Will This Be On The Test?

Its a solo episode this week and Mattie goes into labor.

Let me rephrase that.

Mattie talks about the Labor Movement. Like the last 200 years of progress, how Reagan made it all worse, and how in the last 2 years American workers have gone through almost a microcosm of the entire fight for labor again.

We also discuss quiet quitting, how unskilled labor is a misnomer, the great resignation, and Pete Davidson. Obviously.

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This week Mattie and Austin discuss literature. really, we both read the same book and talked about it, you should read I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, we both liked it.

Then Austin starts to talk about Pickleball, but it angers Mattie (she thinks Pickleball is made up,) so he talks about Matthew Hopkins. The Witchfinder General.

Then Mattie takes us North to Edinburgh Scotland and tells us all about Mary King's Close and how myths about it have become so prevalent that they often get reported as true. 

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Hello Party People!

that was weird, lets try again.

This week Mattie and Austin are back to their usual routine with a pretty great Episode

Mattie talks about an influential figure in film and makeup that we don't learn much about, Lon Chaney. He pioneered a lot of early film makeup and became one of the first faces of the horror movie genre.

Then Austin dredges up a national unpleasant memory and talks about The Presidential Fitness Test. why did we do it? did it actually do anything? and how did Reagan make it worse? 

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This week Mattie and Austin switched things up.

instead of painstaking research over multiple days to put out an episode Mattie and Austin gave each other an unknown topic and then had to research it in only half an hour.

that is right, we combined the thrill of video game speed runs with the excitement of reading and taking notes.

we are legends.

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after being super exciting and trendy and taking their cats to the vet Mattie and Austin had enough time in their busy lives to record a new episode!

Mattie starts us off by talking about those adorable lil bandits Raccoons (aka Trash Pandas) and how they are an incredibly destructive invasive species that is on an unstoppable march across Japan and Europe. we also get a bunch of cool facts and Austin has to answer a true or false quiz that he in now way studied for.

then Austin talks about Tulip Mania. A financial crash that even though it was all about people buying flowers for the same cost as a house, was still a better investment than NFTs.

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ok, we are a little late getting this episode out, but it is still Tuesday in a few time zones so Mattie and Austin both agree that this episode is on time. mostly.

Austin starts this week talking about Zoos. and just a bunch of wholesome animal facts with just a light sprinkling on the exploitative nature of colonialism. He also talks about his new hero Ken Allen. Just a wholesome episode that nobody could object to.

Mattie talks about sex, how our state failed us when it came to sex ed, and the effectiveness of contraception and comprehensive sex ed. Austin had to hold up Mattie's notes so she could make all the hand gestures she needed. the perfect visual aid for this Audio format.

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This week, Mattie and Austin have a return guest! you know him, you love him, you want to give him belly rubs, Fezzik returns to purr aggressively right into the microphone while we shout facts and tangents at you!

Mattie starts by teaching us about the Hearst family and the exploits, wars, and sensationalism of an American media dynasty. We also try and remember what the Spanish American War was. we know it was with Spain, and after the episode we also had a vague memory of Teddy Roosevelt doing something in it. 

Then Austin decides to talk about something that he finds comforting. DDT. specifically what a big problem wide spread use of it was, and how people managed to force change against a seemingly insurmountable problem. he also gets to use the phrase "Toxic Colonialism," and can not stress enough how happy it made him.

and we can not stress this enough we are not actually sponsored by North Korea or Elon Musk. Especially not Elon Musk.

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This week Mattie and Austin decided to keep it chill and talk about what they thought were light topics where nothing could possibly be sad.

they were both wrong.

Austin tells us about Godzilla. a 1954 monster movie loved by millions that has a much darker deeper meaning than he anticipated when he started. He also ruins King Kong while he's at it.

Mattie then talks about the history of fathers day and how it is celebrated. It quickly devolves into us saying how upsetting the word Daddy has become. 

and we can not stress this enough we are not actually sponsored by North Korea.

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This episode Mattie and Austin both decided to cover a disease. this was not planned. we just share a single brain cell and it does this to us some times.

Mattie starts off by talking about the Bubonic Plague. specifically the American outbreak in the 1900s. that was covered up by the government. that we were never taught about.

Then Austin lightens the mood by talking about Tuberculosis. you know, the slow wasting disease that made us all super sad when we watched Moulin Rouge.

fun times were had by all

but for those of you that stuck around you get to hear about Austin's ghost encounter and Mattie yell at a dog.

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