Shared History

This week combines 3 things we love: spies, badass broads, and playwright Rachel Bublitz. The latter joins to tell the tale of Nancy Wake: badass lady spy of WWII whose tradecraft heavily featured out-drinking dumb men.

More on Rachel:

Rachel Bublitz is a playwright known for telling stories about women, and creating exciting new work for young performers. The Z Space premiere of her play “Ripped” received the Will Glickman Award for the best premiere play in the Bay Area. Other plays include a science driven full-length “Burst” (developed at Salt Lake Acting Company, PlayGround, and more), and “The Night Witches” (published with Dramatic Publishing). During the pandemic Rachel tried her hand at a novel, which she’s still developing. Turns out novels have a lot more words than plays.

Buy her Play, The Night Witches through Dramatic Publishing

Check out her other work on the New Play Exchange.

Follow Rachel on Twitter (@RachelBublitz), Instagram (@PlaywrightBublitz) and/or Facebook (@RachelNBublitz)

Our Lovely Guest, Rachel Bublitz

Nancy Wake in Uniform

Wake and Resistance fighters planning next attack

Nancy & her husband, Henri Fiocca

Nancy, John Alsop (OSS) and Denis Rake (OSS) in a wine cellar

SOURCES:

The White Mouse: The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo Called the White Mouse by Nancy Wake

Nancy Wake: The gripping true story of the woman who became the Gestapo's most wanted spy by Peter Fitzsimmons

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SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

By familial demand, Nat brings us on a wild ride of the mischief and misdeeds of American con artist and gangster frontiersman Jefferson Randolph "Soapy" Smith.

Soapy Smith

The humorous model of Smith at the Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum

Denver City Hall War, 1894

Soapy in Skagway

Jefferson Smith’s Parlour, Skagway

SOURCES:

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SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

CREDITS:

Original Theme: Garreth Spinn

Original Art: Sarah Cruz

Episode Edit: Natalie Younger

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, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

Ever follow a charismatic 12-year-old to enslavement and almost certain death? No? Well then you might not have a lot in common with The Children's Crusades of the early 1200s, as told by our guest lawyer, performer, and history-degree-holder, Marie Salter.

More on Marie:

Marie Salter is a lawyer and comedian based in Chicago. No, she is not a comedian just for lawyers or a lawyer just for comedians. Catch her in the 2021 Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival Friday May 14 at 8pm. She will be creating characters from life and fantasy. Mots of them will remind you that the end is, in fact, near. But…in a funny way? More info on her show here. (Or search Chicago Nerd Comedy Festival on Facebook).

Follow Marie @amariesalter on Instagram & Twitter or @solveaproblemlikemarie on TikTok.

Our Lovely Guest, Marie Salter (Photo Credit: Julie Merica)

Newspaper article on a Children’s Crusade musical?

Depiction of the Children’s Crusade by Gustave Dore

Route of 1212 Children’s Crusade

SOURCES: Wikipedia, World History Encyclopedia, Chronica Regiae Coloniensis

The Children's Crusade, Dana C. Munro- American Historical Review Vol 19,

Raffael Scheck, Did the Children's Crusade of 1212 really Consist of Children? Journal of Psychohistory vol 16

Billings, Malcolm. The Crusades: Five Centuries of Holy Wars. Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1996.

Brundage, James. The Crusades: A Documentary Survey. Literary Licensing, LLC, 2011.

Griffin, Mary. The Crusades (Look at World History). Illustrated, Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2019.

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

SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram

SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

Let's talk about sex[uality], baby! This week we're making sweet, sweet music with jazz musician, Billy Tipton, and Polish virtuoso, Frédéric François Chopin. But it isn't all about the music, it's about gender expression, sexuality...and music.

Billy Tipton on the Keys

Billy Tipton Trio

Billy Tipton Plays Hi-Fi on Piano Record, 1957

Billy Tipton Performing Sweet Georgia Brown

Frédéric François Chopin

Portrait of Frédéric Chopin & George Sand by Eugène Delacroix

Chopin’s boyhood friend Tytus Woyciechowski

SOURCES:

Billy Tipton Story:

Chopin Story:

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SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram

SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

In a blast from the not-so-distant past, we're revisiting the tumultuous break up and deeply problematic aftermath of Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. Join us and our guest, host of the B-Sides Podcast, Hannah Weilbacher as we seek Justice for Britney!

