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- Oct 27, 202545 min
S1.5: Live from Treefort 2025!
As a topper for our mini-season, we’re bringing you a live show we did earlier in 2025 from Treefort Music Fest in Boise! Charlie reminds Jaci about Howard Dean’s “scream heard ‘round the world," and Jaci schools Charlie on a big city mayor who might have been better off not writing a children’s book.For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.
- Oct 20, 20251h 2m
S1.5: The Elephant in the Oval Office
In season one, we purposely avoided doing an episode about Donald Trump; but the first year of Trump’s second term is too scandalous to ignore. In this episode, we break down the new, the old, and the truly unprecedented of Trump’s second-term scandals. We cover Trump’s pardons for government insurrectionists and his questionable allies; his unprecedented financial entanglements with the office he holds; and, of course, the Epstein of it all.For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.A transcript of this podcast is available.
- Oct 13, 202536 min
S1.5: Staff Revolts and Bosnian Bears
Charlie and Jaci revisit a couple of their favorite stories from season one, including fan favorites like Gov. Rod Blagojevich. We also talk exclusively with Gov. Sanford’s former chief of staff for an insider’s account of the “Appalachian Trail” scandal, and check in with new efforts to ban insider trading in Congress.For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.A transcript of this podcast is available.
- Oct 6, 202532 min
S1.5: Teeny Tiny Watergate
The culinary journey continues with some more food fails in very public political spaces. A president gets sick in the lap of another head of state; Marco Rubio learns about the fine art of drinking from a water bottle; and two U.S. Senators school us on the finer points of hot dogs and tuna melts. For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.A transcript of this episode is available.
- Sep 29, 202522 min
S1.5: The Crudité Conundrum
Scandalized is back for a five-episode mini-season while we work on Season 2! This week, part one of our deep dive into our favorite food-related scandals. Dr. Oz teaches us about the finer points of crafting a crudité during his ill-fated Senate campaign; and New York mayor Bill de Blasio forks over his local street cred by eating pizza incorrectly.A transcript of this podcast is available.
- Nov 18, 202456 min
S1: The Truth About Lying in Politics (Part 2)
It’s part two of our season finale on the truth-stretching that politicians seem to do all too often. Last week, we examined the ways politicians inflate their resumes; this week, the lies get personal. Abortion payments, marathon times, and even politicians’ ancestors are fair game for falsehoods. Charlie and Jaci dig into these personal lies, whether politicians pay the price, and why we shouldn’t paint them all with the same brush.For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.
- Nov 11, 202446 min
S1: The Truth About Lying in Politics (Part 1)
For the last two episodes of the season, Charlie and Jaci tell the truth — at least as far as they can tell — about the fine art of lying in politics. What lies get politicians in trouble the most? What will the public forgive, and what will they refuse to forget? And how should we treat outright lies versus the occasional truth-stretching? This week, the stories of a few well-known politicians who weren’t quite as qualified for the job as they made themselves out to be.For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.
- Nov 4, 202448 min
S1: “His face was in your windshield, Jason.”
A man lies dead on the side of a dark road in South Dakota while the state’s Attorney General apparently flees the scene. A state’s chief law enforcement officer veers too far off the road, and finds himself on the wrong end of the justice system; and in a world of political hurt.Content Warning: Death and dying, bloodA transcript of this episode is available.For more sources and bonus info on this episode, visit www.scandalizedpod.com.
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About Scandalized
In each episode of Scandalized, political scientists Charlie Hunt and Jaci Kettler unpack a political scandal from American history: the story, its scandalous details, the political meaning and motivations behind the act. What can political science teach us about what happened? How has the scandal and its aftermath changed American politics? And what on earth were these politicians thinking?Make a donation to support Scandalized today.
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