Pod Insights Stuff You Missed in History Class Behind the Scenes Minis: French Fear and Frozen Food About this episode Tracy discusses the challenge of parsing all the nuance of the French Revolution. Holly talks about how little Clarence Birdseye shared of his interior thoughts.
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2:07 Holly Frey? Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of iHeartRadio.
2:18 Tracy V. Wilson? Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy V. Wilson.
2:21 Holly Frey? And I'm Holly Frey.
2:23 Tracy V. Wilson? This week, we talked about the Great Fear of 1789.
2:26 Holly Frey? Yeah.
2:27 Tracy V. Wilson? So when I saw this paper, when I was working on stuff for Unearthed, I was like, oh, I don't think we've ever talked about this particular thing. It sounds really interesting, and I think it would be good to talk about it. And so instead of putting this paper in Unearthed, I will do a whole episode about it. And then when I started, like, when I went to actually put it on the calendar, I kind of went, Tracy, you know, this means you're going to need to talk about the beginnings of the French Revolution, which always turns out to be harder than I think it's gonna be.
3:04 Holly Frey? It's complex. It's one of the most complex parts of history for us.
3:07 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, it's really, and it's deceptively simple sounding if what you are thinking about is the things that come up as highlights a lot of the time, like the tennis court oath and the, you know, eventual overthrowing of the monarchy and eventually their executions. Like, that kinds of stuff is sort of easy to visualize. But like, in addition to all the stuff involving the common people, the nobility and the clergy also had their own issues going on. We didn't touch on any of that really at all.
3:41 Holly Frey? Yeah.
3:42 Tracy V. Wilson? And that would have been a whole other episode than the Great Fear episode. Every time I write something where I'm going to have to detail the beginnings of the French Revolution, I'm like, this, every time, it's difficult.
3:56 Holly Frey? Yeah, yeah.
3:57 Tracy V. Wilson? I've done it enough times, one would think it might get easier. No, no. Every time, it could be a completely different episode, depending on which parts of it we're focusing on.
4:06 Holly Frey? This is one of those pieces of history that makes me think of Men in Black.
4:10 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, yeah?
4:10 Holly Frey? Yeah, because there's that great quote that Tommy Lee Jones gives at the end of it. "A person is smart, people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
4:18 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
4:19 Holly Frey? It's like... I understand how these people would have gotten panicked and freaked out to the point that they would see a cloud of dust from a herd of animals and be like, oh, mon Dieu, we're being attacked. Like, I understand, because you're just trying to protect what you have. And if you have very little, it becomes very, very important to protect it.
4:40 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
4:40 Holly Frey? I get how that panic happens.
4:42 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. I had a quote by a historian called Henry Bertram Hill. This is from a paper, a paper that I think was published back in the 1950s or 60s. And he described this, the, the great fear as a phenomenon, as, quote, "a spontaneous and organized movement, fanned by rumor, hunger, uncertainty, and what was at least conceived of as oppression." And I was like, yeah, that does sum it up. Sort of the atmosphere that was leading to all of this. One of the things that was challenging about this is the writing that specifically focused on it, it's kind of limited in how much of it there is. I did get the English
5:26 Tracy V. Wilson? language translation of Georges Lefebvre's book on the Great Fear that was translated into English in 1973. I know of one other book-length treatment just of this, which I did not get. It was focused mostly on, I think, a specific region of France. But a lot of the other stuff that I read, whether it was journal articles, or, I mean, journal articles specifically for a lot of it, a lot of it is just like, really detailed and in the weeds. And it's looking at like, like, the reports of, of peasant uprisings in like
6:06 Tracy V. Wilson? one specific region, and looking at them in hyper, hyper scrutiny, based on the information that we have available today. And, and I was like, that's, this is not really helping.
6:21 Tracy V. Wilson? Talk about this like as a phenomenon in a way that's going to be understandable to our predominantly English speaking audience who the incredibly large majority of does not live in France and I would say has never been to France and has no frame of reference for all of these different villages and towns that are being named like this is like a lot of detail about a tiny little piece of it that is not translating into what I could make into an episode, which made it kind of difficult to work on. And then also the parallels to things that we still experience today made it frustrating to work on.
7:03 Holly Frey? Yeah.
7:03 Tracy V. Wilson? Some of this really reminded me of how a random person can say something on social media. Totally random person, probably it could be a bot, but like, let's just assume that it is an actual person, random person with 67 followers says a wild thing on social media and then it gets picked up as an example of something in the traditional media. And now the talking point has become that this weird fringe thing that a person said on X or something is like a widely held view.
7:47 Tracy V. Wilson? And then that gets reinforced as the view that really is the predominant thing based on something a random person said that got picked up in a news article.
7:55 Holly Frey? Yeah, and it self replicates because then people will read it and be like, yeah, that sounds reasonable. I agree with that. And then it becomes a thing that more and more people believe.
8:04 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. And that is how I felt about a lot of the way that the great fear was spreading around.
8:11 Holly Frey? Yeah.
8:12 Tracy V. Wilson? A panicked person saying the brigands are coming and then somebody writing to their, their delegate at the National Constituent Assembly saying, we need help. And then that letter getting read in front of the National Constituent Assembly. And now this is a serious issue. It has been read before the National Constituent Assembly.
8:30 Holly Frey? Yeah.
8:30 Tracy V. Wilson? And living with that kind of rapid information misinformation spreading really is exhausting, frankly, in addition to the, you know, random social media comments becoming.
8:45 Tracy V. Wilson? Supposedly a representative view of what large numbers of people think. We're now seeing this with AI videos.
8:52 Holly Frey? Oh, man.
8:55 Tracy V. Wilson? The recent launch of tools for making AI videos has just led to so many videos that if you are not paying attention, might seem like a real thing, but if you look closely,
9:09 Tracy V. Wilson? is obviously not a real thing, but they are being circulated incredibly widely before somebody is able to like film a response video going, that horse's leg clips through the car.
9:22 Holly Frey? Right, right.
9:24 Tracy V. Wilson? Or whatever.
9:26 Holly Frey? And all of this is like at a point when we are all as a as a mass, highly susceptible to it because everyone is on edge already.
9:36 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, yeah.
9:37 Holly Frey? Which makes it worse and worse. And I'm, not to start my own conspiracy theory, but I believe there are people that are trading on that knowledge that people are
9:45 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, sure.
9:46 Holly Frey? on edge and scared and it is easy to get their attention and get them to buy into something that either confirms that their fear is legitimate or
9:54 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
9:55 Holly Frey? you know.
9:57 Holly Frey? Anyway.
9:58 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, one of the things that I kept thinking about as I was writing this wasn't actually one of the things from the very immediate past or like what's going on right in this moment. But it was from a few years ago, when suddenly on social media, a lot of people were complaining about how many people in their neighborhoods were setting off fireworks.
10:17 Holly Frey? Uh huh.
10:18 Tracy V. Wilson? And a lot of people seemed to genuinely believe that the CIA was distributing fireworks to people in order to disrupt everybody's sleep and keep them on edge.
10:28 Holly Frey? Oh, I missed this one entirely.
10:30 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, I feel like this was, this might have been in the stay at home order era of COVID, if I'm remembering correctly. I mean, my memory is a sieve at this point, so I could be conflating multiple different things, but it was like. People were, other people were then like, or, or it's June and Independence Day is coming up and people are getting a jump on that because we're all bored and tired of, you know, so many people being stuck in their houses and so many other people still working every day because they're considered essential and like not having outlets for any of the stresses that are happening.
11:10 Holly Frey? Yeah.
11:11 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
11:11 Holly Frey? Listen, our neighborhood is always a high firework arena. So I'm like,
11:15 Tracy V. Wilson? Right.
11:16 Holly Frey? That's just Tuesday.
11:18 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, I'm glad we got to talk about this. I hope to not revisit the beginning of the French Revolution for a while because it makes me tired.
11:28 Holly Frey? It's a lot.
11:30 Tracy V. Wilson? I don't know if we have ever done an episode that was specifically focused on like what the aristocracies issues were.
11:39 Holly Frey? No, not really.
11:40 Tracy V. Wilson? Going into the French Revolution. I don't like, I think a lot of the episodes have been focused mostly on the common people and the lack of bread and the bread prices and all of that stuff.
11:51 Holly Frey? Yeah, we've definitely touched on stuff that touches the aristocracy, but it's in a secondary way. Like, right. Like I'll, I'll talk about Leonard Attier, Marie Antoinette's hairdresser all day long, but.
12:02 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, right.
12:02 Holly Frey? And his, how it affected him, but it's not really talking about what was going on.
12:07 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
12:08 Holly Frey? More broadly within the aristocracy. Yeah.
12:11 Tracy V. Wilson? What were the grievances of the nobility? Yeah.
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15:36 Holly Frey? We talked about Clarence Byrdsey this week. Yep. He is fascinating to me. I feel like he and I could not be buddies. No. I know that's a weird metric to use when studying people in history, but you kind of can't help it. Right. To be like, yeah, this is a person I would like to hang out with. He was often very funny and by all accounts, people loved him. He was very personable. But yeah, he just, he seemed like an odd, strange person. The animal thing is the problem for me, but I do feel some kinships with him. One of the cute things that came up in that Kurlansky biography is that when he was in high school, I think it was, he got the nickname Bugs. Okay. Because he likes to look at bugs.
16:21 Holly Frey? I don't know why I find that very funny. Hey Bugs. And it's not Bugs Bunny. It's literally insects. It's great. We mentioned in the episode that he was not a particularly big sharer of emotions. There are not really any indicators about his feelings on politics. He was not, it doesn't sound like religious, but he was often worked like with missionary groups and stuff. Like he had no problem with that. So he clearly didn't, didn't have any big feelings in terms of anything being okay or not.
17:02 Holly Frey? He was not very emotive, even in letters where he's writing to his family about things like his relationship with Eleanor. He's very low key about it. Like they got married. On the quick, he didn't really tell a lot of people ahead of time. It was just like, yesterday I was a bachelor and today I am a husband. And this is just what it is. So, okay, let's keep going.
17:21 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
17:22 Holly Frey? And of course, we talked about him not really talking a lot about his work on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, other than being like, man, I got to hunt all the time.
17:30 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, I am. His name had come up in the Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever research. And I had sort of put him on my tentative list because I was like, oh, that's an interesting and unusual, unexpected connection to go from Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to all of this frozen food stuff. So then I was glad that you snagged it for yours.
17:47 Holly Frey? Yeah, he's been on my list for a minute and I didn't even think about it possibly being on yours. So I'm sorry I did not check in with you on that one. Usually we do.
17:54 Tracy V. Wilson? It had only been on mine for literal a minute, not a figurative minute.
18:00 Holly Frey? That being said, he did say some very funny things once. When he was living in Labrador and he was encountering Huskies, the dog, for the first time, his description of them howling was that it sounded like a large crowd on election night.
18:15 Tracy V. Wilson? Okay.
18:16 Holly Frey? Which is kind of a great way to describe their wawing.
18:20 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, yeah.
18:20 Holly Frey? If you've ever been around Huskies, that's no joke. They are talkative and it's loud. He was so interested in so many things and that part of him I identify with and like, like while his home was being built in Gloucester when he had money to build a huge house, he took up photography and he took photographs of a lot of things, but he took like ongoing black and white photos of the house as it was being built. So he had this beautiful record of it going from the ground to this immense mansion, which is kind of cool. He also was very fascinated with this thing that he witnessed when he was in Labrador,
19:01 Holly Frey? which was fish being frozen alive and then defrosted and swimming again.
19:06 Tracy V. Wilson? Okay.
19:07 Holly Frey? And I didn't put it in the episode because I already was like, we're already in wailing and killing things and I don't need to add more. But he did a lot of experiments in this space, which I just find weird.
19:19 Tracy V. Wilson? Right.
19:20 Holly Frey? I'm not comfortable with it.
19:21 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
19:23 Holly Frey? People are, I know.
19:26 Holly Frey? What other kooky things? When he and Eleanor were in Labrador, this one's weird to me. She had at one point, because we mentioned she'd like fell right into that lifestyle, got really good at hunting. At one point, she had shot a moose that they dressed and froze and they ate off of it for a really long time. Uh huh. And the last piece that was left, which they apparently moved around with and kept it frozen, was the moose neck, which birds I said he had not wanted to eat because he did not like it when he had had moose neck in Labrador when he was living there. But he, as he was thinking about frosted foods and frozen foods, he thought, I wonder what's up with that moose neck?
20:11 Holly Frey? And he defrosted it and cooked it and said it was delicious and very tender after four years. Okay. To which I say, none of this information discusses freezer burn, but that's a different Right, right. I also love the fact and identify with the fact that he, like many people, loved change. Uh huh. Which I do too, you know, whereas a lot of people would be like, hey, our industry is fine. We know how we're doing this. We, and he's like, yeah, but you could, you could update your equipment and everything could be easier and better. He had this quote that he apparently said all the time, which is that there is always a better way of doing almost everything, which I kind of love, but also sometimes people don't want change and I don't know. Right.
