Shocking! Lurid! Tawdry! A History of American Scandals Podcast
1) That Time the Falwells Met Their Match in a Pool Boy
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2) That Time the CIA Got Very Into LSD
It's an unintentional double-header of acid heads, as Kasey follows up Mark's episode about Unmask Alice with a deep dive into an aside from the book about the CIA's Operation Midnight Climax. Yes, it...Show More
3) That Time Beatrice Sparks Published 'Go Ask Alice' and 'Jay's Journal'
Mark went to Vegas and came back brimming over with awe at Rick Emerson's book "Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries." Do you know the book "Go ...Show More
4) That Time John Edwards Tried to be a YouTube Star
In 2006, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nominee was... John Edwards? He'd unsuccessfully campaigned as VP for John Kerry in 2003, so he was a known quantity (unlike that Barack Obama ...Show More
5) That Time Barbara Hershey Went on The Dick Cavett Show
Some things never change. Well, not Barbara Hershey's name. Born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, Hershey changed her professional name to Barbara Seagull for a period of time in the early 1970s. Much against ...Show More
6) That Time Alexander Hamilton Invented the Treasury and Political Sex Scandals
Before the musical, before the Got Milk? commercial brought him back into relevancy, Alexander Hamilton was one of the more combative founding fathers. The most scandal-plagued founding father? That i...Show More
That Time Alexander Hamilton Invented the Treasury and Political Sex Scandals
28:46 | Sep 20th, 2022
7) That Time Janet Cooke Won a Pulitzer
Before Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair, there was Janet Cooke. A reporter at The Washington Post, her byline appeared on a story headlined "Jimmy's World" about an 8-year-old heroin addict... who didn'...Show More
8) That Time Sumner Welles Called for a Pullman Porter
Sumner Welles was a career politician whose career was always being interrupted by personal biases. First Calvin Coolidge kicked me out because he married a friend of the Coolidges. Then FDR had to sp...Show More
9) That Time Alexander Hamilton's Great-Grandson Was Front-Page News for Years
The whole thing began for Bill Shaffer with a fountain. Granted, the fountain is one of the few remaining examples of its kind in Manhattan and was designed by the team behind Grand Central Station. B...Show More
That Time Alexander Hamilton's Great-Grandson Was Front-Page News for Years
22:01 | Aug 30th, 2022
10) That Time They Called the Cavalry on WWI Vets
The American veterans of the Great War just wanted that bonus the United States had promised them a little bit early. Guaranteed to pay out in 1945, a little thing called the Great Depression had them...Show More