Laurel is back for episode three of season six! Join Kt and Laurel as they jump into the tumultuous era of McCarthyism, exploring the rise and fall of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy and the widespread fear of communism in America. Grab some snacks, libation of choice and join your favorite stoner history sisters in the Smoke Circle as we discover the impact of the Red Scare on American society, the Lavender Scare's hidden history, and the lessons we can learn from this period.

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Constitution and the Smithsonian Under Attack—

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/constitution-trump-congress-website-removed-b2804095.html

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/smithsonian-removes-trump-from-an-exhibits-impeachment-display-but-says-its-temporary

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-amplifies-attacks-on-out-of-control-smithsonian-museums-for-including-negative-parts-of-american-history

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5500550/smithsonian-trump-review

When McCarthy Defended Nazis—

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/senator-mccarthys-nazi-problem-180975174/ 

Episodes mentioned in the show—

The Night Witches Episode

The Lavender Scare Episode 

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Source Material and References:

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/research/online-documents/mccarthyism-red-scare

https://www.history.com/articles/joseph-mccarthy

https://www.britannica.com/event/McCarthyism

https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/censure/133Joseph_McCarthy.htm#:~:text=The%20select%20committee%20unanimously%20recommended,constitute%20a%20basis%20for%20censure.%22

https://www.historynet.com/fact-from-fiction-joseph-mccarthy-the-tail-gunner/

https://www.biography.com/political-figures/joseph-mccarthy

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/mccarthyism/

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It's time for Kt to take the wheel and talk about one of her lifelong favorite actors and pop culture icons--Norma Jeane Baker, better known to the world as Marilyn Monroe!

While frequently thought of as a bombshell and sex symbol, Marilyn was more than that--she was a cultural icon, a savvy self-creator, and a woman navigating fame in a world that frequently wanted to define her. In this episode, we explore Marilyn Monroe’s life from her early years as Norma Jeane to her meteoric rise in Hollywood, how she honed her craft as an actress, and the myths and mysteries that followed her through her life and well after her tragic and early death.

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Marilyn Monroe's Green Pucci Dress

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Source Material and References:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marilyn-Monroe

https://www.biography.com/actors/marilyn-monroe

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-was-the-real-marilyn-monroe-blonde-180980813/

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Welcome to season six! We're a bit late on kicking it all off so thank you for your patience!

In season six, we decided to change up our format and each of us will take an episode, instead of doing two stories per episode. We are also stretching our total number of episodes per season to 10 instead of 8 (5 episodes per sister.)
Laurel is starting things off for the season. She's fired up and tackling the erasure of history. The rewriting and erasure of historic events and peoples has been a tactic long used across history -- from ancient civilizations into the VERY present day. What does the erasure of history say about power and those who do it? What does this say about identity and how people remember their own history?...WHY WOULD GOVERNMENTS FEEL THE NEED TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE OF HISTORY AT ALL?

This season, Laurel will be continuing to highlight people and events from history that governments and administrations have tried to rewrite, reshape or completely pave over.

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Episode 64. The History of the Caribbean

Episode 66. The Jaguar and Eagle Warriors

Episode 70. The History of Sex Pt. 2

Episode 37. The Third Wave Social Experiment

Episode 91. The History of Witches

Episode 95. The History of American Protest Music

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Source Material and References:

(Some extra materials are shown in photo form during the podcast)

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Silencing the past: Power and the production of history Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1997. 

https://theconversation.com/operation-legacy-how-britain-covered-up-its-colonial-crimes-225330

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/reactions-icc-prosecutors-warrant-request-myanmar-military-leader-2024-11-27/

https://time.com/4994524/myanmar-rohingya-fortify-rights-genocide/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_genocide

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stari_Most

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/historical-journal/article/erasure-as-a-tool-of-nineteenthcentury-european-exploration-and-the-arctic-travels-of-tookoolito-and-ipiirvik/97567B6EB4C18C275C9EDC73DB46DD53#

https://time.com/5767893/national-archives-apology-womens-march-photo/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/07/trumps-climate-research-cuts-are-unpopular-even-with-republicans/

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Welcome to the finale of season five! In episode 102, we invite a long time friend of the Smoke Circle--Derek from History's Greatest Idiots! History is full of idiotic moments, ranging from little whoopsies to full blown, planet-altering fuck-ups. In today's episode, we talk an escaped Galapagos Tortoise, a dead pope put on trial and a pig who started a war. YUP.

