buck wild
Look, we tried to keep it tidy—but the Revolutionary Era was messy, and so were our notes. Buck Wild is the bonus miniseries where we dust off Eric’s overachiever historian scribbles and serve up all the juicy bits that didn’t make it into the main episodes.
We’re talking Washington through John Quincy Adams—forgotten drama, myth-busting chaos, and presidential side quests we just couldn’t leave behind. It’s the final cannonball into the powdered-wig pool, and we’re making a splash.
History may be written by the victors, but the leftovers? They’re way more fun.
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Think we wrapped up George Washington in one episode? Cute. Absolutely not. We’re back with the bonus content you didn’t know you needed—and frankly, neither did we until Eric said, “Wait, I’m not done ranting.”
This episode is the presidential blooper reel meets historical hot goss. We’re talking Washington’s hot older brother Lawrence (who basically kickstarted George’s hero arc), a tropical getaway gone wrong (hello, smallpox!), and the real tea on those so-called wooden teeth. Spoiler: they were bougie ivory, not splintery lumber.
Plus, find out why our founding daddy was very pro-vaccine, how the whole "cherry tree" thing was a full-on fanfic, and why Field Marshal Marshall never became a thing (yes, that’s a real sentence).
Come for the myth-busting. Stay for the sass. Leave knowing George Washington was somehow more iconic than we were taught in grade school. Who knew?
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You thought we were done with John Adams? Think again, history rookie. We’ve got one more cannonball into the colonial chaos, and this one’s juicier than Franklin in a bathtub with a Parisian chess partner.
In this wrap-up to our accidentally five-part (!) miniseries on the OG cranky patriot, Kyle and Eric dig into all the spicy sidebars and head-scratching historical hot takes that didn’t make the first cut—like whether Adams’ sweet tooth doomed his dental future, and why Franklin’s breezy (and breezy naked) diplomacy had John clutching his waistcoat in horror.
We're debunking dramatized documentaries, sipping tea on the Adams-Franklin bromance fallout, and marveling at John’s casual recognition of Haiti's independence while everyone else was losing their powdered wigs over it. Oh, and did you know Abigail crossed the freakin’ Atlantic during the war? Power couple energy. 💥
What You’ll Hear:
Was John Adams really at the Boston Massacre? Spoiler: No, but HBO thinks so.
Why Franklin slept naked with the windows open (you’re welcome for the visual).
The Haitian Revolution shout-out that made Adams enemies real fast.
The political shade of the 1800 election… plus, Adams’ delightfully confusing mistress clapback.
Pull up a chair at Peacefield, pet the cows, and get ready to hear about the most misunderstood Founding Father like never before.
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Grab your powdered wigs and brace yourself for a full-speed gallop through the myth of Jefferson the “common man”—because this episode is less “Founding Father” and more “Founding Flop (feat. someone who actually deserves to be on a stamp).” Kyle and Eric are here to drag Thomas Jefferson for his aristocratic farm-core nonsense, his baby-soft hands, and his whole "I'm a man of the people" schtick—played on a very out-of-tune violin. Spoiler alert: he wasn't fooling anybody.
But the real star of the show? BENJAMIN. FREAKING. BANNEKER. That’s right—clock-making, star-mapping, tide-charting, letter-writing genius Benjamin Banneker, who casually read Jefferson for filth and predicted solar eclipses for funsies. This man made a clock out of wood that kept perfect time for 50 years and still found time to sneak abolitionist essays into almanacs like an intellectual ninja.
It’s part history, part roast, and full-on sass. You’ll laugh, you’ll rage, and you’ll wonder why the hell he’s not carved into a mountain somewhere.
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