The Weird History Podcast Joe Streckert
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The Weird History Podcast explores the out-of-the-way, obscure, weird, and overlooked corners of history. New episodes appear every Thursday.
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237 A Danger Shared with Bill Lascher
A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War is the latest book from Portland journalist and author Bill Lascher. Bill joined us to talk about WWII in Asia through the eyes of journalist Melville Jacoby, his own connection with Jacoby, and what he learned from going through an archive of images that included Macau, the Philippines, Vietnam, and beyond. Jacoby’s coverage included scenes of everyday life as battle raged on, up-close images of conflict, and the human faces behind a world at war.
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236 Piracy in the South China Sea with Rita Chang-Eppig
By all reasonable metrics Shek Yeung, who raided the South China Sea in the early 1800s, is one of the most successful pirates of all time. In her new novel Deep as the Sky, Red as the Sea author Rita Chang-Eppig tells a fictionalized version of the pirate queen’s life, her rise to power, and her relationship with powers both temporal and spiritual.
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235 Shakespeare Versus Hedgehogs
William Shakespeare seems to have hated hedgehogs. We don’t quite know why, but it could have something to do with how the tiny animal is depicted by the Roman scholar Pliny the Elder. Special Thanks to Jamie Jeffers of The British History Podcast and Miles Stokes of Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men for providing voicework for this episode.
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234 Lupercalia
Before Valentine’s Day, ancient Romans celebrated a festival of fertility in the shadow of the Palatine Hill. Lupercalia was a popular holiday that featured blood, goat sacrifice, and getting whipped by naked guys.
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233 The Golden Fortress with Bill Lascher
During the Dust Bowl city officials in Los Angeles, fueled by anti-communist paranoia and xenophobia, were determined to keep migrants out of California. To that end, they dispatched the LAPD to remote border crossing points far outside the city in order to keep out anyone who looked like they were fleeing blight or didn’t have work. Author Bill Lascher spoke with us about his new book The Golden Fortress, which outlines how in 1936 LA law enforcement went to the far reaches of the Golden State to keep California closed.
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232 Navigating the Asian Maritime World with Eric Tagliacozzo
Eric Tagliacozzo is a professor of history at Cornell University, and his new book In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds From Yemen to Yokohama outlines five centuries of maritime history in the Asian world. In this wide-ranging interview, we discussed how China created trade routes that stretched all the way to Africa’s Swahili coast, the ocean-going history of Vietnam, and the role of consumer goods, piracy, slavery, and religion in the Indian Ocean, South China Sea, Pacific, and beyond.
Customer Reviews
Wonderful!!!
Genuinely interesting stories from history. I’m truly amazed that some of this was not part of the curriculum that I had, especially considering some of the things I was taught. Perfect length for short bits of time you may need to make things more interesting. And if I listen while in bed no jarring voice or advertisement. Thank you for sharing!
All-around amazing podcast
Every element of this podcast is amazing. The content that Joe chooses, the story in which it’s told, the length of each episode, and the host himself. The length of episodes are great—not any extra “fat” that lots of other podcasts could do without. Joe let’s listeners know exactly what they want to hear/need to know about the interesting subjects he chooses. I especially love the wildly informative mini-seires that he’s done on North Korea, Mussolini and the to-return War of 1812.
Joe, I listened to your most recent update and sending positivity to you and your family. Your fans will be here when you are ready to return in due time. Thank you for this amazing podcast <3
More liberal douchery.
Anyone who doesn’t want the vaccine, that’s having a lot of long term negative side effects in people by the way, is a science denier. Never mind that the same people throwing these accusations around deny the science on
1. Where Covid originated
2. Masks on kids
3. Masks on planes
4. Masks outside
5. Masks on people who have been vaccinated
6. Schools being safe for children to be in
7. Lockdowns not being effective
By the way. I believe the vaccines are safe for almost all people. I’ve been vaccinated. I believe the vaccines are a miracle and a testament to AMerican capitalism but Stop with the liberal propaganda. Unsubscribe.