162: Taking Down Churchill
Stories Are Soul Food
Canon Press
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The internet is still smoldering from the aftermath of a Tucker Carlson interview in which Darryl Cooper of the pop history podcast Martyr Made called Winston Churchill "a chief villain of World War 2." Brian asks Nate about historical heroes, the great wars, whether Winston Churchill is hero or villain, and why the explosion of boomer rage over the Churchill criticism in the first place. Nate returns these questions with extra helpings of spice, laying into historical revisionists of all sorts who think that THEY are the judge, and that a great man's legacy rises or falls after each new podcast claim. And, at the same time, he gives his answers to whether Winston had bigger flaws than we think (probably). Churchill is the last championship banner hanging in the gym -- why wouldn't we love him, even if he had flaws? To make sure everyone is angry, Nate also makes a case for the nuclear end to WW2, showing that historical revisionists, even when they've got a point, are always taking shots from the cheap seats.
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| 0:00.0 | Met a ghost of a king on the road when I first fell. |
| 0:04.3 | Fire burning to my knees to my knees. |
| 0:06.9 | I fell. |
| 0:07.6 | Made a ghost of a king on a row. |
| 0:09.8 | 162, episode 162 of Sass Fress coming at you from stories or soul food. |
| 0:15.8 | Smoky, warm, Moscow, Idaho. |
| 0:18.1 | The chimney of the best state. |
| 0:20.6 | The chimney. Yes. The chimney of the best state. |
| 0:21.2 | The chimney. |
| 0:22.2 | Yes. |
| 0:24.0 | The chimney of the West. |
| 0:26.5 | Yeah, it's great so far. |
| 0:30.0 | Burn season's been pretty minimal, but the smoke is out today. |
| 0:32.8 | And what are we talking about today, Brian? |
| 0:36.7 | I mean, today we thought we'd weighed into something long. |
| 0:37.2 | History. |
| 0:37.7 | Poga bear. Yes. The whole'd weighed into something long. History. Poga bear? |
| 0:38.4 | Yes. |
| 0:41.0 | The whole world is talking about history. |
| 0:42.6 | Of course they are. |
| 0:45.1 | History literally has the word story in it. |
| 0:47.2 | We thought, why not stories are soul food? |
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