Lessons from the Spanish Flu with John M. Barry—Historian

The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome

Crossroads

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 756 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The thing we learn from history is that we don’t learn a thing from history—today, we’re changing that. Historian John M. Barry, an expert on the 1918 Spanish Flu, joins us to talk pandemic lessons and what we can expect as COVID comes to a close. It’s an enlightening (and hopeful) conversation you don’t want to miss.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the aggressive life.
0:09.0	You know, being aggressive is all about seeing reality and going forward,
0:13.2	not waiting for something to happen, but actually pushing forward and making something
0:18.6	happened.
0:19.6	And yet sometimes something happens that we couldn't have
0:23.7	anticipated and really messes up our plans. Now, don't do it. Don't, don't, don't shut down the
0:29.0	podcast. As soon as I tell you what we're going to talk about, some of you are going to go, oh,
0:32.5	I'm so sick of this, you're going to shut it down. Don't do it. Don't do it because I promise you,
0:36.9	I utterly promise you, this is going to be a fresh, fresh stuff that's going to help you. We're not talking
0:43.9	about COVID-19 today. We are not. We are not talking about coronavirus. We are not, we are not.
0:50.8	Unless you can look to see some of the parallels with the Spanish flu.
0:56.1	The last true blue, deadly kick-your-ass epidemic that happened inside of America's borders, actually pandemic.
1:05.8	It was utterly, completely brutal.
1:10.9	Like, well, interesting, Brian, define brutal.
1:13.8	Well, I learned that Donald Trump's grandfather was walking home from having dinner one night
1:20.3	and had a cough and he was dead the next morning.
1:23.3	That kind of brutal.
1:24.9	Really, really tough stuff.
1:26.7	I am really excited about my guest today.
1:30.0	My guest today is John Barry.
1:32.5	He has a very unique distinction in that he actually wrote a book that I read the entire
1:38.8	way through.
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