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History ImpossibleDiplomacy on the Eastern Border (w/ Kristaps Andrejsons, Jack Johannson, & Zack Twamley)I was recently invited to join in a panel discussion with three podcasting greats and people I consider friends—that is, The Eastern Border’s Kristaps Andrejsons, the Secret Police podcast’s Jack Johannson, and When Diplomacy Fails podcast’s Zack Twamley. It originally went up on the Eastern Border feed, split into two parts, but Kristaps was kind enough to let all of us get our grubby paws on the masters to put on our own feeds, something that I felt would allow me to give all of you fine people another nice bonus while you wait for the next ins...
2025-03-252h 53
History ImpossibleThe Slave Who Would Be a Spy (w/ Isaac Willour)Slavery is often known as the United States’ original sin, and for good reason. Much of our perceptions of it are informed both by the Civil War’s cause and outcome, and the contradictions—and even moral hypocrisy—that it created with our Founding Fathers’ professed beliefs. Contradiction is the theme not just of the United States’ values and history, but it also a major theme of this episode of the podcast.In this newest installment of History Impossible, we’re looking at the extraordinary life of James Armistead Lafayette, the slave who would become the Colonies’ most vital spy during...
2025-03-141h 00
History ImpossibleA Bug in the SoftwareHey everyone, happy to present to all of you fine people with a brief bonus, this time adapting my recent historiographical essay that I had written my first semester in graduate school on the study of infectious disease’s effects throughout history and how it was written about from around the 1970s until the 2010s. This should serve as a nice pairing with the recent “Mother’s Wrath, Mankind’s Cope” and demonstrate the sort of academic origins of my thinking on this particular subject. Please enjoy and stay tuned!…History Impossible has been made possible by the follo...
2025-02-2856 min
History ImpossibleMother's Wrath, Mankind's Bargain (The Los Angeles Fires of 2025)In this episode of History Impossible inaugurating 2025 and the sixth anniversary of the show, we will be looking at the Los Angeles Fires of 2025 but from an extended, historical, and probably overly philosophical lens. Because as it turns out, natural disasters are a constant of the human experience and create some of the greatest extremes, and reflecting on what afflicts us now alongside what has afflicted us in the past can provide at least some clarity (or, in my case, closure).The destruction faced by Los Angelenos in 2025 is not too dissimilar from many examples of destruction in...
2025-02-131h 50
History ImpossibleA Revulsion of Feeling: The Arab Revolt and Collective IdentityThis is the first installment of something that doesn’t really have a name; the Grad School Files? That sounds a little like a bad Netflix show. I’ll take suggestions, but in the meantime, we can simply define this as it is: the first adaptation of one of my academic papers from graduate school into an honest-to-goodness episode of History Impossible. The first thing I want to say is that it was more difficult than I expected to adapt an academic paper into a podcast than I expected. The material is all there, but speaking in formal academic language mana...
2024-12-301h 31
History ImpossibleThe Question of GenocideThis episode of History Impossible is an adaptation of the historical polemic I wrote on the one-year anniversary of October 7th, 2023, examining the interpretation of genocide, as applied to the current war between Hamas and Israel, and to the devastation wrought against the Bosnian Muslims by their Serb counterparts in the early 1990s. This episode touches on some extremely upsetting and dark material, including descriptions of child death, mass killing, and rape, so please consider yourself warned if that sort of thing is something you might want to avoid.This episode will serve as a polemical counterpart to...
2024-12-061h 04
Distinctive Christianity106. Eric Johnson on The Miracle of ForgivenessIn this episode, we interview Eric Johnson of Mormonism Research Ministry about LDS President-Prophet Spencer W. Kimball’s book The Miracle of Forgiveness. Eric takes us through some of the main teachings of President Kimball, and how it still has authority for the LDS. Could this book be, in any way, considered Christian? We also discuss Eric’s “Free-Book Approach” of using Kimball's book for evangelism. Listen as we dive into what an LDS Prophet thinks about the gods, man, sin, salvation – and how he authoritatively explained (away) some of the Bible passages that disagree. Mormonism Res...
2024-10-071h 37
History ImpossibleThe Elites Who Would Play God (w/ CJ Killmer of Dangerous History)In this newest special episode of History Impossible, I sat down to discuss a super-light topic, one not fraught with intense controversy and tragedy, with my long time friend and podcasting comrade, CJ Killmer, of the Dangerous History Podcast: that is, the topic of eugenics! More accurately, we discussed a particular man in that noteworthy field who CJ discussed on his second-most recent episode (as of this writing; the 12th and newest epic installment of the Woodrow Wilson series he’s been working hard on just released), Dr. Edwin Katzen-Ellenbogen.This man’s storied career included being a pion...
2024-09-091h 34
History ImpossibleThe Yasuke Conspiracy (w/ Sebastian Major of Our Fake History)To say historians can be pedantic is like saying water is wet. To say gamers and gaming commentators can be pedantic is yet somehow even more of an obvious understatement. So what happens when these two communities clash and/or blend? You get what we could charitably call the Yasuke Conspiracy.As many gamers likely know by now, the insanely popular and long-running Assassin’s Creed series of games has explored multitudes of time periods, aesthetics, and characters from across history, ranging from Renaissance Italy, to Revolutionary America, to Victorian London, to Roman Empire-era Egypt, to, most recently, Vi...
