Happy Hour #212: Cat Fight

In 2015, Instagram banned the eggplant emoji from their search function in an attempt to shutdown #EggplantFriday. In this classic episode, Anney and Samantha delve into the history of the eggplant emoji's rise to infamous sexting icon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info ... Show More

Tina Belcher is a teenage girl who is unapologetically who she is - an awkward romantic who likes butts. We dish on this fan favorite Bob's Burgers character.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to this classic episode on the history of female assassins and spies, both fictional and not. Intrigue! Betrayal! Danger! And don't forget style.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

It's now possible to take a home pregnancy test eight days after ovulation, yet in the 16th century, women sometimes turned to astrologers for confirmation. And in the 1950s and 1960s, one might send a urine sample to an address in Sloane Street where they would inject it into a ... Show More

<p>THIS IS NOT A DRILL. The girls drop the news of which one of them is PREGNANT. She&#39;ll be spilling alllll of the deets of how she found out and her pregnancy experience up until now on today’s episode. We are also sharing YOUR crazy pregnancy symptoms (some weird and some ~ ... Show More

In 18th century England, Mary Toft defied all medical odds when she started giving birth to rabbits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Why has the idea of the Virgin Mary’s virginity been so important?What does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and sex? And what else do we know about this woman?Joining Kate today to help her get to know more about Mary, her life and her influence is author ... Show More

Mary Robinette Kowal’s work has inspired several episodes of the podcast. She has just written a pair of books that are called the Lady Astronaut duology, and Tracy got the chance to speak with Mary about her work and its historical settings.   Learn more about your ad-choices at ... Show More

<p>Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of history? Dr. Hannah Moots has extensively investigated the genomic history of the Iron Age Mediterranean, offering striking new insigh ... Show More

this might be a bit TMI and more of a serious topic but i wanted to talk about pregnancy. i'm NOT pregnant so let's get that clear - but just thought we'd talk about all the crazy things that happens when someone is pregnant. honestly for real, the stuff that women have to go thr ... Show More

Register to Vote & see your local ballot here: https://www.vote.org/ The ability to decide when or if we have children has been an essential human struggle for all of recorded history. Some may believe that abortion is a modern phenomenon. But people have been finding ways to end ... Show More

When you're pregnant you can get away with almost anything... and one of our listeners used the power of her pregnancy to get EXACTLY what she wanted... even if it technically may have been stealing...See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.