WEBVTT - 9 Side Hustles of the Rich & Famous 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.480 Guess what, Mango, what's that will? So, of course, the 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.240 rock band Queen is known for hits like Don't Stop 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:32.640 Me Now and another one Bites the Dust, but their guitarist, 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:35.600 Brian May, is also known for something else. Are you 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:39.960 ready for this? He's a bonafide astro physicist. Mango, an 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:41.760 astro freakin physicist. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.600 You know, I think I had actually heard that before, 0:00:45.720 --> 0:00:48.920 But also I don't know anything beyond that one line, 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.279 kind of like, did you know Mick Jagger started at 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.000 the London School of Economics, Like yeah, but I don't 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:55.040 know anything beyond that. 0:00:55.480 --> 0:00:57.840 Yeah, And both of those things are true. But let's 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:01.120 actually let's keep this one about Brian's. Before Queen made 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.840 it big, he was in the midst of his doctoral research. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.760 This was at the Imperial College of London and he 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:12.240 was studying something called zodiacal dust, or the zodiacal cloud specifically, 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:15.480 and he was trying to understand how it moved through space. 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:18.600 So, uh, what is zadiical dust? 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.600 Well, unlike Brian, I'm not an astrophysicist in addition to 0:01:22.640 --> 0:01:24.880 my day job. But as far as I understand it, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.279 it's a cloud made up of dust from asteroids and commets. 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.280 So kind of like the cloud of dust that follows 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:34.319 Pigpen around on the peanuts, like a big dust cloud. 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.400 He is one hundred percent like that mango. I'm sure 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:40.280 there's zero difference at all. But you know, Brian was 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.959 actually far enough along in his studies that he submitted 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.720 his research to his advisor. But in what ended up 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.360 being a stroke of luck for music fans, his advisor 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.360 was like, you know what, this isn't ready. You need 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.480 to go back and do a little bit more work. 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.920 And at that point, Queen was starting to take off, 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.400 so Brian was just like, no, thanks, I'll do this 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.960 band thing instead, and he left his academ program after that. 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.200 You know, you hear about people reaching a crossroads in 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.880 their lives, but like that feels so insane, right Like 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.079 Option today is like spend years in a lab analyzing 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:13.880 space dust, or Option B is tour the world, playing 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:15.880 in front of millions of screaming. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.240 Fans crazy, right. 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.520 As rewarding his lab work might be. You know, you 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.640 can't blame someone for choosing Option. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.720 B, you know, and they're the band. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.080 Whenever we play the game, which band do you wish 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.000 you could have seen touring in their original form and 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.640 Creed is always is well, it's always the band that 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.120 my wife Georgia picks, but they would be way up 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.200 there for me. But anyway, amazing band. So it's a 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:40.760 very very cool, cool story. But here's the cool thing. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.320 He actually kind of managed to have it both ways. 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.080 Like he didn't quit his studies completely. He never lost 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.679 interest in space and while he was on tour he'd 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.960 take other musicians outside and give them little presentations about 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.640 the night sky. And May said later that it's a 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:57.720 natural fit. In fact, he said, maybe it's kind of 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:01.799 romantic spirit to make music that's over into curiosity about 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.400 the universe. He even composed a Queen B side called 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.520 thirty nine, and this was about space travel and the 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:11.760 theory of relativity. But there was that nagging matter of 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:14.720 the doctoral degree that he never earned. And so in 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.040 the two thousands, when Queen wasn't super active anymore, May 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.160 heard from an old friend. It was the famous UK 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.760 astronomer and TV host Patrick Moore who told him he 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.280 should go back and finish that PhD. And first May 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.080 was skeptical so much time had passed, but then he 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:33.880 started mentioning Moore's idea offhandedly, like in these little interviews, 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:36.440 and word must have gotten around because one day he 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:39.680 gets a call from someone at Imperial College. They invite 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.320 him back to the program, picks up his research, and 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:46.320 in two thousand and seven he successfully submits his dissertation. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.040 It was titled a Survey of radial Velocities in the 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.720 Zodiacal dust Cloud, which that sounds legit to me, and 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:57.480 so that means he is actually sir doctor Brian May. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.400 Sir doctor, sounds very impressive. 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:03.400 That's right, sir doctor. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.119 Well, as you might have guessed, today on the show, 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.560 we're discovering side hustles of the rich and famous. I 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:12.160 don't mean boring celebrity tequila brands or ho home luxury 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.880 fashion deals. I am talking about a philosopher who wrote operas, 0:04:16.160 --> 0:04:19.760 a nineteenth century author who created a precursor to Pinterest, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:24.240 and an iconic musician who is also a childbirth expert. 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:25.640 So let's dive in. 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.200 Hey, their podcast listeners, welcome to Part Time Genius. I'm 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.480 Will Pearson and is always I'm here with my good 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:54.080 friend Mangesh hot Ticketter and over there on the booth 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.640 launching his own scuba certification business. I didn't see this 0:04:57.680 --> 0:05:00.159 when coming Mango, I didn't guess he'd be doing this. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.279 This is our PALIN producer, Dylan Fagan. Not what I 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.640 would have expected from a podcast producer. But I guess 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.600 that's kind of the theme of today's episode. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.960 I think it's because we start every episode by saying, 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:11.760 let's dive in. 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.680 I think, man, I didn't even think about that. You're right. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:22.039 So, speaking of which, let's dive in to a side 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.720 hustle of one Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain, who, of 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:29.200 course was the author of books like the Adventures of 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.760 Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. But what many 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:36.000 people don't know is that he was also an inventor. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:40.600 He invented an adjustable strapped titaned garments, and a memorization game. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.120 But his most successful invention by far was a scrap book. 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.240 You mean, like an album for keeping photos and newspaper 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:50.360 clippings and stuff like that. 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.800 M hmm, exactly that. So, back in the late eighteen hundreds, 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.400 scrap booking was this pretty common practice for anyone who 0:05:56.440 --> 0:06:00.440 wanted to collect or archive written material, and this was 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.120 something Clemens was really really into. Apparently he'd spend his 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:09.880 sundays collecting clippings of articles he'd written, book reviews, drawings, cartoons, photos, letters, 0:06:09.920 --> 0:06:14.000 anything that caught his fancy. The problem was scrap books 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.520 that were available at the time just had plain blank pages, 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:19.400 so you had to glue items into them one at 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.479 a time, and Clemens was not into it. He got 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.800 tired of his blue drying out and ruining his scrap 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.160 book sessions. And you know how running out of glue 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.240 can totally ruin a sunday for you, right. 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:31.520 It's the worst. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.679 In eighteen seventy three, he was tired of his sundays 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.360 being ruined and he patented his very own self adhering 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.480 scrap book. This is a book that came with a 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.279 thin layer of glue pre applied to every single page. 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:47.440 You just dampen the glue one page at a time 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:49.480 and then layer on all your clippings. 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.040 And so were people like into this. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.880 Yeah, it was like super super popular. The book came 0:06:55.920 --> 0:06:59.600 in various styles, like different leather or cloth bindings, and 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:03.960 different sizes for all your scrap booking needs. By eighteen 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:06.760 eighty five, Clements had actually made around fifty thousand dollars 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.720 from sales of the scrap books, which is the equivalent 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:14.160 of about two million dollars today. To put that in perspective, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.680 he'd earned around two hundred thousand dollars from his writing, 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.320 which by that point included Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:21.760 So goodness. 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.400 Anyway, the scrap booking thing had taken off. But there 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.520 was just one problem. The scrap books turned out to 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:31.400 be terrible for preservation. If unused ADISA got wet or 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.920 exposed to humidity, the pages would actually stick together and 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:38.640 they would ruin whatever was on them. So eventually other 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.200 people developed better scrap book technology, but Clemens version actually 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.440 was kind of the most popular one for about thirty years. 