A Night In

Ready for a Night In? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about calendars and how they have played a significant role in our progression as a civilization. 

00:45 Why does leap day exist? It's complicated 

01:35 Calendar Intercalation: a day, week, or month added to a calendar to realign the lunar calendar with the solar calendar 

01:55 Lunar Calendars start as civilizations first prehistoric calendar 

02:45 Intercalations in the lunisolar calendar exist as months. This is necessary because the lunar calendar is 354 days long but a solar year is approx. 365 days long, so every few years a month was added to the lunisolar calendar to make up for the lost days that come from a lunar calendar 

04:23 Calendar science leads to societies having many calendars 

04:35 The Metonic Cycle was a 19-year cycle that included an intercalary month 7 times in a 19 year cycle to keep the average length of the year in 19 years approx. 265 days long 

06:30 Mayan calendar 

09:00 The Persian Calendar in the 11th century predicts the tropical year extremely accurately 

09:41 The Gregorian calendar and why it replaced the Julian Calendar 

13:30 Other cultures still maintain their lunisolar calendars for cultural traditions 

16:55 The two types of lunar calendars 

18:00 Bachelor’s Day 

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Ready for a Night In? Join Tabby and Kate as they discuss the new proposed peace plan between Israel and Palestine, a history of the hostilities imbedded in the region, and the controversy surrounding modern criticism of Israel for human rights violations.

Ready for A Night In? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about the history of Valentine's Day and how it is inaccurately depicted most of the time, yet no one seems to care...

 01:20 Yes it was trendy to replace Pagan holidays with Christian holidays, but this is not what happened to Lupercalia 

02:00 What was Lupercalia? 

03:00 313CE Constantine converts the Romans to Christianity 

03:20 Pope Gelasius I abolishes Lupercalia, but does he actually canonize St. Valentine? 

05:00 Though multiple sources on the internet claim that Pope Gelasius canonized St. Valentine, no credible source is available to support this claim, thus the link between Lupercalia and Valentine's Day remains tenuous. 

07:00 The Middle Ages result in the association between Valentine's Day and courtly love

08:10 The Valentine's Day card became popular in the Chaucer Era and were then perfected in the Victorian Era. Sending cards was so popular that in the late 1800s over a million Valentine's Day cards were processed by the general post office in London. 

10:00 A Victorian Era NYTs critic decries the frivolity of Valentine's Day

11:00 In 1913 Hallmark Cards capitalizes off of the industrial revolution 

11:45 Valentine's Day is a billion dollar industry 

13:00 Valentine's Day reads as a mating ritual that we teach to children at an early age; A holiday that encourages gender roles, the idea that relationships are transactional, and stalker-like behavior. 

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Intro Song by: Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

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Ready for A Night In? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about why America can't be trusted with teaching its own history. 

Episode Guide 

00:25 What do two confederate generals and a gun manufacturer have in common with MLKJr? The answer is nothing, but somehow they have been included or almost included in the celebration of MLK day. 

02:35 depending on where you live, you may hear the word slavery less than you might somewhere else 

03:20 History of Black History Month

05:00 Criticisms of Black History Month

06:42 American Exceptionalism in contrast to historical scrutiny 

08:11 AP curriculum too liberal, apparently 

Additional Reading: 

https://www.loc.gov/law/help/commemorative-observations/african-american.php

https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/1/13/21058839/martin-luther-king-jr-mlk-day-states-recognize

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/08/28/what-do-students-learn-about-slavery-it-depends-where-they-live/

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/02/who-should-decide-how-students-learn-about-americas-past/385928/

Music Credits:

Intro Song by: Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

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Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about some teachable moments in ship building history. One failure and one success are covered in tonight's show, so grab a beverage, it's time for A Night In. 

01:15 Sweden's Age of Greatness and Gustavus Adolphus 

02:10 The Vasa Ship and the Vasa family 

03:35 So why did the Vasa ship sink

-no one would tell the king the ship was unstable 

-the ship had too high a center of gravity

-the ship was built using different units of measurement  

06:53 August 10, 1628 the Vasa makes her maiden voyage 

10:20 The most legendary of American vessels 

11:45 We enter the War of 1812

13:00 The Constitution kedges away

14:20 The Constitution goes after the HMS Guerriere

16:30 Refit number one leads to the Jackson head debacle 

18:15 Refit number two and her life as America's Sweetheart 

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Folk Round by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100357Artist: http://incompetech.com/

Ready for a Night In? Join the girls as they talk about why the Harry and Meghan drama should hardly count as drama when juxtaposed to the drama that was the English Reformation and subsequent battles over religious denomination during the reign of the House of Tudor and the House of Stuart. 

Episode Guide

00:30 Fox News tabloids are so dumb...

1:15 Queen's Statement

02:50 Edward VIII marries socialite and meets Hitler

03:00 Charles and Camilla

03:08 Bookmakers closed when the Queen Mother passed away

03:13 Margret could really drink, smoke, and swear

03:50 The reign of Henry VIII raised the bar for royal scandals 

05:00 The Protestant Reformation challenges the Catholic Church

06:45 Edward VI, son of Henry VIII, doesn't last long... Mary becomes the first Queen in power. After her comes Elizabeth. The Tudor name dies with Elizabeth and the House of Stuart then begins with James I of England.

09:20 Charles I as a Catholic sympathizer

10:15 Charles II is a Protestant 

10:22 But James II is Catholic and really leans into it 

12:45 William of Orange is married to his first cousin, who happens to be James II daughter Mary. They are also super Protestant. 

13:30 More succession drama 

14:05 The Glorious Revolution leads to the British Bill of Rights which states that the monarch rules only by the consent of Parliament and not by divine right. 

15:15 Follow us @tylerandfrantz leave us a message and we will give you a shout out on the show.

