Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy B. Wilson and I'm Holly Fry.

Before we start today's episode, proper, we have kind of a special thing coming up.

It's unlikely at this point that we are going to do any touring this year.

We had some things on the calendar that had been scheduled that were one off appearances in places.

Those have been canceled.

I think the only one that we actually announced on the show was we were planning a July 5th show at the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, Massachusetts.

That has been canceled.

One of our favorite things about these appearances is getting to talk to people who listen to the show and answer questions about the show.

So we were thinking since we're not getting to do any kind of touring this year, that we would have a Q&A episode with questions submitted by listeners.

So we are going to be taking questions specifically for a Q&A episode up until June 12th.

And then we will record an episode based on those questions shortly after that and put it out as an episode of the show.

So if you have questions for us about episodes that you've heard or about how we do the show or just random things that you're curious about, send them along.

We're a history podcast at iheartradio.com.

We of course will still be having questions for listener mail, parts of the episodes and stuff like that.

This week a special thing that will put out as an episode of the show.

So kind of excited about that.

And now we will on to today's actual episode.

I learned about these practice babies when researching the episode that we just had about home economics and my response was like, what?

Practice babies when I was in school, home at classes had parenting lessons that I'm putting in quotation marks that were about looking after a decorated egg or a sack of flour.

At my school, this was not really about parenting though.

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