Timesuck with Dan Cummins - 67 - Einstein: A Complicated Genius

Episode Date: December 25, 2017

Einstein! Theoretical physicist. Nobel Prize winning mathematician. Guy who made his name synonymous with genius. Man who changed the world’s understanding of space and time. Guy who Flat Earthers a...nd Conspiracy nuts think is a fraud. A man who stayed curious and worked on coming to a firmer understanding of the world around him and the universe that contained that world until quite literally the day he died. Also, maybe one of the world’s worst husbands. Also maybe a super shitty dad. His genius is indisputable. How great of a person he may have been is a little more complicated. So let’s dig in. Let’s suck in. Lets’s get a little smarter ourselves this holiday season and suck on some Albert Einstein! Happy Holidays!! Timesuck is also brought to you by by the socially conscious on-line fantastic mattress store LEESA! Go to www.leesa.com/timesuckto get $100 off of one of their incredible mattresses and help both the environment and the homeless while doing so! Trouble with the APP or new website? Email BitElixir! (you'll have to copy and paste - sorry) Timsuckapp@bitelixir.co Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist, Nobel Peace Prize in Winnie Mathematician, guy who made his name synonymous with genius, Man who changed the world's understanding of space and time, guy who flat earthers and conspiracy nuts, things are total fraught. A man who stayed curious and worked on coming to a firmer understanding of the world around him and the universe that contained that world until quite literally the day he died. Also, maybe one of the world's worst husbands. Also, maybe super shitty dad. His genius is indisputable. How great of a person he may have been little more complicated. So let's dig in. Let's suck in.
Starting point is 00:00:38 Let's get a little smarter ourselves, this holiday season, and suck on some Albert Einstein. You're listening to Time Sun. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Starting point is 00:01:08 to enjoy time suck, it's fine. It's for happy people and it's for downers. Not gonna exclude downers. I'm Dan Cummins, this is Time Suck. Hope it sounds a little extra crisp today. This is the first episode recorded using the new equipment mastered by Joshua Crel, the Suck's first in the office employee,
Starting point is 00:01:23 recorded in the Suck dungeon, the suck dungeon the suck studio the suck Claire Whatever we're gonna call it Closing out the year at comedy works in Denver Colorado a couple of tour dates and then we'll get right into it December 28th through New Year's Eve Indianapolis January 5th and 6th Providence Road Island January 19th 20th chick-a-pea Massachusetts January 21st Philadelphia January 25th through 27th, Chicago. Going to be there, January 31st, February 3rd, New York City, Gotham Comedy Club, one night only, February 11th, more tour dates at either Dan Cummins.tv or timesockpodcast.com.
Starting point is 00:02:01 Ticket links or at least venue links in the episode description for all the shows I mentioned and a few others I didn't today. You can get that best on the app on the Time Soap app. So more announcements at the end of the show. Right now, let's get into Time So a time, suck, time, line. At 11.30 a.m. on Friday, March 14th, 1879, Albert, switchblade, Einstein, is born in a Baltimore dumpster. A burning Baltimore dumpster.
Starting point is 00:02:41 He crawled out and he raised himself, started slaying that rock at the age of four, had his own crew by the age of nine. Wasn't afraid to cut a fool down and had to slit three throats by the age of 12. He pioneered to use the cars and drive by shootings. First man to pull a trigger and a drive by. You know, here in something you can't understand how I could just kill a man at the Albert Einstein. No, it's not. Sorry, I shouldn't have listened to a radio against the machine Cypress Hill cover while doing this research at 11 30 a.m. Friday March 14th 1879 Albert Einstein
Starting point is 00:03:13 Born in the city of Oom He's born in Germany to Hermann Einstein Herman looks like Hermann It's pronounced Herman. I believe they just threw an extra end there, because the Germans like to funk it up a little bit from time to time. And to Pauline Koch, and his dad was 32. His mom was 21, and because it was 1879, it wasn't scandalous. They were married when dad was 29.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Mom was 18, which apparently used to be normal. Now, if a guy planning his 30th birthday party, also planning to wedding to a girl still in high school, kind of creepy, really creepy. You know, no, it's not, man, you still get it, bro. We just, we have a love that's timeless, you know, you still understand, oh, I understand it. It's called lust, similar to love, but involves more boners, less conversation and practical
Starting point is 00:04:00 plans for the future. But seriously, used to be the norm totally acceptable, if not expected. Anyway, Einstein's father, Herman, had been born in 1847 in the Swabian village of Bouchot, whose thriving Jewish community was just beginning to enjoy the right to practice any vocation. Herman showed a market inclination for mathematics, and his family was able to send him 75 miles north
Starting point is 00:04:24 to Stuttgart for high school. But they could not afford to send him 75 miles north to Stuttgart for high school. But they could not afford to send him to a university most of which were closed to Jewish people in any event. So he returned home to Bushau to get into a trade. So clearly a red-dissposition towards mathematics and high intelligence. Few years later, as part of the general migration of rural German Jewish people into industrial centers during the late 19th century, hermenean's parents moved 35 miles away
Starting point is 00:04:48 to the more prosperous town of Olm, which prophetically boasted as its motto, the people of Olm are mathematicians. How nuts is that? A town known for mathematics, even way back then. A town that takes pride in it. I wonder how much further medicine and tech would be in our nation, like right now,
Starting point is 00:05:03 if it was a bigger source of pride here I mean that there there is pride in America over academics for sure But I still feel it takes a backseat in a lot of communities to like high school sports Right and look how well we do internationally with that man the Olympics we clean up a Year after year after year probably not a coincidence. I should say you know every four years We don't have four years after four years after four years. And I love watching sports. It just feels like too much of a priority sometimes.
Starting point is 00:05:28 It might be for a lot of parents and their kids. In OEM, Herman worked in a feather bed business, making everything so soft, so very, very soft. In 1880, the family moves to Munich, and where the feather bed business goes belly up, and they start a family electrical firm, manufacturing dynamos and electrical meters, where the feather bed business goes belly up. They start a family electrical firm manufacturing dynamos and electrical meters, the Einstein's,
Starting point is 00:05:47 help and bring electricity to Germany. A little Albert, he was slow and learned how to talk. My parents were so worried he later recalled, they consulted a doctor. Even after he'd begun using words, sometimes after the age of two, he developed a quirk that prompted the family made to dub him the dopey one. Kind of a cruel nickname for a little kid. The dopey one. Other than the family labeled him as
Starting point is 00:06:09 almost backwards. Oh man, it's cruelness all around. Whenever he had something to say, he would try to get it out himself, whispering it softly until it sounded good enough to pronounce aloud. He just perfectionist. Every sentence he uttered, his younger sister would later recall, no matter how routine he repeated to himself softly, moving his lips. He had such difficulty with language that those around him feared he would never learn. As we'll soon discover by the time he hit school, any delays, pre-school Einstein had, were long gone. Pauline and Herman had a second final child, a daughter in November, 1881, who was named Fuckface.
Starting point is 00:06:43 It's messed up, man. There's a lot of cruel people back then. Call one of your kids, Albert. Call another kid fuckface. As if living in Albert's shadow, you know, wouldn't be hard enough. This is my son, Albert. He was famous in my application.
Starting point is 00:06:55 And this is my daughter, fuckface. She is constantly getting thrown out of buzz. Well, for darkened displays, of obnoxiousness, and office dollar hand jobs behind the Hollywood dumpster. I have one child alibut and I have a failure fuck face. I think that started off as like a French guy and somehow morphed into Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Starting point is 00:07:13 Accents, trying to improve him. No, she was named Maria throughout her life. Instead of the, no, I'm sorry, she was named Maria, but throughout her life, she used the Maya, the diminutive Maya. When Albert was shown his new sister for the first time, he was led to believe that she was a wonderful toy made for him. His response was to look at her and explain, yes, but the way out the wheels turns out once he started to talk, saying some pretty adorable stuff. To figure out how to pronounce Maya, spelled with the J-A, I ended up finding a video of some strange old German little kids cartoon about a beat.
Starting point is 00:07:48 And this is a little piece of that song that I just felt compelled to share with you. Here we go again. Maya. His face was Maya. And she comes from Kunk Fik, Kunk Fik, Kunk Fik. I'm dead. I'm a bad little ditty. Kind of catchy. The Einstein settled into a comfortable home with mature trees.
Starting point is 00:08:25 I can't get that on my head now. So, oh, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so, so Not known internationally for kicking out a lot of a lot of solid. I think David Hasselhoff I'm still as popular there. Anyway, it's catchy. Einstein settled into a comfortable home with mature trees and elegant garden and immunic suburb for what was to be at least through most of Albert's childhood. You know, a pretty respectable bourgeoisie existence in 1882 just after the Einstein's arrived. The city had about 300,000 residents and Munich 85% of them Catholics, 2% of them Jewish, and it was the host for the first German electricity exhibition. The electric lights introduced to the city streets. Einstein's back garden was often bustling with cousins and children. Cousins, man, that's going to come up later in the Einstein story.
Starting point is 00:09:18 So remember that. Yeah, a lot of cousins around, apparently left quite an impression on Einstein. He shied from their boisterous games and instead occupied himself with quieter things one governess nicknamed him father bore Man, there's just no shortage of cruel nicknames back then he was generally a loner Tennessee he claimed to cherish throughout his life although he was you know There was a special sort of detachment that was interwoven with the need for camaraderie and intellectual companionship So he doesn't want small talk, but he wanted to be around, you know, some people to talk to. From the very beginning, he was inclined to separate
Starting point is 00:09:49 himself from children, his own age, and to engage in daydreaming and meditative meditative musing, according to Philip Frank, a long time scientific college, a colleague. I bet he was just, you know, kind of bored with their little kid conversations. Tear guy, man, a lot of this sounds like me. I've always enjoyed time alone, but love intellectual stimulation. I daydream, I have freaking musings and such. It's like with the same person, except I don't have a mathematical education
Starting point is 00:10:13 or an advanced degree of any kind. And there's a very good chance based on life experience that my IQ is nowhere near genius level. I am pretty sure that Einstein was never asked by a pizza place manager to please stop cursing like I was two nights ago By dominoes manager when I became enraged when they never delivered me the pizza I paid for but kept trying to tell me that they did Like they call me like don't call me fucking liar dominoes cordal a night of dominoes Just apologize refund moe my order you shit bags
Starting point is 00:10:41 But other than that The same kind of mind other than that, the same kind of mind, other than that, we're the same person. Einstein liked to work on puzzles, erect complex structures with his toy building sets, play with his team engine, that his uncle gave him, build houses, the cards, according to Maya, Einstein was able to construct card structures as high as 14 stories.
Starting point is 00:10:58 Now at first when I read this, because I am, can be a big dummy, and I'm not of the IQ of the actual Einstein, I thought my am in like 14 building stories high. And I, for just my initial reaction was like, how is a little kid building a hundred and forty foot tall house with cards? There's no way. Why would she lie that badly?
Starting point is 00:11:15 And then I was like, no, you dumb shit. It's 14 card stories. 14 cards high. So it makes a lot more sense. My also recalled that in an early age persistence in tenacity were obviously already part of his character. He was also at least as a young child prone to temper tantrums. Once at age five he grabbed a chair and threw it at a tutor who fled and never returned.
Starting point is 00:11:35 And he's five years old. He did that. Maya's head became the target of various hard objects. It takes a sound school she later joked to be the sister of an intellectual. Unlike his persistence and tenacity, he eventually outgrew his temper. Again, it's like we're the same person, except his temper tantrums faded away in early childhood, and I just had one a few days ago at the age of 40. This is damn you dominoes, other than that same person, exact same person.
Starting point is 00:11:58 Here's a childhood story that really foreshadowed the man Albert would become, and experience occurred when he was four or five that would alter his life and be etched forever in his mind, and also the history of science. He sick and bed one day, and his father brought him a compass. He later recalled being so excited as he examined his mysterious powers that he trembled and grew cold. The fact that the magnetic needle behaved as if influenced by some hidden force field Rather than through the more familiar mechanical method involving touch or contact Produced a sense of wonder that motivated him throughout the rest of his life
Starting point is 00:12:33 I can still remember or at least I believe I can remember that this experience made a deep and lasting impression on me He wrote on one of the many occasions he recounted that incident later Something deeply hidden had to be behind the things. Or, sorry, something deeply hidden had to be behind things, just things in general. So you just had a beautiful sense of wonder. After being mesmerized by the compass needles, you know, it feels to you to an unseen field, Einstein would develop a lifelong devotion to field theories as a way to describe nature. Field theories used mathematical quantities such as numbers or vectors or tensors to
Starting point is 00:13:07 describe how the conditions at any point in space will affect matter or another field. For example, in a gravitational or electromagnetic field, there are forces that could act on a particle at any point and the equations of a field theory describe how these changes as how these change is one moves through the region. The first paragraph of his great 1905 paper on special relativity begins with consideration of the effects of electrical and magnetic fields. His theory of general relativity is based on equations that describe a gravitational field. At the very end of his life, he was doggedly scribbling further field equations in the hope
Starting point is 00:13:42 that they would form the basis for a theory of everything. I'll be honest, a theory of everything. I'll be honest, a lot of this goes over above my head. After a while, I just start hearing nerd, nerd, nerd, nerd. I try. I try, I try to do my best, but you know, I don't have an advanced mathematics degree. I'm pretty sure all of the things I just had go over a flat earth or his head. You know, just gravity's a myth, man. Things don't fall down, bro. Flat earth, it's always, it's shooting straight up. When we jump up, the earth just catches up with us, bro.
