Dark History: Cleopatra, Catherine, Jackie, And Yoko: Their True Stories

[Music] hi friends i hope you're having a wonderful day today my name is bailey saryan and i'd like to welcome you to the library of dark history welcome back how are you if you don't know this is a safe space for all the curious cats out there who think hey is history really as boring as it seemed in school oh nay this is where we can learn together about all the dark mysterious dramatic stories that maybe you didn't learn about in school because neither did i okay so i was listening to janet jackson this weekend and started thinking about that whole super bowl scandal do you remember that scandalous janet was a headliner and she invited justin timberlake to join as a surprise guest and they were getting to the big finale performing justin's song rock your body do you remember that song you remember i know you know so anyways they get to the end and they sing the lyric have you naked by the end of this song okay and right at that moment justin reaches over janet's costume and he rips off a piece of her costume exposing her right breast on live television babe nibblegate it was wild the federal communications commission the fcc oh they were [ __ ] pissed it's also apparently not okay with football fans either because the nfl received over 540 000 complaints it was so stupid for weeks after the super bowl there was this whole debate over the sun-shaped nipple shield that was over her nipple red bras and wardrobe malfunctions quote unquote the main question was who's at fault for this whose fault was it well according to everybody it was janet jackson's fault she received a ton of backlash sometimes even bordering on harassment she had to go on like an apology tour it was ridiculous all because she had a titty she didn't rip off the costume she didn't do that who did that justin did that she didn't do that okay she was even uninvited to present at the grammys and pressured to not attend at all media outlets across the country stopped playing her music it had a massive effect on janet's career that she still even deals with to this day and you're probably wondering well what happened to justin absolutely nothing he went on to win awards he um has a he had a film career and he was even invited back to perform at the super bowl halftime show justin later said he quote probably got 10 of the blame and that that says something about society i think that america's harsher on women end quote um you think justin you know what you think yeah who took off the thing it was justin's fault your [ __ ] so this got me thinking women always seem to get the [ __ ] end of the stick don't they i mean people really love to warp and control how women's stories are told i mean with janet the story should have been something like justin rips off janet's clothes you know and justin gets cancelled but instead it was janet exposes herself to the masses or maybe even um two performers just made a bad creative call regarding a costume stun but that's not how it went obviously the story was completely led to paint janet as this terrible villain with a titty and stories being controlled to downplay women is a very common pattern throughout history i could go on and on for hundreds of years and we would still never cover all the women in history who have gotten screwed over misremembered or completely forgotten so today we're going to take a baby step to try to quite literally set the record straight by calling out the bias about four amazing women so let me grab my little dark history book and open up to that chapter our first woman is someone maybe you've heard of yep and even if you don't know her you've definitely heard her name oh that's miss cleopatra that's right we're going all the way back to ancient egypt so let's start in egypt in 69 bc with the birth of pharaoh cleopatra we're not too sure who her mom was but her dad was the king um he ended up dying in the year 51 bc which left the kingdom to the 18 year old cleopatra and her 10 year old brother ptolemy the 13th cleo and ptolemy the 13th were co-leaders now and because of the rules at the time they got married hot it's what people back then did to keep power and control in the family i mean cleo kind of thought she would run the place because you know her brother was only 10 but ptolemy the 13th advisors weren't having any of that and in the year 49 bc cleopatra was banished right off the bat they were like nope we're not sharing this with a lady a man needs to be in charge but although she was banished cleopatra was still technically co-ruler and she wasn't ready to give up that power but first she needed an army okay now at this time there was a powerful roman general who had a badass army and his name was julius caesar yeah that julius caesar like the salad he was aware that cleo and her brother were planning and starting a war over their throne and he didn't think it was in his best interest for there to be a war in egypt so he went to telomere the 13th palace to try to negotiate a peace treaty cleopatra had heard that caesar was going to be in egypt and also that he had one hell of an army right an army that could definitely help her take the throne so she hatched a plan now remember cleopatra was a fugitive in the