(music) #1226 Trivia Tuesday - Let me bore you to sleep (29th October 2024)

Hello and welcome to Trivia Tuesday. Trivia Tuesday, Let Me Bore You To Sleep. My name is Jason Newland and today is Tuesday the 29th of October 2024.

It is 7.45pm and hope you're well. Please only listen when you can. And safely close your eyes.

Vinnie has... Vinnie just had a little bit of excitement when the neighbours came round and she's got a little girl and the little girl loves Vinnie.

He's yeah he's always just loved her so he was super excited right now well not right now about an hour ago and also he saw one of the other neighbours downstairs who he's got a real thing for I mean I haven't seen his his tail waggle so much in ages he's so excited to see her as well so he's I think he'd say he's had a pretty good quite exciting day really okay I just he seemed to be having fun uh took it to the took it to up your bloody

I wasn't yawning before I started it's just I see a microphone that makes me yawn see yeah um it's cold in there feels cold it'll probably be warm in a minute the heating will come on it's kind of that time of the year where I mean normally at the end of October it's normally pretty chilly but I was out about an hour ago walking the uh DOG and it was very mild outside was starting to rain a little bit but it's very very mild and it's a bit too warm in

here but now so I'll do my jacket my jacket my jumper my cardigan so I did some washing today so that's good tried to clean the toilet you get we got a line scale issue here so I mean that's not the only reason the toilet has been condemned but it's it's definitely you know the line scale builds up because if if the water was higher like the whole time the toilet would be clean but only comes up to like the bottom bit of the toilet which means the rest of it

I don't know anyway let's not talk about toilets hey so what I'm going to do today is I'm going to talk about how I've done nothing towards my course my psychology course I didn't do anything yesterday a bit sniffy I wasn't a minute ago it's weird that's another thing that seems to happen this time year you know but earlier on I sneezed a couple of times and then was fine and I thought oh maybe it's hay fever but possibly not in October yeah plus I don't get it in the summer

either so I guess I wouldn't start getting it now so what's there to look forward to I've got the dentist tomorrow yeah brilliant so dentist and then there's not really anything happening this week I'm looking forward to the election in the US of A I'll be watching that live on Tuesday that'll be overnight though so it'll be 10 p.m. onwards I'll either watch it or I might listen to it on the radio and fall asleep I'm just interested really it's just so that's Tuesday and then Wednesday blimey the news is

going to be very busy of course for obvious reasons because whatever the outcome is it's going to be a very unusual situation so yeah I think if I had anyone out there any relatives out there or whatever I'd make sure they got back before the election got home safely because I don't see it oh bloody it's weird I see Facebook and it's almost like this is a religion so it's really kind of the fanaticism from both sides not from everyone but I just see some of the fanaticism and it's just

like wow we don't really have that here not with a general election it's not we just don't have it I mean I'm just there are fanatics obviously but it doesn't seem like it's going to be a good election maybe there's more money you know if you bombard people on the television constantly talking about politics and that you know and if you can afford to put adverts and you spend I mean what was his name the richest man in the world he's back in one of the candidates isn't he and he's

given us so like that is it 300 million a month or something or 330 million a month something like that yeah that's a lot of advertising space so yeah we don't don't really have that we have a couple of adverts and if one has an advert everyone all the all the ones have to have an advert so the BBC or the ITV whatever they have to kind of be fair about who who they kind of show their political party political broadcasts from and also if they mention a constituent a constituency

and a politician trying to become a member of parliament for let's say Norwich and they're talking about a conservative they then have to mention this is a tea I think this is a regulatory thing I don't know if it's on TV but on radio they have to mention every other candidate from all the other all the other parties that are also going for that seat in Norwich weird so yeah and it's gonna be fascinating I mean the closest I think we've had in this country would be during Brexit and that

was I mean yeah a lot of division during that but like practically nothing compared to what's been happening and what's gonna happen so I just wish you all safe whichever side you're on I don't well I can't take sides I'm not American am I I've got no I've got no um or in this race race boats in this race horse in this race whatever the term is crocodile in this race you know this is the election results is it's really this is just as important as who's the election result of

