In this episode we are drinking a bright cooler called the Sea Breeze. This cocktail came about through marketing efforts from Big Vodka and Ocean Spray and was popularized in late 1960s, the era of STEPHANIE scandal! Cheers to David–our latest Patreon supporter! 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2022/3/2/episode-46-sea-breeze STEPHANIE’s scandal is the Memphis Sanitation Strike of 1968, the event that would get Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated as he was on the eve of b...
Mar 07, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 46
This minisode is a continuation of the last episode (Bacon’s Rebellion & the Invention of Race). STEPHANIE sets the record about Anthony Johnson, white supremacist’s favorite token. ALSO MENTIONED: Clapping on 1s and the 3s, bad cops, Dan Quayle, internalized superiority, Kyle Rittenhouse, mild inconveniences, propaganda, Salt Bae, Glenn Beck’s dumb ass, the Peculiar Picture Show podcast, John Punch, making sense out of nonsense, Richard Gere’s hampster, TikTok egg on windshield “trap”, the ...
Feb 28, 2022•27 min•Season 4Ep. 41
In this very special episode in honor of Black History Month we are drinking the precursor to the cocktail, a Early Colonial Rum Punch. This proto-cocktail is an adaptation of a 1668 recipe using ingredients found in colonial America, the era of STEPHANIE's scandal. Do check out the minisode where TUX does a deep dive into the history of punch. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2021/12/31/episode-45-early-colonial-rum-punch STEPHANIE’s scandal is Bacon's Rebellion and how in i...
Feb 21, 2022•59 min•Season 4Ep. 45
In this minisode TUX talks about the history of punch as a preview of coming attractions. This category of colonial era adult beverages ties into next week’s cocktail segment. ALSO MENTIONED: Drinks that taste like feet, Hawaiian punch soda, Well That’s Interesting, STEPHANIE’s new years resolution, pirate punch, 8 dollar lemons, sherbet, nutmeg flex, and Dead Rabbit bar. For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸...
Feb 14, 2022•32 min•Season 4Ep. 40
In this very special episode in honor of Black History Month we are drinking a boozy, frosty concoction that ties into TUX’s scandal called the Prescription Julep. This julep dates back to 1857 and according to our friend (in our minds) barroom historian David Wondrich “it is one of the tastiest mint julep recipes he knows.” We concur because this drink is essentially an adult snow cone. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ TUX’s scandal is the historic rise and fall of Freedman...
Feb 07, 2022•45 min•Season 4Ep. 44
In this minisode STEPHANIE chats the history of Daylight Saving Time! ALSO MENTIONED: Click clicks in 2022, farmers, Ben Franklin, Behind the Curve, Franky Franklin, thanks Justin Trudeau, Big Clock, bad ideas, Herstory on the Rocks, euphemism, nursing women, war time, wild west, Halloween, Big KitKat, Filene’s Basement, and WILLIAM! For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondrepr...
Jan 31, 2022•28 min•Season 4Ep. 39
This long minisode is a continuation of the last episode (NYPD’s City Hall Riots). TUX explores the racist and classist history of policing. ALSO MENTIONED: KRS-One, Black codes, jobs program, CRT, Hashtag History podcast, capitalism, BLM protests, Covid-19, pocketbooks, golden trash bag, and Keechant Sewell. For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/ 🐦 - https://twi...
Jan 24, 2022•39 min•Season 4Ep. 38
In this episode we are drankin’ a Long Island Ice Tea like we’re 19yr olds at a college bar. This boozy, dangerously delicious cocktail was originally created for a cocktail contest in Long Island. It’s popularity ties into the era and region of TUX’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ TUX’s scandal is the one of the largest,violent demonstrations in New York City’s history, the City Hall Riot. We toast to “F*ck the Police! ALSO MENTIONED: Fake IDs, Dan Quayle, Bob Bu...
Jan 17, 2022•58 min•Season 4Ep. 43
In this minisode we chat Patreon! We have revamped our tiers to give our Patrons bonus content, check the link below. Please consider supporting the podcast if you enjoy the work that we do. ALSO MENTIONED: Therapy, Facebook, video minis, STEPHANIE’s earrings, Shared History podcast, Mr.Burns, Sally Struthers, recipes from dying strangers, deez nuts, and personal time? For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - ...
Jan 10, 2022•14 min•Season 4Ep. 37
Happy New Year lovelies! In this episode we are drinking an iconic daytime cocktail, the Bloody Mary. This classic 90s drink is considered by some to be “the meatloaf of the cocktail world” for its evolving recipes has a hazy origin story but features some of our favorite accoutrements. It’s popularity ties into the era of STEPHANIE’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2021/12/29/episode-42-bloody-mary STEPHANIE’s scandal is the historic fight between Vice President Da...
