Hinge Points S2E1: Dog-gone-erland

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🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Hinge Points is back for a new season, baby! This first ep is free, but expect new episodes for the next 5 Thursdays, only at patreon.com/chapotraphouse. Matt and Danny Bessner (from American Prestige) invite Chris to discuss the question: What if Doggerland (the area of land between Britain and France) was never filled in with water?

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0:00.0	In a world where points depend on hinges.
0:13.2	There are hinge points inside us all.
0:19.2	History.
0:20.2	On a Segway.
0:23.4	It's over-determined.
0:26.4	We are the points that our hinges have been seeking.
0:30.2	What this podcast asks is, what if agriculture, fail or epic win?
0:40.8	What if it was Johnny Bango picked?
0:43.5	What if the Ottomans had AK-47?
0:45.6	Maybe climate change was a good idea.
0:48.0	What if the Ottomans had lights on?
0:49.5	What if the Buffalo killed them?
0:51.1	What if Santa Claus was real?
0:53.4	Make an actual dime who gave presents every year.
1:05.7	This is hinge points.
1:13.1	Hello everyone and welcome to the second season of hinge points.
1:16.8	I'm Danny Bessner, usually of the American prestige podcast, but I am back here to discuss
1:22.0	with my friend Matt Christmas, the various hinge points in history.
1:26.4	Just to give everyone a little bit of the guidance, hinge points don't really refer necessarily
1:31.4	at least to alternative histories, but rather we're drilling down on specific moments
1:37.1	or specific alternatives that we believe help us illuminate larger social processes.
1:43.2	That will include an element of alternative history, but it's more an element of these
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