Kings of Democracy

Hey everybody Ive finally gotten around to working on dumping the backlog.  I've got a few in the can but it's a lot of interviews. Might do some solo ones and see how that goes over.  I moved to chicago so hit me up if you want to get a beerSupport the show

hey were are still on hiatus but I made right before i decided to do that so here it is. PLEASE IGNORE SEO BULLSHIT BELLOW.Liberia, Africa, colonization, decolonization, west Africa, East Africa, Liberian, Amero-Liberian, AfricanSupport the show

Siamese Twins are conjoined twins.  There are about 15 known Siamese twins in the world.  Many Siamese twins are perfectly healthy but there are a great deal of health complications due to sharing sets of organs or the extra strain.  Buckle the fudge up kiddos cause this one goes off the rails real quick.  Ang and Chang bunker were a pair of conjoined twins and that's pretty much all I can say without giving the whole thing away.  I don't really know how to write these.  I tried reading about SEO because apparently this helps with SEO but it seemed to limited and constrained that it was basically forcing you to just write to an exact template, which functionally makes all writing identical, which therefore pushes you down the search results faster. Thats why the first few sentinces here are just non sequetors that sound like they were designed to directly answer questions typed in to google.  The internet rewards vague and uniform design.  We were more creative before the internet. Support the show

Today most Americans think of the Puritans as dour, sexless monsters who created everything bad about America.  In reality they were pretty much the beginning of everything good about America and if you were alive at the same time as they you'd be one of them.  I sat down with Andrew Rakich to discuss why they were awesome and  why you've been lied to by college liberal atheists who hate God.  Support the show

PT Barnum was an American circus promoter, best known for his collection of "human freaks" such as Ang and Chang Bunker, the Four Legged Lady, the Bearded Lady and the Human Skeleton.  But for most of his life he didn't work in a circus, he was a museum owner who built a museum in New York City.  PT Barnum was also the inspiration for the movie The Greatest Showman, which all our moms liked.   But he was also a congressman, one of America's first millionaires and a pretty smart dude at the end of the day.  He also bought the Fiji Mermaid and live in New York. Support the show

I want to do one thing before this episode that I’ve never done before, issue a little but of a disclaimer. This episode is about the Orthodox Jews of the United States. I wanted to tell their story because they are a fascinating and complex group, they live in stark contrast to much of contemporary American life while also being some of the largest and most interesting examples of how the rubber meets the road on issues like Immigration and Freedom of Religion.  My original plan was to cover Orthodox Jews as a whole but while I was writing it was clear the story was too complex and too diverse to tell any kind of accurate story in the usual time frame. While writing I decided I wanted to use the Satmar, the famous round fuzzy hat Orthodox of Brooklyn as an example of Orthodox Jews in America. But as I recorded and edited the episode I realized we had drifted away from the topic of Orthodox Jews as a whole and I wasn’t telling the Orthodox story in general, but the Satmar in specific. However the overwhelming majority of Orthodox Jewish groups don’t live like the Satmar, they are usually much smaller, much less powerful and often less conservative. The Satmar are a unique group among American Orthodox Jews, and I don’t want all you drunken children thinking that the way the Satmar live is universal among Orthodox Jews. Similarly it can be very hard to nail down the exact line you want to take when talking about issues like this. It can be really easy to just be vague and non-comittal to avoid offense, but it can also be easy to lean on sterotypes and common misconceptions that are as inaccurate as they are hurtful. The Satmar are very much in that gray area, they are a small, religious, ethnic and cultural minority that mostly wants to be left alone to live as they see fit. They have been subject to persecution in the United States up to and including targeted murders, including one just last year. But at the same time they are a very patriarchal society, have no problem with taking advantage of the various systems, and don’t always play nice with their neighbors. They are a living example of the gray areas created by a free society, and that is the exact reason I wanted to do this podcast, to give people a better understanding of the complexity of life. But I’m going to lean on the fact that I think our audience is smart enough to understand. So don’t @ me cause I don’t care. Also Check Out Our Subreddit r/kingsofdemocracy and just give me money on the patreon.  I'm using it to pay the hosting fees. Support the show

Where do hours come from? Why do clocks move the direction they do?  What is up with daylight savings time?  Is it a leap year?  Hahaha, wouldn't you like to know.  LEAVE US A REVIEWSupport the show

