Best Hand Of Help Live Broadcast Podcasts (2025)

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Pistol Duels Existed Across the 19th-Century World, But Only the Chaos of the American West Produced Gunfighters 51:30

4d ago51:30

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To understand American history and its deep-seated relationship with violence, we must look to the last three decades of the 1800s in the American West, which had the highest murder rate per capita in American history. And it all boils down to one place: Texas. Texas was born in violence, on two fronts, with Mexico to the south and the Comanche to …

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Episode 517: Episode 518 Of The Rob V Show (Dave and Alana) 1:24:02

4d ago1:24:02

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Episode 518 Of The Rob V Show My friend Dave and my friends wife Alana join the program. They have been begging me for months to come on the show. I can't wait to hear what they have yo say. Alana was late but it was still a great show. We covered a lot of topics. Check the show out here!

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Rome Definitively Eclipsed Greece in 197 BC By Making the Alexandrian Phalanx/Cavalry Obsolete 46:35

6d ago46:35

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The battle of Cynoscephalae represents a key moment in the history of the Greco-Roman world. In this one battle the Macedonian hold over mainland Greece was broken, with the Roman Republic rising in its place as the pre-eminent power in the Greek East. At Cynoscephalae, the proud Macedonian kingdom of Antigonid monarch Philip V was humbled, its arm…

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Exploring the Wreckage of the Britannic (the Titanic’s Sister Ship) and Discovering Why It Sunk in 50 Minutes 48:25

11d ago48:25

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The RMS Titanic is history’s most famous shipwreck, but it wasn’t the only ship of its kind. The White Star Line built two other nearly identical vessels: The RMS Olympic and Britannic. The Olympic carried passengers until 1935 and can be visited today. The Brittanic sank only four years after her sister ship the Titanic off the Greek island of Kea…

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Did Tariffs Make America a Manufacturing Powerhouse Or Trigger Economic Misery and Stifle Global Trade?ads) 44:55

13d ago44:55

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At a time when debates over tariffs, regulation, and the scope of government are back at center stage. Is this time in American history unprecedented, or can we find parallels in the past? For example, has trade “hollowed out” U.S. manufacturing—or have fact tariffs like the Corn Laws in Britain hurt working-class families the most? Was the Great D…

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Episode 516: Episode 517 Of The Rob V Show (Stop Raining) 13:52

12d ago13:52

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Episode 517 Of The Rob V Show a guest big timed me so I had some time to do two of my favorite segments! What happened on the day and The Babe of the night!

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Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State 50:07

18d ago50:07

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Alan Pinkerton is perhaps the most over-achieving barrel-maker who ever lived. After practicing his trade in rural Illinois for a few years in the 1850s, the Scottish immigrant busted up a counterfeiting ring, which got the attention of Chicago’s police department, offering him a job as a detective. From here he worked as an intelligence agent in t…

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MacArthur’s Plans to Drop 50 Nuclear Bombs During the Korean War 50:45

20d ago50:45

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The Korean War came dangerously close to going nuclear, and if would have if Gen. Douglas MacArthur had gotten his way. He proposed using 30 to 50 nuclear primarily to targeting air bases, depots, and supply lines across the neck of Manchuria to create a radioactive barrier and halt Chinese and North Korean advances. This would have killed millions…

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The Many Ways That Rome Never Fell and Lives On Today 37:16

25d ago37:16

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Rome’s Western Empire may have fallen 1,600 years ago, but its cultural impact has a radioactive half-life that would make xenon jealous. Over a billion people speak Latin (or at least a Latin-derived language). Governments around the world self-consciously copy Roman buildings and create governments that copy the imperial senate. Every self-aggran…

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Hooves of History: How Horses Created Ancient Warfare, Built the Silk Road, and Became the Dividing Line Between Nobleman and Peasant 44:28

27d ago44:28

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In order to become rich, powerful, and prestigious in the pre-modern world, nothing mattered more than horses. They were the fundamental unit of warfare, enabling cavalry charges, and logistical support. They facilitated the creation of the Silk Road (which could arguably be called the “Horse Road”) since China largely built it to enable the purcha…

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Episode 515: Episode 516 Of The Rob V Show (AinsleeDevine) 54:17

1M ago54:17

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Episode 516 of The Rob V Show Ainslee Devine was on the show. I have wanted her on the show for a long time and she was a blast. We talked about everything from food to sports! Check the whole who out here!

