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Harald Hansen
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Hanging with History
Benedictus Spinoza Part 3 ; Radical Enlightenment
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionSpinoza’s conflicts with contemporary scientists like Boyle and Huygens center on Spinoza’s insistence on the primacy of philosophical reason over empirical experimentation and empirical reasoning. Spinoza’s argument against Boyle’s experiments are presented.Jonathon Israel highlights the influence of Spinoza by showing that much of the Boyle’s later work, on reconciling science with religion, is a reaction to Spinoza. And Harald makes the argument that the mutual toleration of science and religion in Britain specifically, and the extension of the idea...
2024-02-08
41 min
Hanging with History
124. Industrial Revolution: Statistical Mishmash
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionA novel theory of the distribution of consumption during the end of the 2nd hundred years war is developed.We explain the problems of relying on changing productivity numbers, but we still tend to accept them because the rest of our context suggests that they were truly increasing.In an episode focused on economic statistics and financial theory, Harald, perhaps betrays difficulties with emotional stability by berating the audience.You can learn about income growth, the industrious revolution...
2023-09-21
54 min
Hanging with History
The Age of Walpole; Part 1, Sacheverall and the Sinking Fund, a 2nd 100 Years War interlude
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Church is in Danger! Her Holy Communion rent and divided by factious and schismatical impostors. Her primitive worship profaned and abused, her sacraments prostituted !Sacheverell, arguably the first modern type celebrity, illustrates the risks to political and social stability still faced by England.The nowadays obscure Robert Walpole is our gateway to understanding social and political developments in England through the 1740's. He reduced the religious temperature of the country despite leading a party that was ideologically inclined to inf...
2022-05-20
36 min
Hanging with History
War of the Quadruple Alliance, part 2; Robert Filmer?
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Chicken War is covered as part of the War of the Quadruple Alliance as well as the more consequential Armada of 1719.Cardinal Alberoni is chucked out of Madrid when the Duke of Berwick invades at the head of a French army.The true important consequence of the War of the Quadruple Alliance is to drive the early Georges away from their natural allies the Tories into the loving embrace of Robert Walpole and the Whigs. This will actually have c...
2022-05-06
41 min
Hanging with History
War of the Quadruple Alliance Part 1
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionPeace treaties do not always work out the way they are intended, especially if they are complex and take time to implement. The many treaties comprising the peace of Utrecht are like this.Spain is the main loser after the War of the Spanish Succession, and an Italian Cardinal seeks to remedy the situation by going to war with the 3 greatest powers in Europe. You might think Spain is well past the point where they could win a war with France or En...
2022-04-22
44 min
Hanging with History
France the Enemy; France and the American Revolution.
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe look at the factors that drove France to join the American Revolution despite the obvious ideological problems with a divine right monarchy supporting a revolution. For France this was an opportunistic war, with the seemingly perfect chance to humiliate the ancestral enemy. And as Louis XIV put it, the wars were all about who could control the Indes trade. Rather than the usual coverage of French involvement in the 13 colonies, we cover the sugar trade, war int eh Caribbean and...
2022-04-08
42 min
Hanging with History
85. France, the Enemy: The Royal Repression
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe cover the repressive powers of the royal government and some of the reactions to it.Some of the issues are common to all autocracies, such as oppression that backfires and concessions that just lead to further concessions. But some are quite unique to France. The justice retenue, the tax related quartering of troops, the censorship of books, with the unexpected strategic responses from writers. We also cover 6 letters from highly placed people to the kings that detail man...
2022-03-25
33 min
Home In Progress
Episode 252: Harald Bluetooth, Part 1; Design Trends 2022 with Andy Yates; Harald Bluetooth, Part 2
SEGMENT 1: Harald Bluetooth, Part 1Most of us don't think twice about the technology behind some of the items we use everyday. And if we do, chances are we certainly don't think about how that technology got its name or its logo. Well, today, we look at the surprisingly old (and fun) origins of the Bluetooth name and logo. This segment is part 1.SEGMENTS 2 & 3: Harald Bluetooth, Part 1We sit down with Andy Yates from Andy Yates Design to discuss the design trends of 2022 and what that means for all of us. If you're interested...
2022-03-12
39 min
Hanging with History
84. France: The Enemy, France and the Origins of the Industrial Revolution
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis episode measures France against the 5 standard theories for the origins of the Industrial Revolution.1. Special unique culture that accorded dignity and freedom of action to the middle classes. This is McCloskey and Paul Slack among others. Clear fail.2. The production function idea that high wages drives investment in labor saving machinery which kicks off a self reinforcing cycle, that is the miracle. The idea is associated with Robert Allen, though well developed by many. France did not have high wage...
2022-03-11
27 min
Hanging with History
France: The Enemy, Part 6, Why Revolution?
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Cabinet Noir is the most interesting part of this show. This mail reading, code breaking part of the regime was part of their effort to deal with the fact that public opinion was just very difficult to discern. Tocqueville's analysis of the causes of Revolution suggests that the easing of oppression is a major cause of the Revolution. We use this intro to begin our examination of the ancien regime. The personnel policy of the kings seems to change once Louis XIV...
2022-02-25
1h 01
Hanging with History
82. France: The Enemy, Part 5, Psychology of Peasants and Nobles
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe continue our social history with a look at the Psychology of Peasants and Nobles, with Jon Elster as our guide.For nobles we track some of the thornier problems of noble identity, the cult of ancestry, its implications for personal behavior and its sometimes self destructive nature. We also have a lighter look at the obsession over wit and the bon mot. "The best lands require manure." And the relevance of Amadis of Gaul.For peasants we are mainly loo...
2022-02-11
51 min
Hanging with History
81. France: The Enemy Part 4, 2nd 100 Years War Part 11
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis is social history in some depth. We look at the role of preasance among and within social classes. Presance is identified as a major force limiting collective action that could have allowed for more reform before the Revolution. Status issues are always complex, and important, but in the ancien regime it goes to 11.There is also discussion of how the Matthew Principal applies to the peasants, how "it's expensive to be poor." So how does this work out in practice in the Frenc...
2022-01-28
40 min
Hanging with History
France: The Enemy, Part 3, 2nd 100 Years War Part 10
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe cover the social continuities and the changes in France's ancien regime that happened under the Louis XIV through Louis XVI before the French Revolution.
