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Protests, Planned Parenthood, and Proud Boys, Oh My! (A Patreon Preview)
Want to know the amazing content my Patreon members are getting EVERY WEEK? Check out this special episode of the Water Cooler where I break down the Hong Kong protests, Israel banning Democratic Congresswomen, Planned Parenthood rejecting Title X funding, the beef between the Proud Boys and Antifa, and the amazingness that is the New …
First Ladies in a Knife Fight
A while back on Reddit, someone posed the question “Out of all the American presidents, who would win in a knife fight to the death?” And an amazing human being created this masterpiece. So I, as a true feminist, created a rebuttal… In a mass knife fight to the death between all the First Ladies …
BONUS Episode: News of the Week and more!
How would you like to have me explain the news to you each week? I’ll sift through the headlines, pick out the big topics, and give you context for what’s going on in the world – all in 10 minutes or less! And you just sit back and get smarter… This episode is a preview …
BONUS: New Orleans
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! So this episode is specifically for my US History students. They are off on a weeklong class trip to New Orleans and I promised them I would teach them a little history before they went. Then, …
Current Events Ep. 11: North Korea or, “If you give a Kim a country, he’s gonna want some nukes”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! I had planned this big dramatic intro where I would go over all of the juicy details about the most recent U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam. I postponed this episode for a month just so that …
BONUS: SXSW EDU “Teaching in the Era of Fake News”
Appreciate good content? Show your support with a one-time donation below or join me for extra episodes on Patreon! Emily was lucky enough to present at SXSW EDU 2019 with her friend and coworker, Emily Pool. We’ve made an episode of us talking through our presentation, “Teaching in the Era of Fake News“. We go …
The Cold War
So we all know that good, red-blooded Americans hate those pinko Commies, right? But why? Well… because… they’re Communist? Sure. But why was Communism seen as antithetical to our American values? (Listen to the entire episode here!)
Chairman Mao | Communist China
China. Oh, China. You’re so confusing and so simple at the same time. China is a land of tradition and continuity. But one guy is going to try to change all of that in the postwar world. His name is Mao Zedong. (Listen to the entire episode here!)
The Fall of the Soviet Union
We’re going to go back and look at what was going on outside of the US and the USSR soon. But if I can skip ahead for a second – and I can, because it’s my podcast – let’s talk briefly about how the Cold War ends. Basically, by the 1980s the Soviet Union was …