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  • 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 GloverPodcast - 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 AncientsHistories 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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  • 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 PlaceRead 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 AncientsHistories 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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    Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.

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  • 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 AncientsHistories 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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  • 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 ShowWatch AJ on CBS Sunday MorningRead 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 AncientsHistories 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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  • 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 AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!Buy Me a Coffee

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    HILF is part of The DEN - Deluxe Edition Network. Go there to find your NEXT favorite podcast!

    NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, August 7th, 2024

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  • Dawn is joined by actor and writer, Brandon Gibson (Black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, Spilled Paint) who has long been fascinated by the the consumptive, former-dentist, with a southern drawl and a propensity for prostitutes… who isn't?

    SILF’s (Sources I’d Like to F*ck)

    Doc Holiday The Life and Legend by Gary L Roberts - Biography (2019)Tombstone, The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday and the Vendetta Ride From Hell by Tom Clavin (2020)Clara Brown - The reporting short-term resident of TombstoneKate Elder - Doc’s ‘wife’. A highly unreliable (but entertaining) source.Wyatt Earp - He wrote a few books, this will take you to all of them.Court docs & News Papers GALORE.

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    LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)

    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!Buy Me a Coffee

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    HILF is part of The DEN - Deluxe Edition Network. Go there to find your NEXT favorite podcast!

    NEXT NEW EPISODE: Wednesday, August 7th, 2024

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  • Join Dawn as she strips down YOUR HILF's in the first-ever audience-request show.

    [00:01:13] The Great Emu War of 1932 which pitted a bunch of WWI veterans against a mob of flightless birds.

    [00:08:37] The Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory. Was she the first documented serial killer AND an inspiration for Dracula?

    [00:19:42] Hedy Lamarr who went from dinner parties with Hilter to inventing weapons to go right up Germany's ass.

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    LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)

    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!Buy Me a Coffee

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    HILF is part of The DEN - Deluxe Edition Network. Go there to find your NEXT favorite podcast!

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    Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.

  • Maybe you think WW2 started when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor... but that was just when America got involved.

    Maybe you think WW2 started when Germany invaded Poland... but that was just when England and France had finally had enough.

    To really understand how WW2 started, historian Michael Trapani has written and produced an audio-book - HOW TO START A WAR - that is a vivid guide through the lurid and surprising events of the rise of the Third Reich. Together, Dawn and Michael highlight some of the most hair-raising moments, while reminding the listener of how easily it could have gone differently... if only the people involved had recognized the power they had at the time.

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    HEAR THE TRAILER for Michael's book!

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    LILF's (Link's I'd Like to F*ck)

    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!Buy Me a Coffee

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    HILF is part of The DEN - Deluxe Edition Network. Go there to find your NEXT favorite podcast!

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    Theme song: Composed and performed by Kat Perkins.

  • Dawn's guest is adult-film actress, Ryan Keely who takes no offense to the term 'porn star'. Ryan is also a book-worm and one of the cast of the sensational new Dungeons and Dragons podcast, I Seduce The Dragon. @ISTD

    Join Dawn and Ryan as two professional 'fuckers' in hot pursuit of history's hottest outlaw.

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - SHOT ALL TO HELL by Mark Lee GardnerVisit - Northfield, MN has an annual Jesse James Day Festival. It's fuckin' great.Podcast - LEGENDS OF THE OLD WEST: Season 7, Episode 2.

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    COMING UP:

    EP62 - How to Start a War with Michael Trapani

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  • Climbing into the cockpit with Amelia and Dawn is guest, Fallon Morey of That's So Fucked Up. Fallon's knowledge of history and love of bad-ass women makes her a perfect navigator for this incredible story.

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - Amelia Earhart A Biography by Doris L. Rich. (1989)Article - Read more about her surprise landing in Derry. BBCMaps - Maps and details about her almost Around the World flight.

    ---- Hear Dawn as a guest with Ashely on TSFU - Jonesin' for Jonestown

    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (multiple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!

