Shared History

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Shared History episodes

January 18, 2022 075 - Thank You For Being a Friend
In honor of her would-be 100th birthday, we're celebrating the life and legacy of the incomparable Betty White. This woman not only lived through a lot of history, she made her fair share as well.
Betty on Life with Elizabeth
Running the GD show
On Password
With Allen Ludden on their wedding day
As Sue Anne Nevins on Mary Tyler Moore
Collecting Emmys with MTM crew
Golden Girls
Collecting Emmys with GG crew
Betty at 1986 Emmys
Betty on SNL
Forest Ranger Betty (2010)
SOURCES:
Mental Floss, Biography.com, IMDB, Wiki, "Betty White: First Lady of Television" documentary via PBS.
More detailed sources 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 17 min
January 11, 2022 074 - The Supremely Stodgy Court (feat. Beyond Reproach)
History podcast team-up time! We're joined by the brilliant hosts of Beyond Reproach: Stephanie Domingo and Tux Loerzel! They're here to tell us the not-so-uplifting and frustratingly still relevant story of Buck v. Bell and the history of eugenics and forced sterilization in the United States.
Buck v. Bell Historical Marker
Carrie & Emma Buck
Eugenics Tree
Tux's discovery: ShopGoodwill.com
More about Beyond Reproach
Beyond Reproach is a comedic history podcast about scandals and scandalousness in politics and government. Each episode, hosts Stephanie & Tux explore the sordid stories of America's past, all while drinking heavily, talking too much, and generally making fools of themselves. Follow them on Instagram & Twitter.
Here's Beyond Reproach's episode on the same topic.
Sources:
Wiki, CNN, Minn Post, Psych Central, PBS, NPR, Cornell Law School, SF Gate, National Archives.
More detailed works cited on website.
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon for access to exclusive merch and bonus content.
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS: Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations: 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 40 min
January 04, 2022 073 - Good Streets & Great Eats
Come with us on a historical stroll down Tokaido Road in Japan and then, once you've worked up an appetite, you can munch on the tasty history of Chinese food in America.

The five ancient highways in Japan
The 53 Stations of the Tokaido map
Tokaido Board Game
The Shank's Mare (novel about a journey along the Tokaido)
One print from The 53 Stations of the Tokaido by Hiroshige
Fifty Three Pairings Across the Tokaido Road (woodblock series)
Location of Taishan within Guandong
David Chan enjoying some food
David Chan on Instagram
David Chan's Blogspot
SOURCES:
Tokaido - JapanCheapo.com, Wiki, Britannica, Hiroshige.org
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Support us on Patreon for bonus content and more!
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations: 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.
57 min
December 14, 2021 072 - Norse Middle Child Energy (feat. Thor Knai)
Who better to tell the tale of the Leif Eriksson saga than the Norse Adventurer himself? Or at least an actor who played him: Thor Knai. Set sail with us on an exploration of Leif the Lucky and his whole family: most notably his sister Freydis and his old man Erik the Red.

Thor at Leif in Legends of Tomorrow
Leif & Freydis in Legends
Leif Eriksson statue in Reykjavik
Leif Eriksson Discovers America by Hans Dahl
L'Anse Aux Meadows historical site - Newfoundland
Smithsonian article about evidence of Vikings in Newfoundland
More on Thor: Thor is an LA-based actor, veteran and professional game master. You may recognize him from Legends of Tomorrow, The Outpost, Reign and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend among others. Follow Thor @ThorKnai on Instagram and Twitter. Hire him to DM your next game on Start Play Games
Sources: Wiki
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: 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 20 min
December 07, 2021 071 - Is It Too Late Now To Say Sorry?
Whether you've sacked and plundered ancient artifacts or turned on your country, just take responsibility for your own actions! That's our take away from today's episode exploring the civilization and Bronzes of Benin and WWII triple agent Mathilde Carre aka Victoire aka La Chatte.
Statue of Asoro, general who couldn't look over his shoulder when on the battlefield
Benin Bronze at The University of Aberdeen
Benin Bronze at Museum in Hamburg
Mathilde Carre on trial
Mathilde Carre with her trial attorney
Roman Czerniawski, co-creator of the Interallie network
Hugo Bleicher, 'history's greatest spy catcher'

