Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production
Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry and
Speaker 1: I'm Tracy V. Wilson. We talked about the Bradley Martin
Speaker 1: Ball this week. I have mixed feelings about it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's part of me that would love to
Speaker 1: go to an event like this. It sounds amazing, and
Speaker 1: I also recognized that it sounds wasteful as hell, and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the whole idea of like, uh no, no, this
Speaker 1: is benevolent, it's good for people is such a mixed
Speaker 1: bag and kind of shortsighted. Last summer, I was invited
Speaker 1: to an event that was like a garden tour in
Speaker 1: Boston that I didn't realize until I was There was
Speaker 1: an event for donors, which I am one of, but
Speaker 1: I very quickly realized not of the same caliber as
Speaker 1: some of the other people there. Right, those are the
Speaker 1: people whose names are on the buildings. Yeah, and like
Speaker 1: everyone was nice, nobody seems awful in a like really
Speaker 1: overt way. But like I did kind of overhear this
Speaker 1: conversation about like whether Doha is the best airport to
Speaker 1: fly through, as though just taking a flight to the
Speaker 1: United States to somewhere that might need to connect through Doha, right,
Speaker 1: was like a routine experience. And I was just like, I, so,
Speaker 1: this this level of opulence, I feel like would be
Speaker 1: ten jillion times more opulent than the garden door for donors,
Speaker 1: I went on, yeah, uh, and I think I would
Speaker 1: mostly feel very uncomfortable. Well, that's why you would not
Speaker 1: be part of the four hundred. Yeah, because that was
Speaker 1: kind of part of the criteria, right, was that, according
Speaker 1: to Ward McAllister, if you seemed like you would be
Speaker 1: uncomfortable at an event, you would not make the list.
Speaker 1: If you seemed like you would be comfortable at the event,
Speaker 1: but you might make other people uncomfortable at the event,
Speaker 1: you would not make the list. Like you had to
Speaker 1: be wealthy and chill in those circumstances to be part
Speaker 1: of the magic List. Yeah, that list the four hundred
Speaker 1: is based on his theory that there were about four
Speaker 1: hundred people give or take in New York that were
Speaker 1: really like the right people that just come up. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't remember where, but like, yeah, it's popped up
Speaker 1: on the show. It pop up on the show before
Speaker 1: and when I first heard it, I was like, are
Speaker 1: you serious? This was a real thing. Yes, it was
Speaker 1: a real, real thing. I mean, this is part of
Speaker 1: why I would like to talk about word McAllister, because
Speaker 1: he is a weird case of a human who just
Speaker 1: decide they were the boss of that, Like I am
Speaker 1: the boss of who is and who isn't in New York. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm the boss of what society is right and like
Speaker 1: a high society, and like people were like, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess you are. I mean, he like aligned himself
Speaker 1: with Missus Astor and they were BFFs for a while.
Speaker 1: They had a big falling out towards the end of
Speaker 1: his life. But like, and he had died two years
Speaker 1: I think before this ball happened, so he was out
Speaker 1: of the picture to give his opinion on it. But
Speaker 1: like just that whole concept of like I have only
Speaker 1: done a little bit of research into his life, but
Speaker 1: it seems like he only did like two years of
Speaker 1: actual work where he was like a lawyer for a
Speaker 1: couple of years and then was like I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: boss people around about whether or not they're cool. And
Speaker 1: I'm like, you're like a professional mean girl. How do
Speaker 1: you make that your job description? I don't understand you
Speaker 1: made a formal mean girl hierarchy for New York. Yeah, essentially,
Speaker 1: like New York was his slam book. I'm so fast
Speaker 1: that whole thing as much as like I will say, right,
Speaker 1: I am loving the Gilded Age, like I said, I
Speaker 1: blazed through the whole thing. But it's also one of
Speaker 1: those things where I'm like, I hate all these people.
