Guns, Drugs, & Rock 'n' Roll: Episode 30 (Elvis pays Nixon a visit & Ford tells NYC to Drop Dead)

March 1, 2021 Tux Loerzel

On this 30th episode of Beyond Reproach we finally drink a vodka cocktail! Huzzah! We imbibe on a White Russian (a drink that has nothing to do with Russia and everything to do with vodka) in honor of the 1970s, the era of both of our scandals.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Leisure suits, Peanut & banana sandwiches, Guess Who is Coming to Dinner, Milk of Magnesia, More Than a Crush Podcast, Return to Sender, doing the Mariah Carey, rooftop bars, Cynthia Nixon, It’s Above Me Now, Covid Island, marginal tax rate, and old person flavors.

For more info on our episode cocktail: White Russian
The History of the White Russian
Origin Of The White Russian

For more info on the history of vodka:
How America Fell in Love With Vodka
Vodka Is the Most Popular Spirit in the World. Yet Most Bartenders Hate It.

It’s above me now:
Its Above Me Now (Original)

STEPHANIE does a deep dive into that inexplicable time when Elvis Presley met with President Nixon and begged to become a federal narcotics agent. We toast to...DRUGS!
When Nixon Met Elvis - Citations
Elvis Presley's Letter to President Richard Nixon
When Elvis Met Nixon | History
Before there was Kanye and Trump, there was Elvis and Nixon
The Time Elvis Presley Called The Beatles 'Anti-American' To Nixon
Elvis' addiction was the perfect prescription for an early death
Elvis Presley's drug enforcement badge up for auction at Graceland

TUX explores the time when Ford essentially told New York City to drop dead during a financial crisis when it was on the verge of bankruptcy. We raise our glasses to cutting off one’s nose to spite one's face.
How the Fiscal Crisis of the ’70s Shaped Today’s New York (Published 2017)
'Welcome to Fear City' – the inside story of New York's civil war, 40 years on
The Night New York Saved Itself from Bankruptcy
The 1970s Pamphlet Aimed At Keeping Tourists Out Of NYC
Ford to City: Drop Dead in 1975 - New York Daily News
Lessons From the Great Default Crisis of 1975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses#Early_life_and_rise_to_power
Wiki - City University of New York
Wiki - History of New York City

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Minisode 23: Bye Don

February 15, 2021 Tux Loerzel

In this minisode we air our feelings on both the horrors and gifts of the Trump presidency; from the rise of the cult of Q to the "Caucasion Awakening" and much more. We also share our hopes for the Biden Administration.

In this minisode we air our feelings on both the horrors and gifts of the Trump presidency; from the rise of the cult of Q to the “Caucasion Awakening”and much more. We also share our hopes for the Biden Administration.

**CORRECTION: Brazil does NOT have higher covid numbers than the US, it has less than a half of the US infection and death rate.** https://covid19.who.int/

**CORRECTION II: Tux mistakenly said that Kelly Loeffler gave a group of dangerous Qanon conspiracy theorists a tour of the capitol building the day before Trump’s failed coup attempt. It was actually Congresswoman Lauren Boebert who gave that tour of the capitol. We apologize.**

ALSO MENTIONED: raggedy ass coups, Turd Cruz, Cori Bush, Diet Coke buttons, Fred Hampton, Peculiar Picture Show, r/QAnonCasualties, aging in dog years, the history of filibuster, and Ranked Choice Voting.

SOURCES:
"It's time to act": Biden rolls out new actions on climate change
Biden And Separated Immigrant Families: A Task Force To Help Reunite Them
Everything President Joe Biden Has Already Done Since Coming Into Office
In Joe Biden, the Health Care Industry Has Found Its Guy
Biden signs orders on racial equity, and civil rights groups press for more
Biden reignites immigration fight in Congress

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Black History is American History: Episode 29 (The Forgotten Story of Seneca Village, and the Origins of “40 Acres and a Mule”)

February 1, 2021 Tux Loerzel

In this very special episode in honor of Black History Month we drink the iconic Knickerbocker cocktail. The term comes from OG Dutch settlers and refers to an old fashion style of pants. This New York City cocktail was popular in the 1850s, the era and the setting of Tux's scandal.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Sportsball, who shot JR, Tux’s altered sense of taste, 12 Years a Slave, Peculiar Picture Show, Harry Belefonte, iphone snitchery, Hashtag History, finkin’ it frough, Joni Mitchell, long ass receipts, town of Bushwick, eyelash beads, white supremacist unity, How to Save a Planet, and Soul Fire Farm.