2022-01-14
49 min
Hanging with History
79. France :The Enemy ; part 2
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe 2nd Hundred Years War arc continues.Louis XIV's Geo Strategy and and an exploration of the French government's financial system. A strange combination of topics? But no, the one explains necessary features and failures of the other.France is remarkably backward in financial matters compared to the Netherlands and Great Britain during the war of the Spanish Succession. And yet France has interesting financial innovations including Bearer instruments (can you say Die Hard and Beverly Hills Cop?). They also have...
2021-12-31
49 min
Hanging with History
78. France; The Enemy; Part 1
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionAn intro to France during the reign of Louis XIV. The focus this episode is the peasantry and the nobility of the sword. For the peasants, life may not be Mordor, but it is far harder and more exploited than we might assume. The effort here is to shake the mindset of France as an idyllic setting for the 75% who are peasants. Materially, life is not greatly improved for the peasants since Roman times.The nobility is immune from most taxe...
2021-12-17
1h 00
Hanging with History
77. War of Spanish Succession Part 4; Gibraltar, North America and Peace
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe cover the campaign to take Gibraltar and hold it 1704-5, including the great sea battle of Malaga. We cover the war in North America, the breaking of Spanish power and the confused picture in Nova Scotia, where after the peace none of the participants understand the consequences of the peace the same way. And the introduction of paper money as legal tender in the colonies as an accidental innovation to cope with the wars.We cover the peace and its...
2021-12-03
40 min
Hanging with History
War of Spanish Succession Part 3 , Marlborough, Rooke, Oudenarde, Malplaquet and Vigo
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe war continues with continued victories for Marlborough, but coalition politics and politics in London spell bad news for John Churchill. A discussion of the strategic realities of seapower leads us to cover Rooke's first expedition in 1702 that ends with the utter destruction of French and Spanish fleets in Vigo Bay.With Camie we discuss the puzzle of the Dutch trading with the enemy, which is some presentism on our part and what I prefer to call a mindset problem for us. Als...
2021-11-19
41 min
Hanging with History
War of Spanish Succession Part 2 , Marlborough, Blenheim, Ramillies
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionMarlborough's earliest campaigns covered in great detail.There is an analysis of why Marlborough's armies were able to defeat what were previously the greatest armies in the world. This is a highly controversial topic.With Camie we cover the famous anecdotes, the women dressed as men serving as soldiers, the British tendency to shoot their officers if they don't like them, the crisis of each battle.
2021-11-05
44 min
Hanging with History
74. War of the Spanish Succession Part 1 -Marlborough and Isaac Newton
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe discuss many of the political and financial issues around the Spanish Succession war. We introduce the idea of the fiscal military state, and how that relates to the miracle story. We cover how Isaac Newton helped King William execute his wartime strategy to fund the wars against Louis XIV. The Duke of Marlborough gets introduced but the accounts of his exploits will begin next episode.
2021-10-21
44 min
Hanging with History
73. Nine Years War, War of the Grand Alliance, King Williams War
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionSo many names for one war. We focus on the war at sea and in North America. The peace of exhaustion and provide an introduction to the War of the Spanish Succession. The great strategic outcomes of the is war are covered as well. The financial revolutions that financed these wars is introduced. Nine Years War, War of the Grand Alliance, War of the League of Augsburg, King Williams War. Write to hangingwithhistorypodcast@gmail.com with your prefer...
2021-10-06
1h 02
Hanging with History
72 Intro to the Second Hundred Years War
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe take a look at the big themes we will be discussing. This include Naval Mastery, the Balance of Power, continuity between the wars, the sudden growth of the British empire, the birth of modern politics, and invasion scares.There is also a good deal of review of the mindset ideas from Anglo-Saxon/Viking times through the Middle Ages and the difficulty of truly understanding the religious influence of the early modern period. And the fish, yes the fish.Even if...
2021-09-24
38 min
Hanging with History
71. 2nd Hundred Years War Part 1; 1672 The Disaster Year
You can send me a text if you have a comment or question"It takes but one foe to breed a war," says Faramir in the Lord of the Rings.1672 was the Disaster Year for the United Provinces, and a life changing trauma for William of Orange. We cover the cannibalistic crowning event, the Bombing Bishop and the Wild Hunt. Appeasement as a concept when Louis XIV is in your neighborhood. We do a quick round up of 16th and 17th century Spanish and French history as well, as we try to get rea...
2021-09-10
54 min
Bak Scenen
Alexx Alexxander
Alexx Alexxander har drevet med illusjon og magi hele livet. Han har vunnet The Merlin Award hele to ganger, Best Illusionist Norway 2016 og Illusionist of The Year 2019.I Bak Scenen blir du bedre kjent med Alexx og hans virke.Programleder: Trond Harald Hansen Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2021-08-30
1h 05
Hanging with History
70. The Causes of the Industrial Revolution via Sheilagh Ogilvie
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe long promised look at Big History , we lay out 5 themes for the Causes of the Industrial Revolution. Near the end there is the real answer. Fish. 1. Cultural, unique features of English culture or values allowing for dignity and hope.2. Numbers game, When you get a production function where wages are high enough and capital cheap enough you get demand for labor saving organization and automation.3. The universal human drive to improve material living conditions is held back by elites acting in...
2021-08-27
48 min
Hanging with History
69. Adam Smith Part 8; John Locke and the Triumph of Reason
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionCompleting our Adam Smith arc with the end of the ideology of Calvinism. Its replacement with the idea that God is good and the happiness of mankind is God’s purpose, allowed Hume and Smith to encode the principles of Christian love into a Newtonian framework. Safely encased in a Newtonian system, Smith’s ideas could survive the rise of atheism. This is the intellectual end point of leaving medieval morality behind.Reason was the tool that created Calvinism, that demanded predestination. The elev...
2021-08-13
48 min
Hanging with History
Adam Smith and the Power of Love; Adam Smith Part 7
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionCalvinism undermines itself by elevating human reason as the tool for analysis and understanding of God above feeling and love and human action. We explore Calvinist doctrines in some detail. Logically they are ironclad and that is their undoing.With Camie we once again bring up the tension between Acts 5:29 and Romans 13:1. Once rulers are Christian, once the society is Christian, how does the submissions to higher authority work again? Aren’t we supposed to be brothers? Can’t we move into that stag...
