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History Spelunkers Podcast
A podcast where three friends delve into niche and obscure topics from our history. Highlighting the absurd and interconnected nature of our world. Dive down the rabbit hole with us!
How many balls could a football foot, if a football could foot balls?
In today's episode, (our 50th WOW!!) worlds collide as the jocks and the nerds meld minds and the History Spelunkers becomes a sports podcast. Some of the issues we tackle in our conversation are as follows: How old are different sports? Does it makes sense for the United States to have their own football? Is soccer the better name? Can Kelvin pronounce indigenous names? Dive down the Rabbit hole to find out!!
SHOWNOTES:
- Episode art is a sketch of a Calcio Storico game from the 1600s, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- https://darwinshistoryofsoccer.weebly.com/history.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121225025856/http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/history/the-game/origins.html
- Highest Scoring College Game: https://www.ncaa.com/news/football/article/2024-09-14/georgia-tech-222-cumberland-college-0-history-weird-facts
- Highest Scoring College Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doZzrsDJo-4&ab_channel=JonBois
- Aussie Rules: https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/australian-rules-football
- First College Football Game: https://scarletknights.com/sports/2022/7/25/sports-m-footbl-archive-first-game-html.aspx
- Medival Football -- Calcio Storico: https://italysegreta.com/calcio-storico/
- Italian Fascist Football -- Volata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie7y2DSkfW0&ab_channel=ArchivioLuceCinecitt%C3%A0
- Harpastrum: https://www.topendsports.com/sport/extinct/harpastum.htm
- Episkyros: https://www.britannica.com/sports/ball-sports#ref265840
- Eton Wall Game: https://www.etoncollege.com/news-and-diary/school-news/a-most-eton-sport-the-wall-game/
- Gaelic Football: https://www.gaa.ie/my-gaa/getting-involved/football-history-and-evolution
- Rugby: https://www.britannica.com/sports/rugby
- Modern Mob football: https://apnews.com/article/royal-shrovetide-ashbourne-ancient-soccer-murder-880658c923b33288df42af109d25e458
- Austus fusion sport: https://www.topendsports.com/sport/extinct/austus.htm
That is the question every man through time has faced. In today's episode we will delve into the social, political, and economic pressures that have influenced whether or not men as a class favor hair on their face throughout history.
Shownotes
- Episode Photo is of President Rutherford Hayes, POTUS with the longest beard, public domain accessed via Wikimedia Commons
- Sound clip is from an interview of the Duck Dynasty cast on Jimmy Kimmel Live show, from youtube
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-had-best-civil-war-facial-hair-180951965/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914
- https://daily.jstor.org/hair-gender-and-social-status-in-ancient-egypt/
- https://uk.bulldogskincare.com/blogs/news/when-in-rome-the-ancient-history-of-traditional-shaving#:~:text=Beards%20among%20Romans%20was%20revived,out%20of%20fashion%20ever%20since.
- https://www.grunge.com/790046/why-ancient-egyptians-shaved-all-their-hair/
- https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30037914
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/3829878
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9555278/
- https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/a-brief-history-of-beards/
- https://www.truefittandhill.com/blogs/journal/history-of-beards-and-facial-hair
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/beards-mustaches-weird-history
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stubble-and-statecraft-how-beards-grew-political
- https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/28/21077676/beard-change-politics-beto-orourke-al-gore-david-letterman-conan-obrien
- https://www.politico.com/magazine/gallery/2015/12/politicians-with-beards-000559/?slide=0
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair_in_the_military
- https://www.wou.edu/history/files/2015/08/Walsh-Devan.pdf
- https://www.indianamuseum.org/blog-post/whiskers-for-votes-or-why-abraham-lincoln-grew-a-beard/
- https://medium.com/@evgeny_o/why-the-greeks-grew-a-beard-while-the-romans-did-not-5d52a91c989#:~:text=The%20Romans%20believed%20that%20a,age%20solemnly%20shaved%20it%20off.
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Barba.html
Happy Holidays, History Spelunkers! What would you do to get your booze on? Well the cadets at the prestigious United States Military Academy at West Point are apparently willing to do a lot...
Shownotes:
- Episode art: The centennial of the United States Military academy at West Point, New York. 1802-1902, 1904, Internet Archive Book Images, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/egg-nog-its-all-fun-and-games-until-someone-starts-a-holiday-riot-180949281/
- https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/university-of-virginia-riot-of-1836/
Everyone gets up to some crazy stuff in college. For many it is the first time they are experiencing their first bouts of freedom and responsibility. Obviously the first thing we plan on doing with these new powers is to do something .... bizarre, but hey it cant be too weird if we are all doing it .... Right?