15:40 BLOOPERS 

For your convenience, a list of the monarchs:

William the Conqueror 

William II

Henry I

Stephen

Henry II

Richard I

John

Henry III

Edward I 

Edward II 

Edward III

Richard II

Henry IV

Henry V

Henry VI

Edward IV

Edward V

Richcard III

Henry VII

Henry VIII

Edward VI

Mary I

Elizabeth I

James I

Charles I

Charles II

James II

William III and Mary II 

Anne

George I

George II

George III

George IV

William IV 

Victoria 

Edward VII

George V

Edward VIII

George VI

Elizabeth II

Ready for a night in? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about the assassination of Qasem Soleimani and another general, a general who we assassinated 77 years ago. 

Episode Guide 

00:45 Assassination of Soleimani 

01:43 Trump avoids his own Benghazi Scandal

02:27 NYT Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was the last general to be assassinated by the United States 

03:50 Yamamoto convinces the Naval High Command to bomb Pearl Habor 

06:15 Operation Vengeance 

07:50 Why is there a 77 year gap between Soleimani and Yamamoto?

08:40 Was it legal for Donald Trump to order the killing of a top Iranian general?

Music Credits 

Intro Song by: Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

Additional music provided by the YouTube Audio Library and C-Span

Ready for a night in? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk alternative origin stories for the winter holidays.

Episode Guide:

00:30 Tabby and Kate talk about their own holiday traditions 

03:15 Kate sounds like Arlo Guthrie 

04:50 Tabby describes the Wild Hunt 

07:45 Odin sounds a lot like Santa 

08:15 Why do we celebrate the birth of Jesus on the 25th of December? 

Mike Duncan: A History of Rome Christmas

Thank you as always for listening. Be sure to tune into our other show Model Memoirs hosted by Rachel Reed and have a happy holiday season. 

Intro Music: Bethlehem - Christmas by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100307

Artist: http://incompetech.com/ 

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Ready for a night in? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about how being a rock star's girlfriend is not really as glamorous as it seems. 

03:30 Pamela De Barres babysits Moon Unit and Dweezil 

05:30 Lorrie Mattix is 13 years old

07:50 Anita Pallenberg is a Fashion Icon 

09:20 Jerry Hall can't be Lois Lane 

11:00 Bianca Jagger is the hero we all deserve 

11:30 Sable Starr is carried away by a New York Doll

12:20 Bebe Buell is not a groupie 

13:00 Cynthia Lennon deserves a medal

14:30 Why do we want to be with rock stars?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735613482025

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2014.0403

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0035626

16:50 Halo Effect- a type of cognitive bias in which our overall impression of a   person influences how we feel and think about his or her character.

18:00 Cleo's Adventures 

Thanks for listening as always! follow us @tylerandfrantz on twitter and instagram 

Additional Reading:

https://www.vintag.es/2018/06/jimmy-page-lori-maddox.html 

https://www.ranker.com/list/famous-muses-in-the-music-world/matthewcoleweiss

https://listverse.com/2017/08/28/10-groupies-that-majorly-impacted-the-history-of-rock-n-roll/

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/06/good-time-girl-memories-of-a-super-groupie

https://vmagazine.com/article/anita-pallenberg-the-woman-who-out-keithed-keith/

Intro Song by: Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

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Ready for a night in? Join Tabby and Kate as they talk about old methods of contraception and the origins of the culture of control that dictates modern policy on family planning. 

00:20 New male birth control, reversible vasectomy 

01:20 Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and the use of acacia as both a pessaries (vaginal inserts) and abortifacients (inducers of abortion) 

02:10 Family Planning-the effort to control the number of children a family has- predates modern history and for as long as anyone can remember, people have been trying to have sex without pregnancy 

05:25 Control over the reproductive health of families has been dictated by circumstances throughout history. When war, disease, and famine killed people in mass, it was necessary for people to procreate to maintain the population. This demand for more people became imbedded in religious doctrine ultimately leading to the belief that it was immoral to have sex and not have children. Though times have changed, the framework of control has stayed within the power structures that dictate the institutions of modern society.     

07:30 Social reformists argue that people need to have less children to rise above poverty. 

07:45 Malthusianism seeks to reduce the population. Neo-Malthusianism leads to increased interest in contraception.

09:00 The purposeful dismissal of safe abortifacients by doctors in the 18th and 19th century and possible reasons for this decision. 

12:30 Margret Sanger popularized the term birth control and lays groundwork for planned parenthood 

Further reading:

https://books.google.com/books?id=djB3SmeevRIC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=1vS85LtlsnIC&pg=PA69&dq=ebers+medical+papyrus+contraception&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjGhu_LspTOAhWMNT4KHVIyDogQ6AEIHjAA#v=onepage&q=acacia&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=BHRsBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT54&lpg=PT54&dq=bamboo+paper+cervical+block&source=bl&ots=-Tfbe5eB_-&sig=ACfU3U3ttKLXKz25NMeLTjUdp_bUkx-R0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPnOqB2ZjmAhVBwVkKHZhGCkQQ6AEwAHoECAkQAg#v=onepage&q=bamboo%20paper%20cervical%20block&f=false

https://books.google.com/books?id=8zvd92WUCmEC&pg=PA520&lpg=PA520&dq=co%C3%AFtus+interruptus+%22deprives%22+women&source=bl&ots=2a-jsHDUKE&sig=ACfU3U0LQyf91L4B8eJRwIxDh-4g0cmnWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCo7jq4ZnmAhUCmVkKHXzfAL8Q6AEwA3oECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=co%C3%AFtus%20interruptus%20%22deprives%22%20women&f=false

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Intro Song by: Joakim Karud youtube.com/joakimkarud

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