desert she banished and she couldn't just like roll back into town so she had her servant wrap her up in a carpet and then send the carpet to caesar as a gift what an entrance because when caesar rolled rolled open that carpet cleopatra emerged dressed in her full royal garb that's pretty iconic she laid out her plans for egypt and convinced caesar to throw his support behind her so cleopatra and julius and their huge ass army successfully defeated ptolemy the 13th yeah [ __ ] that 10 year old cleopatra had her kingdom back hooray yeah during all this julius and cleopatra they they like kind of hit it off i mean she was an intelligent multilingual beautiful queen and he was a badass military general so it's kind of pretty easy to see why maybe they'd fall for each other super romantic and in the year 47 bc cleo gave birth to a son his name was little caesar no seriously his name was um cesarian which translates into little caesar and that's how we got the wonderful pizza chain thank you little caesar so cleopatra had successfully led a rebellion took back her throne strengthened the relationship between rome and egypt and also had time to have a kid in between all of that but instead of talking about any of cleopatra's accomplishments the talk of the town was that cleopatra was a harlot and accused her of using witchcraft and as things shifted in cleopatra's life the stories only grew and grew so julius caesar gets assassinated in 44 bc he literally got stabbed in the back by all of his senate repeatedly but there were two of his friends that weren't a part of the stabbing mark anthony and octavian mark what mark anthony this is funny you know mark anthony the one that was with j.lo yeah wintertime yeah mark was very suspicious of caesar's death and he wanted to get to the bottom of it so mark calls up cleopatra saying he wants a meeting to see if she had anything to do with caesar's death it makes sense i mean she was the mother of caesar's child and very close to him and if there's anything we learned in murder mystery makeup it's that you always have to look at the spouse you know plus there are a lot of stories floating around about her so they end up meeting now they didn't get to the bottom of caesar's death but mark did pledge his undying support for cleopatra i mean i get it she's an incredible ruler smart and beautiful mark he left his wife and kids behind and followed cleopatra back to egypt and then in 40 bc cleopatra gave birth to their twins then she had another child in 36 bc oh my god that's so funny i didn't even see that i just looked at joan jones got a little cute little thing going on you can't really see but if you squint you can see joan you look cute girl okay during this time egypt continued to grow wealthier and cleopatra expanded egypt's territory because honestly she's incredible she's in charge she's making moves but no one cared about that they cared about her love life they're like first caesar now she's like with this guy mark anthony like what kind of witchcraft is she using there's being [ __ ] and in 34 bc it really ramped up mark decided to make cleopatra's son little caesar heir to the roman throne instead of his roman son the people of rome oh they were a little upset to say the least and they thought mark was giving away the kingdom i mean not a far jump to assume many were whispering that cleopatra maybe had her hand in this they're like oh that [ __ ] she's doing this so since mark could no longer be trusted they took away his throne and gave it to mark's best friend octavian once in the throne octavian declared war on cleopatra he'd heard the stories and he wasn't falling for them okay he didn't even give her a chance to defend herself or even get to know her and like i don't know see how capable of a leader maybe she was she was making good moves but nope he went straight to war cleopatra and her navy put up a good fight but octavian's forces were closing in and she knew she didn't have a great shot at winning so cleopatra and her 60 ships broke off from the battle and fled to safety but that wasn't enough for octavian he wanted more as these men in charge always do he wanted to get the quote quote witch who tricked his friends so he tracked her down and on september 2nd 31 bc octavian defeated cleopatra and what was mark doing during all this well he wasn't out fighting with cleo and he had heard a rumor that cleel was so heartbroken she committed suicide so he offed himself very romeo and juliet unfortunately for mark he died right before finding out that cleo suicide was a rumor very romeo and juliet of them right even though this was way before romeo and juliet anyways cleopatra did die the following year in 31 bc she was only 39 years old and nobody actually knows her cause of death but many historians like to say she killed herself using a poisonous snake what a way to go i mean i guess she was so upset about the breakup he killed himself poisoned a snake true story or just another way to center her story around her love life that's your call cleopatra ruled egypt for almost three decades and by all accounts was a very successful and well-liked ruler when cleopatra took over egypt was facing floods and famine the economy was not in a good place at all and she came in and turned