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The evacuation from Crete reaches its final stage as British, Commonwealth, and Greek forces try to escape through Sphakia while others are left behind at Rethymno and across the island. This episode follows the difficult choices made by commanders and naval crews, the losses suffered by the Royal Navy, the surrender and occupation that followed, and the way the defeat shaped later judgments of Freyberg, Churchill, and the battle itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Bad Iran may be tamed by the Peace Deal, but we're killing ourselves by suicidal empathy towards terrorists.Suicidal empathy, or sympathy for those who want to kill us, may seem like a virtuous quality, but it is really madness and will bring about our demise. This episode, hosted by Carole Lieberman, M.D., The Terrorist Therapist®, features examples of suicidal empathy from the U.S. to the U.K. and shows how we've been bullied into submission since 9/11 by others calling us Islamophobes.In Arizona, a school board member, had the gall to suggest that Islam would take over America. Though she accurately stated terrorists' intentions, the more ignorant of those in hercommunity are calling for her resignation. In North Carolina, the Muslim high school valedictorian tossed the speech that had been vetted by her school to go into a rant about Israel, America and ICE. In New Jersey, Hisham ‘Adam' Hamaway celebrated his Democrat primary victory by having Muslim supporters shout "Allahu Akbar!”In the U.K., Radical Islamist migrants have reached the tipping point, even influencing the Bank of England to drop Winston Churchill from banknotes. There is barbarism in Belfast, where these migrants, following the Quran, decapitate the Irish in broad daylight. No woman is safe, as men from Pakistan to Palestine claim it's legal under Sharia Law to rape young non-Muslim girls.  Yet when a noted authority in terrorism testified before Congress about the danger of Sharia Law seeping into America, only some of the Congressmen took the threat seriously enough. Others reflected the general tendency of Americans to remain in denial.

H.W. Brands describes how, in early 1941, Roosevelt introduced the Lend-Lease Act (HR 1776), a bill that ironically shared its name with the year of American independence but intended to "marry America's future to Britain's future." Because Britain was running out of cash, Roosevelt argued that the U.S. should lend or lease weaponry to ensure they didn't go down for lack of funds. He was aided by a sentimental shift in American public opinion, driven by Edward R. Murrow's broadcasts which portrayed the "stubborn British" as heroic underdogs fighting for democracy. Simultaneously, a covert information war was being waged by William Stephenson, the director of British propaganda in America, who worked with William "Wild Bill" Donovan to manipulate U.S. opinion with the administration's blessing. While Roosevelt publicly complained about German propaganda, his own administration used unacknowledged stories and rumors to move Americans toward war. Lindbergh called out this hypocrisy, arguing that aiding Churchill—an "unreconstructed" imperialist—was not a defense of democracy but a defense of British rule in places like India. Roosevelt even utilized a forged map, allegedly showing a German plan to reorganize Latin America and replace the Bible with Mein Kampf, to stir fear. Lindbergh's diary reveals his deep intuition that every step away from neutrality was a calculated move toward war, regardless of the president's stated desire for peace. (5)1941

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes.Release date: 12 June 2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes. Release date: 12 June 2026

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes.Release date: 12 June 2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Join our champion program: mark@themomentumcompany.comAttend a Thriving Leader event: https://thriving-leader-2026.lovable.app/Instagram: @the.momentum.companyLinkedIn: /momentum-companyIn this episode of The Intentional Agribusiness Leader, Mark sits down with Todd Churchill—social entrepreneur, consulting CFO, and founder of multiple agriculture and food businesses—for a deep conversation about land, nutrition, human history, and the systems shaping modern agriculture.Todd defines intentional leadership through one foundational idea:Understand why we do what we do.Not just operationally.Historically.Todd believes intentionality requires curiosity—digging beneath assumptions to understand how systems, incentives, and human behavior evolved over time. Whether it's farming, food production, land ownership, or nutrition, the deeper question is always:Why did humanity build it this way?That mindset has shaped Todd's entire career.Raised on a family farm in Illinois, Todd grew up around cattle, land management, entrepreneurship, and long-term thinking. One of the most powerful lessons passed down through generations was this:Land is not primarily how you make wealth.It's how you preserve it.Throughout history, land—alongside gold and silver—has remained one of the few assets capable of retaining value across inflationary cycles, economic shifts, and changing currencies.But Todd also explains the emotional side of land ownership.People don't connect to land rationally.They connect to it emotionally.And that emotional connection has shaped agriculture for generations.The conversation also explores the evolution of Todd's work in the cattle industry.After years in finance and fractional CFO consulting, Todd became involved in specialty meat processing and eventually launched one of the first national grass-fed beef brands in the United States: Thousand Hills Cattle Company.What began as a business opportunity quickly became an obsession with one central question:What creates the best possible eating experience?Not just selling “grass-fed.”Not just selling beef.Creating food that people genuinely wanted to eat—and that their bodies recognized as deeply nourishing.A major theme throughout the episode is this:The real problem is often different than the one people think they're solving.Todd explains how businesses frequently optimize for the wrong thing:Selling more product instead of creating a better experienceMaximizing industrial efficiency at the expense of long-term healthPursuing scale without balance or sustainabilityThe conversation also dives into one of agriculture's biggest structural challenges:The separation of livestock and crop production.Todd explains how integrating cattle and grain production historically created natural nutrient cycles—where manure restored soil fertility and livestock added value to crops. As modern agriculture became more specialized, those systems became disconnected, increasing dependency on purchased inputs and reducing long-term resilience.That challenge is part of the work Todd is now involved in through Progena Systems, where the focus is creating more efficient, sustainable, closed-loop systems that improve both productivity and ecological outcomes.The episode also touches on nutrition, food systems, and the future of beef production.Todd makes a clear distinction:The conversation shouldn't be about making beef more exclusive or expensive.It should be about making high-quality, nutrient-dense beef:More efficient to produceMore affordableMore sustainableAnd more accessible to more peopleBecause feeding people well matters.The episode closes with one of the most important questions leaders can ask themselves:Am I actually solving the right problem?Because intentional leadership doesn't start with better tactics.It starts with better questions.Listen if you are:Interested in the future of food and agricultureThinking about land ownership and long-term wealthExploring regenerative or integrated ag systemsLeading a business and trying to solve deeper root problemsCurious about nutrition, beef production, and sustainability

The late-week edition of the In The Money Media Players' Podcast is here starting with a segment focused on Haskell Preview Day this Saturday (June 13) at Monmouth Park, which also happens to be the day of the $2,000 Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge! Peter Thomas Fornatale (PTF) starts the show alongside Jonathon Kinchen (JK) to preview the horse racing action taking place on Haskell Preview Day and inside of the Pick Your Prize contest, which you can still register to compete in - visit the Monmouth Park website for more information. PTF then talks with BCBC champ Drew Coatney about horse racing action from Woodbine for this Saturday in the next segment before Mikee P wraps the show analyzing Saturday action from Churchill Downs with Ryan Anderson of The Gallop Out.For more information on the $2,000 Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge, visit https://www.monmouthpark.com/event/2000-pick-your-prize-handicapping-challenge/

300 years after the publication of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Matthew Sweet looks at satire, past and present. How can satirists reflect critically and humorously on political events in an age of social media saturation and at a time when reality can seem stranger than fiction?He is joined by:Andrew Hunter Murray, comedian, writer and host of Radio 4's The Naked Week. His new book is Bad Deeds.Jan Ravens, actor and impressionist, known for her work on Spitting Image and Radio 4's Dead RingersRosie Holt, actor and comedian. Rosie's shows Churchill's Urinal and Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens have landed! will both be at Edinburgh Festival.Tom Peck, Parliamentary sketch writer for The TimesandSiôn Parkinson, artist, Research Associate at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and 2026 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker.Producer: Eliane Glaser

