After the Allied landing in Normandy in World War II, the Allies made progress pushing back the Germans. However, by September, things had slowed down. One allied commander devised a plan that he thought would end the war in one fell swoop. The plan was bold, audacious, and highly risky, and in the end, it was ultimately a failure. Learn more about Operation Market Garden and the attempt to quickly bring an end to the war on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step ...
Sep 20, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every country has a national dish, and Spain is no exception. The dish that most people associate with Spain is the rice dish known as paella. Paella is, on the one hand, very simple, and on the other hand, very complex and confusing. It also has a surprising history touching on almost every major period in Spanish history. Learn more about paella, the national dish of Spain, and how it might technically even be Spanish on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors The Tourist Office ...
Sep 19, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Many people have hobbies—pastimes that they enjoy and maybe even spend a lot of money on. However, there are some people whose hobbies become an obsession. This is particularly true in the world of birdwatching. Some birders have spent their entire lives trying to view and count as many species of birds as possible, and an exceptional few have tried to do it in a single year. Learn more about the Big Year and how birdwatching became competitive on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Spo...
Sep 18, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast The middle ages didn’t have sports like we have today, but they did have competitions. These competitions were tournaments between knights where they demonstrated their martial prowess. During this period, there was one knight who stood out amongst all the rest. He never lost a match and rose to a level where he was the king of England in all but name. Learn more about William Marshall, the greatest knight in history, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into...
Sep 17, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast When European explorers set off from Europe, many of them chased things that didn’t exist. The Fountain of Youth, the City of El Dorado, and Prester John were all things they pursued but came up empty-handed. However, there was one thing that these European explorers searched for that actually did exist, but not in the way they had hoped. While it was never historically relevant, it could play a much bigger role in the future. Learn more about the Northwest Passage, its discovery, and its future...
Sep 16, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the early 20th century, there was one woman who put herself in the center of the world of modern art. She didn’t just collect art. She befriended many starving artists, she discovered many unknown artists, and she had affairs with many great artists. Her obsession with modern art resulted in one of the greatest collections of modern art ever assembled in the 20th century. Learn more about Peggy Guggenheim and her obsession with modern art on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponso...
Sep 15, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Located in India is one of the largest cities in the world, Delhi. Delhi has a history that dates back over 2,000 years, and it has been the seat of power for multiple emperors and kings. However, Delhi in addition to being an ancient city, Delhi is also a modern city that serves as the capital of the modern nation of India. Learn more about Delhi and the difference between Delhi and New Delhi on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrilling world of s...
Sep 14, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the mid-19th century, the United States began to change. The country had initially been settled by people from England, Scotland, and the Netherlands, the vast majority of whom were Protestant. However, in the 1840s, there began a dramatic change in the composition of immigrants to the United States. A large number of them began coming from Ireland and Germany, the vast majority of which were Catholic. The reaction to these immigrants had an enormous impact on American politics. Learn more ab...
Sep 13, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. She was highly educated, spoke at least four languages, had eight children, and lived in a palace. And, oh, by the way, she was one of the most prolific and sadistic serial killers in world history. Learn more about Elizabeth Báthory, aka the Countess of Blood, on this Episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrilling world of sports and entertainment w...
Sep 12, 2023•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast One of the fundamental questions of humanity is where did we come from? How did life on Earth come about? While there have been many theories as to how this could have happened, in 1952, one man decided to actually run an experiment to see if they could replicate the early conditions on Earth. The results were eye-opening. Learn more about the Miller-Urey Experiment and how it changed our ideas on the genesis of life, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into...
Sep 11, 2023•9 min•Transcript available on Metacast Throughout human history, people have killed, robbed, and put their lives at risk in the pursuit of power. In fact, almost all of history can be thought of as people, tribes, and nations all competing for power. However, occasionally there are those who have the ability to seize power but refuse to do so. One man, in particular, did so twice. Learn more about Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrilling world of sports...
Sep 10, 2023•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast On June 24, 1948, the Soviet Union placed a blockade on Berlin’s American, British, and French-occupied zones. No food, fuel, or supplies could enter the area known as West Berlin. Many people thought that either the allies would have to capitulate or engage in an armed conflict. However, the Americans and British eventually figured out another way around the blockade. Learn more about the Berlin Airlift and how it shaped post-war Europe on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors D...
Sep 09, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast I’ve done many episodes talking about the first world war and I’ve done many episodes talking about the second world war. However, despite the names we’ve given them, they weren’t the only world wars. There was another global war that occurred well before the 20th-century wars. This war actually saw conflicts on five different continents. Learn more about World War Zero, the world war before the world wars, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrill...
Sep 08, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Sahara desert is by far the largest desert in the world. It evokes images of sand dunes, camels and just being really really dry. However, it didn’t always use to be that way. Quite recently, at least geologically speaking, it was a place with grasslands and forests. While it disappeared and became a desert, some think a green Sahara might return. Learn more about how the Sahara desert wasn’t always a desert, on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the ...
Sep 07, 2023•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast Every day, in most countries with a Westminster System of parliament, whenever parliament is in session, there is a period known as Question time. During this time, any member of parliament may ask questions of the government ministers. As with a parliament, this podcast also has a question time and it occurs once every month. Stay tuned for questions and answers volume 10 on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Draft Kings Step into the thrilling world of sports and entertainme...