all of that around she created an army and fought back insurrections she was an incredibly skilled diplomat as well as a skilled military strategist i mean she spoke around 12 languages 12. but despite all of these accomplishments and all the great that she did cleopatra is best known for her love triangle with julius caesar and mark anthony history books depict cleopatra as deceptive and insatiable a quote supposed exotic beauty end quote whose quote powers of seduction earned her an enduring place in history and popular myth end quote can you imagine george washington being described like that no you can't because it wouldn't happen okay cleo batcher should be remembered as a great leader who did a better job of keeping her kingdom safe than most kings at the time but her story has been rewritten to undermine her accomplishments because it seems like i don't know a smart powerful woman wasn't what history was ready for in 30 bc and it turns out history wasn't ready for it by the time 1729 rolled around either let's pause for an ad break really quick [Music] paying down debt can be so overwhelming i mean i've been there before and it could be extremely stressful especially when you need to keep track of multiple monthly payment dates right i mean if you're tired of juggling due dates consolidating with a personal loan could be your answer that way you'll have just one due date a month and credit 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me joan is a bird if you didn't know it's joan crowford but right now she's got a wig on she's looking real cute joan girl you're rocking it um the reason she has a wig is because our next story it fits you'll get it pop quiz which world leader came to power in a coup fought off numerous uprisings expanded russia's territory by over 200 000 square miles and successfully led russia against the ottoman empire [Music] need a hint well this leader also reorganized 29 provinces built over a hundred towns and reformed russia's legal education and arts system all this while making russia dominant in southeastern europe did you guess it well the answer is catherine the great you see but look unfortunately these amazing accomplishments aren't what she's known for nae nae because the thing that history remembers catherine for was her sex life yep here we go again so let's get to know catherine a little bit catherine the great was born sophie frederick a goose that's fun a goose a goose on may 2nd 1729 in prussia which is modern day poland so technically catherine is known by her birth name of sophie until she moves to russia but to avoid confusion i'm just going to call her catherine from the get-go so catherine had a pretty typical life as far as being a princess goes and in 1744 her mother took her to russia to find a husband catherine adored russia and worked hard to learn the language during her time in russia she caught the attention of the empress of russia who happened to have a son ripe hot and ready for marriage so it wasn't long before catherine was engaged to peter iii the heir to the russian empire catherine and peter married on august 21 1745. it was an arranged marriage and it was not a successful one it was well known that peter had many mistresses so catherine took lovers of her own when catherine gave birth to her first child paul it was no surprise that people wondered who the father really was if people found out that the father wasn't peter girl catherine would have been arrested exiled or murdered off with her head bye okay which is obviously a double standard since everyone knew that peter had mistresses we can't do anything so even though catherine was a huge reader and a scholar during this time history tends to depict catherine as little more than a baby-making machine but on december 25th 1761 things really took a turn peter's mother the empress she she died r.i.p so being next in line peter took over russia by this point peter was being openly nasty to catherine and wanted to get rid of her so he can rule with his mistress i mean he was just he was just a fallen [ __ ] and peter was just as good at ruling russia as he was at being a husband aka he was [ __ ] okay and this gave catherine the idea that maybe she could do this whole like ruling russia thing way better than peter could so catherine coordinated a coup and on july 9 1762 catherine became empress of russia just six months after peter took the throne she got in there and she got him out quick when people talk about catherine's coup they talk about how her lover helped her and this yes okay look yes this is true but catherine was the one leading it all she was the brains okay it was her idea she had public opinion the court and an entire army on her side peter was arrested and he surrendered control but just eight days after his overthrow peter died i was just meant to be now the cause of his death is debated i mean most likely peter died of a stroke but there were some people who spread the rumor that he was murdered by catherine's followers because it sounds better i guess some people were even saying that catherine was the one who ordered the hit there really wasn't any evidence to support that but it didn't stop people from spreading this juicy ass rumor instead of being seen as a resourceful leader who