This week, Cate and Liz are back after a break to round out their series on Famous Disasters. Cate provides one of her famous mashups with updates on the some recent current environmental disasters and a look back at some historic disasters including "The Year with No Summer" in Indonesia, the "Carrington event" in Great Britain, the "Year of the Locust" in the middle United States, and "Tunguska Event" in Russia.
This week the ladies continue their series on Famous Disasters with Liz covering the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. Learn about the drunken captain at fault, the devastating environmental and economic effects of the oil spill on Alaska's Prince William Sound, and the audacity and greed of Exxon. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz begin a new series on Famous Disasters! They start with the Great Smog of London in 1952. When a rare weather pattern forced fog to mix with coal soot from London's buildings and vehicles it created a deadly smog that latest for five days and claimed thousands of lives. The impact of the disaster wasn't known immediately and eventually led to changes in legislation. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.c...
For their first episode in the new year, Cate and Liz kick off 2023 sharing some famous firsts! Some are historic, some are dark, some are gross and some might be considered obscene. All are obscure facts you need to know. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week art and activism collide as the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Artists with Cate reporting on the Guerrilla Girls and the recent attacks on well known masterpieces by advocates for the environment fighting against climate change. Cate and Liz are off for the holidays and will return in 2023! Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week the ladies continue to celebrate famous artists with Liz covering the eccentric pop artist Andy Warhol. Known for his influence on pop culture, crafting celebrity portraits, and using American brands in his art, Warhol left his mark on society and inspired countless other artists in his short life. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week Cate and Liz kick off a new series on Famous Artists by covering one of the most popular visual artists alive today, Yayoi Kusama. This 93 year old Japanese contemporary artist has overcome personal trauma, lives by choice in a hospital for the mentally ill, and is known for her colorful and often polka dotted exhibits that have made a recent re-emergence thanks to Instagram. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com....
This week, the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Moral Panics on Cate doing a mash up on cases of mass hysteria. Highlights include a dancing panic, nuns that meow and bite, and Orson Welles famous War of the Worlds hoax. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies continue to induce panic as Liz covers The Red Scare. Highlights include McCarthyism, Herbert Hoover, Hollywood black lists and rants about how this is all too close to what is happening in the U.S. today. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz start a new series on Famous Moral Panics by examining the Satanic Panic that began in the 1980's and resulted in more than 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic Ritual Abuse. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week Cate and Liz invite you to get spooked with them as they share the terrifying true stories of Giulia Tofana "The Queen of Poison" who helped countless women murder their husbands and the unsolved case of The Axeman of New Orleans. WARNING: The murders committed by the Axeman of New Orleans are gruesomely violent and include a lot of head trauma. Please feel free to fast forward or skip if you are queasy. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at...
This week, Cate and Liz wrap up their series on Famous Activists by reporting on famous celebrities who have used their voices and platforms to fight for the rights of others and the environment. From some of the stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood to reality queens these individuals have advocated for a more just society and better world for all. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week the ladies keep celebrating activists with Cate reporting on the environmental advocate and "Father of the National Parks," John Muir. This episode will leave you loving Mother Nature and asking for "More Muir!" Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz continue their series on Famous Activists with Liz reporting on Cesar Chavez and Delores Huerta, who were responsible for the United Farmworkers movement, and discusses the current struggle of today's farmworkers. The at time of this recording California's AB 2183 has not been passed. As of September 29th, Governor Gavin Newson signed this important bill into law giving farmer workers more rights in their union elections. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famousc...
Cate and Liz are back with season 4! They kick things off with Famous Activists and what better woman to lead with than Angela Davis! Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Hotels with Cate reporting on the history of hotels and fun facts. From ancient inns to gathering places for social justice advocates, hotels have been around forever and played significant roles in historic and cultural events. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies continue their series on Famous Hotels with Liz sharing about The Villa Casa Casuarina AKA The Versace Mansion in Miami Beach. Learn about the hotel's origin and background as well as the role it played in the life and death of famed fashion designer Gianni Versace. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz invite you to check-in for a new series - Famous Hotels. They start with the iconic Beverly Hilton, the site of the Golden Globes, Whitney Houston's death, and several celebrity and political scandals. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Disappearances starting with a rant about women's rights literally disappearing before our eyes. Then, Cate reports on the mysterious, unsolved disappearance of three women, also known as the Indiana Dunes Mystery, and how an illegal abortion could be tied to their vanishing. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies continue their series on Famous Disappearances with Liz reporting on the unsolved mystery of the airline hijacker known as D.B. Cooper. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz kick off a new series on Famous Disappearances. They start with the a case that rocked the tabloid headlines. The disappearance of of Patrick McDermott, the on-again, off-again boyfriend of singer and actress Olivia Newton John and how he may or may not have faked his own death. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week the ladies wrap up their series on Famous Adventurers with Cate reporting on Stede Bonnet, the gentleman pirate and inspiration for the HBO show Our Flag Means Death. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz continue their series on Famous Adventurers with Nellie Bly. Learn how this bad ass women helped transform journalism and how she brought the Jules Verne classic Around the World in Eighty Days to life with her own famous trip. Connect with them on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
We're back! This week, Cate and Liz recount the bizarre tale of The Galapagos Affair. This true story is full of an eccentric cast of real life characters, disappearances, and possibly murder. It all goes down in he 1930s on the island of Floreana in the Galapagos archipelago. Connect with them on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, Cate and Liz wrap up their series on famous defamation lawsuits with updates from the trial that never ends, Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard and the Black Chyna's legal attempts to take down the Kardashians. The ladies are on a break until June. Connect with them on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies continue their series on Famous Lawsuits with Cate reporting on Black Chyna taking on The Kardahians. Was she able to get reality royalty to pay up in her defamation case? Listen for all the top moments from the trial. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
Cate and Liz keep things current with this new series as they cover two celebrity defamation cases. Liz kicks things off getting you up to speed on actor Johnny Depp's lawsuit against his ex-wife Amber Heard and all of the outrageous revelations so far. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
This week, the ladies round out their series on Famous Fairy Tales with a mash-up episode by Cate covering the terrifying tales of The Red Shoes and The Pied Piper of Hamelin. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
Your ears did not deceive you, Famous with Cate and Liz is back with new intro/outro music and another episode in their series on Famous Fairy Tales! This week, Liz dives deep into the origins, story, and symbolism of Little Red Riding Hood. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
Once upon a time Cate and Liz began a new series all about Famous Fairy Tales.... but we're not talking about the Disney versions! We're getting dark and what better place than one of the most terrifying fairy tales of them all Hansel and Gretel. Connect with Cate and Liz on Instagram at @famouscateandliz or drop them a line at famouscateandliz@gmail.com.
