Our Ancestors Were Messy - Coming Soon: Oscar Micheaux (Feb. 26)
Episode Date: February 19, 2025Host Nichole Hill shares a programming note, a thank you, and a sneak peek at next week's episode.To learn more about the show and keep in touch, check out https://ourancestorsweremessy.comTo access b...onus content and support this independent production visit https://ourancestorsweremessy.supercast.comTo stay in touch email ouranestorsweremessy@gmail.com or follow the show @ourancestorsweremessy on InstagramTHE A-TEAMThe show is hosted by Nichole Hill (https://www.nicholelhill.com/)Executive Producer A.A. HernandezStory Producer Martina Abrahams Ilunga (@m_tina)Research Producer Chioke I'Anson (https://www.chiokeianson.com/)Story Editing by Shonte Hill Show art by Aseloka Smith (@naturallyherown) Episodes release bi-weekly.
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Hey, it's Nicole here with a programming note.
New episodes of our ancestors were messy will come out every other week instead of weekly.
And that's because we're an indie production, which means that everybody that helps out with the show goes to work all day, then attends to their lives, and then finds time to research and score and read scripts and listen to early cuts of episodes.
It's the definition of a labor of love.
And I want to be sure we make it at a pace that allows all of us on the production side to continue enjoying ourselves.
these stories. But I didn't want to leave you with nothing. So here are two little treats.
The first, thank you to everybody that joined the household last week and donated to the cost of
production. I am so thrilled to get to nerd out with you. So on the weeks when there isn't a
new episode, I'll share director's commentary and scenes that were cut for time with everyone
that's a member of the household. This week I'm going through the script for episode one,
stings for our enemies, honey for our friends, and sharing details about the making of, additional facts that didn't make the episode, and a deleted scene about the origin of HBCUs.
If you would like to join the household and have access to behind the scenes and bonus content, you can visit our Ancesters Were Messy.com and sign up today.
Okay, this next thing is for everybody.
It's a teaser for next week's episode and the guest reveal.
I think you're really going to like it.
All right.
Enjoy.
A real life is stranger than fiction.
Today is to transform himself
from Smallville Dreamer to daring frontiersman.
Look, he is the wrong guy for this trip.
Legal ain't a way to hell.
But to succeed, he must survive
on the battlefield of love.
He hasn't seen her in three years,
but he's like she's still fine.
I'm so happy.
Her eyes are dreamlike.
Today's episode stars
Dr. Ray Christian, an award-winning oral historian, host of the podcast What's Ray Sayan, and resident of rural Appalachia.
I tell stories, and then I go feed dogs, cats.
And your host, Nicole Hill.
Maybe I love her, maybe I won't.
Hope for the best.
This is Our Ancestors Were Messy, a show about our ancestors and all their drama.
Well, I'm not damn.
And that's Black History.