Content Warning: Animal Abuse
Shownotes:
- https://www.stltoday.com/news/archives/1952-mizzous-panty-raids-get-out-of-hand-the-national-guard-is-called-in/collection_47206b6e-f118-582c-b94f-411669d47431.html
- https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/12/1/panty-raids-retrospection/
- https://jimnicar.com/2014/11/24/the-great-panty-raid-of-november-1961/
- https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/1939-year-goldfish-gulping
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/great-goldfish-swallowing-craze-1939-180954429/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/01/netherlands-catfish-swallowing/581359/
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/ajc/id/7252/
- https://www.chattanoogan.com/2014/4/7/273658/The-Memorable-Streaking-Craze-Of-The.aspx
- https://www.americanheritage.com/streaking-fad
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/gallaudet-rat-graves
- https://thedailytexan.com/2020/02/10/one-special-fish-named-loompa-brings-ut-austin-community-together/
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Episode Art: Photo of a successful Panty Raid at the University of Southern California accessed at the UT History Corner, link https://jimnicar.com/2014/11/24/the-great-panty-raid-of-november-1961/
Content Warning: Racial and Sexual Violence
Welcome back to another episode of History Spelunkers. In this episode we learn about the Ku Klux Klan and how they managed to become such a large and influential organization during the 1920s. It is important to know one's enemy in order to fight against them effectively.
Shownotes:
- Episode Art is a photo of a KKK march in Washington D.C. in 1928, public domain, accessed via Wikimedia commons
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ku-klux-klan
- https://www.tpr.org/show/texas-matters/2017-03-17/texas-matters-how-the-kkk-took-control-of-texas-and-how-dan-moody-broke-them
- https://www.austincc.edu/jlw/klan
- https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-ku-klux-klan-in-the-1920s
- https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/vocesnovae/vol11/iss1/2/
- https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/second-klan/509468/
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lily-white-movement
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/2197800
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/grant-kkk/
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/
- https://lynchinginamerica.eji.org/explore
- https://plaintalkhistory.com/monroeandflorencework/context/lynching.html
- https://www.tuskegee.edu/news/tuskegee-university-hosts-lynchings-and-liberators-exhibition-throughout-february#:~:text=Tuskegee%20University%20now%20houses%20the,African%20Americans%20and%201%2C297%20whites.
- https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/packets/1
- https://wacohistory.org/items/show/200
- https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc279068/m2/1/high_res_d/1002659471-morris.pdf
- https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/bitstream/handle/2104/5376/richard_fair_thesis.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
- https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/archive/html/exec/governors/12.html
- https://vtuhr.org/articles/10.21061/vtuhr.v11i1.145
- https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-birth-of-a-nation#:~:text=Pressure%20from%20black%20voters%20causes,ban%20screenings%20of%20the%20film.&text=An%20African%20American%20newspaper%20in%20Denver%20argues%20against%20film%20coming%20to%20town.&text=Group%20of%20ministers%20in%20Iowa%20passes%20resolution%20denouncing%20film.&text=Birth%20of%20a%20Nation%20banned%20in%20Ohio.
- https://egrove.olemiss.edu/womenkkk/
- https://19thnews.org/2020/12/first-came-suffrage-then-came-the-women-of-the-ku-klux-klan/
- https://labs.library.vcu.edu/klan/learn
Happy Halloween! Welcome back to another spooky episode of History Spelunkers in which we discuss the stories that led us to the modern perception of the most infamous of blood sucking beasties.... the vampire!!!
Shownotes:
- Episode art is a scene from the 1922 film Nosferatu.
- The Vampyre: A Tale by John Polidori; accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/6087/6087-h/6087-h.htm
- Dracula by Bram Stokerl accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/345/345-h/345-h.htm
- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu; accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10007/10007-h/10007-h.htm
- Varney the Vampire by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest, accessible via the Internet Archive, https://archive.org/details/VarneyTheVampyre/page/n1/mode/1up
- Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Revenants of Hungary, Moravia, et al. by Antoine Augustin Calmet; accessible via Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29412/29412-h/29412-h.htm
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/grave-mercy-brown
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-englands-mystery-vampire-was-likely-farmer-named-john-180972815/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=teFCP69trOI&ab_channel=CaitlinDoughty
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EQ_axr1y7Y&ab_channel=KazRowe
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF9FIPSLMeM&ab_channel=ESOTERICA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS-KMoEjXBQ&t=509s&ab_channel=Let%27sTalkReligion
- Portrait of Vladislav Dracula, Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vlad_Tepes_002.jpg
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Hello all, and happy Election Season! 2024 is shapeing up to be one of the most dramatic and consequential year for national elections around the world. In the US many voters have expressed a desire for more options than the two main political parties, and they might be told that "this is how its always been". In this episode, we work to undo that myth and examine the long history of "third parties" in this country and hear about the most successful.
