Best Scott Rank, PhD Podcasts (2025)

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Surviving the Siege of Leningrad with Sawdust Bread and Iron Determination 46:54

15h ago46:54

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The first year of the siege of Leningrad that began in September 1941 marked the opening stage of a 900-day-long struggle for survival that left over a million dead. The capture of the city came tantalizingly close late that year, but Hitler paused to avoid costly urban fighting. Determined to starve Leningrad into submission, what followed was a w…

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Depression-Era Governor Huey Long Wanted to Confiscate Individual Fortunes Over $1 Million, Possibly Leading to His 1935 Assassination 1:05:41

4d ago1:05:41

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The most radical piece of legislation in the 20th century was Louisiana Governor Huey Long’s “Share Our Wealth Plan,” a bold proposal to confiscate individual fortunes exceeding $1 million to fund healthcare, free college education, and a guaranteed minimum income for families struggling through the Great Depression—a plan so radical it sparked the…

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2025 NFL Training Camp Risers & Draft Strategy w/ Sigmund Bloom 1:25:37

6d ago1:25:37

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. In this episode of The School of Scott Podcast, Scott Barrett and Theo Gremminger are joined by Football Guys' Sigmund Bloom to break down the biggest early standouts of 2025 NFL training camp. The trio digs into breakout candidat…

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Rope Equals Fire as Humanity’s Most Important Invention: It Allowed Hunting Mammoths and Building Pyramids 55:36

6d ago55:36

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“‘Rope!’ muttered Sam[wise Gamgee]. ‘I knew I’d want it, if I hadn’t got it!’” Sam knew in the Lord of the Rings that the quest would fail without rope, but he was inadvertently commenting on how civilization owes its existence to this three-strand tool. Humans first made rope 50,000 years ago and one of its earliest contributions to the rise of ci…

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Contrarian Drafting: Scott Barrett & Shawn Siegele Challenge Fantasy Football Consensus 1:44:15

8d ago1:44:15

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. In this must-listen episode of The School of Scott Podcast, Scott Barrett teams up with legendary fantasy analyst Shawn Siegele to explore bold draft strategies and unconventional rankings. They challenge groupthink on players lik…

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The Scopes Trial Was Entirely Orchestrated But Became an Unintended 1920s Culture War Touchpoint 56:43

11d ago56:43

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July 2025 marks the 100th anniversary of the Scopes Trial – a trial that exposed profound divisions in America over religion, education, and public morality. This was a legal case in Dayton, Tennessee, where high school teacher John Scopes was prosecuted for teaching evolution, violating the state's Butler Act. The Butler Act was a 1925 Tennessee l…

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Top 32 TEs by ADP: Scott Barrett’s Favorites, Fades & One Defining Stat Each 1:08:03

13d ago1:08:03

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game On this definitive episode of The School of Scott, Scott Barrett dives into the top 32 tight ends in fantasy football, ranked by current ADP. Each player gets spotlighted with one stat that tells their story—whether it’s red-zone t…

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The Panda Was First Discovered By Theodore Roosevelt’s Sons During a 9-Month Expedition in Himalayan China 42:05

15d ago42:05

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In the late 1920s, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and his younger brother Kermit, sons of President Theodore Roosevelt, wanted fame and glory apart from the family spotlight. They were seeking the “empty spots” on the maps, the areas that had yet to be explored and described by Westerners. From these remote places, they hoped to bring back exotic animals t…

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12 NFL Training Camp Sleepers + Bold Predictions w/ Brett Whitefield 1:32:13

15d ago1:32:13

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. In this episode of The School of Scott, Scott Barrett and Theo Gremminger welcome Brett Whitefield for a jam-packed show filled with quick-hitting insights and deep analysis. The duo opens with rapid-fire questions, including whic…

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How Do We Really Know What Happened in the Past When Many Historians Were Propagandists and AI is Fabricating Everything Else? 48:46

20d ago48:46

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“History is written by the winners.” This aphorism is catchy and it makes an important point that a lot of what we know about history was written with an agenda, not for the purposes of informing us. Unfortunately, it isn’t true. There are many times that the so-called “losers” wrote the histories remembered today. After the American Civil War, Sou…

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Elite vs. Late-Round QBs: Who Actually Wins in 2025? w/ JJ Zachariason 1:23:25

20d ago1:23:25

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. Is 2025 the year elite quarterbacks become must-draft early picks — or is there still a massive edge in going late-round? On today’s episode of The School of Scott, John Hansen is joined by fantasy football expert JJ Zachariason t…

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Eugénie de Montijo: The Spanish Empress Who Built Modern Paris and is Blamed For Imperial France’s Downfall 45:45

22d ago45:45

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Thirty-three years after the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte’s Empire, his nephew (known as Napoleon III) became the first president of France before becoming emperor himself. Although he was a capable ruler and reformer, Napoleon III’s failed military campaigns, especially France’s loss to Germany in the Franco-Prussian War, led to his defeat, capture,…

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John Adams: The Most Influential Yet Overlooked Founding Father? 38:38

27d ago38:38

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John Adams is arguably America’s most underrated Founding Father. He has no currency that bears his image. No national holidays celebrate his birth. He’s nearly never named as anyone’s favorite president. And he has no dedicated memorial in Washington, D.C. Despite this, he was perhaps the most influential early American, rivaling Washington, Jeffe…

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Analyzing the Running Back Landscape: Saquon Barkley vs. Bijan Robinson and Draft Strategies for Success w/ Pat Kerrane 1:37:57

27d ago1:37:57

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. The running back position remains one of the most hotly debated and strategically complex areas in fantasy football. In a recent episode of "School of Scott," hosts Scott Barrett and Theo Gremminger welcome guest Pat Kerrane (of "…

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Why Thomas More -- Henry VIII’s Hatchet Man and Heretic Hunter -- Was Himself Executed For Heresy After the English Reformation 49:11

29d ago49:11

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Thomas More was one of the most famous—and notorious—figures in English history. Born into the era of the Wars of the Roses, educated during the European Renaissance, rising to become Chancellor of England, and ultimately destroyed by Henry VIII, he hunted Protestants for heresy and had them burnt at the stake in the final years of Catholic England…

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The Quarterback Conundrum: Finding Value in a Crowded Fantasy Landscape 57:57

29d ago57:57

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. In this solo episode of the "School of Scott" podcast, host Scott Barrett breaks down fantasy football quarterbacks for the upcoming season. Scott analyzes every likely Week 1 starting QB, using average draft position (ADP), key s…

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2025 Offensive Line Rankings & Fantasy Football Impact w/ Scott DiBenedetto 1:13:01

1M ago1:13:01

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. On this episode of the School of Scott podcast, we break down his 2025 Offensive Line Rankings and unpacks how these trenches impact your fantasy football decisions. 🔧 Can Denver’s O-line unlock their offense? 🔁 Does continuity re…

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Don’t Look to 1903s Germany to Understand American Populism. Look to 1830s New York Revivals Instead. 1:03:45

1M ago1:03:45

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Something strange happened in Upstate New York during the 1830s. This area was called the "Burned-Over District" because so many fiery religious revivals swept through that it was metaphorically burned over. This region became a key source of the Second Great Awakening, a Protestant revival movement marked by emotional preaching and mass conversion…

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Operation Barbarossa Saw Millions of POW Executions, Civilian Murders, and Starvation Deaths 52:35

1M ago52:35

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Operation Barbarossa, launched by Nazi Germany on June 22, 1941, aimed to swiftly conquer the Soviet Union, targeting key cities like Moscow, Leningrad, and Kyiv. Hitler reportedly said a meeting with his generals before the campaign began "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down," With German forces …

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

1M 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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RB Dead Zone Values & Fades for 2025 | Fantasy Football Strategy w/ Derek Brown 1:55:04

1M ago1:55:04

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. The RB Dead Zone used to be a trap — Rounds 4-6 filled with overdrafted volume chasers. But times have changed. In this episode of The School of Scott, Scott Barrett, and Theo Gremminger welcomes Derek Brown (aka Dbro) to break do…

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

1M 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

2M 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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Sneaky Values, Breakout Picks & Projections Debates for 2025 Fantasy Football w/ Jared Smola 58:16

2M ago58:16

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. In this episode of the School of Scott podcast, Scott Barrett and Jared Smola (Draft Sharks) go head-to-head on some of the biggest projection debates and player values for 2025 fantasy football. They dive deep into: Why Jonathan …

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

2M 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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Alan Pinkerton: The Private Detective Who Saved Lincoln’s Life and Built America’s Contract Security State 50:07

2M 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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12 Must-Know Fantasy Football Stats for 2025 To Win Your League With! w/ Jacob Gibbs 1:26:22

2M ago1:26:22

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Use code SCOREMORE10 at checkout for 10% OFF any subscription. Dominate your league. Win more bets. Level up your game. On this episode of The School of Scott, special guest Jacob Gibbs joins Scott Barrett and Theo Gremminger to unload 12 game-changing stats that every fantasy football player needs to know heading into 2025. We’re diving deep into …

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

2M 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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Brock Bowers, Positional Revolutions & the Future of Fantasy Football TEs w/ Max Toscano 1:40:49

2M ago1:40:49

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Tight ends are changing — and Max Toscano is here to explain how. In this episode, Scott Barrett, Theo Gremminger, and Max dive deep into the TE evolution and what it means for fantasy football in 2025 and beyond. 👽 Is Brock Bowers a tight end… or a slot WR in disguise? 📉 Why Kyle Pitts might be Mike Gesicki 2.0 🧠 Play-calling vs. talent — what mat…

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

2M 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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Strength of Schedule Winners: The Ultimate Draft Cheat Code in Fantasy Football 1:11:51

2M ago1:11:51

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Is strength of schedule the most overlooked cheat code in fantasy football? 🧠📊 Theo Gremminger and Ryan Heath reveal the biggest winners and red flags from our full-season, early-season, and playoff schedule breakdowns. 🔥 Can Brock Purdy overcome a brutal playoff schedule for his WRs? 📈 Is Chuba Hubbard the early-season RB sleeper everyone’s ignori…

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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

2M 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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Moonshining Survived (and Thrived) At Least Two Decades After Prohibition Ended 45:47

2M 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

2M 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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Talkin' Shop with Brett Whitefield - NFL Debates from Our Daily Phone Calls 47:22

2M ago47:22

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On this episode of School of Scott, Brett Whitefield joins Scott Barrett for one of their classic NFL deep dives — the kind of conversations that usually happen off-air, now brought straight to your ears. The duo goes back and forth on the latest league buzz, including: Why the Tush Push ban was lame What the George Pickens trade to Dallas really m…

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

3M 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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Dynasty Startup Mock Draft (Rookies & 2nd-Year Players Only) w/ Danny Kelly 1:22:26

3M ago1:22:26

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This week, Scott Barrett and Theo Gremminger is joined by The Ringer’s Danny Kelly for a high-stakes dynasty startup mock draft — but with a twist: only rookies and second-year players are eligible. Who are the true cornerstone assets for dynasty rosters in 2025 and beyond? 📊 Episode Highlights: ⚔️ Debate: Bucky Irving vs. TreVeyon Henderson vs. Qu…

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

3M 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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Fantasy Football 2025: Projections vs ADP — League-Winning Picks and Fades from Fantasy Points w/ Chris Wecht 1:53:59

3M ago1:53:59

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Welcome back to the School of Scott — where we turn projections into precision. In this episode, Scott and Theo bring in the Fantasy Points projections guru Chris Wecht to walk through his 2025 fantasy football projection process and puts receipts on the table from last season’s hits and misses. Then, we dive deep into the players we’re highest on …

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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

3M 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

3M 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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2025 Fantasy Football Breakout Players: Fact or Fiction? w/ Sigmund Bloom 1:06:08

3M ago1:06:08

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Can George Pickens break the curse of Mike Tomlin wideouts who vanish in fantasy after leaving Pittsburgh? 🤔 And what does his exit mean for DK Metcalf’s fantasy outlook now that he's a Steeler? In this episode of The School of Scott, we dive deep into the latest dynasty and redraft ripple effects, featuring bold predictions, rookie RB debates, and…

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

3M 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

3M 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

3M 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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2025 Dynasty Rookie Mock Draft (3 Rounds) Post NFL Draft with Rich Hribar 1:16:19

3M ago1:16:19

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🧠 The NFL Draft is in the books, and it’s time to go 3 rounds deep into the first full Superflex TE Premium Dynasty Rookie Mock Draft of the 2025 cycle on School Of Scott! Scott Barrett, Rich Hribar, and Theo Gremminger break down every pick and strategy — helping you dominate your dynasty rookie drafts with sharp analysis and bold calls. 📈 💥 Episo…

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

3M 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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Hidden Fantasy Football Gems from Day 3 2025 NFL Draft Pressers 💎 w/ Greg Brainos 1:23:02

3M ago1:23:02

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Join Scott Barrett and special guest Greg Brainos for a deep dive into the fantasy football insights you won't find anywhere else. 🕵️‍♂️ In this episode of The School of Scott, they break down all the key takeaways from Day 3 NFL Draft press conferences — decoding coach-speak, exposing hidden motivations, and uncovering crucial fantasy implications…

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Hidden Fantasy Gems Unearthed: Day 2 NFL Draft Pressers 🧠🏈 w/ Greg Brainos 1:08:50

3M ago1:08:50

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Join Scott Barrett and special guest Greg Brainos for a deep dive into the fantasy football insights no one else is talking about. 🕵️‍♂️ They break down all the key takeaways from Day 2 NFL Draft press conferences — decoding coach-speak, revealing hidden motivations, and uncovering crucial fantasy implications you won't hear anywhere else. 📈 Whethe…

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Hidden Fantasy Gems from NFL Draft Pressers 🧠🏈 w/ Greg Brainos 1:25:15

3M ago1:25:15

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Join Scott Barrett and special guest Greg Brainos for a deep dive into the fantasy football insights no one else is talking about. 🕵️‍♂️ They break down all the key takeaways from first-round NFL Draft press conferences — decoding coach-speak, revealing hidden motivations, and uncovering crucial fantasy implications you won't hear anywhere else. 📈 …

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