This is an IHeart podcast.

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hello and happy Friday. I'm Holly Fry. And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

We talked about spray paint this week. Yep.

I have a story about my own ding-dongery as usual. Okay, good. I initially wrote a note at the bottom of this to talk about where I was like, Millett's life sounds sort of awful to me. I travel a lot, but he traveled a lot and seemed to never settle.

And I was telling my beloved about this, and he was like, it honestly doesn't sound that

different from your schedule.

And I was like, shush.

But anyway, I played myself on that one.

And I do, I really sort of love Millett a little bit because I see things in him that I recognize of myself. I would never claim that I achieve anything near what he achieved. But just that kind of, I want to work in a million different things. I want my hands in a bunch of different pies. Busy, busy bee thing. I get it. I don't know that I'm done with Frank Millett. There's a non-zero chance we'll get a

more in-depth version of his life on the show in the future because I do find him really interesting.

Now it's on to graffiti. Yeah. There is an article that comes up a lot in the history of spray paint that was written in

the New York Times, like more than a decade ago.

And just as we have, I think, referenced on the show, if you ever just want to be like,

man, humans will fight about anything, go to like the New York Times cooking page or any of their

social sites and watch people argue about the recipes.

The same thing happened on this article about the history of spray paint and the reference

to graffiti art.

Okay.

Because a lot of people wanted to grouse and say, you cannot put those two words together.

Mm-hmm.

To which I say, that is baloney.

...