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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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October 31

Part 2 of this year’s DHP Halloween Special just published, for supporters only

FYI, I just published DHP Bonus Episode 29, which is Part 2 of this year’s DHP Halloween Special. This episode is exclusively for those excellent individuals who support my work at the DHP at $5 per month or higher via Patreon or Subscribestar.

In this one, I share a short story by Bram Stoker, as well as a Western ghost story written by yours truly that was published back in 2012, in addition to a poem by Edgar Allan Poe & a poem by Madison Julius Cawein.

If you’re not already a supporter of the Dangerous History Podcast, please consider stepping up to do so in order to get access to this episode as well as a bunch of other perks & bonuses!

(BTW, I know it’s more cute than spooky, but I couldn’t resist making this photo of my wife’s dwarf rabbit the pic for this one!)

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October 29

Ep. 0244: DHP 2022 Halloween Special: Part 1

Since Fall is CJ’s favorite time of year & Halloween is his favorite holiday: This year, we return to classic DHP format for Halloween specials — spooky/Halloween/Autumnal-themed poems & stories read to you by CJ. (Part 1 is available to everyone, while part 2 will only be available to those who support the Dangerous History Podcast at $5/month or higher.)

Join CJ as he shares the following poems & stories:

“A Dark Day” by Madison Julius Cawein
“The Haunters and the Haunted; or, The House and the Brain” by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
“The Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allan Poe

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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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November 19

Ep. 0214: A Civil-Religious Civil War?

Is the USA currently in the early stages of sectarian conflict over its civil religion?

In this episode of the DHP, CJ rebroadcasts his 2016 Election Special on America’s Civil Religion (in order to review the concept of civil religion & its manifestation in the United States); this is followed by new material, reflecting on how CJ’s understanding of the American civil religion has changed somewhat since 2016. He then goes on to compare and contrast the current political conflicts in the US to the Protestant Reformation in 16th and 17th century Europe, as well as the pietist-vs-liturgical split in American Christianity in the 19th century, before wrapping up with some humble observations and suggestions for people who are (like CJ) nonbelievers in any civil religion & who want to weather the current conflicts as best they can.

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Hardcore History Episode 48: Prophets of Doom
Full text of “Civil Religion in America” by Robert Bellah, first published in the journal Daedalus in 1967
“Religion, Morality, and American Politics” by Richard Jensen
Classic George Carlin bit on why he doesn’t vote
George Carlin on “Stupid Hat Shit” (Hilarious — talks about the fixation of both conventional religion & civil religion with headgear)
Bob Dylan, “With God on Our Side” (An excellent, haunting, live recording of one of CJ’s favorite antiwar songs of all time; this song brutally exposes the American Civil Religion)
“Election Outcomes Affect Testosterone Levels in Men” according to Scientific American
Wikipedia’s summary of the United States Flag Code

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Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War by Harry Stout

The Cult of the Presidency, Updated: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power by Gene Healy

The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages, Revised and Expanded Edition by Norman Cohn

The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster by Anthony Arthur

The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson

The War of the World: A New History of the 20th Century (DVD)

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October 31

Ep. 0213: The Shining: Exoteric & Esoteric, w/Brett Veinotte

In this second 2020 DHP Halloween episode, CJ spoke to Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks Project about Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1980 horror film, The Shining.

Join CJ & Brett as they dig into some of the exoteric & esoteric elements of The Shining.

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The Shining (Bluray)

The Shining by Stephen King

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April 12

Ep. 0201: It’s TEOTWAWKI & I Feel Fine (w/Brett Veinotte)

Recently CJ spoke with Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks podcast as part of Brett’s “Hi. How Are You?” series, in which Brett has been speaking to friends of his from different corners of the country about all things related to the Covid craziness.

Join CJ & Brett as they discuss how they’ve been dealing with & responding to all the insanity surrounding the coronavirus pandemic. (This is a crossover episode featuring the same conversation as “Hi. How Are You? Conversation #4” from School Sucks.)

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April 10

Ep. 0200: Honest History

For the 200th episode of the Dangerous History Podcast, CJ decided to take a step back and get a bit ‘meta,’ taking a journey into the belly of the whale on trying to figure out what history is and how one might think about it.

Join CJ as he discusses:

What history really is
Fact, Truth, & Meaning
Objectivity, Ideology, & History
Honest History

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DHP Ep. 0195: The Manichean Temptation

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That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession by Peter Novick

Empiricism and History by Stephen Davies

Telling the Truth About History (Norton Paperback) by Joyce Appleby, Lynn Hunt & Margaret Jacob

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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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October 31

Ep. 190: 2019 DHP Halloween Special, Part 2

Here is part 2 of the 2019 DHP Halloween Special!

Join CJ & Joshua as they discuss each of their top 5 picks, plus a variable number of runners-up/honorable mentions, in each of the following categories: