Latest Comedy History Podcast Episodes
The Resident: A Poor Historians Medical TV Show Breakdown & Review
Poor Historians: Misadventures in Medical History - April 18, 2024 05:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsThe Patrons have spoken! They suggested we lend our medical expertise in a new and unique manner, by watching, reacting, and reviewing a popular medical show. We chose "The Resident" and boy-oh-boy was it bad. Whether you're a fan of that particular show or have yet to see it, this episode wil...
Episode 140: The Demise & Potential Comeback of Ames Department Stores; Old School Mall Portrait Studios; Best-Selling Atari 2600 Games(4-17-2024)
In My Footsteps: A Cape Cod and New England Podcast - April 17, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThe rise and fall, and rise again(possibly) of Ames Department Stores. Old school trips to the mall to get professional photos taken. The best-selling Atari 2600 games ever. Episode 140 returns after a week off filled with fun nostalgia. It begins with the story of a Northeast staple for decades...
Liz Tregenza, "Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70" (Bloombury, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Liz Tregenza seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were simply copyists and demonstrate the complexities of their design processes and business strategies. This term has fallen out of usage; however, it was use...
Philip Freeman, "Two Lives of Saint Brigid" (Four Courts Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSt. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential centres of the Church in early Ireland. The stories of Brigid's life and ...
Thor Rydin, "The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872-1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse" (Amsterdam UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThor Rydin joins to talk about his new book, The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga (1872- 1945): Writing History in the Age of Collapse (Amsterdam UP, 2023). This book offers a new perspective on the Dutch cultural historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945), who remains one of the most famous European ...
D. J. Taylor, "Who Is Big Brother?: A Reader's Guide to George Orwell" (Yale UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAn intellectual who hated intellectuals, a socialist who didn't trust the state--our foremost political essayist and author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four was a man of stark, puzzling contradictions. Knowing Orwell's life and reading Orwell's works produces just as many questions as it a...
Eve Golden, "Strictly Dynamite: The Sensational Life of Lupe Velez" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsBefore Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, and Penelope Cruz, there was Lupe Velez―one of the first Latin-American stars to sweep past the xenophobia of old Hollywood and pave the way for future icons from around the world. Her career began in the silent era, when her beauty was enough to make it onto the...
Jerry Grillo, "Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Mize" (U Nebraska Press, 2024)
New Books in History - April 17, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsJohnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a profess...
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This is Not a History Lecture - April 16, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsWelcome to a refreshingly casual take on history podcasts. Join Kat and Kaleigh as they share their favorite stories from history - the odd, the funny, the forgotten, and the often misunderstood. But fair warning, this is not your average history lecture. New episodes every Tuesday! Contact us! T...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Manuel Lucena Giraldo, "How the Spanish Empire Was Built: A 400 Year History" (Reaktion, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsSixteenth-century Spain was small, poor, disunited and sparsely populated. Yet the Spaniards and their allies built the largest empire the world had ever seen. How did they achieve this? In How the Spanish Empire Was Built: a 400-year History (Reaktion, 2024) Dr. Felipe Fernández-Armesto and Dr. ...
Jorell Meléndez-Badillo, "Puerto Rico: A National History" (Princeton UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsPuerto Rico is a Spanish-speaking territory of the United States with a history shaped by conquest and resistance. For centuries, Puerto Ricans have crafted and negotiated complex ideas about nationhood. Jorell Meléndez-Badillo provides a new history of Puerto Rico that gives voice to the archipe...
Kerry Wallach, "Traces of a Jewish Artist: The Lost Life and Work of Rahel Szalit" (Penn State UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsGraphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings hav...
Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel, "A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes" (Rizoli, 2023)
New Books in History - April 16, 2024 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsFor every lover of food culture, A History of the World in 10 Dinners: 2,000 Years, 100 Recipes (Rizzoli, 2023) by Victoria Flexner and Jay Reifel presents scrupulously researched and accessible cookbook presents one-of-a-kind dinner parties inspired by seminal moments in culinary history. In ten...
213 - Mysterious Deaths
Our Weird World - April 15, 2024 09:00 - 31 minutesIf you hate unresolved stories, this episode isn't for you! We're looking at the mysterious and mostly unsolved deaths of Roland T. Owen, Elisa Lam, LeRoy Carter, and Alfred Loewenstein. Like the show on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/OurWeirdWorldPod/ Follow John on Twitter and Instagram ...
Miriam Piilonen, "Theorizing Music Evolution: Darwin, Spencer, and the Limits of the Human" (Oxford UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsWhat did historical evolutionists such as Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer have to say about music? What role did music play in their evolutionary theories? What were the values and limits of these evolutionist turns of thought, and in what ways have they endured in present-day music research? ...
Steven Ujifusa, "The Last Ships from Hamburg: Business, Rivalry, and the Race to Save Russia's Jews on the Eve of World War I" (HarperCollins, 2023)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsOver thirty years, from 1890 to 1921, 2.5 million Jews, fleeing discrimination and violence in their homelands of Eastern Europe, arrived in the United States. Many sailed on steamships from Hamburg. This mass exodus was facilitated by three businessmen whose involvement in the Jewish-American na...
