Ill-Equipped History

About Ill-Equipped History

Two non-historians with a passion for history tell stories of the past in a way that will make you laugh.

Publisher

illequippedhistory

Category

comedy · history

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

3 May 2023

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

187 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Orson Welles and The War of the Worlds Broadcast

   Episode 178. Orson Welles didn't set out to make history the night he broadcast the radio drama version of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, but he did. Hundreds of thousands of people were tricked into thinking that Martians had come down to take over the world. Emileigh and Morgan dive into the man himself and how the golden age of radio was a partial cause of how it deceived so many. Link to the Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231027-behind-the-broadcast-orson-welles-on-the-mass-hysteria-of-the-war-of-the-worlds https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-War-of-the-Worlds-novel-by-Wells https://www.britannica.com/biography/Orson-Welles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-30/welles-scares-nation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mercury_Theatre_on_the_Air https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/radio-in-the-1930s/

2. 

   2 Oct 2026

   Bonus 37: Paranormal Investigation of Fort Pulaski

   Emileigh, Morgan, and friends go on a trip of a lifetime and ghost hunt Fort Pulaski in Savannah, GA! Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “History of Memory, Tourism, and the Lost Cause at Fort Pulaski” https://www.nps.gov/articles/history-of-memory-tourism-and-the-lost-cause-at-fort-pulaski.htm “Fort Pulaski” https://www.nps.gov/places/fort-pulaski.htm “Underground Railroad at Fort Pulaski” https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/underground-railroad-at-fort-pulaski.htm “Prisoner of War Experience” https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/immortal-600.htm “Fort Pulaski” https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/fort-pulaski “Fort Pulsaski” https://www.georgiahistory.com/ghmi_marker_updated/fort-pulaski/ “Fort Pulaski and the Defense of Savannah” https://npshistory.com/publications/civil_war_series/12/sec1.htm “Casimir Pulaski” https://www.nps.gov/people/casimir-pulaski.htm “Fort Pulaski and the Defense of Savannah” https://npshistory.com/publications/civil_war_series/12/sec2.htm

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   2 Oct 2026

   The Radium Girls

   Episode 177. We're starting spooky season off with a true horror story. In the early 1900s, dialpainters working for radium corporations found themselves facing a number of serious health issues years after leaving their jobs, including teeth falling out, broken bones, cancer, and death. Today's episode covers the fight a small group of women went through while dying in order to make their previous employers take accountability and provide compensation for the harm they experienced. Follow us on Instagram! https://www.instagram.com/illequippedhistory/ Join our Facebook group! https://www.facebook.com/groups/illequippedhistory Email us! illequippedhistory@gmail.com Check us out on TikTok! https://www.tiktok.com/@illequipped.histo Find us on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/@Ill-EquippedHistory Donate to our Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/illequippedhistory Sources “Control of Hazards in the Luminous Dial Painting Industry” by J.C. Jones and M.J. Day (Oct 1945), British Journal of Industrial Medicine, Vol 2 No. 4, pp. 202-208 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27720547 “Mae Keane, One Of The Last ‘Radium Girls,’ Dies At 107” by Rebecca Hersher (Dec 28 2014) https://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-one-of-the-last-radium-girls-dies-at-107 “Deadly occupation, forged report” by Amy Roeder (Oct 24 2013) https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/centennial-radium-forged-report/ “The radium girls and the press” by Bill Kovarik and Mark Neuzil (1996) https://revolutionsincommunication.com/radiumgirls/ “The Radium Girls at the National Archives” by Zachary Dabbs (Jan 4 2018) https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2018/01/04/the-radium-girls-at-the-national-archives/ “The Radium Girls” by Shelton Simmons (Mar 6 2021) https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/c2fe2df2c5d44d878d6b05559fa386b8 “Radium Poisoning Revealed: A Case Study in the History of Industrial Health Reform*” by Claudia Clark (1993). Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, Vol 19:1 pp 73-116 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23262526 “Meet the Radium Girls…” https://www.theradiumgirls.com/the-girls “Grace Fryer” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Fryer “Katherine Schaub” by Nicolleta Perna (Oct 2024) https://njwomenshistory.org/biographies/katherine-schaub/ “Edna Bolz Hussman” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206407113/edna-hussman “Albina ‘Bena’ Maggia Larice” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/187122198/albina-larice “The Radium Girls” by Talha Khan Burki (Feb 2017), Cancer and Society Vol 18 Issue 2 p. 178 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(17)30036-0/abstract “Quinta Maggia McDonald” https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153926380/quinta-mcdonald Sound Credits Music by Nadia Cripps from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/music/solo-piano-melancholy-in-winter-182627/

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YouTube views

1,408

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100

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Quality

79

Social presence

91

YouTube

68

Engagement

77

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