Speaker 1: I hate this hierarchy. Yeah, like even the good ones
Speaker 1: are back. Just like the idea of clinging to these
Speaker 1: weird ideas of who isn't isn't important based on whether
Speaker 1: or not someone else is willing to go to their house.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is nonsense. I would be a nightmare
Speaker 1: in that kingdom. I would be Yeah. I also just
Speaker 1: felt like the whole argument of like, we're going to
Speaker 1: have a gigantic party to give work to the people
Speaker 1: that work in these industry it was like a very
Speaker 1: trickle down economics justification for having this party. Yes, uh,
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, I don't. I was just
Speaker 1: I was annoyed by the concept from the beginning. Of course,
Speaker 1: so here's an odd thing that makes research not difficult,
Speaker 1: but it becomes a head scratcher. Mm hmm. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: see Bradley Martin, which his name was Bradley Martin, but
Speaker 1: you will see the name's Bradley Martin with a hyphen Betwen, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought hyphenated a lot, and I don't know what
Speaker 1: that is. I saw one book that said that Cornelia
Speaker 1: hyphenated her last name is Bradley Martin, but I didn't
Speaker 1: see anything to back that up, So I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if that was like an offhanded quip by the author
Speaker 1: or if she actually did. Some papers had it with
Speaker 1: the hyphen, some did not. It leads you to the
Speaker 1: false thought that there are two people named mister Bradley
Speaker 1: and mister Martin who were paying for this whole time.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. That's what I thought when I
Speaker 1: first encountered this years ago. And then I was like, wait, no,
Speaker 1: it's just a guy named Bradley Martin. Okay. Even when
Speaker 1: I started reading your outline, I somehow like just glaze
Speaker 1: past the fact that his first name was Bradley. And
Speaker 1: so we were three or four paragraphs in and I
Speaker 1: was like, wait, we've been talking about Mark, and who's
Speaker 1: Bradley though it's the same guy. The cults are coming
Speaker 1: from inside the house I'm like, were you just confused
Speaker 1: about like the sort of AP style esque rule about
Speaker 1: how compound modifiers coming before get hyphenated, because we don't
Speaker 1: do that with people's proper names. No, And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what the scoop is there, to be honest, I
Speaker 1: also thought I almost put it in the thing, but
Speaker 1: I didn't really ever find anything definitive this idea of
Speaker 1: like these all night parties that were very popular. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my understanding. And again I read this somewhere online and
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where, and I didn't ever find like
Speaker 1: a true historical reason. Uh huh. Was just to basically
Speaker 1: go like, we don't have to get up and go
Speaker 1: to work. We can party until six am and then
Speaker 1: go home and sleep. I haven't looked into this at all,
Speaker 1: but I do know that like all the balls that
Speaker 1: happen in Jane Austen novels, uh huh, often started very
Speaker 1: late at night and would really dance through the night.
Speaker 1: And I don't think I had really thought about like
Speaker 1: a why that worked that way. But I kind of
Speaker 1: wonder if the timing of this ball was a pattern
Speaker 1: patterned after the way that it worked in Well, this
Speaker 1: was not an outlier in New York at the time.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, Like, like the I didn't express
Speaker 1: it very well, but what I was trying to say is,
Speaker 1: like these kinds of events, if they were just basically
Speaker 1: following what was established as the pattern in like Britain
Speaker 1: in terms of how society functions operated and when they
Speaker 1: started and when they ended, right, but why did those
Speaker 1: do that? That's what I'm saying, like going all the
Speaker 1: way back. Yeah, and not because people did not have
Speaker 1: to get up and yeah a nine to five Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love that idea. It's kind of my personal hours
Speaker 1: if I'm left to my own devices and don't have
Speaker 1: to function in society. So I'm I'm down with this plan.
