That Time New York Banned Spitting
Ridiculous History
iHeartPodcasts
4.2 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
As tuberculosis spread throughout the US, New York City banned spitting. Learn how the Ladies’ Health Protective Association saved the Big Apple from a pandemic--and paved the way for the vote.
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| 2:00.9 | Welcome to the show Ridiculous Historians. Thank you as always so much for tuning in. |
| 2:08.1 | Today's show has so many spittakes, so many terrible opportunities for punds. I'm Ben. No, |
| 2:16.7 | I think people should not lower their expectations for this show today, but maybe they should |
| 2:21.2 | lower their expectations. Yes, it is I, Ben. No, and I'm thoroughly grossed out after reading about |
| 2:32.0 | this. Today you're going to get all kinds of stuff. You're going to get sputum cups. You're going |
| 2:38.5 | to get expectorant on the floor of street cars. You're going to get tuberculosis droplets, |
| 2:46.0 | spreading disease all across the land. Because you know what, Ben? There's one thing we can take |
| 2:50.1 | away from this show, all by and large, all in, is that people are gross. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. |
| 2:58.1 | As a matter of fact, one of the only non gross people we know, super producer Casey Pagrum, |
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