What's more revolting? The racist pogrom against innocent families in Belfast? Or the way the far-right is again using a violent attack to claim that every immigrant – legal or illegal – is a threat to the country? Our panel looks at how indulging the “legitimate concerns” mindset leads to kids being burned out of their homes. Plus we answer your questions in our new monthly-ish But Your Emails special. And in the Extra Bit for Patreon people: do progressive protestors need to up their banner game? • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk.  ESCAPE ROUTES • Jason has been reading A.I. by Belgian comedian Lieven Schiere  • Seth saw Churchill's Urinal starring friend of the pod Rosie Holt at the King's Head Theatre, Islington. You've missed it, but it's on in Edinburgh in August.    • Zöe enjoyed Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester. • Andrew has been listening to Inferno by Boards Of Canada www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Zöe Grünewald, Seth Thévoz and Jason Hazeley. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The late-week edition of the In The Money Media Players' Podcast is here starting with a segment focused on Haskell Preview Day this Saturday (June 13) at Monmouth Park, which also happens to be the day of the $2,000 Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge! Peter Thomas Fornatale (PTF) starts the show alongside Jonathon Kinchen (JK) to preview the horse racing action taking place on Haskell Preview Day and inside of the Pick Your Prize contest, which you can still register to compete in - visit the Monmouth Park website for more information. PTF then talks with BCBC champ Drew Coatney about horse racing action from Woodbine for this Saturday in the next segment before Mikee P wraps the show analyzing Saturday action from Churchill Downs with Ryan Anderson of The Gallop Out.For more information on the $2,000 Pick Your Prize Handicapping Challenge, visit https://www.monmouthpark.com/event/2000-pick-your-prize-handicapping-challenge/

El comienzo En septiembre de 1939, tras firmar con la URSS el Pacto Ribbentrop‑Molotov que incluía protocolos secretos para repartirse Europa del Este, la Alemania de Hitler invade Polonia mediante una ofensiva de Blitzkrieg basada en blindados y apoyo aéreo. Europa vuelve a la guerra apenas veinte años después del final de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Para Hitler, comienza la oportunidad de ejecutar su proyecto. El Blitz Hitler avanza por las Ardenas y Francia cae en semanas. Churchill evacúa Dunkerque y el Reino Unido resiste el Blitz mientras Roosevelt refuerza a unos aliados que luchan por sobrevivir.

Only 1% of listeners are clever enough to complete this survey: http://bit.ly/noncensored-survey.This week, Harriet Langley-Swindon and Producer Martin talk to MaryBeth JoAnn Meg, an American-Irishwoman in Belfast about how worried she is about the new trouble there; Chancellor Rachel Reeves joins us because she ISN'T hiding from a decision on the pensions triple lock or, indeed, hiding in general; and Eshaan Akbar has a Hot & Spicy Takeaway of the Week about the immigrant success story that's taking place in California.Thank you to Pete, who signed up to our Patreon this week. He, like all Patreons, will be getting a bonus interview with tech guru Marty Twelve in the middle of the show, which features some of Marty's trademark bold predictions. Patreons also get every episode early and without adverts, access to the full video of all our interviews, as well as the Patreon-exclusive monthly Time For Questions podcast, where we answer your questions, so get over to Patreon.com/NonCensored and sign up for one or two pounds a week to support the show, and make it possible for us to pay our guests. (If you don't want to subscribe, but do want to give us a one-off amount, all the Patreon-exclusive videos are available for individual sale.)Please follow our social media accounts!Instagram: @noncensoredpodcastTikTok: @noncensoredpodWith thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Mary Flanigan, Davina Bentley, Tom Neenan, and Ed Morrish.Rosie's sitcom, Crossing The Floor, is available now on BBC Sounds. Her play, Churchill's Urinal, will be on at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she will also be doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is taking a brand new show, Indy, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. It's a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new, live podcast called The Early Evening Show, every Sunday evening on YouTube, and his latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is also available on YouTube.Mary can be found on social media as MazFlaz (eg, her Instagram). She's taking a show, Scream If You Want To Go Slower, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and tickets are available here.Tom is the co-host of the Doctor Who podcast A Wheezing Groaning Sound, and is taking his new show, Portrait Of A Tom As A Young Neenan to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - tickets are available here.Ed also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is the West losing confidence in its own ways, learned from costly experience?In this LeDrew Rant, Stephen LeDrew argues that Canada and other Western countries are suffering from the same political problem: leaders and institutions that are more interested in symbolism, slogans, and bureaucracy than common sense, national memory, and action.The rant begins with the Bank of England's decision to move future banknotes away from historic figures such as Winston Churchill, Jane Austen, Alan Turing, and J.M.W. Turner, and toward wildlife imagery. The Bank says the change follows public consultation that found the Leader of the Allied Forces against Evil to be divisive.LeDrew Note–only if you like evil ! The King will remain on the front of the notes.LeDrew connects that decision to Canadian debates(mainly amongst the uneducated) over history, statues, and renaming — including Toronto's move to rename Yonge-Dundas Square as Sankofa Square — arguing that public institutions are too often erasing historical figures instead of teaching history honestly and in full. Toronto City Council approved the new Sankofa Square name in 2023 as part of its broader response to the Dundas renaming issue.The rant also takes aim at political language around diversity, artificial intelligence, and government spending. LeDrew argues that Canada should focus less on abstract slogans and more on commonality, shared values, national identity, and real leadership.This episode covers:Churchill being removed from future UK banknotesThe broader debate over historical erasureDundas, Toronto, and Canadian renaming controversiesDiversity versus common national purposeAI funding and bureaucratic languageWhy Western governments seem increasingly disconnectedThe need for action instead of slogansLeDrew's argument: Canada does not need more consultants, panels, speeches, or bureaucratic “journeys.” It needs leaders willing to make decisions, defend history, and rebuild a common Canadian purpose.Contribute To Information and Debate that is NOT Paid For, and Influenced,ByThe Carney Government:https://paypal.me/3minuteinterviewCheques accepted at:Stephen LeDrew303 Bay StreetToronto, OntarioM5H 2R1Follow Stephen on other social media platforms.https://www.stephenledrew.ca / stephen.ledrew / stephenledrew Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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What a profound honor to have Paul Kennedy on the ChinaTalk podcast. Kennedy is my favorite living historian and the writer who's most shaped my intellectual development. His analysis underpins what you hear on this show every week. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers is an epochal work that traces global power transitions from 1500 to the present. It's gripping, forest-and-trees scholarship at its finest. Equally impressive in different ways is his book, The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860 to 1914. Not only is it god-tier diplomatic history, it also gives you a feel for the era through its explorations of social, economic, domestic, political, and cultural dimensions of Anglo-German relations. There are fascinating US/China analogies that we'll get into at some point in this podcast. His two most recent works directly inform the military coverage on China Talk. Engineers of Victory looks at how people and the systems they worked within solved engineering challenges that turned the tide for entire theaters in World War II. His latest, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of Global Order in World War II, is a sweeping history of a radical transformation in the balance of military power, from the mid-1930s when America was just gaining prominence, to after World War II, when it had no other significant naval competitor. The Parliament of Man: A History of the United Nations first got me interested in international organizations and gave me my senior thesis topic about the creation of the UN. What Kennedy taught me more than anything is this: sweat the details, look at the individual players, and zoom out often enough to understand what truly shapes the long-term fate of nations. Over the course of this episode, we pick up themes from all across his work: Great Power rivalries of the late 19th-early 20th centuries and their echoes today, Why potential antagonisms turn nice and why others turn belligerent, The persistent struggles of liberal internationalists and why they rarely get the outcomes they want, How China today is not Germany of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, The surprising ways geography shapes global power dynamics, How fear spreads among nations and why mutual suspicion is so hard to escape, Why top powers blow it and lose their dominant place in the world, How systems and innovation win wars. And much more, including salutary lessons from the Dutch and Swedes on boring yet prosperous futures, how Churchill's interest in gadgets influenced the course of the Second World War, and why transformative action from the UN remains unlikely in the near future. Note: we recorded this in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Todd has an incredible resume including active participation in farming and ranching, building one of the largest meat marketing companies, and serving at fractional CFO's for many food and ag companies! We discuss his story, how accounting is the language of business, perspectives on managing a ranch and more.Also tune in until the end to listen to Charles from Noble discuss overgrazing and grass management.Resources Mentioned:Knowledge Rich Ranching - Allan NationCheck out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.pharocattle.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for more information on how to put more fun and profit back into your ranching business! As always, check us out at Ranching Returns Podcast on Facebook and Instagram as well as at ⁠www.ranchingreturns.com⁠.For Ranching Returns shirts, hats, and sweatshirts check out https://farmfocused.com/ranching-returns-merch/To get more information on how Ambrook can benefit your operation, check out ambrook.com/ranchingreturnsIf you're interested in Farmatan to fight scours in your operation, call Paul Mitchell at 515-745-1639 or check out farmatanusa.com.If you're interested in both technical and financial support in improving your ranch productivity and efficiency, check out https://agspire.com/rff/To learn more about all the classes and services that Noble offers check out www.noble.org

