BONUS - SMALL TOWN MURDER - VICTORIAN HOUSEHOLD DANGERS
Added 2023-09-03 00:19:46 +0000 UTCThis week, James and Jimmie discuss how dangerous it was to be in your own house in the Victorian era.
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Lol, I can't even tell you how many cigarette ashes I ate as a kid because my mom cooked with a cigarette hanging from her mouth.
The Bollero Fam
2025-04-16 22:10:56 +0000 UTCMy mom would drink whiskey & breastfeed us to help us sleep 🤷🏼♀️
Renata
2025-03-24 22:56:19 +0000 UTCBovine tb
Roxanne Hinds
2025-01-12 01:17:07 +0000 UTCPlease do another episode like this
Sarah Hixon
2024-10-22 14:52:13 +0000 UTCMy sister lost her toe taking a shower. She said the water got really hot and she couldn't turn it down and jumped out and hit her foot on this metal chair she had in there. It was a small bathroom.
Karen Maguire
2024-09-24 00:10:15 +0000 UTCDennis Quaid twins were given an adult sized dose of heparin, which is a blood thinner
Paige Lovelace
2024-09-11 21:40:25 +0000 UTCI loved this! I'd love to know more of these!
Patrick Roseberry
2024-09-10 21:08:11 +0000 UTCGreat episode!!! Loved this
Sarah Hixon
2024-08-04 00:04:11 +0000 UTCCame here to say this. I have a bunch of uranium glass but steer clear of anything orange.
Suzanne Kendall
2024-06-20 19:51:06 +0000 UTCThe story of your mother creating Agent Orange reminded me of the was an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where Charlie mixed a bunch of cleaning supplies and then passed out. The one where they went to their high school reunion.
Esther G
2024-05-10 21:33:59 +0000 UTCOof you guys ... Check out microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and forever chemicals. I think we are only slightly better off than we used to be lol
TK
2024-04-22 10:23:50 +0000 UTCI just joined the patreon this month and this episode is incredible. I'll be listening to this one again sometime! Lmao
Katie Oliver
2024-04-04 18:54:36 +0000 UTChttps://www.movoto.com/brooklyn-ny/1958-bergen-st-brooklyn-ny-11233/pid_okpur8tqjh/ address [re]built in 2003, worth $1,430,000 Est
k cain
2024-03-15 05:16:33 +0000 UTCBest episode so far
Michele and Allen
2023-12-09 01:48:13 +0000 UTCI did that when I was 19 and woke up with O2 mask and paramedics congratulating me on being alive.
Ken Kuipers
2023-11-29 12:11:38 +0000 UTCNot the cow TB 😭😭😭
Keon Weems
2023-11-01 14:13:12 +0000 UTCI once worked @ Kroger's and the young kid cleaning the restrooms mixed bleach and ammonia 😂😂😂
Keon Weems
2023-11-01 14:03:42 +0000 UTCWhen I was 9 or so, i was cleaning the toilet and used both bleach and ammonia. It started smoking right away so I immediately flushed it! Thankfully, I reacted quickly! 😬
Erika Fultz
2023-10-15 20:22:29 +0000 UTCI’m a little late to this party but I looked up the Brooklyn address and the zestimate is currently 905,200
Sophia Halkias
2023-10-10 11:31:49 +0000 UTCI have a bunch of uranium glass at home. It's not dangerous as long as. You don't eat or drink off the. But some Fiesta ware and cadmium glass is super dangerous!
Rebecca Minnich
2023-10-05 18:52:02 +0000 UTCIt's like the "Flintstones chewable morphines" from The Simpsons. Lol
Jenny Arnold
2023-09-27 23:23:48 +0000 UTCFantastic episode
Karen Fury
2023-09-24 22:37:58 +0000 UTCHah!! In the 90s, I mixed bleach and degreaser and unknowingly made mustard gas while working at a pizza place XD Turkeys run together.
Megan Press
2023-09-21 17:11:05 +0000 UTCThey also used it like cosmetics. Radium was the rage for EVERYTHING at the time. I still haven't been able to finish reading the book about them, called Radium Girls, because it's just so fucking tragic, and how they were treating was horrific.
Jennifer Rooks
2023-09-21 13:21:32 +0000 UTCI think Mysteries at the Museum had a segment on this. Wild stuff.
