Filtra per genere
From famous founders to capitalist cooks, from sex scandals to the dirtiest blues song, AMERICAN FILTH dives into the filthier side of American history: uncovering people who society has largely excluded from the history books because they were too unconventional, provocative, seedy, dirty, trashy…. Or just plain filthy. And sure, some of these folks made great contributions to history. But that’s not the part of their lives AMERICAN FILTH is interested in. This podcast is here for the drama, the spice, and general tomfoolery. The weekly series of brisk episodes plunges face-first into the dirtiest events and people in the annals of American history.
- 66 - Bad Dog
A bad dog goes on trial in 1921 San Francisco...for murder.
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Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - 65 - Kitty Leroy and Her Many Husbands
How many husbands are too many husbands in the Wild West??? Well, in Kitty Leroy's case, five.
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Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - 64 - A Week Of Bleeding Kansas
Hello, I'm from the past (yesterday). How's the post-election world? Does the USA still exist? Well, let's go back in time and look at another election. This time, Kansas 1855 when settlers were deciding if it should be a free state or a slave state.
And because of that choice, in one week in 1856, pro-slavery ruffians sacked a town in Kansas, a senator got beat up with a cane, and abolitionists murdered three pro-slavery Kansans.
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Wed, 06 Nov 2024 - 63 - Free Speech and Lenny Bruce
A comedian said offensive stuff this week at a Trump gathering (is that what they're called?), so let's look at a comedian of yore, who fought for the right to say c**ks**ker on stage!
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Wed, 30 Oct 2024 - 62 - Petting Parties
In the 1920s, the youths were kissing and touching each other! Disgusting!
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Wed, 23 Oct 2024 - 61 - American Filth Live! London Edition
American Filth recorded another live episode! This time with the Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival in London. We got to explain to the Brits how filthy America's Founding Fathers were and also recite Gabbie's Declaration of Dependence, a plea for Britain to take us back.
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Wed, 16 Oct 2024 - 60 - The Puritan Guide To Gettin' Some
Were you transported back in time to colonial America?? Well, don't worry. Follow this guide to get some hanky-panky.
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Wed, 09 Oct 2024 - 59 - Executed For Stealing A Bonnet?
Rachel Wall was executed for stealing a bonnet. But was that really her only crime???
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Wed, 02 Oct 2024 - 58 - The Accidental President
Tenth president John Tyler annexed Texas and Florida into the United States, and if that's not filthy enough, he also married a woman 30 years younger than him, and even more sinister, he might have fathered a kid or to with an enslaved woman.
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Wed, 25 Sep 2024 - 57 - Sending Nudes in the 19th Century
Artist Sarah Goodridge sent a miniature painting of her bosom to a no-good senator. Some people say they were just friends, but then why did she send him a tit pic???
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Wed, 18 Sep 2024 - 56 - Bisexual Baddies Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens
Were these young bucks just really good friends??? Or was something else going on???
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Wed, 11 Sep 2024 - 55 - American Filth Season 2!Wed, 04 Sep 2024
- 54 - AF GREATEST HITS: Bedfellows Headfellows
One more week until American Filth returns! The show's crowning achievement has been outing historical figures who might have been gay. And it all started with some bigoted Southerners who sent a couple of spicy letters.
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Wed, 28 Aug 2024 - 53 - AF GREATEST HITS: The Solitary Vice
New episodes back in two weeks! In the meantime...the solitary vice is not, in fact, listening to American Filth. But instead...well, figure it out by listening to the episode from earlier this year when Kellogg's CEO said that poor people should just eat cereal! What a time!
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Wed, 21 Aug 2024 - 52 - AF GREATEST HITS: Vicious White Women
AF summer break continues... so let's go back to Nashville, where young Union soldiers wet their whistle so much that 100 sex workers were forced aboard a boat and stranded in the river for days.
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Wed, 14 Aug 2024 - 51 - BTS: AF Theme Remix is THE SONG OF THE SUMMER
Some AF BTS! That stands for American Filth behind-the-scenes. Gabbie talks to Jesse Nighswonger, who composed the theme song. He also made an extra special remix that critics (Gabbie) are calling the song of the summer.
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Fri, 09 Aug 2024 - 50 - AF GREATEST HITS: Livin' and Dyin' By the Wiener
The show's on summer break and will be back in September. So let's go back to the beginning...to our esteemed Founding Father Gouverneur Morris who died as he lived: with his wiener.
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Wed, 07 Aug 2024 - 49 - The Guy Who Assassinated the Assassin
So... after John Wilkes Booth killed Abraham Lincoln, there was a huge manhunt that ended with Booth getting shot by a guy who had previously cut his own balls off. Whomst was this man? Well, he made hats and loved god.