Shownotes:
- Episode Art: 1912 Progressive Party Campaign Button; Anonymous/Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
- https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/evolutionofparliament/parliamentaryauthority/revolution/overview/whigstories/
- Political Platforms: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/app-categories/elections-and-transitions/party-platforms
- https://news.gallup.com/poll/651278/support-third-political-party-dips.aspx
- https://www.state.gov/briefings-foreign-press-centers/elections-2024/third-parties-in-elections
- Former and Current Third Party Legislators:
- https://www.senate.gov/senators/SenatorsRepresentingThirdorMinorParties.htm
- https://history.house.gov/Institution/Party-Divisions/Party-Divisions/
- https://ballotpedia.org/Current_independent_and_minor_party_federal_and_state_officeholders
- Political Platforms for Minor Parties:
- https://www.lp.org/platform/
- https://www.gp.org/platform
- https://constitutionparty.com/principles/platform/
- https://www.prohibitionparty.org/platform
- https://www.solidarity-party.org/platform
- https://pslweb.org/program/
- Wizard of Oz Analysis: https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/populism-and-world-oz
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/ebooks/two-party-system.pdf
- https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text
- John C. Calhoun Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/John_C_Calhoun_by_Mathew_Brady%2C_1849.jpg
Are you a fan of a nice summer day? How about a cool fall wind? Do you like the look of a light snowfall in your yard? What if you could have whatever you wanted at a moments notice and all you had to do was call your local government? Well what if I told you that thanks to your tax dollars, you just might be able to get a permit for that.....
Shownotes:
- https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-donald-trump-suggest-nuking-hurricanes-1535171
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title15/chapter9A&edition=prelim#:~:text=No%20person%20may%20engage%2C%20or,Secretary%20may%20by%20rule%20prescribe.
- https://www.tdlr.texas.gov/weather/
- https://archive.org/details/Galaxy_v19n03_1961-02/page/n36/mode/1up?view=theater
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/weather-modification
- https://orau.org/health-physics-museum/collection/nuclear-weapons/hiroshima/black-rain.html
- https://www.science.org/content/article/can-nuclear-fallout-make-it-rain
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150828101449/http://www.knmi.nl/publications/fulltexts/hailcannons2_preprint.pdf
- http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/hailcan/hailcan.htm
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-us-government-tried-make-rain-exploding-dynamite-sky-180970193/
- https://grist.org/politics/believe-it-or-not-trump-isnt-the-first-to-propose-nuking-hurricanes/
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/10/17218872/nasa-rocket-engine-test-stennis-space-center-cloud-generation
- https://www.nytimes.com/video/arts/television/1247465789178/excerpt-conspiracy-theory.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXuc7SAyk2s&ab_channel=FOX10Phoenix
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2JnXjwWBM&ab_channel=WFAA
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Episode art is a sketch of the 1901 International Hail Cannon Congress; Plumandon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In the Americas the United States is considered the first experiment at non-monarchical rule and democracy. But what if I told you that there might be a group that might've tested the sails of democracy on the high seas?
Show Notes:
- Episode art is a photo of one of the few Jolly Roger flags that we know existed. The photo belongs to Karlsson, Anneli, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Recommend reading: The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them Downby Colin Woodard; https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/442239.The_Republic_of_Pirates
- Text of A General History of the Pyrates by Capt. Charles Johnson https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40580/40580-h/40580-h.htm
- Pirates of the Caribbean clip audio clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPBKt-x2Cw (OG belongs to Disney)
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
With there being so many states, it understandable that sometimes it would be confusing to know which one you are in. But it gets more confusing when people begin arguing over which state you should be in and are willing to stab you if you disagree with them.
Shownotes:
- Episode art is a map of Ellis Island from the NPS that shows the approximate boundary of the original island
- https://www.michigan.gov/dmva/about/history/military-events/highlights/the-toledo-war
- https://www.heritage.org/immigration/heritage-explains/the-toledo-war
- https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/archives/4196
- https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/vermontflag/
- https://www.statueofliberty.org/ellis-island/overview-history/
- https://www.nps.gov/elis/faqs.htm
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Hey yall! This is part two of the Texas Revolution deep dive and in this one we focus on the sister republic of Texas down in Yucatan. Texas might not be as unique in its independence than we like to think...
Shownotes:
- https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2020/03/the-republic-of-yucatan/
- https://militaryhistorynow.com/2022/04/28/the-yucatan-republic-how-a-mayan-independence-movement-became-a-sideshow-of-the-mexican-american-war/
- Episode art is an 1848 map of Yucatan by Augustus Le Plongeon
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Howdy y'all and welcome back to History Spelunkers. In this episode we discuss the Texas Revolution and all of the convoluted history that led up to it. In this episode yes we do remember the Alamo, it just takes us about a while to get to that point.
Shownotes:
- Episode art is The Fall of the Alamo by Robert Onderdonk;Public Domain via Wiki Commons
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/texas-revolution
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/santa-anna-antonio-lopez-de
- https://libraries.uta.edu/usmexicowar/node/4883
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/revolutionary-army
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Almost everyone loves animals. Join us as we go through the list of the famous pets of the POTUS. Now including a surprising number of alligators!
Shownotes:
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Episode Photo is of First Lady Grace Coolidge and her racoon Rebecca; in the public domain through the Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons
- https://www.forbes.com/advisor/pet-insurance/pet-ownership-statistics/#:~:text=Dogs%20are%20the%20most%20popular,and%20baby%20boomers%20(24%25).
