Hasty History #9: The Great Molasses Flood

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Milgram Experiment which was a series of psychological experiments conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram in which he was testing the blind o...

19 Mar 202441min

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Lucille Desiree Ball, best known - of course - as the star of the I Love Lucy show. Ball would set numerous precedents with the I Love Lucy show by ...

12 Mar 20241h

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Mark Weinberger, known as “The Nose Doctor”. To put it bluntly, Weinberger, a doctor who opened up his own practice in Indiana, was performing hundr...

5 Mar 202443min

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE POOR AUDIO QUALITY! This week on Hashtag History, we are going to be looking at a very interesting event in History that resulted in a common phrase or psychological term that mo...

27 Feb 202443min

Due to obnoxious audio and technical issues, we are playing a re-run this week of one of our most popular episodes. Hope you enjoy and we will see you next week with a brand new episode! This week on...

20 Feb 20241h 1min

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Santa Cruz's infamous Mystery Spot. The Mystery Spot is roughly 150 feet of WTF? It is this small location hidden up in the redwood forests where the la...

13 Feb 202431min

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Y2K Bug, also known as Y2K Problem or simply Y2K. This refers to a historical incident…that never really happened. At least not to the degree th...

6 Feb 202434min

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the origins of the AMBER Alert system. We here in the United States (as well as a number of other countries) have a system known as the AMBER Alert....

30 Jan 202431min