Introducing: Breaking History

Breaking History

The Free Press

History

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🗓️ 14 January 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes the news moves so fast, you have to look closely to know if you’ve seen it before. And that’s what this show is about. Breaking History breaks down the news, by breaking down history. We cover everything from LBJ and the Roman Republic to Donald Trump and the chaos at Columbia. This twice a month show from The Free Press delivers the best historians, authors, and reporters by mining the archives of human experience to figure out the present. George Santayana wrote, “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Tune in to Breaking History to resist the repetition. Go to groundnews.com/BreakingHistory to get 40% off the unlimited access Vantage plan and stay fully informed on today’s biggest news stories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The world today is confusing.
0:02.4	CNN has learned President Biden will pardon his son Hunter Biden.
0:06.5	Chaotic.
0:07.5	Take a look at what happened.
0:08.5	Go ahead,
0:10.5	unpredictable.
0:12.5	We do want to get to that breaking news out of Syria this morning.
0:15.5	The Syrian government has fallen.
0:17.5	President Bashar Assad has been overthr
0:19.3	bizarre.
0:20.5	They're eating the dogs. They're eating the dogs.
0:22.9	They're eating the cats. And at times, nuclear sabre rattling from the Kremlin this morning
0:28.8	with Vladimir Putin appearing to threaten to use nuclear weapons. Terrifying. But chances are,
0:35.8	whatever crisis is currently blowing up your phone, it's probably happened
0:39.9	before.
0:40.3	We'll restore hope and we'll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America
0:45.3	great again.
0:51.3	From the free press, this is breaking history.
0:53.3	I'm Eli Lake, and I'm here to help explain the world today, to the world of yesterday.
1:00.4	Because before there was the Columbia tentifada,
1:03.4	there was the weather underground.
1:10.3	There was the weather underground.
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