Speaker 1: Not me. The idea of like a twelve thirty to
Speaker 1: five am breakfast service sounds amazing. Or supper service, yeah,
Speaker 1: those two. We mentioned the two different line items for
Speaker 1: supper and buffet supper, and one with the cheaper of
Speaker 1: the two, which was I think the buffet supper was
Speaker 1: like lighter fair. It was like light sandwiches. You could
Speaker 1: kind of grab and go versus sitting at one of
Speaker 1: the actual tables and having people wait on you. Sure
Speaker 1: all of this sounds amazing. I'm in for it. There
Speaker 1: is a very funny thing that came up as the
Speaker 1: papers were covering everything in the weeks leading up to it, Okay,
Speaker 1: And there was one rumor that started and the floorists
Speaker 1: of the city were like, shut up, you guys. You
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. This isn't real, this
Speaker 1: is not really a problem, which is that the rumor
Speaker 1: had started that someone or someone's going to the ball
Speaker 1: had read about tulip mania and were like, we need
Speaker 1: all of the tulips. I do love this detail. It is.
Speaker 1: It's fun because they're like, France love tulips. We love that,
Speaker 1: we need all the tulips, and one of the florists going,
Speaker 1: that's not really a problem. We're fine, mm, like there's
Speaker 1: a whole rose problem going on, but tulips are not
Speaker 1: an issue. And also France wasn't really in on that
Speaker 1: whole thing the way like Germany and all, so like,
Speaker 1: I don't know where you're getting your information, but it's
Speaker 1: it's not legit. And I just sort of loved this
Speaker 1: idea of this poor beleaguered florist who was like, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking any more orders and you don't know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Can you please stop asking me questions
Speaker 1: so I can finish my work. It made me chuckle
Speaker 1: a little bit. Yeah, we already talked about how on
Speaker 1: the nose I thought all of the Marians when it
Speaker 1: costumes were, and you all had already put that in
Speaker 1: that line, which I knew, but I wanted to say
Speaker 1: it anyway because I just was like, yes, yes, everyone
Speaker 1: dressed like Marianne's whette. Of course they did. Listen, I
Speaker 1: get it. Who doesn't love those outfits? I love them.
Speaker 1: In terms of like the the expected hubbub and potential riot,
Speaker 1: there was I read in one account, but it was
Speaker 1: so sort of flimsy and not substantiated that there was
Speaker 1: one person arrested outside who was a black man who
Speaker 1: is allegedly named George Walker, who just sounded like he
Speaker 1: was like get out of my way, like this is
Speaker 1: your blocking the street, and that he shoved somebody. But
Speaker 1: like there's nothing even the way the paper reported it
Speaker 1: is like we heard that this happened, but there was
Speaker 1: no like they didn't have anyone from the police to
Speaker 1: corroborate that. They didn't have anything other than a guy
Speaker 1: said m hm. So I don't know if anything like
Speaker 1: that happened at all. Yeah, I'm sure if anything did,
Speaker 1: nobody wanted it to be known. Sure, there are pictures,
Speaker 1: and the photographs are cool, except some of them are
Speaker 1: like yikes, appropriation, yike y. Sure, So if you go
Speaker 1: looking for pictures from this ball, just be ready. Some
Speaker 1: of these costumes look incredible, but they are people doing
Speaker 1: things like play acting Native Americans and like and again
Speaker 1: in gorgeous costumes that probably don't know anything about that
Speaker 1: culture and are just like what there was like a
Speaker 1: dude a banker who dressed as a Native American and
Speaker 1: shaved his head and looks incredible in the picture. I
Speaker 1: will say it's and it's also just a gorgeous photograph
Speaker 1: in terms of like artistic composition, but like it's a yikes,
Speaker 1: it's a y on bikes. Ah, there's so there was
Speaker 1: so much money in that room. It's wild to me,
Speaker 1: mean too wild. You know, there's rich and then there's
Speaker 1: like redonka doodle rich and this this drove right up
Speaker 1: to the line of good taste and then it popped
Speaker 1: a wheelie and went over it. It's just went beyond, beyond,
Speaker 1: beyond right, which again there's part of me that's like, okay,
Speaker 1: getting the time machine because I just want to be
Speaker 1: there and see it. Yeah, because I do love a party,
Speaker 1: and I do love beautiful clothes. Uh huh. I just
Speaker 1: don't want to be part of the whole justification that like, no,
Speaker 1: we're helping people by having this, right, having so much fun. Yikes,
Speaker 1: you can't see me kind of wincing. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: really really like that Rabbi's take of like I get it,
Speaker 1: I understand it, but like you could do better stuff
Speaker 1: with your money that would actually help people. We also
Speaker 1: didn't mention it right. This was after like a crash,
Speaker 1: a stock market crash had happened in what like eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety three, and like New York just had not recovered financially,
Speaker 1: which is why so many people were really struggling. But again,
Speaker 1: you can't that one night is not going to fix stuff.