For more info on our episode cocktail: Knickerbocker
Knickerbocker - Drink Recipe – How to Make the Perfect Knickerbocker
Discover the Knickerbocker, an original cocktail from New York
The Knickerbocker Cocktail, Circa 1850 – Bottle Pro Blog

TUX talks about the construction of Central Park and Seneca Village, one of 19th century New York's largest free black settlements. We toast to setting the record straight!
A look at Seneca Village, the early black settlement obliterated by the creation of Central Park
Opinion | The Death of the Black Utopia
Seneca Village: When New York City Destroyed a Thriving Black Community To Make Way for Central Park
An entire Manhattan village owned by black people was destroyed to build Central Park
A Village Dies, A Park Is Born
Wiki - Seneca Village
Seneca Village: the lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park
DISCOVER SENECA VILLAGE
Before Central Park: The Historic Neighborhood Lost to Time
New-York Historical Society
Seneca Village - The Excavations

STEPHANIE talks about “40 acres and a mule” and how the scandal of what happened to this land shows so much of what was possible at this one moment in history and what Reconstruction could have been if this country was about freedom and justice for all of its citizens. We raise a glass to a quote from Nikole Hannah-Jones’s essay in the 1619 Project..
RACE - The Power of an Illusion . Background Readings
Wiki - Tunis Campbell
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. (Published 2019)
40 Acres and a Mule: Role-Playing What Reconstruction Could Have Been
Wiki - Special Field Orders No. 15
The Story Behind '40 Acres And A Mule' : Code Switch
The Truth Behind '40 Acres and a Mule' | African American History Blog | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross
Forty acres and a mule: The idea of reparations for slavery is not new –
Wiki - St. Catherines Island
Sherman's Field Order No. 15 | New Georgia Encyclopedia
Tunis Gulic Campbell (1812–1891)
Take that, Scarlett O'Hara: The tale of Tunis Campbell is the true story of Georgia Reconstruction – Brambleman
Hinshaw: Historic marker does injustice to black preacher
Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1872)
The Real Story of Racism at the USDA
Booker, Warren, Gillibrand Announce Comprehensive Bill to Address the History of Discrimination in Federal Agricultural Policy

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How to Save a Planet | Gimlet
SOUL FIRE FARM – Ending racism and injustice in the food system

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Minisode 22: The Why and How of Japanese Concentration Camps

January 18, 2021 Tux Loerzel

This minisode is a continuation of Episode 26. TUX revisits a shameful time when this country rounded up 120,000 American citizens and put them in concentration camps. He discussed the why and how this all happened.

**Please note this episode was recorded the week before Donald Trump inspired a white supremacist insurection on Capitol Hill that resulted in 5 deaths, many injuries, and at least 2 bombs**

ALSO MENTIONED: staying racist so you don’t have to get racist, the dark reason behind Victory Gardens, Herstory on the Rocks Podcast, and 2020 Census.

SOURCES:
Freedom Costs A Buck O Five: Episode 26
The Dangerous Economics of Racial Resentment During World War II
Secret Use of Census Info Helped Send Japanese Americans to Internment Camps in WWII

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Woodredith: Episode 28 (Edith Wilson America's First Female President & McCarthyism and The Hollywood Blacklist)

January 4, 2021 Tux Loerzel

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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How to Kill a Revolution: Episode 27 (The Fred Hampton Assassination & The Story of Red Emma Goldman and the Palmer Raids)

December 30, 2020 Tux Loerzel

On this very special episode of Beyond Reproach we are joined by Tim Cluff (@timatim_picpic), our podfather, sound engineer and personal savior. Tim steps out from behind the scenes to swap scandals with us. We learn about the history of the brandy-based concoction known as the Sidecar and how it links to the era of Stephanie’s scandal.This cocktail is a spirited, elegant way to wrap up the year! Cheers to 2020 almost being over y’all!
🍸- The Sidecar

ALSO DISCUSSED: Drinking every liquor mixed together with orange drink, Stephanie’s friend the sea witch, the Wizard of Oz, Bushwick Variety Show, Breonna Taylor, sturdy white men, SVU, The Third Wheel Podcast, Quad City DJs, Very Presidential podcast, Red Pepper, magic beans, #notallanarchists, PIV, J Edgar Hoover, and da club.

For more info on our episode cocktail the: Sidecar
Sidecar Cocktail Recipe
Classic Cocktails in History: the Sidecar

STEPHANIE examines the assasination of Fred Hampton, the first high-profile case of police brutality in American history. We raise a glass, to the Fred Hampton quote— You can jail the revolutionaries, but you can’t jail the revolution. Power to the people!
Wiki - Fred Hampton
'The Murder Of Fred Hampton' Still Has Much To Teach, Watch It Here
COINTELPRO: Teaching the FBI’s War on the Black Freedom Movement
What We Don’t Learn About the Black Panther Party — but Should
The police raid that killed two Black Panthers, shook Chicago and changed the nation
8 Black Panther Party Programs That Were More Empowering Than Federal Government Programs
Power Anywhere Where There's People
“The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther”
8 Black Panther Party Programs That Were More Empowering Than Federal Government Programs
Educate to Liberate: Black Panther Liberation Schools | The Studio Museum in Harlem
Organizing a Rainbow Coalition of Revolutionary Solidarity
"Something Worth Being Killed Over": The FBI, Cultural Propaganda, and the Murder of Fred Hampton
Fred Hampton interviewed by ABC News - October 9th 1969
Fred Hampton - "Political Prisoner" [1080p remastered]
Black Panther Fred Hampton killed 50 years ago in Chicago police raid
Remembering Fred Hampton and Mark Clark

