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I know this will be hard to imagine, but the man who is considered the father of the American freak show wasn't the greatest of guys. He was actually a pile of American Filth if you can believe it. This episode, we're talking about PT Barnum and his origin story of exploitation and racism!!
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Whoa! It's the live episode but in regular format. America wins its independence with the help of a gay Prussian.
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It's our recording of American Filth Live! Featuring a gay Prussian who changed the course of the Revolutionary War.
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Two days before the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates, including George Washington, got hammered.
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Sometimes when Puritans are oppressing you, a Quaker, you gotta pull the girls out.
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Our 29th president had a habit of cheating on his wife. And one of his affairs left behind 1000 pages of smutty letters.
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The son of Francis Scott Key was a womanizer and then womanized a woman whose husband would not stand being cuckolded!
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Andrew Jackson had a bad bird...but did you know that pets often take on the personalities of their owners??? Frick!
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Feminist scholar Ida Craddock taught sex education to young couples. She had a lot of experience and expertise to pass on because of her own intellectual and sexual relationship with her husband who was a ghost. But Comstock came calling after she published some pamphlets.
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Anthony Comstock strikes again! This time going after notorious abortionist Madame Restell.
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