Episode 59: The Real MedEELval Times

Famous eels: 1/ "Those are the shrieking eels. You don't believe me? Just wait. They always grow louder when they're about to feed on human flesh." (Name that movie.) 2/ Mark Oliver Everett 3/ Medieval eel rents! The medieval church, famously, had a lot of restrictions on what people could eat and when—during Lent, on Fridays, and other fast days as well. Join Em and Jesse as they discuss some of the ways people got around these laws, including...eels! Medieval people LOVED eels. You could pay your rent in them. You could eat them. You could...well, that might be a list of all the things you could do with eels, but they were certainly beloved.