Hightailing Through History

14/02/2025

Season Five is here! Episode 95 is out now wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts!
🇺🇸 The sisters bring in one of their long time besties, singer and songwriter to discuss the long history of protest music in America
From Yankee Doodle to Kendrick Lamar; from the Revolutionary War through the Black Freedom Struggle, Vietnam and q***r identity, we bounce through American history and all the fist shaking songs that went with it. We also created a playlist on our YouTube channel (“American Protest Songs”) to follow along with all the music we chose for the episode, along with some honorable mentions.
Out now on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and Google Podcasts or wherever you like to get your favorite podcasts!

13/01/2025

🍃History One-Hitter!
🎶 January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash played his iconic concerts at Folsom Prison. The concert was recorded and the live album “At Folsom Prison” launched Cash back into fame after a waning career
🌟Sources: https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/johnny-cash-performs-at-folsom-prison-california
🌟https://aca.org/common/Uploaded%20files/Publications_Carla/Docs/Corrections%20Today/2019%20Articles/Corrections_Today_Jan-Feb_2019_Johnny_Cash_By_Molly_Law.pdf

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06/01/2025

Welcome to episode 94, our season 4 finale! In it, we take a trip down the yellow brick road and meet the man behind the curtain—L. Frank Baum and talk about the creation of his immortal book, The Wizard of Oz.
Over the years since the release of the book, many parables and metaphors have been applied to the story as well as inspirations for its characters. Together the sisters spark up, and dive into the life of author L. Frank Baum and the possible real life inspirations for the characters, including Glinda the Good Witch and his feminist suffragette mother in law, Matilda Joslyn Gage

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06/01/2025

Welcome to episode 94, our season 4 finale! In it, we take a trip down the yellow brick road and meet the man behind the curtain—L. Frank Baum and talk about the creation of his immortal book, The Wizard of Oz.
Over the years since the release of the book, many parables and metaphors have been applied to the story as well as inspirations for its characters. Together the sisters spark up, and dive into the life of author L. Frank Baum and the possible real life inspirations for the characters, including Glinda the Good Witch and his feminist suffragette mother in law, Matilda Joslyn Gage

06/01/2025

Come on a little visit to the Milwaukee art museum with me

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30/11/2024

✨It’s episode 93 and it is time for some HIGH seas and some HIGH-sts (heists, we might have been trying a bit too hard there with the word play)
🌊 First up, Kt takes us to Korea during Japan’s invasions of the nation, commonly known as the Imjin War in Korea’s Joseon Period (1392 to 1910). There we meet Korea’s great admiral, Yi Sun-sin, who won several key battles against the odds, helping to turn the tides of the war
🖼️ Next, we head to 1911 Paris and watch as the heist of the world’s most famous painting unfolds at the Louvre—the theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. You won’t believe how lax the security was and how easy it was to pluck pieces off the wall and walk out...
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17/11/2024

It’s episode 92 and we’re talking about t*ts and shipwrecks!
⚓️ First up, we dive into North America’s Great Lakes and learn about the first known shipwreck in 1679–Le Griffon—and bookend it with the last major shipwreck, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We also talk about the Great Storm of 1913 and the weather systems that can make the Great Lakes so dangerous!
🐴 👀 After the break, we saddle up our horses, let our hair down and spark one up for Lady Godiva, who may have gotten her t*ts out for lower taxes! Hurrah!
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10/11/2024

It’s episode 92 and we’re talking about t*ts and shipwrecks!
⚓️ First up, we dive into North America’s Great Lakes and learn about the first known shipwreck in 1679–Le Griffon—and bookend it with the last major shipwreck, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. We also talk about the Great Storm of 1913 and the weather systems that can make the Great Lakes so dangerous!
🐴 👀 After the break, we saddle up our horses, let our hair down and spark one up for Lady Godiva, who may have gotten her t*ts out for lower taxes! Hurrah!
🎧 Find High Tales of History on Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts, YouTube or wherever you like to listen to your favorite podcasts!

20/10/2024

🐺 For the month of October we are taking a trip into spooky and horrible histories and in episode 90, we are taking a trip to Europe to hear all about their werewolf trials which came out of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries’ anxieties about religious and political clashes as well as a gross attempt to find a scapegoat for these changes and harsh conditions
☠️ Next, we head to the court of France’s King Louis XIV, a place that is already a hotbed of jealousy, deceit and ambition and add poison and magic spells meant to eliminate enemies and influence their position at court. We also take a side trip to Italy to learn about the Aqua Tofana poison ring which may have been responsible for 600 deaths!
🎧 Check out episode 90 of wherever you like to listen to your favorite podcasts such as Spotify, YouTube, Apple and Google Podcasts, and be sure to subscribe when you get there so you don’t miss any future episodes!

03/10/2024

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2 (ep.89)
💉 In this episode, Kt hits us with some important medical history: the discovery—I mean!—CO-discovery of insulin and the hot drama that *CO* discovery created!
🇳🇱 After the break, Laurel brings the story of young Audrey Hepburn and her teens years as a helper in the Dutch Resistance in her heavily N*zi-occupied town during WWII
🎧 Listen or watch episode 89 on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube! While there, please subscribe, rate and review for more High Tales of History! 💚

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29/09/2024

Welcome to Season 4, Episode 2 (ep.89)
💉 In this episode, Kt hits us with some important medical history: the discovery—I mean!—CO-discovery of insulin and the hot drama that *CO* discovery created!
🇳🇱 After the break, Laurel brings the story of young Audrey Hepburn and her teens years as a helper in the Dutch Resistance in her heavily N*zi-occupied town during WWII
🎧 Listen or watch episode 89 on Apple and Google Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube! While there, please subscribe, rate and review for more High Tales of History! 💚

15/09/2024

💚Welcome to season four!
🗡️ To kick it off, we go to the not so distant past to a remarkable archeological find in Bosnia in 2019–a (probably) 14th century sword in the stone!
🚢 From there, we travel back further into history to meet the inventor of the one of the most disruptive pieces of technology in at the turn of the 20th century—the diesel engine, created by Rudolf Diesel. While crossing the English Channel on an overnight ferry, Diesel disappeared. Was it su***de? Murder? Was the body found (yet not recovered) even his? The questions that swirled around the mysterious circumstances of his disappearance also fueled conspiracy theories that put two of the world’s most powerful men as the culprits for his murder—John D. Rockefeller and Germany’s Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II
🎧 Catch season 4, episode one (episode 88) on Spotify, YouTube, Apple and Google Podcasts or wherever you like to listen to your favorite podcasts and, when you’re there, be sure to subscribe and follow the show so you know when every new episode drops!

15/09/2024

New Name. New Season. Same History Sesh.
Welcome to season 4 of…. ✨High Tales of History✨
We’ve missed you! 💚

17/08/2024

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland called and I had to answer!
⛰️ We are exactly halfway through our season 3 break and will be back for season 4 on September 13th, 2024! In the meantime, I took a little adventure to Edinburgh and the Scottish Highlands ♥️✨🐮
🕵️ 🗺️ With adventures on the brain, season 4 will bring a lot more adventure history—bring on the mysteries, heists, quests and intrigue! We look forward to being back in the Circle with you on Friday, September 13th!

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