Speaker 1: It's like great for a couple of weeks, and then
Speaker 1: all those people will go back to struggling because they
Speaker 1: probably use that money to get caught up on all
Speaker 1: the stuff they were behind on. Yeah, that's not how
Speaker 1: it works. Yeah, I do sort of crack up at
Speaker 1: the fact that after this the Bradley Martins were like,
Speaker 1: everyone's mean to us. Now we're out, We're gonna go away,
Speaker 1: take our money somewhere else. And they did live, presumably
Speaker 1: a great and fun life in London. Yeah, sounds amazing.
Speaker 1: Must be nice, I guess. Yeah. Anyway, I'm tickled by
Speaker 1: the whole weirdness of it. It's just so goofy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens on the Gilded Age. Maybe
Speaker 1: they'll get right up to that and that'll be the
Speaker 1: finale of the whole series. I don't know. I know
Speaker 1: we have a season three coming, but I don't know
Speaker 1: where that's going, right. It's so good, though, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: really good. That show is satisfying in a way that
Speaker 1: I think you would enjoy. Yeah, I think I've had
Speaker 1: intentions to watch it, and there's just like a finite
Speaker 1: amount of time to do things. Then. Yeah, it's there
Speaker 1: are certainly sad things that happen on it, but overall,
Speaker 1: like things tend to end in upbeat places, okay, you know,
Speaker 1: in a way that's not too fairy taily. Although there's
Speaker 1: a thing that happens at the end of season two
Speaker 1: where I'm like, that is convenient and it is, but
Speaker 1: you're kind of happy about it anyway. This is yet
Speaker 1: another show that I picked up on a flight and
Speaker 1: then came home and became obsessed with. I was just thinking,
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to have a flight soon and maybe I
Speaker 1: will preload some of that on my iPad. Well, if
Speaker 1: you're flying Delta, it's in your in flight, So I
Speaker 1: am not because it's not an option. Foosball, Well, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know about other airlines. If
Speaker 1: you live in Atlanta, you're kind of Delta air Bus.
Speaker 1: That's not true. But yeah, I had one option and
Speaker 1: it wasn't Delta. I got to talk to Rachel Lance
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah you did. I like her heaps, so
Speaker 1: I made for a very fun time for me. This
Speaker 1: book is who. Some of it's real hard to read.
Speaker 1: I mean it's amazing, yeah, but like some of the
Speaker 1: stuff those people went through is hair. I said it
Speaker 1: during the interview. It's harrowing. But it's like that stuff
Speaker 1: that makes my entire body kind of stiff and nervous,
Speaker 1: right because I enjoy comfort. I have not read this book.
Speaker 1: I did read her other book obviously before doing the
Speaker 1: other interview with her about it. I just I didn't
Speaker 1: think I had the wherewithal to read the book at
Speaker 1: this time, and was also going to be out of
Speaker 1: the office for a little bit. So, uh so Holly
Speaker 1: took the lead on this one. Yeah, it actually worked
Speaker 1: out great because you were going to be gone during
Speaker 1: a week that worked best for the record on her end,
Speaker 1: and I was like, okay, we'll just do it. It
Speaker 1: all alignes. It all worked out just fine. So I
Speaker 1: have listened to the interview though as a little behind
Speaker 1: the scenes and behind the scenes. Normally, when we record
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes part of our episodes, like we
Speaker 1: record the episode and immediately after Holly and I record
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes, Tracy, you're ruining the illusion that
Speaker 1: we meet on Friday and discuss having a separate time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it just doesn't work. There's too much other stuff now. No.
