Rae’s Really Real Emporium of Realness

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🖼️ Drop a comment with your favorite historical painting bomb.🌐 Visit us at buckstartsherepodcast.com📸Tag us in your weirdest historical artifacts and shelf flair💌Rate, review, and send to that friend who still thinks Washington was standing up in that damn boat.Want a journal? Same. Start with this episode. Email us at [email protected] with the subject line Journal and we'll hook you up.Fife and Drum: "Loopster" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/