S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Conrad Black. Black argues Mark Carney's plan to bolster Canada's Arctic defenses is a political win, asserting sovereignty for the Western Alliance over th...
S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Edmund Fitton-Brown. Fitton-Brown explains Saudi Arabia denies airspace to U.S. forces to offer Iran a "fig leaf," signaling neutrality to maintain a fragil...
S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Jim Holmes. Holmes contends China gains the most commercially from the Northwest Passage, cutting shipping times to Europe by 30% through its partnership wi...
S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Fraser Howie. Howe argues Xi Jinping's push for the renminbi as a global reserve currency will fail unless China abandons strict capital controls preventing...
S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Ahmed Sharawi. Sharawi warns the third ceasefire between the Syrian government and U.S.-allied Kurdish forces is fragile and likely to fail, risking renewed...
S8 Ep407: PREVIEW FOR LATER TODAY Guest: Joe Truzman. Truzman predicts the Gaza ceasefire's second phase will fail because Hamas refuses to disarm, creating an insurmountable obstacle despite the c...
S8 Ep406: Gaius and Germanicus settle over wine to analyze the aftermath of World War II, citing Averell Harriman's 1945 fear that Soviet victory represented a barbarian invasion opening Europe to ...
S8 Ep406: Gaius and Germanicus turn their debate to American migration patterns, with Gaius arguing that modern elites exploit immigrants as property for cheap labor and political votes, echoing hi...
S8 Ep406: Gaius and Germanicus gather in freezing Londinium during the winter of 92 AD to discuss Paul Thomas Chamberlain's Scorched Earth, which reinterprets World War II not as a purely ideologic...
S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo traces the post-service lives of Company F leaders: Scott builds railroads in Mexico while Brooks becomes a South Texas judge battling alcoholism, establishing the stoic, d...
S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo recounts Sergeant J.A. Brooks facing legal peril in Fort Smith after a shootout defending an Indian agent results in murder charges, tried before Hanging Judge Parker and i...
S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo profiles Captain Will Scott, a stoic tactician who utilized undercover operations and deliberate force, contextualizing the Rangers as agents of political change during 188...
S8 Ep405: Joe Pappalardo details the 1887 shootout between Texas Ranger Company F and the Connor clan in Sabine County's dense pine forests, where skilled backwoodsmen fighting an ambiguous legal b...
S8 Ep404: Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff discuss whether dogs will see themselves as apex predators or ecosystem participants, noting pack behavior may mirror wolves if hunting large prey while dog...
S8 Ep404: Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff explain that without humans, dogs will likely adopt communal parenting strategies and reduced reproductive cycles to maximize survival, noting dogs already ...
S8 Ep404: Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff focus on physical evolution, predicting short-snouted dogs will disappear while longer snouts prevail for better breathing, smaller dogs may survive better ...
S8 Ep404: Jessica Pierce and Mark Bekoff discuss a thought experiment regarding dogs in a post-human world, suggesting dogs will not physically revert to wolves but will adopt wolf-like social stru...
S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. Aristocratic "safari" hunters massacred wildlife for sport, while early conservation efforts by figures like Roosevelt often focused on preserving game populations spec...
S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. Flores critiques 19th-century explorers, noting how Lewis and Clark needlessly slaughtered grizzlies and how Audubon, though later regretful, killed birds to capture th...
S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. As capitalism commodified wildlife like beavers, naturalists like Thoreau lamented the loss, while Linnaeus's system helped classify species even as market forces decim...
S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. European colonizers, shocked by America's abundance, introduced a "herding culture" mindset that demonized predators and enforced a philosophy of human exceptionalism r...
S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. For 10,000 years, indigenous hunter-gatherers maintained ecological balance through low populations and spiritual kinship with animals, viewing species like Coyote and ...
S8 Ep402: Guest: Dan Flores. Flores details the Clovis culture's rapid expansion and efficient hunting, arguing human predation and genomic meltdown drove the "American extinction" of large mammals...
S8 Ep402: Guest: Dan Flores. Flores introduces his book Wild New World, discussing North America's deep evolutionary history, the arrival of carnivorous humans, and the resulting interactions with ...
S8 Ep401: Guest: Danielle Clode. They discuss rising risks from climate change, dangers at the urban-bushland interface, and differences between U.S. fire suppression and Australian preventative ...
