Thu. 12/29 - BEST OF: Witchy Beer-Makers, CIA-Funded British Cartoons; & Predictions For Today From 1922

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

Society & Culture, News, Tech News, Science

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Our final lookback on some of the best segments from the past few years. From 2021, how beer-making used to be considered women’s work, and also may have popularized some of the popular symbols, like broomsticks and pointed hats, that we associate with witches today. Plus, why the CIA covertly funded the British cartoon adaptation of Animal Farm in the 1950s. And, as 2022 comes to a close, a look back at one man’s predictions for this year, written from his perspective in 1922. Links: Fri. 03/12/21 - Brewsters & Alewives (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Women used to dominate the beer industry – until the witch accusations started pouring in (The Conversation) The Ale-Soaked Medieval Origins of the Witch's Hat (Vice) Hops: The beer ingredient (most) drinkers love (Washington Post) The history of the witch's hat: origins of its pointy design. (Slate) How Much Did the History of Beer Have to Do With ... Witches? (The Mary Sue) Tue. 04/26/22 - When the CIA Funded an Animal Farm Cartoon (Cool Stuff Ride Home) The cartoon that came in from the cold (The Guardian, 2003) How the CIA Played Dirty Tricks With Culture (NY Times, 2000) All Propaganda is Dangerous, but Some are More Dangerous than Others: George Orwell and the Use of Literature as Propaganda (JSTOR) Keeping It All in the (Nuclear) Family: Big Brother, Auntie BBC, Uncle Sam and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (Frames Cinema Journal) Thu. 01/06/22 - 1922's Predictions for 2022 (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Image 87 of The New York herald (New York, N.Y.), May 7, 1922 (Library of Congress) "One Hundred Years From Now" poem by Mary A. Ford (Library of Congress, LOC Serendipity) What the World Will Be Like in a Hundred Years (1922) (Hacker News) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.1	It's Thursday, December 29th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. Our final look back on some of the best segments from the past few years. From 2021, how beer making used to be considered women's work. And also may have popularized some of the popular symbols, like broomsticks and pointed hats that we associate with witches today. Plus, why the CIA
1:03.0	covertly funded the British cartoon adaptation of Animal Farm in the 1950s. And as 2022 comes to a close, a look back on one man's predictions for this year
1:17.1	written from his perspective in 1920.
1:20.8	Here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:25.8	So on the February 23rd episode of this show, I talked about how the stereotype of brewing and beer culture is heavily weighted towards white men.
1:35.2	But in fact, there's a long history of black brewers in America and in many African cultures.
1:41.3	And now I'd like to further demystify the white guy associations by talking about how
1:46.5	beer brewing used to be considered a more womanly task in some cultures, up until about the
1:52.5	1500s when some men didn't like how successful the women brewers were getting, similar to the
1:58.5	history of black brewers being pushed out, only in this
2:01.5	case the men accused the women of being witches.
2:05.7	The whole witch trial thing, while often associated with Salem, Massachusetts and 1692,
2:10.9	actually went on for about three centuries from the mid-1400s to the mid-1700s and
2:16.0	spanned throughout Europe and the Americas.
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