WELCOME TO RPTM
The Reasonably Price Time Machine (RPTM) Podcast is a podcast that aims to help people reclaim their history. Through in-depth analysis of historians and thinkers, host Ryan Lancaster finds insights on how we all can better understand our culture, our lives, and ourselves, and recapture the love of the past. Episodes explore history from all angles and perspectives. The show topics cover everything from men and women of all creeds, to sports, and to pop culture and literature.
The Reasonably Price Time Machine (RPTM) Podcast is a podcast that aims to help people reclaim their history. Through in-depth analysis of historians and thinkers, host Ryan Lancaster finds insights on how we all can better understand our culture, our lives, and ourselves, and recapture the love of the past. Episodes explore history from all angles and perspectives. The show topics cover everything from men and women of all creeds, to sports, and to pop culture and literature.
MEET YOUR HOST
Ryan Lancaster is the founder and editor-in-chief of ryanglancaster.com, a website chocked full of the musings of internet curmudgeon. Ryan earned a masters degree in US History from the American Military University in 2014 and graduated a member of Pi Gamma Mu, the oldest and preeminent honor society in the social sciences. He lives with Betsy and their four children in Holland, MI. When he's not talking or writing about history, Ryan enjoys wrestling, Star Wars and comic books.
Ryan Lancaster is the founder and editor-in-chief of ryanglancaster.com, a website chocked full of the musings of internet curmudgeon. Ryan earned a masters degree in US History from the American Military University in 2014 and graduated a member of Pi Gamma Mu, the oldest and preeminent honor society in the social sciences. He lives with Betsy and their four children in Holland, MI. When he's not talking or writing about history, Ryan enjoys wrestling, Star Wars and comic books.
PRAISE FOR THE RPTM PODCAST:
“The RPTM podcast thinks outside the box, offering scintillating yet unfortunately forgotten, details of American history. All for the modest price of free .99” - Ryan's Brother
“The best and most necessary history podcast I listen to.” - Ryan's OTHER Brother
EPISODE LIST:
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#001: Precambrian, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic Eras
#002: Land Bridge, The Archaic, The Post-Archaic, The White Myth
#003: Hawaiians, Norse, Natives, Food and Music
#004: Drugs, Sex, Human Sacrifice, and Columbus and his Friends
#005: Muslims, the French, Cortes, and Filipinos
#006: Roanoke, Disease, and the New Culture
#007: Women, Booze, Slaves, and Pocahontas
#008: The Mayflower, Indentured Servitude, and Political Thought
#009 Heresy, Pirates, and Beavers
#010: King Phillip, Bacon, Gambling, and Witches
#011: Prostitution, Slave Codes and Revolts, and the Great Awakening
#012: Music, Books, Fire and Brimstone, and Pirates
#013 Plantations, Medicine, Georgia, Saint Malo, and the Albany Plan
#014 French and Indian War, Louisiana, and The Stamp Act
#015: Education, The Boston Massacre, and Late Colonial Life
#016: Greek Life, The Boston Tea Party, Thomas Paine, and the American Revolution
#017: Smallpox, Women, Blacks and Latinos in the Revolution
#018: Jews, Muslims, Sex, The Fourth of July, and the Declaration of Independence
#019 von Stueben, Gadsden, Yankee Doodle, and the End of the War
#020 The Fallout from the Revolution, the Founding Fathers, And the Treaty of Six Nations
#021 Shay’s Rebellion, The Articles of Confederation, Northwest Ordinance, the Constitution, and Homosexuality
#022 The Bald Eagle, The American Novel, Whiskey Rebellion, and Latinos
#023 Eli Whitney, Cookbooks, Bank Heists, and American Fitness
#024 Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, Alexander Hamilton, and the Louisiana Purchase
#025 Lewis, Clark, Sacagawea, The Barbary Wars, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
#026: Tecumseh, Tippecanoe, and the War of 1812
#027: Drinking, Singing, Bloodshed, and the Disenfranchised
#028: Missouri Compromise, Monroe Doctrine, and the Tomato
#029: Andrew Jackson Was A Jerk!
#030: Pirates, Temperance, Trail of Tears, and Nat Turner
#031: Black Hawk War, Nullification, and Asian Americans
#032:P.T. Barnum, Texas, and the Panic of 1837
#033: Amistad, Sports, and Fitness
#034: Comic Books, Oregon Trail, Post Office, and the Telegraph
#035: Baseball, Marion Sims, and the Mexican-American War
#036: Gold in the Hills
#037: Seneca Falls and the Cult of Domesticity
#038: Fugitive Slave Act, Fredrick Douglas, and Anti-Mexican Violence
#039: Ranchos, Chinese Americans, Genocide, and Uncle Tom
#040: Transcendentalism, Sojourner Truth, and Commodore Perry
#041: Chinese Prostitutes, Black Whiskey, and Bleeding Kansas
#042: Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, and Temporary Insanity
#043: Darwin, John Brown, King Cotton and Cassius Clay
#044: The American Civil War Part One
#045: The American Civil War Part Two
#046: The American Civil War Part Three
#047: The American Civil War Part Four
#048: The American Civil War Part Five
#049: The American Civil War Part Six
#050: The American Civil War Part Seven
#051: The Aftermath of War, Pinkertons, Camel Corps, and the King of Beaver Island
#052: California Police Tax, the Homestead Act, and the Sioux Uprising
#053: Ten Percent plan, Race Riots, Sand Creek, and the Freedmen’s Bureau
#054: Assassination, Wild Bill, the KKK, and Black Codes
#055: Reconstruction Acts, the Railroad, and Women’s Suffrage
#056: Labor, Football, and the 15th Amendment
#057: Fashion and Fire
#058: Scandal, Amnesty, and Panic
#059: Blue Jeans, the Derby, and the Page Act
#060: Calamity Jane, Little Big Horn, and the Compromise 0f 1877
#061: Bridging the Gap
#062: Norsin' Around
#063: Back in Thyme
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Intro theme music is “Down South” by BLIV BEATS
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