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Episode 79: Snowmen: Pornographic Protests to Modern Traditions
This article touches on most of the things we talked about in this episode with some additional examples of snowman history thrown in as well! This is an article in list format that also touches on many things we talked about but adds some more examples that we didn’t talk about and aren’t in the…
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Episode 78: Bob & Turbo: Solving the Y2K Problem
This is a 9 minute long video about Y2K, a news broadcast about it. It really shows how scared people were of what they thought was going to happen. And an article actually explaining what it was and why it scared people. It’s about this time when we got distracted learning about the Y2K Czars!…
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Episode 76: Cuetlaxochitl: The Poinsettia Story
So let’s talk about the history of the cuetlaxochitl from its days as an important flower to the Mexica and other Indigenous Mexicans to the modern holiday plant. Every link tells you a little bit more about the history of this plant and why it is called what it’s called, the story behind it, how…
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Episode 75: Sacajawea: The One Who Did All The Work
Let’s start with the words from Rozina George from her article “Agaidika Perspective on Sacajawea.” This is an article from the Lemhi Shoshone about Sacajawea where it lays out all the things about Sacajawea that makes her Shoshone. Most sources say largely the same things about Sacajawea, unfortunately, and it’s because so much of what…
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Episode 74: Elviscerated: Coke Bottle Penis
Here in part 2 of our Elvis talk, we moved away from his marriage to Priscilla and talked about the other girls he spent time with, a lot of them young but some of them grown women. What did those women say, and what was Elvis like in the bedroom? We’re talking kinks, the portrayal…
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Episode 73: Elviscerated: The Live-In Lolita Issue
In part 1 of our two part Elvis talk, we are mostly going to explore his relationship with Priscilla and what’s going on in his head that impacts his decision to go after young teenage girls, among other things. When Elvis was in the army at 24, Priscilla was a 14 year old in ninth…
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Episode 72: Of Two Spirits
We’ve got a video for you today! This video is presented by Elton Naswood (Najajo), Ben Lucero Wolf (Kiowa), and Richard Eric Dearmore (Paiute) and they’re talking about Two Spirit people in our modern world. This link from the Human Rights Campaign talks about the history of Two Spirit identities and talks particularly about two…
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Episode 71: Unfamous Cryptid Club
This week we talked about cryptids that are lesser known (at least here in the US). First up, we learned about the Dobhar Chu, Ireland’s ‘hound of the deep’ if you’re taking the translation of the name close to literal. Some consider it Ireland’s Lock Ness Monster. Karen tells us all about it, but if…
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Episode 70: Playing the Triangle: Bridgewater
First, here’s an article going over a few points about King Phillip’s War. I briefly went through it during the opening of the episode as the context sets up why people think this area is so spooky in the first place. But, this was a real war with real death, so read at your own…