Hightailing Through History

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!
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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
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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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04/08/2024

It’s episode 87, our last one for season 3!
To end it on a bang, we are doing some adventure and true crime history! We are joined by Laurel’s husband, Kristian, back from Season One Episode 4 to hear about another wild race from history—the 1908 Great Car Race in which 6 cars went on a race from New York to Paris
We follow it up with George Remus, known as King of the Bootleggers as well as quite possibly F. Scott Fitzgerald’s inspiration for Jay Gatsby! Remus was once a criminal defense lawyer who turned to bootleggers and used his smarts to run a huge bootlegging game in the Midwest with the aim of owning ALL the pre-Prohibition bourbon….that is until snitches and müRRdurr unravel him
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Hightailing Through History will be on a 6 week break and back again on September 13th! See you again soon!

18/07/2024

🎉 We’re celebrating three years of Hightailing Through History this week and we would like you to celebrate with us as our Best Bud! 🥰🌳
🎉Comment below your favorite episode—we have 86 of them!—by Saturday, July 20th and we’ll be in touch to gift you a two week pass to our Best Buds Club on Patreon where we have extra content such as our Half Baked bonus episodes and some history-related cooking videos!
💚 Three years, 86 regular episodes (87 comes out next week!) and a WHOLE lotta fun with our friends chatting about history! Thank you for following. Thank you for each and every one of your listens. Thank you for being here 🫶 here’s to many more!
‼️Be sure to comment your favorite episode by Saturday, July 16th!

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18/07/2024

🎉 We’re celebrating three years of Hightailing Through History this week and we would like you to celebrate with us as our Best Bud! 🥰🌳
🎉Comment below your favorite episode—we have 86 of them!—and we’ll be in touch to gift you a two week pass to our Best Buds Club on Patreon where we have extra content such as our Half Baked bonus episodes and some history-related cooking videos!
💚 Three years, 86 regular episodes (87 comes out next week!) and a WHOLE lotta fun with our friends chatting about history! Thank you for following. Thank you for each and every one of your listens. Thank you for being here 🫶 here’s to many more!

14/07/2024

Welcome to episode 86! We are celebrating our three year anniversary of the show with a topic that kicked it all off for us: a kickass female pirate.
🏴‍☠️ In this episode we meet al-Sayyida al-Hurra, a queen of her city-state of Tétouan in present-day Morocco. Due to a lack of formal navy against the might of the Portuguese and Spanish fleets, she created one out of privateers and pirates. Her ragtag crews terrorized the European ships and the plunder from them gave her city unprecedented wealth
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30/06/2024

🏳️‍🌈It’s episode 85! We are rounding out our celebration of Pride month by going back to the 19th century, four years after the end of the American Civil War, to attend the earliest drag balls in Harlem, New York. Over time, these balls turned into the house ballroom culture and the dance competitions that birthed voguing
☀️ After the break, KT takes us through time and around the world to look at the practices around the summer solstice in different cultures from jumping over fire to the dragon boat race
🎧 Catch episode 85 on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts!

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30/06/2024

🏳️‍🌈It’s episode 85! We are rounding out our celebration of Pride month by going back to the 19th century, four years after the end of the American Civil War, to attend the earliest drag balls in Harlem, New York. Over time, these balls turned into the house ballroom culture and the dance competitions that birthed voguing
☀️ After the break, KT takes us through time and around the world to look at the practices around the summer solstice in different cultures from jumping over fire to the dragon boat race
🎧 Catch episode 85 on YouTube, Spotify, Apple and Google podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite podcasts!