Episodes
Tuesday Dec 05, 2017
The Studio System
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 Nov 21, 2017
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
Tuesday Nov 21, 2017
Alaina's Disney series is back with an episode on the 4th and (so far) final theme park at Walt Disney World Resort: Disney's Animal Kingdom. Work began just after Hollywood Studios opened, and took 8 years and nearly a billion dollars to finish. Over a relatively short life this park has had it's own share of oddities and development, growing into one of the finest park experiences anywhere. Is the direct approach the best approach to make an attraction educational? Who really owns bones? Have we all been brainwashed by Happy Meals?
Links!
- March of the Animals/Artimals concepts and description
- McDonald's signage in Dinoland, USA
- Article on concepts and plans for Beastly Kingdom
- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
- Animal Kingdom: The First Adventure TV special
- Building a Thrill Ride: Expedition Everest
- McDonald's ad for the park opening and McRib
- LA Times article on the end of the 10-year promotion agreement
- Details on the condiment pipes in Dinosaur
- Sue the T-Rex on twitter
- Sue the T-Rex at the Feild Museum
- Pandora - The World of Avatar dedication
- Jammin' Jungle Parade photo gallery
- Article on the aesthetic design of Animal Kingdom
- Archive of old guidemaps
- Joe Rodhe's personal website
- Dragon and Goat: The Thyme Bandit on Kickstarter
- MadFuzz on Etsy
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 41 prompt is: favorite lawsuit!
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Tuesday Nov 07, 2017
Grant combines two of his running themes with an armed rebellion staged by an unusual Christian sect. The mid-1800s were a time of global upheaval, that in China manifested as the deadliest civil war of all time, hastening the end of the Imperial dynasties. Millions died in battle. Millions were executed by armies. Millions more died due to man-made famine. How thin is the line between a silly cult, a tragic disaster, and a new dynasty?
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 40 prompt is: favorite animal fact!
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Haunted Honeys - Indiana Spookums
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Tuesday Oct 24, 2017
Welcome back to our annual bone-chilling Halloween special! Alaina teaches us about graveyard traditions, haunted theaters, and the dark beginnings of farmersonly.com in the state of Indiana. Enjoy the season of spookums!
Links!
- Let There Be Light at Springdale Cemetery
- The Slippery Noodle Inn
- Rivoli Center for the Performing Arts
- The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
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 Oct 10, 2017
The Roswell UFO Incident
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Tuesday Oct 10, 2017
Grant starts October with a creepy topic. In 1947 a rancher thought he may have found pieces of a flying disk, and a military press release agreed. Over the decades to come this story blossomed into a wide-reaching global conspiracy with bodies, buried treasure, and the keys to every mystery since. How do legends develop? How does fact intersect with belief? Who names their child Trudy Truelove?
Links!
- Images of Roswell debris, and weather baloon demonstration
- Transcript of the Roswell Daily Record's July 8th story
- Compilation of stories run on the Roswell Incident based on the July 9th AP story
- Roswell Daily Record's July 9th story, including Brazel's description of the debris
- Air Force report on Project MOGUL
- NSA report on the Roswell Incident
- 1994 NY Times article on Project MOGUL theory
- Jesse Marcel: The Evolution of a Roswell Witness by Bruce Hutchinson
- Unsolved Mysteries covering Roswell; Unsolved Mysteries would often re-package popular segments, and I did not find a link for the original 1989 version.
- Alien Autopsy
- The Roswellian Syndrome: How Some UFO Myths Develop, by Joe Nickell and James McGaha
- Do You Want to Believe? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios
- International UFO Museum and Research Center
- 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 38 prompt is: share your spookums stories!
Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
The Prairie Avenue District
Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
Tuesday Sep 26, 2017
Alaina brings the show close to home. In fact, withing walking distance of our home! The Prairie Avenue District is a small part of Chicago's Near South Side neighborhood that was the hottest piece of real estate around at the end of the 19th century. We learn about the history of the neighborhood, some buildings that survive from the period, and some of the misadventures of their residents.
Links!
- Prairie District Neighborhood Alliance
- Glessner House Museum
- The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death
- The Harriet F. Rees House standing alone on the block
- Gextra Life video playlist; Donation page
- The FPlus Live 6
- Alcohollywood: Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Mokey on Instagram
- The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
- Toontown Public Works
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 37 prompt is: favorite alien!
Tuesday Sep 12, 2017
The Carnation Revolution
Tuesday Sep 12, 2017
Tuesday Sep 12, 2017
In 1974, Portugal's autocratic regime was overthrown by a nearly bloodless coup. Rather than descent into chaos or public executions, it was a revolution of steady transition to democracy and soldiers wearing flowers. Can democracy come from an undemocratic act? Who holds the responsibility in decolonization? Can you crack the song code?
Links!
- This Week report from May 2nd, 1974
- E Depois do Adeus performed at Eurovision 1974
- Grândola, Vila Morena
- April Captains
- Gextra Life 2017 donation page
- The Silent Scream of Melania Trump on Inkshares
- Littlest Pet Cast
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 36 prompt is: favorite historical house!
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
The Golden Age of Piracy
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
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 Aug 15, 2017
The Millerites
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Tuesday Aug 15, 2017
Grant takes us back to the 1800s to talk about the end of all things. William Miller believed he had concrete evidence that the end was nigh, and his friends built a movement that grew to reinterpret all kinds of orthodoxy. Despite their specific predictions having no clear result, the faith continues. Is the truest faith that which survives evidence to the contrary? What holds a community together, the good times or the tough? Can we be trusted to ever speak on this topic respectfully?
Links!
- Archives of The signs of the Times
- The 1843 and 1850 charts
- The Ellen G. White Estate
- Ellen and James White's graves
- The official site of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- Sunday School Dropouts on Daniel
- Ross and Carrie Await the End Times (Part 1): Amazing Facts Edition
- Gextra Life 2 donation page
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 pirate!
Tuesday Aug 01, 2017
The 1933 World's Fair
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!