Sep 06, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The biggest thing there is and the biggest thing there can be is infinity, right? It literally has no bounds. In fact, thinking about infinity can quickly give you a nosebleed because our finite minds can’t really grasp just how enormous it really is. However, what if I were to tell you that there is something even bigger than infinity? Or, to be more accurate, there are infinities that are bigger than other infinities? Follow me down the rabbit hole as I investigate infinity on this episode of ...
Sep 05, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Throughout history, philosophers have pondered how the universe began. For centuries, it was just that…pondering. It wasn’t until the 20th century that enough evidence began to accumulate about the universe that it was possible to establish a reasonable theory. Ultimate, it wasn’t until 1927 when a 31-year-old Catholic Priest from Belgium, using the latest scientific discoveries, proposed a theory to explain the origin of the universe. Learn more about the Big Bang Theory, how it came about, and...
Sep 04, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Located in the Gulf of Guinea, off the west coast of Africa, lies the island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. São Tomé and Príncipe have the distinction of being one of the smallest countries in Africa by both population and area, and as such, it is a country that many people have never heard of. Despite its small size, its geography and history make it a country, unlike any other country in Africa. Learn more about the nation of São Tomé and Príncipe and how it came to be on this episode of Eve...
Sep 03, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1555, a French physician and astrologer named Michel de Nostredame published a book of poems titled Les Prophéties. Ever since people have been trying to interpret world events through his writings. Was Nostradamus a prophet? Was he a fraud? Or are people just reading way too much into a bunch of vague, random statements? Learn more about Nostradamus and how his writings have been interpreted on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time...
Sep 02, 2023•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the United States Senate, there is a procedural rule which is very uncommon among legislative bodies. According to the Senate rules, senators may speak for as long as they wish on any subject until 3/5ths of the members of the body vote to end debate. While this might seem like a rather innocuous rule, the implications of it have been wide-ranging. Learn more about the filibuster, how it came to be, and how it has been used on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.c...
Sep 01, 2023•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1949, a young inventor by the name of Norman Woodland was sitting on the beach in Florida. While drawing some lines in the sand, he had an idea that would revolutionize the world of retail and logistics. In fact, his invention might be found somewhere around you or on your person at this moment. Learn more about bar codes and the closely related Universal Product Codes on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into thei...
Aug 31, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The United States consists of 50 states, each of which is represented by a star on the American flag. Most of those states consist of some section of North America divided by lines on a map that separate them from other states, Canada, or Mexico. But there is one state that is not like the others. It isn’t located in North America. It doesn’t have a land border with anything, and its route to statehood was unlike any other state in the union. Learn more about the long and controversial way Hawai...
Aug 30, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast There is an excellent chance that you know someone who has a twin sibling. In fact, there are some of you listening who have a twin brother or sister. Multiple births are something that isn’t common but also isn’t super rare, either. However, multiple births have actually become more common over time despite the fact that there are some types of multiple births that are exceedingly rare. Learn more about multiple births, twins, triplets, and more, and how they happen, on this episode of Everythi...
Aug 29, 2023•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Ever since humans came out of the African savannah, they have had to work to survive. But the nature of work has changed dramatically since we had to hunt wooly mammoths for food. We’ve gone from hunting to farming to sitting in front of a computer making podcasts. Along the way, labor has become a subject of study for economists, an organizing force in politics, and a driving force in culture. Learn more about human labor and how it changed over time on this episode of Everything Everywhere Dai...
Aug 28, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast There is a good chance that every day, you encounter bricks. You might drive on them, walk on them, and live inside them, and you’ve probably never even given them a second thought. However, bricks, brickwork, and bricklaying are some of the constants that have existed throughout history. We used bricks for construction thousands of years ago, and we still use them today. Learn more about bricks and bricklaying and how it has changed over the centuries on this episode of Everything Everywhere Da...
Aug 27, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the late 19th century, bananas, a fruit that had been popular for thousands of years, suddenly became a mass-market sensation. However, just a few decades after it was popularized, the industry had to completely change what was grown due to a pestilence. As a result, the bananas that most people eat today are very different than the bananas that everyone ate before the second world war. Learn more about bananas, and why your grandparents didn’t eat the same kind, on this episode of Everything...
Aug 26, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1961, Michael Rockefeller, an heir to one of the greatest fortunes in the world, disappeared on an art-collecting trip off the coast of the island of New Guinea. For decades, the family simply assumed that he accidentally drowned off the coast in an attempt to rescue his anthropologist colleague. However, in the decades since he disappeared, more information may have come forward about exactly what happened, and it may not have been a simple drowning. Learn more about Michael Rockefeller and ...
Aug 25, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast If there is one song almost everyone knows it is Happy Birthday to You (yes, that is the actual title of the song, even though everyone just calls it Happy Birthday). Not only has the song been sung at countless children’s birthday parties, but it has also been mentioned in Supreme Court decisions and was the subject of one of the most important copyright cases in history. Learn more about the most famous song in the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com N...
Aug 24, 2023•10 min•Transcript available on Metacast All around you, in the air and the ground, is the most common element on Earth: Oxygen. As you are certainly well aware, Oxygen is required for life on Earth as we know it. But you might realize that the Earth didn’t always have oxygen in its atmosphere. Oxygen has been responsible for everything from the rise of multicellular life to the space program. Learn more about the element oxygen, what it is, and how it came to be in our atmosphere on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsor...
Aug 23, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast We are all familiar with tattoos. All of you have at least seen someone with one, most of you know someone with one, and many of you have at least one of your own. The act of putting permanent illustrations on skin is actually one that goes back thousands of years and is something that has been practiced by cultures around the world. Learn more about tattoos, where they came from, and how they have been used around the world on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Newspapers.com...
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