60 episodes
Villains of History Cat Alvarado
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4.3 • 60 Ratings
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A mashup of true-crime and history, in this podcast comedians discuss the worst people throughout history. Hosted by Cat Alvarado, and featuring the hottest up and coming comedians. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/villainsofhistory/support
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Spiritualism & The Fox Sisters
This week we cover pioneers of the Spiritualism craze, The Fox Sisters, with guest Taylor Hughes! Taylor is a former mega church pastor turned illusionist. He has a book called "Misdirection: A Magician's Guide to Spotting and Avoiding Manipulation in Your Life".
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The Enron Story
Comedian Alex Clark joins us to help tell the story of Kenneth Lay and the rise and fall of Enron. Check out Alex's youtube channel @itsalexclark
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Please Touch Grass
Today, Cat Alvarado tackles incel turned school shooter - Elliot Roger. While many blame his actions on mental illness, is there more to his rampage we should be talking about? With guest comedian Cyrus Naderpour.
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The Protocols of Henry Ford
New world order. Lizard people. Bilderberg group. Illuminati. Q-Anon. These conspiracies are based on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", an anti-semitic text that would have been forgotten by history if it weren't for Henry Ford. Yes, THE Henry Ford. This week, Cat is joined by guest co-host, David Robinson. Want to skip the biographical part and get straight to the conspiracy stuff? Skip the first 30 minutes.
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The Sex Guru
In this episode, Cat covers the life of the protagonist of the docuseries, Wild Wild Country, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Featuring Aaron Marsh from the podcast "Putting Up With Aaron Michael Marsh".
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The Baseball Judge
For over two decades, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis stood in the way of baseball's integration. Join Cat & comedian Tom McClain as they dive into the frustrating story of Judge Landis, baseball's color line, and the inspiring Jackie Robinson.
Customer Reviews
Villains of History
Cst! I couldn’t believe this was you when I found it one day in my long road trip! I know you through Paul Clay. I’m so thrilled you are thriving and do good at this. I love it and now am a follower.
I do have a request, if you haven’t done a segment on President Andrew Jackson could you do one? I think you’ll find him very Villainess! If you have can I know where to pull up that podcast please.
I’m writing a paper on Indian removal from our Midwest during his reign.
Thank you.
Anna Miller
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Terrible Guest
I saw this podcast and was excited to listen.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) I picked the episode with guest Bill Dawes about the rapist Bikram Choudhury. Within the first 7 minutes, Dawes is making it clear that he doesn’t understand what sexual harassment is, he says that powerful men have sex with their followers (host has to correct that in this case Bikram raped his followers), and he has denigrated fat people by saying that thin people earn their thinness. You gotta love a little fat phobia getting sprinkled in for literally no reason.
Truly grating to hear, don’t waste your time. While the host seems to understand the issues with all of the above, she shouldn’t be giving people like this a platform. Disappointing.