Starting point is 00:14:12 Albert's mother and accomplished pianist arranged for Little Einstein to take violin lessons. At first, he didn't care for the mechanical discipline of the instruction, what kid does, you know, like that. But after being exposed to Mozart's sonatas, music became both magical and emotional to him I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty. He later said at least for me Soon he was playing Mozart duets with his mom accompanying him on the piano adorable
Starting point is 00:14:36 Never had that experience myself with a family member. I do remember drunkenly singing Jim Kroche at a karaoke bar with my sister in cousin once So just bad bad Lee roared brown bad as man in the whole damn town. Again, I hate to keep beating that drum, but kind of the same person. Uh, Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe itself. Einstein later told a friend. Of course, he added in a remark that it reflected a review of math and physics as well as that of Mozart, like all-grade beauty, his music was pure simplicity.
Starting point is 00:15:10 He just wanted to break down mystery into its simplest terms, simplest components. Music was no mere diversion for Einstein helped him think. Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or faced difficult challenges in his work, he said his son, Hans Albert, he would take refuge in music and would solve all of his difficulties.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Right, I do relate to this also actually. I wrote Don't Wake the Bear, that entire album, almost exclusively listing to Queen to the Stone Age. Rage gets the machine, tool, past few weeks, maybe that's why I felt more on edge. Video of Pearl Jam and Detroit, is what kept me going, you know, working on this research.
Starting point is 00:15:45 I think I listened to a lot of the yacht rock. You know, I think where that came from in this podcast is because you know, research and, you know, episodes of heavy, dark things, you know, it was kind of nice to balance it out with that some light early 80s feathered hair, carefree, you know, sounds of Michael McDonald and, you know, guys like that, Kenny Loggins, that kind of, Steve Winwood, you know, his, Kenny Loggins, that kind of like Steve
Starting point is 00:16:05 Winwood, you know, his early eighties stuff that kind of nonsense. Again, in my Einstein reincarnated, so similar, probably except one of us may have been much smarter than the other. Maybe I don't listen to Mozart while I work because I don't have the intellectual capacity to appreciate it. Or maybe had Mozart or I'm sorry, Einstein, been alive today, you know, he'd be Yacht Rockin' his cock off with little Michael motherfuckin' McDonald. Who knows? Who knows? We'll never know.
Starting point is 00:16:28 One thing very cool about Einstein, he had an intense sense of wonder as a child, never lost it. I bet a lot of his time suckers were like that. My dad's the likes to talk about how I drove him crazy, asking constant questions as a kid. And I really did get permanently banned from a youth group as a kid
Starting point is 00:16:42 for just asking too many questions, you know. But why? I think that was my first sentence. And something I still constantly think about today, culturally curious. I hope all you do listen to this one. I feel like it's particularly inspiring to our tribe. Okay, Einstein's parents, while culturally Jewish
Starting point is 00:16:58 were entirely irreligious, they didn't keep kosher or 10 synagogue. His father referred to Jewish rituals as ancient superstitions. And that's why when Albert turned six and 1864 had to go to school as parents, had no problem sending him to the best school that happened to be close to them, a large Catholic school. As the only Jewish kid among the 70 students in his class,
Starting point is 00:17:17 Einstein took the standard course in Catholic religion, ended up enjoying it immensely. Indeed, he did so well in his Catholic studies that he helped his classmates with their studies. Sadly, because he was not Catholic himself, none of the priests had any interest whatsoever and molested him. Sorry, Catholics, you know what?
Starting point is 00:17:33 You didn't deserve that. You didn't deserve that. I know that most of your priests do not molest anyone Jewish or otherwise. Sadly, though, because of all those scandals years ago, I'd be lying if I didn't admit to this day. I still, when I hear priest, think of pedophile. It's the very next word that comes to mind.
Starting point is 00:17:49 How much does that suck? And not in the time suck away for all those good priests out there. I feel like if I were a priest, I would constantly just be blaring out stuff. Like I don't do that. I've never done it. Not a diddler.
Starting point is 00:18:01 I don't do it. Now I'm one of the good ones. Welcome to Mass, everyone. Let's get something out of the way right off top. The only thing I'm interested in pushing inside your kids is some theological concepts. I'm gonna do the other minds, not their private parts. Okay, that's just, now I just wanted to clear the air.
Starting point is 00:18:17 Let's get into the sermon. Sadly anti-semitism was already rampant in Germany when Albert was a child. And Little Einstein was taunted on his walks to and from school based on racial characteristics about, you know, what's the children were strangely aware, he'd reveal later. This helped reinforce his sense of being an outsider, which would stay with him his entire life. He'd recall physical attacks and insults on the way home from school were frequent, but for the most part not too vicious. That's a rough sense for childhood,
Starting point is 00:18:45 for the most part, constant physical attacks were not too vicious. Nevertheless, they were sufficient to consolidate even in a child a lively sense of being an outsider. I mean, I've said it so many times in the suck, I'll say it again, how ignorant truly is just racial discrimination? Little Einstein, man, being tons of for having the physical characteristics associated with religion,
Starting point is 00:19:04 19th century Aryan Germans weren't a part of and didn't understand so they were afraid of it and now he's getting bullied even though He doesn't have anything to do with it either Right, he's helping them with their Catholic studies in school in one moment and then getting picked on for for being you know Jewish the next they didn't have the internet back then, but they still had plenty of idiots When I returned at nine in 1867 Einstein he moved up to a high school near the center of Munich, the Louis-Polt gymnasium, which was known as an enlightened institution that emphasized math and science as well as Latin and Greek. In addition, the school supplied a teacher to provide religious instruction for him and
Starting point is 00:19:40 other Jewish kids. And here, despite his parents' secularism, or perhaps because of it, Einstein suddenly developed a passionate zeal for Judaism. He was so fervent in his feelings that on his own, he observed Jewish religious structures in every detail, his sister later recalled. Maybe being taunted by the kids in Catholic school, you know, put them in that direction. You know, if you're getting beat up for being Jewish already, why not be all the way Jewish? It was around this time that he supposedly failed at math. I hinted at this in the episode preview last week, right? Because I have heard that Einstein failed at math my whole life.
Starting point is 00:20:10 Turns out I love finding this stuff out on time, suck. Total bullshit. One widely held belief about Einstein is that he was a bad student. He failed at math and it's an assertion made often accompanied by the phrase, as everyone knows, scores of books that's in, thousands of websites designed to reassure under achieving students. It even made it into the famous Ripley's Believe It or Not newspaper column. In 1935, a rabbi in Princeton, New Jersey showed him a clipping of the Ripley's column
Starting point is 00:20:39 with the headline, greatest living mathematician failed in mathematics. Einstein laughed. I never failed in mathematics. Einstein laughed. I never failed mathematics, he replied correctly. He said before I was 15, I had mastered differential and an integral calculus. Jesus, you know what, maybe we're not the same person. I have no idea what differential or integral calculus even are.
Starting point is 00:20:59 I truly could not pass a calculus test, even if a gun was being held in my head right now, which would be an incredibly stressful way to take a test. I feel like this info puts a new spin on Ripley's catch phrase, believe it or not, I always took that to mean that they were talking about things so amazing, so bizarre that it was hard to believe they were true.
Starting point is 00:21:17 Maybe it just meant, you know, and means that they've been making shit up. You know, just believe it or not, buddy, sometimes you should believe it, because, you know, it's true, it's true of shit. Other times you should not shit up. You know, just believe it or not, buddy. Sometimes you should believe it, because you know, it's true, it's true shit. Other times you should not believe it, you know, because we make it up. Believe it or not.
Starting point is 00:21:32 Believe it? Sometimes or not. Other times. Einstein was actually a great student. In fact, he was a wonderful student. In primary school, he was the top of his class. Yesterday, Albert got his grades. His mother reported to an aunt when he was seven. Once again, he was ranked first. Einstein consistently got top grades. Years
Starting point is 00:21:50 later, when Einstein celebrated his 50th birthday, there were stories about how poorly the genius had, you know, fared during his grade school years, the school's current principal made a point of publishing a letter revealing how good his grades actually were. How sad is it that pass it on.com has a famous billboard. One I've witnessed several times. I think there's even been some television commercials of this, where it's Albert Einstein. He's sticking his tongue out, and it just says,
Starting point is 00:22:15 as a student, he was no Einstein. This billboard is meant to inspire average or below average students. As in, you know, like, well, if Einstein didn't do well in school and still wanted to become known as one of the smartest men in history, you can still accomplish great things, even if you're not doing well in school. Well, as it turns out, the message is based in complete bullshit. Pass it on.com is an extension of the foundation
Starting point is 00:22:33 for a better life. A 501 nonprofit organization founded in 2000. On their website, they state our sole objective is to promote positive values and encourage viewers to pass them on. We communicate these values through inspiring messages and movie theaters on television, billboards, radio, and the internet. Now the advertising time and space for these messages is donated by broadcast and print
Starting point is 00:22:57 media companies as a public service. And ironically, this nonprofit extension of various media companies got their information wrong. Maybe inspired kids to be solid future broadcasters and solid future journalists by doing some fucking fact checking. Right? Instead of giving people more ammunition to toss around those terms like fake news, no wonder no one trusts the media anymore.
Starting point is 00:23:19 An organization sponsored by various media outlets does in fact check their own inspirational messages. I know I make a fair amount of mistakes on this podcast and while some of it for sure is my fault, some of it, I'm gonna pass the buck here. Some of it is because there is so much bad information out there. I get a fair amount of emails asking like how I research, tips based on researching.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Here's the main one I have. Find one solid source to start with, such as a biography, historical accounts, written by an academically acclaimed author, when possible, a source full of footnotes, a source that's been reviewed by multiple critics, critics in known kind of magazines and news websites, like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Starting point is 00:24:03 that kind of thing. Then facted their info with at least two other sources that don't cite the first source that you're checking, right? So they get independent information. And after that, it kind of just crossed your fingers. And don't use time suck as your base source, by the way. Don't use it as that primary.
Starting point is 00:24:20 I supply all the notes on the time suck app, but I don't supply properly noted footnotes. I don't add the footnotes to the information as it comes down in the narrative because I don't have time. I supply sources at the bottom of my narratives for just kind of transparency, but again, I don't have time to add them academically
Starting point is 00:24:37 to the corresponding info as I go and I won't for the foreseeable future. So, you know, but use this as a source to then fact check through at least two other sources, one of which hopefully is heavily footnote. A lot of information out there on the web and unfortunately so much of it is shit. But you know what's not shit? Albert Einstein.
Starting point is 00:24:55 And he was also never a dollar. Albert's greatest intellectual stimulation came from a poor medical student who used to dying with his family once a week. It was an old Jewish custom to take in a needy religious scholar to share the Sabbath meal with, and the Einstein's modified that tradition by hosting a medical student instead on Thursdays. His name was Max Talmud, a later changed to Talmy when he immigrated to the U.S. and he began his weekly visits when he was 21, Einstein was 10, and he would say he was a pretty dark-haired boy, I remember Talmud, and all those years, I never saw him reading any light literature.
Starting point is 00:25:26 Nor did I ever see him in the company of schoolmates or other boys his age. Talmud brought him science books, including popular, a popular illustrated series called People's Books on Natural Science. A work, a work which I read with breathless attention, which I would say later, the 21 little volumes were written by Aaron Bernsteinstein who stressed the interrelations between biology and physics
Starting point is 00:25:47 That's what you read in a 10. I was not I was not reading the stuff at 10 I think I was reading hardy boys. He didn't he reported in great detail the scientific experiments being done at the time Especially in Germany and the opening section of the first volume Bernstein dealt with the speed of light a Topic that obviously fascinated him will find out later. Instead, he returned to it repeatedly in his subsequent volumes. I'm sorry, indeed, he returned to it repeatedly in his subsequent volumes, including 11 essays on the topic and volumate, judging from the thought experiments that Einstein later used in creating his theory of relativity, Bernstein's books were very influential. For example, Bernstein asked readers to imagine
Starting point is 00:26:23 being on a speeding train. If a bullet shot through the window, it would seem that it was shot in an angle. Because the train would have moved between the time the bullet entered one window and exited the window on the other side. Likewise, because of the speed of the Earth through space, the same must be true of light going through a telescope. And that was amazing, said Bernstein. Or what was amazing was that the experiment showed the same effect no matter how fast the source of light was moving. In a sentence that because of its relation to what Einstein would later famously conclude seems to have made an impression.
