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The Buck Starts Here—where U.S. presidential history gets a spicy makeover. Join no-nonsense economist Eric Mason and history-obsessed wild card Kyle Hedman as they dig into the messy, mind-blowing, and often WTF moments that shaped America’s commanders-in-chief.This is…
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Betsy Ross: Everything you Know is WRONG (opens the original)
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Betsy Ross made the first American flag. George Washington visited her shop, she suggested five-pointed stars, and the rest is history. Except the evidence gets weird fast. Kyle and Rae dig into what we actually know about Ross, Congress’s hilariously vague 1777 flag instructions, Francis Hopkinson’s competing claim—and unpaid bill—for designing the flag, and the fact that the famous Betsy Ross story wasn’t publicly told until roughly a century later. So did Betsy Ross really create America’s fi
Patrick Henry: Everything You Know Is WRONG (opens the original)
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“Give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry said it. Probably... Maybe... Okay, we actually have no idea. Welcome to Everything You Know Is Wrong , a new detour from The Buck Starts Here where Kyle and Rae take the historical facts everybody learned in school and start questioning everything. First up: Patrick Henry. The version most of us remember is pretty straightforward. Fiery Virginia patriot. Brilliant natural orator. Gives one of the most famous speeches in American history, drops “
John Paul Jones Pt. 2: Distressor of The Enemy (opens the original)
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John Paul Jones has reached British waters, and the enemy is about to become extremely distressed. Unfortunately, so are his sailors, his commanding officers, the Continental Congress, several European governments, and nearly everyone required to work with him. In Part 2 of our voyage through the life of America’s Pirate, Jones takes the Revolutionary War directly to Britain. He attempts to burn an English harbor, loses control of another crew, tries to kidnap an earl, steals the family tea serv
John Paul Jones Pt. I: Mutiny, Marines, and Maritime Chaos (opens the original)
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Before John Paul Jones became the father of the United States Navy, he was just John Paul: a thirteen-year-old Scottish sailor with ambition, a talent for navigation, and an alarming habit of finding himself in the middle of mutinies. In Part I of our John Paul Jones deep dive, Kyle and Rae follow America’s pirate from a gardener’s estate in Scotland to the decks of the fledgling Continental Navy. The résumé gets chaotic quickly. He quits the slave trade after condemning it as an “abominable tra
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