Before there was a president, there was a pox.

In this shockingly funny and seductively smart episode, the R-Naughty roundtable reveals how George Washington saved the American Revolution—not with muskets, but with medicine.

Faced with a smallpox epidemic that was wiping out soldiers faster than British bullets, Washington made a radical move: he ordered the mass inoculation of the Continental Army. It was bold. It was illegal. And it worked.

Join narrator Mira Tell and our panel of dangerously qualified experts as they unmask:

• Washington’s personal brush with smallpox in Barbados
• The failed Canadian campaign, where contagion trumped combat
• The birth of American immunity policy in a Morristown snowstorm
• The Pustule-to-Patriot Pipeline (you’ll never look at scars the same)
• Why pus might’ve mattered more than powdered wigs

Complete with letters, lawbreaking, and one very sharp lancet—The General’s Gambit is a wild ride through the sexiest public health decision in U.S. history.

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Some things are harder to regulate than a virus.

Like desire. Shame. And the sound of a foil wrapper at 3 a.m.

In this sultry, sharp-tongued bonus episode, R-Naughty’s own Rhonda Regulation takes the mic for Pullout Quotes—a rapid-fire roast of history’s most ridiculous anti-condom rhetoric. From Victorian moral panic to Reagan-era abstinence crusades to one very glittery Texas State Fair, she rates real public health quotes with surgical sass and laminated judgment.

Narrated by Mira Tell, this episode delivers laughs, latex, and just enough history to make you question your high school sex ed class.

Featuring Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com):

🎵 Late Night Radio – CC BY 4.0

🎵 Faster Does It – CC BY 4.0

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Content note: This episode contains seductive satire, real STI history, and one mechanical bull named “Regret.”

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Preseason Bonus Episode | R-Naughty Presents: Exposure Scroll Readings

Narrated by Mira Tell

In the summer of 1976, a mysterious outbreak turned a Philadelphia hotel into an invisible battlefield. Veterans checked in for camaraderie and cigars—some never checked out.

In this sultry preseason bonus episode, Mira Tell unseals the scroll on Legionnaires’ disease: the deadly, mist-borne illness that emerged from the air vents of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel and changed building safety forever.

With signature seduction and razor-sharp science, Mira follows the clues:

• A bacteria no one could name

• A CDC microbiologist who wouldn’t quit

• And a cooling tower with a lethal spray

From overlooked outbreaks to revised regulations, this is the story of how a hotel’s AC system became one of the most notorious disease vectors in U.S. history.

History gets unzipped, unrolled… and occasionally vaporized.

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