Rockets are fun - Lou.
This is part 2 of the Jack Parsons story. We begin with his early years as a disciple of Aleister Crowley, and his continued success in the development of rockets. Until heartache compelled him to try to invoke Babalon (We know it's not spelled right- take it up with Crowley), and he got lost in magick and obsession, while being run afoul of the greatest conman of the 20th century.
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This episode is part 1 of a two part series about scientist and occultist, Jack Parsons.
This episode focuses on his early life, and how his love of science fiction books fed into his love of rockets, eventually becoming his career. Albeit a career that was always short on funding because it was still considered science fiction.
The episode ends with his introduction to the world of the occult.
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In this episode, we begin with a news story about archaeologists finding evidence of clothing from 120,000 years ago.
We then get into the episode topic, wherein two actors, American Edwin Forrest and British William Macready, engaged in an absurd competition for stage supremacy. They each catered to a different class of audience, who supported their player in the arena of public opinion, finally culminating in a deadly riot in New York.
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In this episode we start with a news story that re-writes the history of pre-historic Asia.
Getting into the episode topic, Mildred tells Lou about the Indian Rebellion of 1857, or the First Indian War of Independence.
Basically a large portion of India did not want Britain to run their country.
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Move over Jeopardy, there's a new quiz in town! It's a Lou Quiz episode!
We've got a couple news stories before diving into Lou's big fun trivia game of questions and answers. Mildred does better this time than the New Years edition, but share in her shame as she misses some obvious answers!
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In this episode, we discuss the life of Mary Edmonia Lewis aka "Wildfire". She was a 19th century American sculptor who faced challenged in a field dominated by white men, while herself being of African American and Indigenous heritage. Though her client base was in America, she lived most of her life in Europe, to escape the systemic barriers in the States.
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In this episode, Mildred talks about the life of the silent film star, Theda Bara. She is often hailed as Hollywood's first Vamp, and was only in films for 5 years before burning out of the industry. In an unusual twist for us, this episode has very little sadness, but we wanted to discuss her, as she is a goth icon, and often played roles of strong women who are in control of their own agency.
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In this episode we discuss the life of Mata Hari, a popular dancer in Europe in the first decade of the twentieth century. We tell the story of how a woman from the Netherlands pretended to be a dance from Java to gain popularity in the arts community, and how her string of international romances led her to be recruited as a spy in the First World War, ultimately leading to her demise.
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In this episode, Mildred tells Lou about two girls in Cottingley, England, who staged some photographs with paper fairies. After the photos got in the hands of the Theosophical Society, the girls accidentally became embroiled in a 60-year-long hoax that had some very famous people declaring the photos were proof that fairies were real.
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In this bonus episode, Mildred and Lou are joined by Dr. Jordan Bimm, a space historian whose research focuses the human and biological aspects of space exploration. We discuss Jordan's recent publication about the Nazi scientist who used the bodies of indigenous people in Peru to further the space program of the United States.
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We start this episode with a difficult discussion about Canadian Residential schools in light of the recent discovery of the remains of 215 children at a former residential school site in Kamloops, BC.
The episode topic is Louis Riel, the Metis leader of the Red River Rebellion and the North West Rebellion, wherein non-settler populations of Western Canada fight against the Canadian government in an attempt to retain their lands and basic human rights.
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In this episode we discuss the discovery of a ancient ruins in Saudi Arabia that pre-dates the Pyramids or Stonehenge before continuing the story of John Dee. In this episode we focus on the latter part of his life which was less successful than his early years. We finish off by discussing Dee's influence on the occult through the centuries.
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In this episode we discuss the discovery of a kitten-sized dinosaur before delving into the life of John Dee. The 17th century scholar and occultist, whose contributions to the world aren't simply based in the occult, arguably changed the world through horoscopes and divination. Also at least three monarchs die in this episode, so that's not too bad.
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In this episode we discuss the iconic 20th century couturier, credited with creating fashions for the modern woman, elegant and simple. But this isn't about her rise to the top of her field, despite life circumstances. This is about her role as a German agent in World War II. She may have been an innovated designer, but she was also a pretty big garbage human.
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In this episode we explore the life of avant garde artist and writer Claude Cahun (nee Lucie Schwob). As a part of the Paris art scene in the 1920s, she used art to question established gender roles, while hanging out with the likes of Dali, Miro, Lacan, and other big names of the Paris intelligentsia. Until 1940, when she and her partner were living on Jersey, and led a two-woman resistance against the Nazi occupation.
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In this episode, our guests Alex and Bruce from the podcast We Have A Technical tell us about Stanislov Petrov, a member of the Soviet Air Defense Forces who single handedly saved the world in 1983.
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Mildred tells us about the Ideal Maternity Home in Chester, Nova Scotia. Opened in 1928 with the best intentions of serving unwed mothers through the "shame" of pregnancy without official records that could disgrace their families, the home quickly devolved into a black market baby farm, with little care for the women who sought their help.
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In this episode, Mildred talks about the life of Sara (Saartjie) Baartman, a South African Khoikhoi woman who was brought to Europe in the 18th century to be displayed to the public in the 18th century for study.
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Lou tells Mildred all about Mary Anning, a poor British woman in the early 19th century who was a paleontologist; A woman who struggled to get credit for her finds. Despite the hard life she lived, she set the foundation for paleontology as it is today.
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In this episode we tell the story of Pamela Colman Smith, the illustrator of the Rider-Waite (Smith) tarot deck in 1909. She was a bohemian illustrator and author in New York and London, as well as a member of the Golden Dawn. Through naming the tarot deck after the publisher and author of the instructions, Pamela was effectively removed from occult history.
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