TIM tells the story of Red Emma and the Palmer Raids. We toast to the brilliant immigrants who built this nation and the government that deports them!
Emma Goldman An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman
The Palmer Raids | The Bombing of Wall Street
The Palmer Raids Explained: US History Review
Sedition Act, Red Scare, & Palmer Raids Explained
KCTS 9 - History Making: General Strike
Commemorating Emma Goldman: 'Living My Life' | HowardZinn.org
Wiki - Emma Goldman
Wiki - Haymarket affair
Wiki - Alexander Berkman
Wiki - Johann Most
Wiki - Immigration Act of 1903
Wiki - A. Mitchell Palmer
Wiki - J. Edgar Hoover
1919: U.S. deports free-love anarchist 'Red Emma' to Russia

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Freedom Costs a Buck O Five: Episode 26 (Japanese detention centers in America & the hypocrisy of Edwin Meese III)

December 7, 2020 Tux Loerzel

On this very special episode of Beyond Reproach we are joined by Jesse Dorris (@jessedorris), a journalist and friend of the pod. Tux and Jesse swap scandals while Stephanie gets tastefully drunk. The Aviation cocktail is resurrected from the 1940s to pair with Tux's scandal. This stunning lavender drink features Crème de Violette liqueur.

On this very special episode of Beyond Reproach we are joined by Jesse Dorris (@jessedorris), a journalist and friend of the pod. Tux and Jesse swap scandals while Stephanie gets tastefully drunk. The Aviation cocktail is resurrected from the 1940s to pair with Tux’s scandal. This stunning lavender drink features Crème de Violette liqueur. Pinkies up y’all, it's a fancy one!

ALSO DISCUSSED: Freedom costing $1.05, buying a Kia, a bag of rusty nickels, George Nakashima,George Takei, ICE detention centers, Accessible Art History podcast, the injustice league, parental advisory labels, woke Bill Kristol, Peggy Noonan, Law & Order SVU, the LAPD’s delorian, doing it for the nookie, our new sex tape review podcast, Jasmine Masters, and Turd Cruz.

For more info on our episode cocktail the: Aviation
Aviation - PUNCH
Wiki - Aviation (cocktail)
The Rise and Fall of the Aviation Cocktail - PUNCH

TUX explores one of the worst violations of civil rights in the 20th century, Japanese detention centers on American soil. We toast to refusing to learn from our mistakes and repeating them over and over again!
The Incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II
Japanese-American Internment During World War II
Japanese Internment Camps: WWII, Life & Conditions - HISTORY
Senate Votes to Compensate Japanese-American Internees
Laying Some History On You: The High Cost of Internment Camps
The Injustice of Japanese-American Internment Camps Resonates Strongly to This Day
Learn the Legacy of Japanese American Incarceration
Road to the Camps
The dangerous economics of racial resentment during World War II

JESSE walks us through the hefty legacy and extraordinary hypocrisy of Edwin Meese III.
What Ed Meese’s Presidential Medal of Freedom Says About the G.O.P. and Impeachment
Sources: Former Trump critic Ed Meese joins transition team
COMMON CAUSE BIDS SENATE VOTE AGAINST MEESE
The Roots of Ed Meese : Reagan's Polemical Attorney General Has Prompted a Major Constitutional Debate, Surprising Those Who Knew Him in His Pragmatic Early Days, in the Quiet Hills of Oakland and During the Turbulent '60s
SOME SAY MEESE REPORT RATES AN 'X'
COMMENTS BY MEESE ON HUNGER PRODUCE A STORM OF CONTROVERSY (1983)
Meese's Viewpoint On ACLU Efforts Called His Own
Meese Says Few Suspects Are Innocent of Crime
The Roots of Ed Meese : Reagan's Polemical Attorney General Has Prompted a Major Constitutional Debate, Surprising Those Who Knew Him in His Pragmatic Early Days, in the Quiet Hills of Oakland and During the Turbulent '60s

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Minisode 21: Trump is a LOSER

November 16, 2020 Tux Loerzel

We cheers our 46th President of the United States, Joe Biden, while trying not to dunk too hard on a certain sore loser. TUX talks about the history of the Electoral College, voting by mail and peaceful power transfers.

ALSO MENTIONED: when the streets be yellin’, Nevada, Wining About Herstory, spicy newscasters with all the receipts, Trump learns to read, and words of warning from Hillary Clinton.

