Join your hosts Emily Gummere and Whitley Trusler for lots of laughs and your weekly history fix! Emily (Gummy) and Whitley (Jean) met while attending Marietta College. Over the years, they realized their mutual love for history, and here we are today with the product: Gummy & Jean's Hysterical History.
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I Can't Believe We Have to Do This Episode. Well, Miranda Rights...we just talked about it two weeks ago. Now we realize maybe we should keep up with what is on the Supreme Court docket, because lord have mercy on our souls. Let's talk about the case that overturned what we didn't even think would be overturned. Like, ever.…
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The beginning of slavery in the United States began as soon as the New World was found in 1492 by Columbus, establishing centuries of cruel treatment and forced labor. In part one of this story, we dive into how Native Americans participated in the early slave trade. Then, you are not in an episode of SVU, but you will hear us read you your Miranda…
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Hot in the news after Kim Kardashian donned it on the red carpet, we take a look at the history of Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress. The destruction of Black Wall Street in Greenwood, an affluent black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Hear about the rise, the fall, and the massive cover up.…
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An ancestor of Winston Churchill who served as a royal mistress to James II. Same-sex "marriages" between women in the United States over a century before the Supreme Court legalizes it.By Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
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Part two of the investigation into Hitler's remains. Then, the amazing story of a Jewish boxer who survived the concentration camps and death marches.By Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
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We walk through conspiracy theories of Hitler's escape from his bunker at the end of the war. However, scientists claim there is one set of remains that unmistakably identifies that the Fuhrer is dead: his teeth. During the latter half of the episode, we talk about how Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel over horse race betting.…
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Michigan versus Ohio. Not the football rivalry, but the Toledo War. The one where the two states fought over a strip between the states that is present day Toledo. Our second story focuses on espionage within the FBI. Of course, the Soviet Union is involved, too.By Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
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Us Ohioans apparently have been lying about our statehood despite the white barns across the state touting our bicentennial in 2003. Your play, North Carolina. Julius Caesar gets kidnapped but then is in charge of his kidnappers? Even convincing them to increase the ransom they are asking for because Caesar himself was offended by the amount they d…
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You know that big fire that happened on October 8th, 1871? No, not the Great Chicago Fire where a cow started it. The other one that happened on the same exact night. The other one that happens to be the most disastrous fire in U.S. history. We are going to be talking about the forgotten tragedy that happened that night in Peshtigo, Wisconsin. For …
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Robert Liston , born in 1794, was a Scottish surgeon noted for his speed and skill in an era prior to anesthetics. Known for his skill performing amputations, speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival for patients. Then, is our infrastructure garbage in the US? Jean thinks so. Walk (or drive) through a brief history of urban transportat…
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How did the German population accept the actions of the Nazi regime during the rise of the Third Reich and during WWII? The Third Wave was an experimental social movement created by California high school history teacher Ron Jones in 1967 to explain just that. Welcome to the emerging oil crisis of 2022. To gain some insight, Jean walks us through t…
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Plot twist: LGBTQ+ people have always existed! I know, even our resident gay Whitley is completely shocked. This week, we are talking about lavender marriages in 1920's Hollywood. A lavender marriage is a male–female mixed-orientation marriage, undertaken as a marriage of convenience to conceal the sexual orientation of one or both partners. The gl…
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Okay, hear us out. The history of glass. That's the first story. Riveting, really. After that, Gummy takes us through the life of Madame de Pompadour, official chief mistress of King Louis XV from 1745 to 1751. Learn how she rose to power and influenced the French court. Outro music: Heartbreaking by Kevin MacLeod…
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What the HELL is happening in Eastern Europe? To even begin to answer that question, Bean will take us through a brief history of Crimea, why this location is strategically important, and how it catapulted Ukraine and Russia to the current crisis. And on a lighter note, vampires? Yes, vampires. Gummy talks through how New Englanders believed that t…
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Yes! We are finally diving into the GILDED AGE. This story has pettiness. It has wealth. It has rivalry, and it has two incredible women vying for the queendom of New York Society in the late 1800's. During the latter half of the episode, Gummy tees up her mistress stories by detailing the romantic and political life of royal mistresses. We can't w…
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Rikers Island, 1957. A plane crashes at the prison site. Who comes to the rescue? A large group of prisoners. Our first story takes us through this whirlwind event, what happened, and the criminals who turned heroes. The second story takes us through an overview of The Winter War, a conflict between Finland and Russia during WWII. Finland finds its…