What a profound honor to have Paul Kennedy on the ChinaTalk podcast. Kennedy is my favorite living historian and the writer who's most shaped my intellectual development. His analysis underpins what you hear on this show every week. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers is an epochal work that traces global power transitions from 1500 to the present. It's gripping, forest-and-trees scholarship at its finest. Equally impressive in different ways is his book, The Rise of Anglo-German Antagonism, 1860 to 1914. Not only is it god-tier diplomatic history, it also gives you a feel for the era through its explorations of social, economic, domestic, political, and cultural dimensions of Anglo-German relations. There are fascinating US/China analogies that we'll get into at some point in this podcast. His two most recent works directly inform the military coverage on China Talk. Engineers of Victory looks at how people and the systems they worked within solved engineering challenges that turned the tide for entire theaters in World War II. His latest, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of Global Order in World War II, is a sweeping history of a radical transformation in the balance of military power, from the mid-1930s when America was just gaining prominence, to after World War II, when it had no other significant naval competitor. The Parliament of Man: A History of the United Nations first got me interested in international organizations and gave me my senior thesis topic about the creation of the UN. What Kennedy taught me more than anything is this: sweat the details, look at the individual players, and zoom out often enough to understand what truly shapes the long-term fate of nations. Over the course of this episode, we pick up themes from all across his work: Great Power rivalries of the late 19th-early 20th centuries and their echoes today, Why potential antagonisms turn nice and why others turn belligerent, The persistent struggles of liberal internationalists and why they rarely get the outcomes they want, How China today is not Germany of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, The surprising ways geography shapes global power dynamics, How fear spreads among nations and why mutual suspicion is so hard to escape, Why top powers blow it and lose their dominant place in the world, How systems and innovation win wars. And much more, including salutary lessons from the Dutch and Swedes on boring yet prosperous futures, how Churchill's interest in gadgets influenced the course of the Second World War, and why transformative action from the UN remains unlikely in the near future. Note: we recorded this in 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entrepreneur and author Steve Vesce comes on to talk about his book, One Ordinary Man: A Novel Based on the True Story of Harry Hopkins. Mr. Vesce follows Hopkins as he get intertwined in ever larger events, first the Great Depression and then helping to form The Big Three: FDR, Churchill and Stalin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Summing up the key stories of the past seven days… Reform and the far-right seize on the murder of student Henry Nowak to foment violent protests and provoke a national political row. Has Farage's opportunism pushed his luck too far? Plus: What was in that a fresh batch of Mandelson files; Putin's “Russian Davos” goes wrong; notable deaths from the past week; and who should replace Churchill and Alan Turing on banknotes: dolphins, otters or the marsh fritillary? Andrew Harrison and Seth Thévoz unpack the biggest stories from the past week. www.patreon.com/bunkercast  Written and presented by Andrew Harrison with Seth Thévoz.  Producer: James Liddell and Jake Preston. Audio production: Jade Bailey.  Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Summing up the key stories of the past seven days… Reform and the far-right seize on the murder of student Henry Nowak to foment violent protests and provoke a national political row. Has Farage's opportunism pushed his luck too far? Plus: What was in that a fresh batch of Mandelson files; Putin's “Russian Davos” goes wrong; notable deaths from the past week; and who should replace Churchill and Alan Turing on banknotes: dolphins, otters or the marsh fritillary? Andrew Harrison and Seth Thévoz unpack the biggest stories from the past week.www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison with Seth Thévoz.  Producer: James Liddell and Jake Preston. Audio production: Jade Bailey.  Music by Kenny Dickinson. Artwork by James Parrett. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.www.podmasters.co.uk  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“He didn't just say it, he meant it, he felt it — and the combination of the power guy, the ruthless power guy, and the profound idealist was fascinating, and also hard for him.” — Evan Thomas on Bobby Kennedy Who was the greatest riddle in 20th century American political life? Judging from the ever-expanding library of Bobby biographies, Robert Francis Kennedy ranks very high on that list. Indeed, according to Evan Thomas, one of RFK's most acclaimed biographers, this third Kennedy son is, indeed, the most sphinx-like riddle in 20th century America. In his classic 2000 biography, Robert Kennedy: His Life, Thomas unravels the good and the bad Bobby. But, rather than presenting parallel narratives, his portrait treats the Machiavellian and the idealist as the same riddle. Raised by his father to exercise raw power, RFK discovered that mid-century America wasn't living up to its own ideals. The contradiction of the ruthless Kennedy machine politician and the profound idealist was what continues to make him so intriguing to Americans of every political stripe. Bobby concurred with Churchill's dictum that courage is the greatest virtue because, without it, you can't have the other virtues. So he lived a life of ridiculous physical and moral courage — taking insane risks that would terrify ordinary mortals. And, of course, his most insanely courageous act was his last — running for President in 1968 knowing that he was likely to be assassinated. Where have you gone, Bobby Kennedy? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. Five Takeaways •       The Central Paradox: Power Guy and Idealist in the Same Man: Bobby Kennedy was raised by his father to be the henchman of the Kennedy machine — doing the dirty stuff in Boston politics to keep Jack floating free and grand. He was pretty ruthless about it. At the same time, in mid-century America, he discovered that the country was not living up to its own constitution, and he wanted to make things right, and genuinely felt it. The combination of the machine politician and the profound idealist was what made him so endlessly fascinating. It also made him hard for himself: a man permanently at war with his own nature. •       Courage: The Only Word That Mattered: No word was more important to Bobby Kennedy than courage. Churchill: it's the greatest virtue, because without it you can't have the others. Kennedy believed in physical courage, emotional courage, mental courage. He was a runty little kid at the wrong end of the dinner table — Jack and Joe and Kick at the golden end with the father, Bobby with the nuns and the mum. He got kicked out of prep school for cheating. He was not the athlete, not the golden one. Real courage comes from suffering. It took courage just to overcome being the loser. That was the source. •       Making Up for Missing the War: Physical and Moral Courage: Bobby missed World War Two, basically. He got in at the very end and ended up scraping the deck of a destroyer in the Caribbean, far from combat. His brother Jack is a war hero on steroids — PT boat cut in half by a Japanese destroyer, rescues his men, written about in The New Yorker and Reader's Digest. Joe volunteers for a secret dangerous mission to replicate Jack's glory and dies. Pretty high bar of courage. Bobby spends the rest of his life making up for it — swimming the Colorado River, climbing Mount Kennedy in the Yukon, jumping overboard off the coast of Maine to save Jack's jacket. Sometimes stunts. But increasingly, moral courage — which is the greater thing. •       The Mob, Joe Kennedy, and the Beehive: When Bobby starts poking around in the mob as a Senate aide, J. Edgar Hoover is only too happy to point out: keep going here, you know where it's going to end up. With Joe Kennedy. Bobby's investigation of Giancana and Frank Sinatra starts grazing against his own father. Thomas's reading: whether conscious or unconscious, there is an element of rebellion. Bobby, appointed henchman, doing the dirty stuff for pop, resenting it, starts poking the beehive that might expose him. It never fully landed. But it started. And Hoover used it to blackmail the Kennedys. •       The Ripple of Hope, and RFK Jr. as Tragedy: Bobby's trip to South Africa — apartheid everywhere, the freedom movement barely existing, everybody in prison. His speech: every time somebody does something brave or heroic, it causes a ripple, and that gives you hope. A young Margaret Marshall, later Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, was in the audience. He gave us hope where there was none. That is the ghost Andrew went looking for at Hickory Hill and didn't find. The contrast with RFK Jr. is, for Thomas, simply sad. Poignant. His own family has disavowed him. Caroline Kennedy made a broadcast accusing him of crimes. The idea of Robert Kennedy Jr. is tragic. About the Guest Evan Thomas is an American writer and historian. He was Washington bureau chief of Newsweek for ten years and a writer and editor there for thirty-three years. He is the author of ten books, including Robert Kennedy: His Life (Simon & Schuster, 2000), Being Nixon, Road to Surrender, and, with Walter Isaacson, The Wise Men. He has taught at Harvard and Princeton. His biography of Churchill is forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in December 2026. References: •       Robert Kennedy: His Life by Evan Thomas (Simon & Schuster, 2000). •       The Wise Men by Evan Thomas and Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 1986) — referenced in the closing. •       Robert Coles — Bobby Kennedy's psychologist friend, referenced in the conversation. •       Hickory Hill, McLean, Virginia — the Kennedy family home Andrew visited on this trip to Washington DC. •       Bobby Kennedy's “Ripple of Hope” speech, University of Cape Town, South Africa, June 6, 1966. About Keen On America Nobody asks more awkward questions than the Anglo-American writer and filmmaker Andrew Keen. In Keen On America, Andrew brings his pointed Transatlantic wit to making sense of the United States — hosting daily interviews about the history and future of this now venerable Republic. With nearly 2,900 episodes since the show launched on TechCrunch in 2010, Keen On America is the most prolific intellectual interview show in the history of podcasting. WebsiteSubstackYouTube

