EPISODE 44 Dan Carlin

History on Fire

Daniele Bolelli

Society & Culture

4.7 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2019

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

"You keep using this word. I don't think it means what you think it means." The Princess Bride "Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare, they have become the tools of corrupt interests which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." Theodore Roosevelt Dan Carlin is the undisputed king of historical podcasting, and one of my favorite human beings. Today we sit down to chat about the differences between Nazism and Socialism, the right-wing vs. left-wing paradigm, our favorite past U.S. presidents, the feeling you have when witnessing slow moving historical catastrophes, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	History is not like something like math. It's something that can have potentially many
0:07.8	right answers and many different perspectives and many different ways to look at things.
0:11.8	And what that means is sometimes when you're taking a tour through the past, the guide
0:18.0	that you have at the time is key. And you can take the same tour multiple times. But
0:23.1	if you have a different guide, they'll point out different things, emphasize different
0:27.2	things. How often have you read two different books on the same historical event and gotten
0:31.6	different perspectives? The perspective of the storyteller matters. Whether you like history or not,
0:39.7	if you care about things like bravery and wisdom and passion and larger than life characters and
0:46.5	some of the most emotionally intense moments in the human experience, you've come to the right place
0:52.7	and a chance to get a perspective from a different kind of historical tour guide. Then
0:57.8	Yellow Bellelli is a university history professor, a writer, a martial artist, a philosopher, and it
1:05.1	provides a very different sort of tour guide through the past than you normally encounter.
1:11.9	And this tour, he'll be your guide in a journey to the place where history and epic collide.
1:22.7	music
1:42.5	welcome to episode 44 before we go in let me thank the sweet folks who have
1:55.4	been donating at the $100 level on Patreon that would be Susan Mossadon and Mauro
2:01.4	Gatti thank you guys so much those of you guys who hate ads if you want a
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