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This, Again
by Mallory Faust
History doesn’t just echo — it screams. ”This, Again” is a podcast about the disasters, delusions, downfalls, and bizarre evolutions that prove humans don’t really change…we just change outfits.I’m Mallory Faust, and in every episode, I dig into the psychology behind the moments when people got it wrong — from witch trials to cult devotion, space shuttles to parties gone fatally wrong. Why do we keep falling for the same tricks, ignoring the same warnings, repeating the same mistakes? You may think you know these stories, but not like this.New episodes drop every other Thursday. Subscribe now so you don’t miss the first release — because if history has taught us anything, it’s that we’re doomed to repeat it.
Episodes
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Untangling Historical Rumors Pt. 1 | Catherine the Great
Did Catherine the Great really die having sex with a horse? No. But the stranger question is: where did that story come from and why did anyone believe it? In the first installment of a new series on Historical Rumors, we’re going back to eighteenth-century Russia to look at the woman behind one…
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The Dark Patterns in Child Institutions | Foundling Schools, The Dozier School for Boys, and Modern Echoes
For more than six hundred years, societies have created institutions designed to rescue, protect, discipline, and reform children. Foundling hospitals took in abandoned infants. Houses of refuge promised to save children from crime and poverty. Reform schools claimed they could turn troubled boys...
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Elvis Presley, Jackie Robinson & Mary Tyler Moore | What Makes a Cultural Catalyst?
Today, Elvis Presley is the King of Rock and Roll. Jackie Robinson has an entire day dedicated to him across Major League Baseball. Mary Tyler Moore is remembered as one of the most influential women in television history. But before they became icons, they became arguments. In this episode, we...
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Pulling Back the Curtain: The American Revolution
In this episode of This, Again, we pull back the curtain on the hidden infrastructure that made American independence possible. From communication networks and local committees to supply chains, intelligence operations, diplomacy, and the ordinary people whose names rarely appear in history…
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Who Gets to be Believed? The Navy Surgeon Who Wasn't, The Forgotten Fossil Hunter, and The Man Who Discovered Hand-Washing
Who gets to be believed? A fake doctor performs surgery without a medical degree. A fossil hunter makes discoveries that reshape science but struggles to be taken seriously. A physician uncovers a lifesaving medical practice, only to be ignored by much of the medical establishment. This week, we...
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Assassinations and Accessibility: Mckinley, JFK, Reagan, & Shinzo Abe
After every assassination, the same questions seem to follow. How did this happen? Why wasn't it prevented? What warning signs did people miss? From William McKinley in 1901 to John F. Kennedy in 1963, Ronald Reagan in 1981, and Shinzo Abe in 2022, each attack exposed vulnerabilities that…
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Pocahontas, Galileo, and Isaac Newton: Why We Change the Stories (1600s)
This week on This, Again, we look at three figures from the 1600s whose stories became cleaner, simpler, and easier to pass down over time: Galileo Galilei Pocahontas Isaac Newton Galileo becomes the ultimate symbol of science versus religion, even though the reality was tangled up in politics,...
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Going Undercover: The People Who Entered and Exposed the Psychiatric System
What would it take to be labeled insane? In 1887, Nellie Bly checked herself into a New York asylum to find out. She got in with surprising ease. Getting out was something else entirely. Nearly a century later, David Rosenhan ran an experiment to see if anything had changed. Healthy people walked...
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Mass Hysteria Through History: Laughter Epidemic, Dancing Plague, and Tik Tok Tics
In 1962, a group of schoolgirls in Tanganyika began laughing and could not stop. The episode spread to multiple schools, eventually forcing closures and affecting hundreds of students. More than four centuries earlier, in 1518, residents of Strasbourg took to the streets and danced for days at a...
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Anne Boleyn, Robert Oppenheimer, and the Price of Proximity to Power
In May 1536, Anne Boleyn was still Queen of England. Seventeen days later, she was executed. This episode looks at how that kind of collapse is even possible. Anne’s rise wasn’t just personal. Her marriage to Henry VIII forced England to break with the Catholic Church, reshaped the law, and...
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Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 2 (The Digital Era)
In the second episode of this two-part series on cults, we look at what happens when cult psychology collides with the digital world. The online relationship movement known as Twin Flames Universe promised followers that a single destined partner existed for each person and that spiritual…
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Inside the Minds of Cult Leaders and Followers: Pt. 1 (1960s-1990s)
In this episode of This, Again, we trace the evolution of cults from the obvious monsters of the 1960s and 70s, the Manson Family, Jonestown, and Heaven’s Gate, to the respectable reinventions of the 1980s and 90s like NXIVM, Scientology, and multi-level marketing empires. What do these groups...
