Living History: Rediscovering Tradition and Its Modern Relevance with Ruth Goodman
The Poor Prole’s Almanac
Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Tomorrow Today, the podcast where we talk about the future of tomorrow. |
| 0:18.3 | But today, I'm your host, Nashville. |
| 0:19.9 | I'm joined as always by my beloved co-host, Andy of the Poor Polls Omnack. Andy, how are you? You know, I'm the only one that ever gets introduced as of the blah, blah, blah. Why can't I just be Andy? You can, okay, sorry. I'm sorry. And I'm joined as always by Andy, the weird dude in my basement. That's not better. That's not what I wanted to do. Sorry. Andy. Andy, how are you? I'm good, Nash. How good are you? Very good. Nash of Death and Friends. Thank you. Thank you. I'm actually really good. Nash of the Internet. Of the Internet. Yes, I belong to the... To the HuffPost's like 10 most popular tweets of the week or something like that. |
| 0:59.6 | Every week, baby, blah. Back to back, HuffPost champs. |
| 1:04.3 | It's not BuzzFeed, but it's not close. But we're here. |
| 1:08.4 | We are online. Were you going to say something worse? worse no i was going to make a joke and then i |
| 1:13.6 | couldn't think of the right word about like they're not professional the like the knockoff no like |
| 1:19.6 | the university of phoenix yes huff post is the university of phoenix of buzz. Everyone knows what that means. I understand. |
| 1:29.1 | Anyone under over 30 knows what that means. Tomorrow today, the podcast that shades just about |
| 1:34.9 | everything for no reason. Like why are we drawing the line in the sand here? Sponsored by the |
| 1:39.1 | University of Phoenix. Get a degree. You fill the animals. In literally anything. Doesn't matter. Please give them their money. Give all of us money, including them. Also us, yes. Yes, give us money. Anyway, I'm like losing my mind because this week I got to sit down with the very fantastic Ruth Goodman. Do you know who Ruth Goodman is? I know who Ruth is. I've seen her do terrible things on farms on TV. And by terrible things, I mean things that are, she's like, this is what people used to do. And then, like, tears apart an animal viscerally and then like. With her teeth. Yeah. And then does cool stuff with it. But, you know, at the moment, you're just like watching this, like, sweet old lady, like, just tear shit apart. I mean, she's not old. No, she's not. |
| 2:20.8 | She's like middle just tear shit apart. |
| 2:17.8 | I mean, she's not old. |
| 2:19.7 | No, she's not. |
| 2:20.8 | She's, like, middle-aged. Yeah, she's older than us, but I'm not. She's got a very strong maternal presence. I do want a hug, actually. It's a bummer that she's in the UK and we're in the U.S. Anyway, to actually introduce her, she's a social and domestic historian in the UK. |
| 2:34.4 | You'd recognize her from any of the BBC Historic Farm series, which if you've never seen before, you should stop this podcast and go immediately find. She's also got a few brilliant books out there, including How to Be a Tudor, How to Be a Victorian, How to Behave Badly, and The Domestic Revolution, and you should also read all of those. So stop this podcast and goodbye to us. All of them. All of them. Read them all at the same time. One page of each. I'm serious. Come back when you're ready. She's incredible. She's an incredible woman. She's an incredible historian. She came to history and history education in a totally different way which we talk about. So I guess my |
| 3:08.1 | question to you while we're introing this is when was the last time you churned your own butter. |
| 3:12.7 | I usually outsource my butter churning, if you know what I mean. Oh, God. |
| 3:18.4 | No, that's what you mean. |
| 3:21.1 | Anyway, so, no, but seriously, churning butter. |
| 3:23.8 | Turning butter. |
| 3:24.4 | Great skill to have. |
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