Shared History

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Shared History episodes

September 27, 2022 085 - Worth the Wimple
The women in today's episode saw a need and crafted their own solutions to fill it. First we've got the 10th century canoness Hrotsvitha bringing theatre back to the western world with "clean" new plays, and then we've got Myers and Briggs themselves -- Isabel Briggs Myers and Katharine Cook Briggs -- offering a more nuanced, introspective look into our psyches.
Sources: ThoughtCo, Wiki, PBS and others
Complete citations on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by Herbiery Brewing, BatesMeron Sweet Design & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 3 min
September 20, 2022 084 - Peanut Butter Jelly Time (feat. Brian King)
Lard almighty, this week we're joined by King of Kings, Brian King, for a most delectable and distractable episode for you. Make yourself a snack and get lost in the nostalgia as we explore the history of the greatest treat there ever was: The Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich. And once you've unstuck the bread from the roof of your mouth, feel free to come at us for our controversial opinions.
Our lovely guest, Brian King
Marcellus Gilmore Edson's peanut butter patent
George Washington Carver's "300 Uses for Peanuts"
WWI Recipe for Peanut Butter Soup
WWII peanut butter military ration
Welch's Grapelade ad
More on Brian: Brian is a Chicago Native and actor who has appeared in a whole bunch of things you've seen, from Nia DaCosta's Candyman to Steve McQueen's Widows and even Zach Snyder's Man of Steel. On the smaller screen, he's recently recurred on HBO's Somebody Somewhere as Bridget Everett's neighbor Drew and is known for his role in the acclaimed Showtime hit The Chi.
Follow Brian on Instagram @thesonofbozo
Sources: Wiki, how stuff works, national peanut board
Complete citations on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by Herbiery Brewing, BatesMeron Sweet Design & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 7 min
September 13, 2022 083 - The Great Emu-Potomus
If you're wondering where to find fantastic beasts, may we suggest The Great Emu War of 1932 and The Hippo Bill of 1910. Cass and Nat both coincidentally bring tales from the animal kingdom this week showcasing the failure of the Australian army to defeat the pesky Emus and the failure of American congress to pass a bill that would've filled our nation's bayous with hippos. These are real things. We hope you learn something.
Sources: Wired, The Atavist, YouTube and others
Complete citations on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by Herbiery Brewing, BatesMeron Sweet Design & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 4 min
September 06, 2022 082 - Cali, Rage and Comma Drama (feat. Hashtag History)
We don't know how it took us 6 seasons but we're joined by our unofficial podcast twins, the Hashtag History podcast!!! Leah and Rachel join the fray today to discuss eugenics and the forced sterilization of thousands of Latinas in California throughout the 20th century. There is also a fair amount of Natalie bullying. Hashtag History covered this story in their own episode 89, check it out.
Our amazing guests, Rachel & Leah
Sample of a sterilization form for a 15 y.o in CA
Flyer for anti-forced sterilization rally during the Madrigal V. Quilligan hearings
Dolores Madrigal (L) and attorney Antonia Hernandez (R) at press conference
No Mas Bebes documentary
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Rachel’s discovery/recommended reading
More on Rachel, Leah and Hashtag History: Rachel is a fun-loving, kind-hearted gal who loves coffee and long walks on the beach, If you catch her after a cocktail or two, you may find her passionately discussing one of two things: 1) The erasure of women from History; or 2) The various JonBenet Ramsey theories.
Leah is an introverted extrovert who will take any and every opportunity to eat, drink, and spend time with friends. She is an event-planner by day, an avid Netflix-watcher by night, and is very passionate about font choices.
The Hashtag History podcast focuses on telling stories of History's greatest stories of controversy, conspiracy, and corruption.
Subscribe to Hashtag History wherever you get your podcasts and follow them on Instagram
Sources: Wiki, LA Times, NYTimes, NBC News, Washington Post, History.com, PBS and others
Complete citations on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by Herbiery Brewing, BatesMeron Sweet Design & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 19 min
August 30, 2022 081 - Back and Bitter Than Ever
The title says it all. Nat and Cass are kicking off Season 6 with a lot of heavy sighs and rolled eyes as we explore the history of Abortion rights and Gay rights in America.
In Defense of Witches (Nat’s book rec)
Zach Wahls Speaks About Family (Iowa Gay Marriage Hearings)
Henry Gerber
The Society for Human Rights Cert.
Henry Gerber House Landmark Placard
Daughters of Bilitis San Fran Chapter
The door height markers Nat mentions
Sources: Wiki, NatGeo, In Defense of Witches, AmericanProgress.org, JSTOR, History.com, Chicago LGBT hall of fame, OSU Edu
Complete citations on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 8 min
February 22, 2022 080 - Greetings from The Pleasure Garden (feat. Rob Grabowski)
Step right up and try your luck in our grand season finale about the history of amusement parks! We're joined by Chicago comedian Rob Grabowski as we jump all the lines, eat all the sweets, get handsy in the dark rides and take a stroll through the pleasure gardens.
Bartholomew Fair illustrated (1808)
Advertisement for a puppet show at Bartholomew Fair
Bakken park (Denmark) then 1 & 2
Bakken entrance now
Pleasure Garden: Vauxhall Gardens in the Regency Era
Vauxhall Gardens in 1809
View from the Midway Plaisance - 1893 Chicago World's Fair
A Shoot-the-Chutes ride (Riverview Park Chicago - 1963)
On a dark ride -- The Tunnel of Love at Riverview Park 1943
Questionable entrance to The Tunnel of Love (Riverview)
Entrance to the second Steeplechase Park (circa 1908 - coney island)
Luna Park entrance (coney island)
Disneyland under construction
Cedar Point postcard (1907?)
Brochure of Cedar Point (1929ish)
More on Rob:
Rob Grabowski is an actor, improviser & fellow podcaster based in Chicago. He's worked all over the city with theaters and ensembles including The Second City, Victory Gardens, iO Chicago, Annoyance, The New Colony and ComedySportz Chicago. He's the unofficial, honorable Mayor of Chicago, co-host of Poppin’ Bottles & Talking Shop (w/ James Dugan and Rob Grabowski) podcasts, producer of REDACTED at The Music Box, and we just really like him a whole bunch.
Sources: Wiki, An Open Suitcase, VOX, Arcadia Publishing, coaster10.com
Complete citations on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 21 min
February 15, 2022 079 - The Great Big Bummer Show
We aren't gonna sugar coat it: this episode is about a genocide. Nat teaches us about Stalin's secret genocide of the Ukrainian people: Holodomor. But don't worry, Cass lightens the mood with a lovely mini-history of accents in America and this is an Erik Singer fancast now.
SOURCES:
Holodomor: Britannica, holodomor.ca, vlogbrothers, foundation for economic education, ukrainer in english on youtube, TRT world
More detailed sources on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon to help fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 33 min
February 08, 2022 078 - The Lost Promise of Higher Ed (feat. Dr. Ellen Schrecker)
Is this a podcast potluck because our guest Dr. Ellen Schrecker brought us a buffet of tasty historical treats this week. Join us as we discuss her explore how America's unjust involvement in Vietnam and the Black Power and Civil Rights Movement forever changed the landscape and trajectory of the American higher education system. Then learn even more in her recent book: The Lost Promise: American Univiersities in the 1960s.

