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The Plebeian Power Hour
by Kim and Tiffer
A podcast by ordinary folks that shows just how extra ordinary they really are. Hosted by Kim and Tiffer, and covering a range of topics from history and current events, and sometimes just some casual conversation from a couple of regular folks.
Episodes
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The Plebes take on World War Three
For 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…
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The Plebes Take on North Korea's Recent Provocations
On 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...
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The 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...
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The Plebes take on 2023
Welcome 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.
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The Plebes take on the Panama Canal
A 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,...
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The Plebes discuss 2023 Moon Landings
In 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…
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The Plebes take on the history of Israel
Due 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...
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The Plebes Take on the World of Espionage
In 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…
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The 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…
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The Plebes take on BRICS and de-dollarization
This 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...
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The 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...
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The Plebes taken on the Maui fires and the darker side of conspiracies
We 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…
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The 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...
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The Plebes take on the UAP (UFOs) Congressional Hearing
On 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…
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The Plebes take on US China relations Pt 3
We'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…
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The Plebes take on the US China relationship Pt 2
We'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.
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The Plebes take on US Chinese Relations Part 1
We'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.
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The Plebes take on the Wagner Rebellion / Ukraine War
After 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…
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The 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...
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The Plebes take on the Civil War
We'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...
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The Plebes take on the US Civics Exam
After 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...
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History of US Immigration
This 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.
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The Olympics
We 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.
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The assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
We 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…
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The 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…
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Famous Psychology Experiments
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
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NATO
We discuss NATO, talking about the origins of NATO, the expansion of NATO, and what it actually does
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Strange Mish Mash of Events
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…
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Prediction Markets
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...
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Banking Crisis 2023
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.
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MK ULTRA / Project Stargate
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…
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Watergate
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
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The Balloon Incident
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.
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History First Hand
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...
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The Great Depression
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…
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The Space Race
We talk about the space race between the USSR and US, ending (for this episode anyway) at the Apollo 11 moon landing
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The Vietnam War
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…
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The Cold War - Part 2
We continue discussing the events of the cold war, picking up where we left off after the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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The Cold War - Part 1
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
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Best inventions of 2022
On this episode we talk about our favorite inventions of 2022.
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Discussing Current News Stories - 01-06-23
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…
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The Federalist Papers
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.
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Conspiracy Theories
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
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Causes of the Revolutionary War
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.
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A podcast by ordinary folks that shows just how extra ordinary they really are. Hosted by Kim and Tiffer, and covering a range of topics from history and current events, and sometimes just some casual conversation from a couple of regular folks.
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A podcast by ordinary folks that shows just how extra ordinary they really are. Hosted by Kim and Tiffer, and covering a range of topics from history and current events, and sometimes just some casual conversation from a couple of regular folks.
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