Episodes

  • "I may be short, but good things come in small packages" w/ Olivia Stowell

    "I may be short, but good things come in small packages" w/ Olivia Stowell
    May 6 2024
    In which the Historians talk about the role of trauma on the Real Housewives, race and identity on Top Chef, ethnography on social media, the most iconic BravoTV moments, and much, much more!

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • "Into the Archives: The Great British Bake-Off"

    "Into the Archives: The Great British Bake-Off"
    Apr 29 2024
    In which the Historians launch a new show - Into the Archives - and discuss the Great British Bake-Off, and histories of settler colonialism, early modern medicine and humoralism, and food.

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    42 mins
  • "It's not productivity, it's spite fueled by Swig" w/ Dr. Cristina Rosetti

    "It's not productivity, it's spite fueled by Swig" w/ Dr. Cristina Rosetti
    Apr 22 2024
    In which the Historians talk Sister Wives and learn about polygamy, First Wives, Warren Jeffs and the FLDS, and much much more!

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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • To Be Continued... Next Week

    To Be Continued... Next Week
    Apr 15 2024
    In which sickness falls upon the Historians and Max once again has to pick up the slack and break some bad news. Tune in next week!

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    4 mins
  • “They say if you’re the smartest person in the room you’re in the wrong room. And I’m ALWAYS in the wrong room" w/ Dr. Jennifer McCutchen

    “They say if you’re the smartest person in the room you’re in the wrong room. And I’m ALWAYS in the wrong room" w/ Dr. Jennifer McCutchen
    Apr 8 2024
    In which the Historians discuss the Creek's and Cherokees’ gunpowder trades during the Revolutionary War, contextualize the Creek Confederacy and Native interests and alliances during the war, analyze the role of gunpower as a gendered commodity and what that meant for Native American women’s power in shaping regional and and global market structures, converse about the matriarchal social structures depicted on the Real Housewives, confer about the ways commodities reveal "the dark underbelly" of Housewives franchises, and deliberate about the historical crossovers between Bravo franchises and Native womens' practices, and much, much more!

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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • New Season Teaser

    New Season Teaser
    Apr 1 2024
    In which the Historians promote the new season and other fun stuff on the horizon for HonH.

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    4 mins
  • “I may look like a tired teenage boy, but trust me: I’m an aging gay man inside" w/ Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya

    “I may look like a tired teenage boy, but trust me: I’m an aging gay man inside" w/ Dr. Suzanna Krivulskaya
    Sep 26 2022

    In which the Historians learn about how to think about scandal and the relationship between sexuality and Evangelical and Pentecostal religion in nineteenth and twentieth-century America, and how RHOP and RHOSLC can help us understand cheating and sexuality in these church communities.


    Recommended Reading

    Suzanna Krivulskaya, “A History of Sex Abuse in the Protestant Imagination,” The Revealer, March 2, 2020.


    Wallace Best, “Lessons from the Rev. Eddie Long Scandal: Some Historical Context,” Huffpost, October 10, 2010.

    Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013).

    Ambre Dromgoole, “Pastor Mary Cosby, Arranged Pentecostal Marriages, and the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” The Revealer, February 4, 2021.

    Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation (New York: Liveright, 2020).

    Megan Goodwyn and Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, “Keeping It 101” podcast.

    Ahmad Greene-Hayes, “New Birth and Jamal Bryant: Time for the Black Church to Address Its Culture of Sexism, Misogyny and Homophobia,” The Root, December 4, 2018.

    Emily Suzanne Johnson, “A Theme Park, a Scandal, and the Faded Ruins of a Televangelism Empire,” Religion & Politics, October 28, 2014.


    Bravo Insider, “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Answer ALL Your Questions About Mormonism."



    Mathew Schmalz, “Why the Label ‘Cult’ Gets in the Way of Understanding New Religions,” The Conversation, April 10, 2018.


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    1 hr and 21 mins
  • "If you’re going to curse me out, at least ask a god to turn my bowels to water on a cursed tablet” with Carly Silver

    "If you’re going to curse me out, at least ask a god to turn my bowels to water on a cursed tablet” with Carly Silver
    Sep 12 2022

    In which the Historians discuss public history, the Bronze Age Mari and curse tablets in Roman Britain, the connections between soap operas with Bravo shows like Vanderpump Rules and RHOBH, contemplate Real Housewives' curses on each other, what Jax Taylor has to do with a legal record from 3,000 years ago, paralleling Yolanda's treatment of the Hadid sisters with imperial alliances of the Bronze Age, consider the relationships between ancient cure-alls and housewives' use of IV drips, rating travel journalism, and much, much more!


    For more from our guest, check out:

    CarlySilver.com

    IG: @bespectacledlegend

    Twitter: @CarlyASilver


    Recommended Reading


    Carly Silver, "Do You Want to Build an Icehouse?: On the refrigerated innovations of ancient rulers," Laphams Quarterly, September 28, 2021

    Carly Silver, "How Ancient Cure-Alls Paved the Way for Drug Regulation," The Atlantic, January 10, 2017

    Carly Silver, "This Corrupt Boss Was Charged With Sexual Harassment—3,000 Years Ago," Narratively, April 4, 2018


    Greg Jenner, You’re Dead to Me podcast


    Atlas Obscura

    JStor Daily




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    1 hr and 31 mins