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Complex human traumas are often cyclic in nature. They span across generations and time. And to look for a greater humanity, we need to understand this cycle of behaviour so we can then attempt to break the cycle. To solve a problem, we need to know exactly what the problem is. And this forever problem has scaled up over the last century, just like our populations have. It’s this forever problem that humans are now only starting to better understand.

• Trama and the brain - All Wales Traumatic Stress Quality Improvement
• Prevalence of childhood sexual abuse among incarcerated males in county jail - ScienceDirect
• What Trauma Looks Like for Incarcerated Men: A Study of Men’s Lifetime Trauma Exposure in Two State Prisons - PMC
• United Kingdom: more than 80% of men in prison suffered "childhood adversity" – Prison Insider
• 60 Characteristics of Complex Trauma: Symptoms, Effects, and Healing Insights — Tim Fletcher Co.

• Generational Trauma: What It Is and How To Break the Cycle
• The compulsion to repeat the trauma. Re-enactment, revictimization, and masochism - PubMed
• Understanding Complex Trauma
• Women in prison: histories of trauma and abuse highlight the need for specialised care
• What is Complex Trauma?

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In today’s episode we draw on many topics and chapters from season 1 and have put it all together in one, hopefully succinct episode dedicated to children. We aim to lay down for you the base level knowledge required to better understand what children need to mature into responsible, accountable and trustworthy adults.

How a human's neural architecture is fundamental to enabling all this to occur and to share with you some of the essential factors that can impact on a person in their childhood years and affect their ability to not develop the required neural structures that will then limit them in being able to mature as expected in their adult years. So much of our parenting advice and community service messaging dances around the whole picture and so today we hope to complete this picture somewhat to show you clearly how we need to begin with children so we can collectively make the first few steps forward towards creating a greater humanity.

• Brain Development - First Things First
• When can I start teaching my child manners? | BabyCenter
• Garner et al (2012). Early childhood adversity, toxic stress, and the role of the pediatrician. Pediatrics, 129(1).
• Moore, T. (2006). Early childhood and long term development: The importance of the early years. Australian Research Alliance for Children & Youth.
• National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2012). The science of neglect: The persistent absence of responsive care disrupts the developing brain: working paper 12.
• Social expectations and abilities to meet them as possible mechanisms of youth personality development - Hang - 2023 - Journal of Personality - Wiley Online Library
• Understanding Complex Trauma

• Four pivotal ages in your brain's development revealed in new scientific study
• brain-development-in-children.pdf
• The Teen Brain: 7 Things to Know - National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• Evolutionary appearance of von Economo’s neurons in the mammalian cerebral cortex - PMC
• Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime | University of Cambridge
• Factors That Affect Child Development - Healthy Parents Healthy Children
• Social influence on positive youth development: A developmental neuroscience perspective - PMC
• Age-by-Age Social Development Checklist

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In today’s episode we are going to rain on your parade. Continuing with the theme of ‘What can impact our socio-emotional neurology’ like Lead, Behavioural Variant Fronto-temporal Dementia and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, let’s now look at alcohol.

As fun and as culturally acceptable drinking has been, it also unfortunately has disastrous effects on our brains and neurons. We are going to lift the lid on these normalised and accepted traditions and extrapolate out how drinking alcohol, especially a lot and over a long term, had immense impacts on our social circles and societies as a whole. Apologies in advance but just like someone with Alcohol Use Disorder, we really need to address this systemic social amnesia.

• A Timeline of the History of Alcohol
• Alcoholism - Wikipedia

• The Natural History of Alcoholism - PMC
• The Earliest Alcoholic Beverage in the World | Research - Penn Museum
• Alcohol as Medicine and Poison - Prohibition: An Interactive History
• ALCOHOL AND THE PREFRONTAL CORTEX - PMC
• Long Term Alcohol Use Effects On Brain | Alcohol Think Again

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In today’s episode we are taking no prisoners. We are getting right into one of our modern day calamities. Every weekend we play and or watch contact sports. It’s in our blood, it's at the root of most of our cultures. Yet we continually fail to learn the lessons some of our finest athletes take the brunt of, year after year. This is not a joke. Damage to the head will affect everyone around these people, not just them!