SOURCES:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/salvadorhernandez/trump-loss-celebration-photos-motorcade-golfing-white-house
https://twitter.com/OhThatJustinLev/status/1325244992969822208/photo/1
https://www.democracyrising.live/

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MOVE is in the Heart: Episode 25 (The West Philly MOVE Bombing, and the Real History of Thanksgiving)

November 2, 2020 Tux Loerzel

ALSO DISCUSSED:Cutting the mustard, MTV's Diary, #notallblackpeople, Karen, More Than a Crush podcast, when the groove is coming from inside your heart, Festivus, Tux's mental gymnastic genes, the Mary Had a Little Lamb empire, shopping holidays, wholesome buckles, sturdy white men, Masters of Social Gastronomy podcast, the co-opting of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springstein's songs.

This episode we stack up our multi-colored scrunchies and sip on some Triple Berry Wine Coolers in honor of Tux’s 80’s scandal. This classic retro cocktail is a fruity refreshing treat that is very easy to make (hint hint)! Treat yourselves!
🍸 - Triple Berry Wine Cooler

ALSO DISCUSSED:Cutting the mustard, MTV’s Diary, #notallblackpeople, Karen, More Than a Crush podcast, when the groove is coming from inside your heart, Festivus, Tux’s mental gymnastic genes, the Mary Had a Little Lamb empire, shopping holidays, wholesome buckles, sturdy white men, Masters of Social Gastronomy podcast, the co-opting of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springstein’s songs.

For more info on our episode cocktail the:
The Weird and Wavy History of Wine Coolers
How To Turn a $5 Bottle of Wine into a Wine Cooler

TUX shines a light on that day in Philadelphia when law enforcement dropped a bomb on a civilian neighborhood and let the fire burn. We toast to black lives and black communities!
Can Philly Fix the Block It Razed, Then Shabbily Rebuilt, After MOVE Bombing?
The day police bombed a city street: can scars of 1985 Move atrocity be healed?
The 1985 Philadelphia bombing that changed the city forever
Wiki - John Africa
Wiki - MOVE
The MOVE Bombings 29 Years Later | Let the Fire Burn | Independent Lens
Never Forget: In 1985 Police Dropped a Bomb on a West Philly Neighborhood; Killing 11 and Destroying 61 Homes
I'm From Philly. 30 Years Later, I'm Still Trying To Make Sense Of The MOVE Bombing
Police Drop Bomb on Radical's Home in Philadelphia (Published 1985)
City Council issues overdue apology for 1985 MOVE bombing
After rehab, homes destroyed by MOVE bombing find buyers
Philadelphia Move Bombing Documentary
*Unfortunately, the documentary I watched in researching this episode is no longer available on this site and I’ve been unable to find it elsewhere.
Let the Fire Burn Documentary

STEPHANIE explores the invention of Thanksgiving in honor of Native American Indian Heritage month. We raise our glasses to massacres, myths, and the making of our beloved November holiday!
This Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving
The Invention of Thanksgiving
The First Thanksgiving Took Place in Virginia, not Massachusetts.
5 myths about Thanksgiving - The Washington Post
Everything You Learned About Thanksgiving Is Wrong
How the 'Mother of Thanksgiving' Lobbied Abraham Lincoln to Proclaim the National Holiday
8 Interesting Thanksgiving Day Facts - Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving
The Truth About Thanksgiving: What They Never Taught You in School
The dark history of Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving's history: Where was the first Thanksgiving celebrated?
Did Florida Host the First Thanksgiving? - HISTORY
A Nation of Thanksgiving
Tisquantum and the Pilgrims

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Minisode 20: Modern Day Eugenics

October 19, 2020 Tux Loerzel

News of the forced sterilizations of migrant women at the private Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia allows Stephanie to explore four modern-day examples of eugenics practices. These examples, mainly from the 60s and 70s, are still unfortunately relevant to what is happening today.

ALSO MENTIONED: reverse engineering justifications for systemic injustices, A Tap on the Wrist Podcast, Stephanie’s favorite cocktail, “doctor” Leo Stanley and his ball replacement “transplants”

SOURCES:
When Doctors Took ‘Family Planning’ Into Their Own Hands (Published 2016)
Relf v. Weinberger
A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters
The San Quentin prison doctor who performed over 10,000 human experiments

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Eugenics Village: Episode 24 (The Buck v. Bell case affirming forced sterilization, and Mary Todd Lincoln's White House seances)

October 5, 2020 Tux Loerzel

Beyond Reproach gets a little spooky! We bring you two historically dark scandals for your listening pleasure. Start your Halloween season off right!. ALSO DISCUSSED: Doctor Nick, #turdlifestyle, Eugenics village, AIM chat sounds, Oprah giveaways, Peculiar Picture Show, and Stephanie the pre-vert. STEPHANIE does a deep dive into a real-life horror story: the 1927 Buck v.