China or Australia or Denmark or you know it's just just another country but obviously not for those that live there so it's a lot bigger isn't it it's weird though because in visit India or is it Pakistan that they took like a whole week or a week to actually elect to get the election results in because it's such so many people and China do they have elections I don't think they do they I don't know if they do or not I generally don't know I'm not sure if so I don't

know if the public vote or it's the politicians that vote I do it near anyway I wish everyone well that's that's it really I'm not I'm not really that politically curious so I've got I'm going to do some trivia because it's trivia Tuesday and I've chosen to talk about ancient hygiene practices so this will be the strange and inventive ways people in history stayed clean or at least thought they did so I've searched so I've searched online so I'm going to continue to search but in the meantime I'll start now

some of this might be false okay get myself comfortable some of it might not be true so you know I've tried to fact check but it might be absolute horseradish but it doesn't matter it's not that serious I don't think so so number one is ancient Egyptians were early adopters of hygiene and used soap like substances made from animal fats and plant oils so I know a little bit about soap okay during there was a little period four years ago where we were getting adverts on them and I just can't

still can't believe it we get adverts on the TV telling people showing people how to wash their hands now I learned to wash my hands quite an early age you know I mean I was what was I 50 I was 49 at this point well not when I learned to wash my hands but I'd learned to wash my hands a few times I mean I learned when I was a kid I'm not saying I did it but I learned how to you know it's just like brushing my teeth I knew

how to do it but if I could get away with just wetting the toothbrush and putting it back in the holder I would do that like probably millions of other children have done that in the past it's quite weird I still do it I live on my own I still do it sometimes so I'll see whether or not what I know already comes up but washing my hands I learned probably the second time probably when I was in the sea cadets because they did a bit of hygiene they did first

aid they did health and safety firefighting fire controls you know stuff how to use a fire extinguisher how to start a fire which is ironic really it's like which whichever way you go you know if you want to whichever the side of the fence you want to live on you can if you want to start a fire or if you want to put one out and so that was with the old stick and stuff and I tell you something I've done I did fire safety I've done fire safety and health

and safety no fire safety and first aid three different times in my life once was when I was in the sea cadets I mean that was like wasn't just once that was like continuous really for about two years don't remember much of it the second time was when I was at college doing my catering course after I left school I was doing it one day a week whilst I was at the working at a chip shop so that was on a Wednesday I do believe and so I learned how you

have to learn it as part of catering so I have to learn how to especially because you're in a kitchen and stuff how to put out a fire how to um just basic first aid and then there's when I was a counsellor working in a charity and this was 2011 so there's a lot quite a big gap between 1986 and 2011 what's that 86 yeah 26 years or whatever 25 years 26 years 25 years I yeah I remember that was two different occasions one evening was the first aid and another

time was during the day which was the fire thing and I remember learning the two things I remember about a fire fire safety was first of all I don't you have to learn which is which as far as the the fire extinguishers are so the the red ones being water and you've got the cream and the other one so I can't remember which is which one's got powder and one's got foam and one's got water and you don't use water on an electric fire and use ideally powder I think or

foam or something I don't know the other thing I remember here I think it was the it might be the foam one or the powder one but you don't touch the outside of it because it can freeze your hand once it's released it gets freezing cold so it can freeze your hand so you have to be careful that otherwise you have to walk around first of your life with a fire extinguisher stuck to your hand which could be a bit awkward especially if it's on your honeymoon I don't know that's

just I don't know why I'm going there and so the other thing I remember is you had to if there's a fire let's say it's just a bunch of rubbish is on fire in an alleyway so you don't spray the water or the fire extinguisher directly at the fire you try and bounce it off of something for example a wall so if there's a wall you're hearing bark that wasn't too loud so if there's a wall you get it to splash off the wall and bounce otherwise if you do it

