Rat Queen

It's a crossover episode from our new podcast, Pop Soup, your piping hot serving of pop culture trivia! Subscribe and save y'all: Apple, Spotify, and everywhere else 🎧Hayly gives us the royal(s) and we guess the scandal that could have been their downfall.Lisa quizzes us on what crimes various celebs have been arrested for abroad. Whitney - guess the highest-grossing box office films from the 90s by the actors involved. 

This episode is brought to you by Pop Soup, our brand-new pop culture trivia podcast, so go listen to it right now!Lisa recounts one of Texas' almost forgotten tragedies, the New London School Explosion of 1937.Whitney hops back to the Gilded Age to visit the weird Wendel family - one of NYC's original rich families that decided to fully commit to never keeping up with the times. Hayly becomes a thieving menace with Barbara Erni, the Liechtensteinian red-haired legend AKA Golden Boos.

This episode is brought to you by color analysis.Hayly gets spooked by doppelgangers and bad omens.Whitney travels back 900,000 years to find our ancestors on the brink of extinction. Lisa picks a fight with WCCW wrestler Gino Hernandez. 

This episode is brought to you by buff children.Whitney sinks with the Venetians at Pink Floyd's show in 1989.Lisa lifts weights for Jesus with her Muscular Christian friends.Hayly heads to the Isle of Man to befriend a ghost mongoose named Gef. 

This episode is brought to you by red currants. Whitney dances to the strange Italian beats and gibberish lyrics of Adriano Celentano's "Prisencolinensinainciusol."Lisa revisits the Trinity Test Site in Los Alamos and uncovers the atrocious conditions the native population endured before, during, and after the Manhattan Project.Hayly joins Australia's Tromp Family on what is sure to be one of the most mysterious disappearances of the century. 

This episode is brought to you the pitter-patter of tiny dog feet. Lisa invites us to attend the first drag balls with their inventor and queer pioneer William Dorsey Swann.Hayly journeys across France with the cross-dressing, bisexual, swordswoman, opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny.Whitney boards Aloha Airlines Flight 243 - the terrifying flight and miracle landing that could have been much, much worse. 

This episode is brought to you by rabies. Lisa shows us the importance of functioning egresses at the infamous 1942 Cocoanut Grove nightclub fire. Whitney loses her voice trying to perfect her own version of every film buff's favorite inside joke, the Wilhelm Scream.Hayly joins a house of ill-repute with a surprisingly reputable madam, Pearl de Vere, the "soiled dove of Cripple Creek."

This episode is brought to you by Hard Front Wigs.Whitney packs up her stuff and moves to a new apartment every year in NYC on everyone's favorite holiday, Moving Day!Lisa races down America's rivers in a steamboat only to end in the worst maritime disaster in the USA, the wreck of the Sultana.Hayly is put on trial with Isobel Gowdie for being the witch of the century. 

This episode is brought to you by cargo shirts.Hayly lives the 1930s socialite dream with Lester Gaba and his enigmatic creation, Cynthia the Gaba girl.Lisa goes down under to explore the storied life of Black Douglass the Bushranger.Whitney has a close encounter of the third kind at the Ariel School UFO incident. 

This episode is brought to you by FootFoot.Whitney joins the fan club for The Shaggs, the band that released the worst album ever recorded. Lisa tells us just why Dairy Queen is what we like about Texas. Hayly lives a hundred lives with the immortal party vampire, Jacques St. Germain.