20:53 Holly Frey? I feel like he was a little dogged and not ever giving up on ideas of like changing things. But my other point of identification is that when he and Eleanor lived in Peru, they had zero boundaries about what animals they would take in as pets. So. No, no. They adopted two baby foxes, which kind of hearkened back to when they lived in Labrador. One of them didn't live past its very early stage because they had been found kind of abandoned as two kits, but the other one lived with them a long time. They had caught a penguin while out fishing and he took the penguin home and made it a pet. They had a deer that lived in the house, which I may or may not have experience with. They had a parrot, like they just adopted a kajillion animals. Mm hmm. And I'm like, I get it.
21:39 Holly Frey? But then, I mean, there's a weird dichotomy in behavior because.
21:45 Holly Frey? He loved nature, but had no, it seems like he did not have the level of emotional attachment that like I would have to it certainly, right?
21:55 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
21:56 Holly Frey? You know, like, I can't imagine nursing baby foxes back to health and loving them and then being like, you're gonna make a great pelt. Like, I can't.
22:06 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, sure.
22:06 Holly Frey? Which he would be fine with. And which is like, to be clear, not an uncommon approach to animal care.
22:13 Tracy V. Wilson? Uh huh.
22:14 Holly Frey? You know, having talked to like, members of my family that grew up on farms in the, you know, 40s and 50s, they similarly would be like, oh, we had to sit with that cow overnight because it was so sick. And I was like, oh, were you bonded forever? No, we took it to market. Like, I just can't, I can't imagine it.
22:32 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
22:33 Holly Frey? Just not to dog on anybody that lives in a, a way in which you have to care for animals and they are part of your livelihood and food. I mean, I eat meat, I'm always working on it, but I just can't imagine being like, I love this penguin and this deer that we've adopted, time to go back to New York. Like, I don't know what happened to those animals.
22:50 Tracy V. Wilson? Right. I can't remember if I've told this story before, but when I was a kid, my brother was allergic to cow's milk. And so we were getting our, we were getting goat milk from a goat farmer who was friends with my parents. And they had had the problem of like, the first year that they had the goats, I mean, they were, they had goats that were, they were getting milk from, but they also had goats that were being raised for slaughter. And when it was time to do that, it was awful. And so after that experience, they started naming them things that would like, remind them that, that this was what was going to happen. So they had names like Amos freezer meat.
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27:27 Tracy V. Wilson? And another thing is, a lot of wild animals that are really cute don't make good pets.
27:34 Holly Frey? Yeah.
27:36 Tracy V. Wilson? And like, there is a real problem with people getting wild animals today that then being like, "Oh, this is, it is not working to have a raccoon inside of my house with me."
27:51 Holly Frey? Yeah, I mean, there are people that are like wildlife rehabbers who can handle it and understand the job. But the average person is not prepared for it.
28:01 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, and a lot of the rehabbers that are rehabbing these animals are rehabbing them because they were inappropriately taken into like a pet situation.
28:10 Holly Frey? Yeah.
28:10 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. So please don't do that.
28:15 Holly Frey? Listen, it's tempting. Do I love my deck raccoons? Yes. Do they get to come in the house? No. Do they, if they interact, if they are become too aware of us, we stop feeding them because you don't want them to become dependent.
28:27 Tracy V. Wilson? Right.
28:27 Holly Frey? I'm just, you know, happy to help a single mom out now and again with a little, little dish of boiled eggs. It's hard. I understand the impulse. I deeply understand the impulse to want to be Snow White and collect all the animals to you.
28:41 Tracy V. Wilson? Uh huh.
28:43 Holly Frey? I can't imagine all of those animals did okay.
28:46 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah, yeah. I think I might have said this previously on the show, but I recently blocked an account on TikTok that had these videos of someone feeding a bear on their deck. It turned out that the, it was an AI video. Anything you see that says Sora, that has Sora branding, that is AI. That's not a real thing. So this was not a real person or a real bear. Still very dangerous to feed bears and to promote the idea of feeding bears. But I was like, yeah, I'm just, I'm not having this in my life. Block.
