Kate’s running on a cold, Bradley’s trying to fill in, and somehow that turns into one of our most chaotic History Buffoons hangouts yet. It starts with a Wisconsin detour to Rebellion Brewing Company in Cedarburg, where we meet great people, taste a lineup of beers, and fall hard for a vanilla porter that has no business being that smooth.

Then we flip the switch into a rapid-fire “would you rather” game pulled from our weird history catalog, and the questions get uncomfortably real. Would you rather be Ignaz Semmelweis trying to convince doctors to wash their hands, or be a patient before anyone believes him? Would you rather survive the Tunguska event only to sound insane afterward, assist Robert Liston during a speed surgery, or try to clear a town like Centralia while the mine fire burns underground?

We keep pushing through big, famous stories and darker corners of history: Operation Mincemeat and wartime deception, Andersonville Prison and moral compromise, the Oregon Trail and leadership blame, the Belgica expedition and psychological collapse, Howard Carter opening Tutankhamun’s tomb, the Children’s Blizzard of 1888, Elizabeth Bathory’s legend, the 1925 serum run to Nome with Balto and Togo, Dyatlov Pass theories, the Black Sox scandal, Nero’s performances, and the Radium Girls tragedy. It’s funny, messy, and weirdly revealing, because every choice forces one question: what would you do to survive?

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