mccarthyism — The Podcast — Beyond Reproach

In this episode we imbibe a delicious but obscure Civil War punch called General Burnside’s Favorite. We learn about the odd man with infamous facial hair who created this hot brandy-based concoction and how it links to the era of Stephanie’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2021/3/31/episode-32-general-burnsides-favorite

ALSO DISCUSSED: Whiskey rations, sideburns, HBO’s True Detective, buying your own stimmy, Well That’s Interesting podcast, hair beads, Big Gay, from riots to pjs, true crime, Turd Cruz, male peacocks, straight men smelling like farts, graph paper, gaydar, xeroxing one’s buttcheeks, the Bushwick Bigot Destroyer, and the legacy of Dr. Frank Kameny.

For more info on our episode cocktail: General Burnside’s Favorite
Imbibe! Updated and Revised Edition: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to "Professor" Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar
Home Punch & Punches History of punch
Forty-rod, Blue Ruin & Oh Be Joyful: Civil War Alcohol Abuse
Wikipedia – Ambrose Burnside

STEPHANIE tells the story of Samuel Upham, the man who dunked on the Confederacy all the way from the safety of his shop in downtown Philly. We raise our glasses to a successful war profiteer we all can get down with because sometimes you gotta print money to make money!
The Counterfeiter Who Sank the Confederacy
11 Things You Might Not Know About Samuel Upham /
Samuel C. Upham - Wikipedia
Confederate States dollar - Wikipedia
A Counterfeiting Conspiracy? - The New York Times
Samuel Upham: The Counterfeiter Who Helped Win the Civil War
Samuel Curtis Upham
Milestones: 1861–1865

TUX revisits McCarthyism to shine a light on the Lavender Scare, one of the most successful witch hunts swept under the rug of American history. We toast to living out loud and proud and learning that there is more to gay pride than rainbow pijamas.
The Lavender Scare: When the U.S. Government Persecuted Employees for Being Gay
How the Lavender Scare Ruined Queer Lives
Opinion | Frank Kameny's pioneering gay journey
The Deviant's War: superb epic of Frank Kameny and the fight for gay equality
The United States Government's Anti-Gay Lavender Scare, Explained
The Lavender Scare: the shocking true story of an anti-LGBT witch-hunt
9 Things To Know About 'The Lavender Scare' - Out.com
“These People Are Frightened to Death” | National Archives
LGBT History: The Lavender Scare | nglcc.org
Congress Wants State Department to Reckon With the ‘Lavender Scare’
Frank Kameny: Gay Activist and Washingtonian
The lavender scare: How the federal government purged gay employees

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In this episode we drink Washington DC's native cocktail, the Gin Rickey. This classic drink, mentioned by name F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, ties to the era and location of Stephanie's scandalous tale.

In this episode we drink Washington DC’s native cocktail, the Gin Rickey. This classic drink, mentioned by name F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, ties to the era and location of Stephanie’s scandalous tale.
🍸 - The Gin Rickey

ALSO DISCUSSED: Tux does a swear, Brokey McPoverty, Zales, drip, Cardi B, the Gigli era, being decrepit, a bag of disposable dicks, Spanish flu, Hashtag History Podcast, allied Mean Girls, brain chemistry, being tired and gassy, Teapot Dome scandal, Shared History Podcast, Willy Wonka, and Matthew McConaughey’s “range.”

For more info on our episode cocktail: Gin Rickey
Gin Rickey Cocktail Recipe
The Birth, Death and Rebirth Of The Gin Rickey
Gin Rickey Cocktail Recipe

STEPHANIE shines a light on the end of President Wilson’s political career. We toast to 2 things: to the great American tradition of lying about Presidential health but more importantly to our first female president.
Edith Wilson: The First Lady Who Became an Acting President — Without Being Elected
Wiki - Woodrow Wilson
Edith Wilson Biography
Edwin A. Weinstein, 89, Neuropsychiatrist Who Studied President Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson collapses in Pueblo, Colo., Sept. 25, 1919
Edith Wilson and the Treaty of Versailles
Wiki - Spanish flu
Woodrow Wilson - Strokes and Denial
The long history of hiding US presidential illnesses
When a secret president ran the country
Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt - HISTORY
Woodrow Wilson’s Case of the Flu, and How Pandemics Change History
The League of Nations, 1920.
Pan-American Initiatives: The Wilson Presidency and "Regional Integration," 1914–17
Love and Guilt: Woodrow Wilson and Mary Hulbert
Woodrow Wilson's Illness Left America without a President for 17 Months
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment Makes Presidential Disability a Political Question

TUX dives into the effects of McCarthyism on Hollywood. We raise our glasses to smear campaigns and to the knowledge that, in politics, fear and misinformation are much more powerful tools than facts or evidence.
Hollywood blacklist | History, Effect on Society, & Facts
The Accident of McCarthyism
HUAC - Definition, Hearings & Investigations - HISTORY
Five myths about McCarthyism
The Hollywood Ten: The Men Who Refused to Name Names
Wiki - Hollywood blacklist
Wiki - McCarthyism
How Kirk Douglas helped break the Hollywood blacklist
The Hollywood 10
How Kirk Douglas Overstated His Role in Breaking the Hollywood Blacklist
Hollywood blacklisted my father Dalton Trumbo: now I’m proud they’ve put him on screen
Trumbo (Netflix)
Screenwriter’s blacklisting, shown in ‘Trumbo,’ still scars his daughter

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