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

Hello and welcome to the show. We're going to do things a little differently today, no 30-second summary, just a lot of answers for this, our third Q&A episode.

We sent out word through all of our social media for you to ask us anything and my goodness did all of you reply.

We did edit the questions down for time restraints and content and all those gushy parts. They are so flattering.

I love reading them all and it just gives me a warm feeling to know that you guys really like what you hear, but they're really hard to read out loud, so I kind of took those out too.

Sorry.

So, curtsies to you all, much blushing in evidence, infinite amounts of thank yous, and of course the inevitable toe, scrambling a circle in the dirt,

and all, thank you. We don't know what to say. We really appreciate all of you.

And so, without further ado, on with the show.

Our first question is from Heatherbar on 23 on Instagram. If you could create a historically accurate show about one of your subjects, who would it be?

It's think my show would be about Josephine Baker. I think there's enough facts known about her life in and of themselves. They are extremely dramatic.

It needs to be no embellishments for entertainment sake, just telling her story as it is would draw people in to the show because she lives such a dramatic down in the gutter back up to the top life and then how she died.

You know, if you wrote that in a movie, no one will believe it. So Josephine Baker would definitely be my story.

And I am going to go with definitely Marie Levo, the lack of non hysterical, historically accurate anyway portrayals of her in any media led me this last episode to boycott the whole fictional section of the media recommendations.

It's a wide open field. Sophia Coppola, you know, take note. She wasn't a satanic evil demon warrior as if I really have to say that my goodness.

But do we ever need a good movie about Marie Levo? I think she deserves it. She has been mistreated. So that's my pick.

Tom on Facebook wants to know, do either of you think that there are any historical female role models who have been discredited by history or any in particular who were vilified in their day and vindicated by history?

I would have to say all of them, you know, women were not written down in the history books is closely and accurately as men. They didn't leave as much for us to find.

And if they did, it was really hidden and written into the narratives of the men in their lives. So in some way, all female historical role models have been discredited a little bit by history just by leaving the facts of their life out.

However, if I were to pick one in particular, it would be Joan of Arc. I don't think that she was given the credit for what she did.

I think her story was left behind by people who didn't want her to look anything like a hero. You know, as soon as she died, there was questions of her being insane and immoral.

So that would be my answer would be Joan of Arc.

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