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Check Out What Our Guest, Derek, is Doing!

History's Greatest Idiots Podcast with Derek and Lev⁠⁠

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HistorysGreatestIdiots ⁠⁠

Instagram: @HistorysGreatestIdiots

YouTube: @HistorysGreatestIdiots

Derek's Instagram: @thateffnguy

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Source Materials--

Cadaver Synod--

https://daily.jstor.org/the-cadaver-synod-putting-a-dead-pope-on-trial/

https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=fac_pm

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/history-magazine/article/vatican-dead-pope-on-trial?loggedin=true&rnd=1747710126274

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/05/cadaver-synod/

Pig War--

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Pig-War/

https://www.nps.gov/sajh/learn/historyculture/the-pig-war.htm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLq6GEiHqR8

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Welcome back! We saved you your favorite spot in the Smoke Circle! Spark up and get curious as the sisters are back together for another themed episode. Kt requested French history for this episode and we have a lot of stories for you! First up, Laurel has a top 5 list of "Most Oui-diculous (get it?!) Moments in French History. Ranging from history's shortest monarchy to hallucinogenic bread, diamond scandals, blackmailed kings, a man who would eat LITERALLY anything.

After the break, KT comes back with some literary history about one of her favorite places in the world: Notre Dame de Paris and the book by Victor Hugo which shares its name-- The Hunchback of Notre Dame!

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Mentioned in the Episode:

⁠Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

"The Bells of Notre Dame"

"Hellfire"

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Source Materials--

Top 5 Oui-diculous French History--

https://www.rct.uk/collection/405142/louis-antoine-duke-of-angouleme-1775-1844-0

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-10996838

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-deadly-bread-bewitched-a-french-village-123126177/

https://www.history.com/articles/chevalier-d-eon-french-spy-man-woman

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/desire-love-and-identity/chevalier-deon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevali%C3%A8re_d%27%C3%89on

https://www.history.com/articles/marie-antoinette-diamond-necklace-affair-french-revolution

https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/affair-diamond-necklace-1784-1785

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161014-the-man-who-couldnt-stop-eating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare#CITEREFBondeson2006

Hunchback of Notre Dame--

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25419423#:~:text=France%20has%20possibly%20the%20harshest,kind%20of%20pressure%20in%20France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG9c9cxCBww#:~:text=About%2020000%20ethnic%20Roma%20are%20living%20in,you%20think%20about%20Roma?%20More%20on%20dw.de/lifelinks

https://www.worldhistory.org/Romani/#:~:text=Romani%20is%20an%20umbrella%20term,%2C%20cultural%2C%20and%20ethnic%20diversity

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-are-the-roma-people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame

https://www.historydefined.net/who-was-the-real-hunchback-of-notre-dame/

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It's time to celebrate episode 100! To do so, we are tackling one of Hollywood's most famous (maybe infamous?) historical blockbusters--Braveheart. The film turns 30 this month (May 2025) and the sisters spark up and sit down in the Smoke Circle with Dr. Darren R. Reid, associate professor of history at Coventry University. Dr. Reid is himself Scottish so the subject matter is near and dear to his heart.

Join us in the Smoke Circle as we dismantle the movie scene by scene, learning the REAL history as we go along, picking our favorite moments and the characters that we loved to cheer for (and the ones we loved to hate)

ALSO! DON'T MISS IT! From now until Friday, May 16th, we have our movie watch along to both Braveheart and Outlaw King on our Patreon open to the public so everyone can watch along with us and really get into the spirit with us. But it's only up through May 16th!!