2024-08-271h 53
Adapt or PerishTarzan (Ep. 136)In Episode 136 of Adapt or Perish, we’re heading to the jungle to spend some time with one of the pulpiest of pulp heroes: John Clayton II, Viscount Greystroke, better know as Tarzan of the apes! In this episode, we discuss: Edgar Rice Burroughs’ original 1912 serialized story and novel Tarzan of the Apes, the 1918 silent movie directed by Scott Sidney, and starring Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, and Madame Sul-Te-Wan Tarzan, the Ape Man, the 1932 movie directed by W.S. Van Dyke, written by Cyril Hume and Ivor Novello, and starring Johny Weissmuller, Maureen O’Sullivan, Neil Hamilt...
2024-04-022h 42
Hamilton Today with Scott ThompsonKid Running Around Like Crazy? That’ll Be $50!The Hamilton Today Podcast with Scott Radley:A restaurant in Georgia is charging a “Bad Parenting Fee” to customers whose children they have deemed too unruly and disruptive. A bevy of non-alcoholic beverages made by alcohol producers are hitting shelves, and the number of “sober-curious” people buying them up is growing. This fall marks the 10-year anniversary of Hamilton Health Sciences Mobile Cancer Screening Coach, a unique cancer screening program offered on a 45-foot-long coach bus that travels the region providing free cancer screening tests and support to quit smoking in communities with low cancer screening rates. A Libera...
2023-10-271h 06
Absorb A High-Impact Full Audiobook On Your Commute.Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird by Jonathan MaberryPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692459to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Narrator: Zura Johnson, Natalie Naudus, James Anderson Foster, Joe Hempel, Neil Hellegers, Ramiz Monsef, James Patrick Cronin, Vikas Adam, Edoardo Ballerini, Eric G. Dove, Kimberly Alexis, Peter Berkrot, Kirsten Potter, Bronson Pinchot, Gabrielle De Cuir, Richard Brewer, Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Hillary Huber, Stefan Rudnicki, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 44 minutes
Release date: October 10, 2023
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is...
2023-10-106h 44Listen to Top Full Audiobooks in Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science FictionWeird Tales: 100 Years of Weird by Jonathan MaberryPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/692459to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird
Author: Jonathan Maberry
Narrator: Zura Johnson, Natalie Naudus, James Anderson Foster, Joe Hempel, Neil Hellegers, Ramiz Monsef, James Patrick Cronin, Vikas Adam, Edoardo Ballerini, Eric G. Dove, Kimberly Alexis, Peter Berkrot, Kirsten Potter, Bronson Pinchot, Gabrielle De Cuir, Richard Brewer, Dion Graham, Robin Miles, Hillary Huber, Stefan Rudnicki, Simon Vance, Scott Brick, Grover Gardner
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 18 hours 44 minutes
Release date: October 10, 2023
Genres: Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the first issues of Weird Tales Magazine, 100 Years of Weird is...
2023-10-106h 44
Free Old Time RadioNero Wolfe - Serial 4, Episode 31 - 39Nero Wolfe - Serial 4, Episode 31 - 39Title: The New Adventures of Nero WolfeOverview: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe is a 1950–51 American radio drama series starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional armchair detective Nero Wolfe. Based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, the series aired October 20, 1950 – April 27, 1951, on NBC. It is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on the radio. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe stars Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional detective genius Nero Wolfe. Produced by Edwin Fadiman and directed by J. Dona...
2021-01-117h 32
Free Old Time RadioNero Wolfe - Serial 3, Episode 21 - 30Nero Wolfe - Serial 3, Episode 21 - 30Title: The New Adventures of Nero WolfeOverview: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe is a 1950–51 American radio drama series starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional armchair detective Nero Wolfe. Based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, the series aired October 20, 1950 – April 27, 1951, on NBC. It is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on the radio. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe stars Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional detective genius Nero Wolfe. Produced by Edwin Fadiman and directed by J. Dona...
2021-01-116h 43
Free Old Time RadioNero Wolfe - Serial 2, Episode 11 - 20Nero Wolfe - Serial 2, Episode 11 - 20Title: The New Adventures of Nero WolfeOverview: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe is a 1950–51 American radio drama series starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional armchair detective Nero Wolfe. Based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, the series aired October 20, 1950 – April 27, 1951, on NBC. It is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on the radio. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe stars Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional detective genius Nero Wolfe. Produced by Edwin Fadiman and directed by J. Dona...
2021-01-114h 50
Free Old Time RadioNero Wolfe - Serial 1, Episode 1 - 10Nero Wolfe - Serial 1, Episode 1 - 10Title: The New Adventures of Nero WolfeOverview: The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe is a 1950–51 American radio drama series starring Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional armchair detective Nero Wolfe. Based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories, the series aired October 20, 1950 – April 27, 1951, on NBC. It is regarded as the series that is most responsible for popularizing Nero Wolfe on the radio. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe stars Sydney Greenstreet as Rex Stout's fictional detective genius Nero Wolfe. Produced by Edwin Fadiman and directed by J. Dona...
2021-01-114h 55