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Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended 45:47

1M ago45:47

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The Prohibition era (1920–1933), enacted by the 18th Amendment, birthed an overnight economy of moonshiners who distilled and distributed homemade liquor to meet America’s insatiable demand for alcohol, transforming rural farmers and opportunists into underground entrepreneurs who supplied speakeasies. But this new economy didn’t disappear after Pr…

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How to Cross the Sahara as a Tenth-Century Cameleer 53:08

1M ago53:08

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What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine, climate change, civil war, desperate migrants stuck in a hostile environment. The Sahara stretches across 3.2 million square miles, hosting several million inhabitants and a corresponding variety of lang…

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How American Slaves Fled By Sea, Whether as Stowaways or Commandeering a Confederate Ship 46:06

1M ago46:06

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As many as 100,000 enslaved people fled successfully from the horrors of bondage in the antebellum South, finding safe harbor along a network of passageways across North America via the Underground Railroad. Yet many escapes took place not by land but by sea. William Grimes escaped slavery in 1815 by stowing away in a cotton bale on a ship from Sav…

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Episode 514: Episode 515 Of The Rob V Show (Jim Clibanoff) 1:39:47

1M ago1:39:47

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Episode 515 of The Rob V Show Jim Clibanoff joins the program. Jim is the Vice President of Player Personnel of the Denver Nuggets. He also is one of the ordinal callers to the program. It was a blast to have him on the show!

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Did WW2 Heads of State Want to Preserve Their Empires As Much as Defend Their Homelands? 47:51

1M ago47:51

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2025 marks the eightieth anniversary of Germany’s surrender and the fall of the Third Reich. Likewise, World War II is the single most studied conflict in human history. But most Western accounts offer a one-dimensional interpretation: the war was a noble crusade against fascism, creating a convenient parable about good and evil. But this depiction…

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Episode 513: Episode 514 Of The Rob V Show (Jenni Tay and Savannah Andrews) 1:39:36

1M ago1:39:36

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Episode 514 of The Rob V Show. Jenni Tay and Savannah Andrews joined the program. We covered everything from private jets to bleaching your butthole. The girls were so much fun to have on. Check the whole show out right here!

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How a British Governor of Virginia Raised an Ex-Slave Regiment in 1776 to Fight Patriots and Triggered the Revolutionary War 55:09

2M ago55:09

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As the American Revolution broke out in New England in the spring of 1775, dramatic events unfolded in Virginia that proved every bit as decisive as the battles of Lexington and Concord and Bunker Hill in uniting the colonies against Britain. Virginia, the largest, wealthiest, and most populous province in British North America, was led by Lord Dun…

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How a Marine Embedded with Mao Zedong’s Guerrillas in the 30s Became WW2’s Most Celebrated Special Forces Leader 55:46

2M ago55:46

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He was a gutsy old man.” “A corker,” said another. “You couldn’t find anyone better.” They talked about him in hushed tones. “This Major Carlson,” wrote one of the officers in a letter home, “is one of the finest men I have ever known.” These were the words of the young Marines training to be among the first U.S. troops to enter the Second World Wa…

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Microbes Were Discovered in the 1600s. Why It Take 200 Years For Doctors To Start Washing Their Hands? 54:16

2M ago54:16

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Scientists and enthusiastic amateurs first confirmed the existence of living things invisible to the human eye in the late sixteenth century. So why did it take two centuries to connect microbes to disease? As late as the Civil War in the 1860s, most soldiers who perished died not on the battlefield but of infected wounds, typhoid, and other diseas…

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From Einstein’s Chalkboard to Oppenheimer’s Nuclear Test: The 50-Year Path to the Atomic Bomb 48:14

