How Bad Must Everything Have Smelled 250 Years Ago?

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**Dave Chang** (0:48)
Ever wonder what sex was like 250 years ago here in America? I have a feeling it was smelly, maybe scary, maybe awesome.
It's America's 250th birthday, and we're celebrating on The Dave Chang Show with spoon bread and some inappropriate dinner conversation.
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But it's all year long. So this is what we do. We celebrate July 4th, America's Independence Day, every day. And I've been thinking about what life was like 250 years ago. I watch the Netflix series, American...

**Chris Yang** (2:18)
The American Experiment.

**Dave Chang** (2:19)
American Experiment.
Tom Hanks Production Company created it. It's got a lot of politicians.
It's pretty awesome. It got me thinking what life would have been like, what food was like, and it led to this rabbit hole where I haven't really come out of quite yet. And clearly, there were fewer technologies to distract us.
There are no issues that we have today. They're different issues. A lot of issues. And like with anything else, well, we're talking about, I came in to work and I was like, guys, you gotta check out this series. We immediately started talking appropriately about sex.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:03)
Yeah, yeah, we did.

**Dave Chang** (3:05)
I'm gonna talk about it with Chris Yang, producer David, and in honor of the 250th birthday of America, I made some old-fashioned spoon bread, something that I'm pretty sure our forefathers and everyone that was here in America were eating, probably not in California, but corn, corn was...

**Chris Yang** (3:24)
We're eating beets and gochee salad here in California.

**Dave Chang** (3:28)
Figs on a plate. And then we're gonna invite some new friends to the counter to hear what they think about it all with some inappropriate dinner conversations. Again, I've been watching The American Experiment on Netflix.
Man, like I don't know if I'm older and I care about this more, or it's just more interesting, and I wonder how come it wasn't this interesting when I was a kid, learning this, we almost didn't win that war.

**Chris Yang** (3:55)
Oh, you mean just like learning about American history? Yeah. It's way more interesting now.

**Dave Chang** (3:58)
Way more interesting.

**Chris Yang** (4:00)
It might also just be a product. I feel like we're living a little bit of a cliche though, Dave, when you're like, I'm approaching middle-age, you know what's really interesting to me? History documentaries.

**Dave Chang** (4:08)
Yeah, I know. Jesus Christ.
It's pretty fascinating. I enjoyed it, but I didn't know, literally, the inner workings and the mindset of a lot of the people that created the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and it covers that. I couldn't stop thinking about how all these dudes were stuck in a room in Philadelphia in the middle of summer. Yeah. Two times over, Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
And they do mention it, like how hot it was. They were dressed in like all kinds of crazy stuff, right? The frilly shirts.

**Chris Yang** (4:51)
Yeah, no t-shirts and shorts.

**Dave Chang** (4:52)
Basically capri pants with stockings.

**Chris Yang** (4:56)
Wigs. Always hats.

**Dave Chang** (4:58)
Yeah.

**Chris Yang** (4:58)
Coats, overcoats.

**Dave Chang** (5:00)
There was no dressing down.

**Chris Yang** (5:03)
Yeah, it was probably, we would have passed out.