Brennan: My grandpa, with my grandmother, was going to a church in the South during the Scopes Evolution monkey trial. Inherit the Wind.

Izzie: Inherit the Wind. Heard of it?

Brennan: Heard of it. Uh, and the preacher—as my grandfather was a huge sci-fi fan and loved, you know, the early space race stuff—and this, this teacher was like, or sorry, this preacher was like, uh, saying in this Baptist congregation in Wilson, North Carolina, like, “Those that try to plumb God’s mysteries and the mysteries of the world, it is not given to us to understand. It is not given to us to try to peel the cover from God’s mystery. We should live not knowing the the—”

And my grandfather, in church—apocryphally, this is the story I was told—my grandfather in church loudly announced from the pews, “If I thought that was true, I’d kill myself.”

Izzie: Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Brennan: And in the drive home, apparently my grandma was hitting him in the arm, being like, “What did you do? What—what are people going to say? What are people going to think?” Like, small town in the South in the ’50s.

And he turned to her and said—and I think about this, oh, I got emotional—think about these words as like a family inheritance, where he turned to her and he said, “Darling, people don’t think, and if they do, they’re not thinking about you.”