Welcome to the history tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here is your 30-second summary.

In 2011, two women sat down in a dining room table, poured some coffee, and talked about Queen Marie Antoinette.

15 years later, the subjects have all changed.

The locations have changed, but the two women are still talking.

Not the end.

Hello, I am Becky Graham.

And I am Susan Vaughan Wider and we are The History Chicks.

Fifteen years ago, we looked around and we didn't see a podcast covering women's history in a way that

brought these women to life, gave you a picture of what their world was really like, how

they lived, what was going on at the same time in which they lived, and we decided we had to

create it. Now, this was decided we had to create it.

Now, this was back before podcasts were really big.

Here in the podcast world, we call it pre-serial, the podcast serial that really launched

the big boom of podcasting.

We predate that.

So we kind of had to figure it out on our own, which I think was fine because we get a lot of inspiration from the women that we cover. We could do anything. Also, not to put too fine a point on it, the ignorance is bliss department is also a very nice place to be. We had to enlist a friend at NASA to write our RSS feed, which is

basically the subscriber feed, how you could listen to our show from your phone or your computer.

Nowadays, you just push a button, create my RSS feed. But back then, I had to interrupt vital national security work and get someone

to adopt my side project for me. And really, that's what it was. It was a side project. It was

something that we thought would be not only fun for us to do, something different for us to do,

but it would give us an opportunity to look at people,

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