3 MAY 2024 · What show can bring you managerial manipulation, whispers of medival animal cruelty, zombie family insights and pheasant fetishization? Shogun of course - and as always with phenominal costumes and nice views of some of the behind the scenes that are required to run the world.  As in... have you ever tried to get rabbit blood out of a bamboo cutting board without Dawn Dish Soap? If any of this sounds like fun to you, jump in the palanquin and come along for the adventure. As always - you can reach us on the internets. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

26 APR 2024 · This is the one with treachery & an explodey ending. Just watch the show and then enjoy our digging into the “what is going on!” Sorry - I’m moving.  I’m out of time. But look up _The Religion_ by Tim Willocks to understand European Feudal Bushido… and siege warfare You have the Googles.   As always - you can reach us on the internets. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

19 APR 2024 · Doctors, Courtesans, Archery (and yes the English bowmen used the Yew Tree!) Tricky Bureaucracy - I tell ya, this show has it all. If there's one thing to learn, that husband is not out of the way until you see the body.  No presumptive closes with those people. But also, if you get motion sick - you CAN be too rich in feudal Japan. Once again - a lot is going down in the Kantō, in Osaka, in the Bay - and you want to be there to see it all!  So come join Greta & Jamie and see how we relate this visually sweet show to what we really care about in the 19th century.  I tell you, this is where it starts to get good.  Optional HW: Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel  You can find us: Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

12 APR 2024 · Shōgun Episode 2!  Check out this intro sequence - Game of Thrones, but make it Japan.  This is the problem with hereditary rulership positions.  Power can only change with a death.  And no matter how hard everyone keeps trying to make it otherwise, death is messy!  And for the number of times this happens, it seems like no one is willing to make it not chaos.  I mean honestly - has the regent system ever worked out?  Why do people keep trying to make Regency happen? Not solving that.  But come on - look at the textiles.  It’s absolutely insane. And we also get to find out that this is also an eight sided fight.  Just like https://open.spotify.com/episode/26graNFK448aqe6lVjU9Kt?si=efaaf48e2b594dff, but with a few more dimensions added in. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/prizefighters-circus-freaks-gangsters/id1697541036?i=1000622627364 https://open.spotify.com/episode/26graNFK448aqe6lVjU9Kt?si=efaaf48e2b594dff https://www.spreaker.com/episode/criminally-underexamined-warrior-s1e1--56171028  Luckily for us - they color code the Main Players -  Brown - our main guy Toronaga Red - Kiyama, a Christian, but also in it for the ¥¥¥¥¥¥ Grey - Ohno, as in Oh No... Leprosy (also a Christian becasue leprosy?) Blue - Ishido, who runs the castle, and despite being the least noble runs the Regency Council Blue-Green & a Great Beard - Sugiyama, the old wise man, and the one to say, "hold up - not so fast." This is also the one where I talk about what is up with the hair. So come grab your oar in the stand-up rowing bay of the galley, and lets go for a wild ride! You can find us: Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

5 APR 2024 · Shogun - The Mini Series - The Reboot How, you ask, can we justify leaping all the way back to the 17th Century in a 19th Century podcast?  Tune in and find out. But also - the perils & hilarity of reading the source material are revealed. Who'd face blind? Why do the Japanese interiors look so cool? Find out who has the best beard! They're aren't many fights - but there's plenty of all the other F's! Come for the standard stuff, but stay for the detours. And go enjoy the stylish as hell show. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

29 MAR 2024 · All beautiful things must come to an end - but PLEASE not this one! Somehow we are at the last Warrior episode in existence as of the end of 2023! And all sorts of things are left hanging - but more importantly, the board is cleared of all the useless pieces.  Printer Girl Yan Mi catches a train Li Yong no longer has a friend or a wife Ah Sahm has had to choose Tong Brother or Blood Sister and we are left with QUESTIONS! Has Wong Chao made his last deal? How much hate does it take to break out of Alcatraz? Has O'Hara found the perfect amount of grumpy? And - who is Leary's new 18yr old Scoth supplier? So join us for this Grand Finale! Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

22 MAR 2024 · So much happened in this episode... and it was just a warm up! Lai will never learn - never. Yan Mi shows that she just might learn - and act. Mai Ling is just gonna Mai Ling...  Leary has his note book out - but might be ready to write a conclusion Chao has a plan!  OK that's not new. Young Jun is faced with making a choice... with no backsies Ah Sahm is gonna have to choose the dock or the ship  and has Strickland finally gone so far he might face consequences. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

15 MAR 2024 · Things begin to really Get OUT of HAND! There's a heavily armed wedding There's an innauguration There's a blood bath There's hallucinations There's a jail cell cage fight And  There's a "train your competition" - yes that's a death threat Look this episode is chock full - and it's just a warmup for the even more unhinged rest of the season.  So strap on your roller skates (which were popular by 1880) if you want to keep up. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

8 MAR 2024 · This is the episode where people seem to think they are owed. Pimp guy thinks Ah Toy owes him his prostitutes back, Some dad thinks Leary owes him getting his stupid sons outta jail, Happy Jack thinks Abby owes him her attention and space and the best one... Mai Ling thinks everyone owes her coming to her wedding. While the rest of the people are pretty wrong, Mai Ling has the clout or at least is terrigying enough to be right. Or at least get people to agree to show up for her wedding. And then there's Young Jun. Giving business lessons in the weirdest way - showing you how not to business well. And this week's lesson - why yelling at your employees and threatening them with death all the time will sap them of all initiative. And how that will make your life worse. So come hang out before things get really really murdery! Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast

1 MAR 2024 · Well it is about time this show went properly poly-glot. Finally MORE languages in what was an absolute babble of a city. Portuguese, Italian, Chinese (multiple dialects, but mainly Cantonese) along with Spanish and English and German. We finally get German. As well as someone completely hopped up on cocaine. (The particular alkyloid was isolated in 1959 for a German PhD project - I bet that was one hell of a final presentation!) You also get to hear me show off a little of my southern side. Yikes! And we may get the answer to whether Lee can or cannot grow a beard. Anyway, whoever you are, don't accept train rides from strange men. It tends not to go well. Good luck escaping. Jamie Lewis (https://plagueofstrength.com/& IG @plagueofstrength) & Greta Hardin (The History of American Food podcast & @THoAFood all over) Look for us weekly and on Instagram & Threads: @pcgpodcast