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The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on World War ThreeFor some reason we've got World War 3 on the mind, and that's what we ramble on about in this episode. With the issues going on in Ukraine, the Middle East, Taiwan and North Korea we're a little on edge about World War 3 and we spent some time looking into things, and I, for one, came out none the wiser. We dust off the tin foil hats, go off on some ridiculous tangential rants, and overall have as good a time as you can while wondering if we're on our way to end of the world.2024-02-101h 21The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes Take on North Korea's Recent ProvocationsOn this episode we talk about the recent actions by North Korea and their increase in rhetoric and actions that point to a coming conflict with South Korea. We've had a lot of focus in our episodes about all the things pointing towards WW3, and this is another in the list. Apparently the doom and gloom of WW3 holds some sway over our attention for some reason, but in this episode we're focusing on the recent change in actions by North Korea where they outright drop any pretext of peaceful unification with South Korea, and simply declare them their...2024-01-201h 16The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes Take on Trump and the 14th Amendment In one of our more contentious episodes (which is a little surprising since we both seemed to agree on the main issue of the episode) we give our take on Trump being removed from the presidential ballot in Colorado and other state(s). We ramble all over the place and talk about Korea, Israel, an imaginary Hawaii secession scenario and more. I think my anti-authoritarianism gets me a little riled up, and one day we'll need to do a podcast on meditation.2024-01-201h 21The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on 2023Welcome to our 2023 year in review. We discuss what we consider the biggest stories of 2023, from politics to politics by other means (War), AI, and a recap of my favorite alien stories of 2023. 2023-12-201h 08The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the Panama CanalA massive undertaking that took the lives of over 25,000 people, took over twenty years to build, and a true modern wonder of the world, welcome to the Plebeian take on the Panama Canal. This little 50 mile canal has 5 % of all global shipping pass through it every year, employs some 9500 people, and operates 24/7 - 365 days a year. 2023-12-021h 10The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes discuss 2023 Moon LandingsIn this episode we talk about the 2023 moon landings. Moon Landings may end up being a bit generous, as there was only one successful landing (so far... We're rooting for you SLIM), but it was kind of a big year nonetheless. There were multiple planned lunar landings, and with a couple crashes and some cancellations, there was still a successful landing by India, the Chandrayaan 3 landing which had a successful 14 day lunar rover trip on the moon's southern pole. 2023-11-181h 01The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the history of IsraelDue to the situation unfolding in Israel we tried to see if looking into the history of Israel, Hamas, and Palestine would help us understand what is going on any better. The answer was no, and the history was a lot bigger in scope than we imagined when we decided on the topic. It's a tragic situation, and I hope we don't make too much light of what people over there are going through. The situation is hard to understand, and quite honestly I don't think we really understand it all, but we spend some time discussing the history...2023-11-111h 20The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes Take on the World of EspionageIn this episode we ramble through the spy world, ranging from individual spies like Robert Hanssen or Aldrich Ames, to spy gadgets like photo taking pigeons or dog poop transmitters, to talking about the high tech capabilities that governments use. It's not all like the movies, but to be fair some of it is like the movies, like when a secret message hidden in hollowed out nickel led to a prisoner exchange between the USA and USSR.2023-09-301h 07The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the Social Credit Score China's been implementing a social credit score system, similar to a financial credit score but for social interactions. We discuss some of the reasons, (including horse hair soy sauce... you'll have to listen to get more info on that), rules (Firecrackers -5 points), and repercussions (no soup for you, come back one year). We had a good time, and lowered our social credit score several hundred points in the process. Enjoy.2023-09-221h 01The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on BRICS and de-dollarizationThis episode we look into the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) alliance and the concept of de-dollarization. The de-dollarization concept has to do with removing the US dollar as the dominant currency in all (Not just U.S.) international trade, being used in 88 % of all international trade. At the end of the day I don't know whether to believe the doomerist view, that US currency will crash and who knows what all crashes with it, or the homerist view, that nothing can stop the good ol' US of A.2023-09-221h 04The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the Jonestown Massacre.In today's discussion we go back to a bit of obscure history with the story of the Jonestown Massacre. In 1978 918 people were killed in a strange tale of murder suicide. A religious / communist group from the US calling themselves the People's Temple go to live in a commune that they built from scratch in Guyana. We discuss the life of Jim Jones, the charismatic leader whose followers built Jonestown, as well as the events that led a US congressman to fly down to Guyana to investigate Jonestown, ultimately leading to the murder of the congressman, and the revolutionary suicide of...2023-09-061h 14The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes taken on the Maui fires and the darker side of conspiraciesWe talk about the fires in Maui that have left thousands without homes, and thousands dead or missing. But we really start getting into the crazy conspiracies that have popped up regarding the fires. There have been more, and crazier, conspiracies around these fires than there have been around top US officials suggesting we have alien space craft (I guess people tire of the same old conspiracies and are happy to have a change of topic in the conspiracy arena). There are underlying questions about society and trust that pop up when conspiracies hit this level of popularity and craziness...2023-09-061h 18The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on politics... maybe?This episode we went off on some strange tangents around politics. The idea for the podcast came from a simple question that we never really answered, and don't know how to answer. How did we get to where we are now politcally? Or more specifically how did we end up with the two least popular presidential candidates in 2016, followed by 2020, with a pretty good indicator that 2024 is setting itself up to be the most surreal election in the history of the US. We clearly don't have any answers, but we do have some fun discussing politics in general.2023-08-241h 15The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the UAP (UFOs) Congressional HearingOn July 26th, 2023, the House Oversight Committee held a hearing titled "Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Implications in National Security, Public Safety, and Government Transparency" and it sounded so fun we thought we'd spend some time talking about it. UAPs are the new UFOs, and they're making a comeback. The bombshell congressional hearing dropped some serious accusations about a government coverup of its alien encounters, and us plebes are here to get to the actual truth. This was a tailor made, open ended, choose your own conspiracy adventure, and we had a lot of fun talking about it.2023-08-051h 15The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on US China relations Pt 3We're following up on our last two episodes discussing the US China relationship, and get to modern times. We give our hot takes on the current relationship between the US and China for whatever those are worth. Are we headed to war? I can tell you for sure that we don't have any clue, but we had a good time discussing it.2023-07-301h 19The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the US China relationship Pt 2We're picking up where we left off, around the end of WW2, and we discuss the Communist Party taking over and the policies they enacted while in power. We talk a little about the conflicts, Korea, Vietnam, as well as the conflicts surrounding Taiwan.2023-07-301h 04The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on US Chinese Relations Part 1We'd already talked a little about US China relations in a previous episode, but in this episode we focus more on Chinese History, starting around the opium wars in the early 1800s, and going until just after WW2.2023-07-181h 12The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the Wagner Rebellion / Ukraine WarAfter seeing on the news that there were Russian tanks barreling towards Moscow we got really excited and decided that would be the topic of our next podcast. Whatever was happening with that fizzled out, or more specifically didn't live up to our expectations, but we had fun with the topic anyway. Please note that any comments about bombing countries to smithereens (sic) are in jest, and in addition we make some conspiratorial accusations with nothing to back them up. But we hope you enjoy2023-07-011h 45The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the labor movement.We go on another meandering trip around another topic that's probably a little too big to fit into our podcast. We get into the labor wars of the late 1800s, talking a little about the formation of labor unions, the labor conflicts that led to 100s of deaths, and end with a little tie in to the mafia. Somehow we even cover an assassination plot against Lincoln (not the successful one).2023-06-241h 26The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the Civil WarWe're back with another overlong episode where we do our best to give you the plebeian take on the civil war. We discuss the causes, (spoiler, it's slavery), some of the major battles, and ramble on about topics like the morality of secession. We had a good time learning, or relearning, a lot of this and we hope you have a good time too. We come in under two hours, which is definitely not enough time to get in depth about anything, but we do our best to cover2023-06-171h 49The Plebeian Power HourThe Plebes take on the US Civics ExamAfter the immigration episode, and after hearing that presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy proposed tying voting rights to those under 25 to the ability to pass the civics exam, we take on the civics exam. We go through several of the questions that appear on the civics exam to see if we'd be able to pass. We didn't study at all before hand, and I think we did okay. But that's an interesting question, should voting be tied to some level of competency, or knowledge of how the government currently works?2023-06-101h 09The Plebeian Power HourHistory of US ImmigrationThis episode we get into the history of US immigration. We try to cover a lot of the laws that were passed as well as talk about some historical and current immigration statistics.2023-06-021h 29The Plebeian Power HourThe OlympicsWe spend some time talking about the history of the Olympics as well as some memorable moments from the Olympics. We were looking for something a little more upbeat, and the Olympics is all about being uplifting.2023-05-201h 14The Plebeian Power HourThe assassination of Martin Luther King JrWe go deep into tin foil hat territory again with a rambling discussion on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The story has everything that makes for a good conspiracy. the death of a powerful figure, conspicuous evidence, conflicting witness statements, multiple government investigations, multiple confessions made years after the fact that contradict the official narrative, signs pointing to the government, the mob, or even just the lone gunman. We haven't got a clue what happened, but looking into it got the old conspiracy juices flowing.2023-05-121h 43The Plebeian Power HourThe Supreme Court We discuss a little history of the Supreme Court, a few landmark cases, like Marbury V Madison, a landmark case from 1803 where the supreme court suggests an act of Congress, the Judiciary Act of 1789, is unconstitutional, or more recent cases like Students for Fair Admissions V Harvard, as well as a few in