2021-07-30
46 min
Hanging with History
67. Adam Smith and Why the Enlightenment Loved Him
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionAdam Smith’s systematic approach made reality tractable. This provided enlightenment thinkers with a framework with which to analyze government policy. And they loved it! He launched clear and specific attacks on common government policy, the mercantile system. Most of these abuses, based on medieval modes of thought were weakly followed in England, but were still very common in the rest of Europe.We spend some time on how the moral analysis of economic action is usually incoherent, and how moral...
2021-07-16
45 min
Hanging with History
66. Adam Smith Part 5, The Wealth of Nations continued
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionHow does opulence among nations arise? Smith describes a Newtonian system of non violent market competition operating through the price mechanism which can generate a life for the working poor that is many steps up from the usual run of human misery that everywhere else prevails. That process also leads to a peaceful idyllic countryside, as a surprising outcome. This episode goes into how market competition is a grand form of mutual cooperation leading to the best solution to the Great Coordination pro...
2021-07-02
37 min
Hanging with History
Adam Smith Part 4 The Wealth of Nations -Introduction
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionSo how do you get from a subsistence economy where the great mass lives on the edge of famine and disaster? Funny you should ask, because Adam Smith desperately wanted this improvement for his native Scotland. Getting it would be like a miracle. He knew the mechanisms that led to prosperity and the obstacles that got in the way. And one day, in France he started a book, An Inquiry into The Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.We get as f...
2021-06-18
45 min
Hanging with History
64. Adam Smith Pt.3; The Theory of Moral Sentiments; What kind of monkeys are we?
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWhy do humans behave decently towards each other? Adam Smith doesn't do evolutionary biology, but his insights, on how we wish to love and be loved and what's more we wish to be lovely are timeless and deep. The corresponding notions of how we wish to avoid giving offense and how we have a horror of blameworthiness...a horror we don't really face.The Conversations with Camie is longer than usual and I get into some of the various Big Th...
2021-06-11
40 min
Hanging with History
Adam Smith Part 2; Morality Unlike Ours
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionPrivate Vices are public virtues, so says Mandeville in the Fable of the Bees. No, David Hume argues, the frame is wrong. Strong boundaries of vice and virtue cannot be drawn in consumer behavior. This is our introduction to the problem of leaving medieval morality behind us. The Church did not place the economic advancement of the poor high up the list of concerns and even saw it as a great danger. How did we ever escape this kind of thinking?
2021-06-04
32 min
Hanging with History
62. Adam Smith Part 1; Einstein, Newton, God and Poverty
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionAdam Smith and his world view. Emerson said every writer needs a tough chaos deep soil. What was Adam Smith’s? We introduce the key elements of that world view and spend a fair amount of time introducing you to the idea that the ferocious Calvinism of the Presbyterian Scots was on the wane and a new God arose in its place. Far more important than the atheism of the Enlightenment was the new loving God that elbowed Calvin’s more logical one aside.Som...
2021-05-28
36 min
Hanging with History
61. 1688 The Glorious Revolution Part 2; Only the Fool is free
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe go through the history of the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Marlborough defects to William of Orange.It’s a long episode because we spend time with the philosophical question of the Fool. Is the Fool the only free agent in history? With Camie I question that perhaps our intuitions about degrees of freedom in our actions are wrong or misleading when this issue of the Fool is brought to the forefront.
2021-05-21
47 min
Hanging with History
1688; The Glorious Revolution; Setting the Table for a Feast
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe real lesson is don’t invade Norway.Northern Europe is suffering from state breakdown or the consolidation of absolute monarchy. This happens in the United Provinces, Denmark, and Sweden. But the big event is France where Louis XIV continues the work of his father driving central state control down to the local level, justifying the process with propaganda of the universal dominion of France. In this context is it so surprising that James II would give it a try as well?...
2021-05-14
41 min
Hanging with History
59. Stuart Restoration Part 3; To Be a Phoenix; Memetic Disaster
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionMemetic Disaster. The Bloody Assizes and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, convincingly play into the memes of Catholic cruelty fitting a fact pattern the English are taught very young. Catholic cruelty and injustice are acted out on the largest possible stage in 1685.The episode takes its name from a poem by John Donne, which I read and relate to Harry Potter.We bring the Stuart rule up to the Glorious Revolution. We look at the mystique of...
2021-05-07
46 min
Hanging with History
58. Stuart Restoration Part 2, Social and Economic Issues
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe look at changes brought by the Restoration in social and economic terms. And we find there was also a lot of continuation from the Commonwealth. Does that sound boring?There is corruption and bribery and the Cavalier parliament becomes the Pensioner parliament in Whig propaganda. We have patronage, political parties and defeats, if you like to see your history as a Jungian acting out this doesn’t look good for monarchy, but stability and the keeping of valued traditions is acted out al...
2021-04-30
40 min
Hanging with History
57. Charles II, Stuart Restoration; They're B-A-A-A-A-CK
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Stuart Restoration. The landed classes displace the middling sorts of the Cromwellian power structure. This is the first of three episodes looking at mainly social history of the Stuart Restoration leading to the Glorious Revolution. The repression of Dissenters with the Clarendon Code, John Bunyan's eleven years in prison, he wrote Pilgrim's Progress there, are reviewed. Some pretty big and complicated ideas will appear. The importance of the Royal Society, the situation of the poor in a society that regards them as morally defic...
2021-04-23
44 min
Hanging with History
56. Oliver Cromwell, Part 4, Scotland and Charles II
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe last campaign personally led by Oliver Cromwell.The Saints against the Elect. It’s a crazy war, purges, persuasion and propaganda. Can the English really conquer Scotland?Maybe if Oliver Cromwell is involved. With Camie we discuss Oliver’s death and final religious crisis, where much like Christ himself and Mother Theresa he is unable to feel God’s presence.Finally we end with Charles II as the Merry Monarch, with a final story I’m actually...
2021-04-16
30 min
Hanging with History
55. Oliver Cromwell, Part 3, Ireland and Scotland
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe English Civil War seems to be over, the king is dead. We chopped the bloody man’s head off. But Charles II shows up in Scotland under the thumb of the Covenanters. It really is a self-perpetuating autocracy. The Irish Civil War has been going on since 1641 and it is time to put an end to it. When you have a big job to do, two big jobs, who do you get to do it? You guessed it, Oliver Cromwell.
