Hightailing Through History

08/11/2025

Bonus episode with out now! We got to sit down in the Smoke Circle with award-winning author Barret Baumgar and we had a GREAT time.
Barret has found the area where he lives in Southern California is full of all kinds of weird history and he’s written it down to share with the world!
We chat for a while about his latest book “Yuck: The Birth and Death of the Weird and Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca Brevifolia” but get to dig into his other WILD book, “China Lake” about the Navy‘s top secret base in the desert, as well as his current project about a nuclear disaster in Los Angeles 😳😱
Check out the episode wherever you like to listen to High Tales of History and give a follow. He’s absolutely amazing!

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31/10/2025

Happy Halloween Smoke Circle!
For paid members of the Best Buds Club, Kt brought a half baked episode from a Norse saga about a prince turned into a werebear with an insatiable hunger 😱
Although the poor prince gets tricked, the Smoke Circle gets all the treats with this bonus episode

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03/10/2025

From scandalous Can-Can dancers 💃🏻to Vegas‘s big time feathers 🪶 and sequins ✨,
Showgirls have A LOT more history than just glitter…
🌟Sources:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/history-of-showgirls-taylor-swift-moulin-rouge-las-vegas-dancers
🌟 https://www.history.com/articles/showgirl-origins-paris-broadway-las-vegas
🌟 https://www.vegaspbs.org/shows/showgirl/

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22/09/2025

Cheese fortunes! 🧀🔮 Get your cheese fortunes 🧀🔮 here! Learn about tyromancy (a divination practice that uses ✨CHEESE✨)
🪤Wanna learn more about history’s many forms of divination? Check out episodes 97 and 98 of High Tales of History, out now!
🌟Sources: https://theconversation.com/the-spellbinding-history-of-cheese-and-witchcraft-153221
🌟 https://www.saveur.com/culture/tyromancy-cheese-divination/

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15/09/2025

⚓️ NAVY CATS! ⚓️
Ship’s cats have always held a vital role at sea— from mousing to morale—and many of their names have been found in the history books. But there is one whose name has gone down as (possibly) the most legendary, and that’s Unsinkable Sam
⚓️ It’s said that Sam, a black and white cat previously named Oskar, survived the sinking of THREE ships during WWI.
⚓️ Find out all about Sam and other furry sailors in episode 106 of High Tales of History wherever you get your favorite podcasts.
🌟Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/cats-ships-navy-history
🌟 https://legionmagazine.com/in-defence-of-cat-ladies-and-gentlemen-the-tale-of-unsinkable-sam-and-other-seafaring-felines/

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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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