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NASA Trusted Her With Space But Not A Bathroom | Katherine Johnson & The Colored Computers Sign | 1950s Virginia"
Imagine being so good at math that the federal government trusts you to calculate whether astronauts survive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.Orbital mechanics. Launch windows. Trajectory equations.…
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre | Fake Cops, Highball the Dog, Raccoon Bootlegger
This Valentine’s Day, Barely Historical is skipping the roses and going straight to the gunfire.In this episode, Jo and Amanda dive into one of the most infamous crimes in American history: the St.…
Dear Abby, Dissociation, & Don Draper | Rerelease
Welcome to the full unhinged version of Mother’s Little Helpers, where mid-century America dressed women in pastels and then medicated them into silence.JoLynne and Amanda ruin the real history…
Salem Witch Trials | Marshall Mathers, Pre-Teen Girls, & Piss Cakes | Rerelease
The year is 1692. Massachusetts is cold, paranoid, and running on bad carbs. Two girls start convulsing, the town loses its collective mind, and suddenly everyone’s a witch — or about to be.This is…
He Beheaded The Polar Bear Sex Doll | Oskar & Alma | 1920 Vienna
In 1920, police in Dresden, Germany responded to what appeared to be a murder scene: a headless, blood-soaked body in an artist's garden. The "victim"? A life-size doll. The perpetrator? Famous…
King Henry VIII | Everyone Enabled This
Henry VIII didn’t just have “wife drama” he turned his midlife crisis into national policy. In this episode of Barely Historical, Jo and Amanda break down how one insecure man with too much power…
S10 Stranger Things Works Because the '80s Were Actually Horrifying | MKUltra, Satanic Panic, & Why Eddie Munson Had to Die | Midwest 1980s
What if Stranger Things isn’t just a nostalgic monster show, but a remix of real government experiments, moral panic, and 1980s paranoia?In this episode of Barely Historical, Amanda and JoLynne ruin…
NYE | Glitter, Midnight & Superstitions
New Year’s Eve has never been chill.In this episode of Barely Historical, hosts JoLynne and Amanda explore the strange, dark, and often unhinged history of New Year’s Eve superstitions from around…
Anastasia & The Romanovs | Basements, Bats, & Bayonets
There are two types of people in the world:People who accept that Anastasia Romanov died in 1918…and people who saw the animated movie once and said absolutely not.In this episode, Amanda and Jo…
The Stolen History of Christmas | Mistletoe Sex, Jesus Stickers, & Audacity
🎄 How Christmas Was StolenThis week on Barely Historical, Amanda and JoLynne are sharing a full Patreon-style deep dive for free as a Christmas gift.Christmas history is messier than most people…
336 CE Rome: Constantine, Arius, and the First Dec 25 Christmas
Welcome back to Barely Historical, the comedy history podcast where we ruin the past one year at a time. This episode drops us into 336 CE Rome and the chaos of the late Roman Empire, when…
Patreon Sneak Peek | Frogs, Festivity, & Freakouts
Victorian Christmas cards were not cozy snowmen and Hallmark hearts. They were dead robins, frogs with firearms, demonic turnips, Krampus kidnappings, and families roasting in hell… all wishing you a…
1883 United States | Bridges, Bandits, & B*tches
The year is 1883. Volcanoes are exploding, bridges are causing stampedes, and a stagecoach robber is leaving poetry like a Victorian theater kid on the loose. JoLynne and Amanda ruin one of the most…
Mother's Little Helpers |Dear Abby, Dissociation, & Don Draper
The 1950s and 60s looked cute on the outside.Pastels. Casseroles. Aprons.Inside the house?Mid-century America was held together with Valium, denial, and whatever advice Dear Abby tossed into the…
1963 | Vacuums, Vows, & Vitamin D
1963 looks polished in the photos. Pastel dresses, church picnics, men in suits who definitely smell like cigarettes and bad coffee. Underneath, it is a year of civil rights marches, Cold War nerves,…
Macy's Day Parade | Turkeys, Tinsel, and Tradition
This episode is a special main feed drop that normally lives on our Patreon. Think of it as our little Thanksgiving gift to you.We are taking you back to the very first Macy's Day Parade in 1924. The…
1924 New York | Gin, Garbage, & Glamour
New York in 1924 looks glamorous until you tap it with your fingernail and hear pure hollow chaos underneath. In this episode, Amanda and JoLynne drag you through the smells, the sweat, the…
Chernobyl | Babushkas, Buses, & Birch Trees
The year is 1986, and Pripyat is about to become the most famous ghost town on Earth. In this Patreon preview, Jo and Amanda break down the real story of the Chernobyl disaster in a way only a dark…
1986 | Perms, Popcorn, Panic
Jo arrives in late 1986 as a six pound ball of chaos while Amanda watches from the cosmic waiting room and together they drag you through one of the wildest years of the eighties. In this Barely…
Titanic | Corsets, Coal, & Catastrophe | Patreon Sneak Peak
Were we too young to watch Titanic when we did? Yes. Did that stop our parents from handing us grape-flavored lip gloss, greasy popcorn, and a front row seat to lifelong emotional damage? Absolutely…
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