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Two educators Patrick and Dennis sit down and attempt to educate one another on a subject using a thought experiment as the premise. Topics range from Real Life Super Villains, Language as a Virus, R... more
FAQs about Almost Educational:How many episodes does Almost Educational have?The podcast currently has 180 episodes available.
February 11, 2016EP 71: Understanding ZeroPatrick invites Colin Beveridge, mathematician and author from Flying Colours Maths to better explain Zero as a number, concept, and tool. Colin gives some history of zero, explains empty sets and how infinity is zero’s conceptual mate. Plus Patrick......more40minPlay
February 04, 2016EP 70: JFK Lives Alternate History of 11/22/63Patrick finally reads Stephen King’s 11/22/63 and Dennis gets his wish to speculate about an America with a second term of Kennedy. What happens in Vietnam? Does Nixon run? What about Bobby Kennedy? Would JFK be impeached? What about LBJ and the......more1h 2minPlay
January 20, 2016EP 69: Flint Water and ProtestingDennis and Patrick open the show with the recent history of the Flint Michigan lead water crisis which leads into a discussion about the effectiveness of protests, boycotts, and movements. Violence VS Nonviolence Topics range from Black Lives Matter......more1h 7minPlay
January 14, 2016EP 68: Alternate History of Soviet AmericaPatrick wants to explore an alternate history experiment and play with concept that America could have become a Soviet nation. What if Lenin came to the states? Could Debs have rallied a Socialist Republic of America? What conditions could have sw......more1h 10minPlay
January 07, 2016EP 67: A History of TrollingDennis and Patrick debate and discuss the Donald Trump and the Election of 1912 in regards to the American obsession with trolling. They highlight some of the greatest trolls in American history Andy Kaufman, Hunter S Thompson, and Muhammad Ali inc......more1h 3minPlay
December 31, 2015EP 66: Smedley Butler & Captain AmericaPatrick goes solo and tells the tale of General Smedley Butler, the marine who went from super solider to outspoken critic of the military industrial complex. From his roots as a son of Quakers to the man that exposed the plot to overthrow FDR. Thi......more1h 6minPlay
December 23, 2015EP 65: Warren Zevon SupershowPatrick brings on three guests, Geoff, Emily, and Nate to discuss Warren Zevon. How do you define Zevon as a an artist? Why was he never as big as other artists in canon of American musicians? What was the David Lettermen connection all about? Al......more2h 3minPlay
December 18, 2015EP 64: Star Wars Survey ClassPatrick invites Rod from the Listening Party Podcast to discuss Star Wars, What is like to watch Star Wars for the first time and not speak a bit of English? Why is the Empire so appealing? Does it matter that the Expanded Universe is no longer in......more1h 5minPlay
December 16, 2015EP 63: Geek Culture or the Infantilize of AmericaLots of shouty debate when Patrick and Dennis debate the idea that millennials are infantilized in modern. Has the rise of “geek” culture stunted the social and political growth of youth? Is the shouting echo chamber of the internet causing young......more1h 6minPlay
December 09, 2015EP 62: A Plague DebatePatrick and Dennis examine which pandemic from which historical period had the greater impact on the world, The Bubonic Plague of of the Middle Ages or the Spanish Influenza of 1918. How do they compare in death tolls? What influence did the 100 Ye......more55minPlay
FAQs about Almost Educational:How many episodes does Almost Educational have?The podcast currently has 180 episodes available.