Jennifer Rooks
2023-09-21 13:15:19 +0000 UTCLots of laughs in this one
Jack Brittain
2023-09-17 21:55:22 +0000 UTCGood shit Boys! Gobble Gobble Turkeys
MyNameIsASecret
2023-09-13 16:44:17 +0000 UTCYou can hold a Geiger counter over the Radium Girls graves and it will go off, they were so radio active.
Desiree Galvez
2023-09-12 22:28:47 +0000 UTCI have a tea cup made of Urianium glass! You can buy it at antique stores. Just don't drink/eat off them! They glow under black light too so you know when it's authentic
AC
2023-09-12 19:50:24 +0000 UTCMan the fact that we had uranium in our glass well into the 60s/70s is insane though. Not just victorian
Brett Davis
2023-09-11 06:39:33 +0000 UTCMonkey’s Blood. I remember it.
Jennifer Rausch
2023-09-10 12:05:28 +0000 UTCBernadette Banner has a great YT channel but she is just one perspective. She's also slightly biased IMO because she's used to braces for her scoliosis. And the fact remains that there was a movement to 'liberate' women from that kind of shapewear by at least the 1910s-20s (Isadora Duncan comes to mind). There were women who definitely did not like this. Shapewear has always come in and gone out of fashion: after the flapper/classical Greek inspired dance costume era, by the 50s women are back in girdles, bullet bras etc. It's something that comes in and goes out in different eras and social classes. It also might be useful to understand that some women would've reacted to certain garments because they're allergic to something in them. They might not be fainting because the corset's too tight but they might be right up against something that they shouldn't be. Banner never really addresses that kind of thing but it happens with women today and I can't imagine it wasn't an issue in the past. Right now, in the Mormon community there's kind of a debate about their undergarments. Some women are upset because they're all at least part synthetic which they feel is leading to more UTIs, rashes and other issues. So this stuff of like, underthings, support garments, it can be really culturally specific and the concerns people express over it change with time and with the exact community you're zoomed in on.
Grumpy Aunt
2023-09-10 02:28:49 +0000 UTCBoiling in the tub is like that frog experiment
Tim Rowe
2023-09-09 15:03:37 +0000 UTCOohhh!! I was wondering about that one. My kid has an epipen and I was wondering what the chances are of having both twins simultaneously go into anaphylactic shock 🙃
Jaime Barton Hodges
2023-09-08 23:15:52 +0000 UTCAutistic intense interest info dump incoming. You have been warned. The thing about corsets has been thoroughly debunked by dress historians and reenactors. That list of 'harms' from wearing corsets was made up by Victorian dress reformers. 20th century people looked back at the dress reform movements claims andd thought they were real because they supported a particular historical narrative. The dress reformers weren't wrong about the impractical nature of fashionable clothing but they didn't half make up some crap. Evidence from the time and from remains don't support it, and some people who wear corsets and stays based on historical examples today confirm they are not restrictive if made properly and worn with the era appropriate undergarments. People wore corsets and stays for back and breast support and to give a solid anchor point for things like bum rolls and the later crinoline, as well as all the layers of skirts they wore. In the past, rather than changing their bodies, people got the fashionable shape by adding stuff to their undergarments. It was all about having the fashionable proportions, so no one looked the same naked as they did dressed. People wore special pregnancy corsets, later corsets were developed to be worn during exercise, at least they were available to wealthy Edwardian people. Everyone else just wore their day to day corset for everything because those things were expensive. Women in fields and factories wore corsets and stays, as well as servants, so they hadvto be practical garments. If they weren't practical, people would have found other undergarments. Tight lacing is often brought up in the 'corsets are bad' context. Tight-lacing was a late 19th century rich people fad, it was only done for very important events, not every day. I highly recommend Bernadette Banner's YouTube channel for more on the subject.
Rosemarie Cawkwell
2023-09-08 19:01:25 +0000 UTCOh my goodness, this one made me laugh so much! I love James' laugh so much. I accidentally mixed bleach & ammonia to mop floor after closing at a pizza place I worked at when I was 18 back in 77. Firefighters came & it was dangerous bc we had gas pizza ovens. I was so upset but didn't know better. I definitely have told people to not do that over the years. Love you guys & appreciate your hard work.