Starting point is 00:26:54 Bernstein declared, since each kind of light proves to be exactly the same speed, the law of the speed of light can be well called the most general of all of nature's laws. And again, this is what he's wrapping his brain around when he's 10. I can't quite wrap my brain around that. Now, Talmud also helped Einstein continue to explore the wonders of mathematics by giving him a textbook on geometry two years later. I'm sorry, two years before he was scheduled to learn the subject in school. Later, Einstein referred to it as the sacred little geometry book. Speak of it with awe.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Here with assertions, as for example, the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle, in one point which, though by no means evident, could nevertheless be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question of lucidity and certainty made an indescribable impression upon me. I mean, listen, the guys look very popular. Years later, in a lecture at Oxford, Einstein noted, if Euclid failed to kindle, your youthful enthusiasm, then you were not born to be a scientific thinker.
Starting point is 00:27:52 Hey, fuck and take it easy Einstein. Maybe I just had a, you know, problem with Euclid. Maybe that's, maybe I was born. You don't know me. You don't know me Einstein. Oh man, damn my rig inside of Hoback with education. Talmud also introduced Einstein to philosophy. I recommended Kant to him, he later recalled.
Starting point is 00:28:12 At the time, he was still a child. Only 13 years old yet Kant's works and comprehensible to ordinary mortals seemed to be clear to him. I'm pretty impressive considering as a student, he was no Einstein. Pass it on. Maybe I shouldn't be so hard on the pass it on people,
Starting point is 00:28:28 you know, I make mistakes. However, I am a comic without a journalism or history degree, and I've done most of these episodes by myself my spare time. Pass it on, giant nonprofit organization with numerous full-time employees. So how about, here's a new quote for you. Get your shit together.
Starting point is 00:28:42 Pass it on. In 1891, Einstein, abandoned religion, Einstein's exposure new quote for you. Get your shit together, pass it on. In 1891, Einstein, a band in religion, Einstein's exposure to science produced a sudden reaction against religion in age 12, just as he would have been reading himself for a bar mitzvah. Bernstein in his popular science volumes had reconciled science with religious inclination.
Starting point is 00:28:58 As he put it, the religious inclination lies in the dim consciousness that dwells in humans that all nature, including the humans in it, is in no way an accidental game, but a work of lawfulness, that there is a fundamental cause of all existence. Through the reading of popular scientific books, I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic, orgy of free thinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies
Starting point is 00:29:25 It was a crushing impression suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience and attitude Which has never again left me this is what he later said and again. This is the epiphany he had when he was 13 I think my epiphany when I was 13 was like my my boner does what? Who are you serious? So maybe we're not the same guy. 1894, Einstein's his comfort spiraled towards depression, perhaps even a close to a nervous breakdown when his father's business suffered a sudden reversal
Starting point is 00:29:53 of fortune, the collapse was a precipitous one. During most of Einstein's school years, the Einstein brothers company had been a success. In 1885, it had 200 employees. That's pretty big a little company. Provided the first electrical lines for Munich's October Fest over the next few years, it won the contract to wire the community of swabbing Munich Suburb of about 10,000 people using gas motors to drive twin
Starting point is 00:30:16 dynamos that the Einstein's had designed. Jacob Einstein received six patents for improvements in arc lamps, automatic circuit breakers, electric meters, the company was poised to rival Siemens and other powerful, you know, other power companies. Then, you know, that we're then flourishing to raise capital to brothers mortgage their homes, borrowed more than 60,000 marks, a 10% interest and went deeply in debt. And then in 1894, when Einstein was 15, the company went bust after it lost competitions to light the central part of Munich and other locations to other contractors. Man, what a tragedy.
Starting point is 00:30:46 I always hate to hear about someone giving it their all, bed big in a dream, launching their own company, and then having a fall apart, just devastating. And I felt that long before launching this project, by the way, I've always really been saddened. When I walk around like a downtown, some city and performing in,
Starting point is 00:31:02 and I just see some fresh going out of business sign. I mean, that's not just a business that's going out. That's someone's dream that you're witnessing dying. Albert's parents, sorry, sorry, I'm such a downer, thought there. Albert's parents and sister along with Uncle Jacob moved to Northern Italy, first Milan, then the nearby town of Pavia.
Starting point is 00:31:19 Einstein was left behind in music at the house of a distant relative to finish his final three years of school Not quite clear whether Einstein in this sad autumn of 1894 was actually forced to leave the Louis Poults gymnasium Or was you know merely politely encouraged to leave years later He recalled the teacher who had declared that this his present spoils the respect of the class for me Had gone on to express the wish that I leave the school So it wasn't because he was an idiot It was honestly because he was too smart for the school and just, you know, the people working there,
Starting point is 00:31:49 the authorities there didn't like to be questioned. An early book by member of the family said it was, you know, it was Albert's own decision. He said he would increasingly resolve not to remain in music and he worked out a plan to leave. The plan involved getting a letter from the family doctor, Max Thomas, older brother, certified that he was suffering from nervous exhaustion
Starting point is 00:32:05 Use this to justify leaving the school the Christmas vacation in 1894 and never returning instead He took a train across the Alps to Italy and formed his alarmed parents that he was never going back to Germany Instead he promised he would study on his own and attempt to gain admission to a technical college and Zurich the following autumn And again, man as a young teenager, I just, you know, the plan, the life plans he's making. I had no idea where I was going to even apply to college until the final semester I wanna say of my senior year. Whenever it was right before the things were due, I threw a plan together very quickly.
Starting point is 00:32:39 And the plan basically was just get out of Ricketts and figure out something else, and that was it. This guy, you know, he's in Germany, he's going Italy, he's like, yeah, but I'm going to go to Zurich, this technical thing. God, this is, one factor perhaps in his decision to leave Germany was that he would have been required to join the army. He stayed a prospect that his sister said he
Starting point is 00:33:00 contemplated with dread. So, and also he was upset over some kind of nationalism, the movements, pre-Nazi movements, anti-Semitic type of stuff that was going on in there. He actually asked for his father's help soon in renouncing his German citizenship. 1895, Einstein spent the spring and the summer of 1895, lived with his parents in their Pavia apartment, helping the family firm. In the process, he's able to get a good feel for the workings of magnets, coils,
Starting point is 00:33:27 generated electricity. Einstein's work repressed his family. On one occasion, Uncle Jacob was having problems with some calculations for a new machine. So Einstein went to work on it. And then after my assistant engineer and I have been racking our brain for days, the young sprig had got the whole thing in just 15 minutes.
Starting point is 00:33:43 Jacob reported to a friend, You will hear of him yet. We sure as hell did. With his love of the sublime solitude found in the mountains, Einstein hiked for days in the Alps and the Appanines, including excursion from Pavia to Genoa to see his mother's brother Julius Koch. Koch, Brian Kock, wherever he traveled in northern Italy, he was delighted by the non-dermanic grace and delicacy
Starting point is 00:34:04 of the people. Their naturalness was a contrast to spiritually broken and mechanically obedient Ottomans of Germany, his sister would recall. Man, that is quite a description. Spiritually broken mechanically obedient Ottomans. Wow. Late 19th century, early 20th century,
Starting point is 00:34:23 always sounds like such a bummer of a place, man. President of Germany, here's awesome. Gotta get to Berlin, Berlin, one of these days. Einstein promised to his family who had, you know, studied on his own to get into the local technical college in Zurich, you know, the Zurich, Paula Technik. So he bought all three volumes of Jules Vuel's advanced physics tests. Texts copiously noted his ideas and the margins. Love the tenacity and focus he had, an inspiring hail, Memoroth.
Starting point is 00:34:46 That summer, age 16, he wrote his first essay on theoretical physics, which he titled on the investigation of the state of the ether and Mac in a magnetic field. His goal was to enroll the following fall, dessert, polytechnic, but he was concerned that he was younger than the age requirement. I should be at least two years older, he would say, to help him get around this age requirement, a family friend wrote to the director of polytechnic
Starting point is 00:35:08 asking for an exception, Einstein was then granted permission to take the entrance exam. He boarded the train for Zurich in October 1895 with a sense of well-founded diffidence. Diffidences were ahead to look up, because I'm not Einstein. It means monocity or shyness resulted from a lack of self confidence.
Starting point is 00:35:24 Not surprisingly, Einstein easily passed a section of the exam in math and science, but he failed to pass a general section, which included sections on literature, French, Suology, Botany, and Politics. The politics head physics professor, Heinrich Weber, suggested that Einstein stay in Zurich and audit his classes. Instead, Einstein decided on the advice of the college's director to spend a year preparing at the Cantonese school in the village of Arar. Arar, excuse me, 25 miles to the west.
Starting point is 00:35:53 Einstein loves Arar. I should have looked at that pronunciation up. A-A-R-A-U. That's a great scrap award. That's where my mind goes. Arar, whatever. Four vowels, one consonant, right? File that one away, scrap alerts.
Starting point is 00:36:10 File that one away, words with friendsers. If you can use city names, which I think you can, and I don't know. People, what am I talking about? People's retreated individually, a city to recall. More emphasis was placed on independent thought than on punditry. And young people saw the teacher,
Starting point is 00:36:24 not as a figure of authority, but alongside the student, a man of distinct personality. Maybe this is the source of his bad student rep. If it is ridiculous, failing an entrance exam and only part of it to get you into a school you are two years too young to even be applying to get into, not a failure. Not quite, you know, it's just not quite doing something, you know, just shy of miraculous as a student He was no Einstein pass it on Wally student There we go and a raw room a raw room to forget what I said earlier
Starting point is 00:36:54 I knew I wrote that I remember looking it up. I couldn't find it my notes. They'll just now while it's student in a raw room Einstein boarded with the wonderful family the the winters whose members would long remain in twine in his life. There was Jost Wintler, who taught history in Greek. The school is wife Rosa, soon known to Einstein as Marmoral or Mama, and their seven children. Their daughter Marie would become Einstein's first girlfriend. Another daughter Anna would marry Einstein's best friend, Michelle Besso.
Starting point is 00:37:21 Their son Paul would marry Einstein's beloved sister, Maya, young Einstein had a sassy, sometimes intimidating wit, I guess, which I love. He confronted the world, spirit as a laughing philosopher, and his witty sarcasm mercilessly castigated all vanity and artificiality. That was how one of his friends described him later. Again, man, the vocabulary of people in the 19th century. Yes, we have more tech and advancements now. Dear God, our texting-based vocabulary has sadly fallen way off from where it used to be. Einstein fell in love with Mary Winsler at the end of 895 just a few months after
Starting point is 00:37:56 he moved in with her parents. She had just completed teachers training college and was living at home while waiting to take a job in a nearby village. She was turning 18, he was still 16, older women. He liked him. Einstein wrote Marie, his first known love letter and it is pretty damn adorable. But love it sweet hot. Many, many thanks, sweet hot for your charming little letter which made me endlessly happy. It was so wonderful to be able to press to one's heart such a bit of paper. I don't know what axon I'm even doing now. I think it's going all around
Starting point is 00:38:24 the planet. So I'm going to stop. Which two so dear little eyes have lovingly be held and on which the dainty little hands have charmingly glided back and forth. I was now made to realize my little angel, the meaning of homesickness and pining. But love brings much happiness, much more so than the pining brings pain. My mother has also taken you to her heart, even though she does not know you. I only let her read two of your charming little letters, and she always laughs at me because I am no longer attracted to the girls who were supposed to haven't chanted me so much in the past. You mean more to my soul than the whole world did before? To which his mother penned a post script, without having read this letter, I send you cordial greetings.
Starting point is 00:39:05 pened a post script. Without having read this letter, I send you cordial greetings. You mean so much more to me than the world before and her mom added a note. Could they be any fucking cuter? Is it even possible? Well, he wasn't just cute and smart. He was brave. He was a man of principle. He disdained all forms of nationalism. So much so that he again, I mentioned it earlier, he asked his father to help him drop his German citizenship. You know, he hated the Nationalism anti-Semitism He saw rise and over there Saw it all the way back before 1900 because he was a genius The release came through in January 1896. Yeah, 1896 and for the first time he was a he was stateless
Starting point is 00:39:38 Einstein ended his year at the Araru school in a manner that would have seemed impressive for anyone except one of history's greatest geniuses He scored the second highest grades in his class Rauru, a school in a manner that would have seemed impressive for anyone except one of history's greatest geniuses. He scored the second highest grades in his class. First student, the first play student lost a history. Damn it man. Had that have been me, oh I would have made sure everyone knew that I'd be Einstein. Am I wrong baby? Am I?
