Who is the mysterious QUEEN OF CALIFORNIA? Where is the is the foreboding land of Califerne? When was the word brought to the Americas? Why a California podcast at all? All those questions and more answered in the first installment of Decline of the Western Civilizations!

Join Zack and Dylan, expert amateurs, as they begin their discussion on the surprising and often horrific history of the Golden State. This history series will cover sequential events in California's past beginning with Spanish Colonization and stretching to American statehood. With each month our hosts will try to make historical sense of the ascent and decline of the peoples at the edge of North America.www.DeclineoftheWesternCivilizations.com