Blood in the Streets, History Repeats – Epi-3575

The Survival Podcast

Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 29 October 2025

⏱️ 143 minutes

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Today I’m joined by CJ Killmer, host of the Dangerous History Podcast, for a hard look at where America might be headed as tensions and political violence keep rising. A lot of people compare our current divide to the Civil War, but CJ makes a strong case that’s the wrong model. Instead, he points to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a messy, decades-long conflict that mixed politics, religion, and insurgency in ways that feel a lot closer to what a modern breakdown could look like. CJ knows this history inside and out. He studied the British Empire and Irish history … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	And we're a better way to do this.
0:08.8	Let me show you a better way.
0:16.5	And we are live, folks, welcome to episode 3575 of the survival podcast.
0:25.2	Today is Wednesday, October the 29th.
0:28.7	And we're bringing back to the show for, I think, like the third or fourth time, at least,
0:34.5	Professor C.J. Kilmer, who from the Dangerous History podcast, we're going to be
0:39.1	talking to him today about kind of a theme that's been running this week, like blood and
0:42.8	guts and what's going on and what we could see coming soon to this country. And it may be
0:48.4	even sooner than he thought with some of the things going on right now, with the government
0:53.0	shutdown and snap being shut
0:54.5	down. I'm sure we'll get into that too. But this is just kind of what we've been this week,
0:58.8	right in the center of the blood and guts, fire, and brimstone the world. And you know what?
1:03.0	You guys like that. So we'll talk about that for another day this week. We're going to be talking
1:07.8	about, though, is how when we look at conflict in the United States,
1:13.4	and we talk about like a second civil war or whatever, what everybody does is look back to the 1860s.
1:19.1	Very clear lines, north and south, Mason-Dixon line, very concise list of issues and grievances from both sides,
1:28.0	modern warfare for the time, standing armies, fighting each other until the war is over.
1:34.3	Yeah, that almost never happens.
1:37.2	Okay?
1:37.8	Like when a country melts down, that is seldom the way.
1:41.1	It is totally the exception.
1:43.7	When we look at the United states today and the type of
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