Sometimes

Sometimes I forget how smart my crappy little brother is. I'm driving him back from his summer class today, and I'm listening to a new yorker political podcast. On it, the guy makes an offhand comment about kruschev and some other guy, whose name escapes me. The reference flew right over my head, but Ziad picked up this guys name, and repeated it back to me saying, 'he's the guy from east berlin right?'

And I'm all, 'your stupid, this podcast is about Russia,'

And he's all, 'I know, but this is the guy who was the head of East Berlin; which was controlled by Russia , moron .' So he totally crushed me on that reference.

Then I put on a podcast about that douchebag Richard Dawkins. And my brother, before anything is said about him goes, 'I hate that guy!'

And I'm all, 'yeah like you know who he is.' And Ziad proceeds to tell me who he is, and 2 of his major books.

And just now I was thinking to myself, 'man, which 17 year old knows who the head of east berlin was in the 1990's, and knows who dawkins is?'

I mean is this what all the kids are talking about these days, fall of berlin wall era politics, and militant atheists?