Hashtag History

This week on Hashtag History, we are joined by our dear friend, Kelsie Brook Eckert! Kelsie is a professor, author, and the Executive Director of the Remedial Herstory Project (a non-profit organization working to get women's history in the classroom).We chat all things Remedial Herstory Project, education, funding, and politics in this week's episode!Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and LeahEditor: Alex PerezCopyright: The Hashtag History Podcast

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a time in history where the United States, Great Britain, France, and the then-Soviet Union carried out together a series of trials against Nazis for the war crimes they committed over the course of the Second World War. This series of thirteen trials was held in Nuremberg, Germany between the years of 1945 and 1949, resulting in the convictions of 161 people. These trials created a precedent as this was the first time in history in which an international criminal trial was established to hold people who had committed war crimes accountable.War is war so we will talk later about what exactly constitutes as war crimes but, for the sake of keeping things brief in the introduction, just know that what Hitler – and, by extension – his Nazi regime in Germany did during World War II was some of the most disgusting and heinous war crimes the world had ever seen. In addition to invading multiple countries – such as Poland, France, Denmark, Belgium, the Soviet Union, and more – Nazi Germany also murdered more than six million European Jews in a systematic genocide.This was unacceptable and the officials in charge of such violence were held accountable during the lengthy Nuremberg Trials.Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and LeahEditor: Alex PerezCopyright: The Hashtag History Podcast

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the deadliest shipwreck in American history. On April 27, 1865, a commercial steamboat called the Sultana, carrying over 2,000 passengers (though it was legally only allowed to carry 376) burst into flames due to unresolved issues with the boilers. Between the people that died immediately as a result of the explosion, those that died later of burn damage, and those that died in their attempts to swim to shore, the total number of casualties is estimated to be somewhere between about 1,200 and 1,800.This disaster occurred the same month that marked the end of the Civil War (the bloodiest war in American history), it was the month that marked the first presidential assassination in American history with Lincoln's death, and it was the month that marked the start of the Reconstruction Era.So, like, there was a lot going on…Because of that, much of the disaster was largely overshadowed. Much of the research was extensively  neglected. But this is a really important story to tell. The Titanic (which we have talked about before) is so much more popular than the Sultana and yet the number of casualties is roughly the same. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Lindbergh Kidnapping. In March of 1932, the one-year-old son of Charles Lindbergh (the famous American aviator who is most known for being the first person to complete a solo, nonstop transatlantic flight) went missing. While other people were in the home – including the baby's parents – Charles Lindburgh, Jr. was taken from his crib from the second-floor of the house…never to be seen again. The kidnapper would leave a ransom note which the desperate Lindberghs complied with, paying $50,000 for information related to their son. This note, however, turned out to be a hoax.The Lindberghs, the Federal Bureau of Investigations, and the country at large searched for the missing baby furiously, only to discover – ten weeks after the kidnapping – that the little boy had been killed and buried in the woods less than five miles from the Lindbergh home.A man would be arrested, convicted, and eventually sentenced to death for the crime but…to this day, there are still people that profess his innocence (just as he did for the remainder of his life).This case changed history. It is often referred to as one of the “crimes of the century." It was this case that led the US Congress to pass the Federal Kidnapping Act, making it a federal crime to transport a kidnapped victim across state lines. It is this act that gave the FBI jurisdiction to investigate these types of kidnappings (something that they did not have prior to 1932).Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Radium Girls. The Radium Girls refers to the female employees of a radium factory that contracted radiation poisoning from painting radium dials and hands on watches. The women were instructed to use their lips to make the bristles of the paintbrush form into a fine point that would then be used to paint radium onto the watch faces. Lip-dip-paint over and over again, each time, ingesting small amounts of radium.This sounds wild…because it is. But in late-1920s when all of this was happening, the common belief was that radium was not only harmless, but that it also had healing properties. Maybe even further than that, radium was also thought to be…fun. The women at this factory became known as “ghost girls” because the radium dust particles would fall off onto their clothing, making them glow in the dark. Some of these women wore their best dresses to work so they could purposefully make their dresses illuminate. Some women even painted their nails and their teeth with the radium, not knowing any better.Now, of course, these poor women would start to show signs of illness. Things like anemia, bone fractures, and something else that would eventually become known as “radium jaw”. Because of the amount of radium these women were ingesting directly into their mouths, their mouths began to decay at a rapid, rapid pace. Toothaches turned into tooth extractions. Tooth extractions turned into ulcers. Multiple ulcers all at once. In perhaps the worst story I read while doing my research, one woman in particular had to have multiple teeth removed but was still in severe pain. When she went to the dentist to have him check her out again, he gently placed his fingers in her mouth…and her jaw literally fell off. It just melted off. The dentist removed her jaw, “Not by an operation, but merely by putting his fingers in her mouth and lifting it out.”This would ultimately lead to a lengthy legal battle between the women and the U.S. Radium Corporation, who denied responsibility, and would – of course – ultimately lead to the untimely and painful deaths of many of the women involved.Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and Leah

