Beyond Reproach

Beyond Reproach is a comedic history podcast about scandals and scandalousness in politics and government. Each episode, hosts Stephanie & Tux explore the sordid stories of America's past, all while drinking heavily, talking too much, and generally making fools of themselves. They hope that these stories entertain you, teach you a thing or two, and maybe even draw parallels between the mistakes of the past and the quagmire that is American politics today.

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S5 Ep52: Minisode 52: Strangers with Candy

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10/10/22 • 24 min

In this minisode TUX talks about the history of tainted Halloween candy and how far from reality this “threat” has always been.
ALSO MENTIONED: Moral panics, the children, TUX the soothsayer, learning something every new, edibles, Scream, Big Sugar, razorblades in apples, Dear Abby, Ann Landers, Shared History podcast, Tylenol poisoning, cyanide, Texas, executions, and Jean-Benet Ramsey’s murdering ass brother.
For more info about us and to peruse our online shop:
SITE
🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/
SOCIALS
📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/
🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond
👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/
📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it!
PATREON
If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Tim, our podfather and savior.
💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach
OUR SPONSORS
If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

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S5 Ep59: Raise a Flag & Secure the Bag: Episode 59 (The Story of the Pledge of Allegiance)

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11/07/22 • 48 min

In this episode, we are drinking a Scottish twist on a Manhattan, the Rob Roy. It is a classic drink for scotch lovers and its popularity ties to the era of STEPHANIE’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/
STEPHANIE details the marketing gimmick that birthed the modern pledge of allegiance. We 🥂cheers to existing in one of the most potent propaganda atmospheres on earth!
ALSO DISCUSSED: Moms & themes, Ohio marketing campaign, creepy nationalism, Colombo, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Highlights magazine, TUX’s birthday, thirst, Looking Back, radical that thing that I say, face crinkling, eugenics, just as I thought, face journeys, Shared History podcast, Robert Roy McGregor, GWP, what was the deal with cereal boxtops, President Benjamin Harrison, Columbus Day, Charles Lindbergh, fascist salute, in god we trust, butterfly effect, those other united flags, they will cluck their tongues, and Scottish Robin Hood.
For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop:
SITE
🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/
SOCIALS
📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/
🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond
👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/
📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it!
PATREON
If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Dev, our new sound editor.
💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach
TIPS
Love the show and wanna show some random love? Venmo Tip Jar: @Beyond_Reproach
OUR SPONSORS
If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

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S5 Ep58: Tiddies and Spice and Everything Nice: Episode 58 (The Rebranding of Christopher Columbus)

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10/17/22 • 76 min

In this very special Halloween episode we are drinking one of our absolute favorite cocktails (this will soon be apparent #sorrynotsorry), the Gimlet. This lime-laced gin beverage became the drink of choice by British officers on long ocean voyages out of necessity to prevent scurvy–its popularity with sailors ties to the era and theme of STEPHANIE’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/
STEPHANIE exposes the ahistorical rebranding of Christopher Columbus and the holiday invented as a PR campaign to smooth over some good ol American lynching. We 🥂to wishing that Christopher Columbus died of dick scurvy! Rest in piss.
ALSO DISCUSSED: The D, scurvy, putrefied body parts, vitamin C, playcousins, James Madison, gin daiquiris, cocktail reddit, not my holiday, Liza Minnelli lies, Ron Desantis, Pythagorus the triangle dude, flat earthers, personal math, sea breasts, performing the crime of genocide, Herstory on the Rocks podcast, lynching trains, Salem witch trials, Black Italians, FDE, drugs &akahol, “that smacks”, dirty legs, Washington Irving’s lying ass, succulence, black pepper, geocities, beanie babies, cinnamon flavored bullshit, riff raff, Henry Cabot Lodge, Sacco & Vanzetti, snatching of edges, Queen Elizabeth, “worst” lynching, NPR being NPR, Queen Ida B. Wells, good vibes only, Mayor Latoya Cantrell, Obama apologizing to indigenous peoples, zazz, mauve moments, face journeys, Reconstruction, Jessica Fletcher, Colombo, TNT, Angela Landsbury, and the Simpsons.
For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop:
SITE
🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/
SOCIALS
📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/
🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond
👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/
📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it!
PATREON
If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Dev, our new sound editor.
💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach
TIPS
Love the show and wanna show some random love? Venmo Tip Jar: @Beyond_Reproach
OUR SPONSORS
If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

