It Could Be Worse

Wherein Anna and Cat suck you into the wormhole of intense bad luck via Adolphe Sax. Were his parents trying to kill him for insurance money?  Was it herpes or cancer? Anna does not know that Brussels is a city and Cat realizes that stairs were around in the 1800s! People drink milk out of bowls! Sax show us it could be worse...

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Sources: 

The Saxophone by Stephen Cottrell

https://heavy.com/news/2015/11/adolphe-sax-google-doodle-201st-birthday-photos-saxophone-inventor-bio-history-almost-died-near-death-wine-facts-age-death-family-sons/

http://www.dinant.be/en/inheritance/adolphe-sax

https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-12-03/meet-dangerous-belgian-who-invented-sax

In this update Cat and Anna discuss a worst case scenario, rawr XD, being more like Lisa, refrigerator noises, and how current events will effect the podcast. Toodles bitches. 

In this episode , Anna and Cat discuss inbreeding, jawlines, appendicitis, science in the 1600s, erotic donuts, and the man who ended the reign of the Hapsburg dynasty by no fault of his own.

This week, Anna, Cat, and Layla discuss silk stockings, attics, saturations, and first blood, and the man who loved his girlfriend enough to live in her attic for years. 

Sources:

Kelly, Erin. “The Story Of Dolly Oesterreich – The Woman Who Kept Her Secret Lover In The Attic For Years.” All That's Interesting, All That's Interesting, 23 Aug. 2019, allthatsinteresting.com/dolly-oesterreich.

Writh, Jennifer. "For Years She Kept Her Secret Lover in the Attic and Made Him Live Like a Bat." All Day, All Day,  24 Jun. 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160624105932/http:/allday.com/post/8840-for-years-she-kept-her-secret-lover-in-the-attic-and-made-him-live-like-a-bat

Eddy, Cheryl. “The Bizarre Case of the Unfaithful Wife and Her ‘Attic Man.’” Gizmodo, Gizmodo, 6 Jan. 2016, gizmodo.com/the-bizarre-case-of-the-unfaithful-wife-and-her-attic-1716070695.

Blanco, Juan Ignacio. “Walburga Oesterreich: Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers.” Walburga Oesterreich | Murderpedia, the Encyclopedia of Murderers, 4 June 2017, murderpedia.org/female.O/o/oesterreich-walburga.htm.

Rasmussen, Cecelia. “'Bat Man' Case: a Lurid Tale of Love and Death.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 1995, www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-20-me-44878-story.html.

Today Anna and Cat discuss pus and blood part 2, Axe body spray, kink shaming, fleas, rats, and a disease indifferent to who it wiped out. 

Today Anna and Cat (and Layla) discuss powerful laxatives, belts o' skin, wooden chests, the pus of life, and a man's journey to become the hungriest, stinkiest, stretchiest human of all time. 

Sources:

London Medical Physical Journal. "Polyphagism." Eclectic Repertory and Analytical Review, Medical and Philosophical (1810-1820) 10.1 (1820): 136. Web.

Good, John Mason. The Study of Medicine. 4th American Ed., Reprinted from the Last London Ed., Greatly Improved and Enl.. ed. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1826. Web.

All That's Interesting: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tarrare 

Today Anna and Cat discuss Kool Aid, doing simple math, boredom in the 17th century, and an unlucky set of circumstances that led to the SECOND biggest witch hunt in North American history. 

Today Anna and Cat discuss the dangers of dress up, Sandals Beach Resorts, finger infections, what it takes to get your sea legs, and one woman's career as an ocean liner stewardess that was a failure of Titanic proportions. 

Sources: Titanic Survivor by John Maxtone-Graham 

Today Anna and Cat discuss carseats, human flesh, what it takes to get to the West Coast, banishment, and collarbone stabbings. 

Anna and Cat are back! 'Cause everyone wanted to know...Today they discuss the original sausage party, unknown birthdates, stuff getting touched, and one man's failed quest to start a colony in America.