Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

Tanner likes to talk about history and find threads that pass through everything that has ever happened. If you wanna listen, you can.

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Episodes

The Space Race

Starting after World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union went bonkers with firing rockets into space. What happened? Let's figure it out.

Mar 12, 2020•25 min

Smoke Over Tiananmen Square, 1989

We're going to travel to China in 1989, where a democratic movement ended in a brutal crackdown, followed by one of the most successful government cover-ups in recent history. What happened? Let's dive in.

Mar 07, 2020•26 min

Port Sydney and the First Fleet

Why did the British colonize Australia? When did it happen? And why did they send convicts? A brief crash-course on the events that led to the European colonization of what we now know as Australia, then called New South Wales.

Feb 27, 2020•19 min

The Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Did the actions of one 19-year-old Serbian Nationalist lead to the deaths of more than 16 million people? How did it happen? WHY did it happen? Today we take a quick crash course on one of the most pivotal events of the 20th century -- the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

Feb 20, 2020•18 min

Black Tuesday

What happened during the Stock Market Crash of 1929? How does the Stock Market work? How did one day set off a chain of events leading to the Great Depression? I'm gonna give you the down low. Let's ride.

Feb 14, 2020•15 min

The Woodstock Festival of 1969

A quick run-down of what went down at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York at the tail end of the Summer of Love.

Feb 07, 2020•22 min

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