That's right you drunken children we got us a real life Pultizer Prize winner on the show!  We got us an interview with Joseph Ellis, winner of the PULITZER PRIZE and author of The Cause: The American Revolution and It's Discontents (OUT NOW).  We sat down and talked about the meaning of the American revolution, George Washington's six pack abs, and which founding fathers would support vaccine mandates.  It's a hoot, it's interesting and oh yeah did I mention that he won the PULITZER PRIZE?  Support the show

THATS RIGHT IDIOTS WE GOT A REAL LIFE FOR REAL 100% POLITICAL CANDIDATE ON THIS SHOW IN THE FORM OF MARK PINSLEY.  For real he was pretty cool and asked to be on the pod so send him some money or go vote for him if you live in his district.  CHECK OUT OUR SUBREDDIT: https://www.reddit.com/r/kingsofdemocracy/GIVE ME MONEY AT OUR PATREON!  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=64779899&fan_landing=trueSupport the show

HEY AND WE ARE BACK!  My laptop is back out of the shop after again spilling water on to it and I have learned my lesson and I hope to be more careful in the fture but I can't guarentee that so why do i even bother to say it.The Westboro Baptist Church are a weird family cult run by a lunatic in a Buffalo Bills Starter Jacket who have a long history of standing on street corners and calling everybody gay.  And while that could have been about half of us in 2004, they managed to make national news out of themselves. Support the show

Why are there so many serial killers in america?  how many serial killers are there?  why are there serial killers? how many people do you have to kill to be considered a serial killer? whats up with serial killers? are head injuries bad for you? is my neibghor a serial killer? huh Support the show

Hello and Greetings From Glorious People's Democratic Republic of North Korea Where Everything Is Good And Fine How Are You?  We have just completed our completion of the first every corroboratory episode with Decadent Western Imperalist Telephone Radio Show Kings of Democracy on the topic of "How Can I Go To North Korea?"  If You wish to participate in our Glorious People's Revolution, please consider to be doing the following if you must.1.) Please be sending your worthless American currency to us.  Your money is weak and enfested much of the gay, so please just send it to us and we will dispose of it for your2.) also Please be doing the following: Send us any lose Uranium, Plutonium or Thorium you have in your decadent grotesque running dog hovels.  Any isotopes are apreciated and thank you3.) If you are do be doing the coming to here, do not tell Bill Clinton you are coming or else he will come and ask us where you are and if you are alive.  this is not a good fun4.)Also bring any member of the 1987-1996 Chicago Bulls you may be having the access to.  Those are our favorite of the bulls.  Thanks you and we look foward and when the war comes remember that if you were not what you are then this would not be your death.  Support the show

