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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

10/11/20

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

9/13/20

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

8/30/20

• School Starting;
• Teaching During COVID;
• Aztecs, Mayans, and Antiquities;
• Museums and Cultural Appropriation;
• Austin's Yeti;
• The Help;
• Wet Nurses and Whipping Boys;
• The Rise of the State;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

8/23/20

• China;
• Ethno Nationalism;
• Neo-Colonialism;
• Politics;
• Boston;
• How Race was invented;
• Race is institutionalized not racism;
• Fanatics and Mass Movements;
• Woke Society;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

8/16/20

• Kamala Harris;
• Death Penalty;
• Erhard's Experiment;
• Sports and Violence;
• Selling Tin-Foil Hats;
• Politics;
• Democrats are the New Puritans;
• U.S. Government and Rome;  
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

8/9/20

• Fan Questions;
• Socialism;
• Communism;
• Marxism;
• Stuff;
• CHINA;
• Trump and China;
• Rusty gets animated;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

8/2/20

• Fan Mail;
• Florida Vacation;
• Rent Crisis;
• Gun Laws;
• Virtue Signaling;
• Virtue Signaling in Sports;
• Keeping people apart;
• Manufactured Crisis;
• What needs to change?;
• The criminalization of drugs;
• There is no such thing as "race";
• Historical Narrative;
• Reconciliation;
• "Privilege?";
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

7/26/20

• COVID in Florida;
• Global Logistics;
• The Trucking Industry;
• A Second Gilded Age?;
• The Right and Left;
• The Dutch Tulip Bubble;
• Monopolies;
• Bureaucracies;
• Austin for Senate;
• Social Justice in sports;
• The Death of #MeToo;
• Reinstitutionalization of Racism?;
• Tribalism;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

7/19/20

• What is Western Civ.?;
• Teaching western Civ.;
• Mass Movements/Eugenics;
• BLM Movement and Ideology;
• A New Western Civ.?;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

7/12/20

• Government Regulations on Foreign Students;
• Kids back in School;
• Online Teaching;
• Joining the Military;
• Language;
• Biden;
• J.F.K.;
• Nixon;
• L.B.J.;
• Presidential Rules;
• Where does Cancel Culture end?
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

7/5/20

• Kanye West 2020;
• CHAZ is Gone;
• Politics;
• 2020 Election
• Antisemitism Rising;
• Free Speech;
• Hate Crimes;
• Intent in Murder;
• China;
• Time to reflect in history;
• Trump Election;
• Classic Misdirection;
• The Supreme Court & the Justice System;
• Name Changing and Fake Social Justice;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

6/28/20

• Why are historians challenged by people?;
• Examining historical sources;
• Historical Theory and Methods;
• The History PhD Process;
• Comprehensive Exams;
• Rusty's Comp. Fields;
• Native American History;
• Erhard's Comp. Fields;
• Austin's Comp. Fields;
• Eugenics;

Books Mentioned,

• "Europe's Tragedy: A History of the Thirty Years War," by Peter H. Wilson;
• "Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America," by Jennifer L. Anderson;
• "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America," by Andrés Reséndez;
• "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies," by Jared Diamond;
• "Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873," by Brendan C. Lindsay;
• "An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873," by Benjamine Madley;
• "Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion," by Dawn Peterson;
• "The Burden of Empire: An Appraisal of Western Colonialism in Africa South of the Sahara," by L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan;
• "Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance," by Edward Muir;
• "War of the Fists: Popular Culture and Public Violence in Late Renaissance Venice," by Robert C. Davis;
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

6/21/20

• Stuff getting bigger and speeding up;
• Seattle (letting it happen);
• History does not repeat itself (but it does rhyme);
• The American Cultural Revolution?;
• The 1619 Project (The New Ideology);
• Abraham Lincoln Cancelled;
• Statue Imagery and Meaning;
• People being offended;
• The Cancel Culture Meats Rural America;
• Race a Cultural Construct;
• Groups, Tribalism, and the Rule of the Clan;
• Atlanta Shooting;
• Qualified Immunity;
• Police Insurance?;
• Antisemitism within BLM;
• Teaching protesting;
• Ideology as a Religion;
• Academic Training;
• Ideology of the 1619 Project;
• Love and marriage trumps racism;
• Blood purity in Spain and the Inquisition;
• Assumed Guilt;
• Police Training;
• Happy Father's Day!

Books Mentioned,

• "War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare" Edited by R. Brian Ferguson and Neil L. Whitehead;
• "The Rule of the Clan" by Mark S. Weiner;
• "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass movements" by Eric Hoffer;  
  

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

6/14/20

• Protests;
• Confederate Monuments;
• Symbolic Gestures vs. Real Change;
• Taxing Women;
• Looting Monuments;
• Racism and the United States;
• African Historical Narratives;
• The Motley Crew;
• Prejudice and Racism Instilled by Elites;
• UCLA Professors Investigated for Racism;
• The 13th Amendment;
• Slavery Education;
• C.H.A.Z. (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone);
• Adult Children;
• What happens after revolution?;
• Police;
• The Media (If it bleeds it leads);
• Education vs. Indoctrination;
• History vs. Propaganda;

Books and Documentaries Mentioned,

• "Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800" by John Thornton;
• "The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic" by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker;
• "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Stetting Up a Generation for Failure" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt;
• "Burn Motherf*cker Burn" directed by Sacha Jenkins;

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A podcast amongst three friends and History Ph.D. colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

• Riots,
• Police Brutality,
• Defunding of Police,
• Escalation of Violence,
• What happens without police?
• Return of the Clan,
• Clan culture in Mexico,
• "Mad Dog" Mattis,
• Military force against citizens,
• Political Expediency,
• Slavery in U.S. History,
• Slavery in Civilization,
• Voting Power,
• Presidents and the Black Community,
• The Kennedys,
• Revolution and the Middle Class,
• Escalation of Violence,
• The Failure of Congress,
• Movements vs. the Status Quo,
• Don't be Afraid, 

Books Mentioned,

• "War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War" by Brian DeLay,
• "The Comanche Empire" by Pekka Hamalainen,
• "The True Believer: Thoughts of the Nature of Mass Movements" by Eric Hoffer,

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Three friends and History PhD colleagues discussing current events, history, education, and life.

• Introduction,
• Tribalism,
• Local and Federal Government Guidelines for COVID-19,
• Shutdowns favor Big Business over Small,
• Congressional Failure to address COVID-19 Economic Fallout, 
• Student Loans,
• Education (Do you need a college degree?),
• Infrastructure, 
• Paying for Education,
• "Sacrifice",
• Paying Off Debt,
• Going Down the Rabbit Hole,
• COVID-19 Numbers,
• China,
• FDR and Prohibition, JFK and Cuban Cigars,
• How Callousness Ends Governments,
• Anti-Lockdown Sheriffs, 
• Constitutional Questions,
• Quote of the Week,
• "Know It All" (Full Song),

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