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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Tuesday Apr 16, 2019
Alaina's gotten inspiration through immunization. Today we're talking about three potentially deadly diseases whose vaccines come in a convenient combo. Why were those dog teams so desperate to move their serum? Do you owe your health to a team of women in Michigan? So the rust DOESN'T matter in itself?
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Please help our show succeed by sharing it. Send a link to someone you know and tell them what you enjoy about History Honeys. Rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, or whatever other platform you use to hear us. It helps so very much and we do appreciate it. You can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or by emailing us at historyhoneyspodcast at gmail. The episode 75 prompt is: Who is your favorite playwright?
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Tuesday Mar 19, 2019
Alaina is back after a birthday break to teach us the history behind something you're probably familiar with: Reading Rainbow. Over 21 seasons LeVar Burton and dozens of guests shared a love of reading with children inside their homes. Now a beloved memory, some people are trying to continue that mission in new media. How can innocuous-sounding parts of legislation have out-sized effects? What good is having a skill without a passion for using it? What effects does having a better-read society produce?
Links!
- Reading Rainbow
- LeVar Burton Kids
- Book Industry Study Group
- Tight Times
- Sex Archie Bonus 12: Heathers
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Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
They thought they were peerless. They thought they planned the perfect crime. Lots of twenty-year-olds overestimate themselves. Alaina tells the story of Leopold and Loeb, two University of Chicago students who decided to kill for fun. Is a drive for fame compatible with a drive for being unfindable? When will America deal with the moral epidemic of rich young men? Why do we keep going back to that lagoon?
Links!
- Castle Farms, Loeb's family's previous land
- Bobby Franks' home
- Bobby Franks' grave
- Church of the Brethren article on Leopold
- Clarence Darrow's final address to the court
- Old Joliet Prison Historical Site
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Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Tuesday Jan 15, 2019
Vacation is over, and Alaina takes us back to the land of cubicles and time sheets. There are secret origins, intrigue, and controversy inside every supply closet and catalog. How does an idea go from a novelty to a necessity? Is credit more important than royalties? Who is responsible for paper clips?
Please help our show succeed by sharing it. Send a link to someone you know and tell them what you enjoy about History Honeys. Rate and review us on iTunes, Stitcher, or whatever other platform you use to hear us. It helps so very much and we do appreciate it. You can connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or by emailing us at historyhoneyspodcast at gmail. The episode 69 prompt is: What is your favorite extinct creature?
Tuesday Dec 04, 2018
Tuesday Dec 04, 2018
The Dionne Quints were a miracle and a media sensation. Born to an already large family in Depression-era Ontario, their lives were on display for as long as interest continued. Alaina leads us through their lives and asks "who benefits?".
Links!
- Dionne Quints Heritage Board
- 1935 news story on the Guardianship Act
- Pictures of the ads, crowds, and tourist traps that grew up around the children
- Five of a Kind (1938)
- Million Dollar Babies, Part 1
- The Dionne Quintuplets At Callander, Ontario (1936)
- Dionne Quintuplets - Day At Home
- The Quins Are Growing Up (1940)
- The Quins Listen To Princess Elizabeth (1940)
- Seventh Birthday Newsreel
- Quins In Public (1940-1949)
- Dionne quintuplets graduate from High School 1952
- Newsreel on Emilie's death
- OneFeinCat's Extra Life donor page!
- The Strange Case of Dr. Couney
- Fighting in the Age of Loneliness
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Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
Tuesday Oct 30, 2018
The night grows long, but far away is a place where the sun stays in the sky for six months at a time, drawing lazy circles and never crossing the horizon. Such a place could drive one mad. We talk about disasters, suspicious deaths, and a waterfall of blood in our annual Haunted Honeys episode. This year, Alaina takes us on ice.
Links!
- Mashable article on the Terra Nova expidition
- 360-degree images of Scott's Hut
- The Ship of Ice, by Rosemary Dobson
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Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
Tuesday Oct 02, 2018
In the 1980s a plague struck America, and because of who it hit hardest, America was happy to let it run its course and let them die. The arts are how we make sense of that, and point toward what comes next. Alaina takes us through the conception and reception of Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, perhaps the most highly-regarded play of the 20th Century. We also learn more about the real person depicted in it, and share our personal connections to the work. Is it possible to separate the personal from the political, or the path of history from faith? Can a work revitalize its medium, or should credit go to the historical moment that produced it? Can something still be too long even if every part of it is brilliant?
Links!
- Angels in America
- HBO Miniseries
- Angels in America: The Complete Oral History
- Behind the Scenes on a Two-Play Day
- Avert.org
- New York Times review of the opera adaptation
- Vanity Fair article on Roy Cohn's mentorship of Donald Trump
- The Purple Pamphlet
- Gextra Life donation page
- Gextra Life YouTube playlist
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Tuesday Sep 04, 2018
Tuesday Sep 04, 2018
Alaina discusses a less-known Chicago disaster, but first provides some wide-ranging background. We cover the history of airships and the Zeppelin company up until one of their airships crashed through a skylight into a bank, on the first day it flew. It was the largest air crash to date, 18 years before the crash of the hindenberg was broadcast live. Why did anybody think this was a good idea?
Links!
- Chicagology archive on the Wingfoot Express
- The Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
- Pictures taken before its final launch
- Airships.net
- White City Amusement Park
- Gextra.Life
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Monday Aug 06, 2018
Monday Aug 06, 2018
Alaina picks up from where a recent episode left off, and continues the story of Disney's live-action productions through the 1960s. We spend our time following the lives and careers of recurring talent, as well as the films themselves and the trends they set. How many films did it take to pay for the enduring classics? How profitable does a star need to be to evade studio control? What size tennis shoes did the computer wear?
Links!
- A theater of children in Mouse masks
- Jimmie Dodd delivering a moral
- Adventure in Dairyland song
- Surviving footage of Rainbow Road to Oz
- Tommy Kirk in Mars Needs Women
- Babes in Toyland-style soldiers at 2017 Magic Kingdom Christmas parade
- Hayley Mills' juvenile Oscar, accepted by Annette Funicello on her behalf
- The Boys: The Sherman Brothers Story
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Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
Tuesday Jul 03, 2018
When you want to learn the best, the biggest, the most, there's one resource that stands above the rest. Alaina teaches us the origin and developmentof the Guinness World Records, with a look at the lives of the founders and some large-scale failed attempts. How do you balance accuracy, reliability, and responsibility? What drives people to be the best at something? Are all our episodes this sumer going to be about people who hate the Irish?
Links!
- Guinness World Records
- The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86
- Balloons cluttering Lake Erie
- Gif of the net realeasing the balloons over Celveland
- Balloons over Cleveland
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