Grab your fainting couches and clutch your pearls, because we’re about to indulge in some historical naughtiness! Listen along while we revel in the Dirty Blues of the 1930s, then hold on to your butts (or to someone else’s butt), because Victorian Erotica is all in when it comes to getting really, really weird with it.
S05E03: The very Victorian art of dating and the hidden codes in Victorian love letters.
Sit down for a bit of old fashioned Victorian dating advice, flirting etiquette, and fan wielding tips, then cozy up by the fire to search for hidden meanings within the latest sweet missive penned by your most beloved. So many rules! So much mail!
Hello, Patrons! Welcome to February Auction Oddities!!
S05E02: A brief history of love spells and how they’re still being used today.
As long as there have been people, there have been love spells. They’re sometimes beautiful, frequently horny, and nearly always ethically questionable. They also might make you want to hide your fingernails, put off buying supplies for that candle-making project, and never buy stick pins again. Which is all to say that love spells are messy. Just like emotions, and just like all of us.
We all have our how-we-came-to-true-crime origin stories. But, unlike most of us, Natali actually grew up being a family member connected to a brutal cold case.
S05E01: The Oneida Cult.
Ever wonder if your silverware was once in a questionable cult? No? Just us?
S04E08: The secret drawers, hidden compartments, and locked cabinets nestled into pieces of antique furniture.
Welcome to August Auction Oddities, where we ask the perennial questions:
* Why so many doll heads?
* Is Twitter selling a barn?
* How’d you get to be so fancy?
S04E07: American islands that never lost their British accents (from the 16 and 1700s) and the unnatural origins of the Transatlantic Accent.
It was all going just fine: Radium glass! Creepy old dolls! Questionable decor! But then, Haley found herself listed in photo 199…
S04E06: The USS Recruit (1917), the dreadnought in Union Square, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown
Today, we attempt to answer the age-old question: “Can I eat this?”
The answer: “Um, maybe?”