Jazz Musician Slide Hampton
Golem and Jinni (Nat's book rec)
SOURCES:
Bronzes of Benin: ArtNews.com, face2faceafrica.com
Mathilde Carre: The History Press.co, Wiki, Encyclopedia.com
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: 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 1 min
November 30, 2021 070 - Hollywood Days of the Female Gaze (feat. Claire Duffy)
Movies are a man's industry, except when you consider that Hollywood was essentially built by women. Author, screenwriter and Hollywood history super-nerd, Claire S. Duffy joins to chat about the women who made the movies, and then men and code that wrote them out of the final edit of history. From Mary Pickford and Dorothy Azner to Greta Gabo and our dear friend Frances Marion, these are the women who built Hollywood.
RDJ as Chaplin
Mary Pickford on camera
Mary Pickford & Douglas Fairbanks at Pickfair Estate
Mary Pickford & Frances Marion
Dir. Dorothy Azner
Anne Bauchen, Academy Award winning editor
Margaret Booth, edited Ben Hur
Cecil B. DeMille + Gloria Swanson: Why Change Your Wife?
DeMille + Swanson: Male and Female
Where Are My Children - Lois Weber film about abortion (1916)
Stills from Where Are My Children 1, 2, 3
Greta Garbo kissing woman in Queen Christina
Greta Garbo as Queen Christina
Joseph Breen
William Hays
Roscoe Arbuckle & Virginia Rappe
More on Claire:
Claire S. Duffy (aka CS Duffy) is an author and screenwriter. Her crime thriller series, the Glasgow Kiss series, is now on Book #6: Alone in the Dark. She is also the writer of new time travel fantasy Before Again and The Stranger for Storytel. Claire's most recent project is a substack series on the OG women of Hollywood. All this info and more on her website: csduffywriter.com!
Listen and learn more from Claire on her episode of Under The Kilt
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: 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
November 23, 2021 069 - Long, Hard History
Let us slip into something a little more...history. From impotence trials and cheating on virginity tests, to a history of self-satisfying sex toys, today we're tempting and teasing you with some sexy history. I mean, come on, it's episode 69.
Depiction of impotence trial
The Life and Adventures of Miss Fanny Hill
Still from 'Hysteria' film
In The Next Room or The Vibrator Play by Sarah Ruhl
~6000 year old bronze dildo
Ancient Greek bread dildo
Steam-powered 'manipulator' (1869...nice)
Hand-cranked vibrator (1880s-1900s)
Electric vibrator for your...neck (1920s)
Goat eyelid and lash cock ring
SOURCES:
Impotence Trials & Virginity Tests: The Smart Set, Buzzfeed, Ancient-Origins, Medievalists, The Whores of Yore
Sex Toys: Thrillist, allthatsinteresting.com, Complex, Gourmandize
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 SpinnOriginal Art: Sarah CruzAnimations: 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 8 min
November 16, 2021 068 - Stayin' Alive (feat. Jamie Jirak)
He sings, he dances, he stands among legends. His talent and charisma knows no bounds. He is a hero to us all, or at least to this week's guest Jamie Jirak. His name is John Joseph Travolta and this is his history.
The Stayin' Alive poster staring us down all session
Jamie showing JT her tattoo
Jamie & JT
Jamie on the news when JT was in NYC
More on Jamie: The self-proclaimed Darcy Lewis of Comicbook.com, Jamie Jirak is a staff writer, comedian, podcaster and professional binge-watcher. Catch her podcasting with Hollywood Already Did It and Phase Zero. Read her words with comicbook.com here.
Follow Jamie on Instagram @JamieJirak and on Letterboxd: @JamieCinematics

SOURCES:
Jamie's encyclopedic memory of all things JT.

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: 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 12 min
November 09, 2021 067 - We're All On This Pizza Puff Together
We're exploring the world of exploring the world - it's geography week! Join us on a geogrpahy journey from A to Z, or, rather, Z to Z. First, it's New-to-You super continent, Zealandia. Then, we meet "Zonia" Baber, teacher, activist, spitfire geographer (yes, that's a thing).
Lost continent of Zealandia
Map with addtl facts
Tectonic Map of Zealandia
Ball's Pyramid, one place where Zealandia is above water
'Zonia Baber
Zonia Baber in the Field
Zonia's patented desk
SOURCES:
Zealandia: Wiki, Business Insider, brittanica.com, NBC news
Zonia Baber: Smithsonian Mag, Trowelblazers, Wiki
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: 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
November 01, 2021 066 - History is for the Making (feat. Felicia Singh)
Democratic NYC Council candidate Felicia Singh joins to remind us all to keep going and to teach us a bit about the history of indentured servitude, particularly in Guyana. And while we're in Guyana, we learn about the country's "Father of the Trade Union Movement," Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow.
Guyana on Map
Kaieteur Falls
Hubert Nathaniel Critchlow
Critchlow Monument
More on Felicia: Felicia Singh is a teacher, the proud daughter of working-class immigrants and workers’ rights advocate. Singh is running for New York City Council with the priorities of fully funding schools, supporting small businesses and workers, climate and environmental resilience and accessible transportation. District 32 is the last remaining Republican-held seat in Queens, despite being a majority Democratic district. Felicia is running a campaign rooted in organizing, and committed to centering the most marginalized voices in the district.
Felicia Singh has been endorsed by a coalition of over 60 community and grassroots organizations, unions and elected officials including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Kirstin Gillibrand and Queens Borough President Donovan Richards as well as the NY Working Families Party, Labor Strong 2021 coalition and Sunrise Movement NYC. https://www.felicia2021.com/
Follow Felicia at @FeliciaSingh2021 on Instagram & @fsingh_NYC on Twitter.
SOURCES:
Critchlow story: Encyclopedia.com, Photius.com, Countrystudies.us
SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram
SUPPORT: Buy us a "coffee" and fuel our next episode. (New Patreon info to-come)
MERCH: Snag some Shared History merch and get stylin’!
CREDITS:
Original Theme: Garreth Spinn
Original Art: Sarah Cruz
Animations: 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 14 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…