Founding Podthers

SEASON 2 BABY!!! We're still here!  This time we're talking about the US Government.  But first, we want to talk about how to find and sort through the fake news in order to find the real stuff.

Check out https://www.adfontesmedia.com/. for the Media Bias Chart we talked about!

We finally caught up to present day!  Here we talk about the 2016 Election and what the Trump Presidency has brought so far.

In this episode, we talk about:

How could a few banks rig the world's economy for their own benefit?  Take a listen!

In this episode we talk about George W. Bush.  We talk about the Election of 2000, 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, No Child Left Behind, both the War in Afghanistan and Iraq.  We talk about more, so make sure you listen!

Oh boy oh boy.  Bushy and Slick Willie.  We talk about Bush Sr.'s "No new taxes.", Operation Desert Storm and we finish on Clinton's Impeachment.  Today's closing song is actually a clip of Bill Clinton playing saxophone on the Arsenio Hall show!  Take a listen!

In this episode we talk about how a peanut farmer and an actor from California can both be elected President.  We also talk about how that actor helped bring communism to its knees in Russia.  For this and other shenanigans, go listen!

We also have our first real ad!  Ms. Backer's Digital Library.

To check it out, go to https://sites.google.com/view/library-backer!

We cover a lot of ground in this episode.  But we unpack the 1960 election and the Kennedy assassination.  We talk about the domestic policies of LBJ and the Great Society.  We eventually land on Nixon, his work in China, and bring it home with Watergate.  Oh yeah, we also talk about Gerald Ford.  Sorta, kinda maybe.

This episode focuses on the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950's and 1960's.

We talk about the major events and injustices that encapsulate the movement in one of our heaviest episodes to date.

The 50's and 60's saw a radical change in youth and social culture.

Who is James Dean? Is he the breakfast sandwich guy?

How did Ed Sullivan help shake up the music scene?

Find out!