• Danny Frawley - Wikipedia
• Shane Christie - Wikipedia
• No Man Should Ever Walk Alone - Danny Frawley | Podcast on Spotify
• Four Corners: June 29 | TV Tonight
• Rugby League legend Wally Lewis diagnosed with probable CTE | ABC News
• A Test for C.T.E. in the Living May Be... (The New York Times) - Behind the headlines - NLM

• Concussions: Football vs. other sports | Football and Concussions
• Sports-related traumatic brain injury - Wikipedia
• Risk of suicidal behaviors following sport-related and non-sport-related concussion: a systematic review and meta-analysis - PMC
• Chronic traumatic encephalopathy - Wikipedia
• Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): A Brief Historical Overview and Recent Focus on NFL Players | ACS Chemical Neuroscience
• Are 2 mid-career AFL retirements a sign Australian athletes are taking brain health more seriously?
• Injury Prevention - Play AFL
• S2026 Collision : ABC iview

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Today we put the focus on Behavioural variant Frontotemporal Dementia. This most horrific of dementias, that impacts and destroys so many friendships, relationships and homes. We will get across the early days of understanding this form of dementia. We will also get across the latest science and options available if you believe this may be affecting someone you love.

How it has impacted on Bruce, his career and personal life. And it is through the efforts of Emma Hemming Willis that we’ve taken our position in contributing to spreading awareness, understanding and knowledge to help those caught up in the unknowingness that comes with the early onset of BvFTD.

• The Unexpected Journey - Emma Heming Willis
• Teepah Snow - Positive Approach to Care
• AFTD - The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (USA, Canada)
• Australian Frontotemporal Dementia Association (Aus)
• Frontotemporal Dementia | Dementia NZ
• Behavioural-variant frontotemporal dementia: an update - PMC

• Bruce Willis - Wikipedia
• YouTube - The Unexpected Journey : Emma Heming Willis
• YouTube - Katie Curic: The Unexpected Journey: Emma Heming Willis on Caregiving, Love, and Resilience

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Welcome back for part 2 of the Project Kickoff series as we ramp up for season 2. Today we pick up at the start of episode 6 ‘Have We Forgotten Something?’

If you haven’t listened to all of season 1, we do encourage you to find time to go and listen. Many of the subjects in season 2 are built upon information from season 1. And as we progress forward into the social project, we recommend that the previously released episodes are best listened to chronologically.

So let’s do a recap and then dive into the smelly sticky mess that is season 2 of TOO MANY AR$EHOLE$.

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Welcome back for season 2. Before we get into this season's schedule, we have put together a 2 part series summarising the Project Kick-off Series which were episodes 1 through to 10 of season 1. These episodes span across the wide range of topics and ideas that are important to understanding the baseline of knowledge we need to deliver seasons 2’s episodes. Today we have episodes 1 through to 5 and then episodes 6-10. This will then lead into season 2 episodes 1 in late August.

If you haven’t listened to all of season 1, we do encourage you to find time to go and listen. Many of the subjects in season 2 are built upon information from season 1. And as we progress the social project, we recommend that the previously released episodes are best listened to chronologically.

So, let’s do a recap and then dive into the smelly sticky mess that is season 2 of TOO MANY AR$EHOLE$.

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The season 1 wrap up is a good opportunity to step back from the heaviness of this project and podcast’s topics and hopefully give you a chance to take the 30,000ft view and see why we have taken this approach.

To give you a glimpse of what’s in store for season 2. and with a little luck, also provide you some of the glue that holds all these jigsaw pieces together so you can engage a little more, support a little more and help spread this project’s mission that is the fundamentals to making this project successful.

• Imagine - John Lennon | 4-Year-Old SINGER AMAZED People
• Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica Humanitas’: AI must serve humanity, not concentrate power - Vatican News

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In today’s episode we’re looking at the cascading effects of lead poisoning across all of our societies. How this silent social destroyer accumulates, as it does in our bodies, across our social structures. The lifelong brain-damage our affected children will need continual support with. The correlation and now causation lead poisoning has with national violent crime states and if that doesn’t mess your head up enough, we’ve kept some of the worst stats for last.

