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A podcast where a married couple teaches each other about cool stuff in the past.
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
Tuesday Jun 11, 2019
It's our third anniversary episode, which means scenic islands and shipwrecks. Well, instead of a ship it's an escape raft made from raincoats, and concrete cell blocks aren't particularly scenic. That's right, this episode is about the setting of Sean Connery's classic The Rock: Alcatraz Island.
Links!
- Alcrataz Island, National Park Service
- Children Who Grew Up on Alcatraz Recount Life on Prison Island
- National Geographic Alcatraz Breakout New Evidence
- Comparison of the three (alleged) escapees and their dummy heads
- The Alcatraz Proclamation
- Breaking Mayberry episode 39: No Gods, No Masters, No Choir Directors!
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 79 prompt is: What is your favorite robot?
Tuesday May 28, 2019
Tuesday May 28, 2019
In this episode, Grant tells a familiar story from a less-popular angle. Venezuelan oil interests, for-profit media, and a right-wing coalition launched a coup against the early years of Hugo Chavez' presidency. It also had all the hallmarks of 21st Century American Imperialism, but with a veneer of deniability. Who planted the seeds of today's unrest? How can you see true intent through rhetoric? Why hasn't Elliott Abrams been tried for war crimes?
Links!
- Text of the 1999 Constitution
- Al Jazeera mini-documentary on the events of 2002
- 50 Truths about Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution
- Venezuela coup linked to Bush team - The Guardian
- SEX ARCHIE
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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 Apr 30, 2019
Tuesday Apr 30, 2019
Grant wants us to get some culture, so he shines a light on the roots of theater in the West. Hrotsvitha was inspired to use the language of a playwright who lived a millennium before her to impart moral lessons to those who followed her. Hildegard of Bingen steered liturgical drama toward a form much more recognizable as theater, and invented a genre that would become dominant hundreds of years later.
Links
- Gandersheim Abbey
- The Plays of Roswitha (Translated by Christopher St John)
- International Society of Hildegard von Bingen Studies
- Digitized images of Scivias, Hildegard's first volume on her visions
- Ordo Virtutm
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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?
Fellowship 2nd Edition on Kickstarter
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?
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Monday Apr 01, 2019
Today, Grant is delivering an episode one day early to tackle our biggest topic yet: Everything. And from the dawn of time, to the dawn of man, to the nearly unbelievable events of recent years, we're touching on as much of it as we can. Realistically, it's impossible. Don't let that stop us! It's a very special episode. Share it with your friends!
Thank you for enjoying our first April Fools' episode. The calendar says this won't happen again for a good long time. We'll be back with our regularly scheduled reliable facts on the 16th.
Fellowship 2nd Edition on Kickstarter
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 74 prompt is: What is your favorite deadly disease?
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 26, 2019
Tuesday Feb 26, 2019
The early 1990s gave rise to many fads, trends, and subcultures. Riot Grrrl has been dismissed as just another of them, but had far greater ambitions and achieved far greater things. Motivation, inspiration, and cooperation led a group of activists to change the conversation, until the structures they railed against stepped in to change it back. What's the difference between having a message and controlling the narrative? Can the information we're giving you, filtered through the years, be trusted to make an accurate picture of an underground scene that was unfairly covered in the media? How can digital spaces replicate the conditions that fostered Riot Grrrl?
Links!
- Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution
- Girl Germs, a podcast about Bratmobile's first album, Pottymouth
- Don't Need You - The Herstory of Riot Grrrl
- Jigsaw
- The Riot Grrrl Collection
- Gallery of Zine covers
- Newsweek's infamous Riot Grrrl story
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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 29, 2019
Tuesday Jan 29, 2019
Grant turns his focus closer to biology, as we look at the history and the meaning of two lists of endangered species. What does the scope of the Endangered Species Act reveal about the national imagination when compared to its predecessors? How can listing turn to recovery? What can we claim to know about the status of biological life when a majority of creatures are not assessed?
Links!
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 70 prompt is: What is your favorite kidnapping, or kidnapper?