1920s

So who exactly were The Radium Girls?

They were the American women from the First World War and Roaring Twenties who used to paint clocks and watches with glow-in-the-dark radium paint.

It was actually known as the elite job for the poor working girls.

The most skilled workers were in the top 5% of female wage earners nationally, earning more than three times the average factory floor worker.

There's the case of the Maroxi chess game, the famous chess match between living and deceased chess grandmaster.

Victor Korchnoi, who was ranked third at the time, and Giza Maroxi, who was ranked, I believe, second or third, I believe, in the 1920s.

and they that's eisenbeiss a fellow named eisenbeiss a chess enthusiast set up a chess game via robert medium robert rollins no chess at all and they played a fantastic chess game so as i said before there's no reason to think that any degree of perception whether it's extrasensory or normal perception there's no reason to think that any form of perception extrasensory or otherwise can enable anyone to instantly temporarily require skills which require which required the departed person years of practice to acquire

so george got a question for you So as a journalist, you've spent a tremendous amount of time on the E.T. subject, in addition to the mobs, you know, gangsters and so on.

What makes this more than just a quirky Pinterest board is the cultural history of ghost imagery and American Halloween decor.

The Beesle Company, founded in 1900, has been a key player in turning folk motifs into mass-produced decorations since the 1920s.

and they've definitely had a line of ghostly laundry accessories at some point.

Spirit Halloween, which exploded from a single store in 1983 to over 1,400 locations by 2020, capitalized on that domestic ghost mashup with its own version of a haunted clothesline at seasonal pop-ups.

Animosity is what it translates to.

Uh, 1920s, Años Veinte, I think is what that is in Spanish, uh, is the track that we're gonna check out.

And, uh, originally got this from Demons Punk Records by email back in March.

Uh, the band formed in 2022.

Let's get to the release.

Here goes.

[música rock] Eran los años veinte se luchaba sin cesar.

Obreras y campesinas empujando la libertad.

People might say, you know, you be anachronistic, you're applying modern retroactive safety anxiety to a different era.

The Roaring Twenties didn't care about OSHA.

I

hear that a lot.