August 15

Ep. 0238: Revisiting the Great Awokening (w/Alex Von Sternberg)


It’s been a little over a year since CJ talked with Alexander Von Sternberg of the podcast History Impossible about ‘the Great Awokening’) in back DHP Ep. 220, so, in light of recent developments (both good & bad) they decided to revisit the topic, especially in regard to the Awokening’s continuing-but-possibly-peaking influence on film & television.

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July 29

Ep. 0237: Theaters of War (w/Matt Alford & Tom Secker)

Recently CJ was delighted to talk with Matt Alford & Tom Secker, two of the producers & researchers behind the 2022 documentary Theaters of War.

Join CJ, Matt & Tom as they discuss Theaters of War, and the various ways in which the Pentagon, CIA, FBI & other US government institutions exert control and influence on the content of movies and television shows in order to propagandize viewers in the US and around the world.

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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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July 4

Ep. 0235: Monsters to Destroy: A Fun-Sized Fourth of July DHP Special

Despite being in the process of getting over Covid (which didn’t hit him particularly hard overall, but did hit his voice pretty badly), and despite still being up to his eyeballs on the forthcoming DHP episode about British propaganda ops in the US during WWI, CJ decided to put out a Fun-Sized DHP Independence Day special about a great speech given on a Fourth of July 201 years ago.

Join CJ as he discusses John Quincy Adams, his famous speech from July 4th, 1821, the Monroe Doctrine, and how US leaders since the 1890s have turned away from Adams’ wisdom.

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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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April 24

Appearance on Agora: The Podcast

While you’re waiting on the next DHP episode to be finished (and I promise 2 things: 1. I am hard at work on it & have already recorded several segments of it; & 2. it’s gonna be an epic plus-sized DHP episode all about the British government’s propaganda operation in the US from 1914-1917 to get the US into WWI on the side of the British Empire), please enjoy my recent appearance on Agora: The Podcast!

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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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