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Skyrank here with another episode of the History and Plug podcast.

For every person whose story is known to historians,

and has had a book about them, or has broadly remembered,

there are tens of not hundreds of thousands of people whose story

didn't get told or has lost a history, or isn't remembered

to the degree of the influence that they had.

Today's episode is a roundtable, where I'm joined by other members

of the Parthenon Podcast Network,

Josh Cohen from Eyewitness History, Richard Lim from the American President,

and Steve Guerra from Beyond the Big Screen and History of the PAPC.

We're going to look at the most underrated people in history.

One of these people was a president, and spoiler alert,

it's Herbert Hoover, who's overshadowed by FDR.

Another one was somebody who averted nuclear war during the Cold War.

My person I put forward is Norman Borlog, who saved two billion people

from starving to death in the 27th.

It's worth finding these stories that are forgotten,

and it's also worth asking ourselves why these people were forgotten in the first place.

Hope you enjoyed this roundtable discussion.

And one more thing before we get started with this episode,

a quick break for work from our sponsors.

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