Unbalanced Views of History Podcast

02/04/2023

Welcome Back to Unbalanced Views (of History)! Brian, Mike & Garrick once again examine the competent and humane governance of the United States in the west. They look at western plains tribes and how they dealt with the invasion of white folks from the east. Mike checks in with his misogyny rundown...

23/03/2023

Welcome Back to Unbalanced Views (of History)! Brian & Garrick roll through this one without a sick, voiceless Mike in this one. The guys talk about the White Supremacy and violence in Kansas. They discuss the abolitionist John Brown. And they talk about the dual trends of economic collapse (Panic o...

14/03/2023

An EPIC Tale of Colorado, Part 2, is NOW available! Check it out!

Welcome to Unbalanced Views (of History)! Brian & Mike are again joined by friend of the Pod, Garrick (garriq@gmail) to discuss Centaurs & Argonauts, and the making of Colorado. The guys dig into America's long sordid history of lousy governance and unconstitutional government actions. They discuss....

14/03/2023

Welcome to Unbalanced Views (of History)! Brian & Mike are again joined by friend of the Pod, Garrick (garriq@gmail) to discuss Centaurs & Argonauts, and the making of Colorado. The guys dig into America's long sordid history of lousy governance and unconstitutional government actions. They discuss....

07/03/2023

In this episode, Brian & Mike (Tweet , email [email protected] ) conclude their discussion of time in the Old South. The discuss forms of resistance and accommodation to clock time and different ways of prioritizing time. They talk broken clocks, graveyards and sharecropping....

07/03/2023

In this episode, Brian & Mike (Tweet , email [email protected] ) begin to shift focus to ways enslaved folks resisted "The Master's Time." They look at Black time consciousness, look at mechanical vs naturalistic time and they choose sides in the battle between workers and bo...

07/03/2023

Welcome to Unbalanced Views (of History)! Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, and Leave a 5-Star Review. Contact us: [email protected] or tweet us . The guys are joined by Colorado resident and friend of the Pod, Garrick (garriq@gmail) to embark on a sweeping, epic tale of Colorado in th...

01/02/2023

31/01/2023

In this episode, Brian & Mike (Tweet , email [email protected] ) examine the ways that white southerners adopted the language of time thrift and internalized the "time is money" belief, common in the industrial North. They look at how time and space became compressed and how....

30/01/2023

This is BONUS content--just a little fun really. The guys riff about rich a$$holes, Musk & Gates and how social media has melted everyone's brain! Enjoy!

30/01/2023

In this episode, Brian & Mike (Tweet , email [email protected] ) explore the age old assumption the "Time is Money." Where does the idea come from? Why does our language talk about time in monetary terms (Save time, lose time, water time)? Why do we view time as a commodity t...

23/01/2023

Friend of the Pod... Great Comic! Go see him if you can.

More comedy dates added…
Jan. 20-21 - Richmond, VA
Feb. 4 - Port Vue, PA
Feb. 11 - Coplay, PA
March 4 - Bethesda, MD
March 11 - Mannheim, PA
March 24-25 - Harrisburg, PA
April 25-30 - Ottawa, ON
May 2-7 - Toronto, ON
May 12-13 - Gaithersburg, MD

10/01/2023

In this episode, Brian & Mike (Tweet , email [email protected]) welcome VERY SPECIAL GUEST, Comedian, Actor and RoboCop Expert, Larry XL ( - Please check out Larry's Album) to talk about stinky prison ships, compare the Camdens of New Jersey & South Carolina, examine....

09/01/2023

In Part 2 Brian & Mike discuss the fat man himself from Nikolas of Myra to Coca-Cola's morbidly obese Santa Claus. We talk of Rollo the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Christmas Movies of all stripes from Scrooge to A Christmas Carol and finally, we talk about Daiku and Kentucky Fried Christmas in Japan (https:...

07/01/2023

Brian & Mike examine the origins of what we now call Christmas and the 12 days of it. From Zagmuk to Saturnalia and from Gingerbras to Reindeer in this forst part of the Holiday special (released WAY TOO LATE--Sorry)

05/11/2022

In this episode, Brian & Mike (Tweet , email [email protected]) welcome VERY SPECIAL GUEST, Comedian, Actor and Canada Expert, Larry XL ( - Please check out Larry's Album) to talk Alien vs Aliens, Hanging Out at American Revolution Parties and the deleted sexy parts o...

01/11/2022

The last installment of the spooky season Bonus episodes! Mike and Brian discuss the finer points of a workers' revolt in France that results in the trials and mass ex*****on of bourgeois cats. They look at how working class print shop employees vent their frustration on some of the finest Parisian....

31/10/2022

Welcome to Unbalanced Views ( / [email protected]). The next episode in the Smallpox series is coming SOON after unexpected delays! In the meantime, PLEASE ENJOY this absolute banger of a ghost story...or alien story...or a story about government conspiracies? Why not all thr...

08/10/2022

In this episode, Brian & Mike () welcome VERY SPECIAL GUEST, Comedian, Actor and Canada Expert, Larry XL () to talk about Small Pox in the American Revolution! You say you want a Revolution, well you know...the yanks want to take Quebec. The guys look at the opening salvos of...

01/10/2022

A short tale of Ships, Crabs, Gasoline and Regret. With Special Guest, Comedian Larry XL. Follow him on Twitter Follow US on twitter . We LOVE all of our Unbalanced Listeners..>THANK YOU!

01/10/2022

In this episode, Brian & Mike () welcome VERY SPECIAL GUEST, Comedian, Actor (and sometimes writer) Larry XL () to talk about the finer points of....Small Pox? That's right! Welcome to VIRUS TALK BABY! The guys are talking about the single greatest destroyer of human beings i...