WAKE UP SHEEPLE YOU FRIGGIN IDIOTS ITS TIME THAT YOU LEARNED THAT THE GOVERNMNET AND THE LIE-BRALS HAVE BEEN HIDING THE FACT THAT F YOU STAND ON A MAILBOX YOU ARE LEGALLY FEDERAL PROPERTY AND CAN THEREFORE EAT ALL THE PLASTIC STRAWS YOU WANT AND ALSO MY WIFE LEFT ME BECAUSE I KEPT SENIND DEATH THREATS TO CHILDREN OIN THE INTERNET AND NOW THE GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO TAKE MY GUNS AWAY JUST BECAUSE I SHOT AT A COP WHO DID NOT TELL ME WHAT TIME IT WAS (WHICH IS GOVERNMENT CODE FOR MARITIME MARTIAL LAW!!!!!!!).  SO ANYWAY THE POINT IS YOU ARE A SHEEPELELE AND IF YOU EVER COME NEAR ME OR MY SON AGAIN I WILL KILL YO AND NOT GO TO JAIL BECAUSE I AM A CITIENSEN OF THE NATION OF WHITE ISRAEL WHICH IS LIKE IRELAND BUT COMBINED WITH JAPANE (THE WOMEN MOSTLY) SO DO NOT QUESTION OR CHALLENEG ME UNDER ANY CIRCIMSTANCES OR I KILL MURDER 1000 COPS BUT NOT THE GOOD COPS THE SECRET ILLEGAL OBAMAMA KIND WHO ARE WORKING FOR THE GOVERNMENT BUT NOT THE REGULAR BLUE COPS (NOT MARITIME POLICE) WHO ARE GOOD.  AMERICA CANT HANDLE ME BECAUSE IM THE JOKER.  THR TRUMP JOKER.  THE TOKER.  GET READY LIBTARDS IM GONNA DICK THE FLORUIDE OUT OF YOUR GENDERS CAUSE SHUT UP IDIOT EAT THESE BALLS AND GET READY TO RIDE STRAIGHT TO HELL ON THE USA FAKE MONEY NO MONEY CHINWSE CCP COROANA OBAMAMA VIRUS SUCK MY BALLS LIBTRARAD HELL YEAH NO TIME TO EXPLAIN JUST GET IN MY DOPE CORVETTE WERE GONNA RIP OFF THE LICENCESE PLATES AND DRIVE DOWN TO THE GENDER FACTORY AND MAKE SURE THESE ARAB LESBIANS KNOW WHOSE ROCKING WHOSE ROLLING AND THAT THE MONEY ISN'T REALLY AND ONE OF THESE DAYS I WILL BE THE JOKER BABY.  READ THE CONSTITUTTION WHERE IT SAYS IN CURSIVE PLAIN AS DAY THAT IF A PERSON IS TRAVELING ON THE LAND THEY ARE UNDER THE CONSTITUTION NOT THE 1818 DC ORGANIC IRONCORPOATION INVERSE STRAWMAN CODE OF THE CCP AND BRITISH ROYALS.  SO WHEN I AM TRAVELING ON THE LAND (LAND BEING A LEGAL TERM MEAING THE DIRT WHERE I LIVE IN BECAUSE IF YOU ARE ON THE LAND YOU ARE A CITIZIEN OF THE LAND) I CAM ROLL UP OIN THESE HOES AND LET THE KNOW THAT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE METRIC SYSTEM THAN A.) GOLD BACKED CURRENCY LIBTARD AND B.) FREEDOM IS MY GOD GIVEN BLOOD FULLED RIGHT AND THERE IS NO AMOUNT OF LIEBRAL SUCK MY DICK THAT CAN CHANGE THAT FACT THAT I HAVE GOLD AND GUNS AND GOD AND ONE DAY I WILL CONSUMATE A JAPANESE WOMAN IEBRAL IDIOT THE TV JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES WAS FULL OF CCP PROPOPGANDA DESIGNED TO CONVICE OR WORTHLESS GENDER CHILDREN THAN AIDS IS GOOD TO GET FROM A COCK AND IN YOUR ASS WHEN IN REALITY IT WAS NEVER ANY GOLD.  NO GOLD!!!!!!!! NOT EVEN ONCE! MARTIME LAW SAYS MY COCK IS NEVER AIDS AND EVEN THOIUGH THEY MIGHT TRY I WILL MURDER THEM WITH MY GUNS (INDENTIFY AS!!!!LOL GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IDIOT) SO JUST RTY ME BECAUSE I AM FREE UNDER GOD GUNS GOLD HAHAHAHAH! JOKER TIME! TRUMP JOKER!  PEOPLE SIAD I AWS CRAZY WHEN I SOLD MY HOUSE FOR FAKE DOLLARS BUT THE FLORUIDE GANEDER IDIOT ACCEPTED THEFAKE MONEY WHEN I EXCHANGED IT FOR REAL DOLLARS (ISRAEL? BANKS! NO, IDIOT SHEELPLE).  NOW I ROLL FREEMAN ON THE LAND STYLE JUST TELLING THE PEOPLE THE TRUST EVEN IN THEIR SLEEP AWND THEY SAY SHUT UP ABOUT JACKIE CHAN ADVENTURES (HAHHA! (THATS MY JOKER LAUGHT)) ITS TIME TO FAC ETHE MUSIC IDIOT LIBTARD WAKE UP Support the show

You ever wondered why Oklahoma has a panhandle?  No?  Well thats ok because i did it for you.  No really you are welcome.  It's not like I have better things to do, or even things I should be doing.  I do this for you.  Because I care.  And because I am trying to make this country a better place by explaining where the Oklahoma Panhandle came from.  Support the show