Lewis Powell Memo
Vietnam War Teach Ins at University of Michigan
Bernard Fall on street with VN soldiers
Bulletin started by asian studies scholars to educate/protest US involvement in Vietnam
Faculty with armbands in front of low library at Columbia University
Bakke decision protests
SFSU protests
SFSU faculty strikers
More on Ellen:
Ellen Schrecker is an American historian and author who has written extensively about McCarthyism and American higher education. Her latest book, The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s (University of Chicago Press, 2021) provides the first comprehensive analysis of American higher education’s most turbulent decade.
Her previous books include No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities (1986), The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History with Documents (3d ed. 2017), Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998), and The Lost Soul of Higher Education: Corporatization, the Assault on Academic Freedom, and the End of the University (2010).
Besides publishing articles in The Nation, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere, she edited Academe, the American Association of University Professors’ magazine. She also wrote a Chinese cookbook. She is a retired professor of history at Yeshiva University and lives in New York City.
Website: https://www.ellenschrecker.com/
SOURCES: Visit sharedhistorypodcast.com for sources.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 9 min
February 01, 2022 077 - Take a Nap, Plant a Tree
Everything you've ever been told about sleep is wrong. Take it from Cass, she's now a sleep history expert* teaching us all about biphasic and polyphasic sleep and how, of course, capitalism has ruined the party again. Then, Nat introduces us to Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai who made an economical and ecological impact one tree at a time. (*no she isn't)
Monophasic, Biphasic & Polyphasic Sleep Schedules
Depiction of communal sleeping in middle ages
More medieval communal sleeping
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai & her nobel prize
The Green Belt volunteers hard at work
SOURCES:
Sleep: BBC
Wangari Maathai: NobelPrize.org, UNESCO, The Green Belt Movement, Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica
More detailed sources on our website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon to help fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 3 min
January 25, 2022 076 - Everybody Loves Satan (feat. Jason Deuchler aka DJ Intel)
The devil didn’t make us invite DJ and filmmaker Jason Deuchler (aka DJ Intel) on the podcast this week, but after this overview of the Satanic Panic and glowing endorsement of the modern church of Satanism’s good work…he won’t be disappointed. But no one made Cass tell us about the WWII pet cull and we will all be disappointed.
The Satan Seller by Mike Warnke
Mike Warnke himself
The discredited 'Michelle Remembers'
Dee Snider at PMRC hearing
Anton Szandor LaVey and Jayne Mansfield
The unveiling of the Satanic Temples' Statue of Baphomet
WWII Pet Cull Pamphlet
Handing off cats in the WWII pet cull
More on Jason:
Jason Deuchler is a Chicago-based DJ, film professional and jackass of all trades. His latest project, The Brewed, a coffee shop he is opening in partnership with the folks at Bric-a-Brac Records, is opening soon in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. Follow Jason @DJIntel on Instagram and catch his streamed DJ sets on Twitch.
Sources: Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s, by Kier-La Janisse
Wikipedia, Chicago Tribune, Vox, NY Times, Last Podcast on the Left
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon or Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations & Addtl Design: The Banditry Co.
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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, Herbiery Brewing & The Banditry Co.
1 hr 15 min

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A history and comedy podcast about the overlooked and underrepresented people and events from ancient to modern history. Join comedians Cass and Natalie for an educational, entertaining and…