Starting point is 00:39:57 Fine. I guess you're right. What do I know? It's not like I was a better student than Einstein or anything. I'd be that guy. On a 1 to 6 scale, was 6 being the highest, he scored a 5 or a 6 and all of his science and math courses as well as history and Italian. His lowest grade was a 3 in French.
Starting point is 00:40:14 You know, thank God he chose not to focus Zenon Gen French. I feel like the world needs great mathematicians, a little more than it needs, you know, more people who are bilingual. That qualified him to take a series of exams written in oral that would permit him if he passed to enter a dessert, polytechnic, and on his German exam, he did a perfunctory outline of a ghost play and scored a five. In math, he made a carousel mistake, calling a number imaginary when he meant irrational, but still got a top grade.
Starting point is 00:40:39 Oh man, Einstein, do what the hell, man. Come on, you got to get your rational imaginary numbers, you know, straightened out. I know. That's one thing I'm really good at. It's a rational, and I have no idea what those mean. In physics, he arrived late, left early, completing the two-hour test, an hour and 15 minutes,
Starting point is 00:40:55 he got the top grade. Altogether, he ended up with a 5.5, the best grade among the nine students taking the exams. Top grade, to enter Zurich Polytechnic, the top as a student, he was no Einstein. Pass it on. In the summer of 1896, Albert's father's business, the Einstein brother's electrical business, fails again. Herman struck out on his own. Albert was so dubious of his father's prospects that he went to his relatives and suggested that they not finance him. But they did. Luckily, you know, the generosity by their relatives, because of that,
Starting point is 00:41:25 Albert was able to continue with his plan of getting his jerk education. Man, the man didn't pull punches, did he? It's a interesting integrity there, you know, when he came to doing what he thought was right. Because I know my father has asked you for money, and I know he needs it to provide his folks family, which for my sister and such. But you should know that his ideas are terrible. Do not waste your money on my father. Bet the ideas you can spend it on, the ones that Paul Fals, all my father's full head. That one was kind of dramatic.
Starting point is 00:41:50 The Zurich Polytechnic with, again, little Swartz Nager, with 841 students, was mainly a teacher's in Technical College when 17-year-old Albert Einstein enrolled in October 1896. It was less prestigious than the neighboring University of Zurich and the universities in Geneva and Basel, all of which could grant doctoral degrees, a status that the Polytechnic would attain in 1911, nevertheless, the Polytechnic had a solid reputation for engineering and science.
Starting point is 00:42:13 Einstein was one of 11 freshmen enrolled in a section that provided training for specialized teachers and mathematics and physics. He lived in student lodgings on a monthly stipend of 100 Swiss francs from his coached family relatives. Each morning he put aside 20 of those francs toward the fee he would eventually have to pay to become a Swiss citizen. During his four years at Polytechnic, he got marks of five or six on a six-point scale in all of his theoretical physics courses, but got only four as in most of his math courses, especially those in geometry. It was not clear to me as a student he admitted that a more profound knowledge of the basic principles of physics was tied up with the most intricate mathematical methods.
Starting point is 00:42:51 So basically it sounds like he just didn't think it was important, so he didn't focus on it. And when I read more about his particular grades, it wasn't that he wasn't like that he was bustin' his ass and still just couldn't make top marks. It's just that if he didn't see value in a subject, he just, he didn't care what the teacher thought of him and didn't care to really, you know, put a lot of effort into it. You know, but still even despite all that, you know, he wasn't like failing his classes.
Starting point is 00:43:14 He did occasionally fail in the individual assignment, excuse me, assignment. And he did flunk one actual course, I guess. I guess in a course called physical Physical Experiments for Beginners, his professor, Pernay, gave Einstein a one, the lowest possible grade. Thus earning himself the historic distinction of having flunked Einstein in the physics course. Parley, it was because Einstein just didn't show up.
Starting point is 00:43:37 Like, he was wasn't showing up for class because he didn't value it. Pernay's written request in March 1899, Einstein was given an official director's reperman due to lack of diligence in physics practicum. Again, you know, IE, you know, he just didn't give a shit about that class. And so there, there is that one thing, hardly justification for a national ad campaign now. As a poor student, he was no Einstein, passed it on. Oh, I'm passing on. All right. Einstein preferred
Starting point is 00:43:59 to study based on his own interests and passions with one or two friends, even though he was still providing himself on being a vagabond or a loner. You know, he also began to hang around the coffee houses and attend musical suarez with little cool crowd of Bohemian soulmates, fellow students. He forged lasting intellectual friendships in Zurich that became important bonds later in his life like Marcel Grossman, a middle-class Jewish math wizard whose father owned a factory near Zurich. Together, Einstein and Grossman smoked pipes, I did drinks iced coffees, discussed philosophy, the cafe, Metropole, on the banks of the Lamont,
Starting point is 00:44:30 River, they're in Zurich. That's cool to think about, man, young Einstein sitting in a Zurich coffee shop, you know, sipping some iced coffee, maybe some espresso, smoking some cigarettes or a pipe, talking philosophies, mathematical theory, man, to be a fly in that wall. You know, to understand, you know, what they were, mathematical theory, man, to be a fly in that wall. To understand what they were talking about, actually if I was a fly in that wall, I'd probably just want to be one for a little while. I'd probably be a fly for a little while,
Starting point is 00:44:52 then I'd get bored, I'd start to zone out because I didn't get what they were saying, and then I'd probably find some coffee crumb cakes, someone's plate, nibble on nose, and then I'd be violently swatted to death. So maybe it's best if I don't become a fly in that wall. Einstein enjoyed his Mozart and Bach. Also took up saline, solitary pursuit, and the glorious Alpine lakes around Jerk. Carefree life is a student, you know,
Starting point is 00:45:15 despite the constant financial failings of his father who against Einstein's advice, just kept trying to set up his own business rather than his work for somebody with a salary. As his uncle Jacob had finally done it, And that's where that old saying comes from. Why can't you play it safe like Uncle Jacob? That's where that comes from. It's a rare old saying that I have only said once and it's already gotten old. And then in Zurich, he met his second love of his life
Starting point is 00:45:36 and Ole Marie Winchler was out. He met Malayva. Malayva Marich. It's first and the favorite child of an ambitious Serbian peasant to join the army married into modest wealth and then dedicated himself to making sure that his brilliant daughter was able to prevail in the male world of math and physics. Sounds like an amazing dad she had actually. Malayva and recently made her way to Zurich where she became just before she turned 21 the only woman in Einstein's section of the polytechnic.
Starting point is 00:46:00 More than three years older than Einstein afflicted with the congenital hipdose location that caused her to limp and prone to bouts of despondency, Malayva Merch was known for neither here looks nor her personality. Very smart and serious, small, delicate, brunette ugly, is how one of her female friends in Zurich described her. Jesus. One of that friend of Malayva's was related to Eleanor Roosevelt's mom, she seems just as vain and cruel. Malayva had qualities that to Eleanor Roosevelt's mom. She seems just as vain and cruel. Well, Malayba had qualities that Einstein, at least during his romantic scholar years, found very attractive. A passion for math and science, a brooding depth, a baguilin soul, her deep set eyes, had
Starting point is 00:46:35 haunting intensity, her face, and a enticing touch of melancholy. And, she had teeny tiny doll hands that he found irresistible. She suffered from ten- uh, tenylid hideous, a rare genetic condition where your hands stop growing at the age of around five, uh, her father had it as well. And, uh, and it kept him from advancing further in the, in the army than he otherwise would have since he had to use a modified rifle that looked more like a kid's toy to fit his little hands. Uh, we're to think about and also not true that true that I know of. There was nothing in the research that I did that ever indicated anything about her hand size or her father's backtriality.
Starting point is 00:47:10 She would become over time, Einstein's muse, partner, lover, wife, even antagonist. She'd be the most important person in his young adult life. And they met, you know, when they were both in the polytechnic, you know, and they met in October 1896. And the summer of 1897, Malayev and Albert took a hike together and a romance started to develop out of what had been a platonic relationship up to that point. That fall frightened by the new feeling she was experiencing because of Einstein.
Starting point is 00:47:37 Marriage decided to leave the Polytechnic temporarily and instead just audit classes at High Library University. That is intense, man. Felt so strongly for this this dude, she had to take time off at school. Old world romances, gotta love their intensity. Thanks Tinder for ruining all of that. Turnin' into our culture and swipe culture, is that shallow. By April, she was back in a boarding house, a few blocks from his, and now they were coupled to shared books, intellectual enthusiasts, intim intimacies access to each other's apartments. They were kindred spirits who perceived
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Starting point is 00:50:12 Hug her. Make coffee with her. Sculled her. Study with her. Laugh with her. Walk with her. Chat with her. And add and add in in a fucking ad infinitum. Jesus Christ these words. In his intermediate exams in October 1898, af, fucking add in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in, in't want to do, something boring that he phoned in, and then his professor, who sounds like an asshole, made him rewrite this thesis, he didn't want to do in the first place on regulation paper, word for word. Then he got his diploma, a degree in physics in July of 1900. On February 1st, 1901, Albert Einstein acquired his citizenship. He remained his with citizen for the rest of his life. He also completes his first scientific paper on the capillary forces of a straw. Capillary action or capillarity is the ability of a liquid to flow against gravity, where
Starting point is 00:51:14 liquid spontaneously rises in a narrow space such as a thin tube or straw or in porous material such as paper. This effect can cause liquids to flow against the force of gravity or magnetic field induction and it occurs because of attractive forces between the liquid and solid surrounding services. In his article, Ionstein reason to each atom corresponds a molecular attraction field that is independent of the temperature and of the way in which the atom is chemically bound to other atoms. I do remember something about this from science in high school. And if you want a better explanation than that,
Starting point is 00:51:45 well, you know what, find a different podcast, listen to. Okay, my eyes were starting to cross a little bit there. Yeah, sorry, I didn't have any time, any time it's too late to get a degree in physics. If that is indeed the degree you need to be able to understand properly what I just read. Okay, also 1901, he had a little trouble with a fam. They didn't like Malayva.
Starting point is 00:52:04 They found her physically unattractive. And whilst she was a solid mathematician, she was an star one. Didn't seem to be Albert's intellectual equal in their eyes. And basically they just didn't understand what he saw in her. Man, ouch, ouch, hearing that from the fan. He also had a hell of a time
Starting point is 00:52:17 finding a job after graduation. Mostly for two reasons. First being he was Jewish. And second, he didn't tolerate bullshit. His professors from Zurich found him somewhat arrogant, but they did not yet consider him to be a genius. Nothing worse than an arrogant stupid person. Regardless, his frueless job search, regardless of it was less than around a year, Malayva said the part of what hurted him the most, as far as his job hunt, was a sharp tongue actually. He was a smart ass. A friend of his offered him a job in
Starting point is 00:52:44 insurance, even though his family was no longer able to help with him financially, like they had done in school, he was almost flat broke. He still turned it down. He felt like the drudgery of that work was beneath him. I do admire that, man. When people stick to their convictions and tough times that are just getting afraid
Starting point is 00:52:57 and giving up on their dreams, you know, Albert, he wanted to work in the field of academia, you know, in theoretical mathematics, science, and scientific research. And he wasn't about to accept anything less than that. He applied for job, you know, and theoretical mathematics, science, and scientific research. And he wasn't about to accept anything less than that. He applied for job, after job, after job, kept getting shut down, but then he knocked Malayva up and he was like, fuck it. I'll take the next job and come in a way.
Starting point is 00:53:14 And that's how he'd become a clerk at a Swiss patent office in Bern in early 1902, a position he'd hold for several years actually. And I get that too, man. I love nothing more than being a dad. My family's the most important thing to me. But for you, young time suckers out there. If you got some big dreams and you want to chase them, I cannot recommend strongly enough delaying having a family.
Starting point is 00:53:35 Right? Kids, if you're actually involved in their lives, take so much time. I've made a number of career compromises, because of having kids, and what I felt like my responsibility was towards them, like working in reality TV. You know, I needed the money at the time. You know, I was living in and what I felt like my responsibility was towards them, like working in reality TV. You know, I needed the money at the time.
Starting point is 00:53:46 You know, I was living in California, I spent a huge portion of my disposable income on making sure my kids were constantly flying back and forth from Spokane, Washington in California, and I took a bunch of jobs that I didn't want, and I also took another job I didn't really want to buy a house for the family. And not complaining, not complaining or blaming,
Starting point is 00:54:01 just pointing out some truth. Would not trade my kids for the world, love them to death. I got fantastic kids, even if they were shitty kids. I still love them. But I feel like not enough people tell you the truth, especially like to the youth. You want to throw yourself into your career? Well, don't get married or have kids in your 20s.
Starting point is 00:54:17 There will still be people to marry later on. I assure you. I promise you. Or you can date for a while, but yeah. But if you do have kids, nothing shameful and sacrifice in some of those individual dreams for the good of the fam. And you know, you just do the best you can.