More on Hannah

Hannah is the founder and co-host of The B-Sides, a pop music appreciation podcast and corner of the internet. She believes in community organizing and the healing power of a good Taylor Swift bridge. She lives in Astoria, Queens. If you're a progressive who loves pop music, listen to The B-Sides podcast and learn more about the project at listentothebsides.com.

Check out Hannah’s podcast at @listentothebsides on Instagram

Our Lovely Guest, Hannah Weilbacher(Photo Credit: Richard Rankin)

Britney & Justin

Britney & Diane Sawyer

SOURCES:

https://anchor.fm/the-b-sides/episodes/04--It-Was-Brtney--Btch-edk2c6

Framing Britney Spears: Movie by NYTimes

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/justin-timberlake-britney-spears-timeline

https://www.glamour.com/story/justin-timberlake-faces-backlash-over-the-new-britney-spears-doc-framing-britney

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/arts/music/justin-timberlake-statement-britney-spears.html

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

SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram

SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

Climb in the the Shared History sidecar as we go on a journey of the "discovery" and definition of what is now known as ADHD, then zip over to Flanders field WWI for the story of Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker aka the Angels of Pervyse [Pervice].

Sir Alexander Crichton

Sir George Frederic Still

Fidgety Phil in action

The Story of Fidgety Philip by Heinrich Hoffman (video)

Elsie Knocker & Mairi Chisholm in nurses uniform

Elsie & Mairi with Dr. Munro in the sidecar (of Munro’s flying ambulance corps)

Mairi & Elsie at their station

Locations of Mairi & Elsie’s bases in relation to Belgian front line

Elsie & Mairi in trenches

Elsie with her motorbike

Mairi with her motorbike

Elsie & her 2nd Hubs, the Baron

SOURCES:

ADHD Story: US National Library of Medicine, healthline.com, attitude magazine

Mairi & Elsie story:

- Wikipedia, Sheroes of History, The Vintagent, VisitFlanders.com, BBC News

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

SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram

SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

Grab your passport because Scottish actor & writer Adam McNamara is taking us home and serving up some Scottish justice. It's the story of the first official, modern police force in the UK: The Glasgow City Police (back TF up, London).

More on Adam

Adam McNamara is a Scottish Actor and Writer. Select stage credits include the National Theatre of Scotland’s acclaimed play Black Watch and the original West End cast of Harry Potter & the Cursed Child, select screen credits include Black Mirror and Vikings among othaers . He is the playwright of Stand By, a multi-sensory play set in a police riot van which made it’s Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2017 and is currently developing and pitching a series based on the Glasgow City Police story.

Follow Adam at @ads2101 on Instagram and @AdamMcNamara77 on Twitter.

Our Lovely Guest, Adam McNamara (Photo Credit: Richard Rankin)

The Laigh Kirk, Trongate where The Glasgow Police first mustered

Plaque recognizing Glasgow Police est.

SOURCES:

Archibald, Malcolm. Glasgow: The Real Mean City: True Crime and Punishment in the Second City of the Empire. Black & White Publishing, 2014.

Berresford-Ellis, Peter, et al. The Radical Rising: The Scottish Insurrection of 1820. None, Birlinn, 2016.

Carmichael, A. The Casebook of Glasgow’s Victorian Detective. Honeyman and Wilson, 2011.

Craig, Maggie. Bare-Arsed Banditti. UK ed., Mainstream Publishing, 2010.

Glasgow City Council. “Police Officers.” Family History at the Mitchell, 2014, www.glasgowfamilyhistory.org.uk/ExploreRecords/Pages/Police-Officers.aspx.

The Glasgow Police Museum. “Glasgow Police History.” The Glasgow Police Museum, 2020, www.policemuseum.org.uk/glasgow-police-history/pre-1800.

