Bonus episode: 5K downloads!

Door Key has reached the milestone of five thousand downloads! This is a bonus episode to say thank you - going over some of my favorite moments throughout Door Key’s episodes.

Thank you so very much for listening to Door Key - here’s to the next five thousand downloads!

Here are links to each of the episodes that were mentioned in this episode:

Aaron Burr, after Alexander Hamilton: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/10857968

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/11095286

Julia Child:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/11278146

Edgar Alan Poe:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/11429727

Studio 54:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/12107927

John Adams:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/12569858

Oscar Wilde:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/13137213

Exploring the graffiti of Pompeii:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/13416320

Alice Roosevelt:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/13571298

The Salem Witch Trials:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/13696267

Amelia Earhart:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/14752939

Clara Bow:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/14845013

Rasputin:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/14899563

Sally Ride:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/15169364

Zheng Yi Sao:
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2008007/15422059

☕️ Production & marketing assistance: Coffeelike Media,
https://www.coffeelikemedia.com/

Transcript

Bonus episode: 5K downloads!

Hello everyone! 

It’s hard for me to believe, but Door Key has reached five thousand downloads! Can you believe that? Five thousand downloads! I’m so excited and grateful for this!

As my way of saying thank you to all of you for listening to Door Key, I thought it would be fun to do a short bonus episode where I’ve highlighted some of my favorite moments from different episodes of Door Key. The clips are in the order the episodes were released, and I think it’s really neat to go through these old episodes! Some moments are funny, some are heart-felt … all of them are dorky! Enjoy!

I’m going to talk about Aaron Burr, and what happened to him after his famous duel with Alexander Hamilton. Jumel, in what I consider to be a particularly savage move, even hired Alexander Hamilton Jr., Hamilton’s second-oldest son, to be her lawyer for her divorce with Burr. I can’t even imagine how awkward that whole trial must have been for everyone involved.

While waiting to be deployed to the Western front, F. Scott Fitzgerald was stationed in a training camp at Fort Leavenworth. While there, he was under the command of Captain Dwight Eisenhower (Spoiler for history: Eisenhower would later go on to be General of the Army, and then President of the US.) I’d love to be able to tell a heartwarming anecdote here, and say that Fitzgerald and Eisenhower wound up becoming great friends, but no. Fitzgerald apparently didn’t like Eisenhower at all. In fact, the phrase ‘Fitzgerald disliked him intensely’ was used. So there’s that.

But, as I started cooking, Julia Child became more to me than just ‘that nice lady who cooks on TV’. I’ve started really paying attention to Julia Child, and I think she’s a fantastic role model for women, in that by her getting into cooking, and writing that book and making her TV show, she forged her own path and made a space for herself where one didn’t exist. I also believe that if we all followed Julia’s example to do what we love, and take her advice and have more butter and more wine, that we’d all be much happier.

Edgar Allan Poe also inspired a love of all things dark and spooky in a certain girl who shall remain unnamed, who would smoke clove cigarettes and wore Doc Martins while reading his work in the 1990s.

Studio 54 … I mean, I’m not going to lie – if I could go spend time at a place where there was a chance that both Andy Warhol and Cher might just casually show up on the same night, I absolutely would – wouldn’t you?

I don’t think John Adams is nearly as appreciated as he should be. I know that Washington set a precedent by stepping down from his office after his second term, but I don’t think John gets enough credit for the precedent he set by just accepting defeat after he lost the election of 1800 and going home. I think both of these acts show great character, and by setting the tone they did, Washington and Adams showed us that Democracy can and does work. 

Oscar Wilde … On February 18, 1895, Queensberry left his calling card at Oscar's club … I know, and I’m sorry, but that’s what the card said. Although, I have to admit that I do get some petty satisfaction at how badly Queensberry misspelled that last word he wrote on the card.

I’m going to be talking about the city of Pompeii in Italy, which was buried by the eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE … Now let’s get to the part you’re really here for - the graffiti! Don’t forget – earmuffs from here on out if needed – it’s about to get spicy!

Alice Roosevelt … Once, a visitor to the White House made a comment on Alice's frequent interruptions to the president's office, often to offer political advice. After Alice interrupted their conversation for a third time, and Theodore had threatened to throw her quote ‘out the window’, the exhausted president commented to his friend, ‘I can either run the country or I can attend to Alice, but I cannot possibly do both.” I talk about Alice Roosevelt often, and I always tell this story when I do, because, and I say this with all affection, I think it perfectly illustrates what a handful Alice must have been if she exhausted the inexhaustible Theodore Roosevelt so much!

Because that’s the mood I’m bringing: in reality, it’s one million degrees outside, so I’m wearing shorts and a tank top, but in my heart I’m wearing that sweatshirt while snuggled up under a blanket with my cat on my lap, and I’m sipping a piping hot mug of apple cider.

So now that I’ve set the mood … let the 2023 Spooklacular begin!

Here’s a sidenote about Neta, who was an amazing woman in her own right: she was the first woman aviator in Iowa, the first woman student accepted at the Curtiss Flying School in Virginia, the first woman aviator to run her own aviation business, and first woman to run a commercial airfield, and her autobiography is called I Taught Amelia to Fly. Also, she was called ‘Snooky’ by her friends!

It's me. Hi, I’m the problem, it’s me.

Later, one of Alexi’s doctors would say ‘Rasputin would come in, walk up to the patient, look at him, and spit. The bleeding would stop in no time.... How could the empress not trust Rasputin after that?’ I mean … that’s really gross, but when you put it like that, how can you argue, right?

Sally Ride … On her two flights Sally had spent over 343 hours in space. During this mission, Sally carried a white silk scarf that had been worn by Amelia Earhart. I love this fact so much! My heart!

Zheng Yi Sao … She was in such control that the Chinese government was like ‘ok, Zheng Yi Sao. We’ll let you off without any consequences for what you’ve done, just please stop attacking us!’.

And there you have it … some of my personal favorite moments from Door Key so far. I hope you had just as much fun listening to these old moments as I had making them. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for listening! And I can’t wait to see what fun, dorky moments the next five thousand downloads are going to bring!