- Publisher |
- Dawn Brodey
- Media Type |
- audio
- Categories Via RSS |
- Comedy,
- Comedy Interviews,
- Education,
- History,
- Self-Improvement
- People |
- Country Of Origin |
- USA
- Produced In |
- Los Angeles, CA
- Premiere Date |
- 2021-10-19
- Related Hashtags |
- #HILFPodcast
- Frequency |
- Biweekly
- Explicit |
- Yes
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Submit ReviewHear about the places that managed to avoid the plague, at least for a little while, and what a medieval haz-mat suit looked like. Also, continue to roll the 'Death Dice' along with celebrated music supervisor, Mary Ramos, to see if any of the characters we meet along the way manage to avoid the sickness and death that overcame half of the global population.
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Join us for HILF LIVE - Wednesday, Dec. 11th @8PM - Flappers Comedy Club. Burbank, CA
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SILF's (Sources I'd Like to F*ck)
- The Great Courses - With Dorsey Armstrong, PhD. Got a library card? Find it via Hoopla or Libby!
- Check out this great visual guide to understanding how The Black Death compares to other pandemics.
- Read an article about plague bodies being found outside London this decade!
- Read Mary Ramos's article in Variety breaking down the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- Check out HILF MERCH now available on Redbubble! Stickers, t-shirts, bags and more!
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, November13th, 2024 THE BLACK DEATH Part 2 - Plague Stories with Mary Ramos
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
Dawn is joined by celebrated Music Supervisor, Mary Ramos, who has worked on some of the most incredible film scores in movie history! A close collaborator with Quentin Tarantino, she’s had a hand in everything from Pulp Fiction to Django Unchained - and a slew of other favorites in-between.
Join us as we discuss the very beginning of The Black Death, starting with Patient Zero in Italy and then follow us… and the rats, and the fleas… around the world and right to our own back door.
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Join us for HILF LIVE - Wednesday, Dec. 11th @8PM - Flappers Comedy Club. Burbank, CA
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SILF's (Sources I'd Like to F*ck)
- The Great Courses - With Dorsey Armstrong, PhD. Got a library card? Find it via Hoopla or Libby!
- Check out this great visual guide to understanding how The Black Death compares to other pandemics.
- Read an article about plague bodies being found outside London this decade!
- Read Mary Ramos's article in Variety breaking down the soundtrack to Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- Check out HILF MERCH now available on Redbubble! Stickers, t-shirts, bags and more!
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, November13th, 2024 THE BLACK DEATH Part 2 - Plague Stories with Mary Ramos
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
Dawn is joined by comedian, Macy Issacs, to talk about the origin of Vampire folklore and what - from the many stories about them - is actually real! We’ll go around the world and see how vampires in Japan and Alaska differ from the ones in Transylvania.
Take notes, because we also discuss the most effective ways to fight them off… unless you chose to invite them in.
Find Macy on Instagram
Hear Macy's Podcast, SSRI'M OK
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SILF's (Sources I'd Like to F*ck)
- Essay - The History and Folklore of Vampires - The Stories and Legends Behind The Mythical Beings: Charles River Editors.
- Book - The Secret History of Vampires - Their multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes by Claude LeCouteux.
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, October 30th, 2024 THE BLACK DEATH with Mary Ramos
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
Originally released in October of 2022, revisit Dawn and her guest, Jose Barrientos, for a rundown of the history of horror movies! From silent dancing skeletons, to The Wolfman, and all the way past The Walking Dead - we're here to tell you what has scared us collectively the most... and why!
Find Jose on Youtube!
Find Jose on Instagram!
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SILF's (Sources I'd Like to F*ck)
- BOOK - Lost in the Dark by Brad Weismann
- DOCUMENTARY SERIES - The Movies That Made Us
- ESSAY - A Brief History of Horror Films (Albany County Public Library)
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, October 16th, 2024
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
To help tell the story of the man behind our 100-dollar bill, Dawn is joined by Benjamin Franklin expert, Bryan Austin. He portrays James Madison and Ben Franklin in Colonial Williamsburg and has walked much more than a mile in their shoes...
Pull up a chair and hear the stories of Benjamin Franklin’s wild childhood, his multitude of lovers, and the parties that were so good, they saved America.
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LEARN MORE about Benjamin Franklin!
- ARTICLE in ATLAS OBSCURA about Franklin's shocking electricity parties
- More about THE KEY AND KITE EXPERIMENT from The Franklin Institute.