directly it can spread the fire further out so yeah that's about all I remember really why am I talking about that for oh yeah but you also learnt like basic health and hygiene at the first two places like college and also one of the other things that I learned which is weird because I actually did the exact same thing after I'd learnt and I learnt the hard way is they said whatever you're doing you know as far as because there's lots of dangerous objects in a kitchen so first of all

you don't run in a kitchen I mean I was 15 or 16 my attitude was yeah it's like being in school don't run in the hallway do what I want no you end up falling over because there's grease and all kinds of crap on the floor and but one of the really important things is if you drop a knife you know for example you're washing up washing up the the knives cleaning knives you drop it don't ever try and catch it or if you drop it and it's about to go

on the floor don't try and catch it never unless of course there's something below you know that's that you don't want it to obviously you know in a in a weird situation you might have no choice but to catch it but if you've got no feet on no shoes on your feet rather don't be barefooted if you're cutting onions is what I'm saying and a fillet in the salami or whatever and I thought well why would I go to catch a knife and then I think it was either that day

or the next time was exactly what I did and uh oh man it because the knives are proper sharp in a kitchen like in a professional kitchen and because it was college the knives were always sharp really sharp and yeah I learned the hard way so I would never it goes against instincts though because if you drop something it's instinctive to try and catch it even though logically it's like well it's a knife why the hell would I try and catch something that's sharp like instincts it's kind of almost natural

to try and catch something that's fallen because you have to kind of let go of that natural instinct which I did after cutting my hand open I managed to do that I learned it I learned it myself so what's the next one number two okay they're also practical oh Egyptians they also practiced oral hygiene no I'm not going there I'm not I'm not going to talk about condoms they also practiced oral hygiene using powders from powdered ox hooves and eggshells now there was a time this is what I know I

know a little bit about um this country at least that where I live is they thought if you're able to mask the smell it meant you were clean so if you could find something that was smell nice to cover up the horrible smell and you use that and you put that into your skin then you're actually clean and I mean there are people that probably still think that uh that's what deodorant's for sometimes isn't it you know if you can't both have a bath and you gotta go out use half

a half a tin of deodorant and usually does a trick so oral hygiene again I'm not going to say what I'm thinking using powders from from powdered ox hooves where would they come up with I mean you think you look at an ox and an eggshell so the hoof of an ox and eggshells and think I reckon that'd be quite good for my teeth okay in ancient Rome public bath houses were a social hub and cleanliness was a matter of pride see the Romans and from the looks of this also

the Egyptians you notice there's ancient Egyptians what other type are there ancient Rome obviously it's not going to be Rome today is it you know ancient Rome but yeah they they were ahead of their times I think so ancient Rome public bath houses to a degree to a degree I mean yeah you how clean are you if you're sharing water with a hundred other dirty men I might say dirty I don't mean you know seedy although but just how how clean would you be you'd be cleaner than if you hadn't

probably got into the water but there's got to come a time isn't there where that water perhaps makes you dirtier than you were before you got into the water I don't know it's and as we know water alone is not enough is it water alone is not I mean it's better than no water you know a shower with no soap is better no shower probably I'm guessing I don't know but so that's that so number four Romans used a communal sponge oh blimey see this is in Spartacus I didn't know

if it was true or not and I still don't it's hard to believe Spartacus you know Spartacus gladiator and the Romans the TV show Spartacus was I was completely addicted to it seriously you know it's one of those shows that I got into in a big way I'd be like prison break and lost and Donovan Ruddick Donovan Ruddick and true blood and wow there's been so many it's ridiculous I've really got into old Breaking Bad Boardwalk Empire the Sopranos oh god what's it called um Game of Thrones uh what other

ones there's probably some obvious ones that I've completed oh The Wire The Wire yeah I watched all those I do it sometimes I get a little bit really caught up in the like a sitcom I like to watch a sitcom when it's all finished I can watch every single episode and I did that with Modern Family just watched it from one all the way through to the end and loved it I might do it with Friends because I've seen Friends I've seen pretty much every episode of the first time around