Quick, fill this in, there's no time to explain: http://bit.ly/noncensored-survey.This week, Harriet Langley-Swindon talk to Milly Young, a young person about how young people are not saving enough and also not spending enough and also don't deserve pay rises; Eshaan Akbar has a Hot & Spicy Takeaway of the Week about the animals that have made the shortlist for the next batch of banknotes; and travel agent Tommy Cook has some GREAT deals for listeners who want to make a last-minute booking to America for the World Cup.Thank you to David Thomas and Claudia Federico, who both signed up to our Patreon this week. They, like all Patreons, will be getting a bonus interview with Wartin Lewis, Money Spending Expert in the middle of the show, which makes total sense and does not need to be explained. Patreons also get every episode early and without adverts, access to the full video of all our interviews, as well as the Patreon-exclusive monthly Time For Questions podcast, where we answer your questions, so get over to Patreon.com/NonCensored and sign up for one or two pounds a week to support the show, and make it possible for us to pay our guests. (If you don't want to subscribe, but do want to give us a one-off amount, all the Patreon-exclusive videos are available for individual sale.)Please follow our social media accounts!Instagram: @noncensoredpodcastTikTok: @noncensoredpodWith thanks to Rosie Holt, Brendan Murphy, Eshaan Akbar, Freya Mallard, John-Luke Roberts, Nick Revell and Ed Morrish.Rosie's sitcom, Crossing The Floor, is available now on BBC Sounds. Her play, Churchill's Urinal, runs at the King's Head Theatre from the 13th May to the 6th June (tickets here) , and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (tickets here), where she will also be doing a new character comedy/stand-up show, The Illegal Aliens Have Landed (tickets here).Brendan is taking a brand new show, Indy, to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August. It's a three-man retelling of Indiana Jones, and tickets are available here.Eshaan has started a new, live podcast called The Early Evening Show, every Sunday evening on YouTube, and his latest stand-up special, Fool Moon, is also available on YouTube.Freya co-hosts the Binks & Hebrides Whine Time podcast with Davina Bentley, which is on their YouTube channel; she is also going to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with a work-in-progress show, Come Get Me World, I'm Wide Open, and you get get tickets for that here.John-Luke is the host of Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, and is taking his new show, What I Talk About When I Run About, Talking to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe - tickets are available here.Ed also produces Sound Heap With John-Luke Roberts, an award-winning improvised sketch show that features many NonCensored regulars like Rosie, Brendan, Will, Sooz and Joz.Show photography is by Karla Gowlett and design is by Chris Barker. Original music is by Paddy Gervers and Rob Sell at Torch and Compass.NonCensored is a Lead Mojo production Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the Anglotopia Podcast, Jonathan Thomas is joined by Brendan Dowd — West Point graduate, Iraq War veteran, government consultant, and host of History Nerds United, one of the most respected history book podcasts in the business with over 220 episodes — for a pure, unfiltered book nerd conversation. Both hosts came with a stack of their favorite British history books and took turns sharing their picks, debating the merits, going gloriously off-topic about Darkest Hour, the new Wuthering Heights film, Bridgerton, and Dan Jones's upcoming castles book, and building what amounts to a British history reading list that will keep you busy for years. Between them, Jonathan and Brendan recommend over 20 books spanning Alfred the Great, the Tudors, the Regency, Victorian London, World War II, Thatcher, the Iranian Embassy Siege, and the hidden history of English wolves — plus a peek at what's sitting on each of their TBR piles right now. Links History Nerds United ~History Nerds United Podcast~ ~History Nerds United on YouTube~ ~Brendan's Top Episode: Helen Castor on Joan of Arc~ (update with direct episode link) ⠀Jonathan's Picks ~Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson~ ~The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson~ ~Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts~ ~My Early Life by Winston Churchill~ ~A Very English Scandal by John Preston~ ~London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd~ ~Citizens of London by Lynne Olson~ ~Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera~ ~Empireworld by Sathnam Sanghera~ ~The Iron Lady by John Campbell~ ~The Last Wolf by Robert Winder~ ~The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine~ ~Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh~ ~The Regency Years by Robert Morrison~ ~Churchill's Citadel by Katherine Carter~ ⠀Brendan's Picks ~Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard~ ~The Six Loves of James I by Gareth Russell~ ~Battle for the Island Kingdom by Don Hollway~ ~Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett~ ~The Greatest Knight by Thomas Asbridge~ ~Henry V by Dan Jones~ ~Thomas More: A Life by Joanne Paul~ ~The Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman~ ~The Crown's Silence by Brooke Newman~ ~The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor~ ~The Invention of Charlotte Brontë by Graham Watson~ ~London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe~ ~The Siege by Ben Macintyre~ ⠀Also Mentioned ~Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe~ ~Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe~ ~Secrets of Great British Castles with Dan Jones on Netflix~ ~Darkest Hour (2017)~ ~Young Winston (1972)~ ⠀Anglotopia ~101 Oxford Travel Tips and Tricks by Jonathan Thomas~ (update with direct product link) ~Anglotopia Guide to the World of Bridgerton~ (update with direct product link) ~Friends of Anglotopia Club~ (update with correct URL) ⠀ Takeaways Both Jonathan and Brendan started their podcasts for exactly the same reason — frustration at the quality of existing coverage in their field — and both were shocked to discover how generous, enthusiastic, and collegial the history author community turned out to be. Brendan's gateway into British history was Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard — a compact, accessible biography of the only English monarch to earn the title "the Great," which he recommends as the perfect gateway drug for readers who think history books are intimidating. Jonathan's most-reread British book is Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island — a definitive outsider's portrait of British culture from the early 1990s that remains beloved by British readers themselves, and the book that most shaped his vision for Anglotopia. Andrew Roberts's one-volume Churchill biography is both Jonathan and Brendan's recommended starting point for anyone wanting a modern, comprehensive, and myth-busting account of Churchill — and Roberts's Napoleon biography is equally essential. Helen Castor is independently named by Brendan as one of his very favorite history writers — her Eagle and the Hart on Richard II and Henry IV, and her Joan of Arc episode of his podcast, are both highlighted as exceptional examples of humanizing complex historical figures without sanitizing them. Both hosts agree that the best history books share a quality: they humanize their subjects — showing the positive and the negative — rather than either condemning or canonizing them. The books they admire most leave the reader to make their own moral judgments. Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera and The Crown's Silence by Brooke Newman both generated significant controversy — particularly in British publications — but both Jonathan and Brendan recommend them as essential, rigorously evidenced correctives to popular myths about the British Empire and the monarchy's role in the slave trade. Ben Macintyre's The Siege — on the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London that made the SAS famous — is Brendan's pick for best recent true British history read, praised for building unbearable tension over hundreds of pages before releasing it all in a single extended final chapter. The new Wuthering Heights film gets a thumbs-down from both hosts — "it looks beautiful but just didn't land" — while Darkest Hour generates a spirited debate about the Underground scene that ends with both agreeing it's historically wrong but emotionally right. Both hosts are currently working through books about the interwar period, Cold War espionage, and upcoming releases from Dan Jones and Thomas Asbridge — and both agree that the single greatest problem with loving history books is that the TBR pile never gets shorter. ⠀ Soundbites "I lost it. I said, there's gotta be a better way. I don't want to continually torture my family with all my rants about books. So I started the blog." — Brendan on the one-star Amazon review that launched History Nerds United. "I sent 10 emails on the first day thinking if I get one back I'll be ecstatic. I got eight back within three days. And I've now sat on a boat with Dan Jones having drinks, overlooking Omaha Beach. Nobody tell me it didn't happen." — Brendan on the unexpected magic of the history community. "I have yet to interview a jerk. Everyone has been unfailingly nice and so excited to be there and just so game to talk about whatever." — Brendan on 220+ episodes of History Nerds United. "My long-term goal is to be like Bill Bryson. I've actually met him. He's a very nice chap. I can only hope to be 10% as good as him one day." — Jonathan on Notes from a Small Island and his writing ambitions. *"If you want to understand why everything is happening in Downton Abbey, read *The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy. I read it as research for a novel I was writing in college and it has never left me." — Jonathan on David Cannadine's masterwork. "Churchill wouldn't have done that. He was not that type of person. But you put Churchill in a period tube carriage, surrounded by Londoners during the Blitz, and it captures the essence of what the story is trying to tell. Was it real? Heck no." — Jonathan and Brendan on the Underground scene in Darkest Hour. "Helen Castor is constantly teaching you, but you feel like you're just having a conversation within the book. At the end of it, you hear Helen get emotional talking about this teenager burned at the stake — how scared she must have been, even with all her faith. She makes her human instead of an icon." — Brendan on his favorite episode of History Nerds United. "The thesis is that because Britain hunted wolves to extinction, it unleashed the economic powerhouse of sheep farming and wool — and as a consequence of that led to so much of what we know as Britain. I read it and I wanted to read it all over again immediately." — Jonathan on The Last Wolf by Robert Winder. "She stayed laser focused on the Elizabethan succession and somehow it's still interesting all the way through. She mentions the Spanish Armada for about three sentences. I said in my review: this book has been written. We don't need any more on this subject." — Brendan on Tracy Borman's The Stolen Crown. "No author has ever made me feel more lazy than Catherine Grace Katz — she wrote *Daughters of Yalta* while she was in law school. If you told me that I would one day be sitting there with Marsha Clark from the OJ Simpson trial, I would have called you a liar. But that's what this world does." — Brendan on the surreal privilege of the history podcast community. ⠀ Chapters 00:00 Introduction — Jonathan sets up the book conversation episode and introduces Brendan Dowd 01:41 How a Tank Platoon Leader Got a 220-Episode History Podcast — Long commutes, bad Amazon reviews, and one unexpected email 05:58 The History Author Community — Why everybody wants you to win, and the generosity of historians 08:10 Dan Jones on a River Cruise — Brendan's honeymoon, Omaha Beach, and a surreal life moment 09:01 What History Nerds United Is — The format, the philosophy, and why Brendan calls himself the laziest podcaster 10:26 BOOK PICKS BEGIN 10:39 Brendan Pick #1: Alfred the Great by Justin Pollard — The George Washington of England and the perfect gateway drug 12:18 Jonathan Pick #1: Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson — The definitive outsider's portrait of British culture and Jonathan's most-reread book 14:28 Brendan Pick #2: The Six Loves of James I by Gareth Russell — A party animal king, Scottish trauma, and the most uncomfortable compliment Gareth ever received 16:58 Jonathan Pick #2: Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts — The one-volume biography that settles the argument 18:15 Andrew Roberts's Napoleon — A brief but enthusiastic detour to France 18:56 Brendan Pick #3: Battle for the Island Kingdom by Don Hollway — 1000 to 1066, the most disgusting assassination in history, and setting up everything 20:05 Jonathan Pick #3: My Early Life by Winston Churchill — The only autobiography, the Boer War escape, and the Gary Stiles connection 21:50 Darkest Hour Debate — The Underground scene: historically wrong, emotionally right, and why it works anyway 23:18 The Perfect WWII Double Bill — Darkest Hour followed by Dunkirk as a single evening 23:50 Brendan Pick #4: Henry V by Dan Jones — Present tense biography, the greatest medieval king, and writing something when you feel ready for it 25:29 Jonathan Pick #4: A Very English Scandal by John Preston — Jeremy Thorpe, a murder plot, a dead dog, and the British establishment 26:57 John Preston's Robert Maxwell Book — And a certain imprisoned daughter 27:26 Brendan Pick #5: Thomas More: A Life by Joanne Paul — Saints, hair shirts, comedy gold, and debunking 500-year-old myths 29:24 Jonathan Pick #5: London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd — The definitive history of London and the gateway to a great corpus 30:25 Brendan Pick #6: Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett — He wasn't a Nazi, and the documentation proves it 32:03 Jonathan Pick #6: Citizens of London by Lynne Olson — Americans in London during the Blitz and how they helped save Britain 33:24 Brendan Pick #7: The Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman — The Elizabethan succession, new evidence, and calling Henry VIII a few four-letter words 34:56 Tracy Borman on Inside the Tower of London — And Dan Jones's upcoming Castles book 36:03 Jonathan Pick #7: Empireland by Sathnam Sanghera — Deconstructing myths of the British Empire and why the author quit social media 37:32 Brendan Pick #8: The Crown's Silence by Brooke Newman — The monarchy's direct financial involvement in the slave trade and British publications' predictable response 39:34 Jonathan Pick #8: The Iron Lady by John Campbell — The definitive Thatcher biography and why she's Churchill's true successor 41:45 Brendan Pick #9: The Greatest Knight by Thomas Asbridge — William Marshal, four kings, King John, and a life that reads like a Hollywood script 43:22 Jonathan Pick #9: The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine — The book that explains Downton Abbey and everything behind it 44:29 Brendan Pick #10: The Eagle and the Hart by Helen Castor — Richard II, Henry IV, and why taking the crown makes you a marked man 46:48 Jonathan Pick #10: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh — Fiction that illuminates aristocratic decline and the companion read to Cannadine 48:18 Brendan Pick #11: The Invention of Charlotte Brontë by Graham Watson — Jane Eyre as a gateway, the weird genius of the Brontë family, and more autobiography than you realized 50:18 Wuthering Heights Film Discussion — Brendan defers, Jonathan gives a verdict: beautiful but it didn't land 51:43 Jonathan Pick #11: The Last Wolf by Robert Winder — No wolves, lots of sheep, and the surprising hidden springs of Englishness 53:10 Brendan Pick #12: London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe — A body off a balcony opposite MI5, true crime that leaves you profoundly uneasy 54:54 Jonathan buys London Falling at Barnes & Noble — And finds it in the fiction section 55:24 Jonathan Pick #12: The Regency Years by Robert Morrison — What Bridgerton gets wrong, what Jane Austen's world actually was, and the Anglotopia Bridgerton guide 56:23 Bridgerton vs. The Patriot — Two hosts agree: know your genre, leave accuracy at the door 58:15 Brendan Pick #13: The Siege by Ben Macintyre — The Iranian Embassy siege, the SAS, and a final chapter that takes an hour to read 1:00:06 Jonathan Pick #13: Churchill's Citadel by Katherine Carter — Chartwell as weapon, the wilderness years, and the best first book Jonathan has read in years 1:01:31 What's on the TBR Right Now — Ike and Winston, Three Weeks in July, A Shellshocked Nation, the Nord Stream conspiracy, Dan Jones's Castles, and more 1:07:37 The Book Neither Host Can Find Anyone to Write — Brendan's gap in the market involving Joan of Arc's most disturbing companion 1:10:24 The Book Jonathan Should Write — Brendan makes his pitch; Jonathan firmly declines 1:11:06 Jonathan's Gap in the Market — Churchill's second term as Prime Minister: underexplored, fascinating, partially covered by The Crown 1:12:29 John Lithgow as Churchill — Too tall, earned it on The Crown, also very scary in Dexter 1:12:36 Brendan's Proudest Episode — Helen Castor on Joan of Arc, two hours that felt like twenty minutes 1:16:52 Wrap-Up — Where to find History Nerds United, the full book list in the show notes, and promises of a return visit Video Version