2021-04-09
30 min
Hanging with History
54. Oliver Cromwell, Part 2
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis is the 2nd in the 4part Oliver Cromwell arc (though he has appeared as an important figure since episode 45)This episode we look at the brutal fact that insane courage is what it took to win in the Age of Shot and Pike. And the sons of nobles and gentry would have it, or completely lose their self conception. This was a huge advantage for the royalists, and Oliver Cromwell would see through the problem and come up with a counter -t...
2021-04-02
34 min
Hanging with History
53. Oliver Cromwell; God's Englishman
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionOliver Cromwell lived life on a different plane from most other people. He established a reputation that enabled him to put in place a crazy and impractical plan to win the Civil War. He was trusted by both the godly and the political radicals, a group with much more overlap than you might think. Episode 53 focuses on his early life and marriage. Episode 54 will get deeper into the military issues and take us through the 2nd Civil War.Cyrus is the guest for...
2021-03-26
31 min
Hanging with History
52. 1649, the Decisive Year
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis is the long promised Jonathon Scott episode. Featuring some real curve balls thrown at me by Joltin’ Joe.This is a deep dive into social and political history with exploration of the strong Anglo-Dutch connection.And Dutch jokes, who knew there were so many?The conceptual revolution of the 1649-1702 period see the beginnings of sound public credit. Personal emphasis on frugality. Comparisons made among countries and social foundations. Cromwell’s far-sighted approach, probably the only area where I...
2021-03-19
36 min
Hanging with History
51. The Dutch Got their Beard Caught in the Mailbox
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWill you marry me?That's what Cromwell asked the Dutch. A proposal! Just out of the blue. What did the Dutch think? Then they sent Blake to ask again, more forcefully, less romantically, this time.We look at the decision of the English to emulate (totally copy) the Dutch. And the Dutch are monopolizing large parts of world trade. But you can't have two monopolists. Conflict. Rivalry. The Navigation Act. The Plantation Act. It leads to the First Anglo-Dutch War. The En...
2021-03-12
28 min
Hanging with History
50. Grindletonians, Ranters, Diggers and Quakers
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionDiggers were early communists and Ranters feel like hippies. Do it in the road. It’s all good because it’s all god.Quakers and Baptists. These were the big winners. The Quakers seemed to attract supermen to their cause, and they are simply given the hugest colonial land grant in America. Their influence is still with us today. Raoul Sunset gives us a personal reminiscence of a Digger commune in the Haight. Coyotes?
2021-03-05
26 min
Hanging with History
49. Muggles, Ranters and Diggers
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWhat part of history did Rowling mine for ideas? This part.Muggles, Grindletonians, Ranters, Diggers, Quakers, oh my. This episode explores ideas common to the lower class radical heretical sects. We cover the Muggletonians in considerable depth with Raoul Sunset and with Camie. Lollards and the Family of Love also. The rest will be in episode 50. Muggletonians believe God is between 5 and 6 feet high and Moses waters the plants whenever God has to step out for a moment. But the...
2021-02-26
33 min
Hanging with History
48. Commonwealth ; The Promise is given
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionHonest administration of government? Getting there, we get rid of 90% of the corruption.Cheap, abundant food. The Malthusian limits are broken. How? The introduction of capitalism to agriculture, better techniques and investment followed and there was improved transportation.The Diggers try to go the other direction, but Parliament rejects their proposals over and over.Entrepreneurial prospects open up. Common law comes to predominate and property rights could really function. Wages go up and up. But there was no theory...
2021-02-19
25 min
Hanging with History
47. 2nd English Civil War and Execution of Charles I
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionA Second English Civil War and a 3rd Scots invasion? Are the royalists nuts? Aren't they tired of war?The New Model Army still exists, it wiped the floor with the Royalists last time and this time it is no different. The defeat of the Scots and Royalists is so complete it brings Napoleon’s destruction of the Prussians after Jena/Auerstadt to mind.The Army decides that Charles I, that bloody man, cannot be allowed to live. But, but, but, t...
2021-02-12
24 min
Hanging with History
46. The Putney Debates and Oliver Cromwell
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis one is heavy on narrative history and lighter on analysis and theory. We cover the Scots intervention in the Civil War in 1643 . Then we wrap up the end of the war with Charles’ surrender to the Scots. The negotiations are covered with perspectives from several historians provided. The attempted disbandment of the New Model Army by the Presbyterian clique in Parliament is covered in detail. One of the stupidest things a group of smart people has ever done.Then...
2021-02-05
42 min
Hanging with History
45. The Civil War Begins, Reluctantly
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionArctic Acoustic is back as we explore the reluctant beginnings of the Civil War and take it up to the creation of the New Model Army. This episode has more Norwegian than is typical of English history podcasts. That’s OK, a minimally murdery Civil War demands unusual coverage.We cover the period leading up to the Civil War, the key influence of the Irish rising of 1641, the Grand Remonstrance and the gradual spiral into war. Parliament simply could not trust Charles with...
2021-01-29
40 min
Hanging with History
44. Stuart Constitutional Problems
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionCoverage of the constitutional issues that plagued the Stuarts in what looks like an attempt at Bourbon style despotic rule. Seems like the crown could have succeeded with the combo of Ship Money and the Army being organized in Ireland. But the Scottish intervention blows the whole enterprise. We discuss the tensions that result from the Church wanting people to drink more on Sunday and the Puritans who preferred lectures and discussion. Also, the bastards and brawling that resulted from Church Ales. Livings...
2021-01-22
40 min
Hanging with History
43. Puritan Psychology vs Stuart Military Fiascos
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWhich war god came down to Earth in 1625 to lead the Stuart military adventures? Was it Jehovah, Odin, Tyr or Thor? Nope, it was a blind war god many have never heard of, Hod.The 30 Years War is the masterwork of the blind war god. We discuss Sweden’s role as Odin’s favorite child. After dealing with this aspect of Stuart rule, we touch on a surprising love story and then we begin our description of the col...
