The Crucible
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Oct 16, 2026
AnyaHOST
It was one of the stops that we made.
AnyaHOST
And on the road to Salem, we watched the movie The Crucible.
HilaryHOST
Uh-huh.
AnyaHOST
Now, there's some things in the cruc- The Crucible that are not historically accurate.
AnyaHOST
I want to say that right up front.
HilaryHOST
Mm.
AnyaHOST
But with my teenagers, we watched the movie The Crucible because it tells the story, the real story, of the Salem witch trials.
HilaryHOST
Was that the Winona Ryder version? [laughs]
Austin PetersenHOST
And in this scenario, where Henry V had, had captured many of the French forces, there was a, a chance or an opportunity that the French were possibly going to retake some of their captured prisoners on the battlefield.
Austin PetersenHOST
Uh, they didn't show or depict this in the movie, but in the real-life scenario, Henry V wa- felt like he was forced to s- begin to execute the French prisoners because there was an opportunity that they would begin to escape, pick up arms, and then begin to fight the English forces.
Austin PetersenHOST
So is there a lifeboat scenario exception to the death penalty question, Judge, of exigencies in war, or is it, would you have to sit there and, and possibly let your prisoner pick up the sword and, and begin fighting again on the battlefield? How do we deal with the lifeboat scenarios as, like, libertarians and pro-lifers and-
Andrew NapolitanoGUEST
Yeah.
11 MINS LATER
Andrew NapolitanoGUEST
I mean, there are constitutional objections, uh, uh, to this that I didn't bother raising, because I wrote the piece from a philosophical, uh, uh, basis.
Andrew NapolitanoGUEST
Uh, but when the government kills, it spawns more killing.
Andrew NapolitanoGUEST
If the government's gonna kill on television, this is not a movie, this is, this is real, it's just going to s- it's going to spawn more horrendous, horrific, uh, events.
Andrew NapolitanoGUEST
Government should have nothing whatsoever, uh, to do with killing except to repel an unjust aggressor at the moment of the aggression.
Pamela HutchinsonGUEST
And so you have that, and then you just, you take it into this realm of, of actual fantasy, and actually that maybe what if there were witches.
Pamela HutchinsonGUEST
Like, what would a genuine love witch make of The Crucible? [laughs]
Amanda Jane SternHOST
[laughs] That's, that is such a good question.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
Actually, there's a Sabrina The Teenage Witch episode about The Crucible and her freaking out that they're reenacting it.
Pamela HutchinsonGUEST
Yeah.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
And she's like, "But I'm a real witch.
Amanda Jane SternHOST
Oh, no." [laughs]
Pamela HutchinsonGUEST
I do remember when I was at college, we put on, we staged The Crucible, and my friend Catherine and I were in charge of doing costumes.
Dane StewartHOST
Oh.
Adam CaprioloHOST
I would say maybe in The Crucible, maybe in everything.
Adam CaprioloHOST
They represent witches.
Adam CaprioloHOST
They-
Dane StewartHOST
What did they go through?
Adam CaprioloHOST
Well, so basically there was...
Adam CaprioloHOST
Everything that happens in The Crucible is slightly inspired by it.
Dane StewartHOST
Mm.
EllaHOST
And the movies that I watched included Hocus Pocus.
EllaHOST
Who doesn't love Hocus Pocus? Watched Harry Potter, Halloween Town, Sleepy Hollow, Scream, and then one of my favorite plays/ I guess I'd call it a book, it's a written play, and then movie, is The Crucible.
EllaHOST
I have loved this movie and the whole concept since I was, I believe, a junior in high school when we read it.
EllaHOST
I was just super fascinated by it.
EllaHOST
They're having a girls trip, having the best time, and they're here to learn, just like you are." So on that note, I'm really glad I did not point anything out.
EllaHOST
I just let them have the conversation, and I'm sure they learned otherwise.
EllaHOST
Something new that I learned while on this tour was that Abigail Williams, basically the villain in The Crucible, and John Proctor, one of the protagonists, they were based on real people.
EllaHOST
So the story's loosely based on them, but Abigail was around 11 years old, she was an orphan, and then John Proctor was in his late 50s.
MattHOST
Let's look at his, let's look at his f- oh, yeah, that is not a big filmography.
NickHOST
Oh, he was John Proctor in The Crucible.
NickHOST
I've seen that version of The Crucible.
NickHOST
It was okay.
MattHOST
Um...
Zach StaffordHOST
And when I went to Salem under your guidance, Pam, I got to do a tour with House Witch where they explain the witch trials, which are, everyone's heard of.
Zach StaffordHOST
Most people have seen The Crucible or know what The Crucible's about.
Zach StaffordHOST
But I learned a lot there that, you know, the, the witch trials were only a few months long, and it was 20-ish women that were killed.
Zach StaffordHOST
But the reason why they were killed wasn't because they were the only ones doing magic, but it's because the type of magic they were doing was seen as not okay compared to the other types of magic that the religious leaders were doing or other practitioners were doing to the very point of, like, there's certain domestic things we do that are, you know, you put something on your door to ward off evil.
Carter RoyHOST
Uh-
Connor TomlinsonHOST
Oh, The Crucible.
Carter RoyHOST
Yeah.
Carter RoyHOST
Phantom Thread he just did.
AaronHOST
That is correct.
MayGUEST
Your potential, if you skip number one, is The Crucible with Daniel Day-Lewis and Winona Ryder.
AaronHOST
I'm in a really tough position here.
AaronHOST
This was like a high school mandatory watch.
MayGUEST
I love that movie, but it's been a long time since I've seen Molly's Game.
MayGUEST
Well,
AaronHOST
so much of that movie, like... is about the crucible.
AaronHOST
You know, it's like specifically like framed in that way because so much of it just deals with personal pride.
Margo BurnsGUEST
So you might know a couple of other cases.
Margo BurnsGUEST
You may have read or seen The Crucible, so you think, oh, John Proctor.
Margo BurnsGUEST
Of course, the John Proctor in The Crucible is not the real-
Amanda Jane SternHOST
Nope
Margo BurnsGUEST
... person.
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