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Gravensteen is a beautiful medieval castle built in 1180 and located in Ghent, Belgium. This historical landmark has been repurposed over the years as a court, mint, prison, and factory. With all of this history, what stands out the most? An event in November of 1949 when 138 students from the University of Ghent stormed the castle to protest a hot…
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Gummy tells the story of Margaret Ann Bulkley, more famously known as Dr. James Barry. Barry lived as a man in both public and private life, at least in part in order to be accepted as a university student and to pursue a career as a surgeon. Barry's biological sex became known to the public and to military colleagues after a post-mortem examinatio…
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Thank you all for joining us for an incredible first season of G+J's! We will spend a couple of months reimagining the podcast for our return in early 2022. For our last episode, Gummy takes us through a journey of the disaster that was the 1904 Olympic marathon. Per usual, it's a great story where it just keeps getting worse and never really gets …
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Are you ready to be confused? If so, perfect. We are talking about daylight saving time this week and how chaotic and broken it is. Once we've completely scrambled your brain, Emily will tell us a soothing story about a psychiatric hospital in London (yikes!). It's going to be fun!By Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
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WARNING: The first story of this episode centers on infamous serial killer Ed Gein. We discuss his gruesome crimes and the items he fashioned using human flesh. For a more lighthearted story on spiritualism, skip to the second half and learn more about Cora L.V. Scott, a sensational medium and trance lecturer.…
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This week, Gummy and Jean branch out and invite their first guest onto the show! Tune in as the group talks about why witches ride brooms, how a religious war sparked witch trials worldwide, and how the rise of spiritualism came to the United States.By Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
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Co-host Theodore the Dog joins us on today's episode, which focuses on the origins of Halloween and the lesser known "Shit-eating Nun." Don't google that last one. You will have unsavory (or not depending on who you are?) search results. Welcome to Spooky Season!By Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
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Hello Yankee brothers. This week we will dive into the life and story of Iva Toguri, a WWII Japanese-American radio host for Radio Tokyo, which broadcasted to Allied soldiers in the South Pacific during World War II. Toguri quickly became inaccurately identified with the name "Tokyo Rose," an alias coined by Allied soldiers to describe the female b…
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From the 1790's to the Civil War and all the way to the present: vaccination mandates, and resistance to them, has continued to thrive. We've got to tell you - policies for the protection of public health have long been the responsibility of the government in the United States, but are vaccine mandates legal? Find out in this week's episode (spoile…
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Otto Adolf Eichmann was a German-Austrian SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust—the "Final Solution." He was tasked with facilitating the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps during World War II. Eichmann joined both the Nazi Party and the SS in 1932. He returned to …
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Picture it: 1887. Argonia, Kansas. A small Quaker village incorporated only two years earlier elected the first female mayor in the United States. Susanna Salter, who received this honor, was one of a number of women mayors elected during the years after the Civil War when women were renewing their demands for more political rights. Salter was both…
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Hans Schmidt holds a title that no other Catholic priest holds in the United States: the ONLY Catholic priest to ever be executed. Schmidt illegally married, impregnated, and brutally murdered and dismembered his mistress, a one Anna Aumuller. For that crime, he was eventually executed via electrocution. Schmidt was ordained in Germany in 1904. He …
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Will the Real Secret Service Please Stand Up
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We all know the U.S. Secret Service. They've been cemented in our nation's history as the people in black suits with those cute little ear pieces. They have one job and one job only: to protect the president...and investigate financial crimes. Did we say one job? Well, that's what we thought until now. The Secret Service was established after the C…
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Alice Roosevelt & the Infamous Jell-O Salad
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Voodoo dolls? Check. Being banned from the White House, three times? Check. Gelatin stuffed with red peppers and cabbage? Wow, this episode really does have it all. Gummy tells the story of Alice Roosevelt, daughter to outdoorsy President Theodore Roosevelt. Journey through her scandalous life where she is out to prove everyone wrong and be as offe…
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Ben Franklin, inventor, founder, and...saucy man? The second part of our pilot episode features the story of one of our nation's beloved sons, who also was (maybe?) in a sex cult called the Hellfire Club. What is the Hellfire Club? The Hellfire Club invited high-society rakes in Britain and Ireland to attend exclusive meetings and, dare we say it, …
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Our first episode of Hysterical History kicks off with the iconic Eleanor Roosevelt and her (potential - and likely) queer identity. Discover the power of women in 1920's and 30's America. You co-host Whitley Trusler dives into the personal and political lives of Eleanor Roosevelt and her supposed lover Lorena Hickok, known as Hick. Who is "Hick?" …
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