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S5 Ep57: Short King Vibes: Episode 57 (Byron (Low Tax) Looper and the Murder of Tommy Burks)

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10/03/22 • 57 min

In this very special Halloween episode we are drinking a delicious, albeit basic cocktail, the Cosmopolitan. This simple but elegant concoction was sensationalized by Sex and the City but popular a decade before, this signature cocktail was everywhere in 90s–the era of TUX’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/
TUX shines a light on Byron (Low Tax) Looper, a lowly county tax assessor with big dreams and whose obsession with power turned him into a literal monster. We 🥂to taking threats of violence seriously!
ALSO DISCUSSED: Pumpkin spice lattes, y2K parties, Dick Clark, Andy Cohen’s drunkenness, political monster stories. bone spurs, Gia Gunn’s Stun, Batman, Well... That’s Interesting podcast, lottery, DINOs (Manchin and Sinema), black gloves, bad manners, Miracle Whip, snitching on oneself, maligned by the Democratic power structure, Tux (Low Tax) Loerzel and short king vibes.
For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop:
SITE
🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/
SOCIALS
📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/
🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond
👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/
📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it!
PATREON
If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Dev, our new sound editor.
💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach
TIPS
Love the show and wanna show some random love? Venmo Tip Jar: @Beyond_Reproach
OUR SPONSORS
If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

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S1 Ep5: Minisode 5: Staying Sane in an Insane World

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03/04/19 • 17 min

We be drinkin’ and we be chattin’!

We don’t have listener mail this episode but we are announcing the topic for next month’s minisode -- the very important topic of anxiety, stress management and self care under our current administration.

A survey by the American Psychiatric Association found that anxiety more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. The good news is that we aren’t alone, we aren’t imagining it and this level of anxiety will have an end date. We just need to keep taking care of ourselves, so we can stay angry, stay connected and stay whole in the process of fighting the good fight!

We discuss our mental health struggles, past and present, exploring the changes we’ve experienced over the last couple years. We talk about what we are doing to keep ourselves feeling good despite the political chaos that surrounds us. We chat about some of our favorite self care rituals from Drag Race, lollipops, and curating social media feeds to TCM, baking, and starting a podcast! Tux chats about small but impactful ways to make a positive difference in your community like voting and volunteering.

We want to hear from YOU! We want to know how you keep sane in an insane world? We want to know how your mental health issues are manifesting, what is making you feel stressed and in what ways do you cope when these negative feelings arise?

You can send us a voice memo or email us at [email protected], or feel free to slip into our DMs if you're feeling cheeky. Don’t be strangers and say hi! Just be sure to get those responses back to us no later than 3/16.

We can’t wait to hear from you!!!

To learn more about Beyond Reproach check out our site.
Follow us at: Instagram / Twitter / Facebook
You can find us on: Apple Podcast / Stitcher / Spotify

Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all!

S4 Ep37: Disappeared of Natural Causes: Episode 37 (School of the Americas)

