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BONUS - SMALL TOWN MURDER - VICTORIAN HOUSEHOLD DANGERS

🕑 Added 2023-09-03 00:19:46 +0000 UTC

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The Bollero Fam

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.

Renata

My mom would drink whiskey & breastfeed us to help us sleep 🤷🏼‍♀️

Roxanne Hinds

Bovine tb

Sarah Hixon

Please do another episode like this

Karen Maguire

My 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.

Paige Lovelace

Dennis Quaid twins were given an adult sized dose of heparin, which is a blood thinner

Patrick Roseberry

I loved this! I'd love to know more of these!

Sarah Hixon

Great episode!!! Loved this

Suzanne Kendall

Came here to say this. I have a bunch of uranium glass but steer clear of anything orange.

Esther G

The 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.

TK

Oof you guys ... Check out microplastics, endocrine disruptors, and forever chemicals. I think we are only slightly better off than we used to be lol

Katie Oliver

I just joined the patreon this month and this episode is incredible. I'll be listening to this one again sometime! Lmao

k cain

https://www.movoto.com/brooklyn-ny/1958-bergen-st-brooklyn-ny-11233/pid_okpur8tqjh/ address [re]built in 2003, worth $1,430,000 Est

Michele and Allen

Best episode so far

Ken Kuipers

I did that when I was 19 and woke up with O2 mask and paramedics congratulating me on being alive.

Keon Weems

Not the cow TB 😭😭😭

Keon Weems

I once worked @ Kroger's and the young kid cleaning the restrooms mixed bleach and ammonia 😂😂😂

Erika Fultz

When 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! 😬

Sophia Halkias

I’m a little late to this party but I looked up the Brooklyn address and the zestimate is currently 905,200

Rebecca Minnich

I 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!

Jenny Arnold

It's like the "Flintstones chewable morphines" from The Simpsons. Lol

Karen Fury

Fantastic episode

Megan Press

Hah!! In the 90s, I mixed bleach and degreaser and unknowingly made mustard gas while working at a pizza place XD Turkeys run together.

Jennifer Rooks

They 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

I think Mysteries at the Museum had a segment on this. Wild stuff.

Jack Brittain

Lots of laughs in this one

MyNameIsASecret

Good shit Boys! Gobble Gobble Turkeys

Desiree Galvez

You can hold a Geiger counter over the Radium Girls graves and it will go off, they were so radio active.

AC

I 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

Brett Davis

Man the fact that we had uranium in our glass well into the 60s/70s is insane though. Not just victorian

Jennifer Rausch

Monkey’s Blood. I remember it.

Grumpy Aunt

Bernadette 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.

Tim Rowe

Boiling in the tub is like that frog experiment

Jaime Barton Hodges

Oohhh!! 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 🙃

Rosemarie Cawkwell

Autistic 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.

Diane K Hazen

Oh 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.

Stephanie Thompson

In 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.

Travis Ares

Jesus Christ. I got to “brain got mushed up” and had to pull over to not crash my company van

Grumpy Aunt

They studied it when working on nuclear tech, it was one of the largest known explosions at the time! Crazy story.

Don Nelson

No, 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!

Elvira Silvestri

I 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.

Wryslok

Jimmy's OH MY GOD never gets old. Lol.

Dee Ann Kieft

My 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

Casey Gutting

I didn't say anyone was wrong....

Daniel Sandomenico

Holy shit! For some reason, Jimmy’s quote of… “The acid of the grape…ruined your life!” had me in tears..best 😂

Anneliese Prasser

Amazing 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.

The Kerri Lee

https://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

Andrew Hughes

Absolutely awesome :)

Dorothy B

Between 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.

Cossondra Howard

I have a couple of pieces, too. But not ornamental. One is a champagne glass and one is a measuring cup.

Dr Spicy Bryndza

I collect uranium glass! It's very low amount hahah

Karen Fury

Absolutely loved this episode. Please do more

Rhonda Allred

Good episode! Made me laugh!

Heather Hall

Bad blood was either syphilis, anemia, or fatigue.

Michelle Brown

Anti-vaxxers need to listen to this one. We have forgotten the atrocity of these disease that we have practically eradicated with modern medicine!!

Ally

Carbolic acid is also known as phenol. It's still used in some sore throat sprays.

Mr Shadowral

Was thinking this same thing… all the glowing glass lol

Msjustice

"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

Jae Melton

Oh, hair stains are dangerous lol weird and omg! I would have been so high on laudanum everything would have murdered me!

Blankman

Children's epinephrine, Jimmy......?! It was heparin that was given. Lol

Sydney Brown

Here's another fun, deadly, Victorian era product to look up: Scheele's Green- particularly, wallpaper.

Casey Gutting

Lmao "they were made of felt" "ah yes beaver" "felt not pelt" I'm dying

Maryalice Escobedo

Loved this episode! You guys rule.

Gillian Clannin

Not sure how humans have survived till today after that list.

Cassondra Schilling

Mushed up the kids brain… oh my god. I nearly spit out my fucking Panda Express 😂😂😂😂😂😂

nora pseudophan

worst 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

Amber Hague

I wish you scum bags would put weeklies on YouTube I laugh hardest at you guys hanging out.

Chad Haas

Dr. Jimmie saves the day!!! 🤣🤣🤣

Paige Lovelace

My 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

Julia Collins

Arsenic was used for whitening the skin

Brianna Exume

I love the history episodes! Thank you!

Michelle Miller

😮 How is the human race still a thing? Lol! It's a wonder anyone survived the "good ol' days". 🤷‍♀️

Don Nelson

Regarding the manufacturing of matches, the symptom was called "phossy-jaw", and "Affected bones glowed a greenish-white colour in the dark." Fun times.

Jenn W

Before 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. 😏

ENKC

Historically 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

Angelina Marconi

Happy Birthday 🌟

Richard Brian Cavell Jr

you guys gotta read or listen to some charles dickens novels

John Sheats

Now, that's a band name... "Safe Arsenic Wafers".

Tierra Porter

I 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 !