Oct 14, 2026 · 59 min · 11 segments
Today's episode is a really fun one because I am taking your questions! We haven't done one of these episodes in a long, long time and it was so nice to hear from you! I open today by looking at the…
Ashley HämäläinenHostBut there's something about the Jim Carrey one, it was made in 2009, Victorian England at that time, 1843.
There's something about that time that feels so, I don't even have a word for it, like cozy.
There was a great divide between the wealthy class, the upper class, and then the, the lower class, let's just say those who were in poverty.
People who had no money, like the, those who were impoverished, suffered tremendously.
But due to the very poor hygiene standards and [laughs] the fact that the air was full of coal smoke all the time, and that women had literally no rights, and that the consciousness level was so low, it was a terrible time to be alive.
So we can romanticize it, yes, from like, the clothing and the candles and everything, but for the human population it was a terrible time to be alive.
And I mean, one only knows that looking back now, but I even heard, 'cause watching that movie took me down this deep, deep, deep hole into Charles Dickens and then I started to research the town that I'm from.
But I started looking back through the history of that town and my family, and I'm like, "What am I looking for? What am I looking for?" I found that back then the, um, the river, the River Thames in London, they put the, the sewage, like untreated sewage was in that water, and it was also their drinking water, and they couldn't, they, they did not have the intellectual seeing, the science, the connections.
They didn't have it back then to understand that contaminated water causes disease.
But there's something about the Jim Carrey one, it was made in 2009, Victorian England at that time, 1843.
There's something about that time that feels so, I don't even have a word for it, like cozy.
There was a great divide between the wealthy class, the upper class, and then the, the lower class, let's just say those who were in poverty.
People who had no money, like the, those who were impoverished, suffered tremendously.
But due to the very poor hygiene standards and [laughs] the fact that the air was full of coal smoke all the time, and that women had literally no rights, and that the consciousness level was so low, it was a terrible time to be alive.
So we can romanticize it, yes, from like, the clothing and the candles and everything, but for the human population it was a terrible time to be alive.
And I mean, one only knows that looking back now, but I even heard, 'cause watching that movie took me down this deep, deep, deep hole into Charles Dickens and then I started to research the town that I'm from.
But I started looking back through the history of that town and my family, and I'm like, "What am I looking for? What am I looking for?" I found that back then the, um, the river, the River Thames in London, they put the, the sewage, like untreated sewage was in that water, and it was also their drinking water, and they couldn't, they, they did not have the intellectual seeing, the science, the connections.
They didn't have it back then to understand that contaminated water causes disease.
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