376: Polly Baker (with Fayge Horesh)

Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Multitude

Myths, Folklore, Society & Culture, Alcohol, Legends, Learning, Urbanlegends, Mythology, Comedy, History, Education, Gods, Educational, Drunkhistory

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

We’re a mythology podcast, so why are we talking to historian Fayge Horesh about a historical figure? Well, first off she’s not real. But secondly? She’s such a cool example of a hoax becoming a myth!

Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of pregnancy, misogyny, anti semitism, colonization, abortion, cultural appropriation, and enslavement.

Guest

Fayge Horesh is a public historian, tour guide, and freelance writer. The creator and host of the podcast “D Listers of History,” Fayge brings her research skills, curiosity, and cheekiness to discuss important but mostly forgotten historical figures. They join their audience in exploring what these often colorful people can tell us about ourselves and our society today. In all the work Fayge does, their primary goal is to make both historical stories and the study of history accessible to everyone. History is crucial to understanding where we are now and how we can build a better world in the future.

Housekeeping

- TOUR: Get tickets for our Rolling Bones Tour!

- Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends getting tickets for the Rolling Bones Tour.

- Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests’ books, and more at https://spiritspodcast.com/books

- Call to Action: Check out Tell Me About It!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh, Welcome to Spirit's Poodsie
0:29.8	A Boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore.
0:32.8	Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.
0:36.1	I'm Amanda.
0:36.8	And I'm Julia and we're joined today by the host and creator of D-Listers of history.
0:43.7	Faga, thank you so much for joining us and I'm so excited and curious to hear what we're going to be talking
0:51.5	about today.
0:52.5	But first things first, can you tell us a little bit
0:54.8	about yourself and a little bit about your podcast,
0:57.0	delisters of history?
0:58.6	Sure.
0:59.2	And thank you, I'm so excited to be here.
1:01.1	I'm a public historian, and I've been a history nerd since I was teeny tiny.
1:05.8	My dream was to teach other people about history. I wanted to be on the history channel
1:09.2	back when the history channel was like actually history. The History Channel.
1:12.6	Before the aliens meme guy, I got you.
1:15.4	But it's been neat that I've fallen into this.
1:17.2	So I work as a tour guide and my podcast Delishes of History focuses
1:21.4	on people who are interesting and important who you probably didn't
1:26.7	learn about in school. We like to say that there are people you've never heard of who change
1:30.0	the world.
1:31.0	Amazing.
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