2M ago48:14

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The story of the atomic age began decades before Robert Oppenheimer watched a mushroom cloud form over the New Mexico desert at the Trinity nuclear test in mid 1945. It begins in 1895, with Henri Becquerel’s accidental discovery of radioactivity, setting in motion a series of remarkable and horrifying events. By the early 20th century, a brilliant …

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Japan’s Desperate Air Battles Against the US in the Final Months of WW2 37:15

2M ago37:15

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The B-29 Bomber led the Allied strategic bombing offensive against Japan, succeeding when US Bomber Command switched from high-level daytime precision bombing to low-level nighttime area bombing. The latter tactic required Superfortresses to attack their targets individually, without a formation or escorting fighters for protection. Despite this, J…

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D-Day From the East: The Soviet Operation Bagration Crippled the Wehrmacht in Late 1944 42:08

2M ago42:08

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Throughout the war on the Eastern Front, there were two consistent trends. The Red Army battled to learn how to fight and win, while involved in a struggle for its very survival. But by 1944 it had a leadership that was able to wield it with lethal effect and with far more effective equipment than before. By contrast, the Wehrmacht had commenced a …

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Pilgrimages Involved Penitent Marches, Visiting Holy Places, and Watching Drunken Emperors Go on Chariot Rides 44:53

2M ago44:53

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Pilgrimages are a universal phenomenon, from China’s bustling Tai Shan to the ancient Jewish treks to Jerusalem. But why? What is it about a grueling penitent march to an isolated temple that has become a prerequisite for a civilization of any size, whether Chicen Itza in the Mayan Empire or the holy sites of Mecca? To explore this is today’s guest…

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Britain Learned How to Set Up Its Global Empire on a Tiny Bermudan Island 44:02

2M ago44:02

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Years before Jamestown planters made New World farming profitable by growing tobacco, and years before their countrymen up north in Plymouth Colony managed to overcome their starvation conditions and acclimate to New England’s growing conditions, there was an English settlement in Bermuda that was wealthier, larger, and more prosperous. It was esta…

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Episode 512: Episode 512 Of The Rob V Show (Karissa Koxx) 33:25

2M ago33:25

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Episode 512 Of The Rob V Show with Karissa Koxx. I haven't seen Karissa since Vegas so I am sure we will have a lot to catch up on. Karissa was just at Exxxotica in Chicago so I am sure she will have some stories to share with me. I also learned what a hot wife date is.

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The Hatfield-McCoy Feud Started Over a Pig and Nearly Escalated Into a Regional War 45:20

2M ago45:20

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The origins of the Hatfield-McCoy conflict (between the Hatfield family of West Virginia, led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, and the McCoy family of Kentucky, led by Randolph "Old Randall" McCoy) begins with a dispute over a pig. From here, it escalated from minor disagreements to violent encounters that spanned decades, nearly sparking…

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Episode 511: Episode 511 Of The Rob V Show (Rob's List) 19:45

2M ago19:45

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Episode 511 Of The Rob V Show. I cover WrestleMania 41 and the not so hot build up to it. I debut two new segments on the show. The Crawford Watch and Rob's Shit List. The Snack of The Night has a story behind it. The Babe of The Night was Tyler Faith. Check the whole show out right here!

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The 1845 Potato Blight Struck Across Northern Europe. Why Did Only Ireland Starve? 48:41

3M ago48:41

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In 1845, a novel pathogen attacked potato fields across Europe, from Spain to Scandinavia—but only in Ireland were the effects apocalyptic. At least one million Irish people died, and millions more scattered across the globe, emigrating to new countries and continents. Less than fifty years after the union of Ireland with the rest of Great Britain,…

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A Simple Tennessee Preacher Transformed Abolitionism from a Deeply Unpopular Radical Movement to a Centrist Cause 51:18

3M ago51:18

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Sitting high above the small community of Ripley, Ohio, a lantern shone in the front window of a small, red brick home at night. It was a signal to slaves just across the Ohio River. Anyone fleeing bondage could look to Reverend John Rankin’s home for hope. To the slaveholders they fled from, Rankin’s activities as a “conductor” on the Underground …