- Read about Franklin's The Lightning Rod... you heard me.
- Article specifically about Ben's years living in London before the Revolution.
- Read the SILENCE DOGOODE LETTERS.
- Learn more about Alexander Wedderburn, the guy who scolded Ben in London.
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: VAMPIRES with comedian, Macy Issacs.
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
Nannerl Mozart, Wolfgang Amadaeus's intriguing older sister, is the HILF of Dawn's guest, LAZOU. She is an award-winning podcast host and composer with work featured in film, television and a gazillion other places! Hear about her childhood growing up on the tiny island of Mauritius (the only place the Dodo bird ever lived) and how moving to Canada and then the US shaped both her perspective and her music.
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SILF’s (Sources I’d Like to F*ck)
- Book - Mozart's Women - His Family, His Friends, His Music by Jane Glover
- Podcast - You're Dead to Me (March, 2024)
- Podcast - Storical (S2, E52)
- Interview with author, Rita Charbonnier. (She wrote novel, MOZART'S SISTER which is fiction but like... very historically appropriate if not accurate.)
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Benjamin Franklin with Benjamin Franklin (kinda).
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
Dawn's guest literally wrote the book on this mysterious and mythic place known by some as 'the Atlantis of the Pacific Ocean'. Historian and writer Justin McHenry joins her from his office in West Virginia to help tell this absolutely bananas tale of Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place.
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SILF’s (Sources I’d Like to F*ck)
- Justin's Book: Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place
- Read more about scientists who say Lemuria might actually have existed afterall?
- Think you had a past life on Lemuria? I don't, but go down a rabbit hole, why don't ya?
- Want more about the Theosophists and Madame Blavatsky? Check out HILF Episode 36 - Fairies with Rhiannon Fiskradatz.
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Mozart's Sister with musician and podcaster, LAZOU.
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
While many of us can easily picture Mount Rushmore in our heads, few of us know much about it beyond the heads. Even if you CAN name all four presidents featured (and only 30% of Americans can) the story of how and why this enormous feat of engineering - and total fuck-job on the Native Americans - came to pass.
Guest, Christine Blackburn, is a comedian and story-teller located in LA, and the host of several wildly successful shows.
Story Worthy is an epic podcast now in it’s 14th season
Story Smash is a live story-telling gameshow featuring an all-star celebrity panel of judges.
My Life in Three Songs is her latest podcast where comedians, including Patton Oswald and Margaret Cho, sit down with her and discuss their lives through their favorite music.
SILF’s (Sources I’d Like to F*ck)
- VIDEO: Mount Rushmore & The Black Hills (YA/Tourism Video via Hoopla)
- PODCAST: American History Tellers (Podcast: Season 30, Episode 3)
- PODCAST: The Sculptor's Funeral. (Two parter: #73 and #74)
- Crazy Horse Memorial
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Lemuria with Justin McHenry, Wednesday, Sept 4th, 2024
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
AJ Jacobs is a writer and humorist known for his immersive dedication to a variety of subjects. He spent a year attempting to follow EVERY rule in the Bible and wrote a NY TIMES best-seller, The Year of Living Biblically; and his latest book The Year of Living Constitutionally follows his journey through the lens of the 18th century.
Join Dawn and AJ as they discuss what in the constitution they think is worth keeping, what could use some changes - and why 'cherry picking' isn't such a bad concept after all...
SILF’s (Sources I’d Like to F*ck)
- THE YEAR OF LIVING CONSTITUTIONALLY: *The audiobook is a joy to listen to!
- So you want to bake an election cake!
- Watch AJ on The Daily Show
- Watch AJ on CBS Sunday Morning
- Read the Constitution. (Go on... I dare ya!)
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Mount Rushmore with Christine Blackburn, Wednesday, August 21st, 2024
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
Originally recorded recorded in April, 2022 - over 50 episodes ago - Dawn revisits The Whiskey Rebellion with bartender, Rashid Green.
Learn how to make some of the best 18th Century cocktails AND get a dose of some founding daddy realness.
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Get Rashid's recipe for THE SHERRY FLIP
Get Rashid's recipe for CLARET'S PUNCH
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LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)
- See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!
- Crazy Rich Ancients
- Histories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)
- HILF is now on Patreon!
- Buy Me a Coffee
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NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
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WANNA TALK?
Find us on Instagram or email us hilfpodcast@gmail.com
Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.
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