    Watch Dawn HILF Amelia Earhart with Jim Jeffries, LIVE in Burbank.

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    COMING UP:

    EP61 - Jesse James with Ryan Keeley

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  • Dawn is joined by guest, Katy Hearne-Church one of the hosts of The Queens Podcast. Katy is not only a big fan of Josephine Baker, but she is whip-smart and enjoys a cocktail in the afternoon.

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - AGENT JOSEPHINE by Damien LewisPodcast - YOU'RE DEAD TO ME Video -See her dance in 1927, some of the faces that made her famousHear an interview with her in 1950Watch this BBC Retrospective with one of her kids.

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    COMING UP:

    EP60 - AMELIA EARHART with Fallon Morey

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  • Dawn's Guest, Dave Reinitz is a stand-up comedian and stain-glass artist whose personal connection to this slice of History brings it alive for all of us. Hear about how his mother, Janet Braun-Reinitz, joined with the Freedom Riders in 1961 and endured and enlightened one of the darkest chapters of American History.

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    Dawn's Sources

    Book - The Freedom Riders by Raymond ArsenaultPodcast - Stuff you Missed in History Class (2011) (3-part series) Interview - Watch Janet's interview with The Library of Congress (2001) Summary of events from The Bill of Rights InstituteExcellent sources here from The Civil Rights TrailJanet Braun-Reinitz's Artwork Dave's stain-glass page on Etsy - Boomdiggitty Glass

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (mulitple seasons)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    COMING UP:

    EP59 - JOSEPHINE BAKER with Katy (from The Queens Podcast)

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  • Joining Dawn for the HILF-ing of the Conch Republic is Florida native, comedian, and former Marine Biologist, Forrest Shaw. He currently performs stand-up around the world, and is the co-host of the podcast, I don’t Know About That with Jim Jeffries.

    You can also catch him on The Mermen Podcast with Dave Williamson.

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    Dawn's Sources

    Book - The Two Mice that Roared, by Wayne Madsen (Author) Youtube - Founding of the Conch Republic by Key West's library historian.

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (several coming next season)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    COMING UP:

    EP58 - The Freedom Rides with Dave Reinitz

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  • Welcome back aboard the ill-fated Bounty with Dawn and guest, Scott Edwin Williams, school-teacher and author of the fantastic book series, LIGHTBULB MOMENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY.

    Part one left the mutineers singing and dancing as they pushed Captain Bligh into the horizon. Rejoin them as they go in search of a new future among hostile territory, and while be hunted by an angry king.

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - The Truth About the Mutiny on the Bounty by Glynn Christian. *The author is a descendant of mutineer, Fletcher Christian!Genealogy Site - Essential if you want to keep track of who-was-who and where they went.Pitcairn Islands Study Center - Go here for details on each mutineer, specifically the ones who ended up on the island.

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    COMING UP:

    EP57 - The Conch Republic with Forrest Shaw

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  • Come aboard the ill-fated Bounty with Dawn and guest, Scott Edwin Williams. Scott is a school-teacher and author of the fantastic book series, LIGHTBULB MOMENTS IN HUMAN HISTORY which looks at history with a nod to both humor, and a hope for the future. Together they trace the origins and outcomes of not only the infamous Captain Bligh, but the mutineers, their Tahitian lovers, and even the blind fiddler...

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - The Truth About the Mutiny on the Bounty by Glynn Christian. *The author is a descendant of mutineer, Fletcher Christian!Genealogy Site - Essential if you want to keep track of who-was-who and where they went.Pitcairn Islands Study Center - Go here for details on each mutineer, specifically the ones who ended up on the island.

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (several coming next season)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    COMING UP:

    EP56 - The Mutiny on the Bounty, Part 2 with author and historian, Scott Edwin Williams.