and they've been repeating it on television it's probably one of the most repeated shows there is in this country constantly being repeated like at the weekends and stuff and I don't again I don't like to see things out of order I like it I don't want to see Season 3 Episode 9 until I've seen Season 3 Episode 8 before even though I might have already seen 8 and 7 and 6 and 5 it's I don't want to dip because I haven't done the whole every episode back to back to back

to front every episode right from the start to the end and I've done it with Modern Family so I could dip into it without too much problems because I've completed completed the circle and what's the other one Cheers I completed the circle with that one as well so watched every single episode I did it with Frasier bloody years before I moved in here watched every single episode and I'm just trying to think what else from a comedy perspective I always get sad though at the end it's like oh it's the

end now I want more I want more and then it's just finished it's like oh and I just and I'm quite loyal quite loyal to a TV show once I start on it and I will keep going and even if as is arguably quite often the case where the last you know it pitters out a little bit it gets a little bit samey and at the point where all the actors are getting paid huge amounts of money that seems to be when the show goes downhill a bit because possibly just

that they've run out of ideas the writers you know I did the first the first season and it'll probably be one of the best seasons you'll ever see with the first one but then maybe you know and it'll be maybe it'll be quite popular and we'll get another another another season and that'll probably be better than the first season because there's the enthusiasm and the characters have been formed and you know it's it sort of takes a life of its own on and everything's really good and and then maybe the

third season gets recommissioned and that might be a really really good season it might get better than the second but then by like the sixth or seventh or eighth or ninth everyone's getting paid huge amounts of money which they weren't probably at the beginning it's no longer the characters because you know I'm just thinking of Friends for example they were all stars by the time it's just like with Cheers they were all stars like doing movies and doing their own thing as well as doing Friends and they were on TV

shows and and it was they were bigger than the show now and yeah I don't know I mean a bit like Roseanne the Roseanne show I loved watching that when I was well I guess I was a kid wasn't I was a teenager and she became more famous than the show but she was the only one that became really famous out of all of them like at the time I mean I mean John Goodman went on to be he's been in loads of movies but she was like super famous you

could argue John John Goodman's probably the most famous out of all of them now in a way but then Roseanne Barr she's still really famous isn't she even though she's not on TV anymore but she kind of became bigger than the than the show yeah but John Goodman went on to have a really successful career as a just been in loads and loads of movies and he's probably been in about 40 movies and then what's her name not the dark haired girl with the blonde daughter I didn't realize at the

time she was in Scrubs she was one of the doctors in Scrubs the really fast talking one and I couldn't believe it I remember my friend saying you know who that is I said yeah she's a nurse in Scrubs I know what TV program I'm watching how stone do you think I am he said no he said that's that's um I can't remember her name in the show I know DJ was the kid and I said look if I can remember it it's a Dan Roseanne DJ uh Becky yeah Becky

Becky was the blonde one and what was the other one the dark haired one wasn't Becky it was I can't remember I can't remember trying to think don't don't hassle me I'm trying to think Becky I keep thinking Diane but it's not Diane is it Diane that was uh that was cheers Becky they'll come to me probably before I finish but yeah I couldn't believe Becky was the thing I like most about Rox Roseanne wasn't really Roseanne if I'm honest it wasn't even I like the dynamics between the two of

them and probably the most likable Roseanne wasn't particularly likable she was funny but she wasn't you know I think John Goodman or Dan he was the likable one out of the two he was the more grounded to me he just seemed a bit more this big strong uh protective father but at the same time sort of trying to live in a house full of females and he was struggling with all that wasn't he especially as they got older but I think the funniest thing of that show was the early years

Darlene Darlene Becky and Darlene when them two were arguing that's hilarious in my memory I don't I can't even remember one single thing that they said but I remember it being really funny that was the dialogue that was the best and they stole the show them two when they were bickering very funny so yeah and also Roseanne's sister she was really good they were all good they're really good and the whole show is I loved it Golden Girls is another one but what's this got to do with ancient hygiene techniques