between. Then we go off track for the last half hour with some discussions marginally related to the supreme court.2023-05-061h 47The Plebeian Power HourFamous Psychology ExperimentsWe looked into some of the more famous psychological experiments, like the Milgram Experiment, Harry Harlow's experiments involving monkeys and their need for comfort as babies, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and more2023-04-211h 15The Plebeian Power HourNATOWe discuss NATO, talking about the origins of NATO, the expansion of NATO, and what it actually does2023-04-171h 09The Plebeian Power HourStrange Mish Mash of EventsWe went into this episode looking for strange events that have occurred in history. It originated with the Tunguska Event, an asteroid or meteor strike that hit earth in 1908, but we discuss some other strange things, like the unexplained deaths of some Russian skiers, the carbon dioxide escape at Lake Nyos in Cameroon that killed 1700 people, and a solar flare that sent charged particles from the sun that could power telegraph stations.2023-04-081h 07The Plebeian Power HourPrediction MarketsWe're back, this time talking about prediction markets. Prediction markets are pretty close to an online stock exchange where you buy "shares" in random future events. Similar to the commodities market, where you might invest based on whether you think there will be more or less grain harvested next year, but focused on non commodities, like whether or not AI will take over the world.2023-04-081h 10The Plebeian Power HourBanking Crisis 2023We're in over our heads again as we look into the recent collapse of several banks in what might be the start of a new banking crisis. Three banks recently collapsed and we look into it, trying to understand what is going on.2023-03-201h 13The Plebeian Power HourMK ULTRA / Project StargateWe discuss the mk ultra project, a CIA "mind control" project, or more accurately the CIA running some crazy experiments on people to see what happens to the brain under stress and drugs, and Project Stargate, the CIA's psychic "remote viewing" program, which sounds fake, but was a well documented CIA program that attempted to use psychics to spy on foreign countries.2023-03-111h 24The Plebeian Power HourWatergateWe go off on some pretty strange tangents, but we discuss the Watergate Incident, the Church Committee, and some tin foil hat conspiracies we encountered along the way2023-02-271h 23The Plebeian Power HourThe Balloon IncidentWe discuss China and the "balloon incident" where a Chinese surveillance balloon was seen over the US and ultimately shot down. We discuss some of the tensions the US has with China already, with Taiwan and some economic sanctions as well.2023-02-121h 06The Plebeian Power HourHistory First HandWe bring up some topics that we have discussed on previous podcasts, but we bring on a guest speaker who lived through many of the event, Frank (full disclosure Frank is my father). We discuss cold war, space race, and Vietnam, getting some first hand knowledge from someone who lived through that time frame. Thanks for coming on Dad2023-02-121h 11The Plebeian Power HourThe Great DepressionWe're back, and this time talking about the Great Depression, and the New Deal. We wanted to walk away from this with an idea of what caused the great depression, but that was harder than we thought. But we did come away learning some new things, and some interesting things, and hopefully you will too. Also, this video was too amusing not to share. This is a link to the video the government created to explain the National Recovery Administration program it created http://exhibits.usu.edu/items/show/188202023-02-041h 23The Plebeian Power HourThe Space RaceWe talk about the space race between the USSR and US, ending (for this episode anyway) at the Apollo 11 moon landing2023-01-281h 12The Plebeian Power HourThe Vietnam WarWe're back again to talk about the Vietnam War. After discussing this briefly during the cold war podcast we're back with a little more in depth discussion of what occurred in Vietnam, talking about the events leading up to the US entering combat with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, how the war was fought (bombs, lots of bombs, and some guerilla warfare). 2023-01-221h 25The Plebeian Power HourThe Cold War - Part 2We continue discussing the events of the cold war, picking up where we left off after the Cuban Missile Crisis.2023-01-151h 08The Plebeian Power HourThe Cold War - Part 1We discuss the cold war between the US and USSR. It's a lot to cover, and we have to rush through some pretty big events. This episode is part 1, there is a follow up episode where we finish discussing the cold war (and we still don't get to go into as much depth as we would like2023-01-1458 minThe Plebeian Power HourBest inventions of 2022On this episode we talk about our favorite inventions of 2022.2023-01-0834 minThe Plebeian Power HourDiscussing Current News Stories - 01-06-23We discuss some current stories that are happening in the news. Particularly we discuss a recent mass murder in Idaho, an NFL player collapsing on field, the GOP selecting their speaker of the house, and a Russian hypersonic missile boat maneuver.Note: In the podcast it's mentioned that there has been a huge increase in unexplained athlete deaths. I looked more into that and the website where this information came from, goodsciencing.com, is super sketchy. I don't think I trust it, but I also believe there's either been an increase in unexplained deaths, or possibly we're...2023-01-0749 minThe Plebeian Power HourThe Federalist PapersKim and Tiffer are back and we spent some time looking into The Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers were written as arguments in favor of accepting the new (at the time) constitution, and in this episode we talk about what we had learned.2023-01-0457 minThe Plebeian Power HourConspiracy TheoriesKim and Tiff are back, and we start off talking about the JFK conspiracy. Lone gunman? Commies? CIA? And then things derail to flat earth and even worse. Nothing too serious here, just having some fun with conspiracy theories2022-12-312h 00The Plebeian Power HourCauses of the Revolutionary WarIn this episode we talk about the causes of the American Revolutionary war up to the Declaration of Independence. We manage to stay on track for the first hour, and then things derail into just a casual conversation about current times.2022-12-242h 14