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  • Aleister Crowley is a sado-machoistic cult leader that Dawn frankly hates... but since when has hate ever made anyone less fuckable? Joining her on this journey into the darker pages of history, is celebrated chef, Hilah Johnson. She has hosted several cooking shows on Youtube and The Travel Channel and is also the author of several cookbooks.

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - Do What Thou Wilt - A Life of Aleister Crowley by Lawrence Sutin. (2000)Documentary - Aleister Crowley THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD? [youtube]Poetry - Read all of Aleister's poetry... at your own risk.

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    Watch Dawn on Hilah's Cooking show make Beer Cheese Soup!See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (several coming next season)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    COMING UP:

    EP55 - The Mutiny on the Bounty with author and historian, Scott Edwin Williams.

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  • Dawn's guests are sports podcasters (and native Bostonians) Sarah Retalic and Dave Houghton of IN A PICKLE RADIO. Find out how much they know regarding one of their city's defining events, and keep score along with Dawn all the way to the surprise ending.

    Dawn's Sources

    Book - THE BOSTON MASSACRE, A Family History by Serena ZabinBook - REPORTING THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, by Todd AndrilikDoc - AN AMERICAN REVOLUTION BREWS IN BOSTON | (E1) - The History Channel Mini Series - JOHN ADAMS, HBO (2008) Podcast - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN'S WORLD (3-PART SERIES)

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    COMING UP:

    EP54 - ALIESTER CROWLEY with chef and writer, Hilah Johnson.

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  • Dawn's guests are Jimmy G and Mike Wehmann who love the world of wrestling - and the world of rock bands, and whiskey, and podcasting, and bacon. They are the co-hosts of the hit podcast ‘Bacon is my Podcast’ and that makes this episode a three-way, baby.

    Hear Dawn on BIMP - Part 1 and Part 2 are available now!

    Dawn's Sources

    The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling by Aubrey Sitterson and Chris MorenoDocumentary: Wrestling with ShadowsDocumentary Series: Dark Side of the Ring by VICEPodcast: Behind the Bastards (series on Vince McMahon)

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (several coming next season)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    COMING UP:

    EP53 - The Boston Massacre with Dave Houghton and Sarah Retalic from IN A PICKLE RADIO. [ @IAPradio on Instagram ]

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  • Love 'em or hate 'em, rom coms have been an established genre for centuries and Holiday Rom-Coms are their modern-day beating heart. Dawn is something of a convert, having spent most of her life considering them thin, uninteresting trash... which they are sometimes. BUT THAT'S WHY THEY'RE GREAT!

    Leah Bonnema is not only a longtime fan of the genre, she has contributed to it as the author of THE HOLIDAY BREAKDOWN, a Christmas rom-com novel.

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (several coming next season)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    Coming up:

    More 'stocking stuffers' throughout December; next regular episode: January 5th: EP52 - The Montreal Screwjob with Mike and Jimmy from Bacon is my Podcast [BIMP]

    HILF is now part of The DEN - Deluxe Edition Network. Go there to find your NEXT favorite podcast!

    HILF is now on Patreon!

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  • In December 2021 - almost 50 episodes ago - Dawn sat down with her husband, director, Andrew Melby. Together they discussed the origin and history of the dark, Yuletide figure of Krampus... and debate whether he may be a welcome addition to their family.

    The Krampus and the old Dark Christmas by Al RidenourThe Old Magic of Christmas by Linda RaedischKrampusnacht - Twelve Nights of Krampus edited by Kate Wolford

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    See Dawn on THE HISTORY CHANNEL!Crazy Rich AncientsHistories Greatest Mysteries (several coming next season)HILF is now on Patreon!

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    Coming up:

    More 'stocking stuffers' throughout December; next regular episode: January 5th: EP52 - The Montreal Screwjob with Mike and Jimmy from Bacon is my Podcast [BIMP]

    HILF is now part of The DEN - Deluxe Edition Network. Go there to find your NEXT favorite podcast!

    HILF is now on Patreon!

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