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I'm Anne Foster, host of the feminist women's history comedy podcast, Vulgar History.

And every week, I share the saga of a woman

from history whose story you probably didn't already know and you will never forget after you hear

it sometimes we reexamine well-known people like cleopatra or pocahontas sharing the truth behind their

legends sometimes we look at the scandalous women you'll never find in a history textbook

if you can hear my cat purring she is often on the podcast as well.

Listen to vulgar history wherever you get your podcasts.

At the dawn of the podcasting era, there was the Slate Culture Gap Fest.

I remember Steve, your wild reading of Magic Mike.

Yeah, it's a study in Wounded American Masculinary.

Debating culture from celebs to AI.

It's very, very human, almost literary.

From highbrow to pop.

Comparing the Kardashian sisters to Jane Austen characters.

What have we been doing

if not watching them get married off?

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