Beyond Reproach gets a little spooky! We bring y’all two historically dark scandals for your listening pleasure. Start your Halloween season off right!.

We drink a mad scientist-themed prohibition cocktail called the Monkey Gland which ties directly in era and theme to Stephanie’s scandal. This famous drink, featuring a delicious absinthe rinse, was named after a ridiculous faux medical procedure popularized in the 20s.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Doctor Nick, #turdlifestyle, Eugenics village, AIM chat sounds, Oprah giveaways, Peculiar Picture Show, and Stephanie the pre-vert.

For more info on our episode cocktail the Monkey Gland:
The Quack Doctor & the Monkey Gland Cocktail
26. THE MONKEY GLAND: 1920s
Gems from Cocoanuts, Irving Berlin songs in Marx Brothers show (1926) Billy Murray

STEPHANIE does a deep dive into a real-life horror story: the 1927 Buck v. Bell case, the landmark ruling that reaffirmed a state's right to uphold an inhumane eugenics law. We raise our glasses to yet another dark chapter brushed under the rug of American history!
When Americans tried to breed a better race: How a genetic fitness 'crusade' marches on
Wiki - Eugenics in the United States
Wiki - Compulsory Sterilization in the United States
The Black Stork
Wiki - Eugenics in California
On Indigenous Peoples Day, recalling forced sterilizations of Native American women
Virginia Sterilization Act of 1924
Eugenics & The Story of Carrie Buck
Watch The Eugenics Crusade | American Experience | Official Site
“Three Generations of Imbeciles are Enough” — The Case of Buck v. Bell
Eugenics and the Nazis -- the California connection
BUCK v. BELL, Superintendent of State Colony Epileptics and Feeble Minded.
The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations

TUX discusses Mary Todd Lincoln’s tragic life of predatory spiritualism. We toast to normalizing mourning, grieving, and encouraging people to show emotions.
Mary Todd Lincoln, Spiritualist. Did the first lady's supernatural… | by Mitch Horowitz
Seances in the Red Room
Spiritualists in Lincoln's White House - The History Reader
Mary's Charlatans
A séance in the White House ~ Why The Victorians Saw Ghosts by Michael Gallagher
Did British clairvoyant warn Abraham Lincoln about his assassination?
Ghosts in the White House - HISTORY
Mary Todd Lincoln Became a Laughingstock After Her Husband’s Assassination
The Spiritualist Who Warned Lincoln Was Also Booth's Drinking Buddy
White House ghosts: A history of who haunts the presidents

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Minisode 19: Review Contest Winners & Season 3

September 21, 2020 Tux Loerzel

It's Season 3, y'all! We are back to reveal the three winners of our listener review contest and to chat about the future of our mini podcast episodes. We are shaking things up this season, we hope you join us on our journey!

It’s Season 3, y’all! We are back to reveal the three winners of our listener review contest and to chat about the future of our mini podcast episodes. We are shaking things up this season, we hope you join us on our journey!

Shoutout to winners UmmmCassie, Maria Milazzo, and Kimbeauxxx who will be receiving some fancypants Beyond Reproach merch. Thanks to everyone who took the time to review us! It really helps the pod and to a lesser degree our self-esteems.

ALSO MENTIONED: cocktails that are a P in the A, Hashtag History, making a plan to vote in November, filling the swamp with swamp monsters, and election volunteering.

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Sounds About White: Episode 23 (United Daughters of the Confederacy & Mount Rushmore's History)

September 7, 2020 Tux Loerzel

In our first episode of Season 3 we drink a southern classic and favorite of Huey P. Long (see episode 11 & 12), the Ramos Gin Fizz. https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails This frothy vintage cocktail created in 1888 used to require twelve minutes of shaking to create its iconic foam top.

In our first episode of Season 3 we drink a southern classic and favorite of Huey P. Long (see episode 11 & 12), the Ramos Gin Fizz. This frothy vintage cocktail created in 1888 used to require twelve minutes of shaking to create its iconic foam top. We learn about the history of this labor-intensive but delicious cream-based concoction and how it relates to Tux’s scandal.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Blanche Devereaux, Golden Palace, Howard Zinn, laughing oneself into a sweat, making Orwell fiction again, sturdy well-endowed white men, Peculiar Picture Show, eyeholes, Petty Pendergrass, and Indian “promenades.”

For more info on our episode cocktail and the Ramos Gin Fizz::
Ramos Gin Fizz (Henry C. Ramos Recipe Optimized)
Ramos Gin Fizz cocktail
Cocktails Every Southerner Should Master

TUX’s dives deep into the Daughters of the Confederacy, the construction of confederate monuments, and the mythology of the Lost Cause. We toast to symbols of hate and oppression and the white women who love them.