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Wed, 31 Jul 2024 - 48 - The Worst Showman
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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Wed, 24 Jul 2024 - 47 - America's Gay Prussian General
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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Wed, 17 Jul 2024 - 46 - American Filth Live!
It's our recording of American Filth Live! Featuring a gay Prussian who changed the course of the Revolutionary War.
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Wed, 10 Jul 2024 - 45 - Binging with the Founders
Two days before the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates, including George Washington, got hammered.
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Wed, 03 Jul 2024 - 44 - Quaker Jugs
Sometimes when Puritans are oppressing you, a Quaker, you gotta pull the girls out.
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Wed, 26 Jun 2024 - 43 - Hard Harding's Sex Letters
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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Wed, 19 Jun 2024 - 42 - O Say Can You Cheat
The son of Francis Scott Key was a womanizer and then womanized a woman whose husband would not stand being cuckholded!
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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 - 41 - Polly Wanna F**king Cracker
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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Wed, 05 Jun 2024 - 40 - Ouija Board Husband! Comstock Part 3
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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Wed, 29 May 2024 - 39 - Unpregnanted! Comstock Part 2
Anthony Comstock strikes again! This time going after notorious abortionist Madame Restell.
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Wed, 22 May 2024 - 38 - Boo Birth Control!!! Comstock Part 1
Big follower of Christ/mail snoop Anthony Comstock rails against obscenity and gets a law named after him passed in 1873! One thing he hates in particular? Birth control!!
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Wed, 15 May 2024 - 37 - First Gay President??? Bedfellows Headfellows Part 3
Has America already had a gay president??? Or was he just a fussy, prissy, well-dressed guy?? James Buchanan lived with the same man for decades in Washington, and many people find that pretty sus!
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Wed, 08 May 2024 - 36 - GAY-braham Lincoln??? Bedfellows Headfellows Part 2
Men continue to sleep in the same bed and maybe...give a little head. This time the couple in question shared a bed for four years. But yeah! Maybe they were just roommates! Or is Abraham Lincoln actually a little bit gay?
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Wed, 01 May 2024 - 35 - Spicy Southerners! Bedfellows Headfellows Part 1
Some South Carolinian politicians in the 1820s did a lot more than sleeping. Just ask their fleshen poles.
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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 34 - Oneid(ON'T MIND IF YOU BANG MY WIFE)a
Religious group? Sex cult? Polyamorous filth? Silverware manufacturer? The Oneida Community had it all.
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Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 33 - Exploiting the Mann Act
Progressive reformers are like, AH WHITE SLAVERY! And they pass a law to protect WHITE LADIES from PROSTITUTION! But then criminals are like, I'm going to exploit this.
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Wed, 10 Apr 2024 - 32 - Sex! (It's a play)
Mae West brings Sex to Broadway but also...gay people??
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Wed, 03 Apr 2024 - 31 - The Not-So-Genius Killer
Wow, a true crime story!! Did this man kill his wife and daughter in 1845? Or did he kill EVEN MORE PEOPLE??
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Wed, 27 Mar 2024 - 30 - The Solitary Vice
Touching yourself too much? Have you tried eating some cereal?? John Harvey Kellogg was a chastity crusader who could solve any horned up feelings you have. Come learn how to abstain and get those hands out your own pants!
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Wed, 20 Mar 2024 - 29 - Runaway Husband
In 1873, a woman finds a husband from a newspaper ad. But turns out... he sucks.
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Wed, 13 Mar 2024 - 28 - Thomas vs Thomasine
In a small colonial settlement in Virginia in 1629, an indentured servant is confusing the heck out of everyone. Some people swear the servant is a dude named Thomas. But others are like, no, she's a lady named Thomasine!
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Wed, 06 Mar 2024 - 27 - Gross Grover
Did you know we have gross presidents??? Well, President Grover Cleveland, aka Steve Cleve, was one of the grossest.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 26 - girlboss mobboss
Stephanie St. Clair ran Harlem's underground. But she came up against police and other mobsters, and one or twice, she shot her boyfriends.
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Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 25 - The Dirty Dirty Blues
To get you in the mood for Valentine's Day, let's indulge in some of the filthiest lyrics ever written. And yes, they are from the 1920s and 30s.
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Wed, 14 Feb 2024 - 24 - Tar and Feather
When the haters* get you down, douse 'em in some tar and stick on some feathers.
*Britain
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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 23 - The Seven Hairy Wonders
In the mid to late 19th century, the seven Sutherland sisters were the talk of the town. Why?? Because they had a lot of hair. 49 feet in total. If that fell into your soup, there would be no soup left.
