S02e04 Tilden: President & Mentor Van Buren (with HS History Teacher Katie)

Welcome to our weekly show about the 2024 Presidential Election where we take a lighthearted, funny approach to an election sure to be depressing and scary.

This week we talk about:

• Koch brothers-funded Republican SuperPAC decides to support another GOP candidate 

• Chris Christie’s campaign may run the risk of doing the exact opposite of what it was intended to do 

• Democratic candidate for president Dean Phillips wants to smoke Biden in more ways than one

• Rand Paul is a hero? (Yeah, I know)

• DeSantis shows off a poo map in a debate against California Governor Gavin Newsom

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Ryan is joined by @kowbellpokes and Dan Carlin superfan Mike to discuss the long awaited latest episode of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast: "The Twilight of the Aesir Part II". 

We discuss the show, the influence of the Christian faith on the Vikings, the heinous crimes of St. Olga, Viking settlements in Europe to protect against...well, other Vikings, navigating the open ocean on a longship, among other topics!

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In the wake of the American Civil War, Almost President Samuel Tilden ramped up his involvement with the Democratic Party. As we start this episode, Republicans and Democrats of a reunified, but still ideologically fractured country prepared for the Election of 1868.

On the Democratic side, Tilden played an important role in deciding on who the Democrats would nominate to run against the seemingly unstoppable war hero, Ulysses S. Grant.

Emerging from the contest was Horatio Seymour, who would go on to lose decisively to Grant, thus continuing the long chain of Republican presidencies in the years to come.

In the wake of his party's defeat, Tilden turned his gaze inward to an agent of corruption within his own party operating in his home state of New York: Tammany Hall and its powerful head, Boss Tweed.

Tilden's anti-corruption crusade, instead of making him an outsider among Democrats, would instead increase his popularity in the party and propel him to national prominence!

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