- https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/sheep/
- https://www.lancasterhistory.org/all-the-presidents-pets/
- https://www.whitehousehistory.org/presidents-as-horsemen
- https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/alligators-white-house-pets/
- https://ethiopianism411.wordpress.com/2012/11/14/americas-first-presidential-hyena/
- https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/laddie-boy-harding-dog-collar/iQF5o_cxt0aaiA?hl=en
- https://coolidgefoundation.org/resources/the-coolidge-pets/
- https://americacomesalive.com/the-truman-dogs/
- https://www.nps.gov/thri/learn/kidsyouth/teddybearhistory.htm
Aloha everyone! In this episode we travel to the beautiful paradise in the middle of the Pacific know as the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii is one of the few states in these United States that can have the privilege of being their own independent nation. So today's question: why are these islands no longer independent?
Shownotes:
- Episode photo is of the US Sailors and Marines from the USS Boston during the 1893 coup which deposed the monarch.
- Good books on the subject:
- How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
- A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
- Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen by Queen Lili'uokalani
- The Morgan Report: https://books.google.com/books?id=tBkiAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA363#v=onepage&q&f=false
- The Blount Report: https://libweb.hawaii.edu/digicoll/annexation/blount.php
- https://imagesofoldhawaii.com/raising-the-united-states-flag/
- https://bulletin.punahou.edu/ending-the-kapu/
- https://talesofhawaii.net/2020/10/20/kapu-system-of-traditional-hawaiian-religious-practice/
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Hawaii
- chrome-extension://bdfcnmeidppjeaggnmidamkiddifkdib/viewer.html?file=https://files.hawaii.gov/dcca/reb/real_ed/re_ed/ce_prelic/land_in_hawaii.pdf
- https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/captain-cook-killed-in-hawaii
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Welcome back to the continuation of our tragic tale of one of the most infamous events to ever occur on the high seas: The wreck of the whaleship Essex. Once we finish learning about the fates of these poor souls we go on to examine a variety of related stories.
CW: death, murder, and cannibalism... a lot of cannibalism
- Cover art is a sketch by Thomas Nickerson of the whaleship Essex compared to the whale which sank it; public domain access via Wikimedia commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Essex_photo_03_b.jpg
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/cannibalism-human-behaviour
- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2000/05/essex-200005
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Essex-whaling-ship
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Dudley_and_Stephens#Cultural_impact
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Arthur_Gordon_Pym/GvhDAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
- https://www.google.com/books/edition/Moby_Dick/XV8XAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- https://iwc.int/en/
There she blows! In this episode of the podcast we find ourselves out on the high seas learning about the origins of one of the world's most famous pieces of literature: Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Prepare for a truly wild voyage into the obscure...
CW: violence towards animals
Shownotes:
- Opening audio is from the 1956 film edition of Moby Dick staring Gregory Peck and Dir. by John Huston
- Episode art- Nantucket Water Skid by Clifford W. Ashley. (1930) in the public domain accessed via the Wikimedia commons
- Audiobook of Moby Dick that I listened to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg84olIrn-k&ab_channel=AudiobooksUnleashed
- https://slimemoldsyd.medium.com/the-match-that-killed-all-the-turtles-the-galapagos-versus-massachusetts-b68818a82d4e
- https://nha.org/visit/museums-and-tours/whaling-museum/
- https://www.britannica.com/animal/sperm-whale
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Hello History Spelunkers!! Welcome back to a new episode just in time for the most wonderful time of the year. The world can seem like a pretty dark place at times, but there is a magic to this season that brings a bit of joy back into the world. And on some occasions that magic is powerful enough that it truly can bring peace on earth…if only for awhile.
Shownotes
- Donation Links: If you are able to please give.
- UNICEF--https://www.unicefusa.org/
- Doctors Without Borders--https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/
- International Rescue Committee--https://www.rescue.org/
- UN Refugee Agency-- https://www.unrefugees.org/
- Save The Children--https://www.savethechildren.org/
- Episode art is a colorized photo of a group of British and German soldiers fraternizing in No Man's Land during the 1914 Christmas truce, courtesy of Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/546523/Duke-of-Cambridge-Prince-William-Visit-Memorial-WWI-Christmas-Day-football-match
- https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-real-story-of-the-christmas-truce
- https://www.britannica.com/event/The-Christmas-Truce
- https://www.theworldwar.org/exhibitions/christmas-truce-winter-1914
- https://www.visionofhumanity.org/the-christmas-truce/
- https://gwern.net/doc/economics/1984-axelrod-theevolutionofcooperation-ch4-theliveandletlivesysteminwwi.html
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25206-2004Dec24.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Christmas_Letter#/media/File:Open_Christmas_letter_from_the_Suffragettes_of_Manchester_(11350682363).jpg
Saluton! Bonvenon al alia epizodo!
No, this is not gibberish you are seeing, this is the wonderful language of Esperanto. This language was invented to change the world and solve world peace! It may not have succeeded yet, but Esperantists would argue it's only a matter of time. Join us as we explore the world's most successful constructed languages and the perils its speakers experienced throughout its history.
Shownotes:
- Portrait of L. L. Zamenhoff; Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
- Apologies for all of the botched pronunciations, upon further study I realize i should've read a bit more, before attempting to speak the language.
