Hosts Dusty Wilson and Oona O'Leary meet up fortnightly to chat about third parties, fringe candidates, and generally weird American electoral history.
Hey, y'all! This week we celebrate the start of the 2024 presidential election season by covering the Prohibition Party's convention in Buffalo, New York. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we turn from political campaigns & fun history to the big trend of this last April: anti-woke grifts. Join us as we discuss Conservative Dad's Ultra Right Beer, Bona Dea Cosmetics, and Mammoth Nation. NOTE: This episode contains an addendum due to Ultra Right Beer updating where they were brewing about an hour after we finished recording. So stay tuned after the credits for that update. Support the show...
Hey, y'all! This week we are covering the self-proclaimed Commander in Chief of the Muskogee & Seminole, attempted founder of an entirely new nation, and all around teenage dirt-bag William Augustus Bowles. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are covering a man that the New Yorker dubbed, "the original George Santos," Congressman Douglas Stringfellow. Support the show
Hey, y'all! We are back this week to talk about a man who created a whole alter ego just to take on President George W. Bush, novelty t-shirt sovereign William Tsangares. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we have another installment of Gadfly Movie Night. Political nerd Gabby Vice and screenwriter Jake Disch join us to talk about a movie that never figures out what it is and how much Laurence Fox & Hunter Biden really have in common. Support the show
Hey, y'all! The Rage Against the War Machine happened and now we got to talk about it. Lots of nonsense went down, but we've distilled it down into a few speeches, audio clips, and critique of '90s stand-up comedy. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This Sunday, the Mises Caucus led Libertarian Party and the Movement for a People's Party are coming together to throw an old fashioned anti-war rally...or are they? Join us as we talk about the speakers, the allied organizations, and the cornucopia of conspiracy theories supported by those involved. Support the show
Hey, y'all! We are finally back to kick off our new season with a trailblazer in politics, theatre, Zionism, and racism, Mordecai Manuel Noah. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are joined by podcast editor Brianna Valentine to round out the year and discuss stories of third party success and near misses. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we cover potential the most meme-famous politician of 2010: Jimmy McMillan of the Rent Is Too Damn High Party. Support the show
Hey, y'all! Over the summer of 2022, the Florida chapter of Movement for a People's Party attempted to run the party's first ever political candidate. However, they were denied by the Florida Division of Elections. This kicked off a few months of legal nonsense and you bet we're here for it. Since neither Dusty or Oona have passed the bar, we are joined by attorney Christine Beam. Support the show
Hey, y'all! It's time for another Gadfly Movie Night. This week we dive into the Libertarian science fiction, action, spy thriller Alongside Night. And sure, political nominees Ron Paul, Dennis Hof, and Adam Kokesh make brief cameo appearances, but the real star is the niche philosophy of Agorism. Joining the cast this week to make sense of all this are comic artist & essayist Carmilla Morrell and Artistic Director of The Plagiarists, Christina Casano. Support the show...
Hey, y'all! At long last we reach the end of Huey Long's quest for ultimate power. Will it end in Huey becoming president or a second option he would be less likely to take? Or a horrible third option? Tune in and find out! Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we have part 5 of the Huey Long saga. In this episode. Huey runs for Senate and then makes the majority of the Senate wish he didn't win. Support the show
Hey, y'all! We are back with part four of the Huey Long Story: More Huey More Problems. In this episode we cover the only major thing that happened in Huey in 1929: his impeachment. Support the show
Hey, y'all! We are back this week for our third installment on the Louisiana King of Progressive Populism, Huey Long. This time we talk about Huey speed-running being Governor. Support the show
Hey, y'all! Welcome to part two of the Huey Long journey. In this episode we cover Huey's two attempts to run for Governor and the lessons he learned along the way. Also there's an elevator fight with an old man. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are diving into one those deep dives that just keep going and going. In the early 20th century, Louisiana politics became the playground of the most powerful progressive populist America had even seen: an enigmatic attorney named Huey Long. For part one, we are talking about Huey's childhood, his skill at dropping out of all forms of education, his start in law, and his first political race for State Railroad Commission. Support the show...
Hey, y'all! This week we are discussing an originator of the hardcore punk genre and occasional political candidate Jello Biafra. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are talking about a history maker in American politics, a tireless advocate, and overall badass, Faith Spotted Eagle. Support the show
Hey, y'all! Politicians are sometimes in movies and, when we need a break, we watch them. For this episode of Gadfly Movie Night we are discussing Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell starring former US Ambassador to Denmark and 2022 Pennsylvania Senate candidate Carla Sands. We've also brought in a couple of guests to help us out: editor of this very podcast Brianna Valentine and indigenous playwright Dillon Chitto. Support the show...
Hey, y'all! We are back this week to continue the tale of the casual corruption & political ambition of Benigno Fitial. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are branching outside of the 50 states and taking a look at the Northern Mariana Islands. This American territory/commonwealth has a long, intricate history, but also features one of the more hilariously corrupt people we've talked about thus far. Join us as discuss Benigno Fitial and his self-focused Covenant Party. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are going back to the Flying Saucer Craze if the mid-20th Century. Many people would become celebrities within the UFO world, but only Gabriel Green would take his outer space experiences and turn them into a genuinely chill political ideology. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we return to the wild world of micronations. The Dominion of Melchizedek really had no set location, but where they did reside was deep within multiple financial scams throughout the '90s. Support the show
Hey, y'all! This week we are diving into the tale of Robert Healey and his quest to become governor of Rhode Island or, second best, completely eradicate the position of Lt. Governor. Support the show
Hey, y'all! We are diving back into horrific true crime this week and discussing objectively one of the worst people to ever run for and win public office in America: town clerk, school board treasurer, and mass murderer Andrew Kehoe. Support the show
Hey, y'all! We got a special one for you today. Turns out, politicians are sometimes in movies and when we need a break we're gonna watch them. For the inaugural Gadfly Movie Night we are discussing Rescue Force, a "film" starring former Presidential nominee, Christian identity stan, and self-proclaimed inspiration for Rambo, Bo Gritz. We've also brought in a couple of guests to help us through this hell: director & yeller Jack Macklin and host of Uncanny Cinema, Linton Lewis Support the sho...
Hey, y'all! We are back with part two of our dive into the world of American Antipopes. This week, we actually talk about all six men who decided post Vatican II that they needed to get some folks together and make themselves the true heirs of the traditional Roman Catholic Church. Support the show