Starting point is 00:54:33 You work around as best you can. So kids, no kids, go set the world on fire. Just know it's little leisure, get the fire started. Little leisure, get that kindling going. If you don't have extra mouths, besides your own defeat. Anyway, Einstein's family learns to accept her after she's pregnant.
Starting point is 00:54:49 When Malayva's pregnant in 1901, when they're not even married, gasp, grown, women phaging in the street, that actually is fairly scandalous for in 1901. Malayva moves to live with their parents and hungry to give birth to their baby and Albert moves to burn for work. That patent office on February 3rd, 1902,
Starting point is 00:55:06 Malayva has Einstein's daughter, like Surrell, a girl Einstein would never actually lay eyes on. You know, it wasn't kosher for a Swiss official, which Albert now was, because he works at the patent office, to have an illegitimate child. You know, his father would not give Albert permission to marry Malayva yet, even though she had a baby. And so Albert didn't get married. You yet, even though she had a baby.
Starting point is 00:55:25 So Albert didn't get married. I guess you really wanted dad's approval. Einstein also didn't ever go visit his new child. Not sure why he didn't do that. And then for reasons, history isn't quite sure of. Lysel just kind of disappears. We think that she was given up for adoption. Speculation says to a family friend.
Starting point is 00:55:44 So yeah, the rumor is this little Lysel, dinosaur, scarlet fever. We think that she was given up for adoption. Speculation says to a family friend. So yeah, the rumor is this little light-sirled night of Scarlett Fever. Just a year later, light-sirl. Darks Little Chapter and Einstein's story. As a dad, I just can't imagine not visiting your newborn baby. And it's not even like the babies are proct of a one-night
Starting point is 00:55:57 stand or the product of someone who either didn't have a relationship, you know, he didn't have a relationship with or just ended a relationship with. Not that it would be okay in that situation. Extra weird considering that not only would they not break up, Malaybo would soon go on to become Einstein's wife, but he just never made it out there to see the baby. Different times, I guess, you know, he was poor. You know, his family was going through some tough financial times.
Starting point is 00:56:19 He just started his job. The baby was born back in Novisod, Serbia, where Malavia's parents lived today over 20 hours away by train back then probably like two full days. 1902, man, really, it's not a good year all around for Einstein. His dad, Herman dies on October 10th, 1902, and Milan of heart failure. Luckily, Albert was able to be with him on his deathbed, and on his deathbed, he finally gave Albert permission to marry Malavia. So on January 6th, 1903 Einstein and Malayba do get married.
Starting point is 00:56:46 Small, small ceremony, few work colleagues. Marie's and Conrad serve as witnesses at a tiny civil ceremony in the Bern registrar's office. No family members, not Einstein's mother or sister, not marriage's parents come to Bern. The tight group of intellectual comrades celebrate together to restaurant that evening and then Einstein and Malayba, you know, go back to the apartment together and knock it out. I'm guessing not exactly the romantic, you know, person he seemed to be a few years earlier now. Doesn't sound like much of a wedding.
Starting point is 00:57:15 And we'll soon find out he gets considerably less romantic with Malayba in the coming years. On May 14th, 1904, Albert and Malibu's first son, Hans Albert Einstein is born in Bern, Switzerland. Albert seemed like a better dad this time around. He was behaving with fatherly dignity. Malibu noted, and he spent time making little toys for his baby son, such as a cable car. He constructed from matchboxes and string. That was one of the nicest toys I had at the time when it worked. Hans Albert could still recall later when he was a built out of little string and match boxes and so on. He could make the most beautiful things.
Starting point is 00:57:47 1905 is known as Albert's beautiful year. His special theory of relativity is born and he applies his theory to mass and energy and formulates his most famous equation E equals MC squared. Einstein has four papers published in the Annen, der Physik, the leading German physics journal of the day. He does this all while working at the patent office, writing his theories and equations while either at home and the evenings or during spare time at work during the day. So what does E equals MC squared mean? I looked it up and it means energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. On the basic level,
Starting point is 00:58:20 the equation says that energy and mass, matter, are interchangeable. They are different forms of the same thing. Under the right conditions, energy can become mass and vice versa. And then we humans don't see them that way. How can a beam of light be a wall nuts? How can different forms of the same thing, but nature sees them that way? How fast is the speed of light, by the way? 186,000 miles per second. Someone traveling to the speed of light
Starting point is 00:58:46 would circle the globe almost eight times in less than one second. I knew it was fast, but that is so fast. It takes light no time at all, by the way, to make it around a flat earth, because that's not real. Here's an example of E equals MC squared. If you could turn every one of the atoms in a paper clip into pure energy, leaving no mass whatsoever.
Starting point is 00:59:06 So complete transfer of mass to energy, the paperclip would yield 18 kilotons of TNT. That's roughly the size of the bomb that destroyed here is Shima in 1945. On Earth, however, there is no practical way to convert a paperclip or any other object entirely to energy. It would require temperatures and pressures greater than those at the core of the sun. Still don't understand? Well, me neither. Actually I kind of do, I kind of do.
Starting point is 00:59:30 But my brain hurts for this kind of stuff. I only kind of understand now because I've been watching so many explanation videos and just, I've been sucking Einstein hard. It's got so much Einstein in my mouth right now. But yeah, I watch a lot of explanation videos, you know, they kept repeating the same tenets. Okay, fine.
Starting point is 00:59:46 I guess I get it, but what I kept thinking about is like, why is it important? Why do we need to know that? How is that significant? And I kept sucking. I found out, well, significant in the scientific community because in 1904, everyone in science that time believed that the universe was divided into two realms.
Starting point is 00:59:58 On the one hand, there was the realm of energy where winds blew, coal burned, lightning crackled. On the other hand, there was the realm of mass, trees, mountains, paperweights, corn dogs, broughtwests. You know, there were two realms and they were entirely separate. There was no link between the two. And then in 1905, Einstein realized there was, there was a link, solid matter could explode apart, reveal hidden energy, and this understanding of releasing energy, you know, for matter is
Starting point is 01:00:25 what led to the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear power, which, you know, is produced through nuclear fission, the splitting of atoms of uranium in a nuclear reactor. So while Einstein himself didn't personally make a nuclear bomb or design a nuclear power plant, he opened the door to the realm of possibility that allowed both of those things to be invented. You know, it's kind of like, you know, he didn't invent the ham and cheese hot pocket or the microwave, but he showed how it was possible for someone to build a microwave.
Starting point is 01:00:55 And as soon as that microwave was built, someone, some other genius realized, I got to get some ham, cheese and a pita pocket stuck in there, you know, and then because of that, a lot of people died because of that decision I feel like that analogy unraveled a bit at the end, but still somehow makes sense. I also feel like if you understand the importance of this one discovery You know, I'm sorry. I also feel like you do understand the importance of discovery and it was just one of many that he would make just that year By the way, I also watched about five different pronunciation videos for nuclear. And if you still think I'm mispronounced in that word, I know that's been a hot topic over the course of the suck.
Starting point is 01:01:31 Once you go fuck yourself. All right. I said it in the same way that the Oxford Dictionary pronunciation guide guy said it. And pronunciation, real world, real, real word. I'm all flustered. It's in the Cambridge Dictionary, the Merriam Webster Dictionary. I bring that up because I've mentioned pronunciation problems a million times in this podcast. And then everyone's to have people write in, well, actually, pronunciation is not a real world.
Starting point is 01:01:52 A real word, Jesus Christ. It's a combination of pronounced and an unseated, no, it is a real word, okay? Maybe it's even a real world, because I keep wanting to say that. Maybe it's both. I don't know about the world part. Einstein's 1905 burst of creativity was astonishing.
Starting point is 01:02:05 He had devised a revolutionary quantum theory of light to help prove the existence of atoms, explained Brownian motion up in the concepts of space and time, produced what would become science's best known equation. Also on April 30th, 1905, he completed his thesis with Alfred Kleiner, professor of experimental physics, which gave him his PhD at the University of Zurich. He had his dissertation,
Starting point is 01:02:26 a new determination of molecular dimensions. He's Dr. Ryan Seins now. I don't know how he's very, in 1906 he was promoted to a technical expert at the patent office, class two. He managed the time exactly, he was like a machine. Eight hours of work. Eight hours of miscellaneous and scientific work at home.
Starting point is 01:02:43 Eight hours of sleep. You know, a lot of times he'd cut into a sleep to just, you know, work more in his manuscripts. He was, yeah, he was just a back in scientific machine. 1908 Albert Einstein became an associate professor at the University of Byrne, finally sneak into the world of academia, making his exit plan from the patent office.
Starting point is 01:02:58 Crazy, it took him three years to get a position as an associate professor after his breakthrough is back in 1905. He did feel like kind of later on that part of white, you know, was a little hard for him was, he honestly just being Jewish in Europe at that time. In 1909, Albert is able to resign from the patent office as appointed associate professor at theoretical physics
Starting point is 01:03:14 at Zurich University on July 28th, 1910. Albert and Malayva's second son, Edward, born and munic. Albert would call him Tete, as in petite. Albert writes a paper on critical op-op-opolescence, opolescence that describes why the sky is blue. In 1911, Einstein predicts bending of light. He's appointed professor of theoretical physics at the German University of Prague. 1913, Einstein is appointed professor of theoretical physics at the Federal Institute of Technology and Zurich works on his new theory of gravity.
Starting point is 01:03:45 By 1914, Einstein and Malayev's marriage has soured. They moved to Berlin, where Malayev didn't like it. Malayev took the kids back to Zurich. Albert seems to have been a shitty of a husband and father at least to Malayev as he was brilliant as a scientist. His focus was science and intellectual discovery, and everything else took extremely distant second place.
Starting point is 01:04:05 I'm sure it wasn't quite that simple, but it doesn't look good on papers you're about to see. My wife and I were actually talking about work life balance the other night. She recently sat through a motivational speaker at a real-tour's workshop for work, so she's talking all the various techniques she'd learned for growing your business, and that led to a discussion of, yes, you can do a lot of things, but at what cost to the rest of your life. Like you can work 12 hours a things, but at what cost to the rest of your life? You can work 12 hours a day, but at what cost?
Starting point is 01:04:27 How much success is worth failing as a parent, failing in a relationship? I argue, you know, when it's the right relationship or when it comes to your kids, that there is no amount. Now sometimes you have to do what, you know, you need temporarily to do to put food in the table, and that is beyond understanding, well, that's respectable. That's a sacrifice. Other times though, I think people have a secure life already and they just push forward because of ego
Starting point is 01:04:49 and then neglect their families. And that seems harder to justify. Like I've been spending a crazy amount of time on time, so I'm slightly, you know, definitely spent less time with the fam because of it, but I only do so in the hopes of growing the team and the business so that actually I can be able to do what I want and still spend time with my fam.
Starting point is 01:05:04 I am not sure Einstein had a similar goal. I don't think he had these kind of thoughts. I think he wanted to, you know, just work as much as possible kind of always. There was just an endless stream of equations he wanted to solve laid out in front of him in his mind and that was what mattered to him. And you could either be part of that program or you could fuck off and just, you know, get away from him. In July 1914, Albert Einstein wrote to his first wife, you know, Malayba, the mother of his two sons, a horrible letter that history has preserved, laying down a series of conditions
Starting point is 01:05:32 under which he would agree to continue in their troubled marriage. Check this shit out. This is the balls on this guy. He wrote this in a letter and it's all outlined, like it's a scientific document. This part of the letter says, conditions, A, you will make sure, and then you know,
Starting point is 01:05:48 it's a colon, that my clothes, or not, will start shooting me, one, that my clothes and laundry are kept in good order. Two, that I will receive my three meals regularly in my room. Three, that my bedroom and study are kept neat, and especially that my desk is left for my use only B. You will renounce all personal relations with me and so far as they are not completely necessary for social reasons
Starting point is 01:06:14 Specifically, you will for go one my sitting at home with you two my going out or traveling with you and then three You will obey the follow oh, sorry excuse me see you will obey the following, oh, sorry, excuse me. See, you will obey the following points and your relations with me. One, you will not expect any intimacy from me, nor will you reproach me in any way. Two, you will stop talking to me if I request it. Oh, God, that's such a dick thing to write in the letter. Three, you will leave my bedroom or study immediately without protest
Starting point is 01:06:46 if I request it. D, you will undertake not to belittle me in front of our children, either through words or behavior. Holy shit. It is God. He just comes across like such a fucking monster in that letter. I cannot imagine writing that to a person that any part of you still feels like you might be with.
Starting point is 01:07:10 I feel like he had to have just wanted her to go away. And this is his way of saying it. Instead of just making it very clear, just get away from me. I don't want this relationship anymore. So he wasn't gonna do that, but he was just gonna to write like the most ridiculous, rigid, you know, agenda that she had to follow. Man, it must have been tempting for her to write a rebuttal.
Starting point is 01:07:32 Just dear Albert, I received your letter and looked over your list of demands carefully. After contemplation, I've come up with my own conditions. You can A, go fuck yourself. I also was a gifted mathematician who sacrificed my career to raise our children, which you seem to forget. B, seriously, go fuck yourself. You can't sit at home with me, travel with me. I can expect no intimacy from you.
Starting point is 01:07:59 You got the last part right. You better work on solving the age old equation of how to suck your own dick because I sure as hell will never be doing that again. And see, fuck off and die. See you in divorce courts. I'm going to ruin you. Warmest regards, Malayva. I'm sorry, I was clearly just, yeah, clearly trying to push your way. Man, why couldn't you just say that, geez. Well, they wouldn't divorce until 1919. But as early as 1912, he did start seeing someone else. And there's no easy way to say this.
Starting point is 01:08:32 So I'm just gonna say it bluntly. He started fucking his cousin. His first cousin. Yep. Einstein would marry El Saloanthal in 1919. They were first cousins on his mother's side, as well as second cousins on their father's side. Gah!
Starting point is 01:08:52 Weird or still, she was actually born Elsa Einstein. The Lohanthal surname was just one she got from her first marriage. So creepy. Okay, now last week, we talked about how FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt were fifth cousins. They were actually, you know, they were fifth cousins once removed, very different than this situation. The once removed part is an indication, by the way, of generational difference. So, their parents were fifth cousins, and that made them fifth cousins once removed. Fifth cousins are pretty distant relatives.
Starting point is 01:09:18 When your kids each have cousins, they'll be second, like the kids will be second cousins of each other. And then when they have kids, you know, those kids will be third cousins and so on down to fifth. Like second cousins have the same great grandparents, but not the same grandparents. Fifth cousins have the same great, great, great, great grandparents.
Starting point is 01:09:39 FDR and Eleanor were those people's kids, not a big deal. I have no idea who any of my relatives are beyond second cousins. I mean, for all I know, I've slept with fifth cousins. Who knows? But first cousin, that's the cousins like your family shows pictures of you when you're an adult of you taking a bath with them
Starting point is 01:09:55 when you were kids, like when you were babies. These are the ones who sit with you at the kitty table during Christmas dinner, right? These are the ones that he was like playing in the yard with, the family home. We talked about, you know, earlier Munich when they had the good times back there and then you're going to marry one. Uh, yeah, different times, I guess, but so weird.
Starting point is 01:10:16 Albert and Elsa's moms were sisters. Their dads were first cousins. Apparently Einstein was both a genius and an idiot. Just imagine for a moment, banging one of your aunt's kids. Are you nauseous? Well, congratulations, you're mentally healthy. Are you horny? Well, I guess you might be a genius.
Starting point is 01:10:32 Elsa had two daughters, Ilse and Margo, who would technically be Albert's own children's second cousins. So they could say, this is my step sister and this is my cousin and they could be pointing to the same person both times and be correct. Okay, I think you get how weird all this is my step sister and this is my cousin and they can be pointed at the same person both times and be correct Okay, I think you get how how weird all this is now so yeah 1919 I'm starting else to get married his relationship with his two kids from his first marriage would be strained
Starting point is 01:10:52 Yeah, I bet and he'd only see them a handful of times throughout the rest of childhood He'd resume a relationship years later with Hans when Hans got married himself Teet would be diagnosed with schizophrenia as a young adult his mom would care for him the rest of his life And Einstein would have zero relationship with him. So also that's kind of like a place to that. Not always the best dad. Also in 1919, a solar eclipse proves Einstein's general theory of relativity, correct?
Starting point is 01:11:16 It was originally published in parts in 1915, 1916. He becomes an internationally famous intellectual being written up in newspapers around the world. So now one of the key tenants of general relativity is that space is not static. The motions of objects can change the very structure of space. By contrast, Newton's previously accepted view
Starting point is 01:11:35 of the universe, space is inert. In Einstein's view, space is combined with another dimension, time, which creates a universe-wide fabric called spacetime. Objects travel to this fabric which can be warped, bent, twisted by the masses and motions of objects within space time. British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington was paying attention to Einstein's outlandish yet powerful new ideas. After getting word from Dutch physicist Wilhelm De Sitter, Holland was a
Starting point is 01:12:01 neutral nation during World War I and realized he could lead an experiment to test that theory. Now, as the sun is the most massive object in our solar system, its curvature of space time would be the most noticeable example in the local universe. But to test Einstein's theory, astronomers would have to study the positions of background stars close to the sun's edge, to see if the sun was bending the light coming from them. As the sun is so bright, the sun's glare would normally make an observation impossible, and then there was the eclipse of 1919.
Starting point is 01:12:28 During a total solar eclipse, the moon orbits directly in front of the sun, completely blocking the light from the sun's disc. As opposed to a flat earth lunar eclipse, which occurs when the moon passes directly behind the earth and its shadow, and the thin disc of a flat earth can clearly be seen. But only by true believers and by that I mean idiots.
Starting point is 01:12:47 To test Einstein's theory, the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, you know, in Britain organized expeditions to the tropics of Brazil and to the island of Prince of Pei, off the west coast of Africa where the total eclipse would be the most visible. It also so happened that the period of totality, the length of time, the moon blocks out all the sun's surface. For the 1919 eclipse was one of the longest of the 20th century, spanning around six minutes. So this proved to be ample time for astronomers to measure the relative locations of stars, you know, in the in the in the Heidi's cluster that was usefully located near the solar edge
Starting point is 01:13:19 at that time. So although the warp space time deflected the starlight by a minuscule amount invisible to the naked eye, the observations from Brazil and Prince of Payer were analyzed by Eddington and the general relativity predictions agreed with the observation. The warping of space time by the sun's mass was real. Newton's and Earth space had been superseded by a new exciting theory and then the New York Times published the news on November 7, 1919 and Einstein was now a celebrity. I just love picturing all these scientists heading out to Brazil into this tiny little African island
Starting point is 01:13:48 of roughly 6,000 people, just over 50 square miles in size, with the biggest challenge, only 1200 people, so it's not like they had great accommodations. All of this just to understand space a little better. It's amazing. 1921, Einstein visits to the US, lectures at Princeton University on the theory of relativity.
Starting point is 01:14:07 1922, he's awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in 1921. Between 1923 and 1925, Einstein tours and lectures all over the world from the far east to South America. He continues with the scientific studies, working on quantum mechanics and unified field theory, you know, nerds shit. Between 1930 and 1933, he makes several visits to the United States, Adolf Hitler. I'd been appointed a chancellor of Germany in 1933, and then Albert and Elsa and her kids leave Germany and immigrate to the United States. In September, Settling Princeton, he assumes a post at the Institute for Advanced Study
Starting point is 01:14:40 in April 1933, Einstein had noticed that the new German government had passed laws barring Jewish people from holding any official positions. That's something you'd notice. If you were holding one of those, including teaching at universities. A month later, Einstein's works are burned. They're targeted by German student union kids and Nazi book warnings.
Starting point is 01:15:01 Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, proclaiming Jewish intellectualism is dead. One German magazine included him, an unsigned and a list of enemies of the German regime with the phrase not yet hanged. They put a $5,000 bounty on his head. How dumb did the racial hatred of Nazis make them? They put a price on the head of a guy who had they not been racist maniacs, could have helped them win the war through his knowledge that could be used for the development of atomic weaponry. And a subsequent letter to a physicist and friend Max Born, who had already immigrated from Germany to England, Einstein wrote, I must confess that the degree of their brutality and cowardice comes as something of a surprise.
Starting point is 01:15:35 So I remember he'd already thought of them as sole as Ottomans before, now he's just, you know, even with his low expectations, they've still surpassed, you know, those in terms of just not being good people. After moving to the US, he described the bookburnings as a spontaneous emotional outburst by those who shun popular enlightenment and more than anything in the world fear the influence of man of intellectual independence. Men who fear the influence of men smarter than themselves, man, I feel like we still have a lot of those people, a lot of those men around the world. 1936, Elsa dies from heart and kidney problems, one of my Einstein's friends, Peter Peter Bucky said that when Elsa died Albert was devastated and wept something he had never seen the normally unemotional man do. He would never sleep with a very close
Starting point is 01:16:14 relative again. Maybe that should have been the slogan. When it comes, when it came to who he chose to sleep with, he was no Einstein. Pass it on. In 1939, World War II begins, Albert Einstein warned President Roosevelt that Germany might build an atomic bomb. He then recommends nuclear research, which led directly to the development of the Manhattan Project. He himself was denied clearance to work on that project due to his pacifist tendencies, but he did consult. A Vannever Bush, no relation that I can tell to the Bush Presidents, was the director of
Starting point is 01:16:45 the Office of Scientific Research and Development, which oversaw them in Hatton Project, and he contacted Einstein and asked for his help on a problem involving the separation of isotopes that shared chemical traits. And Einstein, I guess, was happy to comply. Later during the war, Einstein would help while with less-secret matters, and Navy Lieutenant came to visit him at the Institute to enlist him in analyzing ordinance capabilities. He was apparently enthusiastic among the issues Einstein explored as part of a $25 per day consulting arrangement were ways to shape the placement of sea mines in Japanese
Starting point is 01:17:15 harbors. And his friend, the physicist George Gammo got to come pick his brain on a variety of topics. He'd say, I'm in the Navy, but not required to get a Navy haircut. He would joke to his colleagues. Probably had trouble, I'm sure a picture in him with a crook cut. After World War II, he worked to control nuclear, nuclear proliferation.
Starting point is 01:17:34 He also regretted signing his initial letter to Roosevelt saying in a newsweek interview that had I known the Germans would not succeed in developing an atomic bomb, I would have done nothing. He would have not encouraged Roosevelt to pursue that. Also during World War II in 1940, Einstein becomes a citizen of the U.S. while also retaining his Swiss citizenship. World War II would change Einstein, as I'm sure it did a lot of people, you know, as in science. So it was in the world of politics for Einstein. He set a unified set of principles to create order out of, out,
Starting point is 01:18:02 out of anarchy. A system based on sovereign nations with their own military forces, competing ideologies, conflicting national interests would inevitably produce more wars. So he regarded a world authority as a realistic, rather than idealistic, as a practical, rather than naive way to run the world. For the remaining ten years of his life, his passion for advocating a unified governing structure for the globe would rival that of finding a unified field theory that could govern all the forces of nature. So basically, he's just before he dies, he's just trying to solve all of the world's problems. Although distinct, in most ways, both quests reflected his instinct
Starting point is 01:18:37 for a transcendent order. In addition, both would display Einstein's willingness to be a nonconformist, to be serenely secure and challenging, prevailing attitudes. I can't hear conspiracy theorists now, just one world government man. Oh shit, luminati, try ladder lists, free mason, space lizards. So one world agenda man, it's real.
Starting point is 01:18:59 Honestly, probably kind of is. Honestly, one world government is probably inevitable. Due to the reliance of more and more nations on international trade and commerce to survive, due to the increasing strain on a limited ecosystem, the exponentially increasing population is causing. Eventually, maybe hundreds of years from, I don't know, I feel like it only makes sense that all humans will have to become members of the same nation, just to give us the best odds of not killing each other and send nuclear battle.
Starting point is 01:19:22 That's just what I think. Who knows? Maybe I'm a member of the Illuminati. The three great powers, the US, Britain, Russia, should jointly establish a new world government Einstein said in an article and then invite other nations to join in. The United Nations, which was founded in October 1945, didn't come close enough to meet in these criteria Einstein felt. He truly wanted a one-world government. So Einstein, he sought to make it clear that world government he envisioned would not impose Western, sorry, liberal democracy everywhere.
Starting point is 01:19:47 He advocated a world legislator, legislature that would be elected directly by the people of each member country and secret ballot rather than be appointed by the nation's rulers. However, it should not be necessary to change the internal structure of the three great powers. He added as a reassurance to Russia, membership in a super national security system should not be based on any arbitrary Democratic standards, so you know, he's trying to bring out future wars In the sentiment prompted Einstein in May 1946 to take on his most prominent public policy role of his career He became chairman of the newly formed emergency committee of atomic scientists, which was dedicated to nuclear arms control and world
Starting point is 01:20:24 government during the red scare the followed World War II committee of atomic scientists, which was dedicated to nuclear arms control and world government. During the red scare that followed World War II, Einstein refused to join in on kind of anti-communist propaganda. He also refused to promote communism. You know, when questioned about his refusal to take a hard stance on either side, he said, a person must strive to promote moderation and a more objective judgment. Why can't more people think like that? One world government, man.
