Chris Distefano
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no and you had to live communally a lot a lot of people people just lived in the same one big room so this whole taboo of like sex is in private wasn't really a big thing back then like kids would watch their parents have sex as if they would watch a guy work out or whatever they were like it's just we all live amongst each other yeah get out of the way you ever see how they shit in those old Roman latrines where it was just like
What would they use?
What would they use?
Yes. Collect pond. That's what it was called.
Yes. Collect pond. That's what it was called.
Teddy Roosevelt instituted like the sanitation department and would come, guys dressed in all white, like we got to clean this up. Because dude, the idea of like a germ being discovered that that was the Louis Pasteur, that wasn't that long ago.
Teddy Roosevelt instituted like the sanitation department and would come, guys dressed in all white, like we got to clean this up. Because dude, the idea of like a germ being discovered that that was the Louis Pasteur, that wasn't that long ago.
Right.
Right.
Because infant mortality rate, you know, like when people, you know, you think like, oh, from the 1500s, 1600s, oh, we would have been dead by 35, 40, but that's not true. Like all, like Benjamin Franklin, these guys lived to their 70s and 80s. It was the, it would say life expectancy of a male back then was whatever, 45, but it's because of the infant mortality rate.
Because infant mortality rate, you know, like when people, you know, you think like, oh, from the 1500s, 1600s, oh, we would have been dead by 35, 40, but that's not true. Like all, like Benjamin Franklin, these guys lived to their 70s and 80s. It was the, it would say life expectancy of a male back then was whatever, 45, but it's because of the infant mortality rate.
That's what science doesn't tell you. Wow. It's because so many babies were dying at one minute old that it brings your average down. But if you passed childhood, most likely you were going to live to your 70s and 80s like we are today. So we don't live much longer.
That's what science doesn't tell you. Wow. It's because so many babies were dying at one minute old that it brings your average down. But if you passed childhood, most likely you were going to live to your 70s and 80s like we are today. So we don't live much longer.
It's just we don't die as babies as much because back then, no processed food, working with your hands, out in the sun, all those things. That makes sense.
It's just we don't die as babies as much because back then, no processed food, working with your hands, out in the sun, all those things. That makes sense.
No, you wouldn't. Most likely, you might have died as a child if somebody put some dead baby juice on you.
No, you wouldn't. Most likely, you might have died as a child if somebody put some dead baby juice on you.
Yeah, yeah. Imagine trying to talk to like, you know, somebody in the 1700s about your mental health. Yeah. As a guy, they'd be like, what? What if the British are coming?
Yeah, yeah. Imagine trying to talk to like, you know, somebody in the 1700s about your mental health. Yeah. As a guy, they'd be like, what? What if the British are coming?
I would stab you with a bayonet.