We have a Leah Takeover Episode!This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the mystery of DB Cooper. On November 24, 1971, a then-unidentified man hijacked Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 305, traveling from Portland to Seattle. During the flight, the hijacker informed the crew that he had a bomb and demanded $200,000 in ransom, plus four parachutes upon landing in Seattle. After landing in Seattle, the passengers were released, the money and parachutes were handed over, the plane was refueled, and the crew and the hijacker took off with a destination of Mexico City (and a plan to stop in Reno to refuel again). However, the hijacker never made it to Mexico City, as about thirty minutes into the flight, he opened the door and parachuted into the night over southwestern Washington State forests. The hijacker was never seen or heard from again. He was dubbed "DB Cooper" by the media, but his true identity has not been discovered to this day…or has it? The FBI has recently reopened this case, due to some newly surfaced evidence, and the case may finally be solved. We will get into all of this and more in today's episode.Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 1986 Challenger Explosion. This was an absolutely tragic incident in American history in which the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after lift-off, killing all seven of its crew members. This incident was exceptionally devastating because one of the passengers onboard wasn't a NASA astronaut. Rather, a thirty-seven year old school teacher named Christa McAuliffe was onboard that day as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project; an effort to get the American people interested in the NASA Program once again. But of course, the most devastating and most disturbing part of this whole disaster is the fact that NASA knew of a historic problem with the O-ring seals on the solid rocket booster and had received correspondence from the manufacturer that they anticipated that the launch would end in catastrophe. NASA had the ability to halt the launch, and yet, they refused, sending seven people to their deaths in front of millions of people (many of which were children who were tuning in as part of their school day on account of McAuliffe being a member of the crew).A special THANK YOU to our Hashtag History listeners -- Jeff, Christa, and Mike -- who so graciously shared with us their first-hand experiences of watching the Challenger explosion in live time. We cannot tell you what it means to us that you shared these stories with us and with our audience. Thank you so much!Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and LeahMusic track: Falling by AylexSource: https://freetouse.com/musicCopyright Free Music (Free Download)

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Newport Sex Scandal. This scandal was revealed when the United States Navy conducted an investigation in 1919 in which they were looking into the gross and deceptive tactics ordered upon a group of Navy personnel to impersonate gay men in order to catch gay men…being gay men, something that was illegal at this time in history. Fifteen members of the Navy would end up being arrested in Newport, Rhode Island, as a result of their “scandalous conduct”. Of particular importance is the fact that the Assistant Secretary of the Navy during this scandal, who would resign during the course of this investigation so that he could – oh, I don't know, accept the nomination for Vice President of the United States – was none other than Franklin D. Roosevelt. In fact, Roosevelt's personal conduct in this matter was said by the committee to be deplorable, disgraceful, and reprehensible.This is definitely some little known history but a very important piece of history to discuss.Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode.Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch!You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website!You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers!THANKS FOR LISTENING!- Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the first French Revolution, a period in time that lasted from 1789 to 1799, in which the French people revolted against the monarchy and feudal system, amongst other things. To keep it brief, the primary reasons were the total social and economic inequality that existed – and had existed for a long time – in France. While the people were struggling to make ends meet, the monarchy was living in mansions and eating cake. And while, of course, a revolution is not necessarily a novel concept (particularly at this time in history when the United States had only just recently ended its own revolution), the French Revolution stands out for…what some might call…its depravity. Because when I say the French revolted, I do mean that they revolted. At the end of this bloody conflict that – at one point would earn the name The Reign of Terror – both King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette would not only be removed from power, but also, would have their heads removed via guillotine.  While I don't advocate for that – nor do I advocate a revolution (please! I have lived through enough historical events in my lifetime; I do not need any more) – I do think we can find something inspiring from the French Revolution and that is that this was a revolution started by the people and for the people that really created massive change in the modern political structure of France that we see even today. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

WE ARE BACK FOR SEASON FIFTEEN! This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Collyer Brothers. Homer and Langley Collyer were two brothers, living a rather interesting life in Harlem, New York City, in the early-1900s. You see, they were the OG HOARDERS. And when I tell you they were hoarders, I do mean that they were HOARDERS. Not only were they hoarders but they also set up traps throughout their house to crush any potential intruders. We're not just talking about these brothers today because they lived an interesting – and disgusting – lifestyle…though that is certainly a highlight of the story. No, the primary reason we are talking about them is because, in March of 1947, they would both go missing under exceptionally mysterious – and confusing – circumstances. On March 21, 1947, an anonymous caller would reach out to the local police, complaining that they smelled what they believed to be decomposition of a body coming from the Collyer home. When the police arrived, they struggled for FIVE HOURS to get inside the building and find the source of the smell, but once they did, they would realize that it was coming from the body of the older brother, Homer. Based on the condition of his body, it looked as though he had been dead for less than a day at this point. His brother Langley, on the other hand, was nowhere to be found. And it was quickly assumed that Langley was actually the killer. This is the story we will be diving into this week and I can guarantee that the answer is not the one you are likely expecting. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

