Merry Minisode Christmas! It’s time to harvest magic mistletoe, punch your blindfolded friends, burn a chunk of wood from the yard so your family doesn’t die, and eat flaming raisins. All in a 12-hour day’s long work. Oh, that’s not what you do on Christmas? Well thank your lucky ass you weren’t born in the Victorian era. Join Mike to learn about… basically all the things I just listed.

Sources:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/dark-side-christmas-saturnalia-christmas-carol-dickens-norse-mythology-festive-traditions-a8112341.html

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/yule-log/

https://qz.com/quartzy/1165055/the-yule-log-a-pagan-ritual-turned-youtube-phenomenon/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap-dragon_(game) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxNuBWAZcA

Mini-Episode 6 - Christmas Traditions: DO NOT TOUCH THE LOG!!!

Hey everyone! The 2019 season of Everything's Just Fine will be starting soon, but in the meantime please enjoy this teaser for some of our upcoming content!

Mini-Episode 7 - 2019 Teaser: Homelessness Will Be Fun

Welcome back everyone! After a long break we are here to tell you about the history of music. In this episode we explore the epic poems of Ancient Greece, the dirty lyrics of Rome, the limited selection of genres in the Medieval world, China's devotion to only playing the best music, and belly dancing! This is a fun, relatively clean episode free from too much violence and feces. Bring the kids!

Sources:

One of my favorite recreations of Ancient Roman music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0

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

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/what-did-ancient-music-sound-like/

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/11/28/five-ways-to-listen-to-the-music-of-the-ancient-world-today/#5b214c557d9d

https://www.romae-vitam.com/ancient-roman-music.html

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28416/were-roman-marching-songs-still-bawdy-during-principate-dominate

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0005%3Apoem%3D61

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_China#Early_history

http://www.classicalarabicmusic.com/traditional%20arabic%20music.htm

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

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

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

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_period_(music)

http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/medieval-drinking-song/

http://bailliages2.chaineus.org/hawaii/documents/MedievalDrinkingSongs.pdf

http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/come-hear-this-ditty-seventeenth-century-drinking-songs-and-hearing-the-past

Episode 29 - Music: All Chanting, All The Time

Welcome to episode 30, which may be our most depressing one yet. This week, we will be covering the long, tear-soaked saga of using kids as cheap (or free!) labor. Follow along as we talk about the adorable, four year old miners grave from Roman Spain, the plight of poor, medieval peasant children, the (relative) enlightened attitude of Golden Age Islam, China once again being better than everyone, and the sheer depravity of using kids in early factories. No worries, though, the Founding Fathers were fans!

Sources:

https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a394gp/smartphones-child-labor-cobalt-mines-africa-congo-amnesty-international

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2048231/clothing-factories-eastern-china-import-child-labour-migrant

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1020708.shtml

https://nypost.com/2018/05/08/trump-administration-wants-to-roll-back-child-labor-laws/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44080270?read-now=1&seq=12#page_scan_tab_contents

http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp455-fs14/2014/10/02/growing-up-in-ancient-egypt/

https://slaveryinjustice.wordpress.com/slavery-in-ancient-china/

http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/187

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312377147_CHILD_LABOUR_ISLAMIC_PERSPECTIVE

https://www.thoughtco.com/medieval-child-introduction-1789121

https://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/medieval_child.htm

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/history-of-child-labor-in-the-united-states-part-1.htm

https://spartacus-educational.com/IRaccidents.htm

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/history-child-labor/

Beard, Mary. Spqr: A History of Ancient Rome. London: Profile Books, 2015. Print.

Episode 30 - Child Labor: Pull Your Weight You Little Bastards

You live in the most peaceful, prosperous, and safest time in human history! Don't believe us? Then follow along on a trip through the nightmare that is human existence as we show you why everything's just fine.

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