This is really the only podcast episode about America 250 you need to listen to this year. 

We're talking all about America, this totally weird wonderful place we're living in (that, much like a family, is kinda effed up but we are nevertheless tied to in wonder, frustration, appreciation, and codependency) , and the ladies of the Revolution that pretty much made it all happen. Quick reminder that women gave birth to 100% of the US population - and you'd think thank you ladies, that is MORE than enough, but no - wait until you hear about just how much they did.

Want to celebrate the 4th? Liking, following, rating, commenting, and sharing this podcast is a very righteous way to show your patriotism. 

Quick outline of this episode (lots of great links & info about the topics below the list):

• rejecting “real America” as a way to control and exclude 
• remembering Little Bighorn and following Native American news sources 
• putting the Constitution in context with 1776 population and slavery numbers 
• Mary Katherine Goddard printing the Declaration with the signers’ names 
• Mercy Otis Warren’s warnings about centralized power, courts, and missing rights 
• Penelope Barker and the Edenton Tea Party boycott as women’s political power 
• Phyllis Wheatley calling out liberty’s hypocrisy through poetry 
• Deborah Sampson, battlefield survival, and women in uniform 
• Oneida and Black patriot stories that complicate the founding myth 
• reclaiming the American Dream as freedom to build your own life 

The Battle of the Little Bighorn,
Narrated by an Indian Who Fought in It https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/twomoonslittlebighorn.html

Indigenous & Native American News Sources

ITC News
https://ictnews.org/
Indji Public Media
https://indijpublicmedia.org/
Native America Calling
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/
Turtle Talk
https://turtletalk.blog/
High Country News
https://www.hcn.org/
Last Real Indians Native News Desk
https://lastrealindians.com/

Minnesota Public Radio Native News: https://www.mprnews.org/native-news

On the US population density - groovy visualization maps: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/maps-extremes-us-population-density/

More than 45million Americans were born elsewhere - debunking immigration lies:  https://www.vera.org/news/debunking-the-lies-politicians-say-about-immigrants. Newsweek's cool article about 250 years of waves of immigration: https://www.newsweek.com/america-immigration-waves-250-years-of-arrivals-12113152

Founding a New Nation at the Expense of Enslaved People https://njsbf.org/2024/08/17/founding-a-new-nation-at-the-expense-of-enslaved-people/

Black Patriots of the American Revolution: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/10-facts-black-patriots-american-revolution

Baddies of the 1770s - Revolutionary Women:

Mary Katharine Goddard
https://www.nps.gov/articles/independence-goddard.htm

Mercy Otis Warren https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/mercy-otis-warren and her book History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution https://archive.org/details/historyofrisepro03warrrich

Edenton Tea Party https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/edenton-tea-party/

Deborah Sampson https://www.mass.gov/info-details/deborah-sampson-american-revolutionary-war-hero

Tyonajanegen https://www.amrevmuseum.org/virtualexhibits/meet-the-figures-oneida-nation-theater/pages/two-kettles-together-2  From the Daughters of the American Revolution: https://honoringourpatriots.dar.org/patriots/sarah-martin-tyonajanegen-two-kettles-together/

Phillis Wheatley https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley and https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/tracing-the-life-of-phillis-wheatley-peters/

Mammy Kate https://vanishinggeorgia.com/2024/05/14/mammy-kate-and-daddy-jack-forgotten-black-patriots/

Martin Women of 96 https://www.nps.gov/people/the-martin-women.htm

Here's a list of the music and sound effects we used - thank you artists for making cool stuff and sharing it:

Patriotic 
Music by Florews from Pixabay.
Positive Americana 
Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay
American Landscape
Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay
Dark Folk Americana
Music by Alana Jordan from Pixabay
Sweet Love Americana
Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay
Up With The Sun.   (Lovely violin)
Music by primalhousemusic from Pixabay
Star Spangled Banner PIANO
Music by Anastasia Chubarova from Pixabay

Rock Guitar Star Spangled Banner
Music by BLACKBOX from Pixabay

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We recorded this episode with a storm radar glowing beside us, true summertime style!

Join us as we joke our way through Michigan good-weather guilt and then pivot into a serious as in seriously thought-provoking new book that questions the political truths we’re taught to accept. 

Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale, pushes us to ask why representative democracy so often turns into oligarchy and what technology changes about power, voice, and responsibility. 

Here's the auto-generated highlights for those of you that dig a table of contents: 
• Michigan daylight guilt and how screens keep kids inside 
• Why weather is not small talk when it shapes daily life 
• Moving from care-centered society toward political truisms 
• Introducing Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos and its core claims 
• The argument that representative democracy trends toward oligarchy 
• How majority rule can erase the most vulnerable 
• Real-world examples of who gets to debate trans health care and women’s bodies 
• Fear, algorithms, and distraction versus climate and disaster realities 
• Heather Marsh’s background in programming, human rights, and open information work 

Liking, following, commenting, and sharing this podcast really helps our indie efforts and RESPELLS THE WORLD!

The Book(s): https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/binding-chaos/

See what others have said about "Binding Chaos":

https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/07e8305b-c1f8-4dd6-8d70-364d108d9f0c

https://www.loomio.com/blog/2014/04/15/heather-marsh-government-as-mass-collaboration/

Binding Chaos on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingchaos/

Envision This interview with Heather Marsh: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAt6sWE18Bk

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"Imagination is a memory moving both forward and backward in time."

- Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother

Now just imagine that both yesterday and tomorrow have the full show notes and not the autogenerated ones and you just so happened to visit on this day.    We're joking of course - the autogenerated notes are temporary - new ones will be updated soon. All the contact info is correct!

--------Autogen summary

The world can feel like it’s sliding into something colder and meaner, and we’ve both caught ourselves wondering why so many people seem numb to it. So we turn back to the last two chapters of The Great Cosmic Mother, where the authors name the end result of patriarchal religion and patriarchal power: a profane world stripped of spirit, where bodies and the Earth get treated like objects, markets demand endless consumption, and “meaning” gets replaced with control.

We talk through the chapter’s brutal clarity about addiction to artificial energy, the way systems train us to blame victims, and how power keeps itself alive by pitting us against each other. Then we step into the book’s answer: politics alone cannot carry us, and spirituality that ignores politics is just another escape hatch. What we actually need is a refusion of spirit and flesh, a return to the lived truth that we are connected, and a commitment to respell the stories that run our minds.

That’s where “witchy” stops being a costume and becomes a metaphor for reclaiming imagination. We connect the dots to modern capitalism, AI anxiety, and the tech-bro dream of mechanizing everything, then bring it back to what we can do right now: make something, sing with people, take a library craft class, build tiny pockets of real community, and let creativity become a form of resistance.

After you listen, tell us what story you’re ready to respell, then subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review so more magic children can find us.

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Mother’s Day and Memorial Day show up like clockwork, but the stories we tell about them are missing the peaceful roots. We go back to the nineteenth century to recover what got sanded down: Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation is not soft-focus nostalgia, it’s a direct anti-war demand for women to refuse a world that sends husbands home “reeking with carnage” and trains sons to injure other people’s sons.

From there, we follow the on-the-ground organizing that made “Mother’s Day” real before it became a greeting-card script. Anne Reeves Jarvis builds Mother’s Day work clubs to fight epidemics with sanitation and community care, then uses that same infrastructure to insist on reconciliation after the Civil War. We also track how peace activism collides with World War I, and how Mother’s Day messaging gets co-opted into a patriotic storyline that praises sacrifice while making dissent feel shameful.

We then connect the holiday arc to The Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sooj and Barbara Mor, which argues that patriarchy sustains itself through a perpetual state of war, backed by the global religion of money. 

Finally, we share the lesser-known origins of Memorial Day in Charleston, South Carolina, where freed Black communities honored Union dead with reburial, flowers, hymns, and a massive procession in 1865, an act of memory that looks a lot more like coming together than propaganda.

If this reframes how you think about American patriotism, the military-industrial complex, or the meaning of remembrance, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review. What part of this history hit you hardest?

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More info:

Mother's Day https://www.history.com/articles/mothers-day-peace-movement-origins
Memorial Day https://time.com/5836444/black-memorial-day/

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THE MOTHER’S DAY Music by Bomb Sound from Pixabay

National Anthem by Ievgen Poltavskyi from Pixabay

PATRIOT song Music by Florews from Pixabay

MoneyCha-Ching Sound Effect by u_byub5wd934 from Pixabay

Spirit of Victory Music by Hoà Huỳnh from Pixabay

Doom sound effect Sound Effect by MrDwarf92 from Pixabay

Civil War FanFare Sound Effect by Sergei Chetvertnykh from Pixabay

Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Music by LAURENT BUCZEK from Pixabay

John Brown's Body Music by Lisa van Beergen from Pixabay

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America loves the word “freedom,” so why do so many of us feel spiritually starved, politically cornered, and weirdly isolated from our own bodies? We pull a thread from The Great Cosmic Mother and it turns into a whole tapestry: patriarchal religion doesn’t just shape private belief, it builds the rules of the modern world. When the sacred gets split from the lived, you end up with what the book calls the American split, a culture that can offer abundance and ideology but not wholeness, ecstasy, or a shared vision worth living for.

We walk through the historical tension that still haunts US politics: Puritan Christianity feeding fundamentalism and Protestant capitalism, while many founders leaned Deist and helped birth secular humanism. That gap helps explain why “Judeo-Christian nation” rhetoric keeps resurfacing, and why people who aren’t religious still live inside religious structures. We also dig into the book’s critique of the all-male divine family, the virgin birth story, and how women’s unpaid labor, sexuality, and guilt get converted into fuel for institutions that claim to speak for God.

Then we hit the hardest link: control female reproduction and you can control the workforce. We talk capitalism, labor rights, reproductive autonomy, and what it means to live inside a machine that tries to turn humans into mechanisms. 

It's way more fun than it sounds, trust us. Press play and be sure to share the episode everywhere!

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Here's some stuff we talked about:

"One nation under god" - added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954:

https://www.history.com/articles/pledge-allegiance-under-god-schools

"In God We Trust" first appeared on U.S. coins in 1864 during the Civil War. It was added to paper currency much later, with the first bills entering circulation in 1957 following a 1955 law requiring it on all money. The phrase was added to reflect religious sentiment, with paper, and to distinguish the U.S. from "godless" communism during the Cold War:
https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1951-2000/The-legislation-placing-In-God-We-Trust-on-national-currency/

And here's Thomas Jefferson's Bible:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/jeffersonbible/#1

Paine’s Anti-Slavery Legacy:
https://thomaspaine.org/resources-essays/paines-anti-slavery-legacy/

Little background on the Comstock laws that affected women's access to reproductive information and birth control: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-anthony-comstocks-chastity-laws/

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We’re deep in The Great Cosmic Mother, landing in the final section on “Patriarchal Culture and Religion” where the dots connect fast: the split from Earth to sky, the invention of a distant father God, and the long campaign to make the body feel dirty, dangerous, and controllable. Something that affects each and every one of us, whether we attend church or not.

We talk through how The GCM tells us that patriarchy rewrote spiritual reality by ripping women out of the life giving narrative, turning birth and blood into shame, and replacing embodied joy with guilt, rules, and obedience. Along the way we connect the “God as Father” framework to virgin birth logic, modern purity culture, and today’s obsession with policing sex, reproduction, and LGBTQ lives. 

Then we follow the material trail: stored grain, property, money, cattle wealth, and the rise of standing armies. The episode links patriarchal religion to labor exploitation, class systems justified by original sin, and professional warfare that turns conquest into “holy” duty. We also get into the imperial tactic that still makes our stomachs drop, redirecting colonized men’s rage away from their conquerors and toward women, fueling misogyny as social control.

Subscribe so you don’t miss the next chapter, share the episode with a friend who can handle broads with big ideas, and leave a review. What part of this story do you recognize most in your own life right now?

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Wonder how you got trapped in the machine?  We've got all the answers for you. Using our book of the moment, The Great Cosmic Mother, we break down how ancient goddess-centered cultures that were so real and connected through birth, death, creativity, ecstacy, and the earth - got totally crushed and rewritten with a patriarchal influenced monotheistic jealous god. The change coincided with a rise in conquering, violence, and a focus on production - a desire to change humans into worker bots to feed the machine. We know this really happened because the book has so many receipts and well, it's a culture that we still live in. 

Some episode highlights:

• using haiku as a quick grounding tool when your justice sensitivity flares up
• rejecting the straight-line patriarchal colonial story of history and progress
• evidence for nonviolent settled life and priestess-led religion at Çatalhöyük 
• how modern work culture steals sleep, dreams, and inner life 
• how Christianity repackaged woman/goddess-related symbols, including menstrual blood
• we learn that it was a fig tree that Eve and Adam ate from and quickly decide we aren't changing the name of the podcast

Everybody write a haiku and send it to us. 

Work less, sleep more, write haikus. Read the book.

Notes:

Fun short vid with CGM reading:

https://www.tiktok.com/@universetrip/video/7503218453923269918

William Irwin Thompson. (Joanna reads a quote)

https://williamirwinthompsondotblog.wordpress.com/

Zoey - Reads the Great Cosmic Mother

https://open.spotify.com/show/54FiACeQTVyz2RDPpovjIQ?si=1955c55d59c348bc

Cassandra Faye Floyd reads The Great Cosmic Mother

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZRu9YEwhWPw?si=ZXTickIZwz-wAojn

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We cheese out enough with the whole biting an apple/biting knowledge analogy in this episode so we'll spare you here in the show notes. 

We are back for season two - starting the first in a 3 (or 4, we'll see) episode series where we read and discuss and tangent about The Great Cosmic Mother. The biggest feminist text you aren't carrying around in your handbag, but should. 

