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Oliver Ellsworth: The Father of all Senators from Connecticut
17/06/2018 Duración: 11minWe're looking at our fifth prezzy candidate for the 1796 election!! Boy, let me tell ya, this guy was quite the overachiever holy guacamole!
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Samuel Johnston: Legendary Shirker of Duties
10/06/2018 Duración: 04minWe're looking at the 4th candidate for the 1796 presidential election, Samuel Johnston. He worked hard! He worked well! BUT HE NEVER WORKED FOR FREE.
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Thomas Pickney: Settler of Petty Squabbles
03/06/2018 Duración: 07minWe're takin' a gander at our fourth candidate for the 1796 election! And this guy... He's got a lot in common with his older brother Charlie... other than the fact that this dude had a lot more swag cuz he got a whole entire treaty named after him.
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James Iredell: The All-American Hipster Judge!
27/05/2018 Duración: 06minWe're takin' a biographical look at our second candidate for the 1796 election!! James Iredell! I never woulda thought hipsters existed so early on in US History, but here I am, wrong again!
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Charles Cotesworth Pickney: The Farmer who Hates the Poor
20/05/2018 Duración: 09minThe first candidate we're looking at for the 1796 election! If you needed an example of a stereotypical aristocrat who doesn't like poor people and prioritizes money over human life, I think I found your guy!
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1795: KAAAAA! MEEE! HAA! MEE! HAAAAAAAAA!
13/05/2018 Duración: 09minIt's 1795, which means this is the last part of this series of in-between-election episodes! And boy do I have a story for you! We're going to Hawaii! Where prophesies and betrayals and volcanic craters have historical significance! It's a genuine epic!
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1794: BILLY MAYS HERE!! WITH THE KING COTTON!!
06/05/2018 Duración: 06minIn 1794, an aspiring entrepreneur named Eli Whitney gets a patent. I mean he doesn't make a whole lot of money because people are greedy and making bootlegs or whatever, but he does change the entire course of US history with this single freakin' invention.
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1793: Black Girl Magic vs. Yellow Fever!
29/04/2018 Duración: 16minFor our 1793 in-between-election episode we are taking a look at the yellow fever problem and how not even black girl magic was powerful enough to stop this hateful disease! 5,000 deaths! In four months! With a sprinkle of blatant racism too! This one's a doosey!
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ELECTION #2!
22/04/2018 Duración: 15minWE MADE IT TO THE SECOND PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION! REJOICE! Oh, and I threw in a little surprise situation cuz I basically covered too much ground about the election in the past 3 episodes! You're welcome.
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George Washington: The Legend Continues!
15/04/2018 Duración: 55minThis is a REBROADCAST of the George Washington episode, with NEW CONTENT about his first term at the 42:25 mark! Get ready to hear about even more WILD-CHILD-LABOR-SHENANIGANS from none other than Alexandy Hammy Tammy himself!
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Johnny Adams: Crouching Fat Man, Not-So-Hidden Convictions
08/04/2018 Duración: 25minThis is a REBROADCAST of the Johhny Adams Episode with the NEW CONTENT at the 18:38 mark!! What's new this time? We're talking about his first crack at this rad vice presidency job! Well... It turned out to be not-so-rad at all really...
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Jorge Clinton: ATTACK OF THE CARROT FARMERS
01/04/2018 Duración: 15minThis is a REBROADCAST of the Jorge Clinton episode! Why? BECAUSE HE'S AN ELECTION CANDIDATE YET AGAIN!! But like, if you already know about this schmuck and wanna skip to the part where he runs AGAIN, you can find the new content at the 10:37 mark!
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1791: A Casual Christian Road Trip to the Hotel California!
25/03/2018 Duración: 08minOh, you thought the history of the US starts on the east coast? Well... You're right. BUT! That doesn't mean nothing weird was happening on the west coast either! Nuh-uh! It's time to talk about the Spanish priests runnin' around forcing the Natives to love Jesus!
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1790: THE YEAR YOUR ETHNICITY WAS DECIDED FOR YOU!
18/03/2018 Duración: 06minWhat? You thought we weren't gonna get race-y? WELL, WE ARE AND YOU'RE WRONG! Yeah. Let's talk about the census so we can all reach a consensus that there will never be a consensus on the consensus. If you want to see the fancy little census chart, detailing how the government categorized people from 1790 to now... WELL, IT'S RIGHT HERE! http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/interactives/multiracial-timeline/
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1789: THE YEAR WE WERE COLONIZED BY FROOT LOOP MACARONI!
11/03/2018 Duración: 06minIt's time to take a look at events that happened IN BETWEEN elections. I shall try my best to locate events that are separate from the usual PoLiteek! Like mac n' cheese. Totally apolitical. Right? RIGHT?!?!?!
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ELECTION #1!
04/03/2018 Duración: 09minWe've discussed all of the candidates! And now we are HERE! The very first presidential election! It was pretty much rigged on the upper levels but THE LOWER LEVEL ELECTIONS WERE A GENUINE HOOT-NANNY!
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George Washington: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
25/02/2018 Duración: 43minThis will probably be the absolute longest episode in a while as the amount of information we have of freakin' George Washington is CRIMINAL!! OKAY?!?!!? But anyway, he's the final major candidate we're gonna talk about before we do OUR FIRST super fun election episode!
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George Clinton: YOU GREEDY DIRTBAAAG!
18/02/2018 Duración: 11minAlright so we're looking at our second to last major candidate for this first election! George Clinton! And BOY CAN THIS MAN HOLD A GRUDGE. He's possibly the grouchiest dude we've come across... Like he even hated the Constitution! THE CONSTITUTION!!!
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Benjamin Lincoln: Abraham Franklin? Who even was this guy?!
11/02/2018 Duración: 16minWe're in the home stretch!! Today we're talking about a truly MAJOR presidential candidate for the first election... Oh I mean like Major in the military sense! Yep! Numbah Six! Benjamin Abraham Franklin Lincoln!!
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Samuel Huntington: More like Average Joe amirite??!!
04/02/2018 Duración: 09minOur next candidate is the most average man to ever average an average... Probably cuz he never threw a hissy fit at his coworkers. It's always good when good happens to good. An inspiring story for the quiet observers of the world indeed!