Girl Historians

Now that we've moved on to witches, take a trip down memory lane with some favourite moments from Girl Historians season 1, as Blair and Carley investigate what REALLY happened to that famous good boat, the RMS Titanic. Salem Witch Files returns next week! Sign up on Patreon for episodes a week early and ad-free, plus bonuses! patreon.com/GirlHistorians Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne...

It's a lighter episode this week - like watching Bill Nye instead of having science class - as Blair leads Carley through what people get wrong about the Salem witch trials. Also: career changes, musical theater girls ruining their own lives, and a secret handshake for listeners to learn. Sign up on Patreon for episodes a week early and ad-free, plus bonuses! patreon.com/GirlHistorians Hosted by:...

To celebrate the podcast coming back, Blair and Carley gathered their comedian friends and demanded THEY tell some history for a goddamn change. Recorded February 15, 2024 at Bar Orwell in Toronto. Featuring! (Spoilers) Kenley Ku on fake pyramids Brendan Kane on the most homoerotic day in American history Sarah Bennett on McLennon Ben Sosa-Wright on the first lesbian Sign up on Patreon for episode...

Carley tells Blair about the first accusations of witchcraft in Salem against Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. And after two episodes, they FINALLY search for witch trial porn. Plus: Infinite Jest, Smash, Lemonade Mouth, The Social Network, Toms shoes, jalapeno poppers, spectral evidence, children at Boston Pizza, alternate birth control, storytime not clickbait, how Blair and Carley met, an...

Blair leads Carley through some history of how witchcraft was perceived pre-Salem... and they have witch-themed energy drinks. Brought to you by Alani Witch's Brew! (not really)  Plus: nicknames, Broadway, Lavender marriages, January depression, university depression, milk, Etsy spells, friends getting mad about Tarot readings, samurais and bandeaus, the Renaissance, The Da Vinci Code, famili...

Blair and Carley are back, they hate the Titanic now, they're only about witches. Sign up on Patreon for episodes a week early and ad-free, plus bonuses! patreon.com/GirlHistorians Welcome to the Salem Witch Files! Carley and Blair start the new season (after some movie talk) with an overview, timeline, and casting choices for the Salem Witch Trials, so that before diving deeper in later episodes,...

Truthtanic is now Girl Historians! The Titanic is dead to us! Comedians and wannabe historians Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne are back February 9th for the first episode of Girl Historians season 2: the Salem Witch Files. ... OR, you can listen to the episode right now on our new Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GirlHistorians Sign up for: audio and video episodes early and ad-free (Salem Witch...

In the Truthtanic season finale and last episode about the RMS Titanic , Blair and Carley talk about their big takeaways from the season, give their review of Titanic: The Musical , and also reveal who fucked up or whatever the premise of this show was. Plus: rich YouTubers, karma and magic, Aaron Sorkin inspiring socialism, elderly musical theater actors clocking in, and a PSA if you're in high s...

Carley and Blair go behind the scenes of the iconic 1997 James Cameron/Leonardo DiCaprio/Kate Winslet Best Picture-winning movie, Titanic . Nudity! Scenes filmed backwards! Clam chowder spiked with drugs! It has nothing to do with the mystery of the shipwreck but it's a very good movie. (They also talk about Montreal, Canadian authors, Lion King sequels, criminal uncles, Aritzia, children's haunte...

Carley and Blair and guest Tim Blair ( TallBoyz ) talk about some of the major depictions of the Titanic disaster in pop culture - including a movie about the Titanic ending the cold war, the moderately cursed Titanic: The Musical, and wanting to see Titanique. (The James Cameron movie gets its own episode next week.) Plus: kid liars, more Lin Manuel-Miranda, the Thumb movie series, burst tendons...

Carley and Blair celebrate our Lord and Savior, Robert D. Ballard, seemingly the only person racing to find the Titanic's wreck who wasn't just promoting his ping pong business or whatever. Plus: getting humbled, Enola Holmes, waiting for the invitation, Jack Grimm, certain Toronto mansions, teachers getting too method in history class, Paul Mescal, mispronouncing words, and the year is, famously,...

"The energy... it's like we drank a bottle of wine before recording this." Blair and Carley review some of the major Titanic conspiracies that have popped up in the last century (fake ships?! JP Morgan?! Mummies?! Different definitions of ice?!) but get very side-tracked on Anne with an E, cults, the royal family, Joe Biden and a chain, "edgy" comedians, hating Charles Dickens, strong chins, and m...

Blair and Carley are joined by comedian Ben Sosa-Wright to dissect the immediate fallout of the disaster: a movie made within 31 days, government inquiries, and the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. The video talked about at the end of the podcast Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne Special Guest: Ben Sosa-Wright Produced by: Rob Moden Music by: Jacob Ollivier Truthtanic cover artist: He...

Carley and Blair dare to review the official timeline of the night the Titanic sunk... April 14th to 15th, 1912. Plus: Newsies, hangovers, astrology, the worst April Fool's joke ever, callbacks to the potato washing room, and role-playing how they'd have Mark Wahlberg'd this tragedy. This one's kind of a funny, then sad, then funny sandwich. Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne Produced by...

In part 2 of the investigation, Carley and Blair review the most famous suspects. How many shipwrecks can the Unsinkable Molly Brown survive without people asking questions? Plus: oral fixations, lots of singing, Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up driving people to the lifeboats, and which other modern celebrities wouldn't survive if the Titanic disaster happened today. Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carle...

Blair and Carley welcome you to Truthtanic, the only show brave enough to ask: what happened to the RMS Titanic in 1912? In part 1 of the investigation, our hosts explain what to expect in each episode, their personal fixations with the historic disaster, some of the key features of the ship, and obviously, which amenities they'd use for dirty hook-ups. Hosted by: Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne...

Comedians Blair MacMillan and Carley Thorne have spent months obsessing over the Titanic. Like, pre-submersible. In season 1 of Girl Historians, they'll (genuinely) recap the history of the famous 1912 disaster, and (less genuinely) try to figure out: what actually  happened? Sign up on Patreon for episodes a week early and ad-free, plus bonuses! patreon.com/GirlHistorians Hosted by: Blair Ma...