Shared History

We're sharing history with a special guest. Chicago filmmaker, Cassie Ballschmidt takes the reigns to school us on American screenwriter and director, Frances Marion, just as Frances Marion schooled the whole dang film industry.

Frances Marion

WFP MAR10-1

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Sources for this story: Time, Columbia University’s Women Film Pioneers Project, The Atlantic, and others (see below for formal citations)

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.

From a Parisian atrocity to a Malagasy monarch, both of our stories today feature challenges in storytelling. In one, because the French would rather forget it happened, in the other, because of unreliable narrators...including the French. We're spilling the tea on the Vel' d'Hiv Round Up in WWII and then spilling blood with Ranavalona the Mad Queen of Madagascar.

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Vel D'Hiver

Sources for Vel d’Hiv story: France24.com

Sources for Ranavalona story: NotableBiographies.com, 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.

Season 2, baby! Cass and Nat are back with a vengeance...if a vengeance is the tale of the slave-catching schooner, HMS Black Joke, and a brief history of roller skating and how it owes everything to the African American community.

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HMS Black Joke + Ships it Captured

Empire Roller Disco

Sources for the HMS Black Joke story: Wikipedia, Daily Mail

Sources for the skating story: Vice, GroovyHistory.com, Journal of the Civil War Era Vol. 5, No. 2 - "We Do Not Care Particularly about the Skating Rinks": African American Challenges to Racial Discrimination in Places of Public Amusement in Nineteenth-Century Boston, Massachusetts - MILLINGTON W. BERGESON-LOCKWOOD

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.

We’re back, we’re weekly and we’re bringing guests. That’s right, Cass and Nat are returning to share more history that they wish had been given more pages and time in history books and curricula. We recorded a whole ONE episode before needing to shelter-in-place, but that didn’t stop us.

This season we’re bringing you film history, music history, naval history, Disney history, Olympic history, roller skating history(?) and so many more overlooked and underrepresented stories, and we’re bringing them to you weekly beginning Tuesday, May 5th!

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Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

Our first ever BONUS episode is from our first ever LIVE show! Enjoy a first-hand account of the Naperville Central High School mummy (as discussed in Episode 005) with special guest, James Galanis, former World History teacher and ‘Mummy Caretaker’ for 25 years.

In addition to ensuring the mummy’s safety and sharing the story with students, Mr. Galanis got to participate in multiple fact-finding endeavors surrounding the mummy’s history and authenticity — including a visit from National Geographic as a part of their Mummy Roadshow series in 2002.

This episode was recorded live from the Tamarack Golf Club in Naperville, IL as a part of Naperville Newcomers and Neighbors first ‘Ed Talk,’ appropriately themed “Naperville Histories and Mysteries.”

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DYK you can support us on Patreon? Just become a patron of Arcade Audio and let ‘em know you love us. - This episode was originally shared as a Patreon exclusive with our supporters, a video of the event is available still as a Patreon Exclusive.

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.

It's the season finale, y'all! We're bringing you the story of Christmas, as told by Cass, Nat AND Rip. Join us as we take you from a Roman holiday to medieval misrule and Puritan cancel culture all the way through to the Queen of the Season, Miss Mariah Carey.

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Sources for this story: History.com, Britannica, Wikipedia, Slate, Ancient History Encyclopedia

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.

Bundle up because Nat is here to tell the story of the 1925 Serum Run to Nome since Cass STILL hasn't seen the animated and not historically accurate masterpiece, Balto. Tune in for a harrowing tale of a potential epidemic, bad weather and very good doggos.

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1925 Serum Run Map

Togo + Leonhard Seppala

Balto + Gunnar Kasson

Balto Statue Plaque

Sources for this story: History.com, Wikipedia.org, BBC

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.

On this Thanksgiving episode, Cass tells us about the Confederates. No. Not those Confederates. We head back to pre-colonial America to talk about the Iroquois Confederacy, the Great League of Peace, one of the most successful governmental systems ever established.

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Deganawida the Great Peacemaker

Haudenosaunee

Map of Iroquois Confederacy

Sources for this story: PBS & American Heritage.com

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.

War, what is it good for? Overlooking the contributions of women, that's what. Cass gives us the scoop on master sculptress, Anna Coleman Ladd in WWI and Nat takes us harassment bombing Nazis with the Night Witches in WWII.

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Night Witches

Marina Raskova - Night Witch 'Founder'

Ladd Workshop

Sources for Night Witches story: History.com, The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, Wikipedia.org

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.

Tis the season for spoopin’. We’ve got ghost towns, hell-mouths, witches & mitches. Join Natsferatu on a journey to Centralia, PA, a city that has been burning for 57 years. Then get witchy with Cassper and the Brujas of Puerto Rico.

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Centralia: Then & Now

Graffiti Highway - Centralia, PA

Centralia Church vs. Silent Hill Church

Princess Nokia

Sources for Centralia story: The Verge, Cracked, Wikipedia.org

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.