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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Saturday Jun 19, 2021
Saturday Jun 19, 2021
In less than two weeks, Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway will reach a global streaming audience. A brand-new adaptation of a 30 year old novel from a 40 year old franchise with a reputation for dense lore can be an intimidating, so we're here to get through what you'll probably want to know before watching. No promises though.
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
Happy anniversary! To celebrate a year of trapped travel, we're covering a place we've both been in the before times, and fulfilling one of our top listener requests to boot. Medieval Times Dinner Tournament is famous for its pick-and-choose approach to historical "accuracy", and that one Jim Carrey movie. Let's see what experience we can share from its website, and what insights we glean from the reviews.
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 Jan 05, 2021
Tuesday Jan 05, 2021
Welcome to 2021! We bring in the year with the 900th anniversary of a shipwreck that threw England into chaos, and the 200th anniversary of a piece of culinary folk history. The White Ship sank, and people of every social station drowned the same. Tomatoes came to New Jersey through the same unexciting means as any crop, but a striking story will kep alive regardless.
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Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
Tuesday Dec 22, 2020
We close 2020 with one last episode on Fordlandia, a failed experiment in both rubber production and social control.
Links!
- Fordlandia collection from the Henry ford museum
- The Guardain's Fordlandia story from the Lost Cities project
- Michael Palin exploring the remaining structures
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 107 prompt is: What is your favorite thing that happened in 2020?
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
On this episode Grant takes us back 100 years to a fatal robbery at a shoe factory, and the legacy of the men who had the crime pinned on them. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti came to America searching for prosperity, and found the brutality of exploitation and prejudice. The greatest weight of which fell on them when they were executed by a justice system bent on quashing an ideology, rather than seeking either justice or truth.
Links!
- The writings of Luigi Galleani
- "We Submit", from the Boston Herald; October 26th, 1926
- "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti", Atlantic Monthly, March 1927
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.
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
In this episode Grant teaches us about the Benin Bronzes, thousands of exquisite pieces of art that are not made of bronze, and not in Benin. And to talk about this specific crime of colonialism, we have to talk about the empire it came from, and the shifting dynamic between Europe and the world as capitalism and white supremacy developed side-by-side.
Links!
- Imperial Looting and the Case of Benin
- 7 Museums that Hold over 2000 of the Benin Bronzes
- This Art Was Looted 123 Years Ago. Will It Ever Be Returned?
- Coronation of Oba Ewuare II
- Last Shooting on Itch.io and on DriveThruRPG
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.
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Happy milestone day! It's been four years and we made it to three digits. To celebrate, Grant went back over every previous topic to find one more fact we didn't include last time. Thanks for joining us for this very special occasion!
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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 101 prompt is: What is your favorite food mascot?
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
In the 1980s America's health infrastructure failed to adequately respond to an epidemic, which showed in greater contrast failures across society. This week, Grant is teaching us about one group's commitment to correct that failure through civil disobedience. By prioritizing disruption over image, and relentlessly claiming the moral high ground, AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power drastically improved the lives of people living with HIV and reduced its spread.
Links!
- ACT UP NY
- The ACT UP Historical Archive
- June 5, 1981 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on Pneumocystis Pneumonia, the first published report on what would be named AIDS
- Larry Kramer 1982 Interview On AIDS with NBC News
- Don Francis' Frontline interview
- 1,112 and Counting
- Gran Fury
- Six Feats Under's Monsterhearts 2 campaign
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 99 prompt is: Share a recipe!
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Happy St. Patrick's Day! Grant is celebrating by looking back at sainthood itself. The western church has been honoring holy figures since its earliest days, a practice that developed into a relatively new bureaucratic system.
Links!
- The Complete Roman Martyrology in English
- Acta Sanctorum, full digital database
- Congregation for the Causes of Saints
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 97 prompt is: What is your favorite old movie?