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How Benjamin Franklin’s Stove Invention Kept Early America From Freezing 41:53

3M ago41:53

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The biggest revolution in Benjamin Franklin’s lifetime was made to fit in a fireplace. Assembled from iron plates like a piece of flatpack furniture, the Franklin stove became one of the era's most iconic consumer products, spreading from Pennsylvania to England, Italy, and beyond. It was more than just a material object, however—it was also a hypo…

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Roman Churches Had No Involvement in Marriage. How Did It Become a Holy Sacrament by the Middle Ages? 38:25

3M ago38:25

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For much of Christian history, the Church had little involvement in marriage, which was primarily a contract between families. It wasn’t until the fourth century that church weddings emerged, and even then, they were mostly reserved for the elite. Fast forward to the High Middle Ages, and marriage became a sacrament of the Roman Catholic Church. Si…

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How a Mess Cook Saved Dozens of Sailors from Shark Infested Waters Off the Coast of Guadalcanal 28:21

3M ago28:21

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On the night of September 5, 1942, the USS Gregory (APD-3), a converted destroyer turned high-speed transport, was caught in a deadly ambush near Guadalcanal. The ship had been supporting U.S. Marine forces, ferrying troops and supplies, when it was mistaken for a larger threat by a group of Japanese destroyers. Outgunned and unable to escape, Greg…

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Episode 510: Episode 510 of The Rob V Show (Jay) 1:07:45

3M ago1:07:45

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Episode 510 Of The Rob V Show Jay joined the program. Jay is an Only Fans model. Jay just moved to Philly so I had to share with her wear are the good restaurants are. We talked about what kind of content she likes to shoot and being honest when you first meet someone on a first date. Check the whole show out right here.…

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Humanity’s Past Suggests We Only Have 10,000 Years to Change or Go Extinct 53:19

3M ago53:19

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We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline - fast. As Gee demonstrates, our population has peaked, and is dec…

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The 16th Century Ottomans Nearly Conquered Europe. Why Did European Kingdoms Make So Many Alliances With Them? 51:05

3M ago51:05

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The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought by Muslims and Christians across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, from Persia to Russia. But this is not merely the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West. Europe was not united against the Turks; the scandal of the age was the al…

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Fort Stanwix and the Forgotten Revolutionary War Siege That Convinced France to Help the US 42:07

3M ago42:07

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After a series of military defeats over the winter of 1776–1777, British military leaders developed a bold plan to gain control of the Hudson River and divide New England from the rest of the colonies. Three armies would converge on Albany: one under Lieutenant General John Burgoyne moving south from Quebec, one under General William Howe moving no…

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Enough is Enuf, Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell 39:21

3M ago39:21

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No language is as inconsistent in spelling and pronunciation as English. Kernel and colonel rhyme, but read changes based on past or present tense. Ough has many pronunciations: ‘aw’ (thought), ‘ow’ (drought), ‘uff’ (tough), ‘off’ (cough), ‘oo’ (through). In response to this orthographic minefield, legions of rebel wordsmiths have died on the hill …

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Episode 509: Episode 509 Of The Rob V Show (Happy Saint Patricks Day) 17:58

3M ago17:58

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Happy Saint Patricks Day! Episode 509 Of The Rob V Show I talked about the now famous Joe Biden auto pen. Eagles Free Agents and while I am not that excited about Phillies Opening Day. I cant get into college baseball because of the metal bats. John Cena is now a heel. I also took issue with a YouTube channel. The one and only Brandi Love is The Ba…

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Did Haiti’s First and Last King Squander the Revolution or Succeed in Underappreciated Ways? 51:04

4M ago51:04

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Slave, revolutionary, king, Henry Christophe was, in his time, popular and famous the world over. Born to an enslaved mother on the Caribbean island of Grenada, Christophe first fought to overthrow the British in North America, before helping his fellow enslaved Africans in Saint-Domingue, as Haiti was then called, to end slavery. Yet in an incredi…

