Barely Historical is a comedy podcast where two lifelong friends pick a year, dive in, and immediately regret it. Amanda and JoLynne drag the past through the mud, from Salem to the Spice Girls, covering pop culture, scandals, disasters, and all the weird moments that never made it into your textbook. It’s history told by people who probably shouldn’t be trusted with it, but at least you’ll laugh while you learn. Expect games, chaotic commentary, and stories that prove the past was just as unhinged as the present.
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Signup to Generate a PitchBarely Historical is a comedy podcast where two lifelong friends pick a year, dive in, and immediately regret it. Amanda and JoLynne drag the past through the mud, from Salem to the Spice Girls, covering pop culture, scandals, disasters, and all the weird moments that never made it into your textbook.
Recent episodes include "Castrati: The Wild History of Opera’s Castrated Superstars" (23 September 2026, 57 minutes), "Medieval Executioners | You Wouldn't Invite Him to Dinner, Would Absolutely Call Him at 2am" (16 September 2026, 33 minutes), and "The Pony Express: The Wild History Behind America’s Famous Mail Riders" (9 September 2026, 55 minutes).
Barely Historical publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 55 minutes across 45 episodes.
Booking probability for Barely Historical is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Barely Historical requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Barely Historical's contact route on record: verified email.
Barely Historical is a comedy podcast with 45 episodes published.
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Opera has everything: drama, sex, ridiculous costumes, murder—and apparently, a deeply concerning amount of testicle removal. This week, Jo and Amanda are getting into castrati, the male singers who were castrated as...
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The city needed someone to carry out its justice, so it hired a guy, made him essential, and then treated him like a walking biohazard. This week we ruin the executioner: specifically Franz "Meister Frantz" Schmidt of...
The Pony Express is one of the most famous legends of the American West—but apparently, Jo and Amanda knew almost nothing about it. This week on Barely Historical , we're getting into the real history of the Pony...
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In late 1953, Swanson had ten refrigerated train cars full of unsold Thanksgiving turkey and no plan. A salesman named Jerry Thomas, not a chef, not a food scientist, looked at 260 tons of poultry and said what if we...
Episode #39
Syphilis is one of those diseases you think you know about until you actually learn its history. Then it gets significantly worse. In this episode of Barely Historical , Jo and Amanda dive into the horrifying, bizarre...
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Postmortem Photography | The Internet's Been Lying to Us In 1867, a photographer walked into a Philadelphia parlor, set up a tripod next to the sofa, and photographed a woman who had died the day before. Her husband had...
Episode #28
Did Lizzie Borden really kill her father and stepmother, or did America turn an acquitted woman into its first true crime celebrity? In 1892, two brutal hatchet murders shocked Fall River, Massachusetts. But the real...
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The World Cup is supposed to bring the world together. Instead, its history includes dictators, corruption, stolen trophies, political propaganda, murder, and one very good dog named Pickles. In this episode of Barely...
Forget the eagles and the Boston Tea Party. This 4th of July we're chasing the stories hiding next to the story. Amanda and JoLynne hand out America's most cursed historical awards, dig into the presidents who behaved...
What happens when one family tree becomes less of a tree… and more of a wreath? This week on Barely Historical, we’re tackling one of the internet’s most infamous families: the Whittakers of West Virginia. But instead...
Juneteenth marks June 19, 1865, the day Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that enslaved people there were free more than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. In this episode of...
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Hot take to start the show: every man who has ever lost his entire mind over a woman has blamed her for it. Two thousand years ago that energy started a civil war, ended with Julius Caesar getting stabbed 23 times on...
Episode #20
This week, we’re diving into the chaotic world of the De Clare sisters, one of medieval England’s most powerful families. What starts as inheritance drama quickly turns into royal favoritism, political manipulation...
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Patreon Bonus Episode. The year is 1978, and apparently the hottest relationship trend is mutual destruction. JoLynne and Amanda ruin history with the chaotic, toxic, and wildly overrated romance of SID VICIOUS and...
What were Gilded Age mansions really hiding? In this episode of Barely Historical, we dive into the outrageous world of America’s most extravagant homes—built during the late 1800s by names like the Vanderbilts, Astors...
The year is 1919. Boston is minding its business when a 50-foot tank full of molasses says, “absolutely not.” JoLynne and Amanda ruin history with a literal syrup tsunami, corporate negligence, and the moment breakfast...
Every spring, humans suddenly feel the urge to reset their lives. We clean our houses, change our routines, and convince ourselves we’re becoming better people overnight. But this isn’t random. It’s ancient. In this...
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Imagine being so good at math that the federal government trusts you to calculate whether astronauts survive reentry into Earth’s atmosphere. Orbital mechanics. Launch windows. Trajectory equations. Reentry angles. The...
This Valentine’s Day, Barely Historical is skipping the roses and going straight to the gunfire. In this episode, Jo and Amanda dive into one of the most infamous crimes in American history: the St. Valentine’s Day...
Welcome to the full unhinged version of Mother’s Little Helpers , where mid-century America dressed women in pastels and then medicated them into silence. JoLynne and Amanda ruin the real history behind the “little...
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