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Hello you skeezy scunches! We\u2019re off this week for New Year\u2019s, but we\u2019ll be back next week with a brand spankin\u2019 new episode. We hope you\u2019re having a safe and happy holiday season!
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\n\n\n\nAnd if you enjoy this episode and feel so inclined, please join our Patreon! You\u2019ll automatically get 17 bonus episodes to binge!\n\n\xa0\nIn this episode, Brandi starts us off with an old timey story that may have you screaming \u201cTOO SOON!\u201d\xa0\n\n
\nIn the early 1900s, germs were a novel concept. Washing your hands was an optional activity. The idea of being an asymptomatic carrier was nearly unheard of. So when a sanitation engineer named George Soper approached a woman and demanded samples of her blood, urine and feces, she scared him away at forkpoint. She scared the next doctor away, too. But the public health community would not be deterred. They were convinced that Mary Mallon was an asymptomatic spreader of Typhoid. And they had to stop her.
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\nThen Kristin tells us about a nightclub singer named Rommy Revson. Rommy had gorgeous, long hair. She even used it as part of her act. For her first couple of songs, she\u2019d have her hair clipped up with a clampy ring-shaped thingy. Then she\u2019d take it down. But then she had to do the rest of her songs holding that damn hair clip! Rommy knew there had to be a better way. She wanted something that could hold her hair up, without damaging it, and that she could slip on her wrist when she wasn\u2019t wearing it. But that thing didn\u2019t exist. She had to invent it.\xa0
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\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.\n\xa0\nFor this episode, Brandi pulled from:\n\u201cTyphoid Mary's tragic tale exposed the health impacts of \u2018super-spreaders\u2019" by Nina Strochlic, National Geographic\n\u201cWas The Real Typhoid Mary A Reckless Superspreader Or The Victim Of An Unjust System?\u201d All That\u2019s Interesting\n\u201cThe Frightening Legacy of Typhoid Mary\u201d by Veronique Greenwood, Smithsonian Magazine\n\u201cThe Most Dangerous Woman in America: In Her Own Words\u201d pbs.org\n\n\u201cMary Mallon\u201d wikipedia.org\n\n\xa0\n\nFor this episode, Kristin pulled from:\xa0
\n\u201cThe Queen of the Scrunchie\u201d episode of the podcast \u201cEvery Little Thing\u201d
\n\u201cNight club singer, Scrunchie inventor Rommy Revson relocates to Rogers\u201d by Kim Souza for Talk Business