Lost Cause of the Confederacy
TWISTED SOURCES: How Confederate propaganda ended up in the South's schoolbooks
Happy slaves? The peculiar story of three Virginia school textbooks
Persective | Untangling the Lost Cause myth from the American story will be hard
7 things the United Daughters of the Confederacy might not want you to know about them
Perspective | Untangling the Lost Cause myth from the American story will be hard
Poll: Americans divided over whether slavery was the Civil War’s main cause
For 10 years, students in Texas have used a textbook that says not all slaves were unhappy
Wiki - United Daughters of the Confederacy
As Confederate monuments tumble, die-hards are erecting replacements
How I Learned About the “Cult of the Lost Cause”
Lost Cause, The
WHOSE HERITAGE? 153 YEARS OF CONFEDERATE ICONOGRAPHY
Confederate Flag Golden Girls Episode

STEPHANIE shines a light on the century-long fight over Mount Rushmore, America’s highly problematic national landmark that never should have been built. We raise a glass to struggle, what the aim of the struggle depends on who you ask.
Wiki - Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
Wiki - Gutzon Borglum
“He Wasn’t Invited”: How Trump’s Racist Mt. Rushmore Celebration Violated Indigenous Sovereignty
Mt. Rushmore has a racist history | Op-eds – Gulf News
Native Americans and Mount Rushmore | American Experience
The Sordid History of Mount Rushmore | History
The Black Hills of South Dakota
Mount Rushmore Historian: Monument 'Is Like A Rorschach, It Says Different Things To Different People'
IN HISTORY: Congress Approves Carving of Mount Rushmore
The real history of Mount Rushmore
Lakota in America
In 1868, Two Nations Made a Treaty, the U.S. Broke It and Plains Indian Tribes are Still Seeking Justice
How the mountain got its name
George Washington's 'Tortuous' Relationship with Native Americans | Essay
President Jefferson and the Indian Nations
Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
Teddy Roosevelt Laid Bare

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Summer Break Re-Release: The Secret Love of Eleanor & Hick

September 1, 2020 Tux Loerzel

STEPHANIE introduces the listeners' favorite scandal TUX has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 12: The Secret Love Story of Eleanor & Hick. TUX explores the hidden life of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She wasn't the only Roosevelt who had meaningful relationships with other women.

STEPHANIE introduces the listeners’ favorite scandal TUX has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 12: The Secret Love Story of Eleanor & Hick.

TUX explores the hidden life of First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. She wasn’t the only Roosevelt who had meaningful relationships with other women.
Celebrated in Life, Anonymous in Death
Eleanor and Hick (book)
Youtube: Eleanor Roosevelt Funeral (1962)
The queer history of Eleanor Roosevelt you won’t see in the Ken Burns documentary
EXCLUSIVE: How prim and proper First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt fell in love with a 200-pound WOMAN reporter who drank like a fish, played a mean game of poker, smoked cigars and swore a blue streak
Bringing Eleanor Roosevelt’s lover Lorena Hickok out of the shadows
Wiki- Eleanor Roosevelt
Wiki- Lorena Hickok
It’s time to meet the Eleanor Roosevelt you never knew
Eleanor Roosevelt’s ‘mistress’ died heartbroken and alone
24 Very Gay Excerpts from Eleanor Roosevelt’s Love Letters with Lorena Hickok
Eleanor Roosevelt, The First Lady of Gay Rights
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site: Val-Kill Cottage
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Close Relationship With the Journalist Lorena Hickok

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Summer Break Re-Release: Wong Kim Ark

August 17, 2020 Tux Loerzel

TUX introduces the listeners' favorite scandal STEPHANIE has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 17: Wong Kim Ark & Chinese Exclusion. STEPHANIE explores the little-known landmark Supreme Court Case, Wong Kim Ark vs The United States, it's arguably one of the most overlooked civil rights cases in American History.

TUX introduces the listeners’ favorite scandal STEPHANIE has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 17: Wong Kim Ark & Chinese Exclusion.

STEPHANIE explores the little-known landmark Supreme Court Case, Wong Kim Ark vs The United States, it’s arguably one of the most overlooked civil rights cases in American History. Ark’s scandal is a vehicle to shed light on the much larger issue of the Chinese Exclusion Act, that time when the US banned an entire race.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Chinese Exclusion Act
Born in the USA: The Immigrant Son Who Fought for Birthright Citizenship
Wiki - United States v. Wong Kim Ark
White Supremacy Has Never Been Fringe
Wiki - Burlingame Treaty
United States v. Wong Kim Ark
Case: United States v. Wong Kim Ark
“To This We Dissented”: The Rock Springs Riot
MILESTONES: 1866–1898
The Burlingame-Seward Treaty, 1868
Chinese Exclusion Act UNITED STATES [1882]
Wiki - Hells Canyon Massacre
Wiki - Seattle Riot of 1886
Wiki - Tacoma Riot of 1885
Forgotten Los Angeles History: The Chinese Massacre of 1871
Chinese Exclusion Act
Review: A New Film Investigates the Time America Banned an Entire Race
Birth of a Birthright
A History Of Indentured Labor Gives 'Coolie' Its Sting

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Summer Break Re-Release: Obama's Tan Suit

August 3, 2020 Tux Loerzel

STEPHANIE introduces her favorite scandal TUX has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 17: Obama's Tan Suit. TUX's scandal centers upon that time in 2014 when the nation lost its collective shit over the color of the president's suit because they were still pissed about the color of the president's skin.