29:20 Holly Frey? Yeah, no, no. Bears are legitimately dangerous.
29:24 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah. And they don't understand that the next door neighbor who is not feeding the bears is a different person whose deck they should not go get on expecting food.
29:36 Holly Frey? Yeah.
29:37 Tracy V. Wilson? Anyway, I have feelings about these things.
29:41 Holly Frey? Animals. I sure eat a lot of frozen foods. I have feelings about that.
29:44 Tracy V. Wilson? I do. I also, yeah, I was not kidding when I said just yesterday I bought some frozen food. I brought, I bought frozen peas and frozen edamames and little ice cream.
29:56 Holly Frey? Yeah, I too bought fro, I think I bought some yummy quinoa kale mixes for quick and easy lunches.
30:01 Tracy V. Wilson? Yum.
30:02 Holly Frey? Throw a piece of grilled chicken in there. I'm fed and it's fairly healthy. Great. Love it. I love a little frozen food.
30:08 Tracy V. Wilson? I feel like somebody might be upset that I put an S on edamame. I was, I was being silly.
30:16 Holly Frey? I think I also bought some partially, probably subconsciously inspired by this episode, some, some Beyond Beef formula.
30:25 Tracy V. Wilson? Oh, yeah.
30:26 Holly Frey? I am ever trying to get off of the animal proteins thing. I think we've talked about on the show before, every time I go completely off of them, I get a weird rash and I, I have done all of the nutritionist advice of supplemental things. Like usually they're like, oh, that's a vitamin E deficiency. You can get it through these sources and they never work quite the same way.
30:46 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
30:47 Holly Frey? So I'm always, always on the hunt for whatever I can that will.
30:50 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
30:51 Holly Frey? Substitute and leave me not rash.
30:53 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
30:56 Tracy V. Wilson? I, our household, at least for my part, like there is some meat in our food rotation, but there's also a lot of tofu and a lot of beans and a lot of lentils. And I recently had a doctor's appointment where it was recommended that I add some more fatty fish into my diet, which I did. And that seems to have made like a measurable difference in multiple aspects of my health. So as much as I try, I've like been trying to reduce the animal protein. Like, I feel like the fatty fish is helping me.
31:35 Holly Frey? Yeah. I mean, that's the trick, right? Especially as we get older, there are some nutrients that.
31:41 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
31:42 Holly Frey? Are just really hard for your body to get.
31:46 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
31:47 Holly Frey? Or to produce.
31:48 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
31:49 Holly Frey? You know, through other means. It's tricky. It's a very tricky dance. I feel like every time we talk about eating meat, people get irritated and say, how can you say you love animals and you eat meat? And I am here to tell you, the struggle is real.
32:01 Tracy V. Wilson? And we are also eating plant foods that are being farmed and cared for by people who are horribly exploited.
32:10 Holly Frey? Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's never as clean a decision as anybody would like it to be.
32:16 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
32:17 Holly Frey? Unless you are growing all of your own stuff and I guess keeping chickens for eggs.
32:21 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
32:23 Holly Frey? It's hard. It's very hard. I do try to grow most of our, all of our lettuce at this point and quite a few veggies, but you know, the, the food pipeline in the US is very complicated.
32:38 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
32:39 Holly Frey? And is wild. I am certainly grateful that Clarence Birdseye lobbied for more stringent laws regarding frozen food.
32:48 Tracy V. Wilson? For sure.
32:48 Holly Frey? And food safety. Uh, he was doing it in part for marketability because prior to that, there was a lot of gross stuff getting frozen and packaged for sale that when people thought it out, were like, what is this?
33:01 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
33:02 Holly Frey? And he was trying to rehab the image, but also that did benefit a lot of people.
33:06 Tracy V. Wilson? Yeah.
33:06 Holly Frey? So, anyway, anyway, that's Clarence Birdseye and his, you know, foods and pets and the whaling is problem. Um, uh, we hope if this is your weekend coming up and you have time off, that you spend it eating whatever delights you the most and is nutritious for your body and hopefully puts a smile on your face. If it's not your weekend, I still hope you eat nutritious and delicious things. I hope also that everybody is kind to one another. We are in very stressful times and I feel like everybody is on an anxiety hair
33:47 Holly Frey? trigger. So, anything we can do to help ourselves and others is probably going to be a benefit. Uh, we will be right back here tomorrow with a classic episode and then on Monday with something brand new.
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