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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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Sep 12, 2025
Sep 12, 2025
1 hr 5 min
This week was full of events. Within this episode, those events are discussed. In a fairly measured fashion, for us. Enjoy.
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<3
Sep 5, 2025
Sep 5, 2025
1 hr 9 min
We're a 7 on the Bristol Cool Chart
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Aug 13, 2025
Aug 13, 2025
1 hr 13 min
more like snore of the worlds gottem
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Jul 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025
1 hr 8 min
This week we return to Iberia in the late 11th century to see how our old pal Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is handling his second brush with exile from the royal court of Alfonso VI. He learned a lot during his first brush with freelance mercenary work, and this time we'll see him put those skills to work as he attempts to realize his loftier ambitions.
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And I swear, that isn't my real nickname :'(
Jul 19, 2025
Jul 19, 2025
1 hr 17 min
And even if it WAS real, I'm not on it.
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Jul 11, 2025
Jul 11, 2025
1 hr 6 min
This week, we put the pedal to the metal and embrace...THE SPEED.
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Jul 5, 2025
Jul 5, 2025
1 hr 5 min
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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Jun 27, 2025
Jun 27, 2025
1 hr 15 min
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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Jun 19, 2025
Jun 19, 2025
1 hr 22 min
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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Happy Juneteenth :)
May 31, 2025
May 31, 2025
1 hr 4 min
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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