Cette semaine, l'actualité ciné balance entre l'humour absurde des frères Wayans et la sortie en salles de La bataille de Gaulle, un film intergénérationnel puissant réalisé par Antonin Baudry. Porté par l'acteur Simon Abkarian, ce premier opus retrace l'épopée inflexible et passionnée du Général face à l'occupant et ses relations électriques avec Churchill. Un biopic captivant enrichi par une touche romanesque incarnée par la jeunesse résistante.

En este episodio de Interesante Historia continuamos con la serie sobre el Siglo XX y recorremos la década de 1940 a 1949, la más convulsionada del siglo XX.  Conoceremos desde la caída de Francia y la Batalla de Gran Bretaña hasta el Dia D en Normandía, desde Stalingrado hasta las bombas atómicas sobre Hiroshima y Nagasaki, y desde la fundación de las Naciones Unidas hasta el inicio de la Guerra Fría. Una década que empezó en guerra total y terminó rediseñando el mapa politico, cultural y científico del planeta.

What if the villains of history, mythology, religion, and politics were never the real villains?In this thought-provoking episode of Kaka Balli Punjabi Podcast, we challenge some of the most powerful narratives ever told and ask a controversial question: Who decides who is a hero and who is a villain?From Mahabharata and Ramayana to world history, religion, politics, psychology, and modern pop culture, we explore how society creates heroes, villains, and enemies. Is history really written by the winners? Are we taught facts, or are we taught narratives?We discuss Duryodhan, Karna, Krishna, Ravana, Aurangzeb, Churchill, Hitler, Thanos, and many other figures who continue to divide opinion. Some are remembered as heroes, some as monsters, but what happens when we examine their stories from a different perspective?In the Mahabharata, was Duryodhan simply a power-hungry villain, or was he a loyal friend who stood by Karna when society rejected him because of caste? If Krishna is considered divine, why did he allow or encourage tactics that broke the rules of war? Can the end ever justify the means?In the Ramayana, Ravana is remembered as one of the greatest villains in Indian mythology. But what happens when we look at the story through the lens of family honor, power, pride, and perspective? Does every story have two sides?We also discuss the idea that many of history's most hated figures genuinely believed they were doing the right thing. From Aurangzeb to modern political leaders, how often do people commit questionable actions while believing they are serving a greater cause?The conversation then moves beyond mythology into modern history and geopolitics.• Is America really the world's police?• How do governments use propaganda?• How are wars justified?• Why are some leaders celebrated while others are condemned?• Does power influence morality?We explore the idea that public perception is often shaped by media, politics, religion, education systems, and cultural narratives. The same person can be viewed as a hero by one group and a villain by another.The podcast also examines religion, faith, heaven, hell, divine punishment, and the human tendency to believe that the religion we are born into is the ultimate truth. Are beliefs chosen, or are they inherited?Beyond history and religion, we look at fictional villains such as Thanos and characters from The Boys. Why do modern audiences increasingly relate to villains? Why do so many fictional villains have understandable motivations? Why are morally grey characters becoming more popular than traditional heroes?We also discuss an uncomfortable truth: villains may play an essential role in human progress.Throughout history, crisis has often created innovation.World wars accelerated medicine, engineering, aviation, and technology.The Cold War accelerated space exploration, computing, and the digital revolution.Periods of famine and hardship led to agricultural breakthroughs and large-scale reforms.In nature, predators force prey to evolve. Pressure creates adaptation. Competition creates growth. Could the same principle apply to human civilization?Perhaps villains, rivals, enemies, and crises act as society's ultimate stress tests.This episode is not about glorifying violence, hatred, dictators, or harmful actions. It is about questioning assumptions, challenging narratives, exploring different perspectives, and encouraging critical thinking.Topics Covered:• Heroes vs Villains• Duryodhan and Karna• Krishna and Mahabharata• Ravana and Ramayana• Bhagavad Gita• Aurangzeb• Churchill vs Hitler• America and Global Politics• Propaganda and Media Narratives• Religion and Faith• Heaven and Hell• Philosophy and Critical Thinking• Thanos and The Boys• Psychology of Villains• History Written by Winners• Power, Morality and Perspective• Why Society Needs Villains• Human Nature• Politics and Ideology• Indian History and Mythology

