Episode #233- Is The Wizard of Oz Secretly About American History?
Our Fake History
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🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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The beloved children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of OZ has been celebrated as the quintessential American fairytale. But, many believe that the book is more than just a pleasing adventure story for kids. It's been argued that hidden in the text is a subtle allegory that satirizes the politics of late 19th century America. Some believe that the author L. Frank Baum used his fantasy story to make a point about the election of 1896 and the candidates William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley. However, many Baum biographers have disputed this claim. Was L. Frank Baum writing a populist parable or does that idea stem from a deep misunderstanding of his politics? Tune-in and find out how dorm-room bonding rituals, the Great Gig in the Sky, and Sebastian's greatest moment of synchronicity all play a role in the story.
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| 1:04.9 | Have you ever heard of the dark side of the rainbow? |
| 1:12.1 | It's one of those great pieces of dorm room lore passed around between music-obsessed |
| 1:19.5 | undergrads, sometimes called the Dark Side of Oz. |
| 1:24.6 | It involves the beloved 1939 cinematic classic, The Wizard of Oz, and the equally |
| 1:33.2 | beloved 1973 classic rock behemoth, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. It turns out these two |
| 1:43.2 | massive pop culture artifacts are secretly in conversation, |
| 1:49.8 | or at least so goes the tale. By the time I entered university in the early 2000s, it was well |
| 1:58.3 | established among music heads, psych rock aficionados, and really anyone |
| 2:03.9 | enamored with The Trippy, that if you played Dark Side of the Moon while watching The Wizard |
| 2:10.9 | of Oz on mute, the two would weirdly sink up. So of course, my friends and I had to try it. |
| 2:20.5 | And what I now realized was a textbook first-year bonding ritual, |
| 2:25.8 | a crew of us living on the same university residence floor, |
| 2:29.8 | got a VHS copy of Wizard of Oz, |
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