Diane K Hazen
2023-09-08 18:37:20 +0000 UTCIn the late 70's early 80's, my grandmother used to put Mercurochrome on every scrap, scratch or laceration on all of us grandkids. Found out years later, it was basically mercury.
Stephanie Thompson
2023-09-08 18:21:08 +0000 UTCJesus Christ. I got to “brain got mushed up” and had to pull over to not crash my company van
Travis Ares
2023-09-08 10:50:10 +0000 UTCThey studied it when working on nuclear tech, it was one of the largest known explosions at the time! Crazy story.
Grumpy Aunt
2023-09-08 08:05:26 +0000 UTCNo, I have not seen that, but I gotta believe the "radium girls" have to be included. I'll look up the show... thanks for the tip!
Don Nelson
2023-09-08 02:32:27 +0000 UTCI love the history related STM bonus episodes. I desperately need ya'll to do the 1917 Halifax Explosion. It's a wild story from start to finish.
Elvira Silvestri
2023-09-07 22:45:52 +0000 UTCJimmy's OH MY GOD never gets old. Lol.
Wryslok
2023-09-07 19:38:59 +0000 UTCMy hubby is a Brit & I lived in UK for 7 years. We used to call the Victorian Museum the Museum of Death. Forgot the chemicals and medicines, the staircases in the staff living quarters killed more people than you can imagine. Also, the chemicals they used in laundry caused black lung symptoms
Dee Ann Kieft
2023-09-07 18:16:45 +0000 UTCI didn't say anyone was wrong....
Casey Gutting
2023-09-07 14:51:03 +0000 UTCHoly shit! For some reason, Jimmy’s quote of… “The acid of the grape…ruined your life!” had me in tears..best 😂
Daniel Sandomenico
2023-09-07 07:07:37 +0000 UTCAmazing episode chaps! Hope there’s another one like this soon. I always say it’s a fucking miracle we’re even here. In addition to famine and disease and everything in the country (we migrated to Australia) already actively trying to kill you, we had to contend with exploding toilets and heroin laced toothpaste. Oh and the fucking corsets. Oh, the corsets.
Anneliese Prasser
2023-09-07 04:05:24 +0000 UTChttps://www.redbubble.com/i/poster/Lawn-Darts-Survived-the-70s-Vintage-Toy-by-tldeutsch/62137830.LVTDI it's not my design but this showed up in a Google ad and made me lol
The Kerri Lee
2023-09-07 03:54:45 +0000 UTCAbsolutely awesome :)
Andrew Hughes
2023-09-07 03:17:03 +0000 UTCBetween the voluminous gowns made of flammable material, and the open flames everywhere, there was a whole lot of accidental self-immolation in the Victorian Era. I’ve read that there are upwards of 3,000 documented cases of women burning to death in their own or someone else’s home.
Dorothy B
2023-09-07 02:44:59 +0000 UTCI have a couple of pieces, too. But not ornamental. One is a champagne glass and one is a measuring cup.
Cossondra Howard
2023-09-07 00:44:07 +0000 UTCI collect uranium glass! It's very low amount hahah
Dr Spicy Bryndza
2023-09-06 22:36:36 +0000 UTCAbsolutely loved this episode. Please do more
Karen Fury
2023-09-06 22:22:00 +0000 UTCGood episode! Made me laugh!
Rhonda Allred
2023-09-06 19:57:18 +0000 UTCBad blood was either syphilis, anemia, or fatigue.
Heather Hall
2023-09-06 19:44:12 +0000 UTCAnti-vaxxers need to listen to this one. We have forgotten the atrocity of these disease that we have practically eradicated with modern medicine!!
Michelle Brown
2023-09-06 17:59:43 +0000 UTCCarbolic acid is also known as phenol. It's still used in some sore throat sprays.
Ally
2023-09-06 01:45:24 +0000 UTCWas thinking this same thing… all the glowing glass lol
Mr Shadowral
2023-09-06 01:17:23 +0000 UTC"They cure everything because you'll be dead" dammit jimmie i was drinking my energy drink and nearly sprayed my work computer from laughing so hard
Msjustice
2023-09-05 17:33:29 +0000 UTCOh, hair stains are dangerous lol weird and omg! I would have been so high on laudanum everything would have murdered me!
