HILF: History I'd Like to F**k

The day that will live in infamy, December 7th, 1941 - when the Japanese pulled a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But a few decades later, December 7th started to look up... at least to Dawn's mom. Hear the best stories surrounding Dawn's birthday, and birth year along with a live audience and self-proclaimed "horror nerd", Sam Hale.

She was one of America's first sex symbols and in 1927 she went on trial for being too sexy... Hear the whole story form Dawn's guest, playwright and Mae West expert, John Heimbuch.

Go up the annals of historic bad-ass, Lilith! For thousands of years she has epitomized the best and worst of what women are - and are perceived to be. Love her or hate her - you're going to ADORE Dawn's guests - two besties from Minneapolis visiting in January, 2026.

Whether you were a Philosophy major, or only know him as Bill and Ted’s buddy So-Crates - crawl up the toga of the Father of Philosophy with Dawn and guest, comedian, Nat Baimel.

Jaws taught us to fear the water, but history gave us the original lesson with the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. On the 50th anniversary of the movie, Dawn returns us to the doomed ship with guest, Mark Declarlo and a live audience. Get ready to take a bite out of history.

The Rosetta Stone is basically history’s greatest cheat code—a giant 2,200-year-old message that cracked the mystery of Egyptian hieroglyphics. Dawn takes you from it's carving over 2,000 years ago, to it's rediscovery by Napoleon, to the controversy that surrounds it to this day.

She was Russia’s last empress—a bad bitch so powerful that when she died of a stroke at 67, Europe collectively said, “No way that killed her” Instead, the rumor mill decided she must’ve been fucked to death by a horse. No shit. Dawn is joined by the actress and improviser, Kelly Vrooman in an episode fit for an Queen.

It's the tragic tale of The Black Dahlia (1947), among the longest unsolved murder cases in Los Angeles history. Hear the story and meet the suspects along with comedian, Kaycee Conlee.

Adam Smith invented Capitalism and Karl Marx invented Communism, two political and economic concepts which people have been fighting about for almost two centuries. Dawn goes to the horses mouths to find out what the 'daddies' of the movement had to say, and why they're both right... until they're not.

Get missionary with Dawn and her bestie, Ryan Ripple, as they walk the twisted path of the Church, writ large, in The United States. What’s the difference between the Quakers and the Shakers? Ever wondered what separates Methodists, from Presbyterians, from Baptists? Hear the history from Puritans to Joel Osteen's Megachurch... can I get an Amen?

Join Dawn and a LIVE audience at Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, California for HILF Public School! Comedian/historian Jason Horton gets a lesson on Alcatraz; and Radio/TV Personality Chuey Martinez jumps in for a KILLER HILF on Lizzie Borden.

The Manson Family, a group of hippies living communally outside of Los Angeles, committed a gruesome series of murders in the summer of 1969. The brutality of the crimes, the fame of the victims, and the oddity of the perpetrators touched all of media’s erogenous zones.