stood up for people she's depicted as lustful and power hungry and maybe she was a little we don't know but the point is if catherine had been a guy these same qualities would have been celebrated we wouldn't even have be having this conversation about a hit no one would care they'd be like wow this person is amazing but not for catherine the rumors about her and particularly her sex life just kept rolling in let's pause for an ad break really quick [Music] you guys know i love the break-in protection that my simply safe home security system gives me but it's not always outside forces that you need simply safe's protection from meet amy a simply safe customer and a chronic sleepwalker who lives near a four-lane highway one night a few months ago she slept walked out of her bedroom and then continued right out the front door now that is a very dangerous situation she could have been heading for a big accident luckily as she walked out of her house the simply safe entry sensor on her front door triggered the 95 db siren in the base station now that is loud loud enough in fact to wake her up before she wandered into the 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simplisafe.com dark history go today and claim a free indoor security camera plus twenty percent off with interactive monitoring go to simplysafe.com dark history the most well-known rumor about her was that catherine the great had sex with a horse now spoiler alert catherine the great never had sex with a horse i mean maybe the guy looked like a horse we don't know she also didn't die trying to have sex with one so get that out of your minds which yes that was another rumor going around but all people talked about was the fact that perhaps catherine did maybe indeed do that okay there was a rumor that catherine's lover had a really big wee-wee okay and that she had cast his big old dick in porcelain to keep her company while he's he was away that's not true but even if it was like just let her have her moment okay but what i'm getting at is there are lots of rumors like this she was the revolutionary ruler of russia isn't that what people should be talking about and here's where the double standard comes back in catherine a woman and an excellent leader and a lady whose lover has a big old egg okay being open about her sex life we couldn't have that we could not have that nae nae these rumors would follow catherine even after she died of a stroke when she was 67 years old but if you ask the gossipers and the haters how she died they would tell you that it was because her life was one big sex party that ended with a horse falling on her honestly why is that so bad what's so wrong about that catherine's reign was a gold age for russia during her early years on the throne a lot of her focus was on public health and social issues she literally saved millions of russian lives from smallpox at a time when most nobility just turned their heads catherine believed in science so much she even inoculated herself and her son against the disease i mean she was also responsible for revolutionizing the education system on top of all of this catherine found the time to be a well-versed politician and diplomat and negotiated a strategic defense alliance between russia and prussia she is also responsible for creating poland's borders plus numerous other treaties signed and battles fought and won i mean catherine over here was doing the most okay it wouldn't be an overstatement to say catherine modernized russia so the name catherine the great makes a whole lot of sense catherine is often called russia's longest-ruling female leader i mean she ran russia for over 34 years and this places her fourth on the list of russia's all-time longest rulers not just women and even though she pretty much had too many accomplishments to count what is she remembered for the most a rumor about a horse the point is this shaming of women isn't only done while they're alive it's part of how their stories are told cleopatra and catherine the great were fierce women and incredible rulers so people wanted to put them in their place so they controlled their narrative but it isn't just kick-ass pharaohs and empresses who suffered this fate rewriting women's history is more current and even made its way to america's past time baseball so let me tell you about the woman you may have never heard of who struck out babe ruth and you're probably thinking at home like what are you talking about bailey no woman ever struck out babe ruth well buckle in kitty cats okay because that's the point i'm trying to make here but first let's pause for an ad break there's nothing quite like the feeling of gathering around a warm fire on a cool evening like gathering around a cozy fire making s'mores spending quality time with family and friends i mean come on it's the best and a smokeless fire pit from solo stove makes your outdoor movements even more memorable i know because instead of having to constantly dodge campfire fumes you can sit back relax and actually enjoy the fire and right now you can get a great deal on a solo stove fire pit the smokeless design of solo stove is so 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of her so for our next story we get to go to tennessee in the 1900s where vern mitchell