A brother and sister explore history with frequent profanity and casual disrespect. Listeners will learn young George Washington entered the French & Indian War as a corporate stooge and helped kick off the first true world war, that famously pro-segregation Alabama governor George Wallace was endorsed by the NAACP in his first race, and that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich's first wife was originally his high school geometry teacher.
A day-drinking trip to the movies for us means a show for you! Podcasting siblings Bambi and Jamie Chambers used free tickets from trivia winnings to see Young Washington from Angel Studios, a movie about the very topic that launched this podcast more than five years ago. In an unscripted and unsober conversation you will hear how the pair enjoyed it as a movie, how it captured the essence of the historical Washington, and how some of the details matched up to history. Learn how George goes from being a sad orphan boy to failing so hard that it gives him superpowers and ends with him anointed by destiny! You could almost call this episode a movie review.
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23 May 2026
The Value of the Mayo Brothers
It's the Mayo Brothers—doctorin's the game. They're not like the others who get all the blame! When your health is in trouble you can call them on the double. They're smarter than the others—you'll be hooked on the Brothers! Unh!
Join us once more as Bambi Chambers reads us a bedtime story about doctors who not only believed in advancing medical science, but only charging patients what they can afford. This time it's The Value of Sharing: The Story of the Mayo Brothers. In this children's biography from the 1980s we meet a pair of magical talking scissors and take a trip to the circus for no reason at all. The boys grew up holding ether-soaked rags on patients' faces while their Dad performed surgery on the kitchen table and their Mom read them medical journals as bedtime stories, or at least that's Jamie's interpretation!
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18 Apr 2026
Part Two: Newt Gingrich, Family Man
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Jamie Chambers drags Bambi back into the life of Newt Gingrich, now a college professor with a wife and two children as he plots to take over the 6th Congressional District of Georgia, takes a huge advance for a book he would never write, and downplays his love of Richard Nixon. Newt chides his opponent for plans to work away from her family if elected while he constantly cheats on his wife during her cancer treatments and divorces her immediately after winning—before giving a middle finger to the friends and supporters who helped get him to Washington.
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