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

SOCIALS: Follow Shared History at @SharedPod on Twitter & Instagram

SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

Kicking off Season 4 with a Ladies Night! From legendary 3rd century Vietnamese warrior, Lady Triệu or Triệu Thị Trinh to modern maestra Jessica Bejarano, we are off and running this season covering a lot of ground and a lot of time.

Folk Painting of Lady Triệu

Illustration of Lady Trieu slayin’ orcas by Ấm Chè

Ba Trieu Temple in Thanh Hoa Province

Jessica Bejarano

Bejarano conducts Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

SOURCES:

Lady Trieu Story:

Engel, Keri. “Trieu Thi Trinh, the Vietnamese Joan of Arc.” Amazing Women In History, 1 Mar. 2012, amazingwomeninhistory.com/trieu-thi-trinh-the-vietnamese-joan-of-arc.

Mason, Dancy. “Valiant Facts About Lady Trieu, The Vietnamese Joan of Arc.” Factinate, 10 Feb. 2021, www.factinate.com/people/facts-lady-trieu.

Seletyn. “Women’s History Month: Lady Triệu.” Thoughts and Ponderances, 13 Dec. 2019, seletyn.com/2020/03/03/womens-history-month-lady-trieu.

Szcepanski, Kallie. “Trieu Thi Trinh, Vietnam’s Warrior Lady.” ThoughtCo, 16 Oct. 2019, www.thoughtco.com/trieu-thi-trinh-vietnams-warrior-lady-195779.

Wikipedia

Jessica Bejarano Story: San Francisco Classical Voice, Wiki, JessicaBejarano.com & KQED.org

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

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SUPPORT: Our network, Arcade Audio, is on Patreon. Support them and gain access to loads of bonus content from Shared History and other Arcade podcasts: patreon.com/arcadeaudio

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 season of Shared History is sponsored by RAYGUN, ECBG Cake Studio & The Banditry Co.

We're bullying Cass into doing a Chicago-centric finale, y'all! It's the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (aka The Columbian Exposition but it's not about that jerk)! Together with special finale guest and Chicago tourism pro Jim Vozzella, we're exploring how we got, built, enjoyed and remember the fair. As is out finale custom, all three of us are bringing you a different slice of Chicago World's Fair pie on this, our SEASON 3 FINALE!

More on Jim

Jim Vozzella is a Chicago-based actor, improviser and Chicago tourism professional. Presently, you can catch him streaming comedy and creativity on Twitch with the Emmy Award Winning team of Project Adventure (@projectadventurelive) or as a part of Laugh Out Loud’s mainstage ensemble. Follow Jim at @jimmyvo5959 on Instagram and @jvozzella5959 on Twitter.

Our Lovely Guest, Jim Vozzella

Map of the Chicago Fire burn zone (for ref)

Daniel Burnham

Birds Eye View of The World’s Columbian Exposition v1

Currier and Ives Lithograph birds-eye view of the fair

Souvenir Map of Fair

Another rendering of the fair

OG Ferris Wheel designed by George Washington Gale Ferris

Inside the Palace of Fine Arts during fair

Exterior Palace of Fine Arts today (aka Museum of Science and Industry)

The Woman’s Building

1893 Parliament of the World's Religions mtg

Artistic rendering of Nancy Green "Aunt Jemima" at fair

Fair ticket booth today

Mayor Carter Harrison Sr

Harrison’s assassination in the news 1 and 2

HH Holmes

Holmes’ Murder Castle (safe for work)

Photo and cross section of murder castle (sfw)

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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,  Wonder City Studio, &  ECBG Cake Studio (all promocodes mentioned in episode are one word, no spaces)

Direct sponsorship inquiries here.

Science and sports?! Nat tells us about Queen of Nuclear Research Chien-Shiung Wu and Cass shares the story of football hall of famer Johnny Bright. Neither of whom attended a Michigan university.

Chien-Shiung Wu

Rachel Ignotofsky’s Chien-Shiung Wu Illustration

Johnny Bright

Bright in Headlines

SOURCES:

Chien-Shiung Wu: NPS.gov, atomicheritage.org, Brown University, Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky

Johnny Bright

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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, &  ECBG Cake Studio (all promocodes mentioned in episode are one word, no spaces)

Direct sponsorship inquiries here.