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Parthenon Roundup | Who would you eliminate from history? (and you can’t choose Hitler)

This American President

This American President

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.6698 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Today is a group discussion in which the four guys that make up Parthenon Podcast Network (Steve Guerra from Beyond the Big Screen, Richard Lim from This American President, James Early from Key Battles of American History, and Scott Rank from History...

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0:00.0

We're proud to announce that we've joined a new podcast ring called Parthenon Podcast Network.

0:06.3

It's a network of like-minded podcasters who love geeking out over history and culture.

0:11.4

If you go to History on the Net.com, you'll see the different podcasts in the network, including History Unplugged,

0:18.6

beyond the big screen, history of the Papacy, and much more.

0:23.4

And because we're history nerds, we decided to get together and have a roundup episode to talk

0:28.8

about killing people. Well, not just any people, but specifically historical figures. Yes,

0:35.5

which historical figure would you kill? Or rather, which historical

0:40.4

figures influence would you eliminate from history? Now, I know that this brings up a lot of

0:45.9

philosophical issues of determinism, destiny, religion, etc., etc. But to paraphrase the great Doc Brown

0:54.0

from back to the future,

0:55.7

we just figured, what the heck? At the least, it'll be a fun discussion. There are a lot of

1:01.4

horrible people in history who did horrible things to millions of people. So let's talk about it

1:06.7

and have some fun. And let's be honest, every history nerd has at least one historical figure that just

1:14.0

bothers them or annoys them, that they wouldn't mind wiping off the textbooks.

1:19.7

This is a bit of an experiment, and we hope you enjoy the episode.

1:23.3

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