History, marriage, jokes, and baffling human choices.
History Honeys pairs researched historical storytelling with the easy friction of a married couple teaching each other. Episodes range from Mars exploration and political upheaval to Disney oddities, serial killers, train wrecks, martial-arts lore, and Gundam context.
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History Honeys turns historical research into a two-person exchange, where the subject is often serious and the path through it is rarely straight. Grant and Elena teach each other stories from the past, then let confusion, jokes, skepticism, and personal memory do some of the shaping. It is not a dry chronology show. It is a show where a 1970s Disney release slate can sit beside Mars exploration, martial-arts self-mythology, train wrecks, serial murder, political crisis, and a long runway into Gundam continuity. The pleasure comes from that spread. Some episodes chase cultural artifacts that seem almost impossible in hindsight, like odd live-action Disney films from a decade already full of stranger competition. Others lean into darker material, including Thomas Neill Cream, Count Dante, bribery, poison, senseless death, and public disaster. The show can also shift into media fandom or at-home tourism, reading promotional language and reviews with the same curiosity it brings to older events. Its best moments often happen when one person has prepared a trail and the other keeps stopping to ask the obvious, incredulous question. That structure gives the research a useful pressure test. Claims do not just pass by; they get reacted to, teased, compared, and sometimes openly doubted. The humor is domestic and a little chaotic, but the work underneath is clear. Historical figures appear as messy people, not museum labels. Pop culture gets treated as part of history rather than a break from it. Even the throwaway tangents reveal the show's taste for context: what else was happening, what audiences might have seen, what a decision looked like at the time. Episodes can be grim. They can also be deeply silly. That combination is the identity of the show. History Honeys is for listeners who want researched stories with conversational movement, not polished distance. It makes the past feel like something being handed across a table, interrupted, questioned, and made memorable in the process.
Made for: For listeners who like history with banter, skepticism, and odd subject choices. It especially suits people who enjoy true crime, pop culture history, political context, space exploration, and niche fandom explained conversationally.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is the married-couple teaching format: one prepared story meets live reaction, correction, jokes, and tangents. It keeps research present while letting surprise and disbelief stay in the room.
A new podcast where a married couple teaches each other cool stuff about the past.
Count Dante's killing touch runs into daylight saving time; you get to enjoy the scheduling problem.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Grant and Elena revisit Disney's odd 1970-75 live-action run, with The Bears and I as the uneasy center.
History Honeys turns Disney's live-action years from 1970 through 1975 into a tour of studio confusion. Grant and Elena keep their Disney series moving through a stretch they treat as bigger, stranger, and often difficult to account for.
A lively Gundam primer that balances grim Universal Century history with jokes, detours, and a spirited defense of Quess Pariah.
This PlayNext episode treats Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway as a question of orientation, with the hosts laying out what a viewer may need before the new theatrical animated film arrives on global streaming.
A funny stay-at-home visit to Medieval Times, with birthday pageantry, family embarrassment, and plenty of "Your Graces."
Tourist Trapped makes an anniversary special feel like a no-suitcase trip to Medieval Times Dinner Tournament, with the Schaumburg, Illinois, location and its own sales copy doing much of the jousting.
A karate legend, a $5 pamphlet, and a killing touch with scheduling issues.
Count Dante lands as a brisk piece of martial-arts folklore, built around the gap between grand self-mythology and the practical oddness of a $5 pamphlet.
A poison-and-bribery case where a life sentence bends, carried by Grant and Elena's dark, chatty rhythm.
Thomas Neill Cream's story moves through poison, bribery, and a life sentence that proves less fixed than it should. Grant and Elena follow the path from reduced punishment, after Cream's brother apparently pleaded for leniency, to his later arrival in London, where poverty,…
History lessons poured neat, with a joke for last call.
Grant and Elena return to Disney live-action film history and set up a two-part look at 1970 through 1975, noting that Disney made 41 live action movies, two hybrids, and four animated films in the 1970s.
History Honeys uses Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway to explain the Universal Century, beginning with humanity's move into Earth-orbiting colonies and the calendar reset to UC 105.
History Honeys’ Tourist Trapped 52: Social Jousting Warriors focuses on Medieval Times Dinner Tournament in Schaumburg, Illinois, which the hosts repeatedly distinguish from “Chicago.” The episode quotes the website’s knight bios, weapon glossary, horse-training copy, and the $63.95 adult general-admission price with coupon code SPRING21.
["History Honeys follows John Kehan, born in 1939 Chicago, as he renames himself Count Juan Rafael Dante and sells a full-contact karate persona.", "Grant and Elena trace his training under Robert Trius, his break with the United States Karate Association, and his rise through Chicago dojos by 1964.", "They spend substantial time on his comic-book ad, the 72-page $5 manual on dim mak and brick breaking, and the Black Dragon Fighting Society's mail-in belt certificates.", "The story turns to the April 24, 1970 Green Dragon Society confrontation, then to later details like a lion cub, a mob lawyer, and a rejected Moody Bible Institute application."]
History Honeys turns Thomas Neill Cream into a Valen Crimes case built around chloroform, illegal abortions, poison, and extortion across Canada, Chicago, and London.
Felix Yusupov's account of Rasputin surviving poisoned cakes, wine, and gunfire faces scrutiny on History Honeys.
History Honeys traces the 1982 Chicago-area deaths linked to cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules.
Grant and Lena of History Honeys connect the 1120 White Ship disaster to Henry I's loss of his son William Adelin and the succession crisis that followed.
A married couple teaches each other about historical train wrecks with comedic banter.
A married couple discusses the history of Mars exploration, from ancient observations to its role in scientific discoveries.
A married couple teaches each other about the 2002 failed coup in Venezuela, focusing on Hugo Chavez and the political events.
A married couple banter about spring weather and ice cream before introducing their history podcast.
A married couple teaches each other about the history of diseases covered by the DTaP vaccine and the development of vaccines.
A married couple discusses the history of the PBS show Reading Rainbow.
A married couple teaches each other about the Riot Grrrl movement as a revolutionary social movement in the early 1990s.
A married couple explores the origins and management of the endangered species list, prompted by a previous mention of the Santa Cruz Island fox being delisted.