Melvin L. Rogers, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" (Princeton UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsPolitical Theorist Melvin L. Rogers has a deep and rich new book delving into the work of a host of different African American political thinkers. But this work is much more than an exploration of some of the writings by African American thinkers, it importantly tells the story of America. The Da...
Kevin Lambert, "Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2021)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThe stereotype of the solitary mathematician is widespread, but practicing users and producers of mathematics know well that our work depends heavily on our historical and contemporary fellow travelers. Yet we may not appreciate how our work also extends beyond us into our physical and societal e...
Annaliese Jacobs Claydon, "Arctic Circles and Imperial Knowledge: The Franklin Family, Indigenous Intermediaries, and the Politics of Truth" (Bloomsbury, 2024)
New Books in History - April 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn 1845 an expedition led by Sir John Franklin vanished in the Canadian Arctic. The enduring obsession with the Franklin mystery, and in particular Inuit information about its fate, is partly due to the ways in which information was circulated in these imperial spaces. Arctic Circles and Imperial...
Ada Lovelace | 1: Born of Scandal
ILL REPUTE! with Sovereign Syre & Ela Darling - April 15, 2024 03:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsWhen one of the smartest women in England, Anne Isabella Milbanke, fell in love with the most scandalous, and handsome, creative genius of his time, Lord Byron, the fallout was nothing less than a national scandal. Their young daughter, Ada, was caught in the crossfire. Ada spent her early child...
Ep 295: Angus Dunican - World's Worst Ventriloquist
Worst Foot Forward - April 15, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 47 ratingsDONATE TO THE HARDEST GEEZER! Try and see our lips move on this week's episode as Angus Dunican returns to talk to us about the World's Worst Ventriloquist. From puppets on the beat to those who faced down the Nazis and lived to tell the tale, there's something for everyone in here. Assuming ...
Adam Kabat, "The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan" (Columbia UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAdam Kabat’s The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales: Monster Comics from Edo Japan (Columbia UP, 2023) is an in-depth introduction to the rich and ribald world of kibyōshi, a short-lived (1778-1807) subgenre of books combining text and illustration on the same page, much like comic bo...
Jeremy Black, "The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History" (Routledge, 2015)
New Books in History - April 14, 2024 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn The Atlantic Slave Trade in World History (Routledge, 2015), Jeremy Black presents a compact yet comprehensive survey of slavery and its impact on the world, primarily centered on the Atlantic trade. Opening with a clear discussion of the problems of defining slavery, the book goes on to inves...
Joseph H. Holland, "Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers" (Dafina, 2023)
New Books in History - April 14, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsOne hundred and twenty Black leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs share their wisdom and experience across the centuries in Make Your Own History: Timeless Truths from Black American Trailblazers (Dafina, 2023), an inspiring collection of exemplary Black voices--past and present, familiar and u...
Jae Hee Han, "Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
New Books in History - April 13, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn Prophets and Prophecy in the Late Antique Near East (Cambridge UP, 2023), Jae Han investigates how various Late Antique Near Eastern communities—Jews, Christians, Manichaeans, and philosophers—discussed prophets and revelation, among themselves and against each other. Bringing an interdiscipli...
Maria Snegovaya, "When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe" (Oxford UP, 2024)
New Books in History - April 13, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsIn her new book, When Left Moves Right: The Decline of the Left and the Rise of the Populist Right in Postcommunist Europe (Oxford University Press, 2024), Maria Snegovaya argues that, contrary to the view that emphasizes the sociocultural aspects (xenophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, etc.) of t...
R. J. Boutelle, "The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny" (UNC Press, 2023)
New Books in History - April 13, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsAs Manifest Destiny took hold in the national consciousness, what did it mean for African Americans who were excluded from its ambitions for an expanding American empire that would shepherd the Western Hemisphere into a new era of civilization and prosperity? In The Race for America: Black Inter...
Unsinkable: Titanic Untold - Part 2
Tea-Tanic - April 12, 2024 14:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsOH heeeeyyyyy you guyyys!! PART 2 has arrived! Lets do a lil' recap shall we? I got to see "Unsinkable: Titanic Untold" on the BIG SCREEN before its theatrical release. But now.. IT'S OFFICIALLY HERE!! 4/12/2024. It is in theaters now!! Thanks to the Pasadena International Film Festival and Un...
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What the F**k History - April 12, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsYou know what you need? A little more James in your life. At least that's what we think. From the insane April Fools episode comes the out takes and prerecording shenanigans of our time with James. Maybe he'll come again next year like some kind of fool gremlin, tricking us into more weird coinci...
Paul Williams, "The US Graphic Novel" (Edinburgh UP, 2022)
New Books in History - April 12, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 187 ratingsThis book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel (Edinburgh UP, 2022) pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth centur...
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