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Garbled Twistory: A US History Podcast told through elections!

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Garbled Twistory is a podcast that’s primary objective is to humanize history, through humorizing history. It re-tells history in a way that places special emphasis on the most unusual elements and indiscriminately injects F.U.N by the bucketload! The first season’s focus is US History: as told by all of its presidential elections and all of its presidential election candidates! There will be biographical episodes for every presidential candidate, episodes for every election, and episodes for the years in between them! Get Excited! Expect a new episode to pop up here every Sunday! You can listen on iTunes, Stitcher, many a place! We also have a Facebook Page!

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United States

Description:

Garbled Twistory is a podcast that’s primary objective is to humanize history, through humorizing history. It re-tells history in a way that places special emphasis on the most unusual elements and indiscriminately injects F.U.N by the bucketload! The first season’s focus is US History: as told by all of its presidential elections and all of its presidential election candidates! There will be biographical episodes for every presidential candidate, episodes for every election, and episodes for the years in between them! Get Excited! Expect a new episode to pop up here every Sunday! You can listen on iTunes, Stitcher, many a place! We also have a Facebook Page!

Language:

English


Episodes

Second Announcement of RESTRUCTURING!

1/7/2024

Duration:00:01:39

Belva Ann Lockwood: A Veteran Lady Lawyer? In the 1800s??

10/29/2023
Ok so the first prezzy prezzy candidate for 1884 is like... Possibly more rare than a unicorn! Not only is she a woman in 1800s politics, but like... She fought her way through law school too?? Impressive!

Duration:00:05:58

Thomas Andrews Hendricks: WHOA! He's back?

10/23/2023
The final VP candidee of 1884 is just... My goodness what is he doing back here? Okay? I guess this is a REBROADCAST with the NEW INFO at the 9:39 mark!

Duration:00:12:13

John Alexander Logan: Most Improved?

10/15/2023
This VP Candidate seems to have lived a fairly easy life, floating around the government as he preps for 1884...

Duration:00:04:46

William Daniel: Keeping An Eye On The Drunks!

10/9/2023
These prohibition folks are STILL AT IT in 1884, and this next VP candidate is no exception, that's for sure!

Duration:00:04:26

Absolom Madden West: A Career Traitor. Don't Trust Him.

10/1/2023
This next 1884 VP candidate is rather unknown... But um. He DOES have a habit of changing allegiances so be careful around him...

Duration:00:03:00

Marietta Stow: Wait, A Woman?

9/24/2023
The first VP candidate we're looking at for 1884 ALSO happens to be the first woman to ever run for VP... I mean, it only took a hundred years, but better late than never I guess!

Duration:00:04:05

1883: Fyre Fest But He's A Cannibal

9/17/2023
Ok so for this final in-between-election episode some crazy man ate people and he's in court now in 1883 and like... I don't like him.

Duration:00:10:18

1882: You Ain't Never Leaving Vulcan Street

9/10/2023
In this next in-betweener it's time for a cute little story about the invention of how generate electricity in ya household!

Duration:00:03:37

1881: Cleopatra in the Big City!

9/4/2023
We are now getting into these in-between-election events! And things are already starting off crazy cuz there's some 1400 BCE stuff going on here!

Duration:00:06:05

ELECTION #24!

8/28/2023
The 1880 election is here and why does all this nonsense sound so freaking familiar?

Duration:00:14:39

James Abram Garfield: Stark-Raving Abolitionist Mathemetician!

8/20/2023
We have arrived at the final official presidential potential for 1880 and this man's done some rather unusual things indeed!

Duration:00:18:50

Winfield Scott Hancock: A Many-Faced Demon

8/14/2023
The second-to-last 1880 Prezzy Wezzy candidee has experienced a great deal of recent history from a great number of vantage points all because of his reputation for being frighteningly reliable...

Duration:00:12:47

James Baird Weaver: Man of the Future!

8/6/2023
As these 1880 Prezzy Wezzy candidates wind down, we find ourselves ahead of our time somehow with this guy...

Duration:00:11:50

Neal Dow: The Forever War Against Alcahol!

7/30/2023
This presidential candidate for 1880 definitely has one of the stranger backstories regarding his motivations, or should I say primarily singular motivation...

Duration:00:12:58

John Wolcott Phelps: A Soldier in Perhaps Too Many Ways or Just Enough Ways!

7/23/2023
The first prezzy wezzy candidate for 1880 we're looking at has a very weird, contradictory military history. I don't know what to do with him.

Duration:00:04:46

Chester Alan Arthur: The Slimiest Abolitionist Ever

7/16/2023
The final VP candidate we are looking at for 1880 has done some of the wildest political shenanigans I have seen in a long time... New York goes CRAZY bro!

Duration:00:13:15

William Hayden English: Willing To Compromise Literally Anything

7/9/2023
As these VP candidates wind down we meet a dude who honestly is such a square that he's lucky he's from Indiana.

Duration:00:07:14

Barzillai Jefferson Chambers: The Crazed Landlord!

7/2/2023
These 1880 VP Candidates are really turning out to be an unusual bunch, and BARZILLAI over here is no exception.

Duration:00:06:38

Henry Adams Thompson: He's Just A Math Tearcher Bro.

6/25/2023
Yes it's another VP candidate for 1880 and uh... his qualifications are uh... Integral Calculus I Guess?

Duration:00:04:35