Youve heard of Rosa Parks, but have you heard of Claudette Colvin? She was the first black person to refuse to give up her bus seat, a full 9 months before Rosa Parks! And, she was only 15 years old! Well go into the details of her life and her extremel

The Black Panthers originally formed to offer black history at their college, but turned into a political party that instituted social programs and monitored police activity in their communities. In this episode we’ll talk about how their free breakfast p

Have you ever watched a movie that was so crazy, yet it was based on a true story?  In this episode we go behind the Hollywood script and get the facts behind the story of how a prank caller got a McDonald’s employee to be stripped search as seen in

The Aswang is one of the most feared creatures in all Filipino folklore, combining the most terrifying elements of vampires, shape shifters, and witches in one horrifying monster. In this episode well discuss the origins of this legend, how it uses decep

Playing in the NHL is likely the dream of most young Canadian boys, but what do you do when youre not the best skater? In this episode we'll talk about how John Scott got that dream and how he made it into the NHL All Star Game! Listen to hear this fasci

The Taos Hum has been puzzling people since the 1990s but is it really an enigma, or just a case where the mystery is more exciting than the actual explanation? In this episode well discuss this and other auditory phenomena, like the Holmfield Hum and t

Living through a pandemic, it is likely we are dealing with some form of grief. In this episode well be chatting about Dr. Lucy Hone and how she pulled through her own personal grief as she lived through a mother's worse nightmare. Listen to hear this he

On this special episode of Technically A Conversation, we are joined by Cristina from Espooky Tales, Dakota from Contra Zoom Pod, and one half of The Queens, Elena to bring a short story we wrote to life. A grieving family conducts a séance on Christmas t

The Ideal Maternity Home was opened by Lila and William Young in the 1920s as a way to offer discreet birthing and adoption for unwed mothers and widows. But, greed got the best of them and they became more interested in making profits than offering qual

Long before Billy Porter and Jared Leto wore beautiful dresses to gala events, the art of drag and cross dressing got its humble start in  Shakespearean plays. We'll follow drag through the timeline, and see how you do in our drag slang quiz! Yaassss