2021-01-15
41 min
Hanging with History
42. A Deeper Look at Stuart Rule. Social and Economic.
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe look at economic and social progress and some of its obstacles, mainly self-inflicted obstacles. A Joseph Ardennes episode. We discuss new industries and coal. Newcastle is the new Peru. The limited rights of the poor within a context where even small farmers had a lot of rights under common law, but the necessity of paying for lawyers meant that these rights were not always available. The Cocaine affair is covered, which leads to a depression arising from reckless government policy. We go with Harry...
2021-01-08
53 min
Hanging with History
41. James Stuart; the Mildest Monarch
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionJames as diplomat. A Nightrider episode.The narrative takes us to James' death. But first James attempts to hear cases like Daenerys Stormborn, knights cuts of beef, gives knighthoods to those who don’t want them and fines those who refuse them, raises money through forced “donations,” commits a classic diplomatic blunder and allows the craziest of royal marriage proposals. The proposal would be soon regretted, but at least all parties survived.The farcical pattern in the Stuart monarchy is developed...
2021-01-01
43 min
Hanging with History
40. James Stuart I; the Wisest Fool
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionJames Stuart VI of Scotland becomes James I of England after the death of Elizabeth. We discuss the causes of the English Civil War and some of the ways the Stuart kings may have contributed to that upheaval. A Valkyrie episode. This is mainly a narrative history of James I reign in England though we do spend some time with his grand romantic gesture in the “rescue” of Anne of Denmark and the witches that caused the disaster. The poisoning of Thomas Overbury, the legally...
2020-12-25
47 min
Hanging with History
39. The Birth of Science Concluded
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe double episode concludes with Galileo, Descartes and Newton.
2020-12-18
29 min
Hanging with History
38. The Birth of Science Part I
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWe take a look at the birth of science in the first of a two part double episode. Both starring Charlie's Angel. We look at the beginning of the concept of discovery as a deliberate activity kicked off by the voyages of discovery.Then we look at issues of the birth of science through the Copernican Revolution to Newton and the Principia. Early scientists in Catholic countries during the Counter Reformation faced great difficulties, not limited to the threat of being burned ali...
2020-12-11
28 min
Hanging with History
37. Early Modern Economic Fallacies Concluded
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis one is really strong, Attila The Bun's demon metaphor is a good one.We conclude with Fallacy 5 When the underlying economic conditions are changing your ideas about regulation are incoherent. Too many moving pieces to get right, Many examples are given, starch making, chapmen, malt vinegar, woad growing to indicate the regulations of the time were not even directionally appropriate.and Fallacy 6You can tax things without causing changes.Stocking knitting, and the other production processes are discussed. Harald...
2020-12-04
33 min
Hanging with History
36. Apples of Caernarvon. Early Modern Economic Fallacies Part 1
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionLargely revised January 2021 , boy sometimes you get carried away with the ideas and don't realize the presentation and organization are crap. This is much better.The Apples of Caernarvon Fallacy is the first of 4 covered this episode. 2 more fallacies to be covered next episode. An Attila the Bun episode with Charlie's Angel doing Conversations with Camie.Early Modern Economic Fallacies1. The Apples of Caernarvon: Goods have intrinsic value determined by intuition. This is one of the most difficult for modern people to und...
2020-11-27
35 min
Hanging with History
35 A Society that Can Pass the Marshmallow Test. Elizabeth Part VII
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionHow did new Industries develop to allow Tudor England to catch up to the continent and later surpass it? The Leisure Larry episode. The Marshmallow Test provides framing for a discussion of cultural evolution in England. England becomes a society able to pass the Marshmallow Test as sexual selection operates differently at this time. Geographic mobility, local levels of high trust that allow for credit transactions allow for Prosperity. How stocking knitting and blue dye supported growth on both sides of the MV=PY equat...
2020-11-20
37 min
Hanging with History
34, Satan, Salvation and Atheism; Elizabethan Era Part VI
You can send me a text if you have a comment or question Elizabeth’s greatest domestic threat was the Puritans. Under Knox they quickly came to dominate Scotland. A Reindeer75 episode. Elizabeth was obviously favored by god and this gave her an enormous advantage in what was understood to be a religious argument. We look into Calvinist ideas of salvation, what does it mean to be Elect and what were some of the weird things that Jesus said. Harald puts forward a notion that Calvinists bring atheism within the grasp of the mediocre, though Reindeer75 disputes...
2020-11-13
28 min
Hanging with History
33 Grand Strategy; Elizabethan Era Part V; How many Spanish Armadas again?
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionGrand Strategy in Elizabeth’s war with Spain. The Hawkins strategy turns out to be a winner. Spain has two more Armadas to throw at England. Their most successful effort was Spain’s attack on Brittany, while France is still divided by Civil War. “Paris is worth a mass”, says Henry of Navarre, wrapping up a long series of brutal civil wars. Elizabeth successfully intervenes in Brittainy as Martin Frobisher forces the Spanish to surrender. We consider the strategic import of Brest and cover the Spanish ra...
2020-11-06
24 min
Hanging with History
32. The Revenge; The Elizabethan Era Part 4; Thermopylae or Agincourt?
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe conclusion of the Pirate Arc. 4th of the Elizabethan era. Thermopylae or Agincourt?We begin with the story of the Revenge captained by Grenville. A legendary charge at 55:1 odds that ended with 10 Spanish ships sunk, after God’s intervention the next day and defeat for their elite marines again and again. Who would ever want to fight the English again after a day like that? What a day! But overall the long run effect of the pirates was to win the...
2020-10-30
27 min
Hanging with History
31. Francis Drake is Aragorn; Elizabethan Age Part 3
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe 2nd of the 3 episode Pirate arc. The Bygdøy episode. Revised for sound. We cover 3 pirate voyages. Drakes 1585 expedition to the New World, Drakes 1587 raid on Cadiz and its effects on the Armada and George Clifford’s raid on the Azores in 1589. Clifford's Vikings had every experience, capturing a port by flying a false flag, being welcomed by groovy, love-is-the-answer hippies, fighting demons who beat them with their fingernails. Pirates are inherently interesting, but the point of this arc along with Episode 15 is to explain...