was born on august 29 1913. her family called her jackie so that's what we're going to call her too as soon as jackie could walk she was interested in sports jackie's dad started taking her to the ballpark but jackie didn't just want to watch okay she wanted to be involved she wanted to play baseball basketball football it didn't matter jackie wanted to do it i mean she loved sports but baseball was mainly her jam the family moved to chattanooga when jackie was still very very young right up the street from baseball hall of famer dazzy vance now dazzy if you don't know was a strikeout king in the 1920s and he taught jackie how to throw a perfect drop ball a drop ball is a pitch that drops really quickly as it gets to the plate today it's called a sinker i guess yeah anyway jackie learned to throw the perfect drop ball and this would have a huge effect on her life jackie joined a local minor league team and her crazy pitching skills got her lots of attention i mean this led jackie being drafted by the chattanooga lookouts which is an all-male minor league team and she was only just 17 years old now this made headlines okay the new york daily news even featured a picture of jackie with her dad as she signed the contract but the chattanooga daily times cared less about jackie's amazing baseball skills and more about if she could flip a pancake or sweep a broom basically they didn't care if she could play ball they just cared if she could cook and clean truly unfortunate jackie signing on to all guys team i mean that was that was huge i mean back then women could join semi-pro leagues so professional games with both women and men happened but a woman joining an all guys team was extremely rare joe engel the president of the lookouts was hoping to cash in on that joe was a showman in fact his nickname was baron of bologna that's cute so back when joe was buying the lookouts joe had to promise to build a new stadium and he went all out okay the stadium was one of the best in the minor leagues at the time it was finished in october of 1929 just in time for the great depression so joe needed to find a way to make money and he saw that in jackie mitchell one of the only professional female pitchers at the time in 1931 joe booked two exhibition games with none other than the new york yankees exhibition games were a big thing at the time they didn't count towards the regular season or anything but they were a money maker okay so he signed jackie a week before the yankees came to town and timed it perfectly for lots of media attention but remember the press kind of mocked jackie they talked about her curves and said that she quote swings a mean lipstick she even had to pose for cameras while powdering her nose she's always focusing on her appearance and downplaying her skill but on game day oh jackie showed up okay and her skill was impossible to ignore you go jackie a crowd of four thousand people show up for the very first game the lookout's starting pitcher allows the first two batters to get on base and the lookouts manager quickly pulls him from the game and who does he send in jackie mitchell so jackie gets on the pitcher's mount it's the top of the first two guys on base nobody out the shy jackie mitchell is feeling a little terrified because she's not just pitching to anyone her first batter is none other than mr babe ruth all baseball's all-time greatest slugger and after babe ruth the rest of an all-star lineup was waiting they literally called these guys murderers row now babe had this huge cocky grin on his face when he approached the plate i mean as he should jackie was a little nervous and her first pitch was a ball but the second one strike the one after that strike two the smile faded from babe's face and he asked the umpire to inspect the ball he's like there's something up with this [ __ ] but there was nothing wrong with the ball jackie mitchell was just an amazing pitcher and she was one strike away from striking out babe ruth her fourth pitch nipped the outside corner and strike three he's out babe threw his back down and disgust okay like he's angry and he stomped off to the dugout he literally threw a tantrum and jackie oh she played it cool she dusted herself off she's like yep i did that [ __ ] and the next guy up lou gehrig lou who was tied with babe for the most home runs in the lead but that didn't matter three pitches from jackie three strikes oh that's right jackie mitchell struck out two of baseball's all-time greatest players back to back which is seven pitches oh the crowd went wild jackie walked the next guy and the lookouts manager took her out of the game which seems a little unfair because the the first pitcher got two players on base before he was pulled the yankees did end up winning the game 14-4 but history was made everyone saw how amazing jackie mitchell was and there was no way to deny it or was there why are we here so we know that before the game the press was ignoring jackie's skill so it's probably not a surprise to hear that they kept that up post-game as well they reported that babe and lou weren't really trying when they were at bat they were just like there for fun the new york times said babe quote performed his role ably end quote huh nothing about how excellent jackie was as if the