- Intro is a clip from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country followed by an excerpt from a performance of Hamlet in Klingon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0k4qV1I1Y&t=357s&ab_channel=boydclanvirginia
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-hitler-and-stalin-hated-esperanto-the-135-year-old-language-of-peace-180980472/
- https://www.discoveringbelgium.com/bizarre-belgium-neutral-moresnet/
- https://sites.law.wustl.edu/WashULaw/harris-lexlata/esperanto-the-neutral-global-language/
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dpa3q/how-klingon-became-a-real-language
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- If you stay to the end you can hear my attempt at the Hamlet "To Be or Not To Be" speech in Esperanto
Hello everyone and welcome back to another episode of History Spelunkers. In today's episode we are going to delve into the question of why time works the way it does and what is the whole deal about daylight savings time. The short answer is that it is all arbitrary and that the pillars of our society will crumble like sand if we think about them for too long. If you want the more detailed answer, then you will just have to dive down the rabbit hole.....
Shownotes:
- Episode photo is from when the US Senate changed their clocks for the first daylight savings time observed by the country in 1918
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/09/samoa-plans-to-move-clocks-24-hours
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-happened-the-last-time-the-us-tried-to-make-daylight-saving-time-permanent-180979742/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Gregorian-calendar
- https://www.britannica.com/science/Julian-calendar
- https://restofworld.org/2023/newsletter-latin-america-mexico-end-daylight-savings/
- https://www.rbth.com/travel/329966-times-zones-russia
- https://www.geographyrealm.com/geography-of-the-international-date-line/
- https://greenwichmeantime.com/articles/history/conference/
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Happy Halloween from History Spelunkers! In this year's holiday episode instead of focusing on a monster or two from folklore, we are going to talk about horror movies. And this year we are going to keep things close to home and discuss films set in Texas, starting with one of the most famous horror films of all time: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Content warning! for lots of murder, sexual assault, gore, violence, and other horror stuff.
Shownotes:
- Episode art is a photo of actors Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface) and William Vail (Kirk) as they take a break during filming. Taken from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre official website: https://thetexaschainsawmassacre.com/making-the-original-texas-chainsaw-massacre-1974/
- https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/tobe-hooper
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ed-Gein
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/the-houston-mass-murders-what-really-happened/
- https://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/texarkana-murder-mystery/
- https://vault.fbi.gov/texarkana-phantom-moonlight-murders/texarkana-phantom-moonlight-murders
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Intro clip is from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
Movie List that were Mentioned
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) Dir. Tobe Hooper
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976) Dir. Charles B. Pierce
- The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014) Dir. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Alien (1979) Dir. Ridley Scott
- Audition (1999) Dir. Takashi Miike
- The Houses October Built (2014) Dir. Bobby Roe
- Last Shift (2014) Dir. Anthony DiBlasi
- Talk to Me (2022) Dir. Danny and Michael Philippou
- The Cabin in the Woods (2011) Dir. Drew Goddard
- Saw (2004) Dir. James Wan
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) Dir. Marcus Nispel
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994) Dir. Kim Henkel
- Friday the 13th (1980) Dir. Sean S. Cunningham
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Dir. Wes Craven
- Scream (1996) Dir. Wes Craven
- The Conjuring (2013) Dir. James Wan
- The Nun II (2023) Dir. Michael Chaves
I might have missed a couple but there are a lot of options.
Welcome back to part two of this special episode of History Spelunkers. In this one we continue talking about the origins of the sport of fencing, with a special focus on how western culture transitioned to stabbing people with swords for honor to instead doing it for points!
Shownotes:
- Episode art is "Säbelmensur" by Georg Mühlberg c. 1900
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- By the Sword: A History of Gladiators, Musketeers, Samurai, Swashbucklers, and Olympic Champions by Richard Cohen
- Julie d'Aubigny: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_d%27Aubigny
- Helene Mayer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Mayer
- Example of a Mensur Scar: Dr. Thomas Krüger, Bonn, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_Pieper_(2002).jpg
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-long-history-behind-fencers-hitdetecting-electrified-gear#:~:text=It%20wasn't%2C%20in%20fact,been%20practiced%20since%20time%20immemorial.
- https://www.academia.edu/25105787/Fencing_sport_weapon_handles_grips_the_short_chronology_and_history
- http://museumofamericanfencing.com/wp/category/fencing-history/
- https://www.britannica.com/sports/fencing
- https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/25/sports/in-fencing-a-new-day-for-women.html
- https://olympics.com/en/news/the-sabre-the-only-weapon-to-have-been-at-every-games-since-1896
Welcome back to another episode! The gauntlet is at your feet, will you answer the call? Today we begin our talk on the strange history of dueling in western society during the 16th through 19th centuries. We explain how people came up with the idea and how its popularity grew throughout the centuries.
Shownotes:
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Cover art is An Interrupted Duel by Marcus Stone c.1868; Marcus Stone, CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- Intro clip is from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam
- Giant Sword Photo: Zweihander
Welcome back one and all to another episode of History Spelunkers. Today our journey into the niche and obscure will take us back to the American Civil War. Mostly when one thinks of this conflict they imagine fighting in the fields of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, or Shiloh. But have you ever thought about the gray and blue duking it out off the shores of Northern France? Learn about that battle and more in today's episode!
Shownotes:
- Photo Engraving of the Sinking of the CSS Alabama by Harper's Weekly Magazine. In the public domain accessed via Wikimedia Commons
- The song clips are from the 1961 recording of Tennessee Ernie Ford performing "Union Dixie"
- https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/the-american-civil-war--1861-1865/the-battle-of-cherbourg.html
- https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/kearsarge-and-alabama
- http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/Article/h-973
- https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1932/june/it-happened-bahia
- https://www.britannica.com/event/Saint-Albans-Raid
- https://vermonthistory.org/st-albans-raid
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazil-confederate-flag-civil-war-americana-santa-barbara/2020/07/11/1e8a7c84-bec4-11ea-b4f6-cb39cd8940fb_story.html
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Welcome back to another episode of History Spelukers. Heads up, today's episode might be a bit depressing because there is a lot of terrible things that get talked about. In this episode we dive into the most high profile members of the famous family of American Royalty: the Kennedys. We also attempt to lay out the evidence for why some believe that their family is cursed...
!Content warning!- this one is basically entirely about death and medical misfortune
Shownotes:
- Family Photo of the Kennedy family at Hyannis Port in 1931. Public Domain through the Federal Government. Accessed via Wikimedia Commons.
- Opening Music from the musical Camelot (1960): Music by Frederick Loewe and Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner
- https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/15/us/kennedy-family-curse/index.html
- https://www.historyhit.com/the-kennedy-curse-a-timeline-of-tragedy/
- https://www.historyhit.com/inside-the-myth-what-was-kennedys-camelot/
- https://www.life.com/history/jackie-movie-life-magazine/
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Welcome back one and all to Season 2 of History Spelunkers! Starting of our journey into the niche and obscure we are going back in time and across the pond to give you the strange tale of the time someone tried to steal the Crown Jewels of England.
Shownotes:
- https://britishheritage.com/history/man-steals-crown-jewels#:~:text=Known%20as%20one%20of%20the,madness%20and%20ended%20in%20arrest.
- https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/avenue/ourpast/thedaringcaptureofthestoneofdestiny/
- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Stone-of-Scone
- Picture of the Crown Jewels is in the public domain, access via Wikimedia Commons
- Audio of God Save the King is from King Charles III coronation ceremony (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqse9O9j3kg&ab_channel=TheRoyalFamilyChannel)
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
In this, the final episode of season 1, we mesh two topics: the history of Santa Claus and the history of Coca-Cola promotions. It works, I promise, you just need to trust the process...
Shownotes:
- https://seekingalpha.com/article/131886-why-is-pepsico-buying-its-bottlers
- https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history/five-things-you-never-knew-about-santa-claus-and-coca-cola
- https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/what-is-designation/heritage-highlights/did-oliver-cromwell-really-ban-christmas/#:~:text=The%20rejection%20of%20Christmas%20as,1660%2C%20Christmas%20was%20officially%20illegal.
- https://www.coca-colacompany.com/company/history/the-story-of-one-of-the-most-memorable-marketing-blunders-ever
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBCKnhFwE\_4&t=28s&ab\_channel=mycommercials
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
This is part 2 of our series on Thanksgiving. Today we focus on what happened after the first meal and how the relationship between the colonists and the Indigenous people rapidly deteriorated. But to not be entirely depressing we also end the episode talking about some of the weird traditions that have become associated with the holiday.
Shownotes:
- Photo of Plymouth rock is from the public domain via wikimedia commons
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- King Philip's War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNXDplgft_g&ab_channel=Atun-SheiFilms
- Pequot War: http://pequotwar.org/about/
- https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/native-history-its-memorial-dayin-1637-the-pequot-massacre-happened
Happy Thanksgiving! Join us as we discuss the history of the holiday and the background of both the Pilgrims and the Indigenous people who played a part with it.
Shownotes:
- Intro clip is from Rick and Morty. An [adult swim] show from the minds of Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon. Specifically Season 5 Episode 6.
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Episode art is John Leon Gerome Ferris' painting The First Thanksgiving 1621.
Happy Halloween!! We couldn't get enough cryptid content so I had to share this list of bizarre creatures. Let us know which ones are your favorite as historyspelunkers@gmail.com!
Happy Halloween to all you witches, ghouls, and other spooks that go bump in the night!! We are back at it with a look at the history behind some famous Halloween monsters that haunt our imagination (and perhaps even our reality)…
Shownotes:
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Opening Clip is the Main Theme from John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) (please don't sue us)
- https://texashillcountry.com/houston-batman-flying-monster/
- Shout out to the Old Gods of Appalacia Podcast! https://oldgodsofappalachia.com/
- The book about the demon aliens I was talking about was Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
- https://www.mothmanmuseum.com/
- 24/7 Livecam of the Mothman Statue in Point Pleasant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9AEnutatnI&ab_channel=MothmanCam
This is part two of the Theodore Roosevelt Episode. In this we pick up from the moment of his retirement and follow TR as he romps across the world going on fun(?) adventures.
Shownotes:
- Apologies about the audio quality!
- Cover Photo is in the public domain via Wikimedia Commons: Theodore Roosevelt with Elephant (1909)
- https://www.si.edu/object/auth_exp_fbr_EACE0006
- https://transcription.si.edu/project/10930
- Copy of African Game Trails: https://archive.org/details/africangametrail01roos
- Copy of Through the Brazilian Wilderness: https://www.loc.gov/item/14019126/
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Theodore Roosevelt often sits near the top of the American Pantheon. He was influential, popular, and a true force of nature. But behind the spectacles of that Mount Rushmore face, he was also just a guy being a dude! Join us as we discuss some of the lesser known incidents of his life.
Shownotes:
- Apologies about the audio quality!
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/theodore-roosevelt/
- Theodore Roosevelt Speech Audio from the Library of Congress
- Episode Photo from Public Domain via Wikimedia commons
- Edith Roosevelt Portrait: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edith_Roosevelt_Official_Portrait.jpg
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-10-07-0210070158-story.html
You have heard of Star Wars; now it is time to learn about the Bone Wars! Join us this week as we learn about the dramatic and petty professional rivalry that launched the study of paleontology in the United States.
Shownotes:
- https://ansp.org/exhibits/online-exhibits/stories/bone-wars-the-cope-marsh-rivalry/
- https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/dinosaur-rivalry/
- https://www.thoughtco.com/the-bone-wars-1092038
- https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/dinosaur-prehistoric-paleoart-zoe-lascaze
- Opening Clip is from Jurassic Park (1993) Dir. by Stephen Spielberg
- Cover Photo: Photo of Crystal Park Megalosaurus. Attribution: www.CGPGrey.com, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2005-03-30_-_London_-_Crystal_Palace_-_Victorian_Dinosaurs_4887158469.jpg
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- This guy's videos are really good! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWylzOryws&ab_channel=TheHistoryGuy%3AHistoryDeservestoBeRemembered
75 years ago something fell from the sky in New Mexico. Join us as we discuss the birth of the modern UFO era and place your bets on what the Government is say to explain away all evidence of extra terrestrial contact! Hint: read the title of this episode.
Shownotes:
- https://archive.org/details/1947RadioNews/1947-07-08-ABC-News-Roswell.mp3
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/answers-unclassified-ufo-report/story?id=78486423
- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-reports-400-ufo-encounters-tells-congress-theyre-investigating-video/story?id=84753756
- https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf
- https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099410910/ufo-hearing-congress-military-intelligence
- McMinnville Photos
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trent1_600dpi.jpg
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McMinnville_UFO_2.png
- Cover Photo: Jesse Marcel with Roswell wreckage- Public Domain via Wikimedia
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- X-files theme composed by Mark Snow
- Bill Clinton Speech-Christmas Tree Lighting in Belfast (1995) from William J. Clinton Presidential Library
One Year Anniversary Episode!!! Summertime is the perfect time for swimming in the ocean and running from the creatures that call it home. Join us as we talk about the most famous shark story ever told and the true story that inspired it...
Shownotes:
- Photo: The only surviving photo of the "Matawan Man-eater"
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Intro audio is from the movie Jaws by Steven Spielberg
- Interactive map-https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/maps/world-interactive/
- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/may/31/jaws-40-years-on-truly-great-lasting-classics-of-america-cinema
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/07/07/
100214613.pdf
- https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1916/07/14/104
681679.pdf
- https://www.sharkattackfile.net/
- https://allthatsinteresting.com/shark-attacks-1916
If you are ever looking for fun weekend plans here is a suggestion. Commandeer an abandoned piece of military property, and then declare independence from your home country! As we discuss in today's episode absolutely nothing can go wrong!
Also apologies in advance if the audio quality is less than perfect on this one.
Shownotes:
- https://sealandgov.org/
- https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200706-sealand-a-peculiar-nation-off-englands-coast
- https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-events/pirate-radio.htm
- https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Montevideo_Convention
- https://www.wired.com/2000/07/haven-2/
- https://narratively.com/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand/
- Sealand National Anthem from YouTube via the government's website
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
You know about the Titanic: the tragedy and romance of the "unsinkable ship". But its safe to bet that you have not yet heard of the Sultana or the Halifax Explosion. Today the gang and I discuss a couple of major naval disasters that have been eclipsed by the Titanic's fame.
Just a heads up there a lot of death in this episode, some of it pretty gruesome.
Shownotes:
- https://www.npr.org/2015/04/27/402515205/the-shipwreck-that-led-confederate-veterans-to-risk-all-for-union-lives
- https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/halifax-explosion
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Music from "My Heart Will Go On- Recorder by Candlelight" by Matt Mulholland on Youtube
Today we take a look at the birth of a religion in the South Pacific and ask the question: "How difficult could such a task truly be?"
Shownotes:
- https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/in-john-they-trust-109294882/
- https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CargoCult
- https://www.academia.edu/3279401
- https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/15553/1/OP36-47-57.pdf
- https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/201290/vanuatu-appoints-ambassador-to-russia
- Intro clip is from the Documentary Waiting For John which is available on Amazon Prime.