I don't know I just um okay let's go then let's go back to trivia uh okay oh blimey yeah okay the reason I'm talking about tv shows in Spartacus there's a scene where two Roman officers or high up ones you know they're not just they're not just soldiers they're high up whatever they are and they develop the red capes and stuff and one of them is talking the other one just goes to this communal toilet which is literally is all these I don't know like food stores and stuff and then

this toilet they're open he sits down he's still talking to the to the other uh Roman and then there and then he picks this thing up which is kind of on a stick or something and it's just these like rags and he cleans himself with that rag a communal rag and that's what it's saying here Romans used a communal sponge so it was like a sponge for toilet paper I mean let's move on but yeah I didn't know if that was true or not but it was grim number five Romans

also had fulleries Romans all had had fulleries you know what fuller is I didn't it's where urine was collected for its ammonia content to clean clothes so they did they use wee-wee to clean clothes okay cool and how did they discover that worked because I'll be honest with you you know I've been around a long time now I've had the occasional mishap the occasional misjudgment in aim and at no point have I thought to myself a few days later that smells getting better it's almost like the trousers have cleaned themselves

no it's a case of they need to wash them or uh number six ancient Greeks saw hygiene as linked to well-being and use public baths regularly just like the Romans I mean Greeks Romans that kind of I think they didn't they have quite commonality I mean I think they visited each other and they were quite good friends I don't know if that's true but I imagine how if you went to another country and saw something come back to your own country and do it there and yeah blimey I was so

ahead of this country although the Romans did have this country didn't they for what 400 years or something can you believe that it's like what that's a long time so number seven Roman bathing involved not only water but also oils and a tool called a strigal or strigal strigal to scrape off dirt okay and that makes sense exfiliation isn't it exfiliating someone so exfiliating the dirt and the skin and stuff so yeah and that that does make sense cool I mean isn't it a similar kind of thing used in massages

sometimes you're like a scraping metal thing to but that's more I suppose to to work on the muscles maybe so number eight tooth cleaning powders were also common in ancient Egypt sometimes using pumice that might be funny it might not be funny I don't know what pumice is so I'd have to search for that I can't be bothered but pumice okay I'm going to search okay all right all right so I'll just ask what is pumice it's a thick pus no this is what pus blimey pumice the same pus pumice

pumice did you mean pumice yes pumice is a type of volcanic rock yeah puma is a pumice is a type of valconic volcanic volcanic rock formed when lava with high gas and water content cools rapidly causing it to solidify while trapping gas bubbles inside this process results in a high porous lightweight stone with a tough rough texture pumice has been used throughout history in various applications such as in ancient hygiene routines for exfoliating skin and in construction as a lightweight aggregate in concrete wow so pumice stone is that what that

is that stone that people used to use for dry skin hard skin pumice stone is that it wow I do wonder though because you know someone's thinking oh I need to do something about my teeth and they're just wandering around and they just see a volcano and think hmm I wonder I don't know how does it come about maybe maybe someone who lived near lived near a volcano he was known as smiley volcano man and no one like why do you call a smiley volcano man it's just perfect teeth he

spends all his time around a volcano like uh-huh like it's weird what does he do well he eats everything everything he gets is from the volcano he's got lovely skin he's got lovely teeth uh he won't tell us what it is though but he does something it's got to be something to do with a volcano trying to heat I don't know the ash I don't know I don't know what it is well maybe I mean it could be the rubble couldn't it left over I don't did you hear what I

said I said I don't know okay blimey in medieval Europe bathing became associated with wow so is this is interesting but it kind of goes back to what I was saying earlier in medieval Europe bathing became associated with disease and hygiene regressed significantly but if you're sharing a bath like the Roman baths and we had Roman boys I don't know if we still have them but we have the remnants of them in this country we've actually got a whole town called Bath which was a Roman place so people sharing I

