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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Dec 05, 2017
Tuesday Dec 05, 2017
Hollywood's Golden Age was built on a particular set of conditions. Studios owned the entire chain of production, distribution, and exhibition; and what they couldn't own, they used their influence to control. The dream factory made miracles, but it had a terrible appetite. Why are B-movies emulated, when their original purpose was to provide cheap thrills and fill holes in the schedule? What is the real price of stardom? What happens when you make art, and sell it like hog feed?
Links!
- Supreme Court decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures Inc
- Hollywood Renegades Archive, a site anout the SIMPP
- HollywoodsGoldenAge.com
- Shush Ninjas Movie Montage; We Bare Bears
Please remember: Our next episode is in 4 weeks time, instead of the usual two. Thank you for understanding, and we'll see you in January!
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 42 prompt is: favorite thing in 2017!
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Tuesday May 23, 2017
Bolivia, just like most of the developing world, spent the end of the 20th century pursuing a neoliberal agenda to gain the benefits promised by wealthier nations. In 1999 that meant privatizing a city's water supply, and the people revolted. By mid-April 2000 the country's trajectory had changed. Why weren't Americans interested in the involvement of American interests? What is the path for improving the lives of Cochabamba residents? Is Tank Girl worth a rewatch?
Links!
- Leasing the Rain, PBS Frontline
- Timeline: Cochabamba Water Revolt
- ¡Cochabamba!: Water War in Bolivia by Oscar Olivera
- Jim Shultz's reports from Cochabamba
- "Leasing the Rain" by William Finnegan for the New Yorker
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 28 prompt is: favorite History Honeys episode!
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 Feb 28, 2017
Tuesday Feb 28, 2017
On Christmas Eve, 1913, in the city of Calumet, 73 people died in a panicked stampede, crushed under each other's weight in a narrow staircase. It remains the largest mass murder in Michigan history. But, this is only one episode inside a greater story about the fight for collective action. How much money is it worth to maintain power? Are wins counted in the short term, or the long term? Will Alaina get a puppy for her birthday?
Links!
- General Abbey's telegram to Governor Ferris
- Keewanau National Historical Park; Historic Resource Study
- Italian Hall Memorial Park
- Death's Door: The Truth Behind Michigan's Largest Mass Murder; by Steve Lehto
- Woody Guthrie - 1913 Massacre
- Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913
- Copper Country on Board Game Geek
- SEX ARCHIE (iTunes/Stitcher/RSS) twitter
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Tuesday Jan 31, 2017
Face front, True Believers! Grant takes us through the life and career of every nerd's grandpa, Stan Lee! From humble beginnings as a teenage office assistant, to luminary of the field, to midlife crisis, to global celebrity! His talent, bluster, and talent for bluster carried him through it all. Who deserves credit for a collaboration? Which characters were really being sold? What is the value of a figurehead that has no contact with the rest of the ship? Excelsior!
Links!
- Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee
- Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
- The Bullpen Bulletins Index
- Merry Marvel Marching Society record skit
- More on Funky Flashman
- Ads and press from A Marvel-ous Evening with Stan Lee, the Carnegie Hall event
- Footage of the Spider-Wedding
- Stan ripping on Liefeld and McFarlane
- Walk of Fame star
- The Stan Lee Foundation
- POW! Entertainment
- Mad Fuzz; Proceeds from purchases made before Februaey 11th will go to the ACLU. Please mention ACLU in the "notes to seller" area when ordering.
Tuesday Sep 13, 2016
Tuesday Sep 13, 2016
Grant takes a turn at Chicago tragedy with the Haymarket Affair. In May 1886 a bomb was thrown, igniting a shootout that killed over a dozen people and changed the fight for workers' rights forever. Can equality be gained in a system run by those who profit from inequality? Are the voices of the dead louder than those of the living? While we don't know who started the fight, can we even know who won in the end?
- The "Revenge!" circular
- The handbills announcing the rally
- Haymarket: The Anarchist's Songbook, reviewed by Ada Grey
- (formerly) on-site memorial, police memorial, Martyrs' memorial
- The Lucy Parsons Project
- Gextra Life donations page, stream archive