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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Alaina brings us tales of high seas adventure! For an 80 year period, conditions were right for a wave of piracy. This era has been romanticized and fictionalized to the point it's synonymous with piracy itself. We also take a look at a few specific individuals from the time. Be sure to listen for the end for a followup discussion on an element from our 1933 World's Fair episode that's back in the news.
Links!
- Library of Congress resource guide
- Gextra Life 2017 donation page, promo video
- Ciaran's articles on The Agapemonite Messiahs, and Cheung Po Tsai and Ching Shih
- The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
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Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
In the depths of the Depression, and the shadow of an earlier event, Chicago staged the A Century of Progress International Exposition, better known as the 1933 World's Fair. Alaina takes us through an overview of the Fair's conception, some notable exhibits, and the surviving remains. How much success comes down to blind luck? How much should seeing babies cost? How do you solve a problem like Mussolini?
Links!
- Grant's video on the 1893 World's Fair
- 1934 Technicolor short on the Fair
- Pre-Opening brochure
- The Kodak brochure
- Map of the Fair
- Pictures from the "The World a Million Years Ago" exhibit
- Sinclair Oil's dinosaurs
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 32 prompt is: favorite prophecy!
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
Tuesday Jul 04, 2017
Alaina brings us back to her Disney series, talking about things you won't find there anymore. Is Walt Disney World a living time capsule? What obligation is there to the memories of past guests? Why are some species of birds treated so differently?
Links!
- Discovery Island: The Early Years
- Abandoned: Discovery Island
- A story on the Myst experience
- Shane Perez' exploration of Discovery Island
- Blastropodcast episode 25: Evolution Roadtrip
- The Rise and Fall of River Country
- Abandoned: River Country
- Fort Wilderness Railroad on Extinct Disney
- Adventurers' Club New Members' Induction Ceremony show
- Adventurers' Club FAQ
- Cancelled: Disney Quest
- Pop Century: The Legendary Years at World Abandoned
- 1971 promotional map, showing the planned locations of the Asian, Venetian, and Persian resorts
- Abandoned: The Magic Kingdom Resorts
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Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Tuesday Jun 06, 2017
Happy Anniversary honey bunches! We're going back to where our show began and hitting some of our favorite themes as Alaina teaches us about some famous shipwrecks of the Great Lakes! Each of these events has at least one folk song about them, too. How much history is lost on lakebeds? IF folk music preserves these stories, do musicians have a duty to the facts? Will anyone from Cleveland ever listen to our show again?
Links!
- Gale of 1913 – Dan Hall
- The Wheelsman – Dan Hall
- Sisters of the Storm – Dan Hall
- The Bright Port Austin Light – Dan Hall
- The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald – Gordon Lightfoot
- Mcsorley and the Lady of the Storm – Dan Hall
- Cooper of the Anderson – Dan Hall
- Great Lakes Shipwreck Musem
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary Map
- Through the eyes of Capt. Cooper: The night the Edmund Fitzgerald went down
- The Lost Fitzgerald Search Tapes
- danhall.com
- Us on Alcohollywood talking about Tekkonkinkreet
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Tuesday May 09, 2017
Tuesday May 09, 2017
It's part 3 of our Disney series. Disney-MGM Studios opened in 1989, dedicated to the art, craft, and magic of the movies. Today it has a new name and new focus. Alaina teaches us about how the park came to be and how it transitioned. How does creativity shine through a web of license agreements and legal challenges? If the working studios were so needed at the time, why weren't they sustainable? How important is a consistency of experience in planning a park?
Links!
- Opening map brochure
- The Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park Grand Opening TV Special
- The Making of Disney-MGM Studios TV Special
- Disneyland: Inside Story by Randy Bright
- One Little Spark!: Mickey's Ten Commandments and The Road to Imagineering by Marty Sklar
- Waking Sleeping Beauty trailer
- The Making of The Great Movie Ride
- Blog post on MGM Grand Adventures Theme Park in Las Vegas
- Blog post on filming locations for Thunder in Paradise
- Doug Live!
- Description of, and production art from, My Peoples
- Back to Never Land
- The Making of the Tower of Terror TV Special
- Osborne Family Spectacle of Dancing Lights
- Blog post on the various museum and museum-like features of Disney's Hollywood Studios
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
Tuesday Apr 11, 2017
In 1899 two newspaper giants were fighting for control of the New York readership, and tried to squeeze their distributors for an extra advantage. Those distributors were self-employed child laborers, who organized themselves and halted the entire distribution system until their demands were met. This drama, a nearly forgotten footnote in US labor history, was dramatized in a commercial flop of a film, and re-dramatized in a successful Broadway musical. Can a success set a precedent if it's forgotten? Does an adaptation have a duty to be accurate; and what if the facts are lost? How can an unpopular work become more sucessful after being changed for the worse?
Links!
- Newsies (1992)
- Newsies the Musical
- Artemisia Gentileschi, Renaissance Painter, by listener Ciaran
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
- Warcraft on Alcohollywood
- Mouse Guard by Six Feats Under
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017
Tuesday Mar 14, 2017
In his short life, Jim Henson re-invented an art form, taught millions to read, and entertained the world. His life, career, and philosophy were even broader than that. Why does a work's intended audience devalue its creativity? How do you escape your image to break new ground? How would you make a children's show to end war? Happy Birthday, Alaina!
Links!
- Pierre the Rat
- Sam & Friends: News Skit, Old Black Magic
- Wilkins Coffee commercial sampler
- Tales of the Tinkerdee pilot
- Land of Tinkerdee clip
- Purina Puppy Chow ads
- Rowlf on the Jimmy Dean Show
- Time Piece clip, behind the scenes
- The Cube
- Run, Run; Wheels That Go; Ripples
- Tale of Sand
- Rolling Ball Number 3; Queen of Six
- The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
- Tales from Muppetland: The Frog Prince
- Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas
- Brian Froud's website
- Muppet*Vision 3D
- Jim Henson on Arsenio Hall
- Jim Henson's Memorial Service
- The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
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 23 prompt is: favorite painting!
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Tuesday Feb 14, 2017
Happy Valentine's Day! In this holiday special, Alaina talks about the most romantic thing she knows: gruesome murder. How are movie gangsters different from the real guys? Why can't rival operations just get along? Who actually did the dang thing, anyway?
Links:
- Historical image of the site
- The Mob Museum
- Our Sexual History episode #4: A Short History of Syphilis, featuring listener Ciaran! Bonus episode on the Tuskeegee Experiment
- Alcohollywood presents: Indiana Jones and the Monkey King, part 1
- The Breakfast Cult visual novel on Kickstarter; and the free alpha demo on itch.io
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Tuesday Jan 17, 2017
Alaina continues her Disney Parks series with an episode on Walt Disney World Resort's second gate: Epcot. Walt Disney's original idea for all that Florida land was a planned city so unique that the world would come to see how his people lived and worked. After his death, some of those ideas, and the name, were recycled to be a theme park that serves as a permanent World's Fair. Is high modernism the path to despotism? Even so, could it have worked? How can you hit a forever-moving target: the future? Who needs rides when you can visit 11 themed gift shops and drink?
Links!
- Epcot website
- Walt Disney's EPCOT film
- The Reedy Creek Improvement District
- Collections of concept art
- Epcot Center 1978 Preview Video; Featuring Card Walker
- Epcot dedication ceremony
- Opening Celebration TV Special
- Kitchen Kabaret
- Symbiosis
- Captain EO
- Abandoned - Journey Into Imagination
- Abandoned - Horizons
- Abandoned - Wonders of Life Pavilion
- The Making of Me
- Video comparison of Maelstrom and Frozen Ever After
- Epcot Festival of the Arts Trip report
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Tuesday Jan 03, 2017
Happy New Year! Our New Year's special has two topics for you. First, Grant takes us back to 1816, the Year Without a Summer, to tell the story behind the story of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. Next, Alaina pops into 1916 to share the foundations and highlights of Dada. How does a geological event on one small island shape all of Western culture? If art is created by war, can art go to war?
Links!
- Frankensten; or, the Modern Prometheus at Project Gutenberg
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Chronology and Resource Site
- Villa Dilotati, where the group summered
- Fuseli’s The Nightmare
- The Cabaret Voltaire (website in French)
- Hugo Ball's Dada manifesto
- Tristan Tzara's Dada manifesto
- Duchamp's Fountain
- Ballet "Parade"
- http://www.chumba.com/
- Copy Kitty on Steam Early Access