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The Children Yearn for the Mines

38 min · 6. mai 2026
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In this episode, Brittany gives Sydni a list of the most dangerous jobs throughout history and asks one very important question: “What age child should be doing this?” From coal miners and chimney sweeps to oil rig workers, lion tamers, and neurosurgeons, Sydni has to assign each profession an age between newborn and 12 years old. What starts as a dumb hypothetical quickly turns into a deeply concerning amount of toddlers working extremely dangerous jobs. Some answers make sense. Most of them absolutely do not. Along the way, we debate which jobs require “tiny hands,” which children have the emotional strength to become DMV workers, and whether a 7-year-old should legally be allowed near explosives. This episode is chaotic, historically questionable, and somehow gets darker the longer it goes on. Please do not let children operate heavy machinery.

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