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that's election day, but we don't want coming to our show to keep you from the poles. We are both. in a vote early before we leave for New Orleans and Louisiana offers early voting as well. So we encourage you to do so. You can find out what about this show and get a link to buy tickets at missed in history, dot, com, slash, tour welcome to stuff. You missed in history class from Housetop works, tat, come hello, unwelcome upon Canst, I'm hungry fry and I'm crazy. The wealth it to his ear have to ask you a question right out of the gate and putting on the spot. Ok the Adams, family or the monsters now, when I was a kid, I loved the atoms family? Most and I thought the monsters were a weird knock off: that's not accurate, oh, but I but that's valid to think that

will probably shock you. By saying when I was a kid, I liked the monsters more really I did it was not until I got older than I chemist switched it over, and I think I realized trying to figure out why that was, and I think that with us and aspirational Gould, where I could never be like the long willowy mortician but I could probably pull off a lily share like VON Der Carlo with their little white stripes and her hair and choose shorter, and she had that fabulous Ruth dress and the bat Nicholas, and so I think that was what it was, but I like them both yeah. I love them both, but today We are going to talk about Charles Adams, who was the creator of the atoms family as for too long before it was ever a tv series or films etc. Charles Adams, was by all accounts. They really compelling figure. He visited cemetery

for fun, and he was a car enthusiast and he raced cars as an amateur and he collected and shot crossbows and Alfred Kitchen once, just showed up on its doorstep, with no advance warning hoping to meet him and saying when Charles Adams opened the door, I've just see you in your natural bailiwick, but Adams very likely surprise the filmmaker, because he surprised a lot of people who thought they could into it the creator of the kinds of cartoons he made would be like because he was not an elusive sort of prayer gas at all. He was in fact, very dapper and so trouble. Any was irreverent, but by all accounts, completely delightful to be round and there is so much a great stuff to his story that this is a two partner, so we had about all of his good and bad qualities, and also, I will just say that, after doing all this research build a time machine. My answer might have changed again because I just wanna go by. Can maybe have cocktails with Charles Adams with it

I wish you would be just a super fun guy to hang out with. I also feel like this is an interesting, not exactly counterpoint, but that's the word that I can think of to last halloweens we'd gory episode, yeah they in terms of them both having sort of them a com. fascination in their work and having very distinctive personalities. In its end. Staying it. It doesn't come up in either of these episodes, but a natural people would ask him a little bit about goree and other artists as well cartoonists in, and he always felt that and I'm paraphrasing based on stuff that I read that to him. He was just to Charles atoms. He just thought he was funny. He didn't really see himself necessarily assembly, my car, but all or is he really thought that gory had this insight into the lake, the darker side of humanity- and he was like I struck funny stuff.

We're just kind of interesting because lot of his stuff, at least the time it was very dark. Nowadays, it's probably continue pretty mild by comparison, but it sort of a wonderful, an unexpected, nature of how it look lead the world in humanity and that some people often found a little bit dark or a lot dark. So us The beginning, as we usually do, Charles Samuel Adams was born in Westfield, New Jersey on January seventh, one thousand nine hundred and twelve his father, Charles Huey Adams, had studied to be an architect but then ended up working at a piano company. He worked his way up for salesman to an executive and he really travelled a lot. The young child, his mother was Grace M spear atoms and he went by them Charlie by all accounts. He was a berry jolly baby and the atoms has had this blue, child a little late, considering the time graces, her thirties, when he was born, and they really just treasured him

There is a great story in in the biography that I read of him that she initially was very nervous and she bought a baby book and was doing, and she eventually just threw it out. Issues like I just I just love this kid and we're just going to raise way. That way be the guiding principle here. also really fascinated as a kid by some of the old rundown victorian homes in their neighbourhood and when he was Charlie in a number of other boys broke into one that was under renovation and eight groups It is on the walls and they caused all kinds of other mischief. They messed with the sum of the the and reasons that the construction workers had left behind, and this got them little bit of trouble with the local police, Adam like to tell people that he got arrested at the age of eight for trespassing and vandalism, but there actually, no arrest, the kids instead rounded up and they were taken to the court, and Mister Adams, Charlie's father paid for the damage the boys had done like an episode of the

De Griffiths. Will a lot of his life sounds like that growing up. He always stressed when a normal sort of wholesome happy boyhood, he had later on, as a young man, he really did get arrested, though he was arrested on. He removed the tank top part of his swimsuit at the beach after having a photo of italian men who were wearing their swimsuits with just the short time, as for emulating, fascism, he got a little bit of legal trouble, did remain fascinated With victorian homes after his child had even but during his childhood, he liked to wander the streets of town where there were a lot of them, and you would imagine the secrets of the people who live there and thought about the sinister possibilities. things in their lives. They might be hiding, but here family. Like I say it was pretty happy even pretty ordinary. His parents were dead, did to one another.

Sometimes joke that he was strange because he didn't have an unhappy childhood. He was a much love child in here also really loved his parents- the We think that seem to darken this picture of perfection and happiness was that his mother would get lonely when his father travelled for work long past that home break in Charles continued to be a prank stir, He liked to use the dumb waiter in the family home to sneak into his grandmothers ruminant jump out and scare her something that he admitted doing, the same eternal grandmother Emma Louise Tufts Spear would go on to ensue. I or the grandma character in his famous work as an adult, and it was through her that Charley was waited to not only the Tufts family, but also very distantly to John Adams. Yes, that's the other side of the family, not the Adams, from whence his name comes, which is a to g situation as in it has two days in. It yeah. So he had a pretty illustrious family

of connections on his mother's side. He also would say that in the inspiring grandmother later on in Adams, namely that was his grandmother like when she first woke up in the morning and hadn't combed her hair. She was not always dishevelled but as a kid. There were also some clues that Turkey was really in tune with the Mc Cobb. In addition to thinking about those secret lives of the people in the houses around him, he adored things like skeletons in coffins and even iron maidens at one point he said. He really believed that if he had told his parents he wanted an iron maiden. They probably would have bought one for him, but some of his Summation with such things actually came from his fear of them. He was actually pretty claustrophobic. He about is a kid in his diary and he was afraid of snakes, but instead trying to avoid those things he confronted them and he drew his fears to deal with that. One of the things that comes up over and over when you read about his house as an adult, isn't he had

kinds of snake are events, so he clearly really embraced that fake ya They really loved r P started drawing of a kid, and his parents encouraged him in it. Even when Charlie Don't very young younger than seven. He was drawing pictures of world where one as it took place, was imagining the seems that he heard about a news reports and he also to draw out of pictures of Keyser Wilhelm, the second being killed in all kinds of ways. He was hanged. Run over by a car on and on you used drew everything he heard true and unique callin so much so that at one point grace brought some his drawings to Hd Webster at the New York Herald and said. Look at my child