This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rudy Kurniawan, a world famous wine connoisseur, collector, seller...and total fraudster. In 2012 when the Federal Bureau of Investigations raided Kurniawan’s Arcadia, California home, they found the place littered with empty wine bottles, detached labels, corking tools, wax for sealing bottles, and extensive wine tasting notes. It would appear that Kurniawan was mixing cheaper wines, studying his tasting notes to blend the tastes as seamlessly as possible, and then putting them in bottles with expensive labels and passing them off as rare, vintage wines. Kurniawan would become the first person in the United States to be tried and convicted of wine fraud. 

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Rodney King, a twenty-five-year-old Black man who was captured on video camera on March 3, 1991 as he was being beaten viciously by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. The review would find that he had been struck over fifty times with a baton leaving him with fractures to the skull, a broken leg and teeth, bruises, lacerations to the face, a burn wound on his chest from a stun gun, and permanent brain damage. The officers were charged with assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force and, after a three-month long trial, a nearly all-white jury acquitted the officers. This verdict directly correlated with the start of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and reiterated the racial tension, misconduct, and police brutality many had experienced at the hands of the LAPD.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Benedict Arnold, the OG traitor, who was a major general of the American Continental Army during the Revolutionary War...all before selling out and switching sides to join the British Army. And this wasn’t any old betrayal; Arnold had been given command of West Point under George Washington (who trusted him completely) and then, when his plans to surrender West Point to the British were foiled, he fled to British lines and would end up leading their army against the country that he had just betrayed.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing that infamous 1967 Bigfoot film. Five decades later and - despite all the analysis and scrutiny that the film has received - it still, to this day, has never officially been debunked. And it really was that film that ingrained Bigfoot in American folklore.

Stay tuned as we talk about a brief History of Bigfoot, that infamous film, the hoaxes and conspiracies, and the possibility of this thing being real.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Mary Mallon - more infamously known as Typhoid Mary (or, as she has also been called, “The Most Dangerous Woman in America”) - who was the first person in the United States to be identified as an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. By the time it was discovered that she was a carrier of the disease, she had spread typhoid fever to over fifty people; three of which would die of the disease. Even after she was arrested for being a public health threat, she continued to work in the service industry continuing to expose unknowing people to the disease. She would eventually be physically forced to quarantine, living nearly thirty years of her life in isolation before she would die.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing the weird and wondrous World War II tactical deception that was Operation Mincemeat. This was a 1943 British deception operation in which the corpse of a deceased British homeless man (dressed as an officer of the Royal Marines and carrying fabricated correspondence about fictitious military plans to invade Sicily) was purposefully planted in Nazi-friendly Southern Spain in order to convince the Nazis of an impending British invasion and throw them off the track of the true plans for British troops. This story is wild!

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

- Rachel and Leah

We are SO EXCITED to announce that, in honor of the Two Year Anniversary of the Hashtag History podcast, we will be hosting our first ever LIVE show via ZOOM! It will take place on Saturday, July 24th at 4:00 PM PST. 

We will have a LIVE cocktail segment that all registered attendees can participate in, lots of raffles and prizes and giveaways, AND a handful of special guests that will join us in telling stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption from the 1920s.

Registration will open next Wednesday, June 23rd. Head over to our website at www.hashtaghistory-pod.com to sign up then!

From the bottom of our hearts, we cannot thank you all enough for all of the love and support you have shown us over the past two years. This event is to celebrate YOU and to thank YOU for all that you have done to make the Hashtag History podcast what it is today. 

We cannot wait to see you all there!

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This week on Hashtag History, we are so honored and so excited to have the amazing Alicia Gutierrez-Romine on the podcast! Alicia is an author, historian, and professor that recently published her book titled "From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969".

In this episode, we get to ask Alicia all of the questions about the history of criminal abortions. This conversation included how eugenics and California's movie industry played a role in abortion history, the disparity between white women and women of color in the abortion space, common misconceptions about abortions and the women seeking them, and the current state of abortions here in America.

We highly recommend checking out Alicia's book at www.nebraskapress.unl.edu or www.amazon.com.

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Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store!

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- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Gouverneur Morris who - in addition to being the Forgotten Founding Father - was also maybe the weirdest, wildest, and (dare I say it?) freakiest Founding Father of them all. This guy liked to have sex in public (one of those public places being the Louvre), he had a peg leg which was maybe from a carriage accident but also maybe from when he jumped from a balcony to escape from a mistress’ husband, he got married for the first time when he was 57 years old to his housekeeper (who had previously been accused of killing her newborn baby), AND he would eventually die when he attempted to perform surgery on his own penis by using a whale bone to unblock his urethra...but would end up giving himself a fatal injury.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Lee Miller. Miller was a model and photographer, most well-known for being a war correspondent for Vogue during World War II, capturing over 60,000 images (images that many of the male photographers wouldn’t dare to take of the liberated concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. But most iconic of all was when, on April 30, 1945, while Adolf Hitler was committing suicide in a bunker in Berlin, Lee Miller got into his apartment in Munich, took of her muddy, military boots and posed in Hitler’s bathtub for one of the best pictures I have ever seen.

Despite all of these accomplishments (and many more that we will be discussing in this week’s episode), Miller wasn’t very well known until after her death. In fact, her own son was unaware of all of her accomplishments until after she passed away and he discovered the 60,000+ images in her attic.

Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.

Citations for all sources can be located on our website at HashtagHistory-Pod.com.

You can also check out our website for super cute merch!

Finally, you can locate us on Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

- Rachel and Leah