Hey, everyone! Rachel and Leah are back! We are so excited to begin a BRAND NEW season of the podcast this upcoming week! But, before we could do that, we wanted to provide you with A MAJOR UPDATE to the podcast. After nearly five years of releasing new episodes every single week, we have decided to make a small change to the format of the podcast and release our episodes on a biweekly basis. Same great quality content; but now, it will be dropped every other week. We're both new moms that both still work full-time on top of podcasting and other life responsibilities. In order to provide you with the best quality content and keep doing something that we love so much, this change was necessary. We are so excited to see all we are able to do with this new format and new chapter of the podcast! It is only bigger and better things from here! Thanks for sticking with us on this ride and see you next week for the release of the first episode of Season Fifteen! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast or check out our website at www.HashtagHistory-pod.com. You can sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandize, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Torreon Massacre. This was a massacre that took place in May of 1911 in the Mexican city of Torreon, Coahuila, in which roughly three hundred Chinese immigrants were murdered by members of the Mexican Revolution. This was nearly HALF of the Chinese population in Torreon! Following their murders, their bodies were mutilated and robbed and their homes and businesses were destroyed. A later investigation found that this massacre was the result of…you guessed it: racism. Mexico would not issue an official apology for the massacre until 2021; one hundred and ten years after the tragedy! This incident in History has been kept hidden with no statues or monuments marking the disaster. In fact, when a statue was erected to memorialize the victims, it was vandalized and removed. The victims of this massacre were thrown in unmarked graves that have now been covered by roads and playgrounds. All the more reason for us to talk about this horrific incident and to shed light on something that History would rather we forget. Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the tragic deaths of adult actor Vic Morrow and two children Myca Dinh Le and Renee Shin-Yi Chen (as well as the injuries of six others). This tragedy occurred as a result of an accident that happened in 1982 on the set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. You see, on July 23rd of that year, director John Landis told the operator of a helicopter that was being used on set to hover dangerously low over the ground in order to capture a particular scene. This, amongst other violations, caused the helicopter to get caught in the pyrotechnic explosions, leading to the horrific deaths of Morrow, Le, and Chen. What's possibly worse is that, of those on set that night watching the horrendous tragedy occur, were the parents of both of the children. This awful incident would lead to Landis becoming the first ever film director to be charged with a death on the set of a feature film. For nearly a decade after the incident, a slew of civil and criminal actions against those involved would take place…which would eventually lead to a very unsatisfying and disappointing end. Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Kentucky Meat Shower. This was an incident that occurred on March 3, 1876 near Olympia Springs, Kentucky, in which pieces of what was believed to be red meat quite literally fell from the sky. What?! We have to dive right into this one because you all need to hear the wild, confusing, disgusting, and mysterious details ASAP! Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Saskatoon Freezing deaths, a series of deaths of indigenous people in the Saskatoon, Saskatchewan area between the late 1970s and into the early-2000s. It was discovered that the Saskatoon Police Service were taking indigenous people on what became known as “Starlight Tours” in which they would pick up an indigenous person (sometimes because they were drunk, sometimes due to disorderly behavior, and sometimes for no reason at all), drive them outside the city limits, and leave them stranded in subzero temperatures with no alternate fate but a horrendous death. This was all brought to light when, in January of 2000, a man named Darrell Night survived one of those horrendous tours and filed a complaint against the Saskatoon officers involved. This is an awful and shocking story that many have attempted to erase from History. So let's just get right into it. Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

