one book.

I got her cookbook recently, and I'm very excited about it.

Mastering the Art of French Cooking.

And it was designed specifically for America, for the United States, to introduce them to French cooking.

The Mastering the Art of French Cooking did the exact opposite because having not that long ago been a total novice, Julia Child realized what people who are being exposed to this new way of cooking, new foods, new techniques, new ingredients would need to know. And that was essentially everything.

In The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, the Agatha Christie book. Have you ever seen it? It's really good. No. It's essentially what Knives Out, the first one, is based on.

But in there, the character, the main character, the titular character, Roger Ackroyd, he is murdered. And he was murdered so the murderer could get their hands on a blackmail letter. The blackmail letter with the name of the blackmailer, that's important to the characters. But it's not really the point of the overall plot. The point of the overall plot is Hercule Poirot's investigation to uncover who murdered Roger Ackroyd.

He revealed stuff that didn't come out at trial he gave his own personal assessment of her guilt that she was definitely guilty talked about how her mother lying on the stand for her was laughable.

He says that he was he headed a bit of an epiphany reversal of his life in that cancer diagnosis and said I might be dead I can't let her be the only person telling the side of the story.

he is an economist he was an economist liberal economist and he wrote back in 1930 an essay called economic possibilities of our grandchildren and it's actually like a quick easy read.

a hundred years hence so by 2030 we will have done away with work will have automated basically every process you can think of and humans will be totally out of work and he said that will be a really good thing because we will still be generating wealth but we just won't have to work so people will start writing bad poetry and painting terrible paintings and eventually we'll get better and better and there'll be like a big blooming of the arts and of like interpersonal relationships and things like that and we'll just be able to hang out and chill

if you if you're going to do this you kind of have to figure out a way to distribute the wealthy evenly or else you just end up with the people who own the machines or the ones who get wealthy and everybody else is just out of work

property is theft

if the government leaves, spontaneous order wouldwould come about, would it just emerge?

And that was the basis of the sword and the stunt. Yeah well Disney action that was a good movie if I remember correctly.

I just finished my book, Cameron Crowe's memoir, which is fantastic. And by the way, I commented on his Instagram about what a great book it was, and he started following me.

Great book, though. His memoir is just, it's almost too incredible to believe that that happened to him in his life. It's called The Uncool, but man, you've really missed an opportunity there.