This is how you rule the world

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. We all know the Beach Boys, but to really understand them, you have to get to know the genius behind their songs, Brian Wilson. I'm Will Anderson, and this week on the Monday Music Club podcast, we dive into the history behind two of his masterpieces, the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds and their song Good Vibrations. I was joined by Brian's biographer David Leif and we went through what drove Brian, what it was like in the studio during those sessions, and why the pressure of following them up made Brian have to take a step back from music.

You can listen to the episode everywhere you get your podcast by searching for Monday Music Club. There's a saying going around the campus of Stanford University right now that it's easier to raise money for a startup than it is to get an internship. What that means is that at 20-year-old can get a few hundred thousand dollars for a company that doesn't exist faster than they can get a summer job at one that does. That isn't really a story about ambitious kids, although ambitious definitely describes the students at Stanford.

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