2020-10-23
35 min
Hanging with History
30. Francis Drake; Elizabethan Era Part 2, Pirates and Witches
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionIt takes a few minutes to get to pirates, but the descriptions of Drakes voyages are good.A Quokka episode. The first of 3 pirate episodes. The greatest of Elizabeth’s Sea Dogs was Francis Drake, we cover two of his voyages this episode. But what was Francis Drake really? Will you figure it out before Camie does? We also cover witch burning in England and ask why was it so mild compared to on the continent. And what does it signify? Does it help expl...
2020-10-16
28 min
Hanging with History
29. Is RNA part of a Turing Complete Computer; Elizabethan Era Part 1
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionDon't let the title fool you, this is history with science context. The Elizabethan era. The Saltsrømmen episode. Current ideas around Bostorm’s Simulation hypothesis and using RNA for computation are compared to the Elizabethan religious settlement. The religious settlement is assisted by the Papal mercenaries invading Ireland in inducing Catholics to switch. We talk about Elizabethan concerns for the poor and terror of the poor. Is the podcast too hard on the French, at first we hear denials, but then Harald re...
2020-10-09
34 min
Hanging with History
28. Bloody Mary; Memetic Failure; Reformation in England Part V
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionMary’s efforts to restore the Catholic faith backfire with the result that Protestantism gains strength, and anti-Spanish feeling grows. A Fornebu episode. We explore 3 characteristic failures with the greatest being that time when Dumbledore, I mean Gandalf, uh, Cranmer foxed the regime with the help of a divinely sent comet. His heart was unburnt. A long episode as we also cover the shared goals of Protestants and Catholics to get closer to God and discuss some of the impact of Spain’s policies after fi...
2020-10-02
37 min
Hanging with History
27. Bloody Mary; the Dead are Here; Reformation in England Part IV
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionVery strong episode, very good for people who want to understand the medieval church and their relationship with death. You get a feel for what Protestants are trying to overthrow.Mary Tudor and the dead are our subjects. The Astraea episode. The dead we cover in depth in the 2nd half. First, we look at Mary’s history and how history has looked at Mary. And then we decide to take the most alien analytical approach to Mary possible, that of the cold lo...
2020-09-25
34 min
Hanging with History
26. Henry VIII Part 3; Anne Boleyn Must Die; Reformation in England
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionOne of the most popular episodes. Lighter in tone, driven by the guest Cyrus, who is a visual artist, but also a comedic talent. Again with the minimally murdery theme.Henry VIII Part 3, The Cyrus episode. Henry’s romantic misadventures are portrayed as a somewhat pathetic and lame subject for History. The execution of Cromwell sheds light on the pattern of Royal executions. Henry’s later advisors make a number of missteps from debasing the currency to getting into wars with both Fran...
2020-09-18
27 min
Hanging with History
25. Henry VIII The Reformation in England: Part 2; Minimally Murdery
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis episode is potentially one of the most valuable in understanding England.The Reformation in England continues with Cromwell’s Act of Supremacy. A minimally murdery Reformation. This is an under appreciated fact of the English Reformation. Parliament makes Henry head of the Church of England and the clergy goes along with it. Cromwell begins dissolving the monasteries through a thorough legal process with pensions for the ex-monks. Along the way the crown is enriched. Seemingly all Henry’s problems (developed...
2020-09-11
33 min
Hanging with History
24. Henry VIII The Reformation in England: Part 1
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis is a really good episode.The Reformation in England; Henry VIII Part 1. The first of a 5 episode arc. The Reformation is dominated by Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. The stakes are high, the relationship between the living and the dead are at the heart of it. This episode has a lot of narrative on Henry’s first marriage, the arguments made to the Pope in his quest for an annulment. The argument here is that the entire approach was hopeless because the person...
2020-09-04
30 min
Hanging with History
23. Drown the Anabaptists!; Reformation in Germany Part 2: Revolting Peasants
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionReformation in Germany Part 2. The bloody parts. We start with the example of astrology as a belief of educated people in the 16th century and wonder what equally stupid things we believe today. This leads to extended coverage of the Peasant’s Revolt, the largest until Bolshevik times. The Reformation begins to spread but is limited by reaction to the Peasant’s Revolt. Then we move on to the Anabaptist attempt to create a paradise in Munster. Their failure is widely misunderstood as a religious...
2020-08-28
29 min
Hanging with History
22. Martin Luther: Reformation in Germany Part 1: They didn't have a prayer
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Reformation in Germany Part 1. Martin Luther, they didn’t have a prayer. With the help of Kurt Gödel via Scott Aaronson we examine Purgatory and the related prayer industry. How can we understand a prayer industry? This leads to indulgences. The great weakness, the great mistake of the church. We try to bring the scummy, scammy nature of indulgences to a 21st century sensibility. The conflict between Martin Luther and Tetzl. Grace vs Authority. Roberto Calasso and Augustine. The Diet of Worms. Conversation...
2020-08-21
31 min
Hanging with History
21. Introduction to the Reformation: The P=NP problem of history
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionIntroduction to an introduction to the Reformation. The Outdoorsman episode. Tools for historical analysis on the Reformation including Burke and Stirner. We review where we have gotten so far in English history and talk about historical what-ifs. Talk a little about the widespread understanding of corruption in the church. We discuss the P=NP hard problem of history, individual choices or broad social movements. How much freedom do singular persons like Henry V, Henry VIII and Napoleon have to make the choices that affect histor...
2020-08-14
33 min
Hanging with History
20. Demeter's revenge. Agricultural Revolution Concluded: Crop Rotation
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Agricultural Revolution arc concludes with a discussion of crop rotation, but first a good long look at the tragic element of economic and social upheavals. We take some time to credit the Catholic kingdoms for their contribution to the miracle. The role of rivalry in driving forward the industrial revolution cannot be ignored, was the rivalry between England and France essential to progress? The history of crop rotation, the Norfolk four course system (wheat, turnips, barley, clover), Charles Townsend’s role in popularizing. The do...
2020-08-08
25 min
Hanging with History
19. Agricultural Revolution: Enclosures
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionEnclosures: Efficiency and Tears. Agricultural output increases 80% over rival France, with profits increasing greatly more. We look at the rural landscape and take a look at how the Commons were integrated into village life. We describe some of the situations as resembling a color blindness chart with a kaleidoscope of rights to farm small scattered plots. Enclosure led to a great deal of violence, but parliamentary intervention gradually made the process better and fairer, albeit slowly and gradually. The English Civil War created conditions that...
