Episodes

  • Episode 141: F1 with Dr. Sarah Myers and Dr. Colin Colbourn
    Jul 10 2025

    This week, two of my favorite people in the world join in to talk about Brad Pitt’s new film, F1 while they try to convert me into a Formula One racing fan. Ladies and Gentlemen, let’s start our engines.


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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • Episode 140: American Mythmaking on Film: The Patriot with Craig Bruce Smith and Robert Greene II
    Jul 3 2025

    We're enjoying the holiday this week so we thought we'd bring one back from the vault. This week Dr. Craig Bruce Smith and Dr. Robert Greene II and I talk about Mel Gibson's The Patriot, the role of constructed memory in national identity, and the ethics of making historical dramas.

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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • Episode 139: Black Hawk Down with Dr. Jonathan Carroll
    Jun 26 2025

    This week military historian Dr. Jonathan Carroll drops in to talk about Black Hawk Down and his new book Beyond Black Hawk Down: Intervention, Nation-Building, and Insurgency in Somalia, 1992-1995.

    About our guest:

    Jonathan Carroll is a former officer in the Irish Defence Forces who earned a PhD from Texas A&M University. He is an associate professor of military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

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    1 hr and 52 mins
  • Episode 138: The Comanches Are Coming!
    Jun 25 2025

    Talking about my weekend trip with Comanche youths, along with some of my experiences with the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the Southern Ute Indian Tribe, the Kiowa Tribe, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

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    30 mins
  • The Princess Bride with John Wyatt Greenlee, Elizabeth Andersen, and Jillian Forsberg
    Jun 19 2025

    This week John Wyatt Greenlee returns as guest host and he’s looking for a six fingered man.

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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Episode 136: Diggstown and How Boxing became a Battleground for Black Manhood with Dr. Lou Moore
    Jun 12 2025

    This week, our friend Dr Lou Moore drops in to talk about Diggstown and his work tracing black boxing from the end of the Civil War into the 20th century.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 135: Saving Private Ryan with Dr. Paul Thomas Chamberlin
    Jun 5 2025

    This week Dr. Paul Thomas Chamberlin drops in to talk about the history behind Operation Overlord and Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan.

    About our guest:

    Paul Chamberlin specializes in twentieth century international history with a focus on U.S. foreign relations and the Middle East. His first book, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order (Oxford, 2012), is an international history of the Palestinian liberation struggle. His next book, The Cold War's Killing Fields: Rethinking the Long Peace (HarperCollins, 2018), is a global history of the bloodiest encounters of the Cold War.

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 134: The Spiritual Journey of Albert Einstein with Dr. Kieran Fox
    Jun 4 2025

    Today neuroscientist and psychiatrist Dr. Kieran Fox joins in to talk about the spiritual journey of Albert Einstein.

    About our guest:

    Dr. Kieran Fox is a neuroscientist (PhD 2016) and doctor (MD 2023), currently training to be a psychiatrist in the Research Resident Training Program at the University of California San Francisco. His research over the next few years will focus on the neural mechanisms and clinical potential of psychedelic medicines. During medical school, he used intracranial electrical stimulation (neuromodulation) of the human brain to research cognition and emotion in epilepsy patients.

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    55 mins