Polybius

This week Roejen, from the Project Archivist podcast, joins Patrick to discuss the history and magic of brewing, distilling, and fermenting alcohol. Roe explains the difference in types of beer, wines, whiskeys, and bourbon. What makes a porter a porter and a stout a stout, or what the heck is mea…

This week we discuss a version of America that gives into the “free markets” and always all public schools to become privatized. What we do is explore an alternate history of America without public schools post 1983. All our takes are good.

Patrick has guest host “Professor”, Winston Conrad this week to discuss Zines. We discuss the Fan-zine and how during the 1970’s it transformed into a zine thanks to the photocopy machine becoming widely available. We also discuss how American culture is zine culture. But what the hell is a zine?

This week we play around with abolishing the senate, adding 5-25 new states to the union, and debate if the senate majority leader is the most powerful person in America. Patrick claims that the US senate is undemocratic. Dennis counters with the historical defense of the senate and how the prog…