Sep 20, 2026 · 31 min · 14 segments
Send us Fan Mail On the episode: Ever wondered why women back in the 1800s were sent to insane asylums? yeah we were curious as well. what we found…
Off the rip, I want to go into especially seeing that a lot of mums do men jobs, right? Like looking after kids if the dad's not around.
Is that the men job? Yeah.
Like if the dad isn't around, they do everything.
Yeah.
Right? But this is a little bit different because this is – What men would send their wives to the psych ward for back in the 1800s? I've got a
list.
1800s.
I got sent this a fair few times and I've gone through it and some of them are genuinely diabolical.
And you just kind of sit there and wonder, were they okay in their head? I don't think they were.
The men? The men? Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
Oh, I see.
Well, obviously the woman couldn't have been either if they got sent to the psych ward.
Well, hang on.
Let me
come back to that because this is some of the things on here.
All right.
I want you to guess.
Just give me a guess of what you think that they would get sent to the psych ward for.
Would
it be stuff like-
I'm pretty sure it's on there
or not horny enough.
Ah, she's not putting out, not putting her in the psych ward.
Yeah.
Off the rip, I want to go into especially seeing that a lot of mums do men jobs, right? Like looking after kids if the dad's not around.
Is that the men job? Yeah.
Like if the dad isn't around, they do everything.
Yeah.
Right? But this is a little bit different because this is – What men would send their wives to the psych ward for back in the 1800s? I've got a
list.
1800s.
I got sent this a fair few times and I've gone through it and some of them are genuinely diabolical.
And you just kind of sit there and wonder, were they okay in their head? I don't think they were.
The men? The men? Yeah,
yeah, yeah.
Oh, I see.
Well, obviously the woman couldn't have been either if they got sent to the psych ward.
Well, hang on.
Let me
come back to that because this is some of the things on here.
All right.
I want you to guess.
Just give me a guess of what you think that they would get sent to the psych ward for.
Would
it be stuff like-
I'm pretty sure it's on there
or not horny enough.
Ah, she's not putting out, not putting her in the psych ward.
Yeah.
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