D.C. Representation: A Love Story

EPISODE LINK: https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/ADV1329580829?selected=ADV7055465576 This episode is all about voting in the federal capital we now call the District of Columbia. We talk about a movement to get voting rights that succeeded for a group of (then) D.C. residents 180 years ago, And about the petitions, committees, tea parties, bus trips and statements by Presidents over…

Support MHCBUYP on Patreon and Get Extra Episodes!

  Now you can support My History Can Beat Up Your Politics on Patreon. Support the show, help us keep great content going and get extra stuff. You’ll get extra episodes, including DRAFT JOHNSON – Did Johnson Really Want to Run in 1968? His Speech Says One Thing, His Actions (and Some Allies) Say Another…

Can’t Wait Til November? Get an Advanced Release of TIN MAN – The 1890’s and Populism and Anti-Populism Now, with Patreon

Get a Sneak Preview of ‘Tin Man’ The 1890’s Part II – which will air in November. It deals with populism and anti-populism, how Bryan wasn’t so populist necessarily and McKinley wasn’t so gold-standard driven, at least not at first. Also a bunch about the Wizard of Oz – was Baum a populist? Was he…

Saigon Comparisons: The Events of April 29th and 30th, 1975 and Today

Does it make sense to compare Saigon 1975 to today’s events? It might, but maybe not for the reasons people are doing it. We look at the 1975 Operation Frequent Wind – the evacuation of Saigon and the comparisons to today’s events, the politics at the time and now and more.   EPISODE LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV3497168566.mp3?updated=1629395782 The…

Playing Cards With The Signers of the Declaration w/ Jason Petri

All about Signers in this one. We talk to Jason Petri, listener to MHCBUYP about his playing card deck project, and we discuss: :the lives of the signers What can Button Gwinnett, Stephen Hopkins or Thomas Heyward Jr. do for us? EPISODE LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV8424318667.mp3?updated=1629029943 The importance of the Declaration, even when the country hasn’t lived up…

Charles Dawes: The Anti-Filibustering Musician Vice President

Opponent of the filibuster and sometimes a royal pain for the President he served under, Dawes is probably one of the most accomplished Vice Presidents of the United States. In his life time he would win a Nobel Peace Prize, posthumously he would win a Grammy. Friend to both William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan,…

Friendly Skies? – The Story of Airline Deregulation

A Democratic President and a liberal Senator push a free-market reform in the late 1970s that affects us all today. We look at the story of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. Among the topics – legroom politics, cold fried chicken, consumer rights, cargo politics, Carter’s legislative ability or lack of it, champagne denial, mistreated…

We Are Part of Airwave Media Podcast Network

LOS ANGELES, Cali – Airwave Media, the award-winning production company behind the popular podcast Kickass News announced plans to form a brand new podcast network called Airwave. Airwave will officially launch this May 24, and it will be a curated collection of shows featuring some of the leading storytellers and thought leaders in audio entertainment….

Richard Bey of “The Richard Bey Show” on Cancel Culture, Iraq War, The Alamo and The Truth – 15th Anniversary Episode Part II

EPISODE LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6385139510.mp3?updated=1627484449 We are joined by Richard Bey of “The Richard Bey” show and “People are Talking” fame for a talk on a lot of things. We are pleased to have Richard as a long time listener of the show. Richard takes aim at the current depiction of cancel culture as a new thing,…

15th Anniversary Program Part I – Speaking with Listeners, Clips, James Monroe and Lyndon Johnson, The Movies and More

Bruce reviews favorite old clips and speaks to two listeners from all the way back at the beginning, Kevin Willis and Tom Morris. Tom Morris’s podcast The Good The Bad and The Nerdy is located at – https://anchor.fm/tom-morris1 Episode LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV7218526526.mp3?updated=1627238910

Dennis Kucinich on Public Service, Public Power, and His Book “The Division of Light and Power”

We talk to former Cleveland Mayor, Congressman and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich about his fight to save Cleveland’s municipal power system as mayor of the city in 1970’s. He risked not only his career but his life during that battle, and he gives us some of the details from his new book -“The Division of…

What You May Not Know About Lexington and Concord

You know about the battles of Lexington and Concord, the shot heard around the world, the minutemen and their trifold hats and muskets. But how much do you really know about the day’s events? This episode we look at the day of fighting at Concord, when a British raiding party turned into a display of…

Elephant in the Room: Former Presidents and Their Parties

EPISODE LINK: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV9339161219.mp3?updated=1624810131 About Presidents and their parties, particularly situations where a former President who was not re-elected is still in the political picture. There can be some interesting challenges for the party. We look at four cases in history, Gerald Ford’s golfing and soft-pedaling in 1980, Truman’s attack on a front-runner in 1956, Bush’s…

Hannibal Hamlin Stood Up

Known for being Lincoln’s first VP and dropped from the ticket, Hamlin was actually as well-known as the President he served under. He was a fighter against the expansion of slavery and an important Senator. It was not out of the question that Hamlin could have been in Lincoln’s spot. History has forgotten, but we’ll…