Mercury

We're all in a spectrum, right? You can be an invalid or an idiot savant, and we're all somewhere in between that, right? You can be functional and intelligent and, you know, you can, you can be like severely autistic, which is going to put you in a different area.

We're all in a spectrum, right? But The key thing from a heavy metal standpoint is the heavy metals, the mercury primarily.

Mercury is the cause of almost all chronic degenerative disease.

If you trace it all the way back to its real ideology, to the real cause, right? It's not inflammation.

Inflammation is a symptom of that chaos.

When dermatologists and chemists test these unregulated skin lightening products, they consistently find three main culprits.

You've got hydroquinone, highly potent topical corticosteroids, and raw mercury.

Mercury.

Mercury is the one that really stops me in my tracks.

Because, I mean, I think of mercury in old glass thermometers or like industrial waste, not in a beauty cream you buy for your skin.

Right.

It really is.

Yeah.

to some things that are from the contemporary present, like 2019 when this album was released, but there's also some references to other things that some people may not pick up on.

So the first part, Mercury makes its way into the skin of little fishes who swim across the vast and murky, mucky mud terrain.

They make their way onto the dishes of men who gobble little fishes, and the Mercury settles into their soft and supple brains.

So that's all based on the problem of Mercury in seawater, which gets into the bodies of fish.

Mercury is, it's naturally occurring, of course, but through pollution it has reached high levels in in sea life and so um some fish have lots of mercury in them and eating a lot of mercury is toxic to you uh certainly over time so the general rule by the way is the longer lived the fish the more mercury it probably has so eat uh eat fish that don't live very long that's my advice to you um but that's so that sets up the problem Um, so that's the starting point for me.

I always thought on Frankie, I'm sure you have thoughts on this too.

I thought that part that men are eating or that people are eating fish and, and the mercury is getting into our brains.

I thought, uh, that that preface was meant to reinforce the idea that we're destroying ourselves in a, in a roundabout way.

Worst offender, metal.

Mercury.

Okay.

I won't do the next one because you already answered

Yes.

And if you could get rid of one toxin from our modern environment forever, what would it be?

Mercury.

You don't

He does, and he solves them with one element, mercury.

It seems so obvious now.

Mercury has a super high boiling point, over 350 degrees Celsius, so suddenly you can measure industrial processes.

And it's non-wetting.

It is this high surface tension so it doesn't cling to the glass.