American Esoterica

American Esoterica American history, bite-sized.

A podcast concerning odd or interesting bits of American history, available on most streaming sites and at www.americanesoterica.com.

You'll see plenty of people today questioning why we celebrate Juneteenth. They don't seem to understand that Juneteenth...
06/19/2026

You'll see plenty of people today questioning why we celebrate Juneteenth. They don't seem to understand that Juneteenth celebrates the most explicit commitment to the promises made in the Declaration of Independence, which, until the end of the Civil War, were merely words. Juneteenth is a celebration for every American, because we as a nation finally started living up to our ideals. We finally put action behind the words of our founding document. If that isn't worth celebrating, then what is?

The world got a glimpse of the future in Chicago in 1893. Your breakfast would never be the same. OUT NOW - Episode 96 -...
06/18/2026

The world got a glimpse of the future in Chicago in 1893. Your breakfast would never be the same. OUT NOW - Episode 96 - All's Fair, available on your streamer doohickeys and also at www.americanesoterica.com for increasingly irrational reasons.

A story about gang warfare, piracy, sharks, death by ammonia suffocation, and the people who killed the geese that laid ...
06/04/2026

A story about gang warfare, piracy, sharks, death by ammonia suffocation, and the people who killed the geese that laid the golden eggs, pretty much literally. OUT NOW - Episode 95 - Farce Wars: The Eggpire Strikes Back, available on all the streamers and also on www.americanesoterica.com.

State of the art technology shows weakness against cheap drone. Difficulty: 70 years ago. OUT NOW - Episode 94 - Farce W...
05/21/2026

State of the art technology shows weakness against cheap drone. Difficulty: 70 years ago. OUT NOW - Episode 94 - Farce Wars: Attack of the Drone, available at all your streaming apps and such and also at www.americanesoterica.com.

She was the inspiration for the Pinkerton Detective Agency's famous slogan, and all it took was stopping the assassinati...
05/07/2026

She was the inspiration for the Pinkerton Detective Agency's famous slogan, and all it took was stopping the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Meet the first female private detective in the United States, Kate Warne. OUT NOW - Episode 93 - Warne, P.I., available on your streamers and such and also at www.americanesoterica.com, which we're hoping to sell to Indonesian hackers for enough cash to grab a Quarter Pounder meal.

Once more, we play our dangerous game. It's been a minute - how are you? That's nice. Anyway, here are basically five mi...
04/23/2026

Once more, we play our dangerous game. It's been a minute - how are you? That's nice. Anyway, here are basically five mini-episodes stuffed into one, so we're cool, right? OUT NOW - Episode 92 - Fool Me Thrice, available on all the streamers and also at a hacked Chinese site selling knockoff Z Cavaricci pants, www.americanesoterica.com.

04/03/2026

Might as well get this out of the way now... another fun April Fool's episode is headed your way, but as per frickin' usual lately, it will be late. What was supposed to be a two-day HVAC installation ballooned to four days, which cut the power to the studio area in the vast mansion where American Esoterica is recorded, preventing your humble host from actually recording the scheduled episode before he leaves on a one-week vacation with his family to Washington, D.C. and New York.

In lieu of yet another late/missing episode, there may be a short livestream from the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, but there are no promises.

03/31/2026

To whoever listened to literally every single episode of this show in one day yesterday...thank you. Also, you may need some therapy as a result, and we're so sorry about the sticky residue - that doesn't usually happen if you micro-dose it. It'll come off in 4-6 weeks.

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