only explanation was that the men were having an off day which we know wasn't the case i mean side note jackie admitted later that the entire time she was on the mound her arm was really achy so not only did she strike these men out she did it when she wasn't even operating at a hundred percent some people even said that jackie striking out murderers row was a hoax but there wasn't any evidence to support that yankees pitcher lefty gomez said that there was no way their manager would tell his players to intentionally strike out okay babe and lou never claimed it was a stunt either but babe did say women quote will never make good end quote and baseball because they're delicate and quote it would kill them to play ball every day end quote i mean yeah sure maybe to some of us but really okay i'm sorry but who was the one who threw a tantrum when he struck out are we surprised but unfortunately it seemed like the baseball commissioner had the same stance on jackie as the press he ended jackie's contract because baseball was too strenuous for women thanks for looking out for us we are just so delicate it's kind of funny that we could push babies out of our vagina but baseball is too hard ain't that some [ __ ] the president of the minor leagues called jackie quote a female mound artist and said that her appearance in the lookouts yankee game was quote burlesque baseball yeah whatever the [ __ ] that means so jackie was essentially banned from major league baseball all because she was just too good at her job but no one wanted to report it jackie we see you jackie we see you sorry it took me a while though i see you now jackie mitchell passed away at the age of 73 on january 7th 1987. in an interview before her death jackie was asked if babe and lou were really trying when she pitched to them or like was it a hoax jackie basically said like hell yeah they were trying but many people still don't believe jackie a baseball hall of fame research director thinks jackie was telling the truth his theory is that lou and babe were embarrassed about getting struck out by a teenage girl which we can understand that but doesn't mean we gotta lie right so the idea that it was a stunt was invented to protect their egos other historians i mean agree they say babe was a showman but lou definitely was not so it would have been very out of character for him to be part of something like that jackie's career and promise were destroyed by the press bias and what seems to be the desire to protect the image of a couple of male baseball stars we gotta make the men comfortable time and time again throughout history women's stories are sacrificed and rewritten for what male egos i mean come on that seems a little extreme you guys come on isn't anything honest jackie's story is part of the trend we see throughout history it doesn't matter if you're a russian empress an egyptian pharaoh or a record-setting baseball player when women's stories are retold they tend to be warped to fit a stereotype that makes society comfortable makes men comfortable [ __ ] and there's another woman who really got smacked down when she didn't want to conform to society's expectations and her name yoko ono oh we're gonna take a little ad break though hold on every once in a while the process of making a homemade meal can just sound like a lot you know especially when you're just having like a really busy day work social life uh you're supposed to like work out i don't know taking care of things around the house making a meal can be the last thing you want to do okay 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hellofresh.com dark history 16 and use code dark history 16 for up to 16 free meals and 3 free gifts yeah they're just making it rain free stuff we love free if it's free it's me baby and we're back oh joan i see you changed again girl who are you supposed to be oh okay sure i thought you were yoko ono oh you are okay yoko ono ever heard of her well i'm sure maybe you have but what do you actually know about her well let's get into it shall we yoko ono was born on february 18 1933 her name means ocean child in english oh that's beautiful i didn't know that she was born in tokyo japan and the oldest child of three both of her parents were aspiring artists and they really wanted yoko to be a great musician so when yoko was four her dad sent her to uh music school where she quickly learned how to play a bunch of instruments including like the piano and around this time yoko started to paint and she got like pretty good at that too like she was just a natural talented artist and whenever she focused on art i mean life was good she was good at it unfortunately yoko's relationship with her mother not really that great yoko's mom would constantly remind her that she was handsome but not pretty and later on she would tell yoko to never get married and never have children why because having children was one of yoko's mom's biggest regrets like thanks mom so yoko had a lonely childhood and things weren't the greatest when it came to the family relationship then they got a whole lot worse when the united states bombed tokyo during world war ii today it's known as the great firebombing of 1945. 