In this week's BONUS Hasty History episode, we will be discussing the Great Molasses Flood of 1919. The Great Molasses Flood was quite literally a flood of molasses that swept through Boston, Massachusetts in January of 1919. And while a flood of sticky molasses may sound amusing, this incident would turn tragic with 150 people injured and another 21 dead. Professor and Civil Engineer Mark Rossow put it perfectly when he said of the incident, “First you kind of laugh at it, then you read about it, and it was horrible.” So let's talk about it! Hasty History BONUS episodes are no-nonsense, crash course, cram session History lessons. No cocktail segment, no ads, no bloopers. Just a quick download of some heavy History content. Submit your topic suggestion for future Hasty History episodes at HashtagHistory1865@gmail.com. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, wet are joined by New York Times bestselling author, Amber Hunt, to discuss her newest book, Crimes of the Centuries. She discusses some well-known cases with us (such as the Salem Witch Trials, the 1982 Tylenol Poisonings, and the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire) as well as some lesser-known cases (such as that of Pearl Bryan, Stanford White, and Theora Hix). Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the relationship between husband and wife/president and First Lady, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. I think it's common knowledge (right?) that this married couple were actually cousins, yeah? But is it also common knowledge that Franklin Roosevelt was rumored to have had a number of affairs, right? And that Eleanor perhaps had her own affair…with a woman? Learn all about it in this week's episode! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Milgram Experiment which was a series of psychological experiments conducted by psychologist Stanley Milgram in which he was testing the blind obedience of a participant to an authority figure. These were the experiments where one participant would serve in the role of a “teacher” while the other played a “student”. The teacher would ask the student a question and, if the student got the answer incorrect, the teacher was instructed to administer an electric shock to the student. With each incorrect answer, the shock levels were incrementally increased all the way from 15 volts to 450 (which is a fatal level). When you watch the video footage of these experiments, you can see that many of the “teacher” participants hesitate and even refuse to administer such intense shocks to the innocent “student”. But, shockingly (no pun intended), Milgram would find that - with the right amount of pressure applied to the “teacher” from an authoritative figure - every single participant was willing to go up to 300 volts, and a whopping 65% of the participants were willing to administer the maximum voltage levels of 450! Milgram, whose Jewish parents had immigrated to the United States during the first World War, was particularly inspired by Nazi Germany and how so many members of the Nazi Party obeyed authority so blindly when they murdered thousands upon thousands of innocent Jews during the Holocaust. As was revealed during the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi leader after Nazi leader professed that they only did what they did because they were following orders from authorities. The results of this test are pretty disturbing, to say the least. Lucky for us…they may not be true. For one, the device used to inflict electric shock upon innocent participants…wasn't actually real. And those innocent participants…they were members of Milgram's own staff. But that's not even the most surprising revelations about the Milgram study to surface in more recent years. Australian psychologist Gina Perry has reevaluated the experiment and found that much of the raw data does not reflect Milgram's final conclusion. In fact, that 65% number that we got earlier - the number of participants willing to blindly follow orders - is actually only based on a tiny fraction of those that ultimately participated in the test. Over 700 people took part in the Milgram Experiment, and yet Milgram's final results derive from 40 of those participants. Additionally, Milgram's gauge on “obedience” was skewed. Even if a participant refused to inflict electronic shock on the other participant upwards of twenty times before they complied, Milgram documented this as blindly obeying.  The problem with all of this is that Milgram's Experiment is still so widely known - inaccurately so - and still referred to as factual. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Lucille Desiree Ball, best known - of course - as the star of the I Love Lucy show. Ball would set numerous precedents with the I Love Lucy show by using three cameras and 35 mm film in front of a live audience, being the first pregnant woman shown on television, and being the first interracial marriage on television. She would star in over 70 films over the course of her life, earning the unofficial title of “the Queen of B Movies”. She would later become the first female studio head in Hollywood as president of Desilu Studios. She earned thirteen Emmy nominations and was awarded four, was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Crystal Award, the Governors Award, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and TWO stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I'm so excited to talk about her today because I think there's a lot the general public knows about her - a lot that they don't know about her - and a lot of features we see in Hollywood today for which she set the precedent. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Mark Weinberger, known as “The Nose Doctor”. To put it bluntly, Weinberger, a doctor who opened up his own practice in Indiana, was performing hundreds of unnecessary - and sometimes, negligent - sinus procedures on patients. In fact, according to a Vanity Fair article, he recommended surgery to 90% of his patients! 90%! That is an overwhelming number! Many of these patients either did not actually need the surgery OR were misdiagnosed with sinus problems when, in fact, they had things like cancer. As medical malpractice and insurance fraud lawsuits began to stack up, Weinberger decided to hop ship and travel to Greece with his third wife to celebrate her thirtieth birthday. While on this vacation, Weinberger disappeared without telling his wife where he was going. She would soon find out that he had left her with more than $6 million in debt. Weinberger would not be found until five years later in the European Alps when his girlfriend spotted him on an episode of America's Most Wanted. Despite pleading guilty to 22 counts of healthcare fraud in 2011, Weinberger is now a free man…and you are not even ready to hear what kind of scammy operation he is running now. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE POOR AUDIO QUALITY! This week on Hashtag History, we are going to be looking at a very interesting event in History that resulted in a common phrase or psychological term that most of us are familiar with today: Stockholm Syndrome.  This psychological condition derives its name from the 1973 Stockholm Bank Robbery. On August 23, 1973, a man named Jan-Erik Olsson (a convict) attempted to rob a bank in Stockholm, Sweden. Olsson – later, also alongside a former jail mate of his, Clark Olofsson — would end up taking four of the bank employees hostage while they awaited police to comply with their very specific demands. Over the course of this hostage situation, the hostages would actually appear to take sides with their captors with one hostage in particular - a woman named Kristin Enmark - telling authorities that she was actually afraid of the police, and not her captors. When this hostage situation was finally resolved, not a single one of the hostages testified against Olsson or Olofsson in the following criminal trial. Rather, they actually assisted in raising funds for their legal defense. So what's the deal? Listen to this week's episode to find out. AD: A Tour of Her Own is offering special discounts exclusive to Hashtag History listeners! Use promo code HASHTAGHISTORY for 25% off all virtual programs at this link: ⁠https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/toho-virtual-programs-1377609⁠. You can also use promo code HASHTAGHISTORY set up for 25% off all virtual memberships at this link: ⁠https://www.atourofherown.com/store⁠ Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

