Everything's Just Fine

Welcome to episode 30, which may be our most depressing one yet. This week, we will be covering the long, tear-soaked saga of using kids as cheap (or free!) labor. Follow along as we talk about the adorable, four year old miners grave from Roman Spain, the plight of poor, medieval peasant children, the (relative) enlightened attitude of Golden Age Islam, China once again being better than everyone, and the sheer depravity of using kids in early factories. No worries, though, the Founding Fathers were fans! Sources: https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/a394gp/smartphones-child-labor-cobalt-mines-africa-congo-amnesty-international https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2048231/clothing-factories-eastern-china-import-child-labour-migrant http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1020708.shtml https://nypost.com/2018/05/08/trump-administration-wants-to-roll-back-child-labor-laws/ https://www.jstor.org/stable/44080270?read-now=1&seq=12#page_scan_tab_contents http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp455-fs14/2014/10/02/growing-up-in-ancient-egypt/ https://slaveryinjustice.wordpress.com/slavery-in-ancient-china/ http://chnm.gmu.edu/cyh/case-studies/187 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312377147_CHILD_LABOUR_ISLAMIC_PERSPECTIVE https://www.thoughtco.com/medieval-child-introduction-1789121 https://www.representingchildhood.pitt.edu/medieval_child.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2017/article/history-of-child-labor-in-the-united-states-part-1.htm https://spartacus-educational.com/IRaccidents.htm https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/history-child-labor/ Beard, Mary. Spqr: A History of Ancient Rome. London: Profile Books, 2015. Print.

Welcome back everyone! After a long break we are here to tell you about the history of music. In this episode we explore the epic poems of Ancient Greece, the dirty lyrics of Rome, the limited selection of genres in the Medieval world, China's devotion to only playing the best music, and belly dancing! This is a fun, relatively clean episode free from too much violence and feces. Bring the kids! Sources: One of my favorite recreations of Ancient Roman music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJLXyBzMci0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_ancient_Greece http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/what-did-ancient-music-sound-like/ https://www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/11/28/five-ways-to-listen-to-the-music-of-the-ancient-world-today/#5b214c557d9d https://www.romae-vitam.com/ancient-roman-music.html https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28416/were-roman-marching-songs-still-bawdy-during-principate-dominate http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0005%3Apoem%3D61 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_China#Early_history http://www.classicalarabicmusic.com/traditional%20arabic%20music.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belly_dance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_period_(music) http://www.medievalists.net/2014/11/medieval-drinking-song/ http://bailliages2.chaineus.org/hawaii/documents/MedievalDrinkingSongs.pdf http://theappendix.net/issues/2013/7/come-hear-this-ditty-seventeenth-century-drinking-songs-and-hearing-the-past

Hey everyone! The 2019 season of Everything's Just Fine will be starting soon, but in the meantime please enjoy this teaser for some of our upcoming content!

Merry Minisode Christmas! It’s time to harvest magic mistletoe, punch your blindfolded friends, burn a chunk of wood from the yard so your family doesn’t die, and eat flaming raisins. All in a 12-hour day’s long work. Oh, that’s not what you do on Christmas? Well thank your lucky ass you weren’t born in the Victorian era. Join Mike to learn about… basically all the things I just listed. Sources: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/dark-side-christmas-saturnalia-christmas-carol-dickens-norse-mythology-festive-traditions-a8112341.html https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/yule-log/ https://qz.com/quartzy/1165055/the-yule-log-a-pagan-ritual-turned-youtube-phenomenon/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap-dragon_(game) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbxNuBWAZcA