Famous with Cate and Liz

This week, Cate and Liz are back after a break to round out their series on Famous Disasters. Cate provides one of her famous mashups with updates on the some recent current environmental disasters and a look back at some historic disasters including "The Year with No Summer" in Indonesia, the "Carrington event" in Great Britain, the "Year of the Locust" in the middle United States, and "Tunguska Event" in Russia.

This week the ladies continue their series on Famous Disasters with Liz covering the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Learn about the drunken captain at fault, the  devastating environmental and economic effects of the oil spill on Alaska's Prince William Sound, and the audacity and greed of Exxon.

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This week, Cate and Liz begin a new series on Famous Disasters! They start with the Great Smog of London in 1952. When a rare weather pattern forced fog to mix with coal soot from London's buildings and vehicles it created a deadly smog that latest for five days and claimed thousands of lives. The impact of the disaster wasn't known immediately and eventually led to changes in legislation. 

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For their first episode in the new year, Cate and Liz kick off 2023 sharing some famous firsts! Some are historic, some are dark, some are gross and some might be considered obscene. All are obscure facts you need to know.

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This week art and activism collide as the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Artists with Cate reporting on the Guerrilla Girls and the recent attacks on well known masterpieces by advocates for the environment fighting against climate change.

Cate and Liz are off for the holidays and will return in 2023!

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This week the ladies continue to celebrate famous artists with Liz covering the eccentric pop artist Andy Warhol. Known for his influence on pop culture, crafting celebrity portraits, and using American brands in his art, Warhol left his mark on society and inspired countless other artists in his short life.

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This week Cate and Liz kick off a new series on Famous Artists by covering one of the most popular visual artists alive today, Yayoi Kusama. This 93 year old Japanese contemporary artist has overcome personal trauma, lives by choice in a hospital for the mentally ill, and is known for her colorful and often polka dotted exhibits that have made a recent re-emergence thanks to Instagram.

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This week, the ladies wrap up their series  on Famous Moral Panics on Cate doing a mash up on cases of mass hysteria. Highlights include a dancing panic, nuns that meow and bite, and Orson Welles famous War of the Worlds hoax.

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This week, the ladies continue to induce panic as Liz covers The Red Scare. Highlights include McCarthyism, Herbert Hoover, Hollywood black lists and rants about how this is all too close to what is happening in the U.S. today.

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This week, Cate and Liz start a new series on Famous Moral Panics by examining the Satanic Panic that began in the 1980's and resulted in more than 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse. 

Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at [email protected].