Back from the (Mostly) Dead

The Dangerous History Podcast

CJ

Education, History, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In order to avoid cluttering up history episodes with this sort of stuff, CJ decided to make a stand-alone personal update episode to let anyone who cares know about all the continued Book-of-Job-ish stuff he’s been dealing with in recent months – including a major death in the family, deep depression shading off into suicidal ideation, & a horrific mystery illness that afflicted his household over the month of October – that have hobbled his content output, but how he made it through, is still alive & still sober, & how (fingers crossed, knock on wood, sacrifice a chicken to the chupacabra, etc, etc) in just the past few days he’s FINALLY been able to get back to something resembling full capacity.

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0:00.0	Howdy everybody. This is CJ in early November of 2025, and yes, I do still live.
0:08.8	This little special episode is going to be just letting you all know a little bit of what I've been going through in recent months.
0:17.2	And so if you're somebody who doesn't give a crap about that and just wants to hear me talk about stuff that happened a long time ago, that's cool. You know, I still appreciate you listening to those normal history episodes, but this episode might not be for you, but maybe you'll want to listen anyway. So I'm calling this episode back from the mostly dead.
0:40.3	And some of you might already know where I got that title from, and if you do, you're a really awesome individual because you're familiar with the quotable lines of one of the greatest movies of all time, and that is the Princess Bride.
0:56.2	Back when Rob Reiner was still a good filmmaker and not just a full-time Twitter troll,
1:02.6	for the liberal establishment, you know, there's a lot of people in that box.
1:06.9	There's a lot of people in that category, right?
1:09.0	Stephen King comes to mind.
1:10.6	Used to write some really great books and short stories, and now, when he does publish a new book,
1:15.9	it's mediocre at best. And he's mostly just on Twitter, ranting against anybody who opposes
1:24.8	the liberal establishment, which, you know, I guess when you're a billionaire,
1:29.7	whatever the hell he's worth, the status quo seems pretty good as far as, you know, continuing
1:34.6	to just be run by the corporatist progressive establishment.
1:39.8	But yeah, the Princess Bride, one of my favorite movies of all time, definitely in my top five,
1:44.3	maybe in my top three, it's really hard for me to rank things.
1:46.7	But I feel like, you know, it's a movie you got to see.
1:52.0	But in it, there is a scene where the hero of the story seems to be dead.
1:59.3	And two of the sidekicks take him to a guy named Miracle Max,
2:03.4	who's supposed to be a professional miracle worker,
2:05.9	and he is played by the brilliant Billy Crystal.
2:09.0	And his wife is played brilliantly by Carol Kane.
2:13.2	And so when Miracle Max examines the body of the hero Wesley,
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