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S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. As capitalism commodified wildlife like beavers, naturalists like Thoreau lamented the loss, while Linnaeus&#39;s system helped classify species even as market forces decimated them.
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Guest: Dan Flores. As capitalism commodified wildlife like beavers, naturalists like Thoreau lamented the loss, while Linnaeus&#39;s system helped classify species even as market forces decimated them.
1859 JJ AUDOBON. WILD TURKEY
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S8 Ep403: Guest: Dan Flores. European colonizers, shocked by America&#39;s abundance, introduced a &quot;herding culture&quot; mindset that demonized predators and enforced a philosophy of human exceptionalism regarding animal souls.
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Guest: Dan Flores. European colonizers, shocked by America&#39;s abundance, introduced a &quot;herding culture&quot; mindset that demonized predators and enforced a philosophy of human exceptionalism regarding animal souls.

1838 COMMORANTS. AUDOBON
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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 Raven as deities.
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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 Raven as deities.

1908 ZOO
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S8 Ep402: Guest: Dan Flores. Flores details the Clovis culture&#39;s rapid expansion and efficient hunting, arguing human predation and genomic meltdown drove the &quot;American extinction&quot; of large mammals like mammoths.
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S8 Ep402: Guest: Dan Flores. Flores introduces his book Wild New World, discussing North America&#39;s deep evolutionary history, the arrival of carnivorous humans, and the resulting interactions with ancient fauna.
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Guest: Dan Flores. Flores introduces his book Wild New World, discussing North America&#39;s deep evolutionary history, the arrival of carnivorous humans, and the resulting interactions with ancient fauna.

1860 GRIZZLY BE HUNTER
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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 burning policies.

1885 SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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Guest: Danielle Clode. Clode details protecting homes from ember attacks, the critical &quot;stay or go&quot; decision during fire bans, and last-resort survival tactics involving woolen blankets in vehicles.

1952 QUEENSLAND
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Guest: Danielle Clode. The conversation explores eucalyptus regeneration, the complexity of arson, specific vegetation flammability, and the origins of Australia&#39;s volunteer fire brigades in insurance companies.

1930 AUSTRALIA
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Guest: Danielle Clode. Clode discusses Captain Cook&#39;s early observations, the contrast between indigenous &quot;fire stick farming&quot; and settler clearing, and the history of massive wildfires like Black Thursday.

1907 ADELAIDE.SOUTH AUSTRALIA
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S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis describes how his dog Dallas watches birds from air-conditioned safety, tolerating magpies but acting like a &quot;lawman&quot; toward unwelcome, vandalistic cockatoos drinking water.
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S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis details the English cricket team&#39;s scandals, specifically how Harry Brook and teammates lied about a nightclub fight following their humiliating Ashes defeat.
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Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis details the English cricket team&#39;s scandals, specifically how Harry Brook and teammates lied about a nightclub fight following their humiliating Ashes defeat.
1885 CRICKET NSW
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Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis reports on Australia&#39;s oppressive, humid heatwave reaching 122°F, which traps residents indoors and keeps a stubbornly stationary tropical depression from becoming a cyclone.
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S8 Ep400: Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis reports on Australia&#39;s oppressive, humid heatwave reaching 122°F, which traps residents indoors and keeps a stubbornly stationary tropical depression from becoming a cyclone.
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Guest: Jeremy Zakis. Zakis reports on Australia&#39;s oppressive, humid heatwave reaching 122°F, which traps residents indoors and keeps a stubbornly stationary tropical depression from becoming a cyclone.
1873
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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, concluding that massive US Lend-Lease aid enabled communism&#39;s expansion 
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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, concluding that massive US Lend-Leaseaid enabled communism&#39;s expansion into Europe and Asia.
1945
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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 agent of influence, while Stalin delayed Operation Bagration to let
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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 agent of influence, while Stalin delayed Operation Bagration to let Western Allies absorb German strength.
1945 RED ARMY
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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 relations with the Polish government-in-exile and consolidate contr
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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 relations with the Polish government-in-exile and consolidate control.
2943 TEHRAN
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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 manipulating Western generosity to strengthen Soviet postwar capabilit
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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 manipulating Western generosity to strengthen Soviet postwar capabilities and strategic position.

