Personal Fundraiser

UPDATE: 10/28/2020

We reached our goal, and so I will be filming our first episode of Moderately Tipsy History next Saturday, on November 7, at 8pm. All donors get to attend the filming live (or, at least, on Zoom). There's still time to donate to get your exclusive invitation. 

The donors have spoken, and the topic of the inaugural Moderately Tipsy will be "Russia's False Dmitris." I promise you, it's riveting. It involves human cannons. Kind of. 

If you donate before November 6, you'll get to a) attend the event live; and b) if we reach $1,000, have a say in the second episode. 

_______________ 

Fall is my favorite time of year. Maybe it’s the crunch of leaves under my feet. Or the candy. Or maybe it’s because it’s my birthday. 

But it hasn’t been the same since 2017, when we lost the best person I ever knew, Beth Caldwell. And with this year being the dumpster fire it is, I’ve been feeling particularly bad. So I wanted to try to do something to lift our spirits, mine included. I wish we had Beth’s voice to bring us through this. But we don’t, and that sucks. 

Let’s do a fundraiser that not only makes some money for a good cause, but also invokes Beth’s fun-loving and fierce spirit. 

One of my favorite things to do with Beth was to talk about the topics we would rock at on Drunk History. 

The thing is, another birthday has come and gone, and I don’t quite have the tolerance I used to. So instead of Drunk History, I present to you: MODERATELY TIPSY HISTORY

For every $500 we raise, I will consume two drinks very quickly, then spend 5-10 minutes telling some of my favorite stories from history. Donate anything, and you’ll get a Zoom invite to the live event. If I don’t blow it too badly, I’ll post it somewhere. 

Here are some potential topics I may speak about. 

• Peter the Great brings modern dentistry to Russia; 

• Did Catherine the Great die under a horse? 

• Was Ivan the Terrible so terrible? 

• Bloody Mary gets a bad rap.