500 pound napalm bombs were dropped all over tokyo killing about 100 000 people yoko's entire world was literally on fire many of the survivors were rounded up and put into prisoner of war camps including yogo's father for over a year yoko and her mom traveled the countryside looking for shelter and food the whole time yoko thought her father was dead eventually order was restored in japan and yoko's dad was released from the prison camp but i mean this was like a really intense thing for a 13 year old girl to go through i mean for anybody but when he was 13 like that's tragic when yoko turned 18 her whole family moved to scarsdale new york and she was quickly accepted into sarah lawrence college right away she felt like she finally found her place everyone she met was into radical politics art or poetry one of these people she met was a man named anthony cox now anthony was a pretty successful jazz musician who was instantly attracted to yoko now they started collaborating and he even financed some of yoko's very first art exhibits in the early 1960s during this time yoko really had her big break in the new york art scene her and anthony had been secretly dating for a while and decided to tie the knot to get married you know unfortunately as soon as they got married everything i guess just fizzled but they didn't want to mess up their careers so they hung in there right right maybe it'll get better and in 1963 yoko and anthony had a daughter named kiyoko but then they i guess divorced immediately yoko continued to make a name for herself in new york art world one of her most famous works was something called the cut piece which she staged in 1964. members of the audience were told to cut off pieces of yoko's clothing until she was completely naked and she said this was a statement on shedding materialism at another exhibit set up in tokyo she screened a movie with the actors rock hudson and doris day and told the audience do not look at rock hudson look only at door door stay don't look at the man only look at the woman yoko's career was like really flourishing and on november 9th 1966 yoko was setting up an art exhibit in london when a young british lad walked in he was absolutely floored by yoko's work especially this one piece the piece was called hammer and nail it was a blank wall next to a table with a hammer and if you asked yoko would let you hammer a nail into the wall wow this dude was like what she was like mine was blown as a hammer into the wall what this dude he just loved it so he asked yoko if he could hammer in the very first nail and she said no because the exhibit technically wasn't even open yet the owner of the gallery overheard this exchange and quickly pulled yoko aside and she was like do you know who that guy is yoko was like idk i don't know who's i don't know who is he and the gallery owner was like that man is john lennon you know of the beatles now yoko wasn't fazed at all she's like that's cute okay so yoko goes back to john and says quote you can hammer a nail for five shillings chappie and john laughs and tells her he doesn't have five shillings so she says well i don't have any nails john makes her a deal if i hand you an imaginary five shillings will you hand me an imaginary nail and yoga agrees and then two became friends first and then secret lovers eventually john divorced his wife and married yoko on march 20th 1969 after the wedding yoko ono became famous overnight for yoko this was a blessing and a curse let's start with the good stuff yoko and john were able to work non-stop on whatever art film or musical project they wanted i mean they became infamous as a couple for something they called a bed in which was held in an amsterdam hotel room during their honeymoon in 1969. they literally just sat in bed all day for like two weeks and invited the press i call that wednesday night you know what i'm saying it was a protest against wars and they called it bed in for peace that's the best way to fight a war in bed that's kind of nice i like that after the wedding jon started taking yoko with him everywhere including the studio which she got a lot of [ __ ] for and then came the curse that would end up haunting yoko for the rest of her freaking life my god in 1970 the beatles broke up almost immediately the press blamed yoko my god it couldn't be that i don't know maybe the band members had begun to like maybe drift apart no it couldn't be that fame had maybe changed them no it couldn't be that i don't know maybe they were just ready to move on no it was definitely because of yoko and the worlds collectively agreed yoko broke up the beatles but the docu-series the beatles get back shows definitely that yoko did not cause the beatles breakup i mean tensions among the band mates in 1969 was thick and george wanted to break out on his own but at the time the press and public did not care about the facts they wanted a villain they needed a villain and yoko unfortunately was it magazine after magazine started writing about what an ugly woman yoga was and how john lennon could do better no seriously press all over the world were absolutely bashing her no one cared that she was i don't know very successful and talented artist in her own right not only was the whole world against yoko her old friends in the art scene turned their backs on her too saying she was too mainstream