2020-07-31
33 min
Hanging with History
18. The Dreaded Agricultural Revolution and Engineering
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe first of a 3 episode arc on the Agricultural Revolution. Yes, this is the Jethro Tull episode. The focus is on engineering and the early inventions often associated with the Agricultural Revolution – the wrong ones. Then we turn to the Dutch and their development of efficient water transport which allowed for a much larger hinterland to support growing cities. This development is as much social as it is engineering and finance, and the social part is still mysterious to historians.
2020-07-18
20 min
Hanging with History
17. Tudor England and Surprising Social Structures
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionTudor England and the Parish based system to care for the aged. British and Dutch elites were better and more competent in the great struggles between the powers. Partly this is because the method for selecting elites was more robust than France and Spain where birth was so important. We look at studies done of village life in England, hard facts, that indicate a surprisingly high level of trust in local institutions and confidence in the future. Already at this time life for the commo...
2020-07-11
24 min
Hanging with History
16. Agricultural Revolution, The Dutch and Trade
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionBackground we need for the 3 episode arc on the Agricultural Revolution which runs in episodes 18-20. The early 16th century Dutch have twice the percentage of people employed in Industry as the rest of Western Europe, as a concomitant they have half the percentage employed in Agriculture. How can this be? Trade is the answer. Basics of comparative advantage, futures markets, Pareto improvement and protectionism are introduced via example, rather than usual teaching methods. Coordination problems are discussed in Dutch water management and the price...
2020-07-04
24 min
Hanging with History
15. The Spanish Armada vs God's Chosen People
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Spanish Armada was a consequence of the Dutch war with Spain. It was a flyweight boxer against a heavyweight. We look at a few other examples from military history of flyweights winning. We relate the importance of the defeat of the Armada to the Battle of Jutland. Then we turn from the Armada via Drake to Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and William Haller’s Elect Nation. A Raoul Sunset episode.With Camie we look at how the effect of slave raiding b...
2020-06-27
31 min
Den Yderste Grænse
8. Emilie Demant Hatt og Henny Harald Hansen får adgang til lukkede verdener
Ellers lukkede døre bliver åbnet, når de to kvindelige opdagelsesrejsende banker på. Du skal i denne episode høre om to enestående, kompromisløse og utraditionelle kvinder, som havde meget til fælles. Med 50 års mellemrum rejser de til så forskellige steder som Lapland og irakisk Kurdistan. Emilie Demant Hatt rejser i 1907 til samerne i Lapland og boede i et år hos en samisk familie. 50 år senere rejser Henny Harald Hansen til irakisk Kurdistan for som kvinde at komme bag de muslimske kvinders slør. Medvirkende: Inge Damm, Antropolog, Nationalmuseet. Vært: Bjørn Harvig.
2020-06-24
54 min
Den yderste grænse
S1E8. Emilie Demant Hatt og Henny Harald Hansen får adgang til lukkede verdener
Ellers lukkede døre bliver åbnet, når de to kvindelige opdagelsesrejsende banker på. Du skal i denne episode høre om to enestående, kompromisløse og utraditionelle kvinder, som havde meget til fælles. Med 50 års mellemrum rejser de til så forskellige steder som Lapland og irakisk Kurdistan. Emilie Demant Hatt rejser i 1907 til samerne i Lapland og boede i et år hos en samisk familie. 50 år senere rejser Henny Harald Hansen til irakisk Kurdistan for som kvinde at komme bag de muslimske kvinders slør. Vært: Bjørn Harvig, eventyrer.Medvirkende: Inge Damm, antropolog, Nat...
2020-06-24
54 min
Hanging with History
14.Dutch Independence When Irresistible Force meets Immovable Object
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Dutch contribution the the Miracle part 2. The 80 years war. Dutch Independence. The Sea Beggars and Maurice of Nassau are an irresistible combination. The determination of the Hapsburg kings to keep their provinces is immovable. The Duke of Alba and his Blood Court, the Inquisition, the Spanish Fury and the sacking of Antwerp all get a look in this background episode. We move pretty fast but touch on themes of radicals (these would be Calvinists) rising to influence during unsettled times, taxation, money and war an...
2020-06-20
24 min
Hanging with History
13. The Mother Trade : The Demand for Spice
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Dutch contribution introduction, through the medium of breakfast, with a side order of Portuguese. Did you know that Flanders was the richest and most advanced part of Europe for a time and soon the Netherlands too? Clothing manufacture led to trade. The Mother Trade and the technological marvels that made it possible broke the Hanseatic monopoly and broke the old Malthusian limits on the Netherlands. Tough on eastern European serfs though. Control of the Netherlands passes from the Burgundian royal house to Hapsburg Spain...
2020-06-13
24 min
Hanging with History
12.The Black Death and Wycliff
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThis is a really superior episode as history. Only a couple cringey bits, it is getting better.Torture is wrong, only the sophisticated torture. The future effects of the Black Death are different in England. Instead of doubling down on serfdom, in England, it ends. Also we get into church land confiscation with the destruction of the Knights Templar. A brief look at the expulsion of the Jews in the 1290's (England not the Spanish version). We look at the thought of Wyclif...
2020-06-07
26 min
Hanging with History
11. Magna Carta, the Grand Delusion
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionMagna Carta, a unique document that is one of England's many great gifts to the world. Magna Carta is, or is a marker for, one of the greatest innovations in world history. It, like Modus Tennedi Parliamentum, rests upon a common delusion. It's great success was based on failure. Is this a Doctor Who episode or is it history? Magna Carta provided a constitutional peace that lasted 400 years. The aphorism "few read it, everyone quoted it" is examined and exalted. And the shamefu...
2020-05-30
19 min
Hanging with History
10. Origins of Parliament
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionA mad dream escapes into the world and becomes real. We know this dream as Parliament. Modus Tenendi Parlementum. Parliament achieves a secure place in the English conception of society and politics while representative bodies lose power all over Europe.The Domesday survey reveals 9 percent of the English were slaves. William would find that deeply troubling and put an end to it. But what happened to the slaves? And what kind of life did a serf have? We move to the deeper past and...
