“Rise, and Fight Again”

The Dangerous History Podcast

CJ

Education, History, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The hits have just kept on coming! (And not in a good way.)

For anyone who cares and/or is curious why CJ has been mostly incommunicado the past 2 months (other than angrily ranting against the insanity of current events on Twitter): In this special DHP episode he gives an update on the most recent trials & tribulations he & his family have been through, including (but not limited to) his wife being hospitalized twice, another major death in the family, & finally, CJ himself being hospitalized for almost a full week while being the sickest & in the worst pain he’s ever had in his entire life. (Fun times!)

On the brighter side, the redemption in the third act is that CJ is still alive, still sober, & is (once again) getting back up to keep on fighting the good fight, so look for more Dangerous History coming your way as long as (knock on wood!) he can get a little bit of a respite from the near-constant dumpster-fires!

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0:00.0	If you can force your heart and nerve and sine you to serve your turn long after they are gone,
0:08.2	and so hold on when there is nothing in you, except the will which says to them, hold on.
0:19.1	Rudyard Kipling.
0:21.6	If.
0:28.6	We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
0:38.3	General Nathaniel Green. I'm gonna to be. Howdy, everybody, this is CJ, and yes, I do still live.
1:20.5	Although doing so for the past couple of months may have actually been the hardest couple of months to do that in my life.
1:29.6	This episode is just going to be kind of a personal update episode about the absolute hell
1:35.5	I've been going through for a bit over two months now.
1:39.5	Just to let anyone know, you know, who cares or who's been wondering what I've been up to and why I've been
1:46.3	relatively quiet for most things other than posting on Twitter, what the hell's been going on?
1:53.3	So if you don't give a crap at all about that, then feel free to not listen to the rest of this
1:57.6	episode and stay tuned for my next, you know, more history-related
2:01.3	episode. But for those of you who care or who are even just, you know, curious, I wanted to
2:08.5	give a lot more detail about what's been going on. Because as many of you know, especially
2:15.5	if you've been listening for a while, I've been having a really rough couple of years because of just a continuous succession of major disasters and crises and emergencies and losses for myself and my immediate family.
2:34.1	And it has felt like we've gotten at least two or three decades worth of... losses for myself and my immediate family.
2:39.3	And it has felt like we've gotten at least two or three decades worth of, you know, bad luck events happening very compressed into just a handful of years.
2:45.0	And every time that I think, oh, our luck has to turn around, nope, here comes, you know,
2:50.2	at least one, if not multiple, new problems to deal with while we're still, you know, dealing with a bunch of the old problems.
2:58.0	And I know I sound like a broken record every time that I talk about this and give an update on what's going on, but like it's objectively bizarre the amount of bad luck that I and my family have had in recent years.
3:12.0	Like, even my mental health professionals, when I go through everything, they end up looking like, you know, a deer in a headlights almost.
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