Episodios

  • DDH - It's Just Common Sense!

    DDH - It's Just Common Sense!
    Jan 13 2026
    Philadelphia did not merely witness rebellion. It engineered amplification. This episode opens in a city that understood a hard, unfashionable truth. Ideas do not change history because they are elegant. They change history because they are repeated until they feel unavoidable. Philadelphia was not built for reverie. It was built for movement. Goods, rumors, sermons, pamphlets, all circulating with the same restless energy. If an idea could not survive contact with ink, paper, and working hands, it did not last long . By early 1776, the argument for independence was no longer a polite theory. It was a physical object. Folded. Smudged. Passed hand to hand. Sometimes read aloud by men who barely read at all. This was not the hush of a library. It was the racket of a print shop doing what print shops do best, turning thought into force. Thomas Paine did not sound like a philosopher auditioning for posterity. He sounded like
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    36 m
  • Ink, Mittens and Treason

    Ink, Mittens and Treason
    Jan 12 2026
    January 1776 is usually remembered as a moment of clarity. Common Sense appears, the fog lifts, and independence suddenly feels inevitable. But that is not how it actually happened. This episode tells the messier story, the human one. A story about cold winters and empty pockets. About a radical writer who believed words could change the world, and a flamboyant printer who believed controversy could sell anything. About a handshake deal that collapsed, money that vanished, mittens that were never bought, and a pamphlet that escaped everyone’s control. Common Sense did not spread because it was orderly or polite. It spread because it was cheap, stolen, argued over, and fought about in public. Its impact came not just from what it said, but from how it was printed, pirated, and pushed into the streets. This is the story behind the ink. And why the American Revolution was never as tidy as we like to remember.
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    8 m
  • Viral, But Not Verified

    Viral, But Not Verified
    Jan 11 2026
    Here is the introduction. --- There are moments in history when the loudest sound is silence. When something real is happening, dangerous, destabilizing, and profoundly human, yet the headlines barely whisper. Iran may be in one of those moments right now. Reports of widespread protests are filtering out, uneven, fragmented, hard to verify. Rumors are filling the gaps, some reckless, some hopeful, some deliberately false. And meanwhile, much of the Western media seems oddly restrained, as if this story does not quite fit the categories it knows how to tell. Tonight, we are not here to sell certainty. We are here to ask why uncertainty is being handled so selectively. Why protests against a clerical regime struggle for oxygen. Why silence becomes policy when narratives collide with ideology. History teaches us this much. Revolutions do not always announce themselves politely. Sometimes they arrive half seen, badly explained, and remembered later with embarrassment by those who looked away. Here is the thing. When the noise goes quiet, that is often when you should lean in and listen hardest.
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    1 h
  • Hamilton!

    Hamilton!
    Jan 11 2026
    Alexander Hamilton entered the world already marked by circumstances that polite society preferred not to discuss. He was born in the British West Indies, on the island of Nevis, the son of James Hamilton and Rachel Faucette Lavien. Even the year of his birth remains uncertain, likely 1755 or 1757, which is fitting for a man whose life never quite fit clean categories. Illegitimacy was not merely a social embarrassment in the eighteenth century. It was a legal condition, one that followed a person like a brand. From the beginning, Hamilton was defined less by what he was than by what he was not permitted to be.
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    5 m
  • 41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Alexander Hamilton SSBN-617

    41 Cold War Sentinels - USS Alexander Hamilton SSBN-617
    Jan 11 2026
    The USS Alexander Hamilton entered the Cold War quietly, which was the only acceptable way to enter it. When her keel was laid at Electric Boat in Groton in June 1961, the United States was still learning how to live with nuclear weapons without letting them consume every waking thought. Strategy had moved beyond bombers and bravado. What mattered now was endurance. The Hamilton was conceived as a patient thing, meant to vanish beneath the surface and stay vanished, carrying consequences that no adversary could afford to ignore. She would become one of the Forty One for Freedom, a fleet built not to fight wars, but to prevent them by making certainty impossible.
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    5 m
  • Cat's Eyes

    Cat's Eyes
    Jan 10 2026
    The story was told later in newsprint (January 10, 1943, Hanford, CA), folded into a Sunday paper in California, trimmed to fit a column and given a confident headline that promised reassurance to families far from the sea. It said there was never a dull moment for a submarine, and that submarine duty was not a job but a way of life. It said the night belonged to sharp eyes, steady nerves, and a skipper who knew when to act. All of that was true. None of it conveyed what the night of February 3, 1942 actually felt like aboard USS Searaven SS-196.
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    5 m
  • The Rubicon

    The Rubicon
    Jan 10 2026
    Rome did not fall in a day, and it did not fall because one man crossed a river. That is the version history likes because it is neat and dramatic and wrong in the ways that matter. The crossing of the Rubicon in 49 BC was not a sudden act of ambition. It was the final symptom of a republic that had been quietly coming apart for a generation. By the time Julius Caesar reached that narrow stream, the Roman political system was already jammed solid. Power had shifted away from institutions and toward personalities. Laws had become weapons. Compromise was treated as weakness. The Senate still spoke the language of tradition, but it no longer controlled events. When a system cannot resolve conflict through its own rules, it eventually hands the problem to force. This not about celebrating Caesar or condemning him. It is about understanding the machinery that failed before his boots ever touched the water. We will trace how informal alliances replaced law, how fear radicalized politics, and how a constitution designed for a city state collapsed under the weight of empire. The Rubicon matters not because it was crossed, but because by then there was nowhere else to go.
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  • Connecticut Ratifies

    Connecticut Ratifies
    Jan 9 2026
    In January 1788, the future of the American experiment advanced not with shouting crowds or dramatic reversals, but with a quiet vote in Connecticut. It was the fifth state to ratify the United States Constitution, and the outcome was never really in doubt. What makes this moment worth our attention is not the margin of victory, but the manner in which the decision was made. Connecticut was known then, as it often is now, for being steady, deliberate, and restrained. That temperament shaped how the state approached revolution, governance, and ultimately the Constitution itself. This video explores why that restraint mattered. Connecticut was not indifferent. It was cautious. Its delegates understood that the Constitution was imperfect, that power carried risks, and that liberty did not preserve itself automatically. They accepted the document not as an article of faith, but as a workable framework designed to survive uncertainty, foreign threats, and human fallibility. At the heart of the story is a simple idea. Union was not an abstract ideal. It was a matter of survival. Connecticut’s ratification helped legitimize the Constitution at a critical moment, proving it could earn the assent of the most careful members of the union. This is a story about decisions made without applause, and why those decisions often matter most.
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    27 m
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