Due to obnoxious audio and technical issues, we are playing a re-run this week of one of our most popular episodes. Hope you enjoy and we will see you next week with a brand new episode! This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing hidden presidential illnesses. Between the fact that most people had no idea during Franklin D. Roosevelt's lifetime that he was paralyzed from the waist down, John F. Kennedy's had chronic back pain and Addison's Disease which would lead to a heavy addiction to painkillers and anti-anxiety medications, OR that it wouldn't be until after the death of Grover Cleveland that the nation would learn that - while he was president - he had undergone an undercover surgical operation conducted on a private yacht to remove a cancerous tumor. Because of the pedestal that American Presidents are placed upon, oftentimes these very human illnesses and diseases are hidden from the general public. But they matter. Presidential illnesses can truly change the course of History. In fact, some Historians believe that because of Woodrow Wilson's series of strokes (many of which he kept hidden for a long period of time), he was unable to fight harder for the United States to join the League of Nations which may have helped to prevent World War II. This week's episode allows us the flexibility to weave through various people and various time periods. We are going to be spanning the whole length of American Presidents from 1789 to now! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! Finally, you can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we are discussing Santa Cruz's infamous Mystery Spot. The Mystery Spot is roughly 150 feet of WTF? It is this small location hidden up in the redwood forests where the laws of gravity don't appear to exist. It's where you can stand on what appears to be a level table but, once you are standing on top of it, your body takes on a 45 degree angle. Or you can place a ball on what - again, appears to be a level surface - and this ball will mysteriously slide upwards and off of the surface. OR you can be standing next to a five year old who is clearly shorter than you but, once you step onto what appears to be - AGAIN - a level plank, you are suddenly the shorter of the pair. So what's the deal? Listen to this week's episode to find out. AD: A Tour of Her Own is offering special discounts exclusive to Hashtag History listeners! Use promo code HASHTAGHISTORY for 25% off all virtual programs at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/toho-virtual-programs-1377609. You can also use promo code HASHTAGHISTORY set up for 25% off all virtual memberships at this link: https://www.atourofherown.com/store Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Y2K Bug, also known as Y2K Problem or simply Y2K. This refers to a historical incident…that never really happened. At least not to the degree that it was proposed it would. As a recent survey reports, some 46% of people believed that - when the year changed from 1999 to 2000 - all hell would break loose. This was because it was believed that particular computer programs that only allowed for two year digits (for example, simply 99 as opposed to 1999) would instantly stop working when the date descended to 00 at the turn of the year (i.e., computers would not be able to distinguish the year 2000 from the year 1900). And these computer programs went beyond just not being able to operate your Word Perfect document (Haha…another millennial joke). No, these computer programs extended to airline reservations, banking software, utilities, medical equipment, infrastructure, power plants, government programs, nuclear weapon controls, and more. Should all hell break loose, we were looking at a global disaster that would cost somewhere between $300 and $600 billion to remedy! As we all know now in hindsight, nothing particularly noteworthy occurred as the world rang in the year 2000. Sure, some small businesses experienced some computer programming issues…but did airlines and banks come crashing down? No. Whether this is due to the efforts that had been put into place leading up to the event to resolve potential issues (such as President Bill Clinton's Year 2000 Information and Readiness Disclosure Act) OR if the whole Y2K Bug was just a big hoax, is still debated to this day. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the origins of the AMBER Alert system. We here in the United States (as well as a number of other countries) have a system known as the AMBER Alert. I'm sure all of our American listeners (and maybe some of our international listeners too) are nodding their heads along right now, thinking back to a time when they saw an Amber Alert scroll across the bottom of their TVs, saw it on a billboard along the freeway, or were terrified when it loudly came across as an alert on their phone.  Essentially, what an AMBER Alert is is an emergency alert message that goes out via television, radio stations, text message, and more, in the event of a child abduction. The alert will include information such as the possible name and description of the potential abductor as well as a description of their vehicle, including the license plate number, if this information is known. All of this is in an attempt to get help from the public in returning the child to their home as quickly as possible. If you happen to be driving along the freeway and see the wanted vehicle, you can call it into your local police station and help make an arrest much sooner than the police could do on their own. Now, again, this is a system that most - if not, all - of us in the United States are familiar with. It is a system that has been in place nearly my entire life, having been established in 1996. But what many people don't know are the origins of Amber Alert and what led to such a system being put in place. That is what we will be discussing this week on the podcast. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