But their rags to riches story quickly went back to rags.
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Wed, 31 Jan 2024 - 22 - A Sea Of Manure
At the end of the 20th century, most cities were covered in HORSE POO! It was not only gross but also DIRE! Find out how they dealt with this because it smelt quite bad.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 21 - Farewell to Storyville
New Orleans used to have a legal red light district, and it was THRIVING at the turn of the 20th century. But then, of course, war happened and messed it all up!!! Stupid war!
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Wed, 17 Jan 2024 - 20 - The Perez Morton Affair
Oh my god, can you believe it? Here we got another case of a husband cheating on his wife with his wife's younger sister!! Yuck! But this time, it features a laudanum overdose and America's first novel.
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Wed, 10 Jan 2024 - 19 - Breadcrumbin' Benjamin Franklin
Welcome to 2024! To mark this momentous occasion, let's start off with a bang. And who liked banging more than Benjamin Franklin?? Allegedly.
But there was one person he didn't seem to want to bang. His wife! Today's episode is filled to the brim with hot (re: questionable) takes.
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Wed, 03 Jan 2024 - 18 - Cancel Christmas!
The stinky puritans are at it again! This time instead of executing people over hog banging, they are canceling Christmas ONCE AND FOR ALL! Well...until they un-cancel it. Find out WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED!
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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 17 - A Tale Of Two Cheeses
Two presidents received an odd gift: a big-ass wheel of cheese. Why?? How?? From whomst??? Listen to find of these curdled mysteries.
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Wed, 13 Dec 2023 - 16 - Evelyn Nesbit and Her Problematic Boys
A millionaire shoots an architect at the premiere of a really bad musical in 1906. And yeah, it's probably because that millionaire has terrible mental health. But he says that he did it for his wife, Evelyn Nesbit. Listen to learn about how this murder came to be!
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Wed, 06 Dec 2023 - 15 - Sea Snack
Did you run out of food on your sea voyage? No worries. It is totally fine to eat your fellow sailors. It's the CUSTOM OF THE SEA!
Today's episode, the sinking of the whaling ship the Essex, the real history that inspired Moby-Dick.
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Wed, 29 Nov 2023 - 14 - The Embalmed Beef Scandal
During the Spanish-American War, a bunch of our boys got sick and died... not from the war but maybe from some nasty meat. Or maybe not. But it did smell and taste really bad!
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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 13 - The Grandest of Larcenies
Noted thief and sex worker Mary Jones stole countless men's wallets in the 1830s and 40s. Robert Haslem was one of those "victims," and he had no shame taking her to court! ! !
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Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 12 - Jumbo Johnson
President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration is known for all sorts of stuff, like the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, the creation of public radio and television, food stamps, and Medicare and Medicaid. And, of course, escalating the Vietnam War.
Lyndon did all that...while whipping his dick out all the time. And his wiener? He named it Jumbo! BEWARE: lots of penis puns in this one. Sorry!
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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 11 - Jesus P. Christ
This episode starts with a frothing vat of piss. And the story set in the 1980s, sorry guys, that is history now. Worse than all of that, this episode is about FINE ART.
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Wed, 01 Nov 2023 - 10 - Vampires in New England
Happy Halloween! Trying to get over that consumption cough?? Have you tried digging up your dead grandma and BURNING HER?!
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Wed, 25 Oct 2023 - 9 - Enemas and Pus
James Garfield gets shot, and some doctors stick their nasty fingies in the wound. Yum!
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Wed, 18 Oct 2023 - 8 - Christ Boy Cheater
Before James Garfield was (briefly) president, he had a fun hobby of cheating on his wife. But it's okay because he felt SO BAD about it.
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Wed, 11 Oct 2023 - 7 - Vicious White Women
Union soldiers won't stop banging, so they hire a boat.
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Wed, 04 Oct 2023 - 6 - Simply Bizarre!
Finally, an episode featuring incest.
Before she married Founding Daddy Gouverneur Morris, Ann Cary "Nancy" Randolph got accused of not just incest but also infanticide! Neat!
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Wed, 27 Sep 2023 - 5 - Newport J*** Festival
FDR hates gay sex. Well, sort of. (Also, I don't think I made seamen/semen joke in this episode, which is a real oversight.)
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Wed, 20 Sep 2023 - 4 - Gougin'
Watch out for your eyes!
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Wed, 13 Sep 2023 - 3 - Livin' and Dyin' By the Wiener
Founding Daddy Gouverneur Morris is coming for (and on) your wife.
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Wed, 06 Sep 2023 - 2 - New Haven and the PigmenWed, 06 Sep 2023
- 1 - Introducing: American Filth
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