The Plebeian Power Hour

We 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 more

We discuss NATO, talking about the origins of NATO, the expansion of NATO, and what it actually does

We 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...

We'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.

We'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.

We 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.

We 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 way

We 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.

We 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 Dad

We'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 create...

We talk about the space race between the USSR and US, ending (for this episode anyway) at the Apollo 11 moon landing

We'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).

We continue discussing the events of the cold war, picking up where we left off after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

We 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 like

On this episode we talk about our favorite inventions of 2022.

We 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 thi...

Kim 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.

Kim 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 theories

In 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.