In our latest episode we are going thoroughly modern! Helena tells Vicki all about Dilma Roussef, former president of Brazil. Did you see the news but were you confused bythe scandal? Were you confuddled by corruption charges? Have no fear, Helena is here to explain this week's foiled femme with our usual dose of comedy.

In this week's episode, Vicki tells Helena about Queen Zenobia! She said "screw you" to the Roman Empire and took over a THIRD of its territory in only a few years. She is also arguably the most famous ruler of Palmyra, the ancient Syrian city that has hit the news for damage resulting from Syria's ongoing conflict. Hear the original story about a woman whose conquests and fall have been immortalized in art and literature for a millennia and a half.

Don't lose your head over our second "Foiled Femme"! This week, Helena tells Vicki about the Mary whose efforts to rule Scotland in Tudor times were foiled. Political pitfalls and dubious accents await you in our second episode in our second season of Political MissAdventures.

This week we are delighted to release our first episode in our "Foiled Femmes" series. Vicki regales Helena with the story of Queen Lakshmibai of Jhansi, who faced off against the patriarchy and British domination in the 19th century.

This week we bring you a bonus mini episode! In this post-script to our series on "Wars that Make You Go, 'What,'" Vicki muses on the role which the norm of sovereignty in Europe may have played in providing us with strange pretexts for war.

This is the LAST EPISODE of our season on "Wars That Make You Go, 'WHAT?!'" We bring the season to a close by having both of our co-hosts bring several crazy conflicts to the table. This week brings a lengthy war in which a shot was never fired, the war of the stray dog, a conflict begun by a failure by google maps, a war to keep a woman from the Austrian throne, the football war, and a war in which an army defeated itself over schnapps. It's a hilarious roller-coster of crazy conflicts this week on the Political MissAdventures Podcast!

We have almost reached the end of the "Wars that make you go, 'WHAT'?!" series! In this episode Vicki tells Helena about a bloody conflict fought on New England soil that many people have never heard of... and that maybe could have been avoided.

In our latest "War that Make You Go, 'WHAT'?!" Helena tells Vicki about one of the whackier wars of recent decades - the conflict over the Falkland Islands.

In this episode in the "Wars that Make You Go, 'What'?!" series, Vicki tells Helena about the 4th crusade. Like many crusades, the objective was the holy land. This European army just couldn't quite seem to get there...

In this episode Helena tells a story about a war between Italian cities over... a bucket. For real.