In Part Two we learn that Sir Matthew Hale had two women executed for witchcraft after a trial so famous it served as a model for Salem. And for our final surprise we learn that, despite Hale’s horrible legal opinions about the rights of women, he specifically writes that abortion is not a crime in […]
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The Shameless Happy Birthday Podcast Plug
On this day in history all the way back in the 1970s … my sister Bambi was born! Please join me in wishing her a happy one after a few rocky months. And forgive me for my naked exploitation of her latest trip around the sun to remind you that we host a foul-mouthed podcast called Chainsaw History. […]
George Wallace Was An Even Worse Husband Than Politician
I could write a lot about how terrible former Alabama Governor George Wallace was — but I don’t need to, because I already covered that ground spending hours talking about the loathsome man in our little DIY family podcast, Chainsaw History. Listen to Part Two to learn the role George Wallace played in his wife’s […]
Listen to the Chainsaw History Podcast
The little passion project my sister and I started up a few months ago is now live on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and pretty much everywhere else! Click here to easily subscribe using your favorite service. The player below will feature our latest episode. If you’d like to help us as we get started, […]
George Wallace Was Even Worse Than You Think
If you wanna hear my sister and I sit in the backyard we grew up in as she pops White Claws and we talk about our family’s connection to former Alabama governor George Wallace — famous piece of shit who leaned so hard into segregation he promised in his first inaugural address that he would […]
Foul-Mouthed History Podcast Reunites Family!
In the last month my sister Bambi and I have launched a little passion-project: Chainsaw History. It’s a comedy-history podcast inspired by research into our family tree! When promoting our first “bonus” episode about our 5th great-grandfather, David Boyd, something magical happened on social media. It’s just a little coincidence in a world full of […]
How Young George Washington Helped Kick Off A World War
One thing I promised myself when this new year started is that I would take on a new creative project—something outside my comfort zone and done just for fun. The end result is the pilot episode of Chainsaw History, a comedy-history podcast that cuts the great figures of the past down to size! Listen to my […]
Hauntings & Households
If you follow both my professional career and my personal history as a tabletop gamer you’ll see a couple of clear trends: I love traditional fantasy gaming (i.e. Dungeons & Dragons), I adore horror as a genre, and sometimes I just want to make people laugh. Larry Elmore’s SnarfQuest comic took a D&D-style setup and […]