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1-800-Salter House · 1-800-1800

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello?
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  SPEAKER_00: You've reached 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a burning question.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have a burning question.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, hi.
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  SPEAKER_02: Thank you, Carson and Sandeep, for having us.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is literally a dream come true.
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  SPEAKER_02: I kid you not.
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  SPEAKER_02: And my name is Mabel.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'm Madeline.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we are recording this, so please do not heckle us.
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  SPEAKER_01: But laugh really loud.
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  SPEAKER_02: And gasp.
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  SPEAKER_02: And get ready to use your imaginations because we have no visuals and we're talking
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  SPEAKER_02: about a book, so, you know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Prepare yourselves.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Madeline and I founded Mandylion Press a couple of years ago.
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  SPEAKER_02: We published books from the long 19th century that are mostly written by women.
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  SPEAKER_02: Some weird men, we've done two of those, may never do that again.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our worst sellers.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you know, men deserve a chance sometimes.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we find these novels that have been forgotten on the side of the highway of history.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we bring them back with new introductions and visual research and design.
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  SPEAKER_02: And they're on sale, I believe, tonight.
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  SPEAKER_02: They're on display behind us.
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  SPEAKER_02: And we also have a trophy case of mandylion ephemera behind you when you're ready.
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  SPEAKER_02: And it's just great to have an opportunity to put all
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  SPEAKER_02: the stuff we've been hoarding somewhere nice.
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  SPEAKER_02: So thank you.
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  SPEAKER_02: OK, so we also have a podcast.
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  SPEAKER_01: We do.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're on it right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: You're on it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our podcast is called 1-800-1800.
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  SPEAKER_01: And normally, we talk about a random year of the 19th century.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tonight, we're going to do it a little different.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we've done episodes where we organized around a building, an artwork, a book.
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  SPEAKER_01: And tonight,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're going to organize it around one of our own new books,
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  SPEAKER_01: The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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  SPEAKER_01: Published in 1877 and then again last week.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you love it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I love it too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do you want to do something we learned this week?
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  SPEAKER_01: I do want to do something I learned this week.
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  SPEAKER_02: We always start off our podcast episodes with something we learned this week.
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  SPEAKER_02: Those of you who have listened and done your homework know that.
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  SPEAKER_02: So when thinking about what I wanted to learn this week and what I learned,
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  SPEAKER_02: obviously I was thinking, okay, we're going to be in Salter House.
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  SPEAKER_02: What does that make you think of?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to engage the audience because Madeline told me not to do crowd work.
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  SPEAKER_02: I said, limit it.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right.
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  SPEAKER_02: One, two, three.
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  SPEAKER_02: Say what you think of.
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  SPEAKER_02: All right, someone say something.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nightgown.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nightgown.
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  SPEAKER_02: Busy, thank you.
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  SPEAKER_02: OK, so I was like, what?
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  SPEAKER_02: She's actually not an audience plant.
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  SPEAKER_02: She's just real.
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  SPEAKER_02: OK, so I was like, what's up with nightgowns?
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  SPEAKER_02: I looked it up.
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  SPEAKER_02: The term was first used in 1530.
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  SPEAKER_02: That one.
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  SPEAKER_02: By a French linguist.
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't really get in.
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  SPEAKER_02: A French linguist?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: He translated the term slope, S-L-O-P-P-E, into English as night gun.
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  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Is that like sloppy?
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  SPEAKER_02: I think maybe.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Etymologically speaking, perhaps.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then I was like, okay, why 1530?
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  SPEAKER_02: Turns out there wasn't really designated sleepwear until the 16th century.
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  SPEAKER_02: Before that, scholars believe people mostly slept naked with only hats on.
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  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know why you guys aren't currently selling nightcaps, Carson and Sandy.
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  SPEAKER_02: But we should work on that.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then I was like, OK, but the thing with that is that it was also cold back then.
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  SPEAKER_02: So how did this work?
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  SPEAKER_02: And it was harder to heat things up.
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  SPEAKER_02: So I'm just like, how does this all work?
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  SPEAKER_02: So then I was looking into people's sleeping arrangements.
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  SPEAKER_02: Come on in.
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  SPEAKER_02: No, you're perfect.
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  SPEAKER_02: So then I was learning about the box bed.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're familiar?
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: But for those who might not be,
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  SPEAKER_02: and I didn't totally understand this,
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  SPEAKER_02: but like people used to sleep often in bed that had walls and a ceiling.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we just reread Wuthering Heights.
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  SPEAKER_02: Exactly what I was going to say.
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  SPEAKER_01: A huge thought point.
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  SPEAKER_02: Exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: At the beginning of Wuthering Heights,
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  SPEAKER_02: the narrator is like in the box bed that little Kathy used to sleep in.
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  SPEAKER_02: And has like carved her dreams.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: But apparently, yeah,
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  SPEAKER_02: box beds were a big thing in the Middle Ages and people were sleeping in them until
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  SPEAKER_02: the 19th century.
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  SPEAKER_02: But they could also be dangerous because obviously locking yourself in a box to sleep.
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  SPEAKER_02: You're like hot boxing night time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.