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Bittersweet Infamy

Josie Mitchell + Taylor Basso

Storytellers and best friends Josie Mitchell and Taylor Basso share the stories that live on in infamy: the strange and the familiar, the tragic and the comic—the bitter and the sw...

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Episode list

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  • April 20, 2025

    1 hr 38 min

    #122 - Women and Children First

    As part of our Titanic April series, Josie tells Taylor about the history of the famous disaster evacuation rule "women and children first," and how the gender roles of 1912 impact...

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  • April 13, 2025

    1 hr 16 min

    #121 - Nazi Titanic (and Other Films in Which Ships Sink)

    As part of our Titanic April series, Taylor tells Josie and guest host Mitchell Collins about the film adaptations of the Titanic story, including Saved from the Titanic, the lost ...

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  • April 6, 2025

    2 hr 13 min

    #120 - The Sinking of the RMS Titanic

    To launch our Titanic April series, Josie tells Taylor about the most infamous maritime disaster in history: the sinking of the largest ocean liner in the world, the RMS Titanic, a...

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  • March 23, 2025

    2 hr 18 min

    #119 - In the Garden of the Emperor

    Taylor tells Josie about France's disastrous attempt to overthrow the Mexican government in the 1860s, and the unwise rise and catastrophic fall of the last emperor of Mexico, Maxi...

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  • March 9, 2025

    1 hr 47 min

    #118 - How the West Was Sold

    Josie tells Taylor how our modern cultural image of the Wild West was constructed by one man: soldier and showman "Buffalo" Bill Cody. Plus: unravelling the mystery of the Persian ...

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  • February 23, 2025

    1 hr 41 min

    #117 - My Perfect Socialist Daughter Must Die

    Taylor tells Josie about the toxic, possessive, and deadly mother-daughter relationship between 1930s Spanish political activists Aurora and Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira. Plus: ...

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