In this Deep Dive episode, our hosts discuss the aftermath and cultural reverberations of the Jonestown tragedy, linger on songwriter Johnny Mercer’s artistry, and share a quirky keyboard fact.

- 📜 On this day in 1978, over 900 members of the Peoples Temple died in Jonestown, Guyana under Jim Jones; we explore how that mass murder-suicide reframed understandings of charismatic authority, coercion, social isolation, and how the event influenced policy, mental health practice, law enforcement, and artistic portrayals of faith and utopia.
- 🎂 We celebrate the birthdays of Johnny Mercer (1909), Alan Shepard (1923), and Margaret Atwood (1939), with a focused look at Mercer’s craft — from "Moon River" to "Hooray for Hollywood" — and how his lyricism maps personal longing onto broader cultural moods.
- 💡 Fact of the day: “Stewardesses” is the longest English word typed using only the left hand — a neat linguistic and physical observation about how language and our bodies interact.

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