mean that's why you have that you know in swimming pool I mean I've been in the public swimming pool for a long time um as far as I'm aware I don't know I'm not sure if I'm still banned but you know those things those that you can walk in they're like for your verrucas or something why if you've got a verruca on your foot why are you going to a swimming pool that would be an argument I'd have but hey let's not go there so but you walk through and it's

like disinfects your feet it makes sense why don't they just have a whole pool of that you walk through it it disinfects your whole body before getting into the main swimming pool why just the feet anyway and yeah I can't imagine if like imagine hundreds of people getting in and out the same bit of water so it could I mean it could have been but at the same time they probably didn't know about changing the water it might have been they'd only change it if it got to a colour that

they thought I prefer it when it's clearer or maybe thing is some people might be a little bit embarrassed or a little bit shy and they preferred the water when it was muddy well not muddy but dirty because then people couldn't see their tinkles so I'm not assuming that only men went but I'm from my memory the it was a very male dominated environment the old Romans so early Chinese cultures used tooth cleaning powders before toothbrushes often using materials like salt okay I need to ask how long did Rome rule

England that's what I want to know how long did Rome rule England it's a couple of hundred years it's got to be I thought it's 400 years yeah yeah nearly 400 years from from add 43 to around add 410 the Romans conquered Britain became an add 43 under emperor Claudius marking the start of Roman Britain Roman rule extended over much of modern day England and parts of Wales while parts of Scotland and Ireland remained largely unconquered Roman control weakened in the early 5th century as a Roman Empire itself faced increased

pressures included invasions and internal strife by around at 410 Roman forces withdrew from Britain to defend other parts of the empire effectively ending Roman rule and leaving Britain to local tribes and emerging kingdoms okay I remember reading about that they like just took off I mean but then I've seen some things say they left because of the weather didn't like the weather what took him 400 years to realize you know I mean they're like well wasn't enough food not enough food no 400 years they'd have figured the food situation out

and we were slaves I say we I mean I might be a Roman I'm gonna find that out at some point where my DNA results come back but the Romans came in they took slaves that were in right British people English people as slaves they were too scared of Scotland and Wales well not well with Scotland especially because I think they they struggled with Scottish people they didn't um they were too tough and the Welsh were too tough English were too tough everyone was too tough that's why the Romans left

that's why they scarpered after 400 years we were too tough for them by 400 years so like how many bearing in mind not many people would live to more than like 30 or 40 in them days so that's like 44 honestly it's like 10 10 or 11 generations of people but at least not nine nine generations knew nothing else they knew nothing else they were born into it and they lived a whole life having the Romans as the boss do you know anything different and there came a time when their

parents parents parents parents parents parents didn't know any different that's weird isn't it and when you think how old is America so about 300 years old isn't it how old how old is is blimey see you thought I was just being facetious 300 years it's actually less 248 years so it's only 248 years old America so you think over 150 years more we were ruled by Rome so in effect we were Italian and when you think they would always speak in Italian back then because if the Romans I'm guessing they

spoke Italian they were from Italy so how come we're not all speaking Italian it's good question I suppose I could get the answer by learning something new but I'm not going to I refuse so the United States state is considered to be 248 years old it was officially founded July the 4th 1776 really July the 4th I thought that was Independence Day oh okay which not really is it because we we owned you know British obviously we owned America we yeah we let you have it back if you lived there

we gave it to you you couldn't be bothered you know didn't like the weather it was too warm and lovely we missed the cold and the damp and the fog and the all the snow and the sleet yeah we missed all that so that's the smog as well so that's why that's why the English came back before no don't know somewhere where it's got nice weather makes you wonder though why the settlers didn't just live in one place like a nice place like where the weather's quite nice all year round