Starting point is 01:20:43 It's time for our reptilian master to start subjugating the human race. I feel like this people get so worked up whenever you're opposed to even capitalism in any form whatsoever. I don't feel we need to throw it away. I like it. But maybe we could try and think about how fair it is. I don't know. 1952 Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel,
Starting point is 01:21:05 turned it down. On November 9th, 1952, chain Weisman, the first president of Israel, and one of the state's co-founders, along with David Ben Gureon, died. Weisman had been in poor health when elected president in May 1948 in a non-graded on February 16th, 1949,
Starting point is 01:21:20 according to nested history, as such, he was unable to actively craft policies and carry out the ceremonial state duties. After his death, the Israel government led by David Ben-Gurion, decided to offer the post to presidency to the 73-year-old Einstein. Abit Ybhan, the Israel ambassador to Washington and the state's UN representative, wrote a letter to Einstein, just asking him to hopefully consider himself or presidents, subject to a vote by the Nesset, you know, Israel's legislative committee. I intend to client, writing, I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel to serve
Starting point is 01:21:52 as its president. And at once saddened in a shame that I cannot accept it. All my life I have dealt with objective matters. Hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions. For these reasons alone, I should be unsuited to fulfill the duties of that high office, even if advancing age was not making increasing inroads to my strength. I am the more distressed over the circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond.
Starting point is 01:22:20 Ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world. Man, what an honor to be offered the role of leading a new nation and what a practical guy to turn it down knowing that he wasn't right for the job. I feel like that's a problem with a lot of political leadership, the people who truly would be best at the job, like don't want it, or don't think they would be good enough to do it because they understand truly how serious it is. Oh, he reconnects with his son, Hans Albert, Hans mother died in 1948 and their other son, Edward, aka Teet, was institutionalized in a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, or he died in 1965. Shortly after Albert had celebrated his 75th birthday, the year before his son
Starting point is 01:22:56 turned 50, Einstein, thanks to a reminder from his son's wife, wrote his son a letter that was slightly formal, as if created for a special occasion, came a nice tribute, both to his son and to the value of a life in science. So I guess he's, you know, at the end of his life trying to be a little bit better of a dad. On Sunday, April 17th, Einstein woke up feeling better than he had recently. He was in poor health this point in his life. He asked for his glasses, papers, pencils, proceeded to jot down a few calculations.
Starting point is 01:23:23 Talk to Hans Albert about some scientific ideas, you know, 22 of his equations, lamented half jokingly to his son. If only I had more mathematics. He worked as long as he could, and when the pain got too great, he went to sleep that night, and then shortly after 1 a.m. on Monday, April 18th, the nurse heard him blurt out a few words in German that she could not understand, and then the aneurysm burst and he died at age
Starting point is 01:23:45 76, right? Working equations right until the very end and with his death also dies this time, so timeline. Good job soldier, you've made it back, barely. So that is the life of Einstein. Some of it, you know, you could have an entire year long weekly podcast dedicated his life and still not cover all of it. I mean, in just 1905 alone, one year, you know, while he's working at Pat and Doff,
Starting point is 01:24:15 he published papers on the Brownian movement, you know, or the zigzag motion of microscopic particles and suspension, you know, his findings helped prove the existence of atoms and molecules, the quantum theory of light, he proposed that light is composed of separate packets of energy called quanta or photons that have some properties of particles and some properties of waves. He also explained the photoelectric effect, which is the emission of electrons from some solids
Starting point is 01:24:40 when they're struck by light. Television is a practical application of his theory of light. The special theory of relativity, you know, explain the time and motion are relative to the observers, you know, as long as the speed of light remains constant, natural laws are the same throughout the universe. The link between mass and energy, the fourth paper expanded this idea, you know, with that famous equation, equals MC squared, formula demonstrating that a small particle of matter contains an enormous amount of energy, the, for nuclear energy, and all that's just a year.
Starting point is 01:25:10 But it's still not enough for some, not enough for the idiots of the internet. The history channel ran a documentary on Einstein. I know I know. I have a lot of problems with the history channels programming, but this documentary however seems pretty solid. You can watch the whole thing almost exactly 90 minutes long on YouTube. It all include the link in the episode notes in the app. User Tillman knocks one comment out of the park in my opinion, clearly when he left this comment, 457 people had thumbed down the video, a video that now has over a million views. And he said 457 people were rejected
Starting point is 01:25:50 by their cousins. Zing, nice work till man, good word economy, solid zinger. And then user Cain Abbez goes conspiracy nut saying he worked at the patent office and stole whatever he liked. Look Alan Watts, he knows the entire story. Well I did look up Alan Watts, I think that's what you meant. And I found a YouTube video called Alan Watts Debunks Einstein and I struck gold. It's gold and it's here, it's here. Big nuggets, it's gold. Gold comments 24 cared links to golden tom four
Starting point is 01:26:25 here's what a little of uh here's a little of what a Alan has to say this is just uh preposterously absurd all right so Alan I'm gonna find him here Alan what debunks Einstein but when you look at see Einstein for instance, I've never found Einstein's propaganda there. It's so typical of the ones that suddenly they pull out of nowhere, a sudden G is just like the same thing with Charles Darwin and many others. Okay. They belong to the Royal Society, at the highest Masonic scientific group in the planet.
Starting point is 01:27:04 At the Mason's. Did Einstein? Yeah. they're all society at the highest masonic scientific group in the planet automations did i know yeah and i'm telling literally was diagnosed school he was classed and idiot now he wasn't in school if you read the biographies on them you've never read one of them uh... it's teachers all said the guy couldn't learn anything there are some no but we're usually became a famous scientist
Starting point is 01:27:22 uh... but his parents were were well connected not true nope and they got a job in the patent office no they didn't and the reward if you work in a few patent offices at this
Starting point is 01:27:36 this is it's just such preposterous idiocy you know what what are you talking about uh... maybe maybe alan work for uh... maybe he was hired by Pasadon.com. As a student, he was no Einstein, pass it on. Maybe there's, if you look that up, as Alan I sure, Masonic group, all his teacher said he was an idiot. His parents were well, total nonsense.
Starting point is 01:27:57 Well, before I move on to More Island, watch, user Bandit King, YouTube user, has a great rebuttal to Kane Avis, his original claim that Einstein stole all of his mathematical theories from the patent office saying Kane Abyss sounds like Sounds like you all need some education a patent office does not deal with scientific mathematical theories a Patent office is where you go to submit your ideas of products and features of products and their implementations ideas of products and features of products and their implementations. Show me one, just one scientist in the history of humanity who went and submitted his paper
Starting point is 01:28:27 to a patent office instead of a scientific journal. The hoax is so idiotic. Please feel free to do some basic Google searches and learn about what a patent office does before spewing out garbage like this. I love it. User Luis De Ruiz Santiago. Fathers his thoughts saying, Cain Aviz, his theories have nothing to do with anything you could patent at the time. He was a theoretical all caps physicist. Exactly. I love how this fucking idiot along
Starting point is 01:28:58 along with Alan Watt just thinks that like mind blowing, theoretical, you know, theoretical concepts are just being like print it up and handed in at the Swiss patent office. You know, like some of them look like. I have one, I deal for bicycle ringer, yeah, just ring, ring, yeah, put it, a noise in the for people walking by and to be run over by and bicycle, yeah. And I have an idea for baby, for baby, to not so baby shirt with baby sauces, yeah. And I have one more, one idea.
Starting point is 01:29:26 I have an idea for bending of light by gravity and space, some ideas for a relation between space and time, yeah. Great. So whenever someone makes a spaceship, yeah, the travels a speed of light, I get a little cut of the action, yeah. Get the fuck out of here. It's like you can't patent a theoretical concept.
Starting point is 01:29:50 Under Alan Watts video user Robin Edward sums up the gist of the video saying, while it facts spoil a good conspiracy, and Alan, he goes on and on in this video about Zionists. Jewish leaders set on destroying the world. Real Zionism is a movement of the Jewish people that supports the reestablishment of a Jewish homeland in the territory defined as the historic land of Israel. Conspiracy, Zionism is a quest by Jewish leaders to control all of the world and subjugate Christians
Starting point is 01:30:17 to their evil will. Alan Watt is a maniac. Alan Watts, he's not well. Or Alan Watts is actually a real, entirely different person. I think I've lost is a maniac. Alan Watts, he's not well. Or Alan Watts is a real, entirely different person, I think I've lost for him, but Alan Watt is a man. Yeah, I went to his website, which looks exactly like the kind of website
Starting point is 01:30:33 created by a maniac. I'm sure he made it himself. It's disorganized, chaotic, much like his mind. His website features great quotes, here's a few. Because Alan is perfectly genuine, he has no agent or manager to arrange radio interviews. No, he doesn't have an agent or manager cause he's a lunatic spouting gibberish.
Starting point is 01:30:52 Apparently Alan gets hit up by a lot of people connecting his teachings to the lizard illuminati teachings of David Ike, cause he posts this, for those who wish information on reptilian people rather than waste my time, please check the entertainment sections of major bookstores or visit the local zoo. Come on people, I'm a racist, not a lunatic.
Starting point is 01:31:11 Wait, that's actually not entirely true. Technically, I'm a racist and a lunatic. I'm not just a lunatic. Alan's official logo is, so, luckily he drew it himself. It's so bad, it's so janky. And it's him karate kicking the third eye off of an Illuminati himself. It's so bad, it's so janky. And it's him karate kicking the third eye off of an illuminati pyramid.
Starting point is 01:31:27 It's so great. It's so great. Since I guess the third eye, the third eye actually represents truth seeking and knowledge, not a secret society of nefarious, nefarious rulers. So actually his logo is kind of accurately represents him in a way he's not aware of.
Starting point is 01:31:43 His website opens up with in all ages and all lands there have been those who seek truth. This seeking is an individual search for something more than self and much more than the confines of this worldly system. It is the seeker who understands there is more than what meets the eye who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awakening has begun. The discovery is underway. Alan Watt, a course, in deep programming.
Starting point is 01:32:09 I've known so many people who post shit like that on Instagram, like some memes, you know. I'll have a fucking, you know, one of the likes, uh, some shots, some dude with their shock res all lit up in the background and they post them, quote, like that. And they never seem to know what they're actually talking about. Every time I do the edit to the internet section, just the edits at the internet, I'm just reminded how important education is. Alan also has a section devoted to Chemtrails. Of course he does. He sells three books, has a PayPal donation link. The books are cutting through, volumes one, two, and three,
Starting point is 01:32:34 2950 each or 8550 for all three. Just under 90 bucks for three paper weights full of gibberish. He also post times for weekly video sermons. He's basically like a lesser known even crazier Scottish Alex Jones. And his main focus points are the coming new world order, chemtrails, climate changes fake, and that FEMA is creating prison cities to star various members of the population.
Starting point is 01:32:56 Only thinks David Ike, the loser to Luminati guy is a quack. I love it man, it's like a fucking hip hop beef, except for its conspiracy nut squaring off instead of rappers. But he does have fans. He does have fans, fans like user Sam Zinali, who under the debunking Einstein video post, it is a fact that Einstein was an idiot. He was such an underachiever at school that he was told to leave the school. His relative find him a job at the Swiss patent office, Swiss patent office in parentheses, was a place that the scientists registered and patented their discoveries.
Starting point is 01:33:27 You can understand the scale of the fraud as a student. He was no Einstein. Pass it on. And a user, jogger, six six as a fan, saying Einstein was selected for his Jew background. Whenever someone says something like that, you know that they're just a fucking idiot. Like instead of Jewish, they just say Jew. Like they're always just a racist idiot. Einstein was selected for his Jew background.
Starting point is 01:33:48 Alright, I can discount anything you have to say going forward now. So he will never be doubted. It's all the same with guys like him, Darwin, etc. And Alan spoke about these persons too. Don't believe people invent stuff. Some exceptions like Tesla. The technology or knowledge is given to them. Nice example, build gates.
Starting point is 01:34:08 What? After that comment, I know three things for sure about user joggler66. One, he likes Alan Watt, two, racist, three, idiot. What the hell are you talking about? Technology and knowledge are given to people. By whom, aliens, you, your mom, some other member of your dumb family? Who is giving innovators?
Starting point is 01:34:26 Information, joggler, six, six, sassquatch? Nimrod, Bojangles, James Ingram, Lucaphina? Of course you think innovation and discovery is given to people. I'm guessing because you're so intellectually challenged, you can't comprehend what it's like to actually figure something out on your own. Something you know that wasn't previously understood. It's behind your, it's you know, beyond your level of intelligence to just figure out how that process even works. So they must have stolen it, I guess. Why can't more people just understand
Starting point is 01:34:50 that we're not all created equal? Just like some people who are fit and six feet tall can dunk a basketball and others at the same age, height and fitness level can't touch the rim. Some people, like Einstein, can slam dunk intellectual concepts. They can leap from the foul line, double pump that shit, and throw it down.
Starting point is 01:35:06 Have the crowd stand up on their feet. They're intellectually superior, man accepted. Trust in the scientific process. Mistakes have been made in science for sure, and they'll continue to be made, but it's the best thing we have going forward to learn new concepts that are actually true and real. This best process we have for educating and evolving.