S8 Ep401: Guest: Danielle Clode. Clode details protecting homes from ember attacks, the critical "stay or go" decision during fire bans, and last-resort survival tactics involving woolen blankets i...
S8 Ep401: Guest: Danielle Clode. The conversation explores eucalyptus regeneration, the complexity of arson, specific vegetation flammability, and the origins of Australia's volunteer fire brigades...
S8 Ep401: Guest: Danielle Clode. Clode discusses Captain Cook's early observations, the contrast between indigenous "fire stick farming" and settler clearing, and the history of massive wildfires l...
S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis describes how his dog Dallas watches birds from air-conditioned safety, tolerating magpies but acting like a "lawman" toward unwelcome, vandalistic cockatoos dr...
S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis details the English cricket team's scandals, specifically how Harry Brook and teammates lied about a nightclub fight following their humiliating Ashes defeat.
S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis reports on Australia's oppressive, humid heatwave reaching 122°F, which traps residents indoors and keeps a stubbornly stationary tropical depression from becom...
S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis reports on Australia's oppressive, humid heatwave reaching 122°F, which traps residents indoors and keeps a stubbornly stationary tropical depression from becom...
S8 Ep399: Sean McMeekin explains how the Allies abandoned anti-communist forces like Mihailovic in Yugoslavia and Chiang Kai-shek in China, while Stalin armed Mao Zedong with Japanese weapons, conc...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin describes how the Soviets utilized Lend-Lease to acquire industrial secrets and nuclear materials, often facilitated by Harry Hopkins whom McMeekin views as a devoted Soviet...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin argues FDR announced unconditional surrender at Casablanca to appease Stalin, highlighting the Allied cover-up of the Katyn Massacre where Stalin used his own crime to break...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin describes how Stalin exploited Lend-Lease beyond military necessity, using the program to acquire industrial equipment, raw materials, and nuclear-related supplies while ma...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin challenges the myth of Stalin's nervous breakdown during the 1941 German invasion, arguing both sides were mobilizing for war and that becoming a victim created a public rel...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin discusses Molotov's 1940 Berlin visit, noting Stalin's brazen demands for influence in Bulgaria and Turkey caused talks to collapse, prompting Hitler to plan Operation Barba...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin details how Stalin replaced Litvinov with Molotov to signal realignment with Hitler, leading to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, arguing Stalin was an opportunist seeking territ...
S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin introduces Stalin as a bandit and intellectual who adopted Lenin's theory of revolutionary defeatism, explaining how Stalin built Soviet industry by exploiting Western techn...
S8 Ep397: Peter Stansky attributes the pessimism in 1984 to Orwell's belief that leaders prioritize power over revolutionary goals, though he remained optimistic about the English people, noting th...
S8 Ep396: Peter Stansky attributes the pessimism in 1984 to Orwell's belief that leaders prioritize power over revolutionary goals, though he remained optimistic about the English people, noting ...
S8 Ep396: Peter Stansky discusses Orwell's wartime work for the BBC and The Lion and the Unicorn advocating English socialism, arguing that Animal Farm was not anti-socialist but a critique of revo...
S8 Ep396: Peter Stansky explains that George Orwell's time as a colonial police officer in Burma fueled his growing anti-imperialism and decision to become a writer, while fighting in the Spanish C...
S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts concludes that Stalin admired American industrialism and constitutional structure while editing Soviet history, defining him as a fanatical Bolshevik intellectual drive...
S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts details Stalin's admiration for historian Robert Vipper and Ivan the Terrible, whom Stalin rehabilitated as a state-builder to justify his own ruthless governance and ter...
S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts notes Stalin studied Bismarck as a modernizer but learned power politics from Lenin, not Machiavelli, viewing Tsars as strong state builders despite their capitalism.
S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts discusses the library's 1988 rediscovery, its 1956 dispersal following Khrushchev's de-Stalinization, and analysis of Stalin's marginalia revealing his deep emotional eng...
S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts explains how after his wife's suicide, Stalin moves to a new dacha where his library becomes central, retaining books by executed rivals like Bukharin despite their fate.
S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts describes Stalin organizing his library, prioritizing Lenin and Trotsky, while Bolsheviks seize control of publishing to reshape human consciousness through controlled re...
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