STEPHANIE introduces her favorite scandal TUX has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 17: Obama’s Tan Suit.

TUX’s scandal centers upon that time in 2014 when the nation lost its collective shit over the color of the president’s suit because they were still pissed about the color of the president’s skin.
Lessons from Obama's tan suit 5th anniversary
For Lawmaker Examining Terror, a Pro-I.R.A. Past
Obama's tan suit debuted five years ago and sparked a huge controversy
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
Eternally Outraged Congressman Not Trying to Be ‘Trivial,’ But Doesn’t Think Obama’s Tan Suit Was Appropriate
A Republican Congressman Is Actually Upset About Obama's Tan Suit
Wiki - Obama Tan Suit Controversy
Obama's tan suit controversy hits 5-year anniversary
In Defense of Barack Obama's Tan Suit
Obama: 'We don't have a strategy yet' to combat Isis militants
Should President Obama Have Said There's No Strategy Yet Against ISIS?
Obama Says 'We Don't Have A Strategy Yet' in Syria
ISIS rise surprised Obama, US intelligence
Arrest Glenn Greenwald — and 5 other crazy things Peter King says
Dems shocked after Chuck Schumer praises retiring GOP “anti-Muslim bigot” Peter King as “principled"
Politicians, Community Leaders Denounce Rep. Peter King's Use of Derogatory Term
Irish Republican Army
No One Heard Anything Obama Just Said Because His Tan Suit Was So Loud

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Summer Break Re-Release: Henry Wallace

July 20, 2020 Tux Loerzel

TUX introduces his favorite scandal STEPHANIE has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 16: Henry Wallace. STEPHANIE spends this episode counting the ways in which she loves Henry Wallace, FDR's progressive second vice president.

TUX introduces his favorite scandal STEPHANIE has ever done on Beyond Reproach, Episode 16: Henry Wallace.

STEPHANIE spends this episode counting the ways in which she loves Henry Wallace, FDR’s progressive second vice president. She also details the shady ways in which the Democrat’s conservative party leadership blocked Wallace’s bid for a second term as VP at the Democratic National Convention, and got him replaced with an errand boy/turd who was more aligned with their interests.

Wiki - Henry A. Wallace
Henry Wallace - Century of the Common Man (1942)
“I Hardly Know Truman”
Franklin D. Roosevelt: The American Franchise
Multiple-Term Presidents Who Switched VPs
The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom
Wiki - Edwin W. Pauley
The Year the Veepstakes Really Mattered
Wiki - 1944 United States Presidential Election
Searching for the "Inner Light": the Development of Henry A. Wallace's Experimental Spiritualism
Wiki - John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner’s continuing relevance
Why Did the Democratic and Republican Parties Switch Platforms?
Harry S. Truman, 34th Vice President (1945)

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American Saints: Episode 22 (Myth-busting the legends of Abraham Lincoln & Ronald Reagan)

July 6, 2020 Tux Loerzel

In this final episode of Season 2 we imbibe a juicy obscure vintage cocktail called the National Guard 7th Regiment Punch. We learn about the history of this "foxy wine" based concoction and how it links to Stephanie's story. Please note that we depart from our regular scandalous program to again close the season by myth-busting American legends.

In this final episode of Season 2 we imbibe a juicy obscure vintage cocktail called the National Guard 7th Regiment Punch. We learn about the history of this “foxy wine” based concoction and how it links to Stephanie’s scandal. Please note that we depart from our regular scandalous program to again close the season by myth-busting American legends. We dive into the real men behind the myths.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Our summer break re-release series, flip phones, the poet Young Jeezy, Target looting, racist bones, Bette Davis, snitches getting to become president, jawgums, the movie The Band Played on, and not giving a shart.