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What Ancient Greeks and Victorian Explorers Thought Was at the North Pole 41:34

4M ago41:34

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The North Pole looms large in our collective psyche—the ultimate Otherland in a world mapped and traversed. It is the center of our planet’s rotation, and its sub-zero temperatures and strange year of one sunset and one sunrise make it an eerie, utterly disorienting place that challenges human endurance and understanding. Erling Kagge and his frien…

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Episode 508: Episode 504 Of The Rob V Show (Zophia) 53:21

4M ago53:21

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Episode 504 of The Rob V Show Zophia joined me in the program. She is a model from Delaware. She kept distracting me and as you listen to the show you will find out why. She was a lot of fun to have on the show!

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Nothing Healed America’s Wounds After the Civil War Like Baseball 50:35

4M ago50:35

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The nineteenth century was a time of rapid growth and development for the game of “base ball,” and players George Wright and Albert Spalding were right in the thick of it. These two young men, the first superstars of the professional game, won the hearts of a country in search of a unifying spirit after a devastating civil war. Today’s guest is Jef…

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How an 1870 Murder Created San Francisco 37:52

4M ago37:52

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Shortly before dusk on November 3, 1870, just as the ferryboat El Capitan was pulling away from its slip into San Francisco Bay, a woman clad in black emerged from the shadows and strode across the crowded deck. Reaching under her veil, she drew a small pistol and aimed it directly at a well-dressed man sitting quietly with his wife and children. T…

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Episode 507: Episode 508 Of The Rob V Show (Shay Sights) 41:53

4M ago41:53

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Episode 508 of The Rob V Show AVN Hall Of Famer Shay Sights joined the program. I met her Dog Grogu and she even gave me some dating advice. She was a lot of fun to have on the show. I also had to announce that I was folding the baseball team. Check the whole show out right here!

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Episode 506: Episode 507 Of The Rob V Show 17:33

4M ago17:33

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Episode 507 of The Rob V Show I went over the betting odds for the WWE Elimination Chamber. Adrianna Deville is The Rob V Show Babe of the night. I also did What Happened On This Day. Check the show out right here!

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Failed Futures: If Alexander The Great Hadn’t Died, He Might Have Conquered Europe, Circumnavigated Africa, and Built His Own Silk Road 34:20

4M ago34:20

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And Alexander wept, seeing as he had no more worlds to conquer. That’s a quote from Hans Gruber in Die Hard, which is a very convoluted paraphrase from Plutarch’s essay collection Moralia. There’s plenty of truth in that unattributed quote from Mr. Gruber. Alexander the Great’s death at 323 BC in Babylon marked the end of the most consequential mil…

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Why the Anabasis is the Second-Most Influential Greek Epic (After Homer’s Works) 48:43

4M ago48:43

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Imagine being stranded thousands of miles deep in enemy territory with 10,000 soldiers, no allies, no clear way home, and the only means of escape was by foot. This was the predicament faced by Xenophon and the Greek mercenaries in Anabasis, one of the most gripping survival stories of the ancient world. In this episode, we delve into the incredibl…

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The American Revolution Would Have Been Lost Without a Ragtag Fleet of Thousands of Privateers 59:36

4M ago59:36

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Privateers were a cross between an enlisted sailor and an outright pirate. But they were crucial in winning the Revolutionary War. As John Lehman, former secretary of the navy under President Ronald Reagan, observed, “From the beginning of the American Revolution until the end of the War of 1812, America’s real naval advantage lay in its privateers…

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Did Lincoln Save Global Democracy or Undermine It Using Wartime Powers? 57:26

4M ago57:26

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Did Abraham Lincoln preserve democracy during the Civil War, or did he endanger it in the process? To explore this paradox, we’re joined by renowned historian and Lincoln scholar Allen Guelzo, author of Our Ancient Faith. Guelzo takes us deep into the high-stakes decisions of Lincoln’s presidency, from the suspension of habeas corpus to the Emancip…

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