Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 265 - The One Where We Wash Away The Fairy Dust

In This Week’s Show, episode 265, we fill our yee-oldie tubs with 3D printed British cow-leavings for science.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while Titania (the queen of the Fairies) hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying her patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

Thanks to Steve E, this week I learned that the saying, “you are what you eat” doesn’t apply to vegetarians, as, if you were to eat a vegetarian you probably aren't a vegetarian.

Also I learned that in 1979 the US government built a secret underground base in Dulce, NM, to house aliens, more on that in the following weeks to come.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/that-time-subterranean-al_b_5182945?guccounter=1

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that the oldest fairies on record in England were first described by Gervase of Tilbury in the 13th century?

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Oro de Calabaza - Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales

* Donated By: Steve E

* BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/9897/18975/

* BA Rating: 92

* Style: French Bière de Garde

* ABV: 8%

* Aaron: 8

* Jenn: 3

* Shea: 9

* Steve: 1

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* http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_history_of_the_bathtub

Before we can begin this week’s patron story, we need to watch a commercial. And by watch I mean listen. And by commercial I mean a non-show sponsored apocryphal soap-on-a-rope joke.

So the commercial is based on the life and bath-time of the 13th President of the United States, the not at all fake-named Millard Fillmore. Fun fact, he wasn’t a duck.

First of all, if like me, you’ve not heard of President Fillmore, here’s a brief overview. He is most famously know as being the first president to have running water in the White House. He was a Whig - a member of a British and Constitutional party that worked with the Democrats from 1830 to 1850 or so. Their logo was an owl in the traditional half-blue, half-red, with stars style. He was born in a log cabin. Was a career cloth maker. and had a third nipple he named "Professor Milkington” - ok, that last bit was an internet joke.

As far as Fillmore goes he was a relatively unremarkable president. He did some ok stuff, he did some terrible stuff like signing the Fugitive Slave Act. And then he died of a yee-oldie disease. This story is more concerned with his bathtub.

On the 28th of December, 1917, the journalist henry L. Mencken published an article in the New York Evening Mail titled "A Neglected Anniversary.” Full article linked in the notes (read the full text here). The article was about America’s adoption of the bathtub. Or rather, America’s slow adoption of the bathtub, which was believed to pose serious health risks until Mallard Fillmore popularized them by installing the first bathtub in the White House in 1850.

The first American bathtub was installed in Cincinnati in December of 1842 by one Adam Thompson. Prior to 1842, I guess people just jumped into lakes and loofa’d off with a small woodland creature. It was a brisk and bity time in personal hygiene.

The lavish water-box was a massive mahogany tub lined with lead. Adam proudly displayed the tub at a Christmas party and at least four of h...