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Who Did What Now

159. Lili St Cyr - Burlesque Icon

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Lili St Cyr grew up with nothing...and ended up the most scandalous woman in America! From poverty to police raids, to being denounced by the Public Morality Committee, she had a scandalous life on and off the stage..


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0:00.0

Hello, delicious friends and welcome to Who Did What Now, the History Podcast. It's not your history class with me, your host, Katie Charlewood, Hestery Harlet and Reuter of Books.

0:19.9

As a History Harlet, a Harlet of history, a harlot for history.

0:26.2

A harlot on behalf of history.

0:29.7

These are questions, these are queries.

0:31.3

Which one is it?

0:31.9

Is it all? Is it none?

0:33.3

It's at least one of them, if not all three.

0:35.9

Hmm.

0:36.5

But as the History Harlet and Re reader of books, I love museums.

0:39.9

Like, I love a regional museum because that's where the fun stuff is.

0:43.6

That's where the interesting thing is.

0:45.6

Give me your weird, you're wacky, you're silly, you're specific, you're intense,

0:51.3

you're folklore-based, you're, oh God, there's so many parts of, like, human history and society that ends up in museums.

1:00.5

And I want to go visit them.

1:02.9

Like, I have this joke, which isn't really a joke, because I 100% want to do it.

1:07.1

And that I want to have my own TV show where I go visit museums and I am very honest and funny

1:15.0

about them because like obviously everything in the British Museum is basically stolen like

1:20.2

anyway and it's just me being like yep they next this they stole this too, so on and so forth. And I want to go, like,

1:31.3

visit all these regional museums. Like, take me to your regional museum. Take me on your walking

1:36.4

tours. Talk nerdy to me. I fucking love it, right? So in order for me to visit museums,

1:43.6

though, they have to exist, which brings me

1:46.0

to my next point, and you're thinking, geez, you've taken this long to get to this one. And yes,

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