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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: The Haunting of Henry VIII (ft Fetch the Smelling Salts)
Description: Hampton Court Palace, 1522. Henry VIII is still married to Catherine of Aragon, but Anne Boleyn has just returned from France and is about to catch the king's wandering eye. Kim and Alice from the Fetch the Smelling Salts podcast have been sent back to save his wives — armed with a battery-powered smoke machine, a Halloween makeup palette, and their Catholic background. They didn't do any research. But they did write roast jokes about Henry VIII, and in PastMaster that's arguably more useful.
The plan is beautifully unhinged: infiltrate the palace, gain Queen Catherine's trust, then scare the li...