and to make it even worse her ex-husband his name was anthony had disappeared with their daughter yeah kiyoko and i guess he ended up joining a cult no [ __ ] what a wild story yoko wrote them letters she called she even recorded a song called don't worry kyoko as like a way to reach out to her child but no matter what yoko did she could not contact her daughter so no one was listening to yoko she was once again all alone poor thing and this was way too much for her to handle so in the early 70s john offered to stop playing music for a while to help her heal in 1975 yoko and john had a son named sean and after shawn was born yoko worked on her own art while also like running the business side of a record label the two the two owned together and john stayed home and and raised sean everything was going so well that in 1980 john told yoko he thought it was time to get back into music and she completely agreed the two of them decided to collaborate on an album they released later that year called double fantasy a heart play and on the cover was a photo of john and yoko kissing but just three weeks after the album came out john lennon was shot five times outside of their family home in new york to say that the death of john lennon was the biggest news story on earth would be an understatement the press coverage was completely unavoidable and everybody hounded yoko about how she felt about her husband's murder of course some conspiracy theories even said that she put a hit on john sounds familiar but there's zero evidence supporting this but you know people again want someone to blame yoko stopped giving interviews and performing live for years look she doesn't owe any of you anything eventually she did return to the public eye but i mean all the rumors and gossip about her it followed her it still follows her to this day john lennon died over 40 years ago and if you google yoko ono you'll still find references to john lennon and the beatles it's pathetic in other words the focus is on them not her marrying john cast like a shadow over so much of what she's accomplished on her own time and time again yoko's proven herself to be one of the most badass icons in the art world but that's not how history wants us to remember her it's [ __ ] gross you guys all right so here we are right four stories about four badass women maybe you've heard of them maybe you hadn't maybe you knew their truths or maybe i don't know maybe only knew the stories history wanted you to know the point is controlling women's narratives has happened throughout history it's used as a weapon to not just dictate women's behavior but how women are remembered and it's not like it's limited to one place and one point in time it crosses borders cultures and centuries i mean it's happening to this day people keep saying oh it's getting better you know and to be fair it i mean it is it kind of is right small steps but is it enough i mean look at powerful women today it's all about what they're wearing how they look who they're dating are they a bad parent why aren't they apparent they're too emotional they're fat they're skinny blah blah blah it's just non-stop it's exhausting anyways you guys the reason i really want to do this story is because time and time again you see the media rip women apart i mean pay attention look around it's happening right now and i'm challenging you to not lean into it don't believe it maybe listen to them maybe believe women or maybe i don't know focus on the positive [ __ ] how about this everyone let's say we love ripping women apart okay fine we can keep doing it but if we're gonna do it we gotta make it equal and do it to men too who's ready who's ready let's talk about these men and their nasty ass you know come on well everyone thank you so much for learning with me today remember there's only four women there are so much more we could do a whole series on this but i would like to challenge you to uh ask some questions of your own find out the whole story find out the truth because we deserve that don't we i'd love to hear your guys's reaction to today's story so make sure to use the hashtag dark history over on social media so it can follow along join me over on my youtube where you can watch these episodes on thursday after the podcast airs and i would highly recommend at least coming to see jones outfits a lot of work goes into them and also don't forget to catch my murder mystery makeup which drops on mondays i hope you have a wonderful rest of your day you make good choices and i'll be talking to you next week goodbye dark history is an audio boom original this podcast is executive produced by bailey saryan kim jacobs dunya mcneely from three arts fannie badry and claire turner from wheelhouse dna produced by lexi kivan research provided by tisha dunstan and jed bookout writers jed bookout joey scavuzzo and kim yeagen edited by jim lucci shot by tafadzwa namaroondway special thank you to our historical consultants constance grady and leora tenenbaum slut-shaming expert and author of i am not a [ __ ] slut-shaming in the age of the internet highly recommend you check that out to learn more go to leoratenbomb.com and i'm your host bailey sirian goodbye

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Published: Thu May 12 2022