Shared History

Cass finally gets to talk about the Midwest - of Guatemala - as she recounts some ancient Mayan mythos. Nat keeps it consistent by talking about the American Midwest in Missouri where soldier, William Cathay, reveals a stunning secret. Tune in to find out!

Popol Vuh manuscript c. 1701

Maya Hero Twins

Painting of “William Cathay”

William Cathay U.S. Army Pension Records

SOURCES:

Popol Vuh Story: Ancient History Encyclopedia, Living Maya Time, Wiki

William Cathay / Cathay Williams Story: Wounded Warrior Project, National Park Service, Wiki

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CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN, Cape Horn Illustration & ECBG Cake Studio (all promocodes mentioned in episode are one word, no spaces)

Direct sponsorship inquiries here.

Warning: Your cheeks will hurt after this episode. Actor, coach and host of The Whole Artist, Courtney Rioux brightens up our heavy history podcast with a history of positive psychology and then Nat gives the fans what they want with the story of Sally Rand.

Our Guest Courtney Rioux (photo by Joe Mazza, Brave Lux)

Martin E. P. Seligman

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Sally Rand with Fans

Sally Rand with Bubble

Resources:

Coursera Course on Positive Psychology

Via Character Strength Test

Positive Psychology Exercises

More on Courtney:

Courtney Rioux is a multi-passionate creative. As an actor, you may have seen her most recently on Chicago Med, Fire, and PD as paramedic Courtney, The Hot Shot spokesperson, or heard her voice on a Jimmy Dean, McDonald's, Sherwin Williams, or Hershey's TV commercial. But Courtney is also an advocate for actors. She does this as a host of the podcast The Whole Artist with Courtney Rioux, in teaching and coaching actors, and in her role as VP of the Chicago Sag-Aftra board. With each of these, she inspires and empowers actors to create a life of joy, freedom, and abundance.  Follow her at @courtneyrioux on Insta and sign up for her V.I.P. updates at CourtneyRioux.com. 

SOURCES:

Positive Psychology: Flourish by Martin Seligman, Coursera Course, Armchair Expert w Angela Duckworth, Authentic Happiness.org, Viacharacter.org, Positive Psychology, Britannica, Simply Psychology, Positive Psychology Center at UPenn

Sally Rand: Britannica, Wikiipedia, Chicago Architecture Foundation about world’s fairs

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SUPPORT: DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us.

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN & ECBG Cake Studio (all promocodes mentioned in episode are one word, no spaces)

Direct sponsorship inquiries here.

Spoop season is upon us and strange forces took control of Cass and Nat to compel them to share some scary stories...or rather, some history of scary stories. Cass sets the mood with the history of the gothic novel and Nat tells the tale of Philinnion and Machates, a classic tale of Boy Meets Ghoul.

Anne Radcliffe

Bride of Corinth by Goethe - Illustration

SOURCES:

Gothic Novel sources: Bustle, Wiki, Cass’ higher education

Philinnion and Machates sources: Ancient History Encyclopedia, the Theoi Project

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SUPPORT: DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us.

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & Cape Horn Illustration

Direct sponsorship inquiries here.

Set the DVR because this episode's got it all: heartache, tears, drama, light misogyny and Lacey Chabert. That's right, TV Movie Expert Patrick Serrano from the Lifetime Uncorked podcast and YouTube channel joins us to share the history of the Made For TV Movie.

Our Guest Patrick Serrano!

A gallery of stills and cover-art from some of the TV movies mentioned

The Pied Piper of Hamelin - 1957 (Full Movie - Youtube)

Kates Secret (w/ Meredith Baxter - Full Movie - Youtube)

Sybil’s personalities clip - 1977 - (w/ Sally Field - Clip - Youtube)

More on Patrick:

Follow/subscribe to Lifetime Uncorked: Twitter, Insta, YouTube

Lifetime Uncorked podcast

Lifetime Uncorked website

Follow him on Twitter & Instagram

SOURCES:

Buzzfeed News, AE Networks, The Atlantic, Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Uncorked

MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!

SOCIALS: Follow Shared History on Twitter & Instagram and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts!

SUPPORT: DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us.

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN & ECBG Cake Studio (all promocodes mentioned in episode are one word, no spaces)

Direct sponsorship inquiries here.

Banana Republic: Overpriced khaki-wear or bloody capitalist coups d'état? Yes. Nat peels into the sordid history of bananas, republics, and a real life game of monopoly, while Cass follows up with badass broad, Sarah Winnemucca, who just wants the US Government to follow through... just this once.

The First Nation community has been especially impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, please consider donating to organizations supporting these communities such as the Decolonizing Wealth’s Native American Community Response Fund and/or the First Nations Development Institute.

