In this episode, we explore a radical history of wisconsin. If I told you about a state that was, you know, the birthplace of the National Republican Party, a massive hotbed for radical European socialists, a landscape scarred by the deadliest fire in U .S. history, and a place so vehemently anti -war it was nationally reviled as the traitor state during World War I, you probably wouldn't picture a guy standing in the freezing cold wearing a giant wedge of foam cheese on his head. Right. No, you definitely wouldn't. It really is the ultimate bait and switch yeah because the modern caricature of the American Midwest is that it is placid highly predictable and like entirely dairy obsessed yeah totally dairy obsessed yet when you actually crack open the historical sources that image completely shatters so today we are taking you on a deep dive into an  ...