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:47.560 Oh that's wild. I was actually looking the other day. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.160 I like, it really is wild how you can now 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:51.640 make virtual scrap books just on your phone. These days, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:53.520 kids can just be so lazy about it, you know. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:57.320 Yeah, I mean I guess a lot of people still 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:01.880 do it the old fashioned way, which people find satisfying 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.520 for some reason, just arranging pieces of paper and photos 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.480 on a page. And maybe that's just because so many 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:11.040 aspects of our life are virtual today. 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And one of the leading 0:11:14.520 --> 0:11:17.400 philosophers involved in all of this was the guy we 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:21.679 remember from our high school philosophy class, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Now, 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:24.880 he wrote several influential books that you probably haven't read 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:29.800 but may remember reading about. Examples would be discourse on 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:33.120 the origin of inequality and of course the Social Contract. 0:11:33.840 --> 0:11:36.200 Yeah you know me, well, I have not read those. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:41.360 Well, his books are considered classics in Western philosophy. But 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.560 Russo actually liked to present himself professionally, not as a 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:48.199 writer or even a philosopher, but as a music copyist, 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.440 which is exactly what it sounds. He got paid to 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.439 copy sheet music, and believe it or not, it's still 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:57.600 a job. Although these days music copyists use software to 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:01.120 prepare sheet music for individual instrument It is based on 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.960 a composer's master score. Now, back in Rousseau's day, of course, 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.520 this was all done by hand, so it was incredibly 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.840 time consuming and very exacting work, which I guess is 0:12:11.840 --> 0:12:15.160 also a true philosophy, right, that's very true. But you know, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.199 Rousseau's love of music went well beyond copying other people's scores. 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.440 In seventeen fifty two, he wrote his own one act opera. 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.240 It was called The Village Soothsayer. It's about a young 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:27.679 couple who run into a series of problems when they 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.560 each think the other is being unfaithful, so they have 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:34.160 to consult the you guessed it, Village Soothsayer to clear 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:38.120 things up. And Rousseau wrote the libretto and composed the music, 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.960 which wasn't very common then. In fact, sourtss say he 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:43.080 was the first person potentially to have done this. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.040 That is so crazy and what a weird detail. So 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:48.400 was this opera a hit? 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.679 Yeah, well, I mean it's not considered a masterpiece today, 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:53.760 but it was one of the most popular operas of 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:56.080 the time. I was first performed in the court of 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.080 King Louis the fifteenth, who liked it so much that 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.120 the next day he's posedly wandered around singing one of 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.400 the arias, of course, very off key, and the opera 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.120 was even performed at his grandson's wedding in seventeen seventy. 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:12.840 The grandson was the future Louis the sixteenth, whose wife 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:16.600 Marie Antoinette, is another huge fan of Rousseau's opera. Later, 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.120 she even played at Heroin in a private performance for 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.000 friends and her own one hundred and twenty seat theater 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:23.160 at Versailles. 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:27.560 That is so funny. I had no idea. Well, I'm 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:30.440 glad you mentioned Mary Antoinette because there's actually a nice 0:13:30.440 --> 0:13:33.000 little thread here, because we're going from let the meat 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.360 cake to someone who loved to make cakes, and that 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:42.040 is Emily Dickinson. Now, Dickinson was famously an introvert, even reclusive, 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.360 but aside from being a star on the page. The 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.920 other place she felt very comfortable was in the kitchen. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.880 She'd often send cakes and breads to her friends and 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.719 her family. She was also known to lower baskets of 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.520 treats from an upstairs window down to the neighborhood kids, 0:13:56.520 --> 0:14:00.559 who apparently were big fans of her gingerbread. But what 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.480 is also cool is that Dickinson would use the backs 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.479 of her recipes and cake wrappers to draft her poems. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.880 For example, a draft of The Things That Can Never 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.439 Come Back was written on the back of a coconut 0:14:11.480 --> 0:14:12.359 cake recipe. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.560 You know, I got another fun fact, Mango. It's that 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.920 I love coconut cake. So we're gonna we're gonna do 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:21.040 We're doing ten facts in this episode. I I love 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:21.880 coconut cake. 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.560 Well I am so so on it, but I'm glad 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.200 you like it. If you want to make Dickinson's cake, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.080 you can actually find the recipe online and it looks 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.840 pretty good, especially when you compare it to her black cake, 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:38.360 which is an age fruitcake that involves nineteen eggs, five 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:41.240 pounds of raisins, two pounds of butter, and a half 0:14:41.440 --> 0:14:46.440 pint of brandy. When this thing was done. It weighed 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:49.000 more than twenty pounds. It was like an oven roaster. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.240 Wow, tell me she wasn't lowering that down in a 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.320 basket like It feels like you'd get in trouble if 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.360 you bunk a kin on the head with something like that. 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.920 Yeah, I mean, apparently it was a special occasion cake, 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.280 but it's still being made today. Since twenty fifteen, a 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:07.640 team at Harvard's Houghton Library, which has the world's largest 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.680 Dickinson archive, has been making the black cake in honor 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.840 of her birthday. It's pretty fitting because during her lifetime, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.080 Dickinson was better known as a baker than a writer. 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.880 In her obituary, her sister in law wrote that though 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.920 few people knew Emily personally, quote, there are many homes 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:26.840 into which her dainty treasures of fruit and flowers and 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.600 almost ambrosial dishes for the sick and well were constantly sent. 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:35.000 That will forever miss those dainty traces of her unselfish devotion. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.200 That's actually really sweet. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.160 All right, we have to take a quick break, but 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.960 when we come back, I'm going to tell you all 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.880 about an actor who's a real clown, I believe it 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:46.680 or not. Actually mean that as a compliment, So don't 0:15:46.680 --> 0:16:00.600 go anywhere. 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.760 Welcome back to Part Time Genius, where we're counting down 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:08.040 nine side hustles of the rich and famous and one 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:12.680 fact about Will and coconut cake. Before the break, you 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.600 said you were going to tell us about an actor 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.240 who's a clown, and you know, I know people hate clowns. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.080 They think they're terrifying. I kind of don't have an 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.360 opinion on this, Like I remembering they were fun and 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.800 silly as a kid. I kind of want to hold 0:16:25.800 --> 0:16:29.960 onto that feeling. And I don't really like watch horror 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:33.640 movies or things about serial killers, which I guess is 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.920 where some of that fear comes from. But I'm curious 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:38.800 about you, Will. Do you have a big fear of clowns. 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.080 I don't have a fear of clowns, and I used 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.000 to not really have strong feelings about them, but you 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.920 know what, it kind of changed for me. It's sort 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.320 of like people who get super into like cosplay or 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.960 something like that. While it's not something that I'm into, 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:58.440 I actually really love that people love to do it, 0:16:58.560 --> 0:16:59.960 you know, like it's just kind of fun to watch 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.320 people who get so passionate about a thing. And I 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.920 feel like most of the time, people that really get 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:07.159 into the clown thing, like to want to be a clown, 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:10.360 are doing it because maybe for some reason, like since 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.480 they were a kid, they always wanted to do that, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:13.800 or at least that's what I assume. 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:14.840 So yeah, I don't know. 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.200 I'm kind of a fan of the fact that they exist. 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:19.600 Yeah, I mean I feel like like people who want 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:21.439 to be clowns, like want to make kids happy in 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.040 hospitals and stuff like that is how I think about it. 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.200 But yeah, exactly, I don't want one in my house, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:32.280 but yeah, I love that they exist. So anyway, one 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.320 person who really loves clowns is the actor David R. 0:17:35.400 --> 0:17:35.680 Quett. 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:38.800 When that seems no surprise, it feels on brand for him, 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:41.439 but he was a huge Boso the Clown fan as 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:44.000 a kid. He'd run around pretending to be Boso the 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.280 way other kids might pretend to be Spider Man or 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.800 some other superhero. And recently he made it official he 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.240 is Boso the Clown. Like, officially Boso the Clown. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:56.720 What does that mean exactly, Well. 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.199 You buy the rights to the character. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:00.840 It took him about fifteen years of togoiations, but in 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:04.560 twenty twenty one, Arquette became the owner of Bozo the Clown, 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:07.000 which means not only can he sell or make a 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:10.560 movie about him, but Arquette can play Bozo himself, which 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:13.880 he does and to make sure he's doing the character justice, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.919 he even studied with a renowned Russian clown teacher. 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:21.560 That is incredible, and he spent fifteen years of negotiation. 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.520 Yeah, it takes a while, he negotiating a clown thing. 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.639 I didn't realize that was standard. So what does that 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:31.720 mean if anyone else wants to play Boso like, they 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:33.520 have to go through David Arquette. 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:37.040 I mean, yeah, technically, it's just like any other character 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.080 protected by IP law. But what I love about this 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.440 story is that Arquette seems really sincere about his motivation. 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:45.000 It's not a money grab here. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.119 So when the deal closed, he told the press that 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.520 he wanted to use his influence and resources to revive 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.200 Boso in popular culture. He said, Boso represents a world 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:57.280 of love, light and laughter, something we can all use 0:18:57.359 --> 0:18:58.359 more of right now. 0:18:58.440 --> 0:18:59.679 And he's not wrong about that. 0:19:00.119 --> 0:19:02.440 And in twenty twenty two, for the first time ever, 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.240 a black woman stepped into those big red shoes. It 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:07.600 was a performer named Jessica Harrison took on the role 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:12.080 of Joso, the female version of Boza Jo. Soo I 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:14.480 love it Joso. Yeah yeah, okay. 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:18.160 So our next side hustle involves a Grammy Award winning 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:22.760 musician and fashion icon, Erica Badu, and in addition to 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:26.840 being a truly visionary artist, she is also a certified doula, 0:19:27.080 --> 0:19:32.800 which is, of course, someone trained to support parents through childbirth. Yeah, 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:36.919 it's true. Badou has said that she became interested in 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:40.359 the concept after the birth of her oldest son. This 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.840 was in nineteen ninety seven. She started out by attending 0:19:42.840 --> 0:19:45.359 some friends' births. Then she found out not only was 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.720 she good at this, but she found it really fulfilling, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:51.879 so she pursued formal training and earned her certificate in 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.600 two thousand and one. Now, doulas aren't technically medical professionals, 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.480 but there's plenty of research showing that their support leads 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.119 to better outcomes for parents for newborns. 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:02.320 Mm hm. 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:04.000 And you know, I don't know that there's ever been 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:07.840 a research study on this detail specifically, but I have 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.480 to assume that if ericabi Do is one of the 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.040 first people you see when you enter this world, you're 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.120 pretty much going to be super cool when you grow up. 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:21.280 Yeah, that feels very scientific and reasonable. Badu said she's 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.280 assisted with at least fifty berths by now. Her clients 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.280 include Diana Taylor Summer Walker, among many others. But this 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:31.280 is my favorite detail hands down. She calls her doula 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:33.120 service but doula. 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:35.399 Oh yeah, that's why she did it. 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:38.200 That's amazing. I didn't see that one coming, but it's 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:39.280 so obvious. 0:20:38.880 --> 0:20:39.560 When you see it. 0:20:39.760 --> 0:20:40.040 All right. 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:42.320 Well, another celebrity involved in births, but I have a 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.200 very different species is the author Beatrix Potter. She wrote 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:48.840 and illustrated The Tale of Peter Rabbit and so many 0:20:48.920 --> 0:20:51.960 other great children's books. But get this, she was also 0:20:52.080 --> 0:20:55.680 a sheep breeder. Specifically, she raised Herdwick sheep, which is 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:58.679 a very old breed indigenous to the Lake District in 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:01.199 the north of England. Now, actually, let me pull up 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:03.720 this photo. Isn't this like a super cute sheep? 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.560 Oh my gosh, that is so cute And it kind 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:08.000 of looks like it's smiling. 0:21:08.760 --> 0:21:10.840 I know that's just how their mouths are, but it 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.520