American Filth

Bad Dog Nov 20, 2024

A bad dog goes on trial in 1921 San Francisco...for murder.

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Kitty Leroy and Her Many Husbands Nov 13, 2024

How many husbands are too many husbands in the Wild West??? Well, in Kitty Leroy's case, five.

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A Week Of Bleeding Kansas Nov 06, 2024

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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Free Speech and Lenny Bruce Oct 30, 2024

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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Petting Parties Oct 23, 2024

In the 1920s, the youths were kissing and touching each other! Disgusting!

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American Filth Live! London Edition Oct 16, 2024

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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The Puritan Guide To Gettin' Some Oct 09, 2024

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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Executed For Stealing A Bonnet? Oct 02, 2024

Rachel Wall was executed for stealing a bonnet. But was that really her only crime???

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The Accidental President Sep 25, 2024

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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Sending Nudes in the 19th Century Sep 18, 2024

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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Bisexual Baddies Alexander Hamilton and John Laurens Sep 11, 2024

Were these young bucks just really good friends??? Or was something else going on???

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American Filth Season 2! Sep 04, 2024

All the filth returns September 11!

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AF GREATEST HITS: Bedfellows Headfellows Aug 28, 2024

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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AF GREATEST HITS: The Solitary Vice Aug 21, 2024

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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AF GREATEST HITS: Vicious White Women Aug 14, 2024

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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BTS: AF Theme Remix is THE SONG OF THE SUMMER Aug 09, 2024

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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AF GREATEST HITS: Livin' and Dyin' By the Wiener Aug 07, 2024

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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The Guy Who Assassinated the Assassin Jul 31, 2024

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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The Worst Showman Jul 24, 2024

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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America's Gay Prussian General Jul 17, 2024

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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American Filth Live! Jul 10, 2024

It's our recording of American Filth Live! Featuring a gay Prussian who changed the course of the Revolutionary War.

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Binging with the Founders Jul 03, 2024

Two days before the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates, including George Washington, got hammered.

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Quaker Jugs Jun 26, 2024

Sometimes when Puritans are oppressing you, a Quaker, you gotta pull the girls out.

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Hard Harding's Sex Letters Jun 19, 2024

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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O Say Can You Cheat Jun 12, 2024

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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Polly Wanna F**king Cracker Jun 05, 2024

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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Ouija Board Husband! Comstock Part 3 May 29, 2024

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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Unpregnanted! Comstock Part 2 May 22, 2024

Anthony Comstock strikes again! This time going after notorious abortionist Madame Restell.

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Boo Birth Control!!! Comstock Part 1 May 15, 2024

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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First Gay President??? Bedfellows Headfellows Part 3 May 08, 2024

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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GAY-braham Lincoln??? Bedfellows Headfellows Part 2 May 01, 2024

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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Spicy Southerners! Bedfellows Headfellows Part 1 Apr 24, 2024

Some South Carolinian politicians in the 1820s did a lot more than sleeping. Just ask their fleshen poles.

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Oneid(ON'T MIND IF YOU BANG MY WIFE)a Apr 17, 2024

Religious group? Sex cult? Polyamorous filth? Silverware manufacturer? The Oneida Community had it all.

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Exploiting the Mann Act Apr 10, 2024

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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Sex! (It's a play) Apr 03, 2024

Mae West brings Sex to Broadway but also...gay people??

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The Not-So-Genius Killer Mar 27, 2024

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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The Solitary Vice Mar 20, 2024

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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Runaway Husband Mar 13, 2024

In 1873, a woman finds a husband from a newspaper ad. But turns out... he sucks.

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Thomas vs Thomasine Mar 06, 2024

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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Gross Grover Feb 28, 2024

Did you know we have gross presidents??? Well, President Grover Cleveland, aka Steve Cleve, was one of the grossest.

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girlboss mobboss Feb 21, 2024

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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The Dirty Dirty Blues Feb 14, 2024

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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Tar and Feather Feb 07, 2024

When the haters* get you down, douse 'em in some tar and stick on some feathers.

*Britain

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The Seven Hairy Wonders Jan 31, 2024

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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A Sea Of Manure Jan 24, 2024

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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Farewell to Storyville Jan 17, 2024

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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The Perez Morton Affair Jan 10, 2024

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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Breadcrumbin' Benjamin Franklin Jan 03, 2024

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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Cancel Christmas! Dec 20, 2023

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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A Tale Of Two Cheeses Dec 13, 2023

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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Evelyn Nesbit and Her Problematic Boys Dec 06, 2023

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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Sea Snack Nov 29, 2023

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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The Embalmed Beef Scandal Nov 22, 2023

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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The Grandest of Larcenies Nov 15, 2023

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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Jumbo Johnson Nov 08, 2023

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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Jesus P. Christ Nov 01, 2023

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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Vampires in New England Oct 25, 2023

Happy Halloween! Trying to get over that consumption cough?? Have you tried digging up your dead grandma and BURNING HER?!

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Enemas and Pus Oct 18, 2023

James Garfield gets shot, and some doctors stick their nasty fingies in the wound. Yum!

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Christ Boy Cheater Oct 11, 2023

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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Vicious White Women Oct 04, 2023

Union soldiers won't stop banging, so they hire a boat.

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Simply Bizarre! Sep 27, 2023

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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Newport J*** Festival Sep 20, 2023

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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Gougin' Sep 13, 2023

Watch out for your eyes!

MAIN SOURCES:

Elliott J. Gorn, "Gouge and Bite, Pull Hair and Scratch,”
Thomas Ashe, "Travels in America Performed in 1806."

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Livin' and Dyin' By the Wiener Sep 06, 2023

Founding Daddy Gouverneur Morris is coming for (and on) your wife.

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New Haven and the Pigmen Sep 06, 2023

Bang a sow! Hang a man!

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Introducing: American Filth Aug 30, 2023

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