Early Democracy And The Threat Of Tyranny With J.D. Lapinsky
History Is Dank
All Things Comedy
5.0 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
J.D. who has researched multiple episodes joins Strider to discuss the double-edged sword that is freedom. Using Ancient Athens as the quintessential example of a pure democracy the bros discuss what it means to be a citizen of a democracy. Also, Gus shotguns multiple beverages, which is so sick!
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J.D. Lapinsky: @jdlapinsky
Gus The Shotgun Legend: @gustav__o
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| 0:00.0 | Friggin' what up, dude. |
| 0:03.0 | Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | That's mine. |
| 0:06.0 | Gonna be called History is Night. |
| 0:09.0 | History is dang with Strider Wilson. |
| 0:16.0 | Dang is from the crowd. |
| 0:20.0 | Friggin' what up, dude. |
| 0:21.9 | Welcome back to another dank app of history is dank. |
| 0:25.3 | Dude, this one's going to be extra fucking dank, dude. |
| 0:29.3 | We got Aaron on the sticks. |
| 0:31.1 | Dude, what up, Marion, dude? |
| 0:32.2 | What up? |
| 0:32.8 | Just post it up, dude. |
| 0:33.7 | And I'm fired up today, dude, because we got fucking J.D. Lapinski in the house, |
| 0:40.3 | dude. And you might know this name. If you ever check the research performed by or executed |
| 0:46.1 | by if history is dank, uh, JT has, J.D. has researched many episodes for the show. And you, |
| 0:53.3 | he is also a legit educator. You have a master's in, |
| 0:57.1 | JD, tell me about your degree. You went to San Jose State. Yeah, so just graduated from a |
| 1:01.8 | master's degree in May, actually. So, congrats. Got that done. But yeah, I have a BA in history. |
| 1:07.2 | Hell yeah. |
| 1:07.6 | B.A. in social science for teacher prep. And then I got my master's degree in education. My, I guess, emphasis was in trauma-informed education. So I guess I could tell you a little bit about my, like, master's degree. But first, hold on. I want to get into that, J, but we got something extra special that we got to do |
| 1:27.6 | real quick to kick this off right. You know what I'm saying, dude? Because you cruised in with your bro today, Gus, dude, who's an absolute chiller, dude. The day one. Yes. And then maybe Gus, give Gus the mic a little bit too, because I want to hear about a little bit. Yeah, yeah. Gus, before we started here we're chilling and Gus is chilling on the couch over here, and we just started talking, and Gus has a nickname Tank. Yeah, the Tank. Yeah, why are you the tank, Gus? Look at him. Well, bro. I'm built like a tank. Hell yeah, like a legend. A tank to drink all the liquids and eat all the foods fucking let's go dude so today |
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