Samuel Zemurray Banana Man

Sarah Winnemucca

Leaders of the banana plantations worker’s strike in Colombia

Map of Banana Farms (per Chiquita)

The Fish that Ate The Whale book

SOURCES:

Banana Republics: NPR, Pitt.Edu, Harvard Business Review Cold Call Podcast, Financial Times, Sam O'Nella Academy on Youtube, Medium

Sarah Winnemucca: Smithsonian Magazine, Brittanica, wiki

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SUPPORT: DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us.

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & Cape Horn Illustration

Direct sponsorship inquiries here

It's season 3! We're back and we're going deep - exploring the history before history as we discover what "Deep History" means. Then, Nat teaches us about the Deaf President Now movement and accidentally taps into another one of Cass' super specific areas of interest so, oops.

Deep History book by D. Smail

Deaf President Now protest

Deaf President Now poster w/ demands

Zinser, Hilbok & Marlee Matlin on Nightline

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SUPPORT: DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us. — we are currently working to make all episode of Shared History more accessible by having transcriptions available at sharedhistorypodcast.tumblr.com. Our share of Patreon dollars are going towards this cause.

SOURCES:

Deep History: New York Times, Wiki

Deaf President Now: Gaullaudet.edu, Pacific Standard, Wiki

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSORS: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN. [promocode SHAREYALATER for 10% off] and by ECBG Cake Studio.

Direct sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]

From the overlooked to the underrepresented, Shared History is the history-comedy podcast that covers the stories that your history textbook may have left out. We hope you laugh and learn along with us as we tell you tales of history in a format more entertaining, more irreverent, and hopefully more inclusive than that dusty old textbook.

Hosted by Chicago Comedians, Cass Maher and Natalie Younger, every episode is as entertaining as it is educational, as the hosts and their knowledgeable guests share with you the history they wish someone had taught them. Focused on the history that didn’t make the curriculum, episodes frequently feature stories and events of more marginalized groups such as women, people of color, disabled individuals and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Each episode covers 1-2 topics from world history, US history, sports history, science history, heck, even culinary history! We can't wait to share some history with you.

#ShareYaLater

Learn more at http://sharedhistory.carrd.co

It's an action-packed, super-sized, season finale on the history of wrestling! We drag our friend and yours, DJ Rip, back on the mic and surprise him with today's topic, as we explore some of the greco-roman roots of modern wrestling and various other styles and regions of folk wrestling, before throwing it to Rip to guide us through WWF / pro-wrestling history COMPLETELY FROM HIS MEMORY.

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Sources:

Nat’s part: National Wrestling Hall of Fame, Smithsonian Magazine (Nat’s story about the thrown match!), Wikipedia, Sports and Games of the Ancients by Steve Craig, All About Turkey.com

Cass’s part:

Rip’s part: HIS HECKIN’ BRAIN

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSOR: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN. Shop raygunsite.com, use promocode PEWPEW for free shipping.

Direct sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]

Step back in time with National History Day State Coordinator, Vania Boland, as she tells us how Iowa got a head start on a major civil rights issue and Time-Step even further back as Nat dances through the origins of tap dancing. Cass reveals her hidden obsession for tap dancing and her not so hidden obsession for more Iowa history.

Buck & Bubbles

Gregory Hines & Savion Glover

William Henry Lane aka Master Juba

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Sources for Alexander Clark Story:

Sources for Tap Dance Story: Vox, Library of Congress, Encyclopedia Britannica

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSOR: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN. Shop raygunsite.com, use promocode PEWPEW for free shipping.

Direct sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]

Grab a glass of milk because Sean Ely is serving up history en fuego with the history of hot sauce! Then, Cass cools us down with a trek on the high seas with the story of Benjamin Hornigold, the pirate-turned-pirate hunter.

Hot Sauces by Region Map

Edmund Mcllhenny

Colonel Maunsel White

Benjamin Hornigold

Map of West Indian Islands

More on Sean:

Follow him on Twitter & Instagram

Follow/subscribe to Number Six With Cheese Twitter, Insta, YouTube

Number Six With Cheese website

Buy Sixer Sauce - a 2.75 out of 5 on the heat scale

Check out Nat on Sean’s podcast, The Unemployables

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SUPPORT: DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us.

Sources for Hot Sauce story: CraftHotSauce.com, Bottlestore.com, Wiki, Fiery Foods Central, Webstaurant, Spicy Exchange, Tabasco, Eat This, Not That!, Food And Wine , Fast Co, High Brow Magazine, Hot Sauce! Techniques for Making Signature Hot Sauces… by Jennifer Trainer Thompson

Sources for Benjamin Hornigold story: Wiki, History of Piracy, The Way of the Pirates

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

About this podcast:

Shared History, is a comedy podcast and history podcast in one. Hosted by Chicago comedians, each episode focuses on obscure, overlooked and underrepresented historical events and people.

SPONSOR: This episode was sponsored by RAYGUN. Shop raygunsite.com, use promocode PEWPEW for free shipping.

Direct sponsorship inquiries to [email protected]