From famous founders to capitalist cooks, from sex scandals to the dirtiest blues song, AMERICAN FILTH dives into the filthier side of American history: uncovering people who society has largely excluded from the history books because they were too unconventional, provocative, seedy, dirty, trashy…. Or just plain filthy. And sure, some of these folks made great contributions to history. But that’s not the part of their lives AMERICAN FILTH is interested in. This podcast is here for the drama, the spice, and general tomfoolery. The weekly series of brisk episodes plunges face-first into the dirtiest events and people in the annals of American history.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Were you transported back in time to colonial America?? Well, don't worry. Follow this guide to get some hanky-panky. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Rachel Wall was executed for stealing a bonnet. But was that really her only crime??? Come see American Filth live in London! The podcast will be part of the Cheerful Earful Podcast Festival with a live show on October 15 at 8 p.m. at the Bedford Pub. Tickets can be found here . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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??? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Were these young bucks just really good friends??? Or was something else going on??? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
All the filth returns September 11! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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!! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Whoa! It's the live episode but in regular format. America wins its independence with the help of a gay Prussian. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
It's our recording of American Filth Live! Featuring a gay Prussian who changed the course of the Revolutionary War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Two days before the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates, including George Washington, got hammered. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sometimes when Puritans are oppressing you, a Quaker, you gotta pull the girls out. Come to American Filth Live this Saturday in Atlanta! Tickets here. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Our 29th president had a habit of cheating on his wife. And one of his affairs left behind 1000 pages of smutty letters. Come to American Filth Live! June 29th in Atlanta. Tickets here . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The son of Francis Scott Key was a womanizer and then womanized a woman whose husband would not stand being cuckolded! Come to American Filth Live on June 29th in Atlanta. Tickets here . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Andrew Jackson had a bad bird...but did you know that pets often take on the personalities of their owners??? Frick! Come to American Filth Live! It's in Atlanta on 6/29 at 8 p.m. Tickets are available at this link: https://dynamiceldorado.fourthwalltickets.com/shows/american-filth-live . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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. Come to American Filth Live on June 29th in Atlanta! Click here for tickets . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Anthony Comstock strikes again! This time going after notorious abortionist Madame Restell. Get your tickets to American Filth Live here ! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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!! Come to American Filth Live! Tickets here . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Some South Carolinian politicians in the 1820s did a lot more than sleeping. Just ask their fleshen poles. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Religious group? Sex cult? Polyamorous filth? Silverware manufacturer? The Oneida Community had it all. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the 1910s, Buda Godman turned heads in New York. She was young, hot, and everyone wanted to get to know her. But who cares about being a 1910s influencer? So boring! Buda dove into a life of crime instead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mae West brings Sex to Broadway but also...gay people?? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