For more info on our episode cocktail and the 7th New York Militia Regiment:
Jerry Thomas Bartenders Guide 1862 Reprint: How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon Vivant's Companion
Wiki - Catawba (grape)
Wiki - 7th New York Militia Regiment

STEPHANIE sets fire to some toxic myths about Lincoln.
Scholar Reappraises President Lincoln
Was Abraham Lincoln really the 'Great Emancipator'?
"Lincoln's Evolving Racial Views"
Was Abraham Lincoln a Racist?
Was Abraham Lincoln an incorrigible racist? - The Washington Post
Lincoln and the Problem of Race: A Decade of Interpretations
Wiki - Abraham Lincoln
Forced Into Glory
The Myth of Lincoln, Reconstructed
Illinois Black Law (1853)
Six Big Lies About Abraham Lincoln, the Slaves and the War
Opinion | I have no racist bones, but this exoskeleton has propped me up for decades

TUX shines a light on Ronald Reagan’s uniquely destructive presidency.
10 Real Facts About Ronald Reagan That Republicans Never Choose to Admit
What Reagan Has Done to America
10 Reprehensible Crimes Of Ronald Reagan
6 Ways You Didn't Realize Ronald Reagan Ruined The Country
Wiki - Ronald Reagan
The myth of Ronald Reagan: pragmatic moderate or radical conservative?
Reagan's Real Legacy
We have to undo the attack on the middle class that started with Reagan if we want democracy back
The Reagan Ruins
Nancy Reagan refused to help dying Rock Hudson get Aids treatment
Haunted by the Reagan era - The Washington Post

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Minisode 18: The Wrap-Up

June 15, 2020 Tux Loerzel

This is the last minisode of Season 2. Since we don't have listener mail or a new topic for the next minisode, so we talk about ourselves. We reflect on the evolution of the podcast over this extended season. A season with unintentional themes of institutional and systemic racism because we are fun like that! We solicit listener feedback and reviews, as is our way. Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any suggestions on scandals and scandalousness.

There is one more full episode of Season 2 coming your way on Monday 7/6. Our next season will be back with full episodes starting Labor Day 9/7. In the interim we will be re-releasing standalone scandals with commentary every two weeks!

Team Beyond Reproach will return in September with Season 3 and a very special listener review contest with prizes! The winning reviewer(s) will get some fancypants Beyond Reproach merch!

Special thanks to Tim Cluff, our sound engineer, editor, sounding board, podfather etc. Without his tireless efforts and constant feedback the podcast wouldn’t exist. We love you Tim!

ALSO MENTIONED: Eating the rich and related advocacy, George Floyd and pandemic protests

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South Pacific Sadness: Episode 21 (The Overthrow of the Hawaiian Monarchy & Warren Delano, FDR's Opium Smuggling Grandpa)

June 1, 2020 Tux Loerzel

Just in time for summer, this episode we taste-test two very different versions of the Mai Tai, taking a trip back in time when a very problematic Tiki culture reigned supreme. We sample the original 1944 version and the 1953 reboot. The OG rum cocktail was once so popular it depleted world rum supplies for a bit.

ALSO DISCUSSED: Tux swearin’ like he grown, British Baking Show escapism, Rent the Runway for pineapples, Christoper Columbus’s thieving ass, Karens, “President” Benjamin Harrison, Turd Cruz, tiddies, the loosening of jaw gums, Princess Kaiulani movie, watercolors, Rupaul-isms, shrugs, Tux dropping science and Stephanie’s new BFF Rum.

For more info on the Tiki culture & Mai Tai history:
History of the Tiki Culture
Wiki - Tiki culture
You Deserve a Mai Tai — A Real One, That Is
The History of Tiki Cocktails and Where to Find the Best on Oʻahu and Maui
The Super Luxe History of Pineapples—And Why They Used to Cost $8000

Princess Kaiulani movie:
Princess Kaiulani - Trailer

TUX talks about the very scandalous way the Hawaiian monarchy was overthrown. Not many people know that long before Hawaii was a state it was a sovereign nation with a queen, a democratically elected legislature and ambassadors all over the world. This was true until a powerful group of white Hawaiian businessmen set their sights on the island nation.
Jan. 17, 1893 | Hawaiian Monarchy Overthrown by America-Backed Businessmen
Wiki - Reciprocity Treaty of 1875
Hawaii's long road to statehood – Pieces of History
Hawaii’s Monarchy Overthrown With U.S. Support, 120 Years Ago
Five Things To Know About Liliʻuokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaiʻi
Wiki - Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom
The US Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom

STEPHANIE tells the story of Warren Delano’s “fair, honorable, and legitimate trade” in illegal drugs. This scandal is about how the Delano empire secured its wealth but it’s really a scandal about freedom— the freedom to secretly roll around in drug monies.
Opinion | The Opium War's Secret History
“A Fair, Honorable, And Legitimate Trade” | AMERICAN HERITAGE
Wiki - Delano family
Gangster's Paradise: The Untold History of the United States and International Crimes
List of presidents of the United States by net worth
America’s First Multimillionaire Got Rich Smuggling Opium
Franklin D. Roosevelt's Family History in New York's Hudson Valley
How Profits From Opium Shaped 19th-Century Boston
Opium Throughout History | The Opium Kings | FRONTLINE

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