Show Notes
- Phil claims his sister (and recent EDT guest) Alexa Green said dry-cleaning is a mutually-agreed upon lie that holds society together. Phil takes it a step further and claims that laundry detergent might not be real either. He knows for a fact that dryer sheets aren't real. Phoebe disagrees as a laundry-doer in humid and smelly New York.
- Phil also says that peanuts should be marketed as the most crunchy form of peanut butter; peanuts become peanut butter once you chew them so they should be sold as a less messy form of peanut butter.
- Here’s the History Vs. Theodore Roosevelt podcast that Jake listened to for show prep.
- The Strenuous Life is a speech in which T.R. said that “danger, hardship, and bitter toil… win the splendid triumph.” As a sickly kid, Roosevelt’s father pushed him to challenge himself physically and it became the cornerstone of Teddy’s persona — walking into danger like the Battle of San Juan Hill, choosing a rugged life in the Badlands rather than seeking comfort in New York after the death of his mother and wife on the same night.
- William McKinley was assassinated by an anarchist. The guy who tried to assassinate Teddy Roosevelt said McKinley visited him in a dream and told him to do it.
- The "Man in the Arena" speech is actually called “Citizenship in a Republic”.
- Roosevelt was a backer of the Simplified Spelling Board, who pushed to simplify spelling.
- Grave-robbing was a big deal before someone thought up donating your body to science.
- The Panama Canal was completed in 1914 (the Suez Canal was completed forty-five years earlier in 1869).
- Turns out it was actually TR’s dad (TR senior) who was one of the founders of the American Museum of Natural History, not TR.
- Lamarckian evolution, as we discussed, is a discredited idea of evolution where acquired characteristics are inherited. The classic example is a giraffe. Lamarck explained that a giraffe's neck is long because its ancestors stretched their necks to get leaves and passed the longer necks along to their descendants.
Below are the Top Ten and Bottom Top items on List of Every Damn Thing as of this episode (for the complete up-to-date list, go
here):
TOP TEN:
- Dolly Parton - person
- interspecies animal friends - idea
- sex - idea
- Clement Street in San Francisco - location
- Prince - person
- It’s-It - food
- Cher - person
- Pee-Wee Herman - fictional character
- Donald Duck - fictional character
- Hank Williams - person
BOTTOM TEN:
186. Jenny McCarthy - person
187. Jon Voight - person
188. Hank Williams, Jr - person
189. British Royal Family - institution
190. Steven Seagal - person
191. McRib - food
192. war - idea
193. cigarettes - drug
194. QAnon - idea
195. transphobia - idea