‘Brexit means Brexit’ was de leuze van premier Theresa May. Het klonk vol overtuiging en zelfs een beetje parmantig, maar ook zij ging roemloos ten onder. En nog heel wat andere Britse politici verdwenen in de mist. Als slachtoffers van het welbewuste uittreden van het Verenigd Koninkrijk uit de Europese Unie. Op 23 juni is het tien jaar gelden dat het Brexit-referendum plaatsvond. 52 procent van de deelnemende Britten koos voor scheiding. Jaap Jansen en PG Kroeger duiken in de vaak onbekende en soms vergeten historie van die dramatische stap en de nasleep ervan tot nu toe. Een verhaal dat nog niet af is, want steeds meer Britten vinden dat er een grote fout gemaakt is. De turbulente nasleep zit vol paradoxen. Zo gebeurde in de EU precies het omgekeerde van wat de Brexit-voorstanders luidkeels verkondigden. *** Deze aflevering is mede mogelijk gemaakt met donaties van luisteraars die we hiervoor hartelijk danken. Word ook vriend van de show! Heb je belangstelling om in onze podcast te adverteren of ons te sponsoren? Zend ons een mailtje en wij zoeken contact. *** In de kern was de door David Cameron uitgeschreven volksstemming een slim geachte oplossing voor een strikt binnenlands probleem. Omdat zijn eigen Tory Party al decennia ideologisch gespleten was over de rol van de Britten in Europa - en de Labour Party niet minder - beloofde hij een 'heronderhandeling' over die rol, te bekronen met een referendum. Die heronderhandeling stelde niet veel voor en bleek grotendeels overbodig. Camerons boodschap werd daardoor: eigenlijk hebben we het in de EU best naar ons zin en de kleine, nuttige aanpassingen van bestaande afspraken, die krijgen we. Het contrast met de ideologische, apocalyptische anti-EU-betogen kon niet groter. Het werd een campagne tussen onspectaculaire, technische agendapunten en bijna panische ondergangsvisioenen, waarin Brexit als allerlaatste kans voor de identiteit en welvaart van de Britse eilanden werd afgeschilderd. Die duistere paniek mobiliseerde angstige kiezers, op de achtergrond geholpen door Trumps adviseur Steve Bannon en het Kremlin. En het werkte. De conservatieve regering zich had nauwelijks voorbereid op de impact van het referendum. Vijf premiers op rij - na Cameron en May ook Boris Johnson, Liz Truss en Rishi Sunak - worstelden met 'Brexit means Brexit'. Wat betekende dat nou echt? Definitieve uittreding - in welke vorm dan ook - werd keer op keer uitgesteld. De EU-landen, aangevoerd door onderhandelaar Michel Barnier, lieten zich geen moment uit elkaar spelen en kwamen steeds weer met heldere technische oplossingen, waar de Britse ministers van terugschrokken. Toen Brexit eind 2020 echt een feit was, zat de schrik er goed in. De concrete gevolgen raakten ongeveer elke aspect van dagelijks leven. Dromen als van een welvarend 'Global Britain', als een 'Singapore aan de Noordzee', enorme besparingen op Brusselse bureaucratiekosten en dichte grenzen bleken luchtspiegelingen. De Britten leverden vooral veel welvaart in; banen en connecties met buren die klanten waren geweest. Zo ruïneerde Brexit het vertrouwen in politiek en politici verder. Brexit-initiator Nigel Farage stookte de verdeeldheid verder op. Labour van Keir Starmer profileerde zich als competent alternatief. Maar ook hij bleek de onderliggende effecten van een exit zonder plan of duidelijk politiek doel te niet goed te kunnen aanpakken, laat staan oplossen. Politieke versplintering en destabilisatie blijft domineren. En de Europese Unie zelf? De Europeanen waren niet blij, maar niettemin vrij snel opgelucht. Zonder de Britten kon de Unie zich op allerlei terreinen stevig herinrichten. Geen enkele lidstaat zou ooit nog vrijwillig zo'n suïcidale stap zetten. Viktor Orbán frustreerde graag, maar de EU verlaten? Dat nooit. Doordat de Britten wel weer meewilden doen met populaire EU-programma's als Erasmus en Horizon en zich met defensie-inspanningen ook meer op de EU ging richten kwam er zelfs flink wat geld in het laatje. Waar men de Britten als partners kon gebruiken, waren ze welkom. Waar niet, kon men ze buiten de deur houden. Omdat Londen geweigerd had bij de Brexit met de Unie een heldere structurele relatie in te richten, zat juist 'Brussel' achter de knoppen. Michel Barnier had de Britten er al voor gewaarschuwd: "Jammer is het, we wensen jullie alle goeds op je eigen nieuwe pad. Maar ook voor ons geldt nu 'life goes on'." *** Verder kijken Brexit: A Very British Coup? The Brexit Scandal *** Verder luisteren 585 - 'Nostalgie is geen strategie': Canada breekt met Amerika en kiest voor de EU 567 - De geschiedenis beukt op Europa's deur. Caroline de Gruyter over zondagskinderen in een ruige wereld 427 - Europa wordt een grootmacht en daar moeten we het over hebben 416 - Nostalgie naar de E.E.G. 378 - Dertig jaar na 'Maastricht' is Europa toe aan een nieuwe sprong voorwaarts 333 - Een 'bromance' tussen Rishi Sunak en Emmanuel Macron. De haat-liefdeverhouding van Britten en Fransen 328 – Nieuwe rauwe wereld. Brexit, what Brexit? 299 - Dramatische verschuivingen in de wereldpolitiek. Europa heeft eindelijk een telefoonnummer 283 - Zinkende schepen verlaten de rat: het pijnlijke afscheid van Boris Johnson 71 - Caroline de Gruyter: 'Brexit maakt Europa sterker' 52 - Hoe Rutte David Cameron teleurstelde 535 - 100 jaar Margaret Thatcher, de Iron Lady 30 - Thatcher, Delors en Europa 479 - Winston Churchill. Staatsman. Redenaar. Excentriekeling 32 - Churchill en Europa: biografen Andrew Roberts en Felix Klos *** Tijdlijn 00:00:00 – Deel 1 00:43:55 – Deel 2 01:03:55 – Deel 3 01:49:20 – EindeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the third edition of this new experimental episode format, we explore: - Mickey Mantle's most legendary story in Yankee Stadium. - If Tim Ferriss dreams in Japanese. - How the UK would rank as America's 51st state. - and much more… Guests: - Tim Ferriss is an entrepreneur, author, and podcaster. - Nirav Sanjani is an entrepreneur and tech founder. - George Mack is a writer, marketer and entrepreneur. Sponsors: See discounts for all the products I use and recommend: ⁠⁠https://chriswillx.com/deals⁠⁠ Get up to 20% off Timeline powered by Mitopure (now at a lower price) at https://timeline.com/modernwisdom Get a Free Sample Pack of LMNT's most popular flavours with your first purchase at https://drinklmnt.com/modernwisdom Get a free bottle of D3K2, an AG1 Welcome Kit, and more when you first subscribe at https://ag1.info/modernwisdom Get 15% off your first order of my favourite Non-Alcoholic Brew at https://athleticbrewing.com/modernwisdom Get ChatGPT to explore ideas, solve problems, and learn faster at ⁠https://chatgpt.com Timestamps: (0:00) Why Don't American's Use WhatsApp? (2:03) Growing Up on Long Island (3:08) Micky Mantle's Best Yankee Stadium Experience (5:42) Has “Literally” Lost Its Meaning? (8:02) Tim's Japanese Crash Course (13:28) Which Nationality is Always Late? (15:15) How Vivid is Your Memory? (20:23) Why Forgetting is Actually Useful (31:28) How Easily Do We Invent Memories? (35:49) What Do Bachelors Actually Do at Night? (36:30) How Close Are We to Living in VR? (45:01) Can You Train a Photographic Memory? (50:17) How Mirrors Have Changed Human Behaviour (53:33) How Do We Find Meaning? (01:05:26) Are More People Turning to Religion? (01:14:03) Will AI Ever Become Conscious? (01:17:38) How Do We Define Meaning? (01:21:03) Are Dating Apps Dying? (01:24:01) Is DoorDash Removing Friction? (01:25:05) The Many Near-Deaths of Churchill (01:26:22) Does the US Struggle to Laugh at Itself? (01:34:46) Could Neuromodulation Cure Depression? (01:47:37) The Unexpected Side Effect of TMS Therapy (01:57:46) Could Vagus Nerve Stimulation Eradicate Migraines? (02:03:44) Are Mind-Reading Devices Coming Soon? (02:10:53) What Are Apple Going to Do Next? (02:14:33) Is AI Fuelling Looksmaxxing? (02:24:37) What's Next For the Guys? Extra Stuff: Get my free reading list of 100 books to read before you die: ⁠⁠https://chriswillx.com/books⁠⁠ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic: ⁠⁠https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom⁠⁠ Episodes You Might Enjoy: #577 - David Goggins - This Is How To Master Your Life: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Goggins⁠⁠ #712 - Dr Jordan Peterson - How To Destroy Your Negative Beliefs: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Peterson⁠⁠ #700 - Dr Andrew Huberman - The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain: ⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠ - Get In Touch: Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/modernwisdompodcast⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠https://chriswillx.com/contact⁠⁠ - Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jason discusses the big Stephen Foster Preview day card at Churchill along with Penn Mile night at Penn National. 

What happens when an aristocratic British warlord meets a stickball-playing general from Texas? In this episode of "Now I've Heard Everything", host Bill Thompson sits down with acclaimed military historian Jonathan W. Jordan, author of "Ike and Winston", to unpack the extraordinary, turbulent, and unbreakable friendship between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Winston Churchill. iscover how this legendary "odd couple" clashed over World War II strategy, argued fiercely o Inside the episode: • The stark background differences that made them a true "odd couple." • Why Churchill wanted to rush central Europe to block the Red Army, and why Ike refused. • The dramatic post-war role reversal: Churchill the "Peace Warrior" vs. Ike the "Deterrence Man." • A look into Churchill's personal struggles with depression and his "long sunset."Get your copy of Ike And Winston by Jonathan JordanAs an Amazon Associate, Now I've Heard Everything may earn a commission from qualifying purchases.Chapters:00:00 - Introduction & The "Odd Couple" Backgrounds 02:20 - How Churchill Helped Create Eisenhower the Statesman 03:34 - The Post-War Role Reversal: War Hawk vs. Peace Warrior 05:29 - The Fierce Battle Over Berlin & Post-War Europe 11:10 - FDR's Diminishing Power and the Shift of Alliance Control 14:52 - The Hilarious First Meeting That Churchill Completely Forgot 17:41 - Churchill's "Black Dog" Depression & The Long Sunset 20:01 - Great Man vs. Organizational History: Did They Change Each Other? 24:12 - "The Cross of Iron": A Shared Vision for the Common ManGuest InformationJonathan W. JordanWebsiteSocial:Facebook Instagram Easier, more confident everyday conversation: "The Everyday What To Say"For more intriguing and engaging interviews each week, subscribe now on:Spotify Apple Podcasts YouTube