Jae Melton
2023-09-05 12:13:15 +0000 UTCChildren's epinephrine, Jimmy......?! It was heparin that was given. Lol
Blankman
2023-09-05 03:31:29 +0000 UTCHere's another fun, deadly, Victorian era product to look up: Scheele's Green- particularly, wallpaper.
Sydney Brown
2023-09-05 01:24:00 +0000 UTCLmao "they were made of felt" "ah yes beaver" "felt not pelt" I'm dying
Casey Gutting
2023-09-04 23:59:07 +0000 UTCLoved this episode! You guys rule.
Maryalice Escobedo
2023-09-04 21:52:51 +0000 UTCNot sure how humans have survived till today after that list.
Gillian Clannin
2023-09-04 17:33:26 +0000 UTCMushed up the kids brain… oh my god. I nearly spit out my fucking Panda Express 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cassondra Schilling
2023-09-04 17:07:18 +0000 UTCworst part about the radium girls is they'd put the brush they were using to apply the paint full of radium and phosphor to make the tip pointier. so they ingested it daily
nora pseudophan
2023-09-03 23:40:18 +0000 UTCI wish you scum bags would put weeklies on YouTube I laugh hardest at you guys hanging out.
Amber Hague
2023-09-03 23:05:30 +0000 UTCDr. Jimmie saves the day!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Chad Haas
2023-09-03 21:15:52 +0000 UTCMy dad was born in 1915 and they did not have toilets then so what they did have was these outhouses and they lived in Kansas so they got tired of getting stuck to the outhouse board so my grandma would get chamber pots that's what you would pee and poop in and then she would go outside and throw the stuff in the yard where there was snow but what she failed to remember was snow melted and I guess you know what that smelled like
Paige Lovelace
2023-09-03 20:13:00 +0000 UTCArsenic was used for whitening the skin
Julia Collins
2023-09-03 17:29:24 +0000 UTCI love the history episodes! Thank you!
Brianna Exume
2023-09-03 13:36:20 +0000 UTC😮 How is the human race still a thing? Lol! It's a wonder anyone survived the "good ol' days". 🤷♀️
Michelle Miller
2023-09-03 12:57:45 +0000 UTCRegarding the manufacturing of matches, the symptom was called "phossy-jaw", and "Affected bones glowed a greenish-white colour in the dark." Fun times.
Don Nelson
2023-09-03 10:15:39 +0000 UTCBefore flame retardant clothing was a thing, my grandma was cooking at a gas stove and her dress spontaneously combusted. She was instantly in a ball of flames. She had to spend around 6 months in a body bag, that kept her skin moist. Her back was severely scarred and looked similar to Freddy Krueger’s face. 😏
Jenn W
2023-09-03 07:12:17 +0000 UTCHistorically speaking, we are in one if the most peaceful times on the entire planet. If you are super gung-ho about wanting to defend and disband things like OSHA and government oversize agencies, we are immediately not friends, and I judge you accordingly, dummy. Also, the Bergen address is now a 2700^2 ft single family house worth 1.25 million lol
ENKC
2023-09-03 04:24:58 +0000 UTCHappy Birthday 🌟
Angelina Marconi
2023-09-03 04:07:21 +0000 UTCyou guys gotta read or listen to some charles dickens novels
Richard Brian Cavell Jr
2023-09-03 02:27:13 +0000 UTCNow, that's a band name... "Safe Arsenic Wafers".
John Sheats
2023-09-03 01:36:06 +0000 UTCI loved that ASMR ass opening 🙌🏾 Love you guys and cannot wait for the Halloween show where I can participate from Ireland 😍 Hope my hometown (Atlanta) treats you well and I wish I was there !
Tierra Porter
2023-09-03 01:23:46 +0000 UTCI was washing my baby’s bottles while the teat part came on! 🍼🧼🫧
Sarah
2023-09-03 01:09:06 +0000 UTCNot me sitting next to my collection of uranium glass listening to this episode.
Kayla Corona
2023-09-03 00:48:30 +0000 UTCYaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!
Michael Clark
2023-09-03 00:42:29 +0000 UTCLovely birthday present of Patreon episodes!
Corale
2023-09-03 00:38:21 +0000 UTC
