History Woes

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  • Ep. 26 The Florida Man Cometh

    Don't hit the birds! Today we're doing a Patreon requested episode on none other than Florida Man himself. First, Morgan presents the smooth sounds of the best of Florida Man album. Then Lexi covers the stories of the Florida face eaters.

    Find us at instagram.com/historywoes and www.patreon.com/History

    Best of Florida Man:

    https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/fla-man-wears-f-police-shirt-court-article-1.1965238

    https://twitter.com/_floridaman/status/757583228240850945?lang=en

    https://abc13.com/man-tries-to-steal-peacock-birds-video-of-getting-chased-by-peacocks-in-florida/3209040/

    https://www.boredpanda.com/hilarious-florida-man-headings/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

    https://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/weird-news/florida-man-crack-leads-cops-wild-chase-allegedly-steals-capri-suns/r5TAoY6t86ufdjJLPF9wqO/

    https://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/Florida-man-practices-his-karate-on-swans-at-Lake-Eola-Park_167727781/

    https://ktla.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/nationworld/18-year-old-florida-man-arrested-after-posing-as-doctor-opening-medical-practice-sheriffs-office/

    https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending-now/mopwearing-florida-man-looking-for-eggs-terrified-entire-family/487663287/

    https://fox59.com/news/national-world/police-florida-couple-stole-motorized-scooter-from-walmart-drove-to-bar/

    https://www.wftv.com/news/local/two-men-appear-in-police-custody-with-power-pole-on-suv-in-jacksonville/608678097/

    https://theweek.com/speedreads/650409/florida-man-rides-manatee-dares-police-arrest-gets-arrested


    The Florida Face Eaters:

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

    https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/us/florida-killings-face-biting/index.html

    Music: Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    48 min
  • Ep. 25 History Roulette

    Welcome to the last episode of History Woes inaugural year! Thank you all for your patience and we hope you enjoy todays episode: history roulette! An episode where the hosts choose a random but interesting story to tell. First, Lexi tells the life story of the Mad Monk, Rasputin. Then, Morgan covers laboratory mishaps - pathogens that escaped the biolab.

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    Rasputin:

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

    https://allthatsinteresting.com/rasputin-penis

    Laboratory Mishaps:

    https://theintercept.com/2022/11/01/biosafety-lab-accident-chikungunya-virus/

    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/3/20/18260669/deadly-pathogens-escape-lab-smallpox-bird-flu

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/29/some-recent-us-lab-incidents/25258237/

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

    https://thispodcastwillkillyou.com/quarantinis-placeboritas/

    Music: Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 35 min
  • Ep. 24 Christmas Time Is Here

    Sorry for the lateness everyone, the History Woes team got caught up helping Santa tune up his sleigh. But now that we're here, we're covering Christmas themed stories! First, Morgan covers the Christmas truce of 1914. Then, Lexi tells us all about the history of Christmas as we know it today.


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    The Christmas Truce of 1914:

    https://www.history.com/news/christmas-truce-1914-world-war-i-soldier-accounts

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

    https://www.planetary.org/worlds/pale-blue-dot


    The History of Christmas:

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

    https://thevikingdragon.com/blogs/news/yuletide

    https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas

    https://www.history.com/topics/christmas/history-of-christmas-trees#:~:text=Germany%20is%20credited%20with%20starting,candles%20if%20wood%20was%20scarce.

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


    Music: Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep.23 Wild Women of History: Crossed

    Welcome back to another wild women of history episode! Today were looking at some women that destroyed the gender norms of their day by ditching the dress  to wear a little less. First, Lexi tells the wild life story of Julie d'Aubigny. Then, Morgan covers the life of pirate queen, Anne Bonny.

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    Julie d'Aubigny:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny

    https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/julie-daubigny-la-maupin-and-early-french-opera


    Anne Bonny:

    https://www.nps.gov/people/anne-bonny-pirate

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anne-Bonny

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


    Music - Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 2 min
  • Ep.22 The Deep

    Join us as we kraken to tales from the deep! First, Morgan covers those who have haunted the dreams of sailors near and far throughout history: sea monsters! Then, Lexi tells the very scary story of what happened to the unfortunate residents of Port Royal.


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    Sea Monsters

    https://mythology.net/monsters/sea-monster/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B6rmungandr

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umib%C5%8Dzu

    https://cryptidarchives.fandom.com/wiki/Gbahali

    https://magical-europe.com/2019/08/29/giant-sea-serpent-of-scottish-gaelic-folklore-cirein-croin/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siren_(mythology)


    Port Royal

    https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-liquefaction#:~:text=Liquefaction%20takes%20place%20when%20loosely,cause%20major%20damage%20during%20earthquakes.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1692_Jamaica_earthquake

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

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7964284/


    Music - Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 11 min
  • Ep. 21 It's the Law

    We hope you find today's episode appealing, because today History Woes covers a history hoe request! First, Lexi covers the history of the Public Defenders Office. Then, Morgan recounts the dark history of the death penalty. Thanks Michael for your support and your requests!


    Find us at instagram.com/historywoes and www.patreon.com/History


    History of the Public Defenders Office

    https://www.calbarjournal.com/June2011/TopHeadlines/TH1.aspx

    https://www.cccba.org/article/the-first-female-lawyer-in-california-clara-s-foltz/#:~:text=Once%20the%20bill%20passed%2C%20Foltz,to%20the%20California%20State%20Bar.

    https://sixthamendment.org/the-right-to-counsel/history-of-the-right-to-counsel/understanding-gideons-impact-part-2-the-birth-of-the-public-defender-movement/#:~:text=The%20nation's%20first%20public%20defender,up%20all%20over%20the%20state.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideon_v._Wainwright

    https://sixthamendment.org/the-right-to-counsel/history-of-the-right-to-counsel/understanding-gideons-impact-part-1-right-to-counsel-services/

    https://www.thenation.com/article/society/sara-mayeux-free-justice-public-defenders/

    History of the Death Penalty

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

    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/history-of-the-death-penalty/

    https://www.history.co.uk/articles/ouch-8-of-the-most-brutal-methods-of-execution-from-the-ancient-world

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

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

    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/race

    https://www.justice.gov/archive/dag/pubdoc/deathpenaltystudy.htm


    Music - Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 42 min
  • Ep. 20 Thanksgiving Part 2

    It's time for a second helping of your favorite history podcast! In this second episode, Morgan covers the history of the annual turkey pardon. Next up, Lexi recounts the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon mishaps of days gone past.


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    The Turkey Pardon

    https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2011/11/23/definitive-history-presidential-turkey-pardon

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-history-of-pardoning-turkeys-began-with-tad-lincoln-141137570/

    https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/19/presidential-turkey-pardon-tradition-history/

    https://www.wcnc.com/article/life/holidays/president-joe-biden-white-house-turkey-north-carolina-pardon-thanksgiving-2022-circle-s-ranch/


    Balloon Mishaps

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/macys-thanksgiving-day-parade-balloon-accidents-cec/index.html#:~:text=During%20the%20parade%2C%20high%20winds,a%20coma%20for%20a%20month.

    https://theretronetwork.com/the-early-years-of-macys-thanksgiving-day-parade/

    https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2011/11/how-about-a-side-of-history-with-your-thanksgiving-day-parade/


    Music:

    Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    38 min
  • Ep. 19 Thanksgiving Part 1

    We missed you! Today we come back with a double episode on Thanksgiving week. In this first episode, Morgan covers missing and murdered indigenous women and girls. Then, Lexi follows up with the story of the first Thanksgiving.

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    MMIWG

    https://www.nativewomenswilderness.org/mmiw

    https://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf

    https://www.amnesty.ca/what-we-do/no-more-stolen-sisters/

    https://redroadinstitute.org/protect-mmiw/

    https://www.niwrc.org/

    The First Thanksgiving

    https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-wampanoag-side-of-the-first-thanksgiving-story#:~:text=(WATCH%3A%20A%20Wampanoag%20retelling%20of%20Thanksgiving)&text=Samoset%2C%20a%20Monhegan%20from%20Maine,and%20gather%20berries%20and%20nuts.

    https://nationaldaycalendar.com/national-day-of-mourning-fourth-thursday-in-november/

    http://www.uaine.org/suppressed_speech.htm

    Music

    Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 9 min
  • Ep. 18 Spooky Authors

    You thought we were done bringing the spooky but it's All Souls Day so we're bringing it one last time! Join us as Morgan tells the story of the original emo kid himself, Edgar Allen Poe. After that, Lexi brings it home with the story of the wild life of Mary Shelley.

    Edgar Allan Poe:

    https://poets.org/poet/edgar-allan-poe

    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edgar-Allan-Poe

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

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/still-mysterious-death-edgar-allan-poe-180952936/

    https://cvm.missouri.edu/quoth-the-raven-it-was-actually-rabies/


    Mary Shelley:

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

    https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/the-strange-and-twisted-life-of-frankenstein


    Music:

    Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    1 hr 21 min
  • Ep. 17 Spirits

    Welcome to the wrap party for our spooky season tales! We're ramping up the scares as Lex starts off with the history of Halloween/Samhain and Morgan finishes out the month with the history behind ghost hunting.


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    Halloween/Samhain:

    https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/samhain

    https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween#:~:text=The%20tradition%20originated%20with%20the,of%20the%20traditions%20of%20Samhain.


    Ghost Hunting

    https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/podcast/ghost-hunting-in-the-19th-century

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-fox-sisters-and-the-rap-on-spiritualism-99663697/

    https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2016/11/04/in-the-joints-of-their-toes/

    https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/boom-time-ghost-industry

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


    Music:

    Victor Natas - Dancing in despair available @ freesound.org

    55 min

About History Woes

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A podcast for those who love history, comedy, and booze. Each week, the History Woes team tells two themed historical stories and pairs those stories with a drink.