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Oct 15, 2026

Australia Overnight

Australia Overnight

Travel - Steve Collins with Tony McManus - Fri 16 Oct, 2026

Oct 15 · 1 Mention

Steve CollinsGUEST

5:39

Um, and they built the things like the Assembly of the Union, which is their Parliament house.

Steve CollinsGUEST

5:44

The Supreme Court, the Presidential Palace, uh, the official residences of the cabinet, and the headquarters of government ministers and military, et cetera.

Steve CollinsGUEST

5:54

And, uh, it's a, uh, very unusual place.

Steve CollinsGUEST

5:58

I've been there.

Matters of Democracy podcast

Matters of Democracy podcast

2026 10-13 FBI/DOJ/ DHS; Fed Reserve; Macroeconomic Trends

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

speaker_5HOST

12:27

This is a critical juncture in our analysis today.

speaker_5HOST

12:30

The newsletter reports that the White House has ordered Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to testify before a, quote, "Committee of inquiry at the Executive Mansion."

speaker_4HOST

12:40

A committee of inquiry.

speaker_5HOST

12:42

Right.

The Joe Concha Tunnel To Towers Foundation Show

The Joe Concha Tunnel To Towers Foundation Show

The Joe Concha Tunnel To Towers Foundation Show

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

Joe ConchaHOST

42:08

Thing? Ah, yeah.

Joe ConchaHOST

42:10

Teddy Roosevelt renamed the Executive Mansion...

Joe ConchaHOST

42:14

The White House.

Joe ConchaHOST

42:15

OK, this was back October 12th, 1901.

Will Trump Live Stream Firing Squad Execution?; Deadly Saudi Airport Strikes; Hurricane Isaias Makes Landfall; Halloween Candy Spending Spree

Oct 12 · 2 Mentions

Mosheh OinounouHOST

35:09

Today, the festival draws about six million people annually, and most of it actually happens in September with a bit of it in October.

Mosheh OinounouHOST

35:17

To the 20th century now, on this day in 1901, President Teddy Roosevelt officially changes the name of the president's home at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue from the Executive Mansion to the White House.

Mosheh OinounouHOST

35:27

Uh, people had informally been calling it the White House for years, Jill, but they would call it the Executive Mansion.

Mosheh OinounouHOST

35:32

Roosevelt says, "You know what? Everyone calls it the White House.

Mosheh OinounouHOST

35:35

Let's just make it official.

Unknown podcast

The Christmas Traditions of Every U.S. President: Fascinating White House Holiday Stories from George Washington to Joe Biden

Oct 9 · 12 Mentions

speaker_0NARRATOR

0:00

What if I told you that a president once banned Christmas trees from the White House? Or that another president received a fourteen hundred pound cheese as a gift and invited thousands of people to come eat it? Or that one president's sons literally smuggled a Christmas tree into the Executive Mansion against direct orders? Presidential Christmases are weird.

speaker_0NARRATOR

0:23

They're this fascinating collision between history's most powerful office and humanity's most intimate holiday.

speaker_0NARRATOR

0:30

Public duty meets private grief.

speaker_0NARRATOR

3:55

Congratulations, John.

speaker_0NARRATOR

3:57

Your prize is a drafty, unfinished mansion in the middle of a swamp.

speaker_0NARRATOR

4:02

It's eighteen hundred, and Adams moves into the executive mansion in November.

speaker_0NARRATOR

4:07

The place is barely habitable.

speaker_0NARRATOR

4:09

There are exactly six rooms that are even remotely finished.

Unknown podcast

21 Mind-Blowing and Unusual Facts About Every U.S. President: From Whiskey Distilleries to Secret Surgeries in the White House

Oct 9 · 5 Mentions

speaker_0UNKNOWN

14:12

Dolly ordered the frame broken, the canvas cut from its stretcher if necessary, refusing to leave until it was secured.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

14:20

She left with the portrait, a copy of the Declaration of Independence, and silver from the state service, hours before British soldiers arrived to burn the executive mansion, the Capitol, and most of the public buildings in a city that had barely existed for a decade.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

14:36

Madison himself was with the troops, a president in the field during the Battle of Bladensburg, which went poorly.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

14:44

The American militia broke and ran, and Madison rode back toward Washington through a countryside full of refugees and smoke.

