The History Happy Hour
By Alf LaMont
The History Happy Hour a podcast that is ALWAYS on the right side of history, and our opinions are ALWAYS 100% accurate.
The History Happy HourFeb 21, 2021
Deep Cuts BONUS: Honorable Mentions
A bonus mini episode where the gang discusses beloved films we missed.
Swamp Thing 2
The Creeping Flesh
Tourist Trap
House on Haunted Hill
Deep Cuts: Potluck
Mike Black, Amanda Brass, Daniel Dingmann, and I bring some of our faves to the table as our final episode of Deep Cuts brings 4 AMAZING horror films.
Nosferatu In Venice
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Andy Warhol's Dracula
Phantom of the Paradise
It's sex, mayhem, music and DISNEY in the final 2021 episode of DEEP CUTS!
Deep Cuts: Based on A True Story
Amityville, The Exorcist, Home Invasions, and Professional Wrestling. It's just your average episode featuring twisted terror in tiny tidbits as we read up on the real life horrors that inspired some of our favorite flicks.
Amityville Horror
The Others
The Exorcist
and a spooktacular surprise round out this 3rd week of DEEP CUTS!
Deep Cuts: What A Twist!
Surprise Horror Endings is the name of the game as we delve into:
The Visit
Sleepaway Camp
The Fog
It's Horrific Families, Cursed Lepers, and Gay Panic as we pave the road to Halloween! Tune in!
Deep Cuts: Non American Horror Story
Alf, Mike, Brass, Dan and a Special guest scour the globe for the best of non American Horror in this spooby episode of DEEP CUTS.
Featured films:
Gamera: Super Monster
Wolf's Hole
Ojuju
Macario
The Grudge
The History Happy Hour: Egyptian Presbyterians, Horrible Holidays for Ugly People, and Long Lost Tablets
Amanda, Dan, and Alf get ready for the holiday weekend with a review of not-so great holidays.
We examine the caucasity of the American University in Cairo
And we make a booty call on sutton hoo.
It's our second episode of the new format and YES, we tried to edit again!
The History Happy Hour: Crypto, Juneteenth, Good Boys, and Grizly Bird Deaths
We're back!
Amanda, Dan, and Alf are back on their History BS, in an all new format that tickles the senses and delights one and all.
We cover Crypto, Polish Passports, The French Revolution, Tulips, Ozzymandias, The Sacred Feminine, and that's just the intro!
For Not-So-Current Events we delve into Juneteenth and Texas,
We discuss History's Greatest Dogs
And Dan discovers a violent meal in our Fine Dining segment.
All the history, less droning, and YES! We even sort of edited!
Favored by The Pods (A Podcast about the HBO Series ROME) Episode V - The Ram has Touched the Wall
Anthony's peen continues to loom large as we explore the sad and unstable state of affairs in ROME and for the Vorenus clan.
Caesar has marched on Rome and taken control of the city without any form of resistance being met. The Senate and their army have withdrawn to the south from the city in order to muster their army, in the hopes of eventually retaking the city when all is ready. Vorenus attempts to start at a new business importing and trading slaves from Gaul, but at the start of his business venture, things go terribly wrong.
Favored by The Pods (A Podcast about the HBO Series ROME) Episode IV - Stealing from Saturn
Anthony's peen and Pullo's purse take center stage in this latest episode.
Caesar has marched on Rome and taken control of the city without any form of resistance being met. The Senate and their army have withdrawn to the south from the city in order to muster their army, in the hopes of eventually retaking the city when all is ready. Vorenus attempts to start at a new business importing and trading slaves from Gaul, but at the start of his business venture, things go terribly wrong.
Favored by The Pods (A Podcast about the HBO Series ROME) Episode III - An Owl in a Thornbush
With Caesar quickly advancing toward Rome, Pompey begins ordering a retreat and forces his citizens to pick sides. Timon is forced to do Atia's dirty work and Vorenus cannot understand why no one is resisting while on a scouting mission. The politics/religion and ancestor worship of Rome is discussed along with some dire warnings for republics in decline.
Favored by The Pods (A Podcast about the HBO Series ROME) Episode II - How Titus Pullo Brought Down the Republic
Dan drinks "Soldier's Wine" as the Republic's future hinges on parliamentary games.
With Caesar quickly advancing toward Rome, Pompey begins ordering a retreat and forces his citizens to pick sides. Timon is forced to do Atia's dirty work and Vorenus cannot understand why no one is resisting while on a scouting mission.
It's episode 3 of Favored by the Pods!
Favored by The Pods (A Podcast about the HBO Series ROME) Episode I - The Stolen Eagle
The HHH team is back, and we're dedicating a whole season to the HBO series ROME.
Sex, Politics, Violence, Nudity, Did we mention Sex and Violence?
Synopsis:
As the wars in Gaul finally come to an end, Caesar is faced with both triumph and tribulation. On the heels of his victory comes news of his daughter's death. Awarded with the adulation of the people, he also garners the enmity of powerful opponents and former friends. In Rome, Pompey the Great must balance honor and politics as he is urged to betray an ancient rival and recent friend. Atia of the Julii tries to steer her family on the dangerous path between the growing divisions of power, and in the Gallic countryside, two unlikely allies must reclaim that which Caesar has lost.
The History Happy Hour: Crappy Insurrections
It's absolutely revolting! We learn some lessons about what makes for a successful insurrection and what our future makes hold as we visit The Spartacus Rebellion, The Whiskey Rebellion, and The Beerhall Putsch (Pronounced POOCH?)
It's 2021 and a new season of The History Happy Hour!
Deep Cuts Special 3: Zombies
The third installment in our four part series for Halloween is here! What better way to spend a contagion than by watching apocalyptic flicks of Zombie destruction! The walking dead. The waking dead. The just woke up and are still groggy dead. With Mike Black, Amanda Brass, and Alf
Deep Cuts Special 1: Vampires
We're kicking of Spooky Movie Month with a conversation around some Vampire movie deep cuts!
Join Mike Black, Amanda Brass, and Alf LaMont on a wild conversation around some EPIC Vampire flicks.
Pointed commentary. Batty takes. Bloody good fun.
The History Happy Hour: Exploring Explorers Who Explored
We travel to the ends of the Earth to understand what drives explorers, what defines exploration, and just how much trouble can a human being purposely seek out with our first ever guest, Christian LaMont of Latino Outdoors!
It's poop knives, space, suicide, sherpas, and more as we strap ourselves into a canoe and boldly explore the world of explorers!
The History Happy Hour: The Historic Career of Olivia De Havilland
On the same day the great dame shuffled her mortal coils we take a look at her unique role as an interpreter of history. From Robin Hood, to The Charge of The Light Brigade, and into Gone With The Wind, we study her remarkable career and the history behind some of her greatest hits. Brassy swoons at dead people in this star studded episode of The History Happy Hour!
The History Happy Hour: Secret Societies
How did Ciara tap into ancient wisdom? What did Aleister Crowley and W.B Yeats have in common? And what are the secrets of the illuminati? We dive into Masons, Rosicrucians, Oddfellows and The Hermetic Order of The Golden Dawn as:
➡ Brassy falls victim to an illuminati plot as she streams LIVE from the esoteric library at the Philosophical Research Society .
➡ Dan tells us about a secret society that caused 2 world wars. (REALLY!)
➡ Alf scolds the IORM for existing.
Die to your former self and be born again with secret knowledge contained in this episode of The History Happy Hour. 👁
The History Happy Hour: Just Druid
Brass hits the bottle and the esoteric realm HARD as costumes, mistletoe, and human sacrifice take center stage for a fun romp around the little known world of the Druids. Dan and Alf cede way to the sacred feminine as we learn about triple death, Wickermen, and give Ms Britt Ekland a shoutout. on this episode of HHH.
The History Happy Hour: Hail To The Celebrity
In today's episode we examine the link between power and celebrity with the tales of America's first celebrity President, George Washington, and it's second.Andrew Jackson. We dissect the surreal scene of a meeting between Nixon and Elvis then dive headfirst into an inefficient White House that used stagecraft brilliantly. It's Tom Selleck, Mr. T, Webster, and Donald Trump's pathetic speech in front of West Point on this week's episode!