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Photo Credit: Shutterstock
Some wonder what America would have been like if we had a King. Little do people know there was a time when we had something better.... An Emperor!
The gang and I look to the past to try and find some new hobbies. Maybe our ancestors had novel ways of entertaining themselves, like pole sitting???
Shownotes:
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Opening is from the 2006 film Night at the Museum. Directed by Shawn Levy
- https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1787&dat=19521013&id=tuMcAAAAIBAJ&sjid=vmQEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4571,5934352
- https://books.google.com/books?id=vUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA27&dq=shipwreck+kelly#v=onepage&q=shipwreck%20kelly&f=false
- https://libraries.wright.edu/special/collectionguides/files/ms80.pdf
- http://www.streetswing.com/histmain/d5marthn.htm
- https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/staged-train-wrecks#:~:text=Joe%20Connolly%20staged%20more%20than,trains%20ran%20into%20each%20other.
- https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/crash-at-crush
There have been four Presidential Assassinations, it's a safe bet you only know about two of them...
Show Notes:
Garfield and Guiteau:
- .https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-stalking-of-the-president-20724161/
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/james-garfield/
- https://famous-trials.com/guiteau/2197-home
- https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/the-execution-of-charles-guiteau.htm
Czolgosz and McKinnley:
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leon-Czolgosz
- https://law.jrank.org/pages/2729/Leon-Czolgosz-Trial-1901-Czolgosz-s-Trial-Swift.html#:~:text=Czolgosz's%20trial%20began%20September%2023,with%20such%20a%20hated%20defendant.
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Opening is from Assassins: The Broadway Cast Recording. Music by Stephen Sondheim. Copyright: 2014 PS Classics
Happy Holidays! Join us as we hear the heroic and often tragic tales of those who attempted to reach the North and South Poles.
Show Notes:
- Trans-Antarctic Expedition: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Henry-Shackleton#ref184881
- Peary and Henson: https://kacv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/pbs-world-explorers-henson-peary/pbs-world-explorers-henson-peary/
- American Museum of Natural History: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/15/books/eskimo-boy-injustice-old-new-york-campaigning-writer-indicts-explorer-museum.html
- Opening Clip from The Polar Express (2004) Dir. by Robert Zemeckis
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
What are we to do with all the nuclear waste spread across the country? How are we going to keep people away from it? We ponder these questions in this episode.
Show Notes:
- Yucca Mountain: https://www.yuccamountain.org/
- Marshall Islands: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/05/20/us-put-nuclear-waste-under-dome-pacific-island-now-its-cracking-open/
- New Mexico: https://www.wipp.energy.gov/
- Music: "10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don't Change Color, Kitty)" by Emperor X. Available on bandcamp.com.
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Ryan and Jamie return to join me in a discussion about the history of filibusters; its probably not the kind you're thinking about.
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- Opening from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
A Special Halloween Episode! Join us as we discuss one of America's most iconic monsters and its relatives. We also have a guest co-host.
- Music Credit: "Headless Horseman"- Bing Crosby (1949)
- Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
A continuation of Episode 5 beginning after the Mormon Exodus and ending with Utah Statehood.
- Mountain Meadows Massacre: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-aftermath-of-mountain-meadows-110735627/
- SCOTUS Case: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/133us333
- Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
A deep dive into the origins of the LDS Church and the historical violence that it's early followers faced.
Show Notes:
- Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
- The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording), 2011 Ghostlight Records Inc., "All-American Prophet"-Written by: Matt Stone, Robert Lopez, and Trey Parker.
- The Church's Word on Plural Marriage: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/manual/gospel-topics-essays/plural-marriage-and-families-in-early-utah?lang=eng
We take a look at the 1976 film Taxi Driver and the historical events it's connected to. Also we have a guest co-host!
- Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
A look at the 1904 Olympics in St. Louis.
- Donation links: US: https://boardingschoolhealing.org/about-us/donate/ CA: https://www.irsss.ca/
- Show notes: Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-1904-olympic-marathon-may-have-been-the-strangest-ever-14910747/
- History Channel
- https://www.history.com/.amp/news/8-unusual-facts-about-the-1904-st-louis-olympics
- Jon Bois Youtube: https://youtu.be/M4AhABManTw
- Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
- https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
A selection of nuclear weapon mishaps.
Show Notes:
- Goldsboro: http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/index.html
- Thule Air Base: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Thule_Air_Base_B-52_crash
- Tybee Island: https://gardenandgun.com/feature/saga-tybee-bomb/
- Damascus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_Damascus_Titan_missile_explosion
- Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
- https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
A selection of things astronauts have smuggled into space.
Show notes:
- Gemini 3: https://www.space.com/39341-john-young-smuggled-corned-beef-space.html
- http://gemini3.spacelog.org/page/00:01:49:03/
- Gemini 6A: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_6A
- Beresheet Lander: https://mashable.com/article/smuggled-moon-tardigrade/?europe=true
- James Doohan: https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/12/28/star-trek-scotty-james-doohans-ashes-smuggled-space-station/4057236001/
- Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
- https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds
Welcome to the Podcast!
Music credit: Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/through-the-clouds