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10/18/21 • 60 min

In this very special Halloween episode we are drinking a jammy mix of gin and berry, the Sloe Gin Fizz. This bright and fizzy cocktail tastes like an Italian soda and its popularity ties into the era of STEPHANIE’s scandal. 🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/ STEPHANIE highlights the terrifying history of School of the Americas, the Army training facility, whose secret programs produced a shocking number of dictators, mercenaries and rapists responsible for some of the greatest human right violations in the Western hemisphere. We toast to toast to military aid, to our tax dollars hard at work creating a boot camp for the real bad hombres! ALSO DISCUSSED: TUX’s high school lewks, mulberry trees, anti-vaxxer jokes, banana ESP, dusty eyeballs, crystal pepsi, episode 2 panama canal, violating human rights while eating McDonalds, disappearing of national causes, Saint Jimmy, Project X, the “this is fine” dog, Shared History podcast, salt bae, everyone is a guerillas, Trump University, Colludi Giuliani, malarkey, we been done did, and nor seeing things that happened in Spanish. For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/ 🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond 👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/ 📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it! PATREON If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Tim, our podfather and savior. 💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach OUR SPONSORS If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

S5 Ep55: She is the Moment: Episode 55 (The Story of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the Original Hyper-Public First Kid)

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09/05/22 • 55 min

In our first episode of Season 5 we are coming to y’all from Detroit!! We kick off the season with a cocktail called the Hanky-Panky. This drink is Ada “Coley” Coleman’s most famous drink from the turn of the century. Her classic concoction is still on menu today at her old bar and it ties perfectly to the era and theme of STEPHANIE’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/
STEPHANIE shines a light on the story of the original hyper-public first kid, Alice Roosevelt. We 🥂to Alice Roosevelt’s most iconic quote, a quote that she later had enshrined in needlepoint on a tea pillow “If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.”
ALSO DISCUSSED: Per our last email, Woodredith, Steel Magnolias, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hot Topic, TUX’s friend Leon, hot gos, Paris Hilton, Alice Blue, Peculiar Picture Show, tea, snake pockets, dagger, President Mush, lobotomy, Ohio, white wedding dresses, voo-doo doll, Lyndon Johnson-proof hats, Princess Margaret, drips ‘n drabs, New Deal, Gouverneur Morris, sending Fernet via post, and our 5th anniversary launch party.
For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop:
SITE
🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/
SOCIALS
📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/
🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond
👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/
📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it!
PATREON
If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Tim, our podfather and savior.
💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach
OUR SPONSORS
If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

S3 Ep25: MOVE is in the Heart: Episode 25 (The West Philly MOVE Bombing, and the Real History of Thanksgiving)

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11/02/20 • 89 min

This episode we stack up our multi-colored scrunchies and sip on some Triple Berry Wine Coolers in honor of Tux’s 80’s scandal. This classic retro cocktail is a fruity refreshing treat that is very easy to make (hint hint)! Treat yourselves!
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/2020/10/11/episode-25-triple-berry-wine-cooler ALSO DISCUSSED:Cutting the mustard, MTV’s Diary, #notallblackpeople, Karen, More Than a Crush podcast, when the groove is coming from inside your heart, Festivus, Tux’s mental gymnastic genes, the Mary Had a Little Lamb empire, shopping holidays, wholesome buckles, sturdy white men, Masters of Social Gastronomy podcast, the co-opting of Woody Guthrie and Bruce Springstein’s songs. TUX shines a light on that day in Philadelphia when law enforcement dropped a bomb on a civilian neighborhood and let the fire burn. We toast to black lives and black communities! STEPHANIE explores the invention of Thanksgiving in honor of Native American Indian Heritage month. We raise our glasses to massacres, myths, and the making of our beloved November holiday! For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop: SITE 🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/ SOCIALS 📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/ 🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond 👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/ 📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it! PATREON If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Tim, our podfather and savior. 💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach OUR SPONSORS If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

S5 Ep61: What a Coinkydink: Episode 61 (The Detroit Rebellion of '67)