Speaker 1: That's also why a lot of times, if an episode
Speaker 1: comes out and we make a mistake in it, there's
Speaker 1: not going to be acknowledgment of that mistake on Friday
Speaker 1: because we don't know it happened yet, right, so we'll
Speaker 1: get corrections sometimes where people will say you can say
Speaker 1: this on your Friday episode. It's like the Friday episode
Speaker 1: is already done. But in this case, though, I had
Speaker 1: not read the book or heard the interview, and it
Speaker 1: was like, what are we going to talk about? So
Speaker 1: we delayed this discussion. Yeah, this one is actually later
Speaker 1: in the game. Yeah, as I was listening something that
Speaker 1: I misunderstood. There's a conversation about how during the Blitz
Speaker 1: there were people who sort of in England who sort
Speaker 1: of approached the Blitz the way some folks approached the
Speaker 1: you know, the early COVID nineteen pandemic when everything was
Speaker 1: shut down and people were like there were people who
Speaker 1: were like this, everything seems fine and didn't really weren't
Speaker 1: living in the same world of a pandemic that some
Speaker 1: of the others of us were living in. And I
Speaker 1: had interpreted that as being significant numbers of people in
Speaker 1: London who were somehow unaware of the Blitz happening, And
Speaker 1: that's not what she was saying at all. First of all,
Speaker 1: to be clear, and it is certainly possible that there
Speaker 1: were folks in London who were, you know, somehow so
Speaker 1: wrapped up in their own stuff going on that they
Speaker 1: were not fully cognizant of everything that was happening. But no,
Speaker 1: she was talking about, you know, when people were evacuating
Speaker 1: out to the country, folks in the country being like,
Speaker 1: but it seems fine here, like yeah, yeah, everything's okay.
Speaker 1: I mean, the war won't come to us, and it's
Speaker 1: like it is it is at us. Yeah. I was
Speaker 1: really I was sort of imagining somebody standing in London
Speaker 1: next to a smoldering crater being like, I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. A blitz thing that the I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: trauma denial is real, that is true, but I don't
Speaker 1: think large numbers of people in London were doing that. No, no,
Speaker 1: she yeah, she was was discussing how jolting that was
Speaker 1: for people when they moved out of the city. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in particular, this team had moved their lab outside
Speaker 1: of the city as things were getting worse and worse,
Speaker 1: and they were just like strangers in a strange land
Speaker 1: where nobody was really at the level of anxiety and
Speaker 1: stress that everyone in London was living in, and it
Speaker 1: was like people were just having life. You're all very
Speaker 1: relaxed out here. What is this but really serious stuff
Speaker 1: is going on. Yeah. Yeah. Of all the stories of
Speaker 1: scientists that Rachel shared with you in this interview, I
Speaker 1: was most delighted by the one who would just go
Speaker 1: up to people's houses and ask to look for salamanders. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was one hundred percent on board with this. I
Speaker 1: am friends with people who I am certain would do this,
Speaker 1: And like when we were in Texas to try to
Speaker 1: see the eclipse, which didn't fully go as planned, we
Speaker 1: went out every night looking for scorpions with a black light.
Speaker 1: So I was very much here for the salamander exploring.
Speaker 1: Maybe not so much for announcing that she was going
Speaker 1: to marry the professor, but very excited about the salamander excitement. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of the people I mentioned it to Rachel, but
Speaker 1: all of the people in this book, they were on
Speaker 1: this team were just almost criminally interesting. Yeah, I am
Speaker 1: fascinated by them. And you see why. It becomes clear
Speaker 1: that they all were the perfect assortment of folks to
Speaker 1: be working together because they were all a little bit
Speaker 1: oddball to varying degrees, which I say with love, that's
Speaker 1: not a disparaging or pejorative term at all, But like,
Speaker 1: I think they just had an innate understanding of the
Speaker 1: otherism that all of them were living in, so nobody
Speaker 1: felt like they were being judged by their peers in
Speaker 1: that group, which is pretty great. Yeah, and probably why
Speaker 1: they were all so good at just taking leaps of
Speaker 1: faith together, right, some of which were horrified. Right. It
Speaker 1: is so fascinating to me though, I really I mention it.
