HILF: History I'd Like to F**k
Summary: Host, comedian Dawn Brodey, takes you through the annals of history with a special guest and history subject each episode. From Dillinger to Frankenstein, from The Crusades to Freak Shows - Dawn brings her history degree and unfiltered sense of humor to deliver well-researched deep-dives that strip history naked and serve it up raw.
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Dawn and guest Shelby Young continue their journey with history's most notorious (and fuckable) pirates. Part 2 concludes the tale of Mary Read and Anne Bonny, dispels some pirate myths, and introduces us to a few more PILF's along the way.
Dawn welcomes aboard the incomparable, Shelby Young [voice of Leia in Star Wars: Forces of Destiny among many others]. Together they sail through the exciting history of the real Pirates, including the thrilling life and times of Mary Read and Anne Bonny.
Did you put some cinnamon in your coffee this morning? A little black pepper on your eggs? The spices we take for granted today were once upon a time the single most valuable material in the world. From ancient Egypt, to Columbus and right up to today - Dawn and special guest, Wayne Wilderson - take a us on a journey good enough to eat... and fuck.
Guest Ryan Ripple returns for Part 2 of The F-Word - in which we go even further down the profanity alphabet to discuss the origin and uses of the S, P, C, and other F-Word. It's a damn good time.
From the very first documented 'fuck' in history all the way through Carlin's 7 Dirty Words, Dawn unpacks the origins and surprising uses of some our most-loved and oft-hated profanity. The guest is comedian, Ryan Ripple, who has his own interesting takes on this shit.
He is a long-horned, long-tongued, Christmas Devil who lives to drag naughty children to hell... But enough about my guest - lets talk about KRAMPUS! This is a very special holiday episode is which Dawn sits down with her real-life husband, Andrew Melby, and digs into the origin and legends surrounding this tenacious Yuletide demon.
It's a 'She's All That' episode of HILF! James K Polk is a boring-ass, one-term President of the United States, assigned to Dawn by our special guest, comedian, Meryl Klemow. She came for his mullet and piercing eyes, but the story about his problematic scrotum really reels her in.
50 years ago, a mysterious man known as DB Cooper jumped from a 727 over Washington with a $200,000 cash ransom, and was never heard from again. We jump into this HILF with guest, Maile Flanagan - an actress and voice talent of several much-loved animated characters, including Naruto.
Singer-songwriter, Kat Perkins joins Dawn for a thorough undressing of the infamous 1930's outlaw, John Dillinger.
Dawn sits down with British TV Host and Model, Helen Shephard and gets to the naked truth about the novel Frankenstein, and it's supremely HILF-Y author, Mary Shelley.
HILF with host, Dawn Brodey. History is a party, and everybody's coming!
