June 7

Ep. 0259: A Butterfly Saves the World…from Woodrow Wilson?: An Alt-Hist DHP Microdose


We’ve all heard of the famous ‘butterfly effect.’ But is there a plausible, realistic, alternative historical scenario in which the US & the world could’ve been spared the worst aspects of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency merely by altering one seemingly minor detail of the 1912 election?

Yes there is. Join CJ in this super-concise DHP episode as he discusses just such a scenario, whereby changing only one seemingly humble variable in 1912 would probably have given the US a POTUS who would’ve kept the country out of WWI & thereby avoided the worst aspects of Woodrow Wilson.

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April 27

Ep. 0256: Power Kills: Discussing Democide (w/Gregory Zink)


This DHP episode features a recent conversation between CJ & Gregory Zink, host of the true political crime podcast Smoke Filled Rooms, about an episode of SFR Greg did covering the historical phenomenon of democide.

Join CJ & Greg as they discuss “democide,” the term coined by R.J. Rummel to denote any and all instances of governments deliberately killing their own citizens on a large scale.

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December 7

Ep. 0248: “Led to Commit an Overt Act of War”: A Fun-Size DHP Pearl Harbor Day Special

Join CJ as he discusses the so-called “McCollum Memo” from the Office of Naval Intelligence, written by ONI officer Arthur McCollum & dated October 7th, 1940, which served as the blueprint for the FDR Administration’s strategy of deliberately provoking Japan, a strategy that culminated in the Pearl Harbor attack 14 months later.

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November 30

Ep. 0247: Reckless Provocations w/Scott Horton


For this episode, CJ was very happy to welcome back foreign policy expert Scott Horton to the Dangerous History Podcast. Scott is the Director of the Libertarian Institute, host of the Scott Horton Show, Editorial Director at Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, and is the author or editor of 4 books (available here.) He’s also currently working on his next book – on the Russo-Ukraine War – which will be co-authored with Darryl Cooper of the Martyrmade podcast.

Join CJ & Scott for a wide-ranging discussion, mostly on the real history of the Russo-Ukraine War, but including lots of interesting tangents along the way (even a bit of Woodrow-Wilson bashing!)

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July 13

Ep. 0236: WWI Propaganda in the US Part 1: Perfidious Albion’s Propaganda

Finally! Here it is – the longest and, I believe, the most important Dangerous History Podcast episode I’ve done to date! (I recorded the first of many segments for this episode all the way back in April, and had been researching & composing notes for it for many months before that!)

Join CJ as he discusses the massive British propaganda operation in the US that ran from 1914-1917 (during the period of American “neutrality”), which was a crucial factor in eventually bringing the US into World War I.

*Also (Super-Important, will have a special episode on this soon, but):

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A Small Sampling of World War I anti-German “Cartoons” by Louis Raemakers

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June 13

Ep. 0234: Busy Giddy Minds With Foreign Quarrels


CJ continues to slog away on the first installment in the upcoming World War I Propaganda in the US mini-series, but he recently decided to take a brief break from that to talk about some historical tendencies that, unfortunately, seem to be repeating themselves in real time.

Join CJ as he discusses the various ways that economics & the desire to distract from political problems at home often cause unnecessary wars, plus a few noteworthy examples of American leaders who resisted the urge to go to war despite economic and political problems at home.

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March 19

Ep. 0233: CJ’s Top 10 War Propaganda Techniques

Join CJ as he first gives an update on a few recent personal difficulties, and then goes over the following war propaganda techniques:

  • Demonize the enemy’s leader.
  • Dehumanize the enemy’s people.
  • Turn the conflict into a super-simplistic morality play.
  • Fabricate heroic stories about your side.
  • Fabricate and/or exaggerate enemy atrocity stories.
  • Exaggerate the enemy’s intentions and/or capabilities.
  • Lie by omission/Cherry-pick.
  • Crop the story/truncate the antecedents.
  • Give your people empty symbolic gestures to signal their virtue.
  • Smear/demonize any of your people who question or criticize The Narrative.

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December 8

Ep. 0228: Imperial Decline is a Helluva Drug (w/Clint Russell)


Recently, CJ was delighted to be a guest on Liberty Lockdown with Clint Russell.

Join CJ & Clint as they discuss the decline & collapse of various historical empires, and what lessons & insights can be gleaned that might be relevant to the current state of the American Empire. (*Note: This is a crossover episode featuring the same conversation as Liberty Lockdown Ep. 131.)

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November 29

Ep. 0215: The “Spanish” Flu Pandemic, w/Alexander Von Sternberg

In this DHP episode, CJ talks to Alexander Von Sternberg, host of the podcast History Impossible, about the epic 6-hour+ episode Alex released last month on the 1918-1919 killer influenza pandemic. CJ & Alex as they discuss the pandemic, as well as its massive psychological & political effects, and interesting similarities and differences when compared to 2020.

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The Dangerous History Podcast is a member of the Recorded History Podcast Network, the Dark Myths Podcast Collective & LRN.fm’s podcast roster.

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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

Meltdown: What Plane Crashes, Oil Spills, and Dumb Business Decisions Can Teach Us About How to Succeed at Work and at Home

Contagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization (MIT Press)

Pale Rider

Pandemic 1918: Eyewitness Accounts from the Greatest Medical Holocaust in Modern History

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March 9

Ep. 0198: Fµ©!≤ Daylight Savings! (The DHP vs DST)

Subtitle: “Daylight Savings as a Rebellion Against Nature.”

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • Where the idea of biannual time changes & Daylight Savings Time (DST) came from historically. (Hint: As is often the case, Woodrow Wilson bears some of the blame.)
  • Some of the problems, costs, and even dangers of DST
  • The origin of standardized time zones (which originated more in the private sector) as a contrasting case study
  • The idea of DST as a rebellion against nature

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  • A recent NBC News article on the controversy surrounding the time change (Note how, among opponents of the time change, the politicians favor year-round DST, while actual scientists & medical people support year-round Standard Time — why, it’s almost like politicians don’t give a shit about science or human health & well-being when it goes against what they want!)
  • Save Standard Time (a website & organization dedicated to making Standard Time year-round for the sake of human well-being)

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Revolution in time: Clocks and the making of the modern world by David Landes

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