Welcome back for Season Fourteen of the Hashtag History podcast! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode! This week on Hashtag History, we will be diving into a very specific and very niche portion of World War II History: The Navajo Code Talkers. For those of you unfamiliar with the Navajo Code Talkers, they were a group of over 400 Navajo men recruited by the United States Marine Corps during World War II to create a code for war correspondence based on their very complex native language. Despite their courage and willingness to utilize their native language for the success of the United States' war effort, their contributions would go almost thirty years without recognition due to the secrecy of the Navajo Code Talker program. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

We're back! In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah returns to the podcast after NINE MONTHS AWAY to update you all on what has been going and what is coming next. We share some very sad news, but also share some really exciting news. We are happy to be back and are so grateful for all of your support during our absence! Get ready for us to officially return for Season Fourteen of the Hashtag History podcast NEXT WEEK! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast. Check out our website at www.hashtaghistory-pod.com! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we interview Carol Daly, one of the lead investigators on the Golden State Killer case. She was also the first woman appointed as Undersheriff with the Sacramento County Sheriff's Office, the first woman appointed Chair of the Board of Prison Terms…and so many more firsts for women in the Sacramento law enforcement! In this episode, Carol shared with us details about her involvement in the Golden State Killer case - as well as a few other infamous Sacramento cases - and showered us all with some female empowerment as she discusses the huge strides she made for women in Sacramento law enforcement and what it was like working in such a male-dominated field. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joseph James DeAngelo, also known as the Golden State Killer. DeAngelo tormented the State of California - particularly here in the Sacramento area (very, very close to where we live) - for more than ten years committing burglaries, rapes, and murders. Due to his widespread crimes, it took investigators more than four decades to piece together the fact that the man that had become known as the Visalia Ransacker, the East Area Rapist, and the Original Night Stalker were all the same person. In 2018, DeAngelo was finally caught after a family member of his had uploaded their DNA to a genetic genealogy site. He was charged and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2020. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Galileo Galilei. He is considered to be the Father of Modern Science and, by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, is considered to be “a - if not the - central figure of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century”. We have Galileo to thank for significant contributions to various fields of science, mathematics, philosophy, and physics. He studied and made huge contributions to areas such as gravity and relativity, inertia, and speed. He invented a better telescope for viewing planets and other objects in space. He was brilliant and I cannot wait to dive into all of these major accomplishments and achievements that he made in the fields of science, physics, and astronomy. But, most interesting to me, is the way Galileo's life ended. Over the course of his studies, Galileo became convinced of heliocentrism (the concept that the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun); this was contrary to the popular (and religious) belief at the time - geocentrism - which states that the Earth is actually at the center of the universe with all of the celestial bodies (such as the sun, moon, planets, and stars) all revolving around it. Galileo's heliocentric beliefs were incredibly controversial, particularly with the Catholic Church, who had his claims investigated - more than once - before eventually forcing him to recant his beliefs and placing him under house arrest where he would remain for the rest of his life. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 1985 MOVE Bombing in which the City of Philadelphia bombed and killed its own people. On May 13, 1985, the Philadelphia Police Department dropped a bomb onto a West Philadelphia home that they knew to be occupied by men, women, and children. Those residing within this house were a part of MOVE, a Black liberation group founded on the principles of racial justice, and other causes such as animal and environmental rights. They had long been a nuisance for the local police and had also become a nuisance to many of their residential neighbors who had made noise and littering complaints. In response to this, the Philadelphia Mayor ordered for the group to be evicted from the home. When they did not do this, the Philadelphia Police Department bombed the home and the Philadelphia Fire Department allowed for the fire resulting from this bombing to destroy an additional sixty-one homes.  At the end of this horrendous event, eleven people were killed (including children) and another 250 people were left homeless. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the History of the British Museum. The British Museum truly has everything…and that's exactly the problem. The British Museum is home to roughly eight million objects; the majority of which aren't even on display for you to see! But of their high-ticket items that are on display, it is safe to say that a good chunk of them…were stolen. In this episode, we will discuss the History of the British Museum, its origins, how it managed to acquire so many of its artifacts, what those contested artifacts are, and what those countries are doing now in their attempts to have their property returned to them. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Sam Cooke. He is one of my (Rachel's) favorite musical artists and, upon learning that he was also a huge advocate of the Civil Rights Movement and that he died a truly tragic (and incredibly mysterious death) at only thirty-three years old, just has me even more fascinated with the artist behind the art. So join us this week to learn more about him! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is of course most well-known for leading the French army to victory during the Hundred Years War when she was only a teenager. She claimed that she had been sent visions by God and that she was fulfilling a prophecy by leading France to victory. She would later be captured, however, by the enemy that considered her a heretic and she would be burned at the stake for her alleged crimes. About twenty years after her death, she would be vindicated of these allegations and, in 1920, she would officially be declared a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She is now considered a patron saint of France. So was Joan of Arc a heroine? Was she a heretic? Or was she just a really confused - but also, very passionate, and rather impressive - young woman? Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hashtaghistory/support