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12/05/22 • 72 min

In this episode, we are drinking a Golden Cadillac also known as the Gold Cadillac and it is a drink traditionally served in two glasses for toxic masculinity-related reasons. This sweet creme-based cocktail’s peek popularity matches the era of TUX’s scandal.
🍸 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/the-cocktails/
TUX returns to Detroit for part two to talk about what happened after redlining took effect, focusing specifically on the uprising that took place during the time period known as the “long hot summer of 67”. We 🥂to the knowledge that words have meaning.
ALSO DISCUSSED: when you think about the ways in which, Galliano, the summer of love, jobs programs for white supremacists, Watts riots, crisp ironed basketball uniforms, Harvey Milk, Hulk, Bart’s violence gang, car alarm remix, Mitten’s dad, tea, STEPHANIE’s lies, Barbara, Capital insurrection, the Bronx, Birds aren’t real, baby handcuff, clumsiness-related injuries, snippers, Irish, Rosa Parks, Little Caesars 5 dollar pizza, backwards hat, long back, concave, isosceles, and surviving creme-based drinks.
For source information on each scandal and to peruse our online shop:
SITE
🌐 - https://www.beyondreproachpod.com/
SOCIALS
📸 - https://www.instagram.com/beyondreproachpod/
🐦 - https://twitter.com/ReproachBeyond
👤 - https://www.facebook.com/beyondreproachpod/
📌 - https://www.reddit.com/user/Tux_n_Steph
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all! Tell 2 friends while you are at it!
PATREON
If you want to throw us a couple nickels that we can throw at Dev, our new sound editor.
💰 - https://www.patreon.com/beyondreproach
TIPS
Love the show and wanna show some random love? Venmo Tip Jar: @Beyond_Reproach
OUR SPONSORS
If you would like to sponsor the podcast, please get in touch with us at [email protected]

S1 Ep3: Minisode 3: Your Slavery Education Stories

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01/07/19 • 34 min

We’re back with another minisode with YOUR thoughts and stories on a heavy but important subject: TEACHING CHILDREN ABOUT SLAVERY! We believe that taking a more honest approach to this country’s foundation would make this country stronger as a whole. Slavery in the United States is not just Black History, it is American History.

With the help of our brave listeners, we discuss the teaching of black history month in a New Orleans public school, a pricey New England boarding school and a predominately LatinX public school in Massachusetts. We hear from parents of kids in public schools, a parent who supplements their child’s education at-home, and another parent who homeschools her children.

Thank you all so so so very much for reaching out to us with such thoughtful insights on this very challenging topic. Y’all came through with such strong feedback this episode! We can’t tell you how much we appreciate it, and how good it makes us feel to know there are so many out there who feel just as strongly about the need to talk openly about American History as we do.

Honestly. It means so much to us.

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To prepare for our next minisode, we also announce next month’s subject, and ask you to write/call in with your thoughts and stories on that subject.

An Instagram post we put up, taken from a Texas textbook, caused quite a stir. The post, which highlights an intentionally misleading portrayal of slavery, introduced us to our first white supremacist troll. As nube podcast hosts are still navigating the world of social media promotion and would love to hear about your experiences with internet trolls. Trolls, according to wiki, is a person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the Internet to distract and sow discord by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community with the intent of provoking readers into displaying emotional responses and normalizing tangential discussion--whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain.

How do you handle trolls, in what situations do they appear, what things are you discussing, on what platforms?

Please listen to the episode and drop us a line by Saturday January 12th. We’ll read our favorite responses on minisode 4 next month!

You can send us a voice memo or email us at [email protected], or feel free to slip into our DMs if you're feeling cheeky. Just be sure to get those responses back to us no later than 1/12.

We can’t wait to hear from you!!!

To learn more about Beyond Reproach check out our site
Follow us at: Instagram / Twitter / Facebook
You can find us on: Apple Podcast / Stitcher / Spotify
Don’t forget to rate, review, & subscribe y’all!

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How many episodes does Beyond Reproach have?

Beyond Reproach currently has 158 episodes available.

What topics does Beyond Reproach cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, Comedy and Podcasts.

What is the most popular episode on Beyond Reproach?

The episode title 'S5 Ep52: Minisode 52: Strangers with Candy' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Beyond Reproach?

The average episode length on Beyond Reproach is 50 minutes.

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Episodes of Beyond Reproach are typically released every 7 days, 2 hours.

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The first episode of Beyond Reproach was released on Oct 1, 2018.

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