Polly Baker w/ Fayge Horesh
Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore
Multitude
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.
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Find Us Online
- Website & Transcripts: https://spiritspodcast.com
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Cast & Crew
- Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin
- Editor: Bren Frederick
- Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod
- Artwork: Allyson Wakeman
- Multitude: https://multitude.productions
About Us
Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:32.9 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.2 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:36.9 | And I'm Julia, and we're a new story from around the world. I'm Amanda. And I'm Julia. |
| 0:37.9 | And we're joined today by the host and creator of DeListers of History. Faga, Faga, thank you so much for |
| 0:45.7 | joining us. And I'm so excited and curious to hear what we're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:52.5 | But first things first, can you tell us a |
| 0:54.5 | little bit about yourself and a little bit about your podcast, DeListers of History? |
| 0:58.5 | Sure. And thank you. I'm so excited to be here. I'm a public historian and I've been a |
| 1:03.2 | history nerd since I was teeny tiny. A dream was to teach other people about history. I wanted |
| 1:08.4 | to be on the History Channel back when the History Channel was like actually history. The history channel. Before the aliens meme guy, I got you. |
| 1:15.4 | But it's been neat that I've fallen into this. So I work as a tour guide and my podcast delistice of |
| 1:20.2 | history focuses on people who are interesting and important, who you probably didn't learn about |
| 1:27.1 | in school. We like to say that |
| 1:28.3 | there are people you've never heard of who changed the world. Amazing. Do you have a personal |
| 1:32.4 | favorite just to get people started off on the show if they wanted to like, you know, |
| 1:36.0 | pick and choose an episode? Do you have a favorite delistor of history? I mean, it's always |
| 1:40.7 | whatever the last one I did was. So right now I'm very excited about |
| 1:45.7 | Uriah Levy. It's also a very long episode because Yerai Levy's life was bonkers. He was the first |
| 1:51.4 | Jewish Commodore in the U.S. Navy. And what really makes him important is two things. He ended |
| 1:56.7 | the practice of flogging in the Navy. Nice. Good. Thank you. And he was the one who brought the concept of |
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