Speaker 1: And I love Rachel's writing so much because one of
Speaker 1: the things that she does in her narrative style, and
Speaker 1: I didn't read all of In the Waves her previous books,
Speaker 1: so tell me if this was the case there for
Speaker 1: kind of we had like the opposite scenario we did
Speaker 1: time to last time, because last time I was like,
Speaker 1: I can't read a book right now, like I have
Speaker 1: too many things going on. But she'll set things up
Speaker 1: where you're like, wait, did I just read that, and
Speaker 1: then she will explain it, which is kind of a
Speaker 1: great way to hook you. Like the story she talked
Speaker 1: about with the lit cigarette, Yeah, she just she doesn't
Speaker 1: explain why he does it. Initially, She's like, so, of
Speaker 1: course his doctor handed him a lit cigarette and I
Speaker 1: was like, who, Like, I made a total Scooby Doo
Speaker 1: noise while I was reading the book. And then she
Speaker 1: then goes on to explain why, as she did on
Speaker 1: the show, and I was like, oh, this is a
Speaker 1: smart way to structure these discuss because yeah, it does
Speaker 1: make your brain go what yeah, or make a Scooby
Speaker 1: Do noise. It's true. I am also my biggest fear
Speaker 1: in the like what is the worst way to die? Universe? Drowning? Okay,
Speaker 1: And so all of the all of these stories were
Speaker 1: very white knuckly for me. Yeah, you know, the stories
Speaker 1: of like the horrible things that had happened to precipitate
Speaker 1: the formation of this group, right. I also just love
Speaker 1: that it's a group of geneticists that end up doing
Speaker 1: this work. Yeah, I don't I don't remember which specific
Speaker 1: thing Ian I read. I hadn't realized that it was
Speaker 1: specifically geneticists, and I had this moment where I was like,
Speaker 1: how did the geneticists get on this, because that seems
Speaker 1: like a different field to me, Like it is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a really great quote, and I was gonna ask
Speaker 1: Rachel about it, but we were running along and so
Speaker 1: I didn't cause it really didn't add that much to
Speaker 1: the conversation. But there is a great quote in the
Speaker 1: book from one of the scientists where he's saying, like,
Speaker 1: look at war, it doesn't really matter what your specialty is.
Speaker 1: What matters is can you apply the scientific method to
Speaker 1: solving problems? Right? And it's like, oh, that does make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. Like these are all people that
Speaker 1: are used to figuring stuff out. So even though this
Speaker 1: may not be in their specificity wheelhouse, they do have
Speaker 1: a fundamental grasp of broad science, right. They understand how
Speaker 1: like things like air and water pressure work and all
Speaker 1: of that, even if it's not what they have been
Speaker 1: focusing on in their careers. And so then for them
Speaker 1: to just pivot from all of their biological specimens to
Speaker 1: then going okay, so we have a water problem that's
Speaker 1: going on here, can we fix this? And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: of course it probably was kind of like I mean
Speaker 1: for me, and we've talked about the way I work
Speaker 1: on the show before and how it seems a little
Speaker 1: bit disjointed to some people. For me, this honestly is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I bet this made them better at both jobs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I need to switch gears pretty frequently or I
Speaker 1: get I just sputter out. I don't think that's necessarily
Speaker 1: any of their personality or work style types. But I
Speaker 1: do think like this gets into the discussion of like multitasking,
Speaker 1: which is fraught right right, which I'll talk about briefly
Speaker 1: if we want to. But I do think when you
Speaker 1: leave a thing that you have been puzzling over, focus
Speaker 1: on something completely different, and then come back often like
Speaker 1: a new perspective is revealed to you. That often can
Speaker 1: get you over that hump that you may have been
Speaker 1: at in terms of a roadblock. By the way, multitasking
Speaker 1: is if you want to start an argument, yeah, tell
Speaker 1: people you multitask because the thing is right Like, there
Speaker 1: are studies that are like, no, if you're actually multitasking,
Speaker 1: you're doing well, uh, not as good a job at
Speaker 1: everything kind of. But to me, it's not so much
Speaker 1: I'm doing multiple things at once. It's that I'm changing constantly, right.
