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A podcast about history, politics, leftism, weirdness, and crime by two friends trying to make each other laugh.
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This week, we put the pedal to the metal and embrace...THE SPEED.
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Saturday Jul 05, 2025
Saturday Jul 05, 2025
This week we settle in to talk movies; specifically, the 1961 historical epic 'El Cid'. Directed by Anthony Mann, and produced by Franco-collaborator Samuel Bronston, this hard-to-find technicolor classic is a prime example of political propaganda on the big screen. Shot largely on-scene in Spain, with 60's heavy-hitters Charlton Heston and Sofia Loren leading a cast that included hundreds of actual Francoist soldiers on loan as extras, there was plenty to admire and critique in equal measure.
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Friday Jun 27, 2025
Friday Jun 27, 2025
This week we continue our look at the life and times of famed Reconquista-era knight and mercenary Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known to posterity by the epithet El Cid. This week we will discuss the Christian response to the collapse of the Caliphate, the rise of the Almoravids, and begin to explore more deeply El Cid’s life and deeds, insofar as we know of them, and will attempt to sift apart truth from legend.
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Thursday Jun 19, 2025
Thursday Jun 19, 2025
This week, we travel back to the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th Century CE and begin our discussion about one of the most formative events in the Western European historical tradition: The Reconquista. Traditionally, at least to Western historians, this has been a tale of the centuries long triumph of Christianity, Civilization, and Enlightened European Values over the despotic domination of the conquering Muslim hordes. This week we will introduce perhaps the most famous culture hero to emerge from this tumultuous era, El Cid, and explore the world into which he was born.
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Saturday May 31, 2025
Saturday May 31, 2025
This week we discuss the proposed EPIC City development in North Texas, and the political and social fallout surrounding that. We also touch on the continuing decline of embattled PA Senator John Fetterman, and our love of Crusader Kings III.
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Friday May 16, 2025
Friday May 16, 2025
Get ready. The Great Mole Emergence is Nigh!
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Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
This week, in Part 2 of Cam’s look at the Roanoke Colony, we discuss the realities of colonial life in the Americas, the impact on both the indigenous local peoples and the colonists, and the mysterious disappearance of the Colony, which has never been solved.
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Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Never get involved in a trade war in Asia.
This week is all about tariffs, growing international antagonism by the Trump administration with a particular focus on China, deportations to Salvadoran prisons, and attempts to force leading US Universities to capitulate to presidential demands. It's fun stuff, folks.
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Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
Wednesday Mar 26, 2025
This week, we head back to the fabled Age of Exploration, when European monarchs were just catching on to the notion that it might be nice to try and exploit the entire world for financial gain. Using the famed disappearance of the Roanoke Colony as our centerpiece, we will explore the social, religious, and economic circumstances surrounding this time period, before digging in to the actual mystery in Part II next week.
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Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
This week, we discuss the inevitable end to the ceasefire in Gaza, the pending increase in the amount of waste allowable in drinking water, how easy it is to make a delicious meal in a hotel bathroom, and much MUCH more!
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