Braveheart Watch Along

Outlaw King Watch Along

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Check Out What Our Guest, Dr. Darren R. Reid, is Doing! ⁠

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Instagram @ThatHistorianInsta

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Mentioned in the Episode: ⁠

"Young Turks" by Rod Stewart

Blind Harry's Poem "The Wallace"

Episodes 51 and Episode 52 with Dr. Reid about Indigenous Representation in Film

Episode on Tetris and the Nintendo/Sega Console Wars with Dr. Reid

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Welcome to episode 99 of High Tales of History! (Can you believe that we are at 99?!) For this history sesh, we travel back into the sands of time with two stories on raiders of Ancient Egypt. First up, Kt covers Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the subsequent finding and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone.

Next, Laurel covers the discovery of the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, Egypt's forgotten boy king.

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Highclere Castle

Was It Really A Curse? Study by an epidemiologist

Remembering the Unsung Egyptians

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Source Materials--

Rosetta Stone--

https://arce.org/resource/rosetta-stone-unlocking-ancient-egyptian-language/#:~:text=The%20Rosetta%20Stone%2C%20a%20symbol,during%20Napoleon's%20invasion%20of%20Egypt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Egypt_and_Syria#:~:text=Departing%20from%20Toulon%20in%20May%201798%2C%20Napoleon's,of%20Cairo%20and%20establishing%20a%20French%20administration

https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/the-rosetta-stone-a-journey-from-alexandria-to-london/

King Tut--

⁠https://daily.jstor.org/was-it-really-a-mummys-curse/

https://daily.jstor.org/the-discovery-of-king-tuts-tomb/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-howard-carter-discovered-king-tuts-golden-tomb-180981052/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-the-discovery-of-tutankhamuns-tomb-was-the-most-significant-archaeological-find-of-the-20th-century-180985382/

https://www.academia.edu/8287770/Introduction_about_Tutankhamun_and_the_Discovery_of_his_Tomb

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/how-was-king-tuts-tomb-discovered-100-years-ago-grit-and-luck-feature?loggedin=true&rnd=1744183316387

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ym30v356po

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/why-are-we-so-obsessed-with-king-tut

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Welcome to episode 98 and part two of The History of Divination! After leaving the Ancient Romans in part one, we fast forward to the Tudors and the Elizabethan Era. We'll meet Dr. John Dee, who was Queen Elizabeth I's trusted seer and learn about the attitudes around magic and divination before Elizabeth's successor begins his witch hunts. We'll also uncover the secrets of the tarot, and step into the shadowy parlors of the Victorians with their flickering candlelit séances and spirit (Ouija) boards.

After all the history, we spend time with our guest, Saundra, a psychic medium and intuitive tarot reader. She answers our burning questions about being a psychic medium and does a collective reading for the Smoke Circle which...whoo! gave us a whole lotta feels.

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Check Out What Our Guest, Saundra, is Doing!

⁠www.saundrainsagittarius.com⁠

TikTok: ⁠@saundra.in.sagittarius⁠

Instagram: ⁠@saundra.in.sag⁠

YouTube: ⁠@saundra.in.sagittarius⁠

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Mentioned in the Episode:

Episode 91: A History of Witches

Episode 90: Werewolf Trials of Europe

Episode 45: The Satanic Panic

John Dee's Private Diary (free online)

John Dee's Spiritual Diaries (PDF)

John Dee's Five Books of Mystery

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Source Materials--

https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=history_honors

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/magic-mirror-used-by-queen-elizabeth-is-court-astrologer-has-aztec-origins-180978830/#:~:text=An%20obsidian%20%E2%80%9Cspirit%20mirror%E2%80%9D%20used,tells%20Ashley%20Strickland%20of%20CNN

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-magical-life-of-dr-dee-queen-elizabeth-i-s-royal-astrologer

https://www.britannica.com/story/nostradamus-and-his-prophecies#:~:text=Nostradamus%20was%20born%20in%20France,book%20entitled%20Centuries%20(1555)

https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/tarot-2

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/strange-history-tarot-cards

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/tarot-cards-history-fortune-telling?loggedin=true&rnd=1742065790733

