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This week Jonathan plugs in to some old games and learns about the humble but tumultuous beginnings of at home console gaming.

Topic: The Atari Video Computer System

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Music: "Another Day" by The Fisherman.
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This week Kiley takes up arms in the Ragamuffin War with Brazilian revolutionary and frequent rebel Anita Garibaldi.

Topic: Anita Garibaldi, the Spirit of The Age of Romanticism and Revolutionary Liberalism.

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This week Kiley plays some poker in an old saloon and gets caught with the dead mans hand as she navigates shoot outs between Wild Bill and a guy who cant seem to stop flaunting fabrications.

Topic: The first murder of Wild Bill Hickok.

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This week Kiley buys a ticket to the original "Greatest Show" and is reminded of a horrifying night as a girl scout camping in a museum. And that's probably the least horrific part of the episode.

Topic: The life of P.T. Barnum and his many opportunistic endeavors.

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This week Jonathan throws on some fuzzy leg warmers and pops his headphones into a funny blue and metal brick that lets him jam out to his own beat  on the way to aerobics classes.

Topic: The Sony Walkman and the revolution of personal music.

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This week Kiley has the worst day ever because the potatoes won't grow! So she sets sail to America just to find out the American Dream is built on the backs of labor violations.

Topic: The Molly Maguires, coal miner unions, and vigilante injustices.

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This week Jonathan visits his own backyard and is held prisoner of war by Indigenous Nations people and it turns out its not that bad. The New England Confederacy however, very bad.

Topic: Metacomet's War, aka King Phillip's War, aka the deadliest war in American History. Also Massasoit is a title, Ousamequin was the man's name, just another failing in American education.

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This week Kiley throws on a crown, a bit of an accent, and downs some vodka before swaggering up to a Czarina and proclaiming herself ruler of Russia.

Topic: The Emperor of Russia, how he stole the throne, and how others assumed his fake identity afterwards.

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This week Jonathan delves into the surprising life of Jack Kevorkian and everything that comes with the topic. Going to be honest, I was not expecting to find exactly what I did or how serious the subject is regardless of your side on the very controversial issue.

Content Warning: Suicide. Please skip this episode if that's something you struggle with.

Topic: Jack Kevorkian and his efforts to bring about change related to physician assisted suicide, euthanasia, and the right to die.

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This week Kiley tricks kids into bringing farm animals to school, but the prank backfires and creates a classic nursery rhyme.

Topic: Sarah Josepha Hale's nursery rhyme Mary's Lamb ( or Mary Had a Little Lamb ).

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