11 MINS LATER

speaker_0UNKNOWN

25:21

The event lasted two hours.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

25:24

When it ended, the cheese was gone, but the smell was not.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

25:28

It lingered for weeks, a rancid, fatty funk that clung to drapes and upholstery, a dairy ghost haunting the executive mansion long after Jackson departed for Tennessee.

speaker_0UNKNOWN

25:41

This was not anomalous behavior.

Unknown podcast

Christmas at the White House: History, First Lady Traditions, and Iconic Holiday Stories Revealed

Oct 6 · 5 Mentions

speaker_0NARRATOR

6:17

Madison was too busy dealing with the War of eighteen twelve and watching the British burn down the White House in eighteen fourteen to worry about holiday decorations.

speaker_0NARRATOR

6:26

When the Madisons finally moved back into the rebuilt Executive Mansion, they were just grateful to have walls and a roof.

speaker_0NARRATOR

6:33

Tinsel could wait.

speaker_0NARRATOR

6:35

But Dolley Madison, now she understood hospitality.

speaker_0NARRATOR

11:05

He was inaugurated in March of that year.

speaker_0NARRATOR

11:08

But let me tell you about that inauguration, because it's relevant to understanding what Jackson's White House was like.

speaker_0NARRATOR

11:15

The man threw open the doors to the Executive Mansion and invited the entire public inside for a reception.

speaker_0NARRATOR

11:22

Twenty thousand people showed up.

Unknown podcast

100 Surprising Secrets of Early American Presidents: Untold Stories and Hidden Facts from U.S. History

Oct 6 · 3 Mentions

speaker_1HOST

2:58

It was absolutely not finished when John Adams moved in.

speaker_1HOST

3:03

Adams arrived at the Executive Mansion in November of eighteen hundred, and the building was still damp, drafty, and barely habitable.

speaker_1HOST

3:12

Only a handful of rooms were even remotely livable.

speaker_1HOST

3:16

The grand staircase had not been installed yet.

28 MINS LATER

speaker_1HOST

31:47

Here's the thing about Benjamin Harrison.

speaker_1HOST

31:50

Electricity came to the White House during his presidency, and he was genuinely afraid to touch the light switches.

speaker_1HOST

31:57

Electric lighting was installed in the executive mansion in eighteen ninety-one, a novelty that most people found thrilling and Harrison found slightly terrifying.

speaker_1HOST

32:09

He and his wife, Caroline, reportedly refused to operate the switches themselves out of concern about electric shock, preferring to leave lights on through the night rather than risk touching them to turn them off.

Unknown podcast

What Really Happened to Every U.S. First Lady After the White House: Untold Stories, Second Acts, and Surprising Legacies

Oct 4 · 4 Mentions

speaker_0NARRATOR

16:51

He suspended all White House social functions, draped the mansion in black, and retreated into a grief that seemed to consume him entirely.

speaker_0NARRATOR

17:00

For months, the Executive Mansion felt more like a mausoleum than the center of American government.

speaker_0NARRATOR

17:06

What made Letitia's death historically significant wasn't just the tragedy of it, but how it exposed the human costs of presidential ambition.

speaker_0NARRATOR

17:17

Here was a woman who'd never wanted the spotlight, who'd been content with domestic life in Virginia, but who'd been thrust into a role that literally overwhelmed her physical capacity to fulfill it.

26 MINS LATER

speaker_0NARRATOR

43:04

Caroline Harrison.

speaker_0NARRATOR

43:05

Caroline Harrison's story is particularly poignant because it shows us what might have been if illness hadn't cut short a presidency just as it was finding its rhythm.

speaker_0NARRATOR

43:17

Caroline had brought genuine artistic talent to the White House, personally designing the official China pattern and overseeing renovations that transformed the executive mansion into something more elegant and livable.

speaker_0NARRATOR

43:31

When she died of tuberculosis in October of eighteen ninety-two, still serving as first lady, she left behind projects that revealed her vision for what the president's home could become.