The Founding Fathers were wild, opinionated, and absolutely not here for standing armies in their guest rooms—let’s get into it. In this Buck Wild episode of The Buck Starts Here, Kyle and Eric catapult you back to 1791—when powdered wigs were poppin’ and the fear of standing armies was all the rage.

Get ready as we dive into the OG top five amendments—ranging from the freedom of speech (hint: Congress isn’t your modern Twitter) to the quirky art of not quartering drunk soldiers in your guest room. With sass, irreverence, and a whole lot of constitutional nerdery, we break down why theFifth Amendment remains every stoner’s favorite “I plead the…” moment.

Plus, hear how Madison catches feelings, Franklin fights foran open window, and Eric battles 75 legal words in a single breath like he’s auditioning for a pharmaceutical commercial. If you’re looking for a funny, fiery, and historically smart podcast that explains the Bill of Rights like you’ve never heard before, hit play now!

Hit play, learn what your rights really mean, and maybe stop citing “free speech” in your group texts.

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Because knowing your rights shouldn’t be boring—and we’rehere to make sure it never is.

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Unroll your canvas and dip your brush in the tea, friends. Your charmingly chaotic hosts Kyle and Eric are back, and they've summoned fan-favorite Rae Faba - our resident realism vendor - for another trip into the glittery, grimy world of early American portraiture and the messy marriage between art and truth.

We're diving deep into America’s painted past: presidential portraits with side-eye, photography that lied before Photoshop was even a thing, and one German guy who decided George Washington needed some heroic fanfic. Did women row the damn boat? Was that Monroe behind the flag using it as a giant Band-Aid? Is that a duck-banana in the background? Honestly… maybe.

🎨 It’s art history, American myth-making, and full-throttle snark—all in one delicious episode.

🔎 Featuring:
– The most theatrical river crossing in military history– Rae's Jedi holocron (yes, really)
– Why Lincoln’s head got Frankensteined onto someone else’s body
– Shelf-off shenanigans
– And the ultimate historical question: can you trust a painting with icebergs?

👇 Hit play if you love your history messy, your art opinionated, and your hosts wildly underqualified to fact-check America’s most patriotic oil painting.

🖌️ Want more realness, weirdness, and wildly good art? March yourself over to Rae’s lair: https://marshmallowheaddesign.com

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John Quincy Adams: science nerd, policy wonk... almostfunder of a journey to the center of the freaking Earth? Yeah, that happened. Kind of.

This week, Kyle and Eric dig into the gloriously unhinged tale of John Cleves Symmes Jr.—an ex-Army guy turned HollowEarth hype man—who tried to convince Congress that the Earth was basically a cosmic donut. And guess what? It almost worked.

Was JQA secretly into sci-fi? Did Congress take leave of itssenses? Why did the frontier love this guy while Harvard told him to kick rocks? We’ve got conspiracies, crank science, and just enough Manifest Destiny to make it weird.

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✅Hit follow, leave a review, and remember—there’s no “the” in our email, and no bottom to this rabbit hole.Fife and Drum:

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