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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Tuesday Mar 23, 2021
Comic readers across America were promised that for only $5 they could learn the ultimate fighting system, and the art of the death touch. That promise was made by Count Dante, one of the most colorful and controversial figures in martial arts history. Born John Keehan, Dante's life seems out of place in the real world, never mind his fabricated boasts.
Links!
- The Life and Death of the Deadliest Man Alive
- The Search for Count Dante
- Show and Tell: Count Dante, Deadliest Man Alive
- Contemporary NYT article on the Purlator Heist
- Bob Cooley's memoir: When Corruption Was King
- The Bizarre World of Fake Martial Arts
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 112 prompt is: What is your favorite film of the 1970s?
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Tuesday Mar 02, 2021
Happy Valencrimes Day! This year's topic observes the strictest traditions, so we're talking about a series of murders in 1800s Chicago. Thomas Neill Cream used his medical practice and willingness to help those in need to prey on the desperate and disadvantaged. But his true targets may not have been the people he poisoned, but the ones he attempted to blackmail by accusing them of the murders.
Links!
- Cream on Casebook.org
- CDC strychnine facts
- London, Ontario
- Fred Demara, the Great Impostor
- Mechanista in G – RX-75-4 Guntank
- Bizarre Podcast: Dogs Must Die
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 111 prompt is: Who is your favorite martial artist?
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
Tuesday Jan 19, 2021
In 1982, seven people in the greater Chicago area died from taking Tylenol capsules that had been filled with cyanide. No clear evidence was found pointing to a culprit, and no motive has been determined. What remains is a story of consumer safety, and how law enforcement acts when they have no leads.
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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 108 prompt is: Who is your favorite monk?
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Happy New Year! We're starting off 2020 by catching up on two centennials, the Molasses Flood and the Black Sox scandal of 1919. First, Alaina looks at the sudden death and long-term disruption of an industrial accident that covered a Boston neighborhood for months. Then, Grant tries to cut through the legends of the greatest scandal in baseball to find what we can really know, and what that means.
Links!
- The Fluid Dynamics of the Molasses Flood
- http://www.northendboston.com/
- Court Documents of the Black Sox trial
- Recovered newsreel footage of games 3 and 1
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Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
About fifty episodes ago Grant made an offhand comment about one of that topic's figures. Now, it's a full episode. Do not test him. The Pullman strike lasted for months, threatened all American commerce, and set precedents that have lasted over a century regarding government involvement in labor disputes. It all started because George Pullman's perfect town didn't consider the lives of the people in it.
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 86 prompt is: What is the last book you read?
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
We've mentioned our weekend trip to Milwaukee before, but now it's time to share all we learned! In this episode, Grant talks about the history of the places we went, and some of the history they taught us.
Links!
- Mars Cheese Castle
- Pabst Milwaukee Brewery and Taproom
- Pabst-ett Cheese radio commercial
- Milwaukee Public Museum
- Making of the Streets of Old Milwaukee
- Milwaukee Boat Line sightseeing tours
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 84 prompt is: What is your favorite thing that did not go as planned?
Tuesday May 14, 2019
Tuesday May 14, 2019
This week, Alaina follows through on her promise to talk about the history of ice cream. Or at least, the probable history of ice cream. It's a full hour of navigating shifting definitions, and weighing competing claims. And everything, eventually, comes close to home.
Links!
- Ice Cream: A Global History
- Contemporary sharbat recipe
- Sanders Candy
- "The Last Howard Johnson's in the Universe"
- "World's First Dairy Queen Gets Landmark Status"
- Garbage Day 2019: 24 hours of The FPlus, raising money for the SPLC
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 77 prompt is: What is your favorite mistake?
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
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 71 prompt is: What is your favorite band?
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
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 60 prompt is: Favorite spy!
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Tuesday Jul 31, 2018
Apolgies! Life caught up with us in a big way lately, and rather than skip this week entirely we put together a little surprise instead. This supplemental episode is a collection of bloopers, digressions, and other outtakes from almost the entire run of our show so far. Enjoy this collection of things we consider good enough to keep, even if they didn't quite fit in the episodes they were recorded for. Next week, the 7th of August, a regular episode will go up, and we'll resume our biweekly schedule from there.