Wed. 12/08 - Cleaning Hacks From Victorians

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Cleaning advice from nineteenth century housekeepers. An upcoming feminist retelling of 1984. How to watch the Geminid meteor shower next week. And MST3K is officially coming back next year. Sponsors: GiveWell, Have your donation matched up to $250 by entering Kottke Ride Home at check out at GiveWell.org Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Milk for Floors, Bread for Walls: 19th-Century Cleaning Tips for the Modern Era (NY Times) Spring Cleaning the Old-Fashioned Way (English Heritage) The Domestic Revolution by Ruth Goodman The Difference Between Disinfecting and Sanitizing, According to the CDC (LifeHacker) Feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four approved by Orwell’s estate (The Guardian) Sandra Newman is writing a feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four. (Literary Hub) A ‘feminist retelling’ of George Orwell’s 1984 is in the works (Polygon) Geminids: You need to watch the fiery fragments of an asteroid fall to Earth (Inverse) In Depth | Geminids – NASA Solar System Exploration (NASA) What's Up: Skywatching Tips from NASA (NASA) Kottke.Org 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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0:33.4	Welcome to the Kotky Ride Home for Wednesday, December 8th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.
0:42.1	Cleaning advice from 19th century housekeepers, an upcoming feminist retelling of 1984,
0:50.2	how to watch the Jiminid Meteor Shower next week, and MST3K is officially coming back next spring.
0:57.7	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:03.6	So I'm a sucker for all of those living history reality TV shows that were so popular in the early 2000s. You know, 1900 House,
1:12.9	Manor House, Victorian Farm House, Frontier House, Pioneer Quest. Something about watching
1:19.2	modern-day people made to live 24-7 as if they'd been transported back in time is so much
1:25.8	more captivating to me than a documentary about domestic life
1:29.5	in the same era. I mean, not to mention, there is very little recorded about domestic life
1:34.4	compared to wars and battles and politics. In the making of featureettes of those shows, because,
1:40.9	yes, I have not just watched all of those shows. I have also watched every dinky
1:45.2	DVD bonus feature on them and read the companion books. But behind the scenes, producers will tell
1:50.6	you how difficult it was for them to find historical experts to consult with and source accurate,
1:55.7	still working appliances and such. But there are a number of experts out there in day-to-day domestic life
2:02.3	from previous eras, especially in the realm of cooking and fashion, but also the more easily
2:07.6	passed over task of cleaning one's home. In those living history shows, some of them show
2:13.3	just how much of an unending grind it was for the women and often servants to keep the house clean.
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