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99: The Gilded Age’s Singer Sewing Machines & Dangerous Bananas w/ Dr. Ben Sawyer of The Road To Now

History That Doesn't Suck

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The Dangerous Banana Peel

i can still think of candy bars from my childhood that just come back in two seconds ofyou you play two notes rightow, im the right order, and boom. I'm ready for a kit cat. E giveng all sorts of free shotout to corporat. It's here now. Ye, and structurally, electricity's coming into cities. And it's not everywhere yet, but you're seeing it. i mean, this is another thing, is like, singor creates the first electronic sewing machine. And so you can see companies responding to this. And i'll tell you, gregg, actually, one of my favorite stories about this has to do with nanas

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