2020-05-23
22 min
Hanging with History
9. 1066: Legacy of Forkbeard - Canute the Great, Vikings Concluded
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionTakes a few minutes to get into 1066 narrative. We have distinguished how Europe was different from the world and how Britain was different from Europe, We cover the history of Canute the Great and the year 1066. Was it an Annus Horribilus or something necessary for the Miracle? William the Bastard should maybe be called William the Beautiful. We boost linguisteducatorexchange.com and gently tease our Danish friends for their spoken language. The bonus content with Camie covers the surprising accuracy of the sagas...
2020-05-16
23 min
Hanging with History
8. Forkbeard and the Iron Lady Viking Part 5
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionA strong episode on Vikings. We continue our very historical, but unconventional pro-Viking approach. Also a good discussion on Scandinavia that might be useful for others.The story of Forkbeard's rapid conquest of England is complete. And he dies 5 weeks later. Along the way we cover Thorkell's invasion and his short lived service for the Saxons. There is a digression on modern Scandinavia and the term "hard socialism" is introduced; we hear the verdict of history. The relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Prince...
2020-05-09
28 min
Hanging with History
7. Dane geld and Olaf Tryggvason. Tyr is Beren Viking Part 4
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThese have been very popular. We take a very historical, but unconventionally pro-Viking view.The Vikings in the Danelaw are settling down and spreading out, a good time had by all (by gruesome 10th century standards), but they couldn't leave well enough alone. Politics ensue. An introduction to exponential growth and how it matters to the development of markets for English manufacturing in the 18th century. Then we take a look at the beginning phases of the 2nd Viking conquest of Engl...
2020-05-02
25 min
Hanging with History
6. The Sons of Ragnar, Vikings Part 3
You can send me a text if you have a comment or question3rd of 6 Viking story arc. These have been very popular. We take a very historical, but unconventionally pro-Viking view.Vikings conquer 3 English kingdoms and settle down. They just seem unstoppable, until they decide to stop. The Danelaw is established with long term consequences for the history of England, the English language and the legal system. The Challenges of determining exactly how much influence on the development of Middle English came from Old Norse is explored. What were the viking settlements like and how we...
2020-04-26
34 min
Hanging with History
5. Thor's Hammer and Fork; Vikings Part 2
You can send me a text if you have a comment or question2nd of 6 episode Viking story arc. These have been very popular. We take a very historical, but unconventionally pro-Viking view. About this episode we introduce the idea that the Vikings were just more effective man-for-man than the Anglo-Saxons of the time, with a few exceptions. There is a little pointless grumpiness, but hey we are human over here.Discussion of the Viking Raids in England, France and Frisia before the Great Heathen Army period. Charlemagne, Alcuin and and other European reactions, the foundin...
2020-04-19
25 min
Hanging with History
4 Odin's Eyes; Vikings Part I
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe first of the British history episodes and also the first in a 6 episode arc on Vikings. These have been very popular. We take a very historical, but unconventionally pro-Viking view. We begin with Pelagius and the Joseph of Arimathea legend. A unique foundation myth for the British church. And then England catches the worst case of Vikings in the world. We move from a high level overview of the early raids to an up close and personal look at a young viking...
2020-04-13
34 min
Hanging with History
3. Conversion: Pagans to Judaism to Christianity
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionAn important background episode with a lot of interesting ideas. Possibly wastes some time defending conventional views that don't need defending.We look at the good and the bad and the very bad of settled agriculture. After a little Aristotle we move on to the great anthropologists, and their views of family structure and how that interacts with Christianity. We take a look at the Greco-Roman legal context of the early AD period. And how women and widows powered the early growth of th...
2020-04-06
36 min
Hanging with History
2. The Farmers, errr the Vikings
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionWhy was Britain the source and origin of the Miracle? Just introducing the topic, with a number of digressions about Charles I, the Republican period, Cromwell and more Stupidity Smart People Commit. Another about the Anabaptists and their role in the American Revolution. Religion and Literacy. Ending with a discussion of a special cognitive error smart people are particularly vulnerable to, with reference to Sabine Hossenfelder.
2020-03-31
34 min
Hanging with History
1. That Miracle that Happened that One Time
You can send me a text if you have a comment or questionThe Industrial Revolution was a miracle. We explore the concept of a miracle through Tolkien's made up word eucatastrophe and give an example from the Lord of the Rings. Was it a mistake to leave the paleolithic hunter gatherer lifestyle? Please enjoy your Malthusian limits.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
2020-03-24
31 min
Bak Scenen
Nils Vogt
Nils Vogt snakker med Trond Harald Hansen om sin lange karriere som inkluderer både TV-suksessene Mot i Brøstet og Karl & Co. Vi snakker også om Karl-figuren og barndommen hvor Nils var veldig sjenert. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2018-10-24
1h 19
Bak Scenen
Hans Morten Hansen
Hans Morten Hansen er en av Norges fremste komikere med flere helaftens forestillinger, komipriser og verdensrekord i stand-up på sin CV. I denne episoden snakker han med Trond Harald Hansen om sin karriere og hvordan stand-up miljøet har utviklet seg. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2017-10-22
38 min
Big In Asia Podcast
Avsnitt 18 - Harald Raunio
Denna vecka får vi höra Harald Raunio. Vi går igenom tiden i Linköping, England och hur han gled in på ett ”bananskal” till logistikbranschen. Hade det inte varit för logistiken så hade han nog inte heller hamnat i Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Med en rad tunga positioner bakom sig ger han oss både historier och marknadsanalyser för hur läget är idag i Asien. #BigInAsiaPodcast
2017-03-23
48 min
Bak Scenen
Christian Ingebrigtsen
Vokalist, komponist og multi-instrumentalist Christian Ingebrigtsen fikk sitt gjennombrudd med gruppa A1. Men hvordan begynte det hele? Svaret får du når Trond Harald Hansen blir med Christian Ingebrigtsen "Bak Scenen" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-11-30
43 min
Bak Scenen
Tore Ryen
Norges største humorikon Tore Ryen bare snakker med Trond Harald Hansen. Hvordan lærer man det norske folk å se på tv? Hva har "Mot i brøstet" og "Hotel Cæsar" med hverandre å gjøre? Hvordan går det når intervjuer velter en kopp kaffe i fanget midt under intervjuet? Alt dette og historiene du kanskje aldri har hørt før, finner du i denne podcasten. Velbekomme! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2016-10-12
1h 36