Episodes

  • Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation

    Show 71 - Mania for Subjugation
    Jun 7 2024
    What's the recipe for making a historically world-class apex predator? In the case of Alexander the Great, it might be the three Ns: Nature, Nurture, and Nepotism.
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    4 hrs and 12 mins
  • Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II

    Show 70 - Twilight of the Aesir II
    Nov 19 2023
    Pagan Viking Sea Kings spend the 10th and 11th centuries morphing into Christian monarchs. But with rulers like Harald Bluetooth and Svein Forkbeard it's debatable whether things will be any less horrific for Scandinavia's neighbors
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    6 hrs and 23 mins
  • Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir

    Show 69 - Twilight of the Aesir
    Jan 15 2023
    This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.
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    5 hrs and 11 mins
  • Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources

    Show 68 - BLITZ Human Resources
    Mar 7 2022
    The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.
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    5 hrs and 39 mins
  • Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI

    Show 67 - Supernova in the East VI
    Jun 8 2021
    When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.
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    5 hrs and 46 mins
  • Show 66 - Supernova in the East V

    Show 66 - Supernova in the East V
    Nov 14 2020
    Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.
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    3 hrs and 33 mins
  • Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV

    Show 65 - Supernova in the East IV
    Jun 3 2020
    Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.
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    3 hrs and 59 mins
  • Show 64 - Supernova in the East III

    Show 64 - Supernova in the East III
    Oct 24 2019
    Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe.
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    4 hrs and 54 mins