I don't know is that California or I'm not sure it's a certain place where it's pretty much nice most of the time because it's not like that everywhere is it I guess there was just people that has found it exciting being somewhere new but we signing the constitution 1978 the thing is I don't know yeah I'm not sure because if you go back how long goes it with a we that we ruled and how long did we rule how long okay let's just check this one out how long did England

rule America so let's have a look so we ruled parts of what would become the United States for approximately 169 years so the first town the first place was founded was Jamestown Virginia in 1607 until a declaration of independence in 1776 during this time England gradually established control over 13 colonies along the eastern seaboard of North America through chartered colonies settlements and territorial acquisitions the British government directly governed and imposed laws taxes and trade restrictions leading to increasing tensions see we messed it up man why they always have to kind

of mess things up we ruled the world baby just messed it up by being greedy these restrictions called with a lack of colonial representation in British Parliament eventually fueled colonial unrest and demands for independence so the revolutionary war the first revolutionary war was 1775 to 1783 okay followed ultimately resulting in the establishment of the United States of America and the end of British rule over the colonies so it's quite weird really because considering how tiny this country is we did pretty well didn't we in a sense of ruling countries so

much bigger I mean I mean if it'd been a big country if we'd have been like the size of China for example then America would still be Chinese or you know British or whatever but we've got we've you know got time it's a tiny little bit of land that we're on which explains why we kept traveling to get more land because this wasn't enough here we need to we needed holiday homes we needed places to to you know to have a break so America used to be our holiday home Australia

India there's lots of we had lots of holiday homes and then I don't know I'm just joking okay early China okay what's the next Babylonians made one of the earliest soaps around 2800 BCE from animal fats and wood ash Babylonians Babylonians Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-babylonians what do you mean you're not British you mean you're not you didn't come from England well why do you speak English then well see you know something I never understood okay is you have with boxing the person that introduces the fighters for some reason and I've never understood this

and it doesn't just happen in this country it doesn't just happen in America it happens in other countries as well but definitely in America but because you know I lost a lot I see a lot of fights from America and it happens in this country also so the ring announcer will say and now for example from the United States from New Orleans it's Razor Thumper Harris and Tom whoever and then there'll be a Mexican or someone from South America and they always put an accent on when they say their name

they always like roll their tongue and they put an accent Jesus of Venice and they put like a Spanish accent and you might think well that's respectful yeah fair enough I'll go with that cool I can't roll my tongue so I wouldn't know how to here's me rolling my tongue so it's not very good but they don't do it with other places they don't do it with German they don't like say and now the challenger from Germany okay that's not good German accent but or they don't you don't go to

America and now the challenger from Scotland it's Corner Craig they don't you know they don't do that they don't they don't put an accent on for Scottish person they don't like when Kawasaki he was a world champion and now the defending champion Kawasaki that wasn't a good Welsh accent but just you know as you see what I mean or if it's a French a French might actually sometimes you do but generally if it's a French person it's a say um and now the the challenger from France Paris France Jean Vigabond

they don't it's not a very good accent but I'm just trying to get the point across they don't they just do it in American accent but when it comes to South American you know it's the same if they're from Canada you don't say and now from Canada Montreal actually that's right let's say not Montreal Toronto is Toronto Canada isn't it and Bobby the gun a you know it's just I don't know it's I don't get why they and they never do an English accent either so in America like they said

and you got gun you know that the challenger even if it's an English fighter the tip the challenger from Venezuela so by controlling our and from England they don't go Tyson Fury no Tyson Fury no just Anthony just notes Anthony Anthony no Anthony Anthony no and me well it's got an H man and it's got an H house has got an H but it's house in it we all know that it's horse not horse I've got go down tan I've got go home it's own not home so I'm back off

me soapbox Babylonians case so in ancient Mesopotamia clay tablets have recipes detailing soap making with fats and oils mixed with ashes lovely ancient Indian text from 2,800 BCE described using ashes and water to maintain cleanliness Wow I mean hmm yeah I don't want to be controversial but hmm I mean I guess it's the whole thing is if it stops your hand from stinking then there's that theory that your hand must be clean but technically you go to the toilet or you could you know I mean if you could have a