Starting point is 01:35:21 Outside of the scientific process, understanding the world just leads to wild speculation where anything is possible. And where, you know, people like Alan Watts are able to rally other idiots around their insane just agendas. And it's, avoid a new intellectual dark ages. Avoid these idiots of the internet. It is an internet. All right. So Einstein, we get a little taste to he was. A guy with an impressive level of focus who did so much to change the world. Some ways for good and some ways not so much.
Starting point is 01:35:53 Had he not existed, would we still have made it to the atomic bomb? Hard to say. Would someone else have come to the same scientific conclusions? Probably, but when? You know how he not created the atomic bomb? Is there any chance Japan would have won World War II? What would happen then? I don't know.
Starting point is 01:36:07 We'll never know what the world would look like today if we were able to go back and remove one person from history. I do think removing Einstein would wreak a little more havoc on the present than removing the average person would. For me, he's both an inspiration and a warning. You know, you can accomplish great things if you block out distractions and really focus singularly on one project, you know, or your career, something that suits
Starting point is 01:36:29 your talents, but if you focus too hard, you can also really hurt the people around you. And maybe not have the most balanced life. Is that worth the cost? You know, what is worth the cost? How much sacrifice is acceptable? Questions, I think we all have to answer for ourselves. Something to think about. And isn't that what Einstein did best? You know, he gave us something to think about. Now, another look back at Einstein was from Top 5 takeaways. Time, Chuck. Top 5 takeaways. Number one, in 1905, Einstein blew the roof of the scientific community's current understanding of space and time and the relationship between energy and mass all while working at the patent office where he was stealing his ideas.
Starting point is 01:37:10 He also believed in the time-soaked mantra of work can wait. So be like Einstein. Don't stress too hard about your day job unless you work for me, then please don't do that until you have the stuff I'd like you to get done. But think go ahead. Number two, in 1914, Einstein essentially abandoned his wife and two kids after giving his wife a truly disgusting list of marital demands, and then shortly after his divorce,
Starting point is 01:37:30 he married his first cousin. Even geniuses, when their men do appear to be nearly incapable of not being led astray by their dicks at some point. Number three, Einstein's famed E equals MC squared equation, opened the scientific door to the creation of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. The world's most famous equation may also someday be the one that ultimately destroys this.
Starting point is 01:37:55 4. As a student, he was no Einstein. Pass it on. 5. New Info 68% of the population has an IQ between 85 and 115. The average range between 70 and 130. That represents 95% of the population. An IQ of 120 considered superior above 130, considered intellectually gifted, above 145 considered genius.
Starting point is 01:38:18 Right, in the highest IQ ever recorded, it's actually according to the Guinness Book of World Records, that honor goes to Marilyn Boss Savant, with an IQ of 228. Einstein, supposedly, had 162. So very, very smart. Think about how smart Marilyn might be. Jesus, she's still alive. Parade magazine interviewed her about to score way back in the 80s, and they ended up getting so many letters sent in to her that they hired her in 1986, gave her the Ask Marilyn Con column. That thing that's still in parade magazine today, that little thing shows up in print,
Starting point is 01:38:50 and like the Sunday paper, ask Marilyn, man, you should ask her. I'm gonna start asking her some stuff. She has an IQ of 228, and she's still answering those questions again today at the age of 71. I love it. Time, suck, tough, five, take away.
Starting point is 01:39:06 So episode 67, it's wrapped last show 2017 Mary Christmas happy Hanukkah happy holidays happy festivists If you don't already you know do so listen to time suck on the new time suck app show notes for each episode Characters right into the show right from the app link to the store, more all right there on the app. Oh, and we finished downloading an episode, the app will yell at you, it says, Hail Nimrod, I've heard that scared the shit out of you and it surprised you. Thanks to Bit Alexa for building it,
Starting point is 01:39:35 currently working on getting everything ready for the space, letters in February, new secondary podcast coming for the premium listeners, along with the new app, you know, features, there's also gonna be a new stand up app album coming for the premium listeners, along with the new app, you know, features. There's also going to be a new standup album coming for the premium listeners only. Two new albums coming up quick in 2018, Pandora exclusive on January 24th that I just had artwork finished for it, which looks so good by the danger brain crew. Time suck exclusive on February 1st, just under 90 minutes
Starting point is 01:40:01 of previously unrecorded unreleased standup. More merch in the store. First four generations of the time so I've been restocked, finally. I know a lot of you guys have waited a long time for some of those sizes. Yes, also new hoodies, pullovers, new hailed Nimrod shirt. Cold to the curious shirt, I think it's there by the time you hear this.
Starting point is 01:40:19 I'm recording this on Thursday, it's supposed to get there on Friday, so by Christmas day, should be there, just had some delivery problems like this. So it should be a full store full of all the stuff. So please, treat yourself, support the suck. Thanks to Danger Brain for the new items, man, they just killed it.
Starting point is 01:40:33 They also killed it with that CD design, which is gonna be called the CD, or the album, not CD, what the fuck am I talking about? I just went back to 1996 for a second. The album's gonna be called Maybe I'm the Problem. Album number six in the canon. Still cranking away in the YouTube episodes, almost there.
Starting point is 01:40:48 Big holiday shutdown, you know, or, you know, big holiday slowdown, kind of slow everything down. They'll be up to soon. My New Year's resolution is gonna be to keep my mouth shut on more things until they're actually completed, as much as possible. I get way too excited.
Starting point is 01:41:00 I'm like a little kid. Special thanks to Time Suckers, Liam O'Donovan, Justin Walters, Charles Belcher, anyone else I missed for suggesting Einstein. Thanks to Sydney Shies for killing it on social media, Harmony Velocamp for all of her kick-ass positive energy, help on social media as well. Thanks to Jesse Doebner for crushing the game with editing. Thanks to Josh Crel for setting up the suck dungeon, making it all pretty and cool and functional
Starting point is 01:41:21 and recording this first episode. It should be recorded. Thanks to all of you who wrote in this past week. Every email is appreciated. Next Monday, time sucks 68, New Year's Day, we're going dark again. Real dark start new. We've been light, now we're going real dark. In the 1970s, a monster, a clown, far scarier than Pennywise was torturing the people of Cook County, Illinois. John Wayne Gacy, one of the biggest monsters I've ever heard about, he makes me sick, but I do have him a cob interest in that kind of stuff, I guess, and I keep getting requests to suck his horrifically evil ass. So kicking off 2018 with some darkness, some loose with Fena,
Starting point is 01:41:55 and after a couple of week break from murder and mayhem, you know, I guess we might as well jump back into the mind of a killer. And now some time sucker updates. Updates, get your time sucker updates. Slender man update. I just texted to me by my bow jangles research intern, Maddie teeter, Maddie the heater teeter, the old heater teeter. I just came up with that, hopefully he shouldn't hate it.
Starting point is 01:42:23 Going back to time suck 48, a niece of weir 16 pleaded guilty to being a party to attempt the second degree homicide, but claims she was mentally ill at time. She and Morgan Geyser lured a classmate into a Wisconsin wood park where Geyser stabbed her 19 times as weir stood by. The victim survived. All girls were 12 of the time as you know if you heard that episode. The victim was found crawling from woods by a cyclist, you're calling out of the woods, near the city of Waukesha. Western suburb Milwaukee,
Starting point is 01:42:50 she had stab wounds, her arms, legs, and torso, and I think I finally got that city right because I was just in Madison, Wisconsin, where they were like, it's not Waukesha, you dummy. I heard that from a lot of people. Waukesha, Waukesha County Circuit judge, Michael Borin on Thursday, sentenced weir to a maximum punishment of 25 years
Starting point is 01:43:04 in a psychiatric institution. The sentence seems retroactive to the date the crime occurred, May 2014, which means she'll be, you know, committed until the age of 37. So there you go, both perpetrators are now, you know, well, they've been apprehended, Anisa, until she's 37, Morgan Geyser, she's actually gonna be sentenced in February.
Starting point is 01:43:24 I thought she'd already been sentenced, but I guess I looked it up today. She'll be sentenced in February, but I believe she'll also be in a psychiatric facility as well as she'll be sentenced. Okay. An Eleanor Roosevelt update, Deer Suckmaster. This is from Kurt. He says, you motherfucker, just listen to Elle, mother fucking Roosevelt. When you said the bit about the pewter figures in FDR's ass, I cackled, waited, and after several seconds of you not addressing that as
Starting point is 01:43:48 a joke, I thought, this motherfucker is going to make me Google this bullshit. For a brief moment, I actually considered that maybe this is a real thing that the obviously weren't going to teach us in school. Thanks for a great show. Also, the Crazy Horse episode. I'm the process of doing a painting inspired by Crazy Horse episode because of that episode. That's awesome. Oh man, please, please, I'll turn it, please, you know, let me see that Crazy Horse episode because that episode. That's awesome. Oh man, please, please, please, let me see that Crazy Horse painting.
Starting point is 01:44:07 Please send me a photo of that man or post on Instagram at TimeSug podcast. Keep up the good work brother, really happy for you that you're getting the studio put together and that things are progressing with the podcast. We'll write again soon, your faithful future space lizard. Yes, thank you, Kurt.
Starting point is 01:44:22 Sorry, I didn't put your last name in the notes here. You can you can correct me This is an overall podcast update from from Zach Kumar Says hi Dan love the podcast had to reach out I've been thoroughly inspired by you and some other podcasters So I've decided to start my own did a pilot and it was well received just looking for some quick advice What do you use as a podcast host? How about website host? He'll name rod and things in advance. Zach. Let's talk about equipment first. Today's episode was created using a deadens-soned sound-phoned room, you know recorded with the Sure
Starting point is 01:44:53 SM7B mic running through a CO1 cloud lifter. Give it a decibel boost of clean gain of 25 decibels Because the dynamic mic doesn't put out as much sound, but they also don't pick out as much background noise Which I like. I have the mic hooked up to the desk with the road mic arm. put out as much sound, but they also don't pick out as much background noise, which I like. I have the mic hooked up to the desk with the road mic arm. We run the XLR cable and do a sure SM, SCM 268 mic mixer, run audio cable from a headphone jack under my MacBook Air through the sure mixer to play like the YouTube videos.
Starting point is 01:45:19 Then all of that gets snaked into a universal audio Apollo Twin Soto audio interface. And then all of that will be edited and pro tools going forward. Previously, I've used Garageband, Logic Pro. When I'm on the road, much simpler, I use a Sure SM58 mic with a wind cover, shake a little portable mic stand,
Starting point is 01:45:35 XLR that into the same CL1 cloud lifter because this is a dynamic mic as well. Shoot all that and do a Zoom, H4N handy recorder, set to Phantom Power on the mic input. You know, if I do a YouTube clips or whatever, I just kind of like hold the mic near the speaker of the MacBook Air, which is probably kind of ghetto. I probably should get like an XLR to 8 inch output converter and go straight from the computer into the into the zoom.
Starting point is 01:46:01 I've used Lipson for hosting and Art 19, use Art 19 right now to distribute the episodes. I recommend either. I think Lipson is a great platform to get started with for the website, going with GoDaddy. I find their customer support, customer service will be very good. So that's for you, podcasters.
Starting point is 01:46:17 Now finally, an Oak Island update comes in from Brea, McLean, and Canada says, Hey, general butt face, top shitter of the time suck. I am from Prince Edward Island. One of the Canadian provinces you mentioned in the Oak Island mystery episode. I wanted to say that I enjoyed that stupid dick joke, Prince dickhead island, and confirmed that the people
Starting point is 01:46:34 who live on this island are indeed nice. Also side note, if it hasn't been mentioned by someone else, Mick Mack is actually pronounced more like Migma. Keep on sucking you hilarious pieces of shit. With love from Prince Dickhead Island, Canada, Brea McLean. Yeah, you know what? The pronunciations stuff, I went to so many websites and they all said mikmak. And then I got a couple emails, so I wanted to put that in there. It's mikma. So sorry, you know, first nation people of Canada, mikmas, I was let astray.
Starting point is 01:47:01 Damn you loose the fena, That's all for the time suck updates Thanks time suckers. I need a net. We all did And that's it for 2017 man. Thanks for making us such a wild ride this party has surpassed any Expectations I had for it to start the year really excited to see where we can go you know in 2018 Praiseable jangles hail Nimrod hell, you know hail Luc 2018, praiseable jangles, hail Nimrod, hell, you know, hail Lucifena, praise James Ingram and Michael motherfucker McDonald. And it's Chica Tilo, really a character on the suck now. I'm so surprised you guys liked it as much as you do.
Starting point is 01:47:35 I know a lot of you love him, and I know today you did not get triple-end, you did not get Chica Tiloed. So we're gonna end with this. I keep forgetting, I'm not in love anymore. I keep forgetting things will never be the same again. Yamotimesak and all that stuff, I go jerk now, I use jerk soft chain pack. You keep on talking. Oh!

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