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The Radium Cover-up and Dangers of Institutional Delay
In the early 20th century, hundreds of women were employed to paint luminous watch dials using radium-based paint. Despite early warnings from medical experts, companies continued to insist the work was safe. This episode examines the history of the Radium Girls, focusing on what corporate…
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Reconciling Rebellions: The Boston Tea Party vs. The Whiskey Rebellion
How do you justify rebellion when you are fighting for freedom, and then justify suppressing it once freedom is yours? In this episode of This, Again, we rewind to the years immediately after American independence, when the Founding Fathers were forced to confront a problem they had not fully...
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Why We Change the Stories: Columbus and Late Medieval Europe (1400-1500)
In this episode of This, Again, we look at three familiar figures from late medieval and early modern Europe and ask a different kind of historical question. Not whether they were heroes or villains. But how their stories came to be told the way they were. We start with Christopher Columbus…
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The Anatomy of a Coup: Chile 1973 and Modern Echoes
Coups are often remembered as sudden explosions of force. Tanks in the streets. Jets overhead. Governments collapsing overnight. But history tells a quieter, more unsettling story. In this episode of This, Again, we trace the hidden psychological pattern that links coups across centuries and...
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The Child Star Problem, Pt. 2: From Pop Stardom to Vlogging and the Collapse of Privacy
The lights got brighter. The cameras got closer. But the system never changed. In Part 2, we pick up where we left off and trace the next wave of child stardom, from the 1980s to today. We revisit the sitcom era that gave us tragic headlines, the pop machine that chewed up teen girls for profit,...
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The Child Star Problem, Pt. 1: A Hidden History of Control, Contracts, and Exploitation
Hollywood has been cashing in on cute kids for over a century, and the kids usually pay the price. In Part 1 of The Child Star Problem, we trace the origins of child exploitation in the entertainment industry, starting even before Hollywood with vaudeville stages, traveling acts, and silent…
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The Luddites, AI, and The Power of Narrative Control
What do 19th century weavers and 21st century tech workers have in common? More than you might think. In this episode, we unpack the real story behind the Luddites, skilled artisans who weren’t afraid of machines but deeply aware of how those machines were being used to undercut their labor and...
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Historical Heists: The Star of the South, Mona Lisa, and French Crown Jewels
In 1949, the royal vaults of Baroda were supposed to be sealed, transferred to the new Indian state as part of a complex and delicate independence process. But when an audit revealed that hundreds of crown jewels had vanished, suspicion fell on one woman: the Maharani of Baroda, Sita Devi. A…
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When Leaders Vanish in a Crisis: Marie Antoinette, Nicholas II & Queen Elizabeth II
When the world is burning, the most powerful people often have one job: show up. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it’s too little, too late. And sometimes, they don’t bother at all. In this episode of This, Again, we’re looking at three centuries of leaders who vanished when their people needed them...
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Parties That Killed People: Cocoanut Grove 1942 & The Astroworld Festival
A luxurious nightclub filled with palm fronds and politicians. A festival stage surrounded by screams. In this episode, we revisit two events separated by 80 years - but united by a chilling truth: when crowds gather, things can turn deadly fast. We start with the Cocoanut Grove fire of 1942, a...
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Challenger & Titan Disasters: Why We Ignore Warnings
On January 28, 1986, millions watched as the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off with a teacher on board - only to explode 73 seconds later. Thirty-seven years later, five passengers dove toward the Titanic wreck in OceanGate’s Titan submersible - never to return. What connects these two…
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Salem Witch Trials, The Central Park Five, and Cognitive Bias
We all know the story of Salem: young girls pointing fingers, women dragged to the gallows, and a community unraveling. But the real terror? It wasn’t the witches. It was the certainty. In this episode of This, Again?, we dig into the Salem witch trials, not just what happened, but why it…
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Introducing: This, Again
History doesn’t just echo — it screams. This, Again is a podcast about the disasters, delusions, downfalls, and bizarre evolutions that prove humans don’t really change…we just change outfits. I’m Mallory Faust, and in every episode, I dig into the psychology behind the moments when people got it...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
History doesn’t just echo — it screams. ”This, Again” is a podcast about the disasters, delusions, downfalls, and bizarre evolutions that prove humans don’t really change…we just change outfits.I’m Mallory Faust, and in every episode, I dig into the psychology behind the moments when people got it wrong — from witch trials to cult devotion, space shuttles to parties gone fatally wrong. Why do we keep falling for the same tricks, ignoring the same warnings, repeating the same mistakes? You may think you know these stories, but not like this.New episodes drop every other Thursday. Subscribe now so you don’t miss the first release — because if history has taught us anything, it’s that we’re doomed to repeat it.
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History doesn’t just echo — it screams. ”This, Again” is a podcast about the disasters, delusions, downfalls, and bizarre evolutions that prove humans don’t really change…we just change outfits.I’m Mallory Faust, and in every episode, I dig into the psychology behind the moments when people got it...
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