Behind the Scenes Minis: Diesel and Ibn Khaldūn
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Holly and Tracy talk about the gossipy nature of press coverage about men like Rudolph Diesel. The gap between Ibn Khaldūn's life and the time when analysis of his work really began is also discussed.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future. |
| 0:04.5 | But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show. |
| 0:10.1 | And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it. |
| 0:12.6 | And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth. |
| 0:18.1 | And why John Carpenter movies are so good. |
| 0:20.6 | You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about. |
| 0:26.6 | And that's fine, you know, no judgment. |
| 0:28.4 | But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:58.4 | Truth is stranger than fiction and reality TV stars know this better than anyone. But what you may not know about them or even believe is actually criminal behavior. |
| 1:20.9 | I'm Kayla Miller-Kees and on my new podcast True Crime Reality, I will be joined by reality TV stars as they dive deep into the details of the crime they have a direct connection to. |
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| 1:39.4 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:51.9 | Hello and happy Friday, I'm Holly Fry and I'm Tracy V Wilson. |
| 1:56.4 | One of the things we talked about this week was Rudolph Diesel and his diesel engine. |
| 2:00.9 | Yeah, and really the vanishing of Rudolph Diesel, which is really what I wanted to talk about. Listen, borderline spooky time. |
| 2:09.9 | Yeah. |
| 2:11.9 | I think based on my vague memory that back when I was on also that other podcast in addition to this one called this day in history class, I feel like I did an episode that was about the day that Rudolph Diesel disappeared. |
| 2:26.9 | And I think I had had this on my short list. |
| 2:31.9 | Short is like a total misnomer like this. |
| 2:34.9 | This is short list of 800 things. |
| 2:37.9 | Yeah, and clearly it was not a priority to me because in all of that time it never moved up the top. |
| 2:43.9 | But also when I went on there today to delete it since we were recording this, I realized I didn't even have his actual name on there. |
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