SPILLED.
by Delaney & Kendyl Florence
Latest episode
Did Lizzie Borden Kill Her Parents? | Halloween Episode
Did Lizzie Borden Kill Her Parents? | Halloween Episode
About this podcast
Kendyl and Delaney Florence are bringing you history’s hottest gossip, every other Tuesday. SPILLED. brings you the tea you didn’t know you needed through a light-hearted and (somewhat) educational podcast on historic scandals, betrayals, rumors, and more. Each episode will focus on a new - well, old - story that will leave you with the coolest fun facts at your next dinner party. Join us to make history a bit more fun, and a lot juicier.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 32 episodes
- Did Lizzie Borden Kill Her Parents? | Halloween Episode · 50 minIn 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were murdered with a hatchet in their Fall River home, and Lizzie Borden was the only family member in the house. We go minute by minute through…
- WTF was Gin Mania? Why Everyone in 18th c. London was Hammered · 1 h 1 minIn 1688, a Dutch king took the English throne, banned French wine and brandy, and then let basically anyone distill gin at home. What could go wrong? This week we're spilling…
- How Mosquitoes Shaped History | ft. JACOB!! · 1 h 37 minMosquitoes are the deadliest animal on Earth and they've been shaping human history since long before recorded time. This week, Delaney sits down with SPILLED. team member Jacob…
- More Than Mulan: A History of Cross-Dressing for War · 57 minWe're covering seven real female warriors and soldiers across four continents and almost 1,900 years of history — women who disguised themselves as men to fight, and women who…
- Human Sacrifice | not just the Aztecs · 1 h 4 minHuman sacrifice gets a bad rap in the history books, and we're here to spill the tea. This week we're digging into who was really practicing ritual sacrifice across history. From…
- The Founding MOTHERS: Women of the American Revolution · 59 minPaul Revere gets all the glory, but he wasn't the only one riding through the night to save the American Revolution. This Fourth of July, Delaney and Kendyl are spilling the tea…
- Should You Trust a Short King? Leprechauns & Irish Folklore · 1 h 7 minYou've been lied to by Lucky Charms. The leprechaun you know — jolly, green, guarding gold at the end of a rainbow — is about 150 years old. The leprechaun from Irish folklore is…
- Pocahontas: Literally Everything You Know is Wrong! · 1 h 9 minShe was eleven years old when the English arrived. Disney made her twenty-something with a love story. History gave her a name that wasn't hers. This week we're spilling the real…
- WWII & Lesbian Step-Sisters: Men Wish They Knew These 4 Stories · 1 h 3 minYou loved our first WWII episode, so we're back with MORE! This week we're covering stories that your history teacher definitely skipped: women in codebreaking, queer resistance…
- Sugar Baby, Then She Led the Black Panther Party: Elaine Brown's Story · 1 h 0 minShe had a married sugar daddy funding her LA apartment. Then she dumped him and became the first — and only — woman to lead the Black Panther Party. This week we're spilling…
- The Secret Lives of Henry VIII's Wives · 1 h 16 minHenry VIII's six wives — Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard, and Katherine Parr — were more powerful, more capable, and more…
- What To Say When a Man is Mansplaining WWII · 58 minCORRECTION: In this episode we reference Audie Murphy as the "most decorated American soldier in WWII." His kill count was 240, not 33 -- we misspoke, he had 33 awards. In this…
- Ancient Greece's Gay Army (and Their Swords) | The Theban Sacred Band · 47 minIn this episode, we get into the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite ancient Greek army made up of 150 pairs of male lovers who quite literally fought side by side. We talk about why…
- The Watergate Scandal was MESSY - Do You Really Know What Happened? · 60 minWatergate is one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history, but do you actually know what happened? This week we spill the story behind the Watergate break-in, the…
- The Peaky Blinders Were Real? Everything You Need To Know · 57 minEven if you haven't seen the show (Kendyl hasn't), you're going to want to tune in to this one. This week we’re getting into the real history behind Peaky Blinders. Inspired by…
- F*ck, Marry, Kill: Aqua Tofana, The Original Husband Poison · 49 minThis week, we’re talking Giulia Tofana and the infamous Aqua Tofana — the legendary 17th-century poison rumored to be colorless, tasteless, and almost impossible to detect. We…
- The Salem Witch Trials Debunked · 1 h 5 minWe're back with our MOST requested episode yet -- the Salem Witch Trials! Join us to hear us unpack the biggest misconceptions, implications, and causes of the witch hunts and…
- We Thought the World Was Ending? Y2K Explained · 52 min · Episode 15Everyone jokes that Y2K was fake. It wasn’t. It was stopped. In this episode, we break down how a tiny design choice made decades earlier put banks, power grids, hospitals, air…
- Shrooms, Rome, and Reddit: 10 Christmas Tradition Origins · 52 min · Episode 14Come with us on a holly jolly holiday episode on debunking 10 Christmas traditions and their origins. This episode is a little different, though -- you'll be in charge of…
- They Were the Richest People in the World, then the Murders Started: The Osage Nation · 51 min · Episode 13Imagine becoming the richest community in America overnight—only for people around you to start turning up dead. This episode uncovers the stunning rise of the Osage Nation…
