Synopsis If youre one of those people who thinks about the Roman Empire a lot because aqueducts are really cool, youre going to love this. Join Em and Jesse as they discuss the irrigation of the Che

Summary After a brief discussion of how people brushed their teeth, we move on to the question of where the water they used came from. And yeah, Rome had aqueductsbut so did a lot of places! And the

Summary When Em was a kid, she was told that knights in shining armor didnt bathe, that Elizabeth I had bathed only three times in her life, and various other assertions. But we know that soap is not

Synopsis Are you travelling for Thanksgiving? Believe it or not, travel as a thing is not a modern creation. In the middle ages, people visited many remote and far-flung places and brought back note

Synopsis Weve all seen that scene in Indiana Jones where hes clutching an artifact and shouting, It belongs in a museum! But nowadays in 2023, we tend to temper that ideamuseums are fun, but who

Synopsis Em and Jesse talk about Italian sumptuary laws, which unlike the British ones, were more aimed at women. Then they talk about fashion dos of the middle ages. Notes 1/ So, the difference bet

Synopsis Just in time for Paris Fashion Week, join Em and Jesse for an exciting discussion of sumptuary laws and the medieval origins of prohibitions against wearing white, as well as a few digression

Synopsis What got written illicitly on the walls back before 79 CE? It turns out a lot of stuff! Join Em and Jesse as they discuss the graffiti of Pompeii and also stuff Vikings wrote their names on.

Summary Lets talk about psychedelics in ritual practice. From Hunter S. Thompsons pilgrimage across the desert to the human sacrifices of the Incan empire in the sixteenth century to the use of opiu

Synopsis In honor of the publication of Ems debut novel, Dionysus in Wisconsin, Em and Jesse talk about Dionysus (the god), and then about drug use in ancient religious rituals. Notes 1/ Order book h