Jan 03, 2022•54 min•Season 4Ep. 42
This minisode is a continuation of the last episode (the life and times of Rosemary Kennedy). STEPHANIE explores the history of ugly laws. ALSO MENTIONED: “Light” scandals as told by Stephanie, disabled veterans, lazzaroni, B-side slurs, “certain persons,” pay to stay prisons, hurdy gurdy, and Mother Hastings. For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/ 🐦 - https://tw...
Dec 27, 2021•19 min•Season 4Ep. 36
In this episode we are sipping on the most popular Bostonian cocktail, the Ward 8. This politically-inspired drink is a delicious variation on a rye whiskey sour and was created to celebrate an election win the day before it happened—its popularity ties into the era and region of STEPHANIE’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2021/10/16/episode-41-ward-eight STEPHANIE’s scandal is the life and times of Rosemary Kennedy, the sibling who was sacrificed to make her brothe...
Dec 20, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 4Ep. 41
This minisode is tangential to Episode 40 (the story of Gouverneur Morris). TUX talks briefly about one of Mr.Morris’s rumored lovers–🎶Alexander Hamilton🎶 and his steamy letters to John Laurens. ALSO MENTIONED: Elizabeth Schuyler, duties, Homer Simpson being the cock of nothing, Aaron Burr, big noses, Adrian Brody, Hashtag History podcast, and bisexuality. CORRECTION: The correct pronunciation Schuyler is Skaɪlər. Stephanie is lies, her PHD in Hamilton the musical is from Trump University. For...
Dec 13, 2021•28 min•Season 4Ep. 35
In this episode we are imbibing a popular colonial cocktail, the Fish House Punch (also known as the Philadelphia Fish House Punch). This traditional tea-based rum punch that was sourced from global ingredients was once mentioned in President George Washingon’s diary—its popularity ties into the era and region of TUX’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2021/10/16/episode-40-fish-house-punch TUX tells the story of Gouverneur Morris, the Founding Father who most notably...
Dec 06, 2021•59 min•Season 4Ep. 40
In this minisode TUX revisits the topic of vaccines to explore modern anti-vax misinformation. This is a continuation of Episode 39, the history of America’s first anti-vaccine movement. ALSO MENTIONED: The plural of tiddies, birth control, aspirin, data AND data, Share History podcast, facebook, and Netflix’s The Social Dilemma. For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproach...
Nov 29, 2021•28 min•Season 4Ep. 34
This minisode we talk about Thanksgiving and how we celebrate. TUX details the delicious dishes he cooks and shares his blog while STEPHANIE chats about what she likes to eat on the big day! Happy Thanksgiving y’all! TUX’s blog, Brooklyn Homemaker: https://brooklynhomemaker.com/ ALSO MENTIONED: Problematic construction paper headdresses, white pumpkins, knowing nothing about pleasure, sportsball, hunting, Rub 'n Buff, secret Santa, Well That’s Interesting podcast, Arby’s, bread, Brooklyn Homemak...
Nov 22, 2021•31 min•Season 4Ep. 33
In this episode we are sipping on a colonial cocktail, the Stone Fence. This simple yet very funky concoction was once the favorite of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold—its popularity ties into the era and region of TUX’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2021/10/16/episode-39-colonial-stone-fence In this vaccination themed episode of Beyond Reproach, TUX talks about the Founding Fathers views on vaccine mandates, America’s first anti-vax movement and the Black man who ...
Nov 15, 2021•59 min•Season 4Ep. 39
Trigger warning: This episode includes depictions of violence, including sexual violence against women and children. This minisode is a continuation of Episode 37, the School of the Americas, STEPHANIE talks briefly about several of SOA’s most infamous alumni past and present. ALSO MENTIONED: The Talking Heads, coinkydinks, CIA, Hashtag History, President Jovenel Moïse, and regrettable incidents. For more info about us and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ S...
Nov 08, 2021•19 min•Season 4Ep. 32
In this episode we are drinking 19th century San Francisco’s most famous cocktail, the Pisco Punch. This boozy lemon flavored beverage “tastes like lemonade but comes back with the kick of a roped steer” —its popularity ties into the era and location of STEPHANIE’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ STEPHANIE, in honor of National American Indian Heritage Month, does a deep dive into the genocide of Native Californians. We raise a toast to the real Golden State Killer...
Nov 01, 2021•58 min•Season 4Ep. 38
This minisode TUX talks about the history of our modern celebration of Halloween. ALSO MENTIONED: Turnips, the 5th of November, wrecking up the joint, no one suspects the butterfly, Peculiar Picture Show podcast, going HAM at a frolic, treats to avoid tricks, and Canadian imports. For more info about us and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/ 🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond 👤 - https://www.face...
