This episode starts out with Brian fantasizing about joining his version of the circus: a Pink Floyd cover band. Then the lads address the thick layer of propaganda that blotting out the actual definition of communism, and discuss the relevance of that layer to American life in the 21st Century. After a damage assessment of the capitalist corporate structure, Nate details the hidden role that Platonism played in shaping the fall of Rome and the Renaissance, and how it's now playing an under-appreciated role in the 20th and 21st centuries. Has science stumbled upon an unmentionable secret that it now must keep?