Patrice & Marleah nerd out on history this week, with the least appropriately named government nuke project ever, the national quarantine you never knew about, and fuckin’ armadillos, man. Also we welcome back Bartender Courtney and her Cuban mojitos!
The Dribble Project //
Nuclear Blasts in Mississippi | Mississippi History Now by Stephen Cresswell
In 1964, a nuclear bomb exploded in Mississippi and really messed up a guy’s kitchen by Alex Q. Arbuckle
Salmon/Sterling Nuclear Tests Marker – Lumberton, Mississippi – Atlas Obscura by Matt Smith
Atomic Journeys: Mississippi segment – YouTube by atomcentral
Let’s Learn About Leprosy! //
L
ife Inside Louisiana’s Leprosy Quarantine Was Tragic and Inspirational by Gray Chapman
How Do People Get Hansen’s Disease? by the CDC
Secret People (film about Carville) directed by Laura Harrison and John Anderson
The National Hansen’s Disease Museum
Carville Leprosy Hospital 1977-79, “No Place for Cowards”: photos by M Petty Photography
Termination of the leprosy isolation policy in the US and Japan : Science, policy changes, and the garbage can model by Hajime Sato and Janet E Frantz
EPISODE DRINK:
Cuban Mojito
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 10 fresh mint leaves, plus 1 sprig for garnish
- Juice of 1/4 lime
- Ice
- 2 ounces rum, such as Bacardi Superior Rum
- Splash club soda
Combine the sugar, mint and lime juice in a 12-ounce glass and muddle together. Fill the glass with ice, and then pour in the rum. Shake in a shaker until well mixed, then pour back into the same glass. Fill with club soda, and garnish with mint, sugar cane and a straw.
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