Oct 25, 2021•13 min•Season 4Ep. 31
In this very special Halloween episode we are drinking a jammy mix of gin and berry, the Sloe Gin Fizz. This bright and fizzy cocktail tastes like an Italian soda and its popularity ties into the era of STEPHANIE’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ STEPHANIE highlights the terrifying history of School of the Americas, the Army training facility, whose secret programs produced a shocking number of dictators, mercenaries and rapists responsible for some of the greatest...
Oct 18, 2021•1 hr•Season 4Ep. 37
This minisode STEPHANIE chats Hispanic Heritage Month; the history, controversy and much more. ALSO MENTIONED: Selina, Russell’s quinceanera, Chicano Eats cookbook, origins of latinx, Ronnie Reagan, Arab Spring, A Tap on the Wrist podcast, plagiarist Shepard Fairey and making and “I can’t I don’t I shan’t I won’t” legendary. For more info about us and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/ 🐦 - https://twi...
Oct 11, 2021•18 min•Season 4Ep. 30
In this very special Halloween episode we are drinking a prohibition era concoction. This gastly looking cocktail features an obscure French liqueur made by monks and its popularity ties into the era of TUX’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ TUX shines a light on the rape and murder that brought down the KKK—the murder of Madge Oberholtzer by D.C. Stephenson. We raise our glasses to flushing turds because sometimes life is full of pieces of shit but if you’re lucky ...
Oct 04, 2021•49 min•Season 4Ep. 36
This minisode is a continuation of Episode 35, the Whiskey Rebellion. TUX revisits the topic of alcohol consumption then and now. ALSO MENTIONED: The American way, OG Dub’s costume, Alexander Hamilton, the wrong kind of gay, escargot tax, peach brandy, thanksgiving, small beer, Japanese drinking etiquette, the Third Wheel podcast, lockdown drunkeness, life finding a way, and women of the night. For more info about us and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOC...
Sep 27, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 29
In this episode we are drinking a Rye Whiskey Sling. This colonial era mixed drink is tied directly to TUX’s scandal involving American Whiskey and the people who were willing to go to war against George Washington because of it. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ TUX does a deep dive into the Whiskey Rebellion. We toast to the first amendment and our rights to freedom of speech, assembly, and petition. CORRECTION: TUX mistakenly calls the Temperance movement "the Abolitionist...
Sep 20, 2021•49 min•Season 4Ep. 35
It’s Season 4, y’all! We took a break to recharge and we are back to give updates about all the fun changes we have planned this season and to reveal the two winners of our listener review contest! By popular demand we will be releasing standalone scandals for Season 4. This means there will be two signature cocktails each month and Beyond Reproach episodes coming atcha weekly! <insert Jamaican airhorns> Thanks to everyone who has taken time to review us on Apple Podcast, we appreciate you...
Sep 13, 2021•14 min•Season 4Ep. 28
In our first episode of Season 4 we revive an autumnal proto-cocktail from the days of yore, the Apple Toddy. This warm colonial drink was popular in the 1700s and ties in perfectly with STEPHANIE’s scandal involving George Washington. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ STEPHANIE shines a light on the Jumonville Affair, a little known scandal involving our first president, that changed the course of modern history. We raise our glasses high and cheers to the first George W doi...
Sep 06, 2021•47 min•Season 4Ep. 34
TUX introduces his favorite scandal STEPHANIE has done on this season of Beyond Reproach—Episode 32: Samuel Upham's Counterfeit Confederate Cash. We raise our glasses to a successful war profiteer we all can get down with because sometimes you gotta print money to make money! ALSO DISCUSSED: The confederacy being cute thinking it was a government, HBO’s True Detective, lithograph, life before Obama invented racism, buying your own stimmy, proto-memes, Target, Herstory on the Rocks podcast, Edwin...
Aug 30, 2021•26 min
STEPHANIE introduces her favorite scandal TUX has done on this season of Beyond Reproach—Episode 23: Daughters of the Confederacy and the Lost Cause mythology. We toasts to symbols of hate and oppression and the white women who love them. ALSO DISCUSSED: Well That's Interesting Podcast, Blanche Devereaux, Black friends, Golden Palace, history sounding about white, Stone Mountain, kiddie memoires, Hitler youth, Howard Zinn, unemployed white women, laughing oneself into a sweat, making Orwell fict...
Aug 16, 2021•53 min
Jen from the Dork Web introduces the listeners’ favorite scandal STEPHANIE has covered on Season 3—Episode 30: Elvis Pays Nixon A Visit. She 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! ALSO MENTIONED: Peanut butter, banana & bacon sandwiches, Guess Who is Coming to Dinner, The Beatles, Sergeant Elvis, The Third Wheel Podcast, werewolves, Kanye West and Milk of Magnesia. To check ...
Aug 02, 2021•41 min