1941 ROSTOV
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S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin challenges the myth of Stalin&#39;s nervous breakdown during the 1941 German invasion, arguing both sides were mobilizing for war and that becoming a victim created a public relations miracle facilitating Western aid while Stalin withheld intell
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Sean McMeekin challenges the myth of Stalin&#39;s nervous breakdown during the 1941 German invasion, arguing both sides were mobilizing for war and that becoming a victim created a public relations miracle facilitating Western aid while Stalin withheld intelligence about Japan from the US.
1939 WINTER WAR
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S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin discusses Molotov&#39;s 1940 Berlin visit, noting Stalin&#39;s brazen demands for influence in Bulgaria and Turkey caused talks to collapse, prompting Hitler to plan Operation Barbarossa, while Roosevelt began lifting moral embargoes anticipating a 
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Sean McMeekin discusses Molotov&#39;s 1940 Berlin visit, noting Stalin&#39;s brazen demands for influence in Bulgaria and Turkey caused talks to collapse, prompting Hitler to plan Operation Barbarossa, while Roosevelt began lifting moral embargoes anticipating a German-Soviet clash.
1931 STALIN AND BERIA
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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 territorial expansion in Poland, Romania, and the Baltics while Western po
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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 territorial expansion in Poland, Romania, and the Baltics while Western powers failed to intervene.
1900 THE RUSSIA BEAR, &quot;RECKLESS DEFIANCE&quot; OF THE ENGLISH TOMMIES
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S8 Ep398: Sean McMeekin introduces Stalin as a bandit and intellectual who adopted Lenin&#39;s theory of revolutionary defeatism, explaining how Stalin built Soviet industry by exploiting Western technology and capital during the Depression, often funding this through 
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Sean McMeekin introduces Stalin as a bandit and intellectual who adopted Lenin&#39;s theory of revolutionary defeatism, explaining how Stalin built Soviet industry by exploiting Western technology and capital during the Depression, often funding this through looted artwork and espionage.
1881 GANGING THE STUDENT REVOLUTIONARIES
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S8 Ep397: Peter Stansky attributes the pessimism in 1984 to Orwell&#39;s belief that leaders prioritize power over revolutionary goals, though he remained optimistic about the English people, noting the novel&#39;s enduring relevance regarding modern technology, political 
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Peter Stansky attributes the pessimism in 1984 to Orwell&#39;s belief that leaders prioritize power over revolutionary goals, though he remained optimistic about the English people, noting the novel&#39;s enduring relevance regarding modern technology, political disinformation, and its historical use as a Cold War cultural document.