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the War of 1812. Now you all know that I am not a huge fan of Military History. In fact, it is my least favorite part about History. However, I have always found the War of 1812 fascinating in that it tends to so often be overlooked. Many Americans are not aware that we literally went to war again with Great Britain roughly thirty years after we had won our independence from them. This episode is not a thorough review of the War of 1812. We will not be going through a chronology of the war, talking about all of the key players, and all of the victories and defeats. Rather, we will be discussing the causes of the War of 1812 (how and why we fought again with Britain so soon after the Revolutionary War), how Native Americans were the ultimate losers in this war, and the long-term effects and consequences of what would become known by Americans as the Second War of Independence. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Kitty Genovese and the Bystander Effect. This is the story of a woman who was murdered outside of an apartment building in a highly populated area of New York and -- despite the fact that dozens of people witnessed the murder -- not a single one called the police. This is a story that has circulated for decades. The Bystander Effect which essentially says that humans -- when in the presence of others -- are less likely to step up and take responsibility themselves. That, when in a group setting, if we think others also witnessed a crime or witnessed someone in need, we are less likely to actually do something about it because we just assume someone else will. It would later be revealed though that this egregious story of Kitty Genovese's horrendous murder -- and the 38 witnesses that allegedly saw the murder and did nothing about it -- has actually been grossly overexaggerated. More recent investigations have found that there are several inaccuracies with the original account and the original story that spread throughout the media. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

Welcome back for Season Thirteen of the Hashtag History podcast! As tradition dictates, the first episode of every season is a Leah Takeover Episode! This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a specific Mount Everest expedition that took place in 1996 where, due to a blizzard during their descent of the mountain, eight climbers died. This tragedy has lead to multiple books, memoirs, and even movies about the experience. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History for our Season Finale, we have the wonderful Stephanie and Tux from Beyond Reproach on the show to discuss the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Lost Cause mythology. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be finishing up our discussion on Princess Diana. This week, we are going to be diving into more of the unhappiness in Diana and Charles' marriage, the affairs that led - in part - to their awful divorce, the brief period of time that Diana appeared to absolutely thrive post-divorce, her amazing charity work, and then her unfortunate and untimely death and all of the conspiracy theories surrounding that. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing Princess Diana (more accurately, Diana, Princess of Wales) who married into the British Royal Family in 1981, becoming one of the most cherished, loved, and misunderstood figures in History all before her absolutely tragic and untimely death in 1997 when she was only thirty-six years old. There is so much to say about Diana; the good, the bad, and the ugly. We admire so much about her…but that doesn't mean she was a perfect person. She was human, as we all are. And we look forward to being able to tell her story and to portray Diana as the human that she was…to the best of our abilities. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, the seventeenth President of the United States of America, marking the first impeachment of a US President. Johnson had a particularly unpopular presidency, having been thrust into the position following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Many in Congress opposed his Reconstruction plan and his overall practices. They passed a bill called the Tenure of Office Act in March 1867 which essentially restricted the President's power by prohibiting him from removing certain officials with the approval of the Senate. So when Johnson did just that by attempting to remove Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from the Cabinet (not once; but twice!) without the proper approvals, the House of Representatives brought forth articles of impeachment for Andrew Johnson. However, failing to meet the two-thirds majority required to convict and officially remove Johnson from office, he would continue to serve out the rest of his presidential term. Because impeachment does not mean removal from office. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the 2002 Winter Olympics Figure Skating Scandal, otherwise known as “Skategate”. In 2002 at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, two ice skating couples - Russian pair Anton Sikharulidze and Elena Berezhnaya and Canadian pair David Pelletier and Jamie Sale - went head-to-head in the pairs ice skating competition. And while both pairs were incredible, it was noted that the Russian couple made a couple of technical flaws during their routine, including Anton not landing a double Axel. And yet, when the final scores were read - to the international audiences' surprise - the Russian couple won. Now…was it surprising that Russia won the ice skating competition? No. In fact, Russia had won this event at every Olympic Games since 1960! But 2002 was the first year it looked like another country stood a chance. When it came down to it though, each country had their own set of judges voting for them with only France in the middle as the swing vote. And that's when rumors began to swirl that perhaps Russia had bribed the French judge to vote for the Russian couple in a quid pro quo exchange. So was the French judge bribed by the Russians? That's what we will find out in this week's episode. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the mysterious Civil War Glow. This refers to a phenomenon that was spotted during the Civil War - during the Battle of Shiloh of 1862 - in which a number of soldiers were seen with a mysterious glow emanating from their wounds. Although unexplainable by both the soldiers experiencing the glow and by the doctors treating them, it was found that the soldiers whose wounds glowed actually had a better chance at living than those that did not. In fact, many soldiers would refer to this as the “Angel's Glow” and would thank the mysterious phenomenon for saving their lives. This mystery would remain as such for nearly a hundred and forty years! Amazingly, the mystery would eventually be very likely solved by a high school student in 2001 as part of a science project that he was conducting for school! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing a decades-long mystery…that was actually very possibly solved just earlier this year! After more than seventy years, the identification of the mysterious Somerton Man has - maybe - been discovered. So who is/was the Somerton Man? On December 1, 1948, the body of a man was discovered on the Somerton Park Beach in Adelaide, Australia. He was found wearing a suit, with no obvious or visible cause of death, and a slip of paper in his pocket which read in Persian “Tamam Shud”. Or, in English, “It is finished.” So who was the Somerton Man? Was he a spy? A scorned lover? Someone who owed money to the wrong person? A ballet dancer, even? We are going to dive into all of that this week in addition to discussing the more recent developments in the case which provide a very interesting identification of the mysterious Somerton Man. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