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasseography

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/oujia-board-history

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/30/ouija-board-mystery-history#:~:text=The%20name%20Ouija%20comes%20from%20a%20rooming%20house%20in%20Baltimore&text=But%20the%20name%20was%20coined,her%20meant%20%E2%80%9Cgood%20luck%E2%80%9D

https://www.britannica.com/topic/New-Age-movement

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Welcome to episode 97 (season 5, episode 3) of High Tales of History! We knew you'd be here because we saw it happen in our scrying mirror. We have our friend Saundra in the Smoke Circle with us for a two part episode on divination through history. Saundra is a psychic medium and intuitive tarot card reader and we have a blast all hanging out and taking a long trip back to the many divination practices of ancient civilizations.
In this two part series, we will travel the Silk Road from east to west, stopping at various civilizations along the way and finishing in Ancient Rome. In part two, we will be picking up again in the Elizabethan Age, visiting those wild Victorians in their Spiritualism Era, and bringing it up through to the New Age Movement and today. Along the way, we will be meeting famous divinators, learning about tarot's evolution from card game to fortune telling, and get a reading from our guest, Saundra!

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Instagram: @saundra.in.sag

YouTube: @saundra.in.sagittarius

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Source Materials--

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195393361/obo-9780195393361-0287.xml#:~:text=Divination%20is%20a%20universal%20phenomenon,unpublished%20even%20in%20the%202020s

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2347094?read-now=1&seq=1

https://daily.jstor.org/how-to-read-bones-like-a-scapulimancer/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_astrology

https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005.06.29/#:~:text=The%20liver%20diviners%20and%20celestial%20diviners%20appear,as%20to%20confirm%20or%20refute%20medical%20advice.&text=The%20latest%20known%20Babylonian%20horoscope%2C%20BH%2027,the%20Greek%20tradition%20by%20just%20seven%20years

https://www.academia.edu/44688407/Geomancy_in_the_Islamic_World

https://oxfordre.com/planetaryscience/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.001.0001/acrefore-9780190647926-e-46#:~:text=The%20relationship%20between%20planets%20and,more%20often%20than%20direct%20observation

https://www.worldhistory.org/Pythia/#:~:text=There%2C%20at%20the%20temple%20center,sacrifice%20of%20a%20black%20ram.&text=It%20is%20a%20Hellenic%20tradition,accordance%20with%20our%20editorial%20policy

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

In episode 96, the sisters jump into some women's history beginning with the amazing and long history of Black midwifery in America. In early America, enslaved Black midwives (as well as Indigenous women) were responsible for birthing nearly all children in the United States. Today, Black midwives only make up between 5 to 9% of the profession while Black women are three to four times likely to die from a pregnancy related cause than white women (National Institutes of Health).

In part two, Laurel chats about the amazing Nellie Bly, born Elizabeth Cochrane, who launched a new kind of investigative journalism. From checking into a women's asylum in order to expose its mistreatment of patients to traveling around the world to coming out of retirement to cover the horrors of World War I in Europe, Nellie lived one hell of a life...

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Mentioned in the Stories:

Black Midwifery Collective

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Source Materials--

Black Midwives--

https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/historical-significance-doulas-and-midwives#:~:text=Early%20African%20American%20midwives%20were,babies%20became%20a%20medical%20specialty.&text=The%20uniform%20dress%20worn%20by%20midwife%20Amanda%20Carey%20Carter

https://nursing.virginia.edu/news/bhm-black-midwives/#:~:text=Health%20departments%20established%20midwifery%20classes,%5Bis%5D%20so%20white.%E2%80%9D

https://wclp.org/black-midwifery-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%20rural%20America%2C%20however%2C%20Black,of%20births%20until%20the%201940's

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DF8K751pz6k/?igsh=ODdmdzN3eXZpZHJ3

Nellie Bly--

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/nellie-bly-0\

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nellie-Bly

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/world-nellie-and-other-19th-century-writers/

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2022/11/nellie-bly-blackwells-island/

https://time.com/6074783/psychiatry-history-women-mental-health/

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/