• The Man Who Warned the World About Lead | NOVA | PBS
• Deficits in psychologic and classroom performance of children with elevated dentine lead levels - PubMed
• The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong - The Constant
• The fatal attraction of lead - BBC News
• Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers by Caroline Fraser | Goodreads
• Did Lead Exposure Create Serial Killers? - Stuff They Don't Want You To Know | iHeart

• HISTORY OF LEAD POISONING IN THE WORLD Dr Herb Needleman 1999
• Yes, lead poisoning could really be a cause of violent crime | George Monbiot | The Guardian
• What is lead doing in protein powder? - ABC listen
• A third of the world’s children poisoned by lead, new groundbreaking analysis says
• Leaded Gas Exposure Tied to 151 Million Excess Cases of Mental Illness Cases | MDedge
• The Internet Is The World's Worst Pharmacy w/ Paris Martineau & Ashwin Rodrigues - Better Offline | iHeart
• CR Tested These Protein Powders. All Had Low Levels of Lead. - Consumer Reports
• https://www.consumerreports.org/babies-kids/baby-formula/baby-formula-contaminants-test-results-a7140095293/

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Over the next 2 episodes we are looking at lead, what is it, what have been its toxic impacts on humans, what drove the 20th Century global poisoning and what are we finally doing about it. There is so much literature and so many studies have been done on this moment in our very recent history, that we are going to reference and just read for many of the publications as we feel these episodes are not for relooking at this, but just bring as many bits together so we can hopefully impress on you how destructive this has been to humans, humanity and how it still leaves a legacy with us today and the significant ways it has contributed to our current social erosion.

• The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong - The Constant
• The fatal attraction of lead - BBC News
• "American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice" by Daniel Stone (2025): Chronicles the story of Alice Hamilton, a public health activist, in her fight against Thomas Midgley Jr., the inventor of leaded gasoline. It explores the corporate machinations, scientific history, and the environmental impact of TEL.
• "Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution" by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner (2002): A detailed account of how the lead industry concealed evidence regarding the health hazards of tetraethyl lead and lead-based paint. It uses formerly secret industry documents to show how corporations pushed for the adoption of leaded gasoline despite knowing its toxicity.
• "Toxic Truth: A Scientist, a Doctor, and the Battle over Lead" by Lydia Denworth (2008): Focuses on the scientific and public battle to remove lead from gasoline and paint, highlighting the roles of Clair Patterson (who identified the extent of lead contamination) and Dr. Herbert Needleman.
• "Brush with Death: A Social History of Lead Poisoning" by Christian Warren (2001): Provides a comprehensive history of lead poisoning in the United States, examining the transition from early, acute occupational poisoning to the long-term, chronic, low-level exposure caused by tetraethyl lead in gasoline.
• "Ethyl: A History of the Corporation and the People Who Made It" by Joseph C. Robert (1983): A detailed, sometimes pro-industry, account of the Ethyl Corporation, the company formed to manufacture and market tetraethyl lead, tracking its history from the 1920s to the 1960s.
• "Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children" by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner (2013): Follows up on Deceit and Denial to examine the continuing, bitter, and contentious battles over lead contamination and the public health policies that failed to adequately protect children.
• "Prometheans in the Lab: Chemistry and the Making of the Modern World" by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne (2000): Features a chapter on Thomas Midgley Jr. and the invention of leaded gasoline, exploring the tension between its industrial utility and its environmental destructiveness.
• "Leaded: The Poisoning of Idaho's Silver Valley" by Michael Mix (2016): Documents the toxic history of industrial lead pollution and the regulatory struggles surrounding it.
• "The Secret History of Lead" by Jamie Lincoln Kitman (2000): Originally published in The Nation, this in-depth investigative article (often cited as a "secret history") brought widespread attention to the negligence of manufacturers in the development of leaded gas.

• Facts and Firsts of Lead
• The Man Who Warned the World About Lead | NOVA | PBS
• Can the lifelong effects of childhood lead exposure ever be reversed? | FIU Research Magazine - Florida International University

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