SHUT UP! OK SHUT UP!  Do you know how long it takes to research and write and record one of these episodes?  I just got a new job.  I'm busy, i got my own stuff going on.So instead of that, today we are going to spend some time with Ethan Craft another dude I met on Tiktok and we're gonna talk about License Plates, which he collects.  Now I know you are thinking, Andrew aren't license plates just a piece of unnoticed ephemera that reveal a shockingly rich culture of changing material design that also reflects our national transition to an hyper-individualistic society?   And the answer is yes, but some of them have bird on them.Actually I'm really in to this kind of stuff, its actually the exact kind of thing that inspired this podcast.  Most of us object to the Great Man of History TM ideas, but the reaction to this has been to assume a kind of photo negative inverse of it.  We no longer celebrate how George Washington built this county, we morn how he was the worst.  The reality is that the Great Men of History rarely shape your daily life as much as you'd think.  It's also the tiny little decisions of material culture.  License plates are a perfect example of that.  Why are there so many diffrent kinds of license plates?  Why are they made in jail?  What is the rarest license plate?  Where can I get a license plate?  Support the show

The Voyager Space Probes are in the top ten coooooooooolest things America has ever done.  Seriously we built a little robot during the Ford administration and it's still flying around and telling us all kinds of cool stuff about the dust in space or how the sun gets weird after pluto.  Lets face it if you like this podcast or are even seeing this you are probably a huge weeb for space exploration and you're a little bit mad that all the cool kids stole the NASA shirt and you wish that Nixon hadn't been arrested for Watergate so we could have gone to Mars.  I mean sure Elon Musk says hes going to Mars, but he also said that the way to fix traffic problems is to dig thousands of tiny tunnels under LA so you can pay to use them.  The American Space Program was so cool and we did so much cool stuff that wasn't apollo.   also this one has Lt. General Jason Torchinsky, Former Advisor to the Obama Administration and Senior China Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institute.  When were the Voyager Space Probe Launched? What planets have Voyager probes visited? Where is the Voyager Space Probe?  Where is the Voyager Space Probe going? How do the voyager space probes work? How do we talk to the voyager space probes?  What did the voyager space probe cost? What is NASAs budget?Support the show

AND WE'RE BACK BAYBEEEEEEEEEEHey sorry if you've been waiting on this one but didn't hear from us for a while a pipe exploded at my place and all my computer and sound stuff got wet and also I am getting a new job.  ANYWAY Edgar Allan Poe was a real guy if you can believe it.  He did stuff.  If anybody reads this comment HEY ANDREW I READ THE EPISODE DESCRIBTIONS on the subreddit cause I don't like writing them.  Now if you'll excuse me I need to scam SEO .  Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—     While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—             Only this and nothing more.”     Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.     Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow     From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore—             Nameless here for evermore.when did edgar allan poe die? who wrote the raven? who wrote murder in the rue morge?  when was edgar allan poe born? how many books did edgar allan poe write?  how can i be a mystery writer?  where was edgar allan poe from? did edgar allan poe own slaves?  how did edgar allan poe die?  was egdar allan poe married? huh? what gives? Answer me internet answer me you coward     Support the show

The history of NASCAR is a history of America's love affair with the car.  Which is to say a lot of us actually hate it and it's too expensive and we wish there was a better way but that might involve taking the bus and god knows we can't have that.  Support the show

So most of us just sort of assume that the Vice President is a loser job for somebody who is good with a demographic the President is weak in.  And that's true.  But in reality, the Vice Presidency is one of the weirdest and worst things in our Constitution.  Seriously, it's a bunch of random crap put together with duct tape and bailing wire with a ton of massive problems.  Did you know we have no idea who should be in charge of the Vice President's impeachment? The Constitution doesn't say.  It straight up doesn't say.  If the Vice President has to go on trial we have no idea who is in charge.  SO STAY TUNED TO FIND OUT HOW FUCKED YOU'D BE IF THE PRESIDENT GOES CRAZYWho is vice president? How many vice presidents have their been? How much is the vice president paid?  What does the vice president get paid? Who was George Washington's Vice President? Who was Trump's Vice President? What happens if the Vice President dies? Where does the Vice Presidnet Live?Support the show

Welcome to the Thunder Dome, except instead of Mel Gibson fighting a Midget its a chcik with purple hair screaming at a dude with Oakleys.  FOR THE LOVE OF GOD I JUST WANT GOOD HEALTH INSURANCE. Support the show