Gummy & Jean's Hysterical History

Whitley Jean Creative, LLC

Join your hosts Emily Gummere and Whitley Trusler for lots of laughs and your weekly history fix! Emily (Gummy) and Whitley (Jean) met while attending Marietta College. Over the years, they realized their mutual love for history, and here we are today with the product: Gummy & Jean's Hysterical History.

  1. 06/29/2022

    Miranda Rights Redact

    I Can't Believe We Have to Do This Episode. Well, Miranda Rights...we just talked about it two weeks ago. Now we realize maybe we should keep up with what is on the Supreme Court docket, because lord have mercy on our souls. Let's talk about the case that overturned what we didn't even think would be overturned. Like, ever.

    40 min

  2. 06/15/2022

    Self-Preservation: 1492 & 1963

    The beginning of slavery in the United States began as soon as the New World was found in 1492 by Columbus, establishing centuries of cruel treatment and forced labor. In part one of this story, we dive into how Native Americans participated in the early slave trade. Then, you are not in an episode of SVU, but you will hear us read you your Miranda Rights. Tune into the story of how this became a requirement across the US and the case that brought it to the Supreme Court.

    54 min

  3. 06/08/2022

    Marilyn's Dress | Black Wall Street

    Hot in the news after Kim Kardashian donned it on the red carpet, we take a look at the history of Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress. The destruction of Black Wall Street in Greenwood, an affluent black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in the early 20th century. Hear about the rise, the fall, and the massive cover up.

    39 min

  4. 05/18/2022

    A Mistress & A Marriage

    An ancestor of Winston Churchill who served as a royal mistress to James II. Same-sex "marriages" between women in the United States over a century before the Supreme Court legalizes it.

    36 min

  5. 05/04/2022

    Germany Boxed In

    Part two of the investigation into Hitler's remains. Then, the amazing story of a Jewish boxer who survived the concentration camps and death marches.

    47 min

  6. 04/27/2022

    Is Hitler Alive?

    We walk through conspiracy theories of Hitler's escape from his bunker at the end of the war. However, scientists claim there is one set of remains that unmistakably identifies that the Fuhrer is dead: his teeth. During the latter half of the episode, we talk about how Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel over horse race betting.

    59 min

  7. 04/20/2022

    Rivalries

    Michigan versus Ohio. Not the football rivalry, but the Toledo War. The one where the two states fought over a strip between the states that is present day Toledo. Our second story focuses on espionage within the FBI. Of course, the Soviet Union is involved, too.

    38 min

  8. 03/30/2022

    Short Funnies I

    Us Ohioans apparently have been lying about our statehood despite the white barns across the state touting our bicentennial in 2003. Your play, North Carolina. Julius Caesar gets kidnapped but then is in charge of his kidnappers? Even convincing them to increase the ransom they are asking for because Caesar himself was offended by the amount they demanded? Yes. This happened.

    23 min
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Join your hosts Emily Gummere and Whitley Trusler for lots of laughs and your weekly history fix! Emily (Gummy) and Whitley (Jean) met while attending Marietta College. Over the years, they realized their mutual love for history, and here we are today with the product: Gummy & Jean's Hysterical History.

Information

  • Creator
    Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2022
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2022 Whitley Jean Creative, LLC
  • Show Website
    Gummy & Jean's Hysterical History