[Ep.67 History] A Horrible 1800s Privileged Influencer & The Anti Milk

<p>Welcome to another episode!</p> <p>This week we get to talk a little about some history and we get to do this while drinking something we like. Skylar is enjoying a lovely mango white claw and Brittany is combining two things she likes to see if they work together. It was a fad for a while on TikTok to combine red wine and diet coke, so she thought she would try it. </p> <p><em>We talk a bit more in the beginning since we haven&#39;t recorded in a few weeks, so feel free to skip the first 25-ish minutes if you don&#39;t want the chit-chat. </em></p> <p><br></p> <p>Brittany talks about a rarely discussed moment in history involving James Jameson, heir to Jameson Irish Whiskey, and an unspeakable crime that he may or may not have committed. Giving the time frame of the incident and that there are varying accounts of the ordeal, we may never actually know what led to this terrible event that occurred. It DID happen though, and she talks about a few of the main variations of the event. </p> <p><strong>Trigger warnings for this section include: slavery, racism, child abuse, and cannibalism</strong> </p> <p><a href="http://archive.org/stream/storyofrearcolum00jameuoft/storyofrearcolum00jameuoft_djvu.txt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">James Jameson&#39;s Journals</a></p> <p><a href="https://allthatsinteresting.com/james-jameson-cannibal" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">All That&#39;s Interesting Article</a></p> <p><a href="https://firstwefeast.com/drink/2015/02/james-jameson-bought-a-10-year-old-girl-to-watch-her-be-eaten-by-cannibals" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">First We Feast Article</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Skylar then goes on to talk about another not so happy event in history. She discusses The Radium Girls, who were female factory workers that contracted radiation poisoning from painting watch dials in the early 1900s. These girls, and many others, suffered due to careless factory conditions and people in charge but they were able to use their circumstances to make a change and fi