A Very Broad History of Werewolves and Other Things

Travis Roy

Random history from a random historian. Host and content: Travis Roy Producer: Brennan Storr Photo credit: Eric Branstrom

  1. Ep 18: A Bloody History

    02/24/2020

    Ep 18: A Bloody History

    Blood is one of the most fundamental aspects of being a living human person— so why not take a quick look at some of the ways blood has been perceived and sometimes misunderstood through history?

    30 min
  2. Ep 17: The Black Cauldron

    01/16/2020

    Ep 17: The Black Cauldron

    Long in production and much anticipated by Disney as their “next Sleeping Beauty,” 1985’s The Black Cauldron instead was received as a dismal flop. By some it is remembered as the movie that almost tanked Disney, or at least the Disney animation studio. But some of us remember it as yet a treasured piece of 80s nostalgia that was probably too damn scary for us to be watching at the time but it’s too late, it already has its impact.

    28 min
  3. Ep 16: It’s A Wonderful Life

    12/15/2019

    Ep 16: It’s A Wonderful Life

    There is a rich history that surrounds the classic American Christmas movie It’s A Wonderful Life. From the making of, to the lives of the filmmakers, to the cultural impact of the film, there is much to explore on the subject of Frank Capra’s masterpiece. We scratch the surface on this holiday episode of A Very Broad History of Werewolves and Other Things. Also fair warning that I dropped extra f-bombs this episode. I have no idea why.

    37 min
  4. Ep 15: Mesmerization & Benjamin Franklin

    11/26/2019

    Ep 15: Mesmerization & Benjamin Franklin

    At the tail end of the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin was asked by King Louis XVI of France to investigate the practices of Franz Mesmer, who claimed that “animal magnetism” could heal just about anything. Here’s the story of this weird little snippet of world history.

    31 min
  5. Ep 14: Stevie Wonder

    11/03/2019

    Ep 14: Stevie Wonder

    Musical genius, humanitarian, and inspiration, Stevie Wonder is a national treasure to be celebrated. In this episode we take a look at the personal history of one of America’s living legends.

    27 min
  6. Ep 13: The Vampyres

    10/20/2019

    Ep 13: The Vampyres

    In 1816 Lord Byron and John Polidori spent a summer with Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley. While the novel Frankenstein is often best remembered as a product of that summer, another story, The Vampyre, resulted from the contentious collaboration of Byron and Polidori, and fundamentally changed how vampires were imagined in popular culture.

    37 min
  7. Ep 12: Bedevilment

    10/07/2019

    Ep 12: Bedevilment

    Old Scratch has gone through quite a few incarnations throughout history. In this episode we take a quick look at the ways his myth has changed over time, as well as some of the ways that belief in the literal devil has affected modern American culture.

    36 min
  8. Ep 11: They All Went to Heaven in a Little Rowboat

    09/29/2019

    Ep 11: They All Went to Heaven in a Little Rowboat

    We’re getting biblical, and then some. Flood myths predate the Bible and show up in the cultures of civilizations the world over. In this episode, we take a quick look at some of the most prominent flood myths, the connections between them, and what it might all mean.

    26 min
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