- 23
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 485
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 419M
- YouTube views
About Let's Start a Coup!
What would you do if a secret cabal of the nation’s most powerful people asked you to overthrow the President? Weirdly enough – it’s not a hypothetical. It almost happened to FDR in the 1930s, were it not for a very intense, very problematic Marine named Major General Smedley Butler. Join Ben Bowlin, Alex French, and a cast of historical characters brought to life by Joe Kinosian for a darkly comedic – and terrifying – retelling of one of the weirdest forgotten schemes in American history.
- Publisher
- iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- history · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 22 Feb 2023
- Latest episode
- 12 Mar 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 23 episodes have a transcript.
12 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
What Happened to Burr After He Killed Hamilton? [from American History Hotline]
11 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT
Can the President Tear Down the White House? [from American History Hotline]
24 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
The Cabbage Patch Crisis [from Very Special Episodes]
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What Happened to Burr After He Killed Hamilton? [from American History Hotline]
Published 12 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And Hamilton died. So now there's murder potentially at hand. So in one way or another, Burr and his friends leave town. Burr goes to South Carolina and they're happier with dueling. Of course he does. Yes. And why is it always? Anyway, he goes south and he stays with friend in the south. They're pretty much okay with dueling. And they're not so okay with Hamilton. So that was probably a smart maneuver and he hides there for a while. And then he comes back to Washington and takes back his seat presiding over the Senate, his vice president, which is pretty remarkable. And people who are there at knowledge that he looked a little strained, his facial expression, he looked a little strain, but supposedly Jeffersonian Republicans came up and shook his hand to show that he was okay, particularly because he killed off this important federalist. […]
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- YouTube views
- 419,108,275
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.4 / 5
- 251 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 234 ratings
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- Quality
- 46
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 94
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