2: Carry A. Nation wasn’t *that* tall
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 166 minutes
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Summary
People called her crazy! And ugly! And tall! …which we all can agree is equally bad!(?)
In this episode, Kristin posits that Carry A. Nation deserves more respect than she has been given. Then again, in this episode, Kristin also tries to sell you a bubble mailer full of pig butter. So… should you really listen to anything she says?
Remember, kids, history hos always cite their sources! For this episode, Kristin pulled from:
“Carry A. Nation: Retelling the Life,” by Fran Grace
“Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition,” by Mark Lawrence Schrad
“The Use and Need of the life of Carry A. Nation,” written by Carry A. Nation in 1905.
“Carry A. Nation,” Kansas Historical Society website
“Carry A. Nation,” Historic Missourians
“Activist Carry Nation used a hatchet to smash booze bottles before prohibition,” by Erin Blakemore for History.com
“Hatchet Nation,” by Mark Lawrence Schrad for Slate
“Carry Nation,” clip from the documentary Prohibition
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| 0:00.0 | Hear ye, hear ye. You are listening to an old-timey podcast. I'm Kristen Caruso. |
| 0:08.0 | And I'm her non-threatening husband, Norman Caruso. |
| 0:12.0 | You certainly are. |
| 0:14.0 | And on this week's episode, I'll be talking about Carrie Nation. |
| 0:18.0 | Ooh! |
| 0:19.0 | Carrie, another local history ho. |
| 0:23.4 | You almost called her a hero, didn't you? |
| 0:26.7 | I was gonna say celebrity actually, but... |
| 0:29.0 | I don't know how many people know about Carrie Nation, but... |
| 0:31.5 | I feel like everybody knows about |
| 0:32.8 | Carrey Nation. Am I full of shit? I don't know. Hold on, hold on, hold on. |
| 0:37.3 | Speaking of full of shit. Yeah. I believe that you have some things that you need to apologize for is that not true |
| 0:45.2 | I do it's only our second episode I already have to apologize |
| 0:50.1 | Go ahead. I'm looking forward to this |
| 0:52.2 | Kristen in our first episode I may have made a few mistakes, and so I'd like to correct myself for the record in a little segment I'd like to call. |
| 1:01.0 | Mistakes of shame. |
| 1:04.0 | Oh God. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you for taking this seriously. |
| 1:09.0 | You're welcome. |
| 1:11.0 | So first, in the first episode I made a joke about Nugenics that testosterone booster. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. And I claimed that the spokesperson for Nugenics was Frank White. |
| 1:24.0 | Mm-hmm. I remember it well. I believed every word of it. |
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