really smelly so you've got a really smelly hand and you dipped it into a bowl of tomato soup your hands now gonna smell a tomato soup but should you be licking your fingers probably not you know that's just the theory that's what I'm saying the Romans innovated plumbing creating aqueducts to bring fresh water to cities for bathing and drinking so yeah I guess there was that as well ancient Romans had around 144 public latrines often placed near bath houses for easy water access oh cool Romans taxed urine collected from public

urinals as it was used for cleaning and laundering what Chinese civilization Chinese civilizations used utilized herbal medicine in hygiene routines using ingredients like mint for fresh breath okay I mean that that's kind of stuck isn't it really a problem with leave a bit of a weird leave a taste in ancient Japan bathing was considered a ritual of purification a part of religious practice Egyptians believed cleanliness influenced spiritual health and often used perfume oils as antiseptics now we're talking about all these like other countries but there was a time when people

thought as I said earlier what they put perfume and I'm thinking more of this country they by putting perfume on themselves and covering up the smell meant that they were clean which of course is not true it's not it's not it's not a case is it but I do have one story this is apparently this is really true and I will check this Scottish doctor Scottish surgeon surgeon soap so this is a very famous story you might not be aware of but Joseph Lister Blimey I wonder if that's where Listerine

comes from Joseph Lister was a Scottish surgeon is celebrated for pioneering antiseptic surgery in the 19th century he introduced the use of the use of carbolic acid phenol to sterilize wounds and surgical tools significantly significantly reducing infections and etc and Louise Pasteur is German so just that my girl okay right so there was someone else so it's another Scottish surgeon okay I have a vague memory of this searching let's have a look Scottish surgeon Joseph Lister alright so while he was alive I don't think they took they didn't do it

so Joseph Lister and he did revolution things but it was he was affected by or influenced by Louise Pasteur Louise Pasteur German theory Lister proposed that infections were caused by airborne particles and micro blah blah blah he applied carbic carbolic acid phenol as a disinfectant in weather so his work fundamentally altered medical practices they were initially met with skepticism as some surgeons held on to the traditional beliefs that infections were influenced by factors like hospitalism the idea that hospital conditions themselves were inherently harmful well that has actually been proved to

be true sometimes isn't it but however Lister's success in reducing surgical mortality eventually gained acceptance leading to widespread was he imprisoned unless that's a different person okay so which Scottish surgeon on a maternity ward wanted to introduce hand-washing and was subsequently put into an asylum so that's my I've got this memory now I have to figure out who that is it's interesting oh I wasn't Scottish oh I don't know why did I think it was a Scottish I'm pretty getting muddled up because I must have read about the Scottish surgeon

who introduced what we already talked about this is a different one this was a Hungarian obstetrician he pioneered hand-washing in the 1840s on the maternity wards at the Vienna General Hospital so basically the surgeons and the doctors weren't washing their hands the male ones but when he went to the female ward like we eat I'm gonna it's really this isn't necessarily exactly true but generally the females are washing their hands and the men weren't as often which meant the success rate overall was much bigger for the females the female ward

again that might be a completely different story but generally why he said they got washed their hands but it was controversial it was very controversial how dare you say I've got washed my hands they went directly from autopsies to delivering babies without hand-washing so yeah that's a bit grim so he implemented mandatory hand disinfecting upon using chlorinated lime solution which drastically reduced what was happening however his ideas were controversial as they challenged a prevailing belief in miasma theory which is bad air causing stuff and suggested that the doctors themselves could

be causing infections okay unfortunately the medical community largely rejected Semmelweis's findings I mean Semmelweis's findings leading to professional isolation and severe mental distress in 1865 he was committed to an asylum under dubious circumstances and so his advocacy for hand hygiene was later validated with the rise of germ theory largely popularized by Louis Pasteau and furthered by Joseph Lister in antiseptic practices see it's gone full circle isn't that amazing that they didn't know anyway that's the end of this recording thank you for listening thank you now remember to be kind to yourself because you do deserve to be happy be gentle with yourself lots of love bye