Famous with Cate and Liz

This week Cate and Liz kick off a new series on Famous Fashion Designers with legendary French couturier and Nazi agent Coco Chanel. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.  

This week Cate and Liz treat your ear holes to a mashup episode on Famous Mysteries! Learn about some of histories most puzzling mysteries including Havana Syndrome, the incident at Dyatlov Pass, the Mary Celeste, and the disappearance of young Walter Collins. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Reality Stars with Cate reporting on the history of reality television. She dives into the first reality shows, all of the genres and sub-genres, and the political and social effects made by some shows and their stars. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, the ladies continue their series on Famous Reality Stars with Liz covering Bethenny Frankel of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York (RHONY). From being part of the original cast of RHONY to becoming a business mogul and philanthropist, the outspoken and often polarizing Bethenny has made her mark on the world thanks in large part to reality TV. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @...

This week, Cate and Liz start a new series on Famous Reality Stars with the one and only Anna Nicole Smith. Love her or hate her, Anna Nicole was a rare form of celebrity who left her mark on the world during her short time here and helped launch the genre of reality television.

This week, Cate and Liz are back after a break to round out their series on Famous Disasters. Cate provides one of her famous mashups with updates on the some recent current environmental disasters and a look back at some historic disasters including "The Year with No Summer" in Indonesia, the "Carrington event" in Great Britain, the "Year of the Locust" in the middle United States, and "Tunguska...

This week the ladies continue their series on Famous Disasters with Liz covering the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Learn about the drunken captain at fault, the  devastating environmental and economic effects of the oil spill on Alaska's Prince William Sound, and the audacity and greed of Exxon. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz...

This week, Cate and Liz begin a new series on Famous Disasters! They start with the Great Smog of London in 1952. When a rare weather pattern forced fog to mix with coal soot from London's buildings and vehicles it created a deadly smog that latest for five days and claimed thousands of lives. The impact of the disaster wasn't known immediately and eventually led to changes in legislation.  C...

For their first episode in the new year, Cate and Liz kick off 2023 sharing some famous firsts! Some are historic, some are dark, some are gross and some might be considered obscene. All are obscure facts you need to know. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week art and activism collide as the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Artists with Cate reporting on the Guerrilla Girls and the recent attacks on well known masterpieces by advocates for the environment fighting against climate change. Cate and Liz are off for the holidays and will return in 2023! Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famousc...

This week the ladies continue to celebrate famous artists with Liz covering the eccentric pop artist Andy Warhol. Known for his influence on pop culture, crafting celebrity portraits, and using American brands in his art, Warhol left his mark on society and inspired countless other artists in his short life. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famousc...

This week Cate and Liz kick off a new series on Famous Artists by covering one of the most popular visual artists alive today, Yayoi Kusama. This 93 year old Japanese contemporary artist has overcome personal trauma, lives by choice in a hospital for the mentally ill, and is known for her colorful and often polka dotted exhibits that have made a recent re-emergence thanks to Instagram. Connect wit...

This week, the ladies wrap up their series  on Famous Moral Panics on Cate doing a mash up on cases of mass hysteria. Highlights include a dancing panic, nuns that meow and bite, and Orson Welles famous War of the Worlds hoax. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, the ladies continue to induce panic as Liz covers The Red Scare. Highlights include McCarthyism, Herbert Hoover, Hollywood black lists and rants about how this is all too close to what is happening in the U.S. today. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, Cate and Liz start a new series on Famous Moral Panics by examining the Satanic Panic that began in the 1980's and resulted in more than 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse.  Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week Cate and Liz invite you to get spooked with them as they share the terrifying true stories of Giulia Tofana "The Queen of Poison" who helped countless women murder their husbands and the unsolved case of The Axeman of New Orleans. WARNING: The murders committed by the Axeman of New Orleans are gruesomely violent and include a lot of head trauma. Please feel free to fast forward or skip i...

This week, Cate and Liz wrap up their series on Famous Activists by reporting on famous celebrities who have used their voices and platforms to fight for the rights of others and the environment. From some of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood to reality queens these individuals have advocated for a more just society and better world for all. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famous...

This week the ladies keep celebrating activists with Cate reporting on the environmental advocate and "Father of the National Parks," John Muir. This episode will leave you loving Mother Nature and asking for "More Muir!" Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, Cate and Liz continue their series on Famous Activists with Liz reporting on Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta, who were responsible for the United Farmworkers movement, and discusses the current struggle of today's farmworkers. The at time of this recording California's AB 2183 has not been passed. As of September 29th, Governor Gavin Newson signed this important bill into law giving far...

Cate and Liz are back with season 4! They kick things off with Famous Activists and what better woman to lead with than Angela Davis!  Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Hotels with Cate reporting on the history of hotels and fun facts. From ancient inns to gathering places for social justice advocates, hotels have been around forever and played significant roles in historic and cultural events. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, the ladies continue their series on Famous Hotels with Liz sharing about The Villa Casa Casuarina AKA The Versace Mansion in Miami Beach. Learn about the hotel's origin and background as well as the role it played in the life and death of famed fashion designer Gianni Versace.  Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail...

This week, Cate and Liz invite you to check-in for a new series - Famous Hotels. They start with the iconic Beverly Hilton, the site of the Golden Globes, Whitney Houston's death, and several celebrity and political scandals.  Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.

This week, the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Disappearances starting with a rant about women's rights literally disappearing before our eyes. Then, Cate reports on the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of three women, also known as the Indiana Dunes Mystery, and how an illegal abortion could be tied to their vanishing.  Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or d...

This week, the ladies continue their series on Famous Disappearances with Liz reporting on the unsolved mystery of the airline hijacker known as D.B. Cooper. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.