My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics


Latest Episodes

You Break Everybody's Back: The 1988 Presidential Election, Part 1 - Anybody's Race
January 02, 2024

In our first episode of our series on the 1988 Presidential Election: a cornfield prognosticator, men of the cloth, a young upstart, a senator with big glasses, a casino king, a prince of the polls and more than a few watching from the outside, thinking a

Update on UK Politics with Stephen Byrne
December 24, 2023

We talk to Stephen Byrne, host of Whats Am Politics about events in the United Kingdom with some contrasts to politics in the United States. In the UK currently, the government is very unpopular but there's nothing they or anyone else can do about it for

1980 - A Hostage Mom Goes to Iran
December 21, 2023

Fed up with the US government's efforts to rescue her son being held hostage, Barbara Timm, mother of a Marine guard at the US Embassy at Iran, goes directly to Tehran. We tell her story.We are part of Airwave Media NetworkAdvertise? advertising@air

The Jacksonians and Their Role in Today's Politics - John Ellis
December 18, 2023

We talk with John Ellis of News Corp, NBC, Boston Globe and currently at news-items.com, to discuss his theory on today's politics. Jacksonians, a group of people who behave in ways the media has misjudged are the force beyond today's polls numbers. We

The Asterisk: Bush vs. Reagan in Iowa 1980
December 11, 2023

In 1980, George Bush did the impossible. He went from three percent in the polls, an asterisk in the polls, as he called himself, to defeating front-runner Ronald Reagan in the Iowa caucuses. The issue: electability, moderation, and age. The event upse

Secrecy and Democracy with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame
December 04, 2023

We hear the phrase democracy dies in darkness and how important transparency is - but is it really? After all the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention met in private. Bruce talks with Dr. Katlyn Carter of Notre Dame about the history of s

Mississippi Bans Sesame Street (From the Useless Information Podcast)
November 27, 2023

From the excellent Useless Information podcast, the story of the development of educational television in Mississippi, and the exclusion of one particular program.For more information on Useless Information podcast, please go to www.uselessinformation.o

Best Rabbit: Dan Quayle
November 20, 2023

Dan Quayle's name conjures up images of late-night commdian jokes and verbal gaffes, but he may have offered a little-known service to the President he served. In this episode, we dicuss George H.W.

Special Episode: Three Ways You Can Help My History Can Beat Up Your Politics (Hint: All of them are Free)
November 17, 2023

We've launched the Fall of USSR as its own podcast to attract new listeners, and I'd like some help. That and a show update of what I am working on. Thanks for listening.

Sell Your Horse - America in The 1890's: Part 5 [Imperialism Just Kind of Happens]
November 13, 2023

The Spanish American War, from Spain's point of view. Journalism gets yellow. Roosevelt makes a charge. He gets help from a group that he doesn't acknowledge very well. A little bit about the deco