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Episode 39: American Messiahs: Movers & Shakers pt 2
CW: Racism, Slavery Sometimes God reaches out and shakes a person, telling them, “How about we knock off being evil for a while?” Granted, God lives in the back of their mind, but hey! It happens! And sometimes, in weird ways. And sometimes, you get extremely popular cabinets and brooms out of it. This is…
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Episode 38: American Messiahs: Movers & Shakers pt 1
CW: Miscarriage, Abandonment Sometimes God reaches out and shakes a person, telling them, “How about we knock off being evil for a while?” Granted, God lives in the back of their mind, but hey! It happens! And sometimes, in weird ways. And sometimes, you get extremely popular cabinets and brooms out of it. In this…
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Episode 37: American Messiahs: The Public Universal Friend
CW: religious talk, cult talk, persecution, police To start, here’s an article about how cults made America. This goes over not only the pilgrims but also The Public Universal Friend and some other early US cult leaders. In this episode, we talked about The Second Great Awakening and the rise of the revival movement in…
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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…