374: Bill Whittle—No Man No Problem
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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The podcaster, YouTuber, and amateur historian ruminates on the state of Hollywood, talks about his Daily Wire project, An Empire of Terror, which exposes the dark underbelly of the Soviet Union's police state, and recounts the amazing story of Frank Luke, the forgotten top ace of WWI.
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| 0:00.0 | No man, no problem is the title of this episode. My guest is Bill Whittle. I don't know if it's |
| 0:11.6 | fair to introduce him as a historian, but I think he's more of a historian than a lot of historians |
| 0:17.5 | I've met. Well, you know, he kind of reminds me of Dan Carlin a little bit, where he studies something |
| 0:24.2 | so well that he can speak extemporaneously about it for long periods of time. |
| 0:28.9 | He knows a lot of stories about the topics at hand. |
| 0:34.0 | He's done brilliant series in the past, what we saw, the Cold War, Apollo 11, what we saw. |
| 0:42.0 | And he's got a new one coming out that is going to be really good. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, that's why he's here. |
| 0:45.8 | I got a sneak peek this morning. |
| 0:47.8 | It's over at the Daily Wire. |
| 0:49.8 | It's called an Empire of Terror. |
| 0:53.2 | And... |
| 0:53.2 | Cheery little thing. |
| 0:54.8 | Look, I've known Bill a long time. |
| 0:57.5 | He kind of figured out the whole YouTube social thing. |
| 1:01.4 | His resume is a hot mess of just... |
| 1:05.2 | His background is so eclectic, but his love of history has elevated him to something larger than a fan. |
| 1:12.3 | So whether he's an expert or not, he would probably not want me to refer to him as an expert. |
| 1:17.8 | Let's do it then. |
| 1:18.7 | Expert Bill Whittle in his amazing series, An Empire of Terror, quotes Stalin, who said, no man, no problem. |
| 1:31.0 | Look, I'm kind of saying this is a public service, but I really do believe it. |
| 1:35.6 | This series, and a lot of what Bill has done, needs to be in schools. |
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