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Dan Snow's History Hit

How Deep History Swung the US Election

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.713.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Dartnell joined me on the podcast to talk about a theory that links the outcome of the US election to geology.


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0:00.0

How do you welcome down to those history? We're talking to Professor Lewis Dartner again in this

0:04.1

episode. He's been on the podcast a few times. He's a real favourite of ours. He's a friend of

0:08.4

the podcast. During the presidential election, one particular tweet went viral about the strange

0:14.9

line of Democrat voting counties that runs through a swath of otherwise Republican areas in the

0:21.2

American South. That is something that Lewis has talked about before, but he wanted to use that

0:25.4

as a springboard to come on and talk about the American election. In fact, all of modern politics

0:29.7

by looking at some of the deeper history. Lewis Dartner is a legend. You couldn't listen to

0:34.0

his previous podcasts if you got a history hit TV, which by the way this week everyone is three years

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old, with three and an old this week. When do I have to stop saying new digital history channel? I

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don't know. We've got thousands, thousands of subscribers. We are doing more and more ambitious stuff

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every time. We've got our first big drama shoot coming up, which is so cool. And so I just want to say

0:52.5

huge thank you to everyone who's been on this journey. For the subscribers who believe in us

0:56.3

from the start, thank you to everyone who's joined on the journey in the meantime. Thank you as

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1:28.5

everyone, enjoy Lewis Darnal.

1:36.4

Lewis, thanks so much coming back on the podcast.

1:38.4

Dan, look on the tool. I've been looking forward to this.

1:40.7

I always challenge you to come up with the most long term,

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