In June 1988, 24-year-old truck driver David Churchill Jackson walked out of his Pembroke Pines, Florida apartment and completely vanished. He left behind a loving mother, a complicated past, and a young son who would grow up wondering what happened to his father. For fifteen years, David's disappearance remained a frozen mystery—until a cold case detective's vision board caught the eye of an unexpected visitor. ​In this chapter of The Book of the Dead, I explored the life of David Jackson, the devastating silence left in the wake of his disappearance, and the jaw-dropping twist that finally brought a hidden killer to justice decades later. This isn't just a story about how David died; it is about who he was, the family that never stopped looking for him, and why his memory matters.Connect with us on Social Media!You can find us at:Instagram: @bookofthedeadpodX: @bkofthedeadpodFacebook: The Book of the Dead PodcastTikTok: BookofthedeadpodOr visit our website at www.botdpod.comAFTER 7 YEARS, DISAPPEARANCE STILL MYSTERY. (2021, September 24). Sun Sentinel. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/1995/08/13/after-7-years-disappearance-still-mystery/Ambushed: The murder of David Jackson. (2014, May 11). CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ambushed-the-murder-of-david-jackson/David Churchill Jackson (1963-1988). (2013, March 16). FInd a Grave. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106814812/david_churchill-jacksonDeutsch, K. (2005, January 22). Ohioian linked to 1988 murder. The Miami Herald, 6B.Elmore, C. (1994, September 14). Missing Pines man topic of TV talk show. Sun Sentinel, 2B.Ex-wife charged with murder after 19 years. (2021, September 26). Sun Sentinel. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2007/12/15/ex-wife-charged-with-murder-after-19-years/?clearUserState=trueGuilty plea closes 24-year-old murder case. (2021, September 28). Sun Sentinel. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2012/04/17/guilty-plea-closes-24-year-old-murder-case-2/James, S. (1990, June 25). Disappearance baffles police. Sun Sentinel, 1B.Kamph, S. (2011, June 23). My Father's Bones. Broward Palm Beach New Times, 34, 15–20.Pazdera, D. (1992, July 4). Mom still can't find her son. Sun Sentinel, 13B.Santana, S. (2001, November 3). Man convicted of Miramar murder. Sun Sentinel, 3B.Santana, S., & Marino, J. (2007, December 15). Ex-wife hit with murder charge years after crime. Sun Sentinel, 1B-6B.SUSPECT HELD IN '88 DEATH OF PINES MAN. (2021, September 27). Sun Sentinel. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2004/10/13/suspect-held-in-88-death-of-pines-man/WOLFE v. STATE, No. 4D07-4555. | Fla. Dist. Ct. App., Judgment, Law, casemine.com. (n.d.). https://www.casemine.com. https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59146407add7b04934271346Woman implicated in ex-husband's murder to be released on bail. (2021, September 28). Sun Sentinel. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2010/09/16/woman-implicated-in-ex-husbands-murder-to-be-released-on-bail/If you enjoyed the episode, consider leaving a review or rating! It helps more than you know! If you have a case suggestion, or want attention brought to a loved one's case, email me at bookofthedeadpod@gmail.com with Case Suggestion in the subject line.Stay safe, stay curious, and stay vigilant.

In this special episode, recorded at the Neukom Center's Rule of Law Speaker Series, Judge J. Michael Luttig, former Fourth Circuit judge and ex-General Counsel of Boeing,  discusses a looming constitutional crises facing the United States. Drawing on Lincoln, Paine, and Churchill, Judge Luttig argues that the Trump administration's actions represent not the exploitation of constitutional vulnerabilities, but unconstitutional conduct that federal courts have repeatedly struck down. He expresses particular alarm over the Supreme Court's use of the shadow docket to stay lower court decisions without briefing, argument, or written reasoning — a practice he characterizes as a crisis within the Court itself. Judge Luttig also addresses the DOJ's institutional corruption, Congress's abdication of war powers and tariff authority, and the Supreme Court's sweeping immunity ruling in Trump v. United States. Throughout, he challenges law students to treat their professional oath as a solemn civic obligation in a moment of national testing. Links: Honorable J. Michael Luttig >>> Federal Judicial Center page Connect: Episode Transcripts >>> Stanford Legal Podcast Website Stanford Legal Podcast >>> LinkedIn Page Rich Ford >>>  Twitter/X Pam Karlan >>> Stanford Law School Page Stanford Law School >>> Twitter/X Stanford Lawyer Magazine >>> Twitter/X (00:00) America at 250—A Nation Under Assault from Within (14:00) The Legal Profession as Guardian of the Constitution  (20:30) Unconstitutional by Design—The Trump Administration's Legal Record (28:00) The Corruption of the DOJ (36:00) Congress, the War Power, and the Collapse of Separation of Powers (42:30) The Supreme Court, the Shadow Docket, and Presidential Immunity  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

I want to make the theme of today's show, success.Winston Churchill defined success in an interesting way. He said, “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”Leftists woefully go from failure to failure, which is why they are not successful, at least by Churchill's definition.Consider all the failures of Leftists, many of which we will discuss.They've been caught scamming every support system set up to help the poor and needy. They've allowed the scams to go on for years, and now they claim to be addressing things.Ilhan Omar is closer to being kicked out of Congress.Comey is closer to finding out his fate.Honestly, the list of scoundrels who are in trouble is too long.And I know that many of you doubt that these people will get justice, and I understand.But we are closer to it than we've ever been. And look who is doing the heavy lifting. THE PEOPLE.JD Vance credited Nick Shirley for the new fraud task force that Vance is heading. And are you seeing the results?Are we winning in identifying fraud and prosecuting the Leftists? How many people have been arrested and prosecuted? How many of them would have been, had it not been for US electing Trump?More important, how many of these fraudsters are trying to disassociate themselves from their criminal enterprises?Memorial weekend just ended and look at what the Left memorialized:Lying, cheating, stealing, murder, and mayhem.It's bad enough when it' a 2-day weekend, since we can't get all that news in. A 3-day weekend really compounds the problem.I honestly get frustrated that we can't get all this news in…I dare you to look at the news from ANY major city and tell me what was good for Democrats. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

RUNDOWN   Broadcasting from London while trying—and failing—to escape Mariners frustration, Mitch and Hotshot Scott bounce between Seattle baseball misery, European travel mishaps, London culture shock, soccer ticket disasters, and Mitch's realization that even crossing the street becomes dangerous when everything operates backward. They also hit Churchill history, Wembley dreams gone sideways, tourist adventures, and the strange reality that no amount of distance from Seattle seems capable of keeping Mariners disappointment from finding Mitch overseas. With Mitch away, Brady and Joe take an unfiltered look at a Mariners team that suddenly feels flat, frustrating, and increasingly difficult for fans to embrace. They dig into defensive problems, strikeouts, inconsistent offense, lineup decisions, clubhouse energy, and whether Seattle's identity has become too predictable and too dependent on home runs. Mitch and Puck wrestle with one of the biggest frustrations surrounding the Mariners right now: when questionable decisions happen during games, who actually owns them? The conversation centers on Dan Wilson, Jerry Dipoto, analytics influence, bullpen management, lineup choices, and whether modern baseball has created too many voices in the room. They also hit on Bryce Miller's interrupted no-hit bid, the controversial piggyback pitching approach, and the growing feeling that Seattle's biggest problem might not be talent. Mitch and Danny dive into growing frustration around the Mariners' decision-making, debating whether Dan Wilson is truly managing instinctively or operating under organizational marching orders from above. The conversation turns into a bigger argument about modern baseball philosophy, bullpen usage, lineup management, and whether Seattle is overthinking itself out of wins.   GUESTS   Brady Farkas | Host, Refuse to Lose podcast Joe Doyle | MLB analyst, Over-Slot Jason Puckett | KJ-Aren'ts / Puck Drop Danny O'Neil | Host, The Dang Apostrophe   TABLE OF CONTENTS   0:00 | Mitch Flees the Country, Mariners Follow Him Anyway 20:59 | Mariners No-Table: Are the Mariners Becoming Unlikable? Mariners No-Table crew breaking down Seattle's struggles, fan frustration, and growing concerns around the direction of the club. 56:32 | KJ-Aren't's Jason Puckett: Who's Actually Running the Mariners? Jason Puckett and Mitch discuss Mariners leadership questions and organizational philosophy. 1:11:02 | Danny O'Neil: Mariners Micromanagement & Seahawks Prime Time Respect. 1:27:30 | Other Stuff Segment: Floyd Mayweather $175M fraud allegations and financial issues, Tiger Woods rehab return and Vanessa