154: PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Typhoid Mary & Scrunchies

154: PATREON EXCLUSIVE: Typhoid Mary & Scrunchies

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon!

Hello you skeezy scunches! We’re off this week for New Year’s, but we’ll be back next week with a brand spankin’ new episode. We hope you’re having a safe and happy holiday season!

And if you enjoy this episode and feel so inclined, please join our Patreon! You’ll automatically get 17 bonus episodes to binge!
In this episode, Brandi starts us off with an old timey story that may have you screaming “TOO SOON!”

In the early 1900s, germs were a novel concept. Washing your hands was an optional activity. The idea of being an asymptomatic carrier was nearly unheard of. So when a sanitation engineer named George Soper approached a woman and demanded samples of her blood, urine and feces, she scared him away at forkpoint. She scared the next doctor away, too. But the public health community would not be deterred. They were convinced that Mary Mallon was an asymptomatic spreader of Typhoid. And they had to stop her.

Then Kristin tells us about a nightclub singer named Rommy Revson. Rommy had gorgeous, long hair. She even used it as part of her act. For her first couple of songs, she’d have her hair clipped up with a clampy ring-shaped thingy. Then she’d take it down. But then she had to do the rest of her songs holding that damn hair clip! Rommy knew there had to be a better way. She wanted something that could hold her hair up, without damaging it, and that she could slip on her wrist when she wasn’t wearing it. But that thing didn’t exist. She had to invent it.

And now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
For this episode, Brandi pulled from:
“Typhoid Mary's tragic tale exposed the health impacts of ‘super-spreaders’" by Nina Strochlic, National Geographic
“Was The Real Typhoid Mary A Reckless Superspreader Or The Victim Of An Unjust System?” All That’s Interesting
“The Frightening Legacy of Typhoid Mary” by Veronique Greenwood, Smithsonian Magazine
“The Most Dangerous Woman in America: In Her Own Words” pbs.org
“Mary Mallon” wikipedia.org
For this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“The Queen of the Scrunchie” episode of the podcast “Every Little Thing”
“Night club singer, Scrunchie inventor Rommy Revson relocates to Rogers” by Kim Souza for Talk Business

Episoder(291)

188: The Mysterious Death of Greg Fleniken & a Love Triangle

188: The Mysterious Death of Greg Fleniken & a Love Triangle

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! When Detective Scott Apple entered room 348 of the MCM Elegante Hotel, he didn’t think he had a mystery on his hands. A man named Gr...

22 Sep 20212h 33min

187: What are the chances??

187: What are the chances??

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! Candy Williams couldn’t believe her luck. She’d been out on the beach in late 2005, when a handsome stranger approached her. His nam...

15 Sep 20212h 20min

186: The Murder of Robert Schwartz & a Mystery in Miami

186: The Murder of Robert Schwartz & a Mystery in Miami

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! When a utility worker came across Inna Budnytska, he initially thought she was dead. She’d been severely beaten and abandoned in a v...

8 Sep 20212h 29min

185: The Clinton 12 & the Murder of Adrianne Reynolds

185: The Clinton 12 & the Murder of Adrianne Reynolds

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! Adrianne Reynolds had a tumultuous childhood. But when she turned 16, she moved to East Moline, Illinois to live with her adoptive f...

1 Sep 20212h 35min

184:  2002!

184: 2002!

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! Lydia Fairchild was in a tight spot, financially. She had two young children, was pregnant with a third, and she was unemployed. So ...

25 Aug 20211h 48min

183: Exonerations!

183: Exonerations!

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! Kathy Sigman and Maria Ridulph were best friends. The little girls played together constantly, and the evening of December 3, 1957, ...

18 Aug 20212h 41min

182: Kidnappings!

182: Kidnappings!

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! When he was working as a manager at Imo’s Pizza, Michael Devlin put up a pretty good front. He was personable. Well read. Friendly. ...

11 Aug 20212h 9min

181: Sh*tbags!

181: Sh*tbags!

Hate ads? The entire LGTC catalog is available ad-free on Patreon! This episode nearly killed us. ….Or was it the Oreos, Pringles and alcohol that nearly killed us?  When we sat down to record this ...

4 Aug 20212h 5min

Populært innen Humor

papaya
rss-spartsklubben
harm-og-hegseth
enkel-servering
tore-og-haralds-podkast
storefri-med-mikkel-og-herman
tusvik-tnne
folk-flest-med-linn-og-nils
topp-3-med-wold-og-fladseth
rss-nesten-hele-uka-med-lepperod
misjonen-med-antonsen-og-golden
ma-pa-behandling-med-morten-ramm
rss-snorre-med-gaute
wolfgang-wee-uncut
rss-det-alle-snakker-om-med-siri-og-kim
hanna-de-heldige
verdens-verste
jan-thomas-og-einar-blir-venner
rss-dette-ma-aldri-skje-igjen
rss-dannet-uten-piano