An Intro to Anthro with Two Humans

25/07/2024

"Why should I clean my room, it's only going to get dirty again!" No, those aren't hobbits! Those are settlers standing outside their dugout "soddy" in Nebraska in the 1800s.

For more on housing, see Episode 57: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

Image: https://picryl.com/media/dugout-on-the-south-loup-river-near-virge-allen-homestead-custer-county-nebraska

25/07/2024

This is the design of a typical shotgun house. When you opened all the doors, you could see from the porch to the stoop.

For more on housing, see Episode 57: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

Image: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_house

25/07/2024

Although it's not Versailles, this shotgun house is still enfilade.

For more on housing, see Episode 57: Home Sweet Home, A Place to Lay My Weary Bones https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

Image: https://64parishes.org/entry/shotgun-house

24/07/2024

No, that's not a hallway! That's a series of rooms arranged enfilade at Versailles. The rooms lead directly into one another with the doors aligned. The idea is that when all the doors are open, the visitor gets a majestic view of the entire house.

I completely understand. When you stand in my kitchen, you can see through my living room, past the guest room, the office, all the way into the bathtub of the guest bathroom. It's truly breathtaking...

For more on houses, check out Episode 57: Home Sweet Home https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

Image: https://quintessenceblog.com/the-versailles-youve-never-seen/ (photo © Château de Versailles (dist. RMN-Grand Palais)/Thomas Garnier)

23/07/2024

In this week's episode, The Two Humans discuss the history of housing from nests to shotgun shacks. For millions of years, our prehistoric hominid ancestors probably slept in nests on the ground or in trees like this chimpanzee. I'm making one of these next time we go camping; it'll certainly make packing a lot of easier.

For more one prehistoric housing, see Episode 57, Home Sweet Home: A Place to Lay My Weary Bones: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

For an article about how PICKY chimps are about where they make their nests, see: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

23/07/2024

I’ve just decided this is the best live rock and roll performance ever. The lead singer does everything (even the bongos) while 900 guitarists (one in a tux, another in Jedi riding boots) don’t even break a sweat. I’m worried that Human Number One thinks I’m freeloading just like they are.

“Carry On Wayward Son” by Kansas - Live from Canada JamListen to Kansas: https://Kansas.lnk.to/listenYDWatch more videos by Kansas: https://Kansas.lnk.to/lis...

23/07/2024

More from the band Kansas, those modern-day prophets from Kansas, along with John Brown, Carrie Nation, Ed Asner (and Paul Rudd).

To hear "Dust in the Wind," click: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

For more on the band Kansas (and some information on the history of human housing), check out Episode 57 - Home Sweet Home: A Place to Lay My Weary Bones: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

Image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH2w6Oxx0kQ

23/07/2024

In this week's episode, The Two Humans discuss the evolution of human housing. They also discuss the band Kansas.

To hear Kansas perform "Carry on My Wayward Son," click:
https://youtu.be/P5ZJui3aPoQ

To hear more about the history of houses, check out Episode 57 - Home Sweet Home: A Place to Lay My Weary Bones: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-57-home-sweet-home-a-place-to-lay-my-weary-bones/

Image: https://youtu.be/P5ZJui3aPoQ

22/07/2024

The Two Humans close their eyes, click their heels, and say, “There’s no place like home” as they look at the history of housing.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-intro-to-anthro-with-2-humans/id1687345107?i=1000663010807

John Lehr John Lehr

22/07/2024

The Two Humans close their eyes, click their heels, and say, “There’s no place like home” as they look at the history of housing. Episode 57 - Home Sweet Home: A Place to Lay My Weary Bones An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-asse...

21/07/2024

Human Number One visits Eisenhower's Birthplace in May 1969. Although my vocabulary was limited at the time, I distinctly remember thinking, "Would you hurry up and take the damn photo! The museum closes in three hours!!"

For more on nostalgia, check out: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

21/07/2024

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...Was it fun? Yes. Was it carefree? Certainly. Do I want to go back? Hell, no!!

For more on nostalgia, check out Episode 56: Remembrance of Things Past (Redux 2024) https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

19/07/2024

I've always loved Jerry Orbach and nothing tugs on my heartstrings more than hearing him sing "Try to Remember": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uGlL0xafP8

For more on nostalgia and memory, see Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

Image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uGlL0xafP8

19/07/2024

The problem with nostalgia is that nobody seems to agree on when exactly "the good ol' days" were. For my good ol' days to exist again, your good ol' days would have to take a backseat. I wonder what that frog is up to now...

For more on nostalgia, check out Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

19/07/2024

In college, HN1 was really into Marcel Proust and Charles Baudelaire. I mean REALLY into Marcel Proust and Charles Baudelaire. The Proust-Baudelaire cruise is the all-out nostalgia cruise I want to go on--madeleine and laudanum included!!

To find out more about nostalgia, see Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

Images: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Proust and https://www.edrawmind.com/article/charles-baudelaire-biography.html

19/07/2024

Back in the early 1970s, Saturday night meant "The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "The Bob Newhart Show", and "The Carol Burnett Show." It was must-see tv before we even had a term for it.

We still watch the Bob Newhart Show every few years and it's still hilarious. He was a funny guy and he will be missed. Oh, Bob...

Image: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bob-newhart-show-oral-history-1101677/

18/07/2024

And let's not forget all the good times we had making paper flowers at nine cents a gross. If that baby puts one more flower in his mouth, he's sacked!

For more on nostalgia, see Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

Image: https://www.mediastorehouse.com/granger-art-on-demand/labor/hine-home-industry-1911-family-making-flowers-12318034.html

18/07/2024

More nostalgic shots from the good ol' days! Back in the good ol' days, a lot of families survived on "piecework," assembling products at home for larger companies. This family in 1912 is rolling ci******es for a to***co company.

For more on nostalgia, check out Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

Image: https://medium.com/timeline/how-nyc-tenements-once-hid-secret-sweatshops-c38cd350ba46

16/07/2024

Ah, the "good ol' days"! Back when dad was the breadwinner (when he wasn't bedridden with TB or pellagra), mom was a stay-at-home mother (because she was pregnant all the time and had chronic anemia), granny lived with us (because she had no savings and nowhere to go after grandpa drank it all away and died of cirrhosis), the kids all had worms, the banks owned everything and rich people could do whatever they want (that sounds like TODAY!).

For more on the "good ol' days," check out Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

Image from "Let Us Praise Famous Men" by James Agee and Walker Evans: https://kids.britannica.com/students/assembly/view/122290

16/07/2024

In this week's episode, The Two Humans go dancing in the dark, walking in the park, and reminiscing.

To see the Little River Band reminiscing, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBETVhHpcPk

To see The Two Humans reminiscing, check out Episode 56: https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-56-remembrance-of-things-past-redux-2024-or-the-nauseating-neurasthenia-of-nostalgia/

Image: https://www.amazon.com/Reminiscing-Little-River-Band/dp/B0001HAGLK

15/07/2024

Happy Monday! The Two Humans wax on, wax off, and wax nostalgic as they look back at humans’ longing for bygone days.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/an-intro-to-anthro-with-2-humans/id1687345107?i=1000662328338

John Lehr John Lehr

15/07/2024

The Two Humans wax on, wax off, and wax nostalgic as they look back at humans’ longing for bygone days. Episode 56: Remembrance of Things Past (Redux 2024), OR, The Nauseating Neurasthenia of Nostalgia. An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr...

15/07/2024

On two episodes of the Hulu comedy western "Quick Draw," Sheriff John Henry Hoyle travels to Nicodemus, KS, a town founded by freed slaves. Here is an article on the REAL Nicodemus. Road trip, anyone?

Fifth-generation Nicodemus descendant sustains history of what former slaves did with their freedom by courageously starting a town in Kansas.

14/07/2024

Pay no attention to the feathers and orange bill, he really IS a doctor (and he has the $15 medical degree to prove it)! Now open your wallet and say, "Ah!"

For more on quackery, see Episode 55: Trust Me, You'll Feel Better https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-55-trust-me-you-ll-feel-better-medicine-from-quackery-to-science-to-quackery-again/

Image: http://eighteenthcenturylit.pbworks.com/w/page/129897669/Quackery

14/07/2024

A replica of the quack wagons that used to travel the American back roads and countryside. Today quacks don't need to travel - they have the internet...

For more on quackery, see Episode 55: Trust Me, You'll Feel Better https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-55-trust-me-you-ll-feel-better-medicine-from-quackery-to-science-to-quackery-again/

Image: https://daily.jstor.org/the-strange-tale-of-19th-century-quack-doctors/

14/07/2024

Back in the 80's, all the talk shows would invite Dr. Ruth Westheimer on so the hosts could make fun of the way she talked, looked, and what she talked about (s*x). It always seemed too easy to me. Lazy. In reality, Dr. Ruth's life was more tragic (orphaned during the Holocaust) and more exciting (a member of the Israeli military) than anything late-night audiences could have imagined from the 4' 7" grandmother. Through it all, she was brave enough to talk about s*x in a frank and open way that people on TV had never heard before. She truly helped people. She will be missed...

Image: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/13/nx-s1-5038571/dr-ruth-westheimer-who-encouraged-america-to-talk-about-s*x-dies-at-96

14/07/2024

Back in the 80's, all the talk shows used to invite Richard Simmons on so the hosts could make fun of the way he dressed, talked, and acted. It always felt too easy to me. Lazy. Through it all, Richard Simmons maintained his dignity and was able to get his positive message across. He truly wanted to help people. He will be missed...

Image: https://www.npr.org/2024/07/13/1154459269/richard-simmons-fitness-exercise-star-dead

12/07/2024

Bad behavior back in the news!! Check out Episode 54: Rude, Crude, Lewd and Unglued: Bad Behavior in Public Places. https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-54-rude-crude-lewd-and-unglued-bad-behavior-in-public-places/

Last year, the singer was hit in the face by a cellphone at one of her New York City shows and taken to the hospital.

11/07/2024

For years, people have been touting the health benefits of drinking colloidal silver (although there are sometimes obvious side effects)...

Check out Episode 55: Trust Me, You'll Feel Better https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-55-trust-me-you-ll-feel-better-medicine-from-quackery-to-science-to-quackery-again/

Images and more information: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2297471.stm and https://www.wired.com/story/does-colloidal-silver-work/?mbid=nl_100617_daily

10/07/2024

According to The Toronto Star, Dr. Moffett's teething powder also contained mercury. It "fell out of favor when it was discovered that heavy metal toxicity could be fatal." You think?!

For more on quackery, we prescribe Episode 55: Trust Me, You'll Feel Better https://intro2anthro.podbean.com/e/episode-55-trust-me-you-ll-feel-better-medicine-from-quackery-to-science-to-quackery-again/

For this image and a fascinating article on mercury medicines, check out The Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/mercury-was-considered-a-cure-until-it-killed-you/article_e1b3e3a9-f0d1-573a-848c-4b3119b6426a.html