The History Happy Hour: Unprecedented Times
For our tenth episode we delve into the notion of "Unprecedented Times" and how much of what we're seeing on the streets at this moment IS precedented. We check how mythologies are building already around the global Black Lives Matter Protests happening, then bring some important perspective from previous episodes to wrap it all up. The REAL Amanda Brass shows up, Dan gets a haircut, and Alf gets heartbroken. It's Tulsa Riots, Vlad The Impaler, Criminal Justice Reform, Cuddling Abe and George, as well as plenty of Handsome Roger. On our TENTH episode of The History Happy Hour!
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The History Happy Hour: U.S Law Enforcement
We took a quick turn from our planned dive into Aztec culture to address some of the roots of what is ailing our country right now.
The troubling roots of modern policing expose why the system keeps failing us, and how without true reform and acceptance we're doomed to keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
It's Rembrandt, Tammany, Slave Patrols, Val Kilmer and more, in a troubling but important episode of The History Happy Hour.
The History Happy Hour: Easter 1916
LGBT Heroes, Fighting Countesses, Socialists, The British Empire, U-Boats and a Catholic martyrdom to rival anything in the circus maximus. It's the fiery, dramatic, and tragic beginning of the Irish Republic.
Tiocfaidh ár lá as the Jameson flows for Dan, Brassy and Alf on this episode of The History Happy Hour!
The History Happy Hour: DPRK Part 1
We're using the principles of Juche to put together this worthy podcast exploring the origins of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea AKA North Korea, and the amazing life of Kim Il Sung.
How did the Kims capture our imagination?
How was this elusive nation formed, and what does George Washington's lame cherry tree have to do with any of it?
Brassy schools us on Plato, Dan drops the WW2 knowledge, and Alf gets his revolutionary panties in a bunch, all on part 1 of 2 Chosun episodes of The History Happy Hour!
The History Happy Hour: Aussie Aussie Aussie! Oi Oi Oi!
From Aboriginal continental consciousness, to Captain Cook's comeuppance, with cameos from Captain Bligh, Yahoo Serious, and a horde of rampaging Emus, the gang is back at it taking on the short (LONG) history of Australia. Take a dive into the similarities of the US and AUS and what might have been if we hadn't kicked the English out and were surrounded by animals and terrain hell bent on killing us. Steel yourselves like the armored Kelly gang for a slew of inaccuracies, speculation, and outback mayhem from Perth to Sydney and to the shores of Gallipoli - it's the FOURTH thrilling episode of The History Happy Hour with Amanda, Dan and Alf!
The History Happy Hour: Vlad The Impaler
The team tackle the "loaded" subject of Vlad Tepes Dracula, Voivode of Wallachia, known as the historical Dracula. Brassy, Alf and Dan dive in head first into the violent, dark and traumatic events and world that Vlad was born into, speculate on what might be legend and what is horrible truth, and how the Carpathian mountains to this day help keep our vision of Romania as a dark and mysterious place.
It's spikes up the butt for everyone, as Dan gets hammered, Brassy admits she has a taste for people, and Alf shows off his fancy new outfit in this bloodcurdling episode of The History Happy Hour.
The History Happy Hour: The Black Death Pt. 2
The conversation continues as Brassy, Alf and Dan dive into Plague cures, mentality, and during the black death. A modern plague show and tell and some thoughts on how closely we are connected to the deaths that shaped our world in the mid 1300s.
Fun stuff!
The History Happy Hour: The Black Death Pt 1.
Amanda Brass of the Philosophical Research Center joins Alf and Dan to discuss the Black Death. We touch on medieval stability , heresies, the origins of the black death, the effects of the black death and we tie it all in to our current situation.
Episode 1 of 2 covering the most deadly contagion in human history!
History Happy Hour Episode I: History As Therapy
Dan and Alf set the stage for this podcast and discuss why History can be a source of hope in troubled times, why Dan and Alf aren't exactly qualified to be doing this, but are going for it nonetheless.
PLUS an amazing reenactment of our ape ancestors discovering tools, and a show and tell that makes a scholarly comparison of pigs to both Elizabeth II and Teddy Roosevelt. The inaugural episode of HHH is LIVE!