As a podcaster, a historian, a human, I want to extend my deepest love and sympathies to the family of Nex Benedict in the wake of their untimely and preventable death. We have to ACT and SPEAK OUT against inequality and prejudice in this country. We cannot hide in the shadows or make excuses for our relatives or friends who quietly support hate in the name of God or their church or their privilege. Thank you to everyone who reached out yesterday on Instagram. This podcast supports trans youth, all youth, all children, all people, and this is a safe space forever.

Enjoy an unlocked bonus episode as a thank you from me to the most amazing followers and listeners in the freaking world!!! xx

A portion of March's Patreon earnings will go to a transgender-supporting charity.

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Join me as I tell the tragic but beautiful tale of two of Titanic's honeymooners--the Marvins, a gorgeous and glowing young couple from New York. In a newspaper interview shortly afterward, Mary said,  unable yet to process Daniel's death: “My God, don’t ask me too much. Tell me, have you any news from Dan? He grabbed me in his arms and knocked down men to get me into the boat. As I was put in the boat he cried ‘It’s alright, little girl, you go and I will stay a while. I’ll put on a life preserver and jump off and follow your boat.’ As our boat shoved off, he threw a kiss at me, and that is the last I saw of him.”

For tickets to the Knoxville showing of Unsinkable: Titanic Untold, find the film's website here: https://www.unsinkablethemovie.com/tickets

More info on my live show VERY SOON!

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I am THRILLED to bring you an interview with Max Miller, whose YouTube Channel is a gorgeously innovative but also accessible look at the local and global histories of food and recipes across time and place. There are equal parts cooking and history! I'll link his Titanic-specific episodes just below, as well as his video for 400-year old Buttered Beere, which we discuss at the end. I'm so grateful we got to speak about his love of Titanic, what inspired/inspires him to to create Tasting History, and the beauty in the "mundane" details our textbooks have so often left out. Thank you Max, for giving some time to Unsinkable!

Follow Max Miller on Insta @tastinghistory

Find Max's Titanic-themed episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIkaZtzr9JDlFDMpTL3Xyjbuj9I2yvZeI

And find his Buttered Beere here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlMhZvOX2ps

Make sure to grab a copy of his book, find it at a great price via my Bookshop storefront: https://bookshop.org/a/80949/9781982186180

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Join me as I FINALLY return to my side series Titanic on Film with a look at 2012’s 12-part miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel. 

Make sure to click the merch/Bonfire link below to grab your original-design Unsinkable tee before they’re retired forever!

Recommendations:

Salem the Podcast (collaboration coming!): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/salem-the-podcast/id1612165471

Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth (for Patreon book club!):

https://www.amazon.com/Molly-Brown-Unraveling-Kristen-Iversen/dp/1555664687/ref=sr_1_1?crid=22MM8O3YXQ2SY&keywords=molly+brown&qid=1706043580&sprefix=molly+brown%2Caps%2C116&sr=8-1

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Join me for a look at the life of Engelhart and Helen Ostby, father-and-daughter jewelers who boarded Titanic in First Class. Until recently, I had no idea that such a crucial figure in Edwardian fashion and design was a passenger or that he trained his daughter in the business by traversing Europe, a fairly modern and feminist concept. The Ostby story is one of immigration, one of innovation, and their rings remain part of our aesthetic today. This is random and beautiful Titanica at its finest!

Also, for Anderson Cooper's new book, which I mention, please consider purchasing through my Bookshop link below!

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Thanks to Angie Hung, actor and podcaster, for joining me on a fun rewatch of the Kate Winslet holiday classic (can something 20 years old be a classic?!) The Holiday. This was an exclusive Patreon episode for its first couple of weeks, but I wanted to unlock for everyone. Happy holidays!!!

Find Angie on Instagram: @angiehung

Find her pod here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-would-kate-do-specifically-kate-winslet-as-an-actress/id1674467743

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Join me for an exploration of the life of Third Class Passenger Hilda Hellstrom. In November of this year, a group of Titanic researchers, enthusiasts and descendants assembled to honor her life and memories with a new headstone at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. This episode is an amalgam of that experience, with descendant interviews conducted by listener Mia Morgante (an unsinkable thank you, Mia!) and insight from the Paul Burns, Titanic Museum Attractions' curator and Tony Probst, the collector who spearheaded this memorial service. Mia and I also sit down to unpack the experience, speak on the importance of preserving oral histories, and what a life like Hilda's means for all of us.

Special thank yous to: Paul Burns, Tony Probst, Anton Centko, Claire Centko, and everyone at the Titanic Museum Attractions

Find Mia on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/photos.via.mia/

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This is the first of two holiday-inspired December episodes.

Join me AT the Titanic Museum Attraction as Emily Densky and I discuss the haunting beauty in recognizing the lives of Titanic's children, both those who survived and those lost. We tell the story of Douglas Spedden, whose survival that night (alongside his family) inspired his mother Daisy to write a children's book at Christmas, 1913--to help him cope with the unbelievable trauma, no doubt. Douglas' life was cut horrifically short just two years later, and the manuscript slept in a trunk for decades...until a descendant stumbled upon it and brought it out into the world.

We jump around at the end to a bit of everything as well--happenings at the museum, descendant visits to the museum, and....past life regression?!

To find out more about the museum and all it does + how to visit, so right here: https://titanicpigeonforge.com

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Join me for this, an incredible (though heartbreaking) story of how Swedish immigrant Elin Gerda Lindell's wedding ring ended up in the bottom of Titanic's last recovered lifeboat--

I'm not on Facebook, but this is just happened to be a great link straight to a photo as part of the Titanic Exhibition (not, as of April 2023, still in New York):

https://m.facebook.com/titanictheexhibition/videos/real-objects-from-the-titanic-mrs-gerda-lindells-ring/211290281080001/

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Join me as I catch up with Titanic Talk co-host (and my dear friend!) Nelson Aspen as he releases his new novel, Dancing Between the Raindrops, which is truly a love letter to New York City. Nelson is, of course, also a renowned entertainment journalist and a prolific writer. We discuss everything from his earliest interest in Titanic and how it shaped his life and passions to the writing process and its sleepless nights.

For updates on this winter's happy hours, follow Nelson on Insta: https://www.instagram.com/nelsonaspen/

Find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Between-Raindrops-actual-remember-ebook/dp/B0CNFGH6BF/ref=sr_1_7?crid=1V1887KSSQHR5&keywords=dancing+between+the+raindrops&qid=1700195238&s=digital-text&sprefix=dancing+between+the+raindrops%2Cdigital-text%2C102&sr=1-7

And find Nelson's website (with links to Titanic Talk!) here: http://www.nelsonaspen.com/index.html

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