39: OBITCH matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match...

This week your favorite historians….yeah we said it, are bringing you the hottest episode to date. Spencer takes us through the horrifying phenomenon of ‘phossy jaw’ and then Madison’s bringing us True Life: I’m an executioner. We’ve got an obituary for an inanimate object, one that rhymes, and one that looks like it was pulled straight outta Linkedin. OH and as always, we’ve got some dumb.ass.criminallllllls! 

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Sources: 

https://www.dailynews.com/2008/12/08/butt-bandit-gets-a-year-in-jail/amp/

http://wwwchem.uwimona.edu.jm/courses/CHEM2402/Myths_General/P_Matches.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phossy_jaw

https://allthatsinteresting.com/phossy-jaw

https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/took-be-executioner-medieval-times/

https://sofrep.com/news/the-executioner-as-a-profession-in-medieval-times/

https://www.livescience.com/medieval-executioner-life.html

http://berlinbooks.org/brb/2009/12/gods-executioner/

https://nexusnewsfeed.com/article/ancient-mysteries/the-dark-life-of-a-medieval-executioner-a-cut-away-from-the-rest/

https://www.dannydutch.com/post/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-medieval-executioner-in-their-16th-century-heyday

https://www.grunge.com/211401/what-the-final-24-hours-of-a-prisoner-on-death-row-are-like/

http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner

https://hobanvisor.news/an-obituary-to-a-pencil-sharpener/ 

http://theappendix.net/posts/2014/06/a-short-history-of-the-executioner

https://www.grunge.com/211401/what-the-final-24-hours-of-a-prisoner-on-death-row-are-like/

https://twitter.com/KevinRollason/status/1495483613663707142/photo/1

https://people.com/food/hot-dog-robbery-shoots-himself-penis/

https://chicago.suntimes.com/2017/11/2/18330967/no-bond-for-man-who-shot-himself-in-penis-while-robbing-hot-dog-stand

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