Podcast
I'll Have to Think About That
Hosted by Jeremy · EN
The (hopefully) permanent home for my history, politics, and news commentary podcast, originally recorded from 2020-21, with occasional episodes added from Summer 2021 forward.
11episodes
Episodes
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Sabaton Tips Their Hat to SGT Alvin York
Sep 2, 202200:11:47Tap to summarizeWhat? A Swedish Power Metal band pays tribute to Alvin York, American hero of the Great War? Give a listen and learn.
Transcribe →More Proof that GnR is a Joke
Sep 1, 202200:08:31Tap to summarizeBear with me as use math to compare GnR to Metallica, and further demonstrate why Axl and the boys do not deserve the love you give them.
Transcribe →Guns n Roses is a Fraud
Sep 1, 202200:24:52Tap to summarizeForget what you think you know about this one trick pony of a band - they're a fraud and I can prove it.
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Language That Annoys Me
Oct 15, 202100:20:48Tap to summarizeNoteworthy thoughts on how our language gets butchered by the thoughtless...
Transcribe →Cover Tunes - More to Think About Than You Might Realize
Oct 15, 202100:26:15Tap to summarizeWho doesn't like cover tunes? In this episode I depart from serious and important topics to discuss merely the important: several good, interesting cover tunes. Tainted Love - Gloria Jones Tainted Love - Soft Cell Easy - The Commodores Easy - Faith No More Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash RoF - Social D You Really Got Me - The Kinks YRGM - Van Halen Cum on Feel the Noize - Slide Cum on Feel the Noize - QR A Rainbow's Gold - Beckett ARG - Iron Maiden The Green Manalishi - Fleetwood Mac The Green Manalishi - Judas Priest Breadfan - Budgie Breadfan - Metallica Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft SB - Type O Negative
Transcribe →The Short, Fascinating Age of the Airship
Oct 15, 202100:30:41Tap to summarizeI think the title says it - here's a summary of the world's fascination with airships in the early 20th century.
Transcribe →How was the Declaration of Independence Understood by Americans in the First Decades After it Was Written?
Oct 11, 202100:28:08Tap to summarizeI think the title sums it up.
Transcribe →A Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence?
Oct 11, 202100:27:44Tap to summarizeMost people have no idea that there was a first draft of the DI, submitted to the Continental Congress and amended by them after some debate. Some of the changes were stylistic, some were not. In this episode I examine the circumstances around the DI and what those changes meant then, and mean now.
Transcribe →Why Did the South Secede?
Oct 11, 202100:32:20Tap to summarizeWas it states' rights, slavery, or something else? I hear this argument often among fans of history and buffs, and frankly it's gotten old. There is a reason, and the leaders of the Southern states were crystal clear about it when they rebelled against the general government. Listen to this episode and get a sense of the mountain of evidence.
Transcribe →Operation Bodyguard
Oct 11, 202100:22:27Tap to summarizeWinston Churchill said that the truth is so important that it must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies. The truth of Operation OVERLORD - the Normandy Invasion of 1944 - was a truth of such magnitude that it was accompanied by the most extensive and complicated deception operations ever attempted in warfare. These efforts were so secret that many of them were only declassified in the late 1980s, meaning that our understanding of what happened, why, and how on that "Longest Day" was incomplete before them, at best.
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