December 12

DHP Ep. 89 Reissue: The Christmas Truce

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(This is a Christmas-season reissue of a vintage DHP episode made all the way back in 2015.)

In the cold, damp, muddy ditches of the Western Front in December, 1914, the rank-and-file of the Allied and German armies spontaneously set aside their hatreds to take a break from mass-murdering each other, much to the dismay of their so-called ‘leaders.’

Join CJ as he discusses:

  • The context of the Christmas Truce
  • How it happened
  • The aftermath, legacy, and lessons to be learned from it

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November 11

Ep. 282: 25 More of CJ’s Favorite Antiwar Songs (Part 1)

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Happy Armistice Day!

In this episode, CJ covers the first 13 songs on his list of 25 More Favorite Antiwar Songs. (The remaining dozen will be covered in a supporters-only bonus episode exclusively for those excellent individuals who support CJ’s work on Patreon at the Journeyman Scholar Warrior Level & Higher.)

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November 5

Back from the (Mostly) Dead

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In order to avoid cluttering up history episodes with this sort of stuff, CJ decided to make a stand-alone personal update episode to let anyone who cares know about all the continued Book-of-Job-ish stuff he’s been dealing with in recent months – including a major death in the family, deep depression shading off into suicidal ideation, & a horrific mystery illness that afflicted his household over the month of October – that have hobbled his content output, but how he made it through, is still alive & still sober, & how (fingers crossed, knock on wood, sacrifice a chicken to the chupacabra, etc, etc) in just the past few days he’s FINALLY been able to get back to something resembling full capacity.

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October 31

Ep. 0273: Civil Religion, Party Systems, & the 2024 Election

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Unfortunately, CJ did not have time to do both an election episode & a Halloween episode this year, so he opted for the latter. (Next October, assuming the DHP is still around & CJ isn’t a homeless beggar, and assuming World War 3 and/or Civil War 2 aren’t disrupting everything, CJ will do Halloween DHP episodes again!)

In this off-the-cuff episode, CJ shares some thoughts and historical perspective on the imminent presidential election, viewed primarily through the lens of two important concepts in American political history that he’s covered multiple times on the DHP over the years; namely, civil religion & party systems.

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October 22

Archetopical Ep. 1: The Hero’s Journey

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A few weeks ago, CJ FINALLY won the War of Art when it came to starting a second podcast, something he’s been seriously thinking about & planning for over 5 years.

The podcast is called Archetopical, and has its own separate podcast feed from the DHP. You can find it here, or search for it wherever you consume your audio podcasts. (And if you can’t find it on your favorite podcatcher, shoot CJ an email to let him know where you can’t find it & he’ll try to rectify that.)

CJ’s first Archetopical episode (numbered episode zero) was a basic introduction episode. This one is episode 1, in which CJ explains and analyzes the Hero’s Journey monomyth and associated archetypes, as popularized by people like Joseph Campbell & Christopher Vogler. It is being shared on the DHP feed as well in order to let the DHP audience know about it & get a taste of it. Enjoy!

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