Host Faves: Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, Pt. 1
This hist fave is from 2013. One of the most iconic Disney park attractions -- the Haunted Mansion -- had a development process that was anything but smooth. Budget and scheduling issues and creative ...
24 Apr 202025min
Host Faves: The Green Children of Woolpit
In 2017 we talked about two children, green in color, who appeared in Suffolk, England in the 12th century,. The green children were written about in the 12th and 13th centuries as fact, but some peop...
24 Apr 202032min
Host Faves: A Brief History of the Pietà
This 2016 episode delves into Michelangelo's sculpture of Mary holding the deceased body of Christ. It's the most famous depiction of that moment in art, but that scene has been the focus of many work...
24 Apr 202033min
Host Faves: Edward Gorey
We talked about Gorey in 2017. Based just on his art, you might imagine Edward Gorey as a dour Englishman, with the peak of his career sometime in the 1920s or '30s, whose childhood was marked with a ...
24 Apr 202034min
Host Faves: Christine de Pizan and the Book of the City of Ladies
This 2018 episode is about Christine de Pizan who wrote verse, military manuals, and treatises on war, peace and the just governance of a nation. She was the official biographer of King Charles V of F...
24 Apr 202027min
Host Faves: Levi Strauss
This 2018 episode tells Levi's story, which is historically interesting because it touches on a lot of important moments in U.S. history. His business was tied to the California Gold Rush, the U.S. Ci...
24 Apr 202043min
Host Faves: Annette Kellerman
This 2017 episode covers the Australian Kellerman, who gets a lot of the credit for developing the women's one-piece bathing suit. But she was also a competitive swimmer, as well as a vaudeville and f...
24 Apr 202030min
Host Faves: The Klondike Big Inch Land Promotion
This summer 2014 rerun features one ad company's wacky plan to actually dole out land deeds as part of a cereal promotion. How did they manage it? And was the land worth anything? Learn more about yo...
24 Apr 202024min
