The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 15: Waxing Dramatic

by Haley Pierson-Cox | Oct 12, 2022 | Season 3

S03E15: Madame Tussaud and her famed museum of lifelike wax figures, and Grand Guignol, a pioneering theater at the forefront of shockingly realistic body horror.

Marie Tussaud’s exceptional talent brought a spark of (kind of creepy) life to the art and craft of creating wax portraiture, inviting the public to mingle with likenesses of the famous. The masterful craftspeople at Grand Guignol, by contrast, brought a truly dramatic spark of death–and an in-house doctor–to audiences looking for a different kind of thrill.

The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 14: There’s No Place Like Utopia

by Haley Pierson-Cox | Sep 26, 2022 | Season 3

S03E14: Celebration, Florida and Arcosanti, Arizona: Two very different approaches to building a (mostly failed) utopia.

Learning how to almost successfully thrive in the desert, and why we wouldn’t want Disney in charge of our HOAs.

Patreon Exclusive Episode: The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 13: Teddy Girls and Dueling Princesses: Our Super-Hot Historical Girlfriends

by Haley Pierson-Cox | Sep 16, 2022 | Season 3

S03E13: The Legendary 1892 Topless Duel between Princess Pauline von Metternich of Vienna and Countess Anastasia Kielmansegg, and the Teddy Girls (who got a bad rap).

The Bones & Bobbins Podcast, Season 3, Episode 12: Professionally Sneaking

by Haley Pierson-Cox | Aug 27, 2022 | Season 3

S03E12: The spy gadgets of WWII and a married couple–Jonna and Antonio Mendez–who were very real masters of disguise.

Spy craft meets spy crafts with lipstick compasses, pencil daggers, and a truly ingenious use of foot powder.