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm trying to write and read a
Speaker 1: book while I am also sewing. There are two different
Speaker 1: things that I alternate, say because different parts of my
Speaker 1: brain get fired, and then I can solve problems better.
Speaker 1: I also let them. Obviously, I cannot speak knowledgeably on
Speaker 1: the entire field of neurology. And why you didn't. You
Speaker 1: didn't get a quick degree while you were out. I
Speaker 1: went and got a PhD while I was on vacation. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm kidding. Don't don't yell at me if you actually
Speaker 1: got a PhD. And I know how much work that is,
Speaker 1: But like, I feel like a lot of the studies
Speaker 1: that are on those type things, so many of them
Speaker 1: happen like on college campuses, and a lot of the
Speaker 1: people being studied are like undergraduates getting us your credit.
Speaker 1: And if you have a cohort for your study, which
Speaker 1: is like a bunch of people with adhd, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have very different results in terms of what works
Speaker 1: for people. Yeah. Yeah, this has come up on the
Speaker 1: show before, completely unrelated to science, but just where we've
Speaker 1: talked about recognizing like people that ended up achieving big
Speaker 1: things late in their life, people didn't realize when they
Speaker 1: were young that like the standard method of education at
Speaker 1: the time was not going to work for that, right,
Speaker 1: because we hadn't really gotten into the level of educational
Speaker 1: research and study and how how the brain functions at
Speaker 1: that point. So and I would say there's still a
Speaker 1: ton that we really don't know about how people are. Sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. And I think that's it's so individual from personal.
Speaker 1: What works for you will not work for your you know,
Speaker 1: closest friend will not work for their sibling will not
Speaker 1: work like Yeah, it's I appreciate that there is a
Speaker 1: level of challenge at this point in any caring education
Speaker 1: system to try to address all of the disparate, kind
Speaker 1: of optimal scenarios that would really really help all of
Speaker 1: the people in their classes function at their best. Right.
Speaker 1: That's hard. Yeah, educators, we love you. I'm sorry your
Speaker 1: job is so hard and not appreciated or paid enough
Speaker 1: for what you do. I will say, if you are
Speaker 1: looking for a fun read, it's a good one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's doing very very well. It's selling. It's on lots
Speaker 1: of lists, so I'm pleased, and I'm not surprised because
Speaker 1: it is quite compelling. Yeah, I really enjoyed what's the
Speaker 1: name of the other one? Was it? Into the Way
Speaker 1: in the way in the way. I'm going to have
Speaker 1: multiple incorrect prepositions at the beginning of it. I didn't
Speaker 1: like reading that book quite a lot. Well, if you're
Speaker 1: lucky for something to read and you're okay with hearing
Speaker 1: about people breaking their bones and other things while they
Speaker 1: pursue advancements in science, it's a great one. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's worth it alone. For all the quotes from those
Speaker 1: scientists because they are a pithy, interesting group, So highly recommend.
Speaker 1: If you have time off this weekend, it's a great
Speaker 1: time to read a book if you are into reading books.
Speaker 1: If you don't have time off, maybe sneak a couple
Speaker 1: of pages in again if you're into reading books. If
Speaker 1: you're not into reading books, or you don't have time off,
Speaker 1: do whatever is going to optimize that time for you
Speaker 1: and make you your happiest if at all possible. We
Speaker 1: will be right back here tomorrow with a classic, and
Speaker 1: then on Monday there'll be something brand new. Stuff you
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