WARNING: Please use discretion before listening to this week's episode. As much as we love to have you here, we want you to take care of YOU! If this week's topic is too distressing, please skip this episode and we will see you next week! This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing the Atanta Child Murders which were a series of murders that occurred in Atlanta, Georgia between 1979 and 1981 and resulted in the deaths of approximately twenty-nine people (the majority of which were children). An Atlanta man named Wayne Williams was eventually arrested and convicted of the murders of two of the adult victims…but still, to this day, no one has officially, legally been charged with any of the other murders…in particular, the murders of more than a dozen children. There are many people that do not believe that Williams was responsible for the deaths of all these children, including some of the parents of the children. In fact, there is some evidence that perhaps the KKK may have been involved in potentially upwards of fourteen of the murders. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

This week on Hashtag History, we will be discussing one of History's most fascinating, magical, and sometimes spooky characters…the man that actually died on no other day but Halloween itself…Mr. Harry Houdini. Harry Houdini was best known as a magician and escape artist who performed incredible feats such as being restrained and escaping from the belly of a whale, swallowing hundreds of needles and then bringing them back up, escaping from a crate that had been weighed down and sunk in the river, and, of course, escaping from the infamous Chinese Water Torture Cell. These are just a few of the incredible stunts that Houdini performed that we will be discussing this week. But in addition to discussing the things Houdini was most known for, we will also be diving into his personal life, his upbringing as a Hungary-native who moved to America at a young age, his endearing relationship with his wife, his likewise “endearing” relationship with his mom, his efforts to debunk spiritualists, and his mysterious and untimely death. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

Welcome back for Season Twelve! We are so happy to have you here! This week on Hashtag History, Leah is taking over the episode and discussing witches (just in time for the Halloween season)! We take a dive into the idea that witches (as we know and picture them today) actually derive from depictions and stigmas surrounding early women beer brewers! We cover what early female brewers looked like and how depictions of them and the tools they used eventually went on to be correlated with witchcraft. It's important to note that this idea that we embark on isn't a 100% accepted theory across the board amongst Historians so we make sure to call out some of the opposing arguments throughout the episode. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast for all of the pictures mentioned in this episode. Citations for all sources can be located on our website at www.HashtagHistory-Pod.com. You can also check out our website for super cute merch! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Mike from Necronomipod! Tune in for the final episode of our guest speaker series to hear us discuss William McKinley's rise to the Presidency, his tragic assassination, and how it helped birth the secret service and change the overall accessibility of the President today. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast. Also, be sure to follow Necronomipod @necronomipod. Check out our website at www.hashtaghistory-pod.com! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with Chris from Hundred Proof History podcast! Tune in to hear us discuss the Hamilton-Reynolds Scandal, how the Hamilton Musical may or may not be totally accurate, and why Hamilton never sought the presidency. Be prepared for lots of laughs! Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast. Also, be sure to follow Hundred Proof History @100proofhistory. Check out our website at www.hashtaghistory-pod.com! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah

In a special, bonus episode, Rachel and Leah had the honor of speaking with AJ Rantz, the creator and owner of Cocktail Cards! Tune in to hear us discuss growing a small business on TikTok, how you can trace a cocktail's history based on the flavors and liquors used, the ingredients behind an amazing margarita, the launching of a mocktail movement, and lots of Prohibition History! AJ has offered an exclusive discount on Cocktail Cards for Hashtag History listeners! GET 10% OFF COCKTAIL CARDS by going to www.getcocktailcards.com and entering the discount code HASHTAG at checkout. Follow Hashtag History on Instagram @hashtaghistory_podcast. Also, be sure to follow AJ @cocktailcards. Check out our website at www.hashtaghistory-pod.com! You can now sponsor a cocktail and get a shout-out on air! Just head to www.buymeacoffee.com/hashtaghistory or head to the Support tab on our website! You can locate us on www.Patreon.com/hashtaghistory where you can donate $1 a month to our Books and Booze Supply. All of your support goes a long ways and we are endlessly grateful! To show our gratitude, all Patreon Supporters receive an automatic 15% OFF all merchandise in our merchandise store, bonus Hashtag Hangouts episodes, a shoutout on social media, and stickers! THANKS FOR LISTENING! - Rachel and Leah