SK & JV discuss some major points, read some major quotes, and majorly go off the rails - this book is the hundred thousand crazy aunts that you needed when you were just a young lass. And we're cracking it open and telling you what we think so you can tell us what you think. 

Join us as we talk about waves of feminism, ecofeminism, and giving women a break because our history has been hidden from us and we have to do things like rip it away from the greedy mouths of wealth hoarding men that fear lady power.   

We talk about the valuable lessons in TGCM - particularly rejecting the patriarchal idea of linear progress and linear historical progression. We marvel that people used to work 15 hours a week before guys were like we need to monetize every dang thing.  

About the book: "The Great Cosmic Mother (1987) by Monica Sjöö and Barbara Mor is a foundational text in Goddess spirituality that explores ancient, pre-patriarchal matrifocal societies, exploring the Goddess as the supreme cosmic creator. It portrays the divine feminine as intrinsically connected to nature, the moon, and birth, positioning women as the original cultural innovators"

Here are a few links to much more thourough explanations of the waves of feminism:    A brief history of feminist waves
Kyra Krall  https://www.feministsinthecity.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-feminist-waves

What are the Four Waves of Feminism https://www.history.com/articles/feminism-four-waves

Zoey/superbflesh reading The Great Cosmic Mother https://open.spotify.com/show/54FiACeQTVyz2RDPpovjIQ?si=49a1e83f916c4a75

Cassandra Faye Floyd reading the Great Cosmic Mother https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLk-xEIV1H5EphymeVYoB56cBCu7aXvOiE&si=_4FE_HkR0BzUl6vF

Awesome review of GCM from GoodReads user Kathryn Green: My TL;DR: The gist of this book is pretty much the same as the themes and overarching plot of Mad Max Fury Road

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Time for a tweener episode! What's that you ask? Oh it's just the kind of episode gals make when they're closing out one season and setting up an even cooler second season, but need a sec to tell their audience about all that.  Tweener. Not to be confused with Tweezer. 

Quick Episode Outline:

• standing between seasons 

• why hidden knowledge and history matter when institutions fail 

• why isn't anyone saying patriarchy or misogyny after the Epstein files 

• how conspiracy culture gets weaponized to divide people from real options 

• season two format change from one book to plural books 

• upcoming reads including The Great Cosmic Mother and Binding Chaos 

• The Woman’s Bible as a runway for questioning what we call “natural” 

Disclaimer: Episode contains curses and casual mention of international elite criminal conspiracy. If you'd like to know more about that: https://sarahkendzior.com/2022/11/27/they-knew/

"You Can Just Say Patriarchy" essay:

https://jude-doyle.ghost.io/y/

How Epstein and QAnon blew up the justice system:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/if-youre-listening/how-epstein-and-qanon-blew-up-the-justice-system/106332824

Reddit thread and PDF of The Great Cosmic Mother:

https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/y7akcs/link_to_the_great_cosmic_mother_rediscovering_the/

Correction:  Cats weren't necessarily worshipped in Egypt, more like revered. Cat Reverence:

https://www.history.com/articles/cats-ancient-egypt

Binding Chaos PDF:

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/69357270/download-free-pdf-binding-chaos-by-heather-marsh

Binding Chaos series:

https://georgiebc.wordpress.com/binding-chaos/

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Oh it's been a minute but you'll be glad you listened to this episode. Yes there are podcast updates, yes there's a cool new eZine/book you have to get: The Biting All The Apples Holiday (and any day) Book of 19th Century Inspired Home Amusements & Creative Endeavors  here's the direct link if it's not showing up: https://payhip.com/b/75vhY

The holiday joy doesn't stop there.  We've got a short hype message for all of your holiday emotional and physical labor AND you'll find out that puritans really hated Christmas and Stanton wrote a revisionist history Christmas fantasy story for kids. 

We share holiday chaos, gratitude for invisible labor, and a warm update on what’s next. Stanton’s risky Women’s Bible, the suffrage split, and her fanciful Mayflower Christmas story spark a look at why mythmaking comforts and what truth demands.

• peak lady labor and real appreciation
• launch of our 49‑page Victorian amusements zine
• why wordplay and in‑person games matter
• teaser for the Blackwell family special
• Kathy Kern’s insights on Stanton’s reputational cost
• family edits that tried to repair Stanton’s legacy
• debunking “Christmas on the Mayflower” with primary sources
• Puritan opposition to Christmas 
• nostalgia, comfort myths, and honest memory
• our 2026 motto

Here's more information about the reality of the early settlers: https://voyagingthroughhistory.exeter.ac.uk/2020/12/18/christmas-on-the-mayflower/

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JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy To The World by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Wish You A merry Christmas
We Wish You a Merry Christmas by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org/

Away In A Manger by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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