Episodes

Friday Oct 13, 2023
Friday Oct 13, 2023
S04E08: The secret drawers, hidden compartments, and locked cabinets nestled into pieces of antique furniture.
Because, who doesn’t want an excuse to look for indoor treasures on a crisp, cloudy fall day?
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/10/13/season-4-episode-08

Friday Jul 28, 2023
7 - Wait. Where did YOU come from?
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
S04E07: American islands that never lost their British accents (from the 16 and 1700s) and the unnatural origins of the Transatlantic Accent.
Learn some new (old) phrases from Hoi Toiders, Outer Banks Brogue speakers, and the folks who live on Tangier Island, Smith Island, and other isolated seafaring outposts in the Chesapeake Bay who never quite lost their British accents. Then, brace yourself, because the engineered linguistic weirdness that is the Transatlantic Accent is coming for you from a past that never was!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/07/28/season-4-episode-07

Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
6 - Dreadnought, Sink Not
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
S04E06: The USS Recruit (1917), the dreadnought in Union Square, and the Unsinkable Molly Brown
Like real historical stories that are way, way better than their legendary counterparts? Join us on a trip back through time and experience the United States’ plan to increase wartime recruitment by commissioning a fully crewed warship that was stationed in the middle of Union Square in Manhattan, then meet the absolute powerhouse that was Titanic survivor, philanthropist, socialite, and political move-maker Margaret Brown, aka the Unsinkable Molly Brown.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/06/14/season-4-episode-06

Monday May 15, 2023
5 - Traysure!
Monday May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
S04E05: Metal detecting, geocaching, and digging up stuff in your own backyard!
It’s digging in the dirt and tromping through the woods season! Come along with us while Haley contemplates metal detecting, breaking the law, and digging up her basement, and Natali goes on a fantastic geocaching and letterboxing adventure (and also partakes in some light botanical thievery).
Note: We had a slight Mercury-in-retrograde-related sound kerfuffle. Some of Haley's audio might sound a bit echoey.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/05/15/season-4-episode-05

Thursday Apr 13, 2023
4 - The Deadly Garden
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
Thursday Apr 13, 2023
S04E04: Poisonous Plants and Drury Lane Gardens.
Take a stroll around a garden so dangerous that just walking through it can cause you to faint, then scamper off to the world of London’s pocket parks for a wholesome reinvention of a place with a deadly past.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/04/13/season-4-episode-04

Saturday Mar 18, 2023
3 - Paws, Claws, and Caws: The Lore of Black Cats, Crows, and Ravens
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
S04E03: The lore of black cats, crows, and ravens.
Us, to literally every black cat or corvid we see: Who’re our good little witches’ familiars? Sweet baby omens of doom? The bestest spooky speakers of truth ever?
Corvids and black cats:
Us: YES YOU ARE!!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/03/18/season-4-episode-03

Sunday Feb 12, 2023
2 - Beauty and the Bikes
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
Sunday Feb 12, 2023
S04E02: Beauty entrepreneur and philanthropist Madam C. J. Walker and Boston bicycling trailblazer Kittie Knox.
Fan of a multi-step beauty routine? (Same.) So, as it happens, was Madam C. J. Walker, who built a national beauty empire while providing a path for other Black women to build businesses of their own. Meanwhile, over in Boston, Kittie Knox was riding and racing her bicycle, charming reporters, and challenging the idea that the sport was solely the domain of white men.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/02/12/season-4-episode-02

Thursday Jan 19, 2023
1 - You Can Be the President, I’d Rather Be the Pope
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
Thursday Jan 19, 2023
S04E01: Weird pope facts and the bizarro world that is Vatican City/the Vatican/the Holy See.
First: If you’re unfamiliar with the Prince song “Pope,” we highly recommend going down that weird rabbit hole. It’s where we got the title for this episode. We’ll wait…
Okay! Now that you have that cheery bit of mood music under your belt, let us take you on a somewhat questionable trip through the land of papal frippery, where we’ll discover the truth about the pope hammer, stop for a look at the holy tiara, marvel at the the Swiss Guard’s jaunty outfits, and then meet a robot pharmacist that honestly sounds pretty great. We’ll also talk about the antipopes. Because antipopes are, apparently, a thing.
Fair warning: If you don’t want to hear us yelling about religion, this probably isn’t the episode for you. For obvious reasons.
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2023/01/19/season-4-episode-01

Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
17 - Indigenous Badassery
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
Wednesday Nov 30, 2022
S03E17: It’s National Native American Heritage Month, so we’re talking about stone cold badass Madame Marie Dorion, and the many ways in which Native and Indigenous Americans have contributed to medicine and public health, from baby bottles, to pain killers, to early syringes!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/11/30/season-3-episode-17

Sunday Oct 23, 2022
16 - Feminism on Wheels
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
Sunday Oct 23, 2022
S03E16: Victorian dress reform, the Rational Dress Society, and the history of bicycles.
For Victorian women, bicycles usher in both a newfound freedom and a new wave in practical, flexible fashion: Pants!
Show notes: https://www.bonesandbobbins.com/2022/10/23/season-3-episode-16