1899 LITTLE RUSSIA
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Peter Stansky attributes the pessimism in 1984 to Orwell&#39;s belief that leaders prioritize power over revolutionary goals, though he remained optimistic about the English people, noting the novel&#39;s enduring relevance regarding modern technology and political disinformation.
1951
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S8 Ep396: Peter Stansky discusses Orwell&#39;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 revolutionary leaders corrupted by absolute power who inevitably betray 
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Peter Stansky discusses Orwell&#39;s wartime work for the BBC and The Lion and the Unicorn advocating Englishsocialism, arguing that Animal Farm was not anti-socialist but a critique of revolutionary leaders corrupted by absolute power who inevitably betray their ideals.
1951
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S8 Ep396: Peter Stansky explains that George Orwell&#39;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 Civil War solidified his identity as a democratic socialist and staun
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Peter Stansky explains that George Orwell&#39;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 Civil War solidified his identity as a democratic socialist and staunch anti-communist after witnessing Soviet betrayals.
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S8 Ep395:   Geoffrey Roberts concludes that Stalin admired American industrialism and constitutional structure while editing Soviet history, defining him as a fanatical Bolshevik intellectual driven by Marxist dogma.
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Geoffrey Roberts concludes that Stalin admired American industrialism and constitutional structure while editing Soviet history, defining him as a fanatical Bolshevik intellectual driven by Marxist dogma.
1896 TSAR NICHOLAS
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S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts details Stalin&#39;s admiration for historian Robert Vipper and Ivan the Terrible, whom Stalin rehabilitated as a state-builder to justify his own ruthless governance and terror.
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Geoffrey Roberts details Stalin&#39;s admiration for historian Robert Vipper and Ivan the Terrible, whom Stalinrehabilitated as a state-builder to justify his own ruthless governance and terror.
1945
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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.
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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.
1942
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S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts discusses the library&#39;s 1988 rediscovery, its 1956 dispersal following Khrushchev&#39;s de-Stalinization, and analysis of Stalin&#39;s marginalia revealing his deep emotional engagement with texts he studied.
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Geoffrey Roberts discusses the library&#39;s 1988 rediscovery, its 1956 dispersal following Khrushchev&#39;s de-Stalinization, and analysis of Stalin&#39;s marginalia revealing his deep emotional engagement with texts he studied.
1942
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S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts explains how after his wife&#39;s suicide, Stalin moves to a new dacha where his library becomes central, retaining books by executed rivals like Bukharin despite their fate.
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Geoffrey Roberts explains how after his wife&#39;s suicide, Stalin moves to a new dacha where his library becomes central, retaining books by executed rivals like Bukharin despite their fate.
1928
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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 reading and ideological indoctrination.
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Geoffrey Roberts describes Stalin organizing his library, prioritizing Lenin and Trotsky, while Bolsheviks seize control of publishing to reshape human consciousness through controlled reading and ideological indoctrination.
1917 MOSCIW
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Geoffrey Roberts recounts Stalin meeting his idol Lenin, committing to Bolshevism, and spending exile reading extensively, establishing himself as a Marxist theoretician and dedicated intellectual within the revolutionary movement.
1917 VILNIUS
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S8 Ep395: Geoffrey Roberts introduces Stalin&#39;s library at his dacha and discusses the dictator&#39;s youth, education, radicalization, and voracious reading habits in Georgia and the seminary that shaped his intellectual formation.
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Geoffrey Roberts introduces Stalin&#39;s library at his dacha and discusses the dictator&#39;s youth, education, radicalization, and voracious reading habits in Georgia and the seminary that shaped his intellectual formation.
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S8 Ep394:   Everitt and Ashworth review primary sources shaping Nero&#39;s legacy, distinguishing gossip-laden Suetonius from hostile but reliable Tacitus, while noting Petronius of the Satyricon and Pliny the Elder&#39;s anecdotal encyclopedia.
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Everitt and Ashworth review primary sources shaping Nero&#39;s legacy, distinguishing gossip-laden Suetonius from hostile but reliable Tacitus, while noting Petronius of the Satyricon and Pliny the Elder&#39;s anecdotal encyclopedia.
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S8 Ep394: Everitt and Ashworth detail Nero&#39;s fall through the Pisonian conspiracy forcing Seneca&#39;s theatrical suicide, followed by revolt in Gaul and Nero&#39;s own suicide by throat, destroying his precious singing voice in 68 AD.E
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Everitt and Ashworth detail Nero&#39;s fall through the Pisonian conspiracy forcing Seneca&#39;s theatrical suicide, followed by revolt in Gaul and Nero&#39;s own suicide by throat, destroying his precious singing voice in 68 AD.
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S8 Ep394: Everitt and Ashworth debunk the myth that Nero started the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, explaining he organized relief efforts and built the Golden House as a public palace, while questioning accounts of Christian persecution.
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Everitt and Ashworth debunk the myth that Nero started the Great Fire of Rome in 64 AD, explaining he organized relief efforts and built the Golden House as a public palace, while questioning accounts of Christian persecution.
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S8 Ep394: Everitt and Ashworth examine Queen Boudica&#39;s revolt in Britain, triggered by Roman financial extortion including Seneca&#39;s called-in loans, which nearly caused Nero to abandon the province before imperial prestige prevailed.
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Everitt and Ashworth examine Queen Boudica&#39;s revolt in Britain, triggered by Roman financial extortion including Seneca&#39;s called-in loans, which nearly caused Nero to abandon the province before imperial prestige prevailed.
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1561 PALATINE HILL
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S8 Ep394: Everitt and Ashworth trace Nero&#39;s origins from his birth in 37 AD, examining the influence of his grandfather Germanicus and his mother Agrippina&#39;s political education under her grandmother Livia, alongside warnings from Caligula&#39;s erratic reign.
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S8 Ep394: Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth discuss Nero&#39;s plot against his mother Agrippina in 59 AD, detailing the theatrical scheme using a collapsing boat that failed, forcing the emperor to send assassins to finish the matricide.
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Anthony Everitt and Roddy Ashworth discuss Nero&#39;s plot against his mother Agrippina in 59 AD, detailing the theatrical scheme using a collapsing boat that failed, forcing the emperor to send assassins to finish the matricide.
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S8 Ep392:    Guest: Bob Zimmerman. Zimmerman highlights James Webb Telescope discoveries challenging Big Bang theories, new estimates of Europa&#39;s ice thickness, and unique images of Saturn and Pluto
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Guest: Bob Zimmerman. Zimmerman highlights James Webb Telescope discoveries challenging Big Bang theories, new estimates of Europa&#39;s ice thickness, and unique images of Saturn and Pluto
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1941
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1906 SF BURNING
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1955 SEMINOLE TEST. ENEWETAK ATOLL
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1857 IRISH ARRIVING BOSTON
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1847
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1847 EIRE
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1850 IRELAND TENANTS
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