Stuff You Should Know

In addition to being mentioned in Sir Arthur Bryant's personal history of 20th century England called The Lion and the Unicorn, he gave her that nickname in the book.

And a guy named Thomas Moore wrote a book called Utopia. And he said, there's a better way, people. There's an alternative to just killing people or cutting off their hands. What if we just put them to work?

And if you've ever, have you ever seen 12 years of slave yet?

But it's the way that plantation owners punished slaves is depicted throughout in really brutal, honest fashion. And it's, it really drives home like what it was like.

Look at it like a classic novel that you just have to read before you die. Because I think that'd be a good approach to it.

In 1932, there was a white northern veteran who was a convict, obviously, named Robert Burns. He published a book called I am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! Exclamation point.

And there's this fascinating article in The New Yorker by a guy named John Seabrook called Crush Point. And it's about not just this incident but just crushings in general where a crowd can crush somebody.

So, again, there's a vestibule. There's the outer doors. There's the vestibule. And then there's inner doors. And then there's the store. This guy got blown from the outer doors all the way through the vestibule, through the inner doors, into the store by this wave of people.

Judith Jones was already a legend by this time because just a few years before, she kind of discovered this obscure French book and recognized how important it was and had it translated in English and published it as the Diary of Anne Frank.

Mastery of French cooking? What is it? ... Those were mine.

That's right. In 1796, it was in the very first American cookbook, in fact, from Amelia Simmons called American Cookery by an American Orphan.

Henry Chalfant got into a couple of other projects, too. One with a photographer named Martha Cooper called Subway Art.

I've also seen newbies referred to that book, too.

And then another one with another photographer, James Prigoff, called Spray Can Art.

All these classifications though, um, that we talk about now are, uh, or most of them at least are derived, uh, laid the feet of one man. One Carl Jung.

Who wrote a book called, uh, Psychological Types.

So those were his four that kind of most of these modern tests are based on in some way or another.

So Shackleton sensed it, but he never said anything about it until he wrote his book, South. It was published in 1919.

But it actually did come indisputably from this T.S. Eliot poem from 1922.

This is from T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland. Three words. Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together. But when I look ahead up the white road, there is always another one walking beside you, gliding wrapped in a brown mantle, hooded.

By Gabriel Arana. Okay. It's called My So-Called Ex-Gay Life. It's definitely worth reading, but it's a great look at conversion therapy, but also is like overlaid with his personal experience with it.

There was one teenager who said that he was forced to wear a backpack with 40 pounds of rocks 18 hours a day to just signify the physical burden of being gay. Right. One person's family gave them a fake funeral, closed casket funeral in front of him where they said that he died of AIDS and they said their final goodbyes because he went down the sinful path.

Hey, I'm Cal Penn, and on my new podcast, Here We Go Again, we'll take today's trends and headlines and ask, why does history keep repeating itself?

Put another way, are you high?

If you read Tom Mahood's blog, otherhand.org, he has an extensive multi-part description of this whole thing. Called Hunt for the Death Valley Germans. It's totally worth reading.

It's called The Jailhouse Lawyer which is folks who learn and teach others the law draft motions and legal filings for others who are incarcerated and help advocate for those incarcerated as a whole.

if anyone builds it everyone dies by Eliezer Yukowski and Nate Soares it's so good where they just lay out the a very straightforward example of how AI could just get out of control and how we humans would be in big trouble and yet it's not like they're AI haters they're just basically saying we're going at this at such a terrible pace so recklessly that we need to put the brakes on globally and figure out how to do it safely and then do it and then humanity can benefit from it so they're not like Luddites or anything like that and they know what they're talking about it's just a good book

what happens when reese witherspoon calls up the king of thrillers harlan coben and says let's write a book together i was asking him basically to let me into his secret thriller writing world this week bookmarked by reese's book club goes live from apple soho in new york city for the ultimate storytelling mashup reese witherspoon and harlan coben on their new thriller Gone Before Goodbye

It was published in one of his books. He wrote several books, but this one comes from 1912, and I don't remember the name of the book, Chuck.

Well, I have it, sir. It was first published in an anthology called The Room and the Tower and Other Stories, that's it.