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Mini: Watch Out! She’s A Maneater!
CW: Animal Violence both toward the animal and to the animal, death This page is from the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not people about the life and death of the Champawat Tiger. It has pictures of the actual tiger. This article is from India. It’s a really in depth look at the life of the…
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Episode 33: Merry Christmas: How We Celebrate from Then to Now
CW: rioting, blood Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. You might not know, but the symbols you associate with Christmas – whether you’re coming from a secular or religious background – have their roots in very different practices than how they’re being used now. In this episode, we’ll look at the history of how people…
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Episode 32: Krampus, BDSM King of Christmas (& Other Observances)
CW: Single line mentions of fascism and sexual assault, police brutality, hitting children with sticks (it’s literally Krampus’ whole job), animal sacrifice We’ll just start off right away with me correcting myself. I misremembered Dr. Jackson Crawford’s last name and called him Dr. Campbell. That’s entirely my fault for not double checking. So the video…
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Episode 31: Happy Early Chanukah: History from the Maccabees to Now
CW: war, death, Antisemitism I’ll start this off right away with a list of Jewish creators I would encourage you to go watch more from. They are the best to learn from as this is their culture: TikTok (these are ones I personally follow): @therealmelindastrauss , @sj_rachel , @lilyebert , @thewildamalia, @miriamezagui YouTube: This list…
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Episode 30: The Glitter Conspiracy
Glitter! It’s everywhere, and you can’t get rid of it, but if you’re on certain sides of social media, you might have heard in the last month or so that we’re running out of glitter! And apparently, the glitter companies are so secretive that they won’t even let people into their factories. There’s two main…
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Bonus: The Truth of the First Thanksgiving
CW: Death, Oppression, Enslavement Hey, folks! This week, we’re not doing a true episode due to some Thanksgiving travel by a few of us, so Remy is going to talk about the true history behind the first Thanksgiving. The myth of the first Thanksgiving is largely filled with inaccuracies, half-truths, or flat out lies, and…
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Episode 29: Who The F*ck Is Jack?
Stingy Jack. Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack and Jill. Jack o Lanterns… who the fuck is Jack? You’re in luck this episode. Jack has been burning in our minds, too, and we decided to get to the bottom of this mystery. Remy has painstakingly mapped out the origin of the Jacks… and found a relation…
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Episode 28: Ghosts of Jell-O Past
CW: War, Poverty This website very specifically talks about the boom in kitchen appliances in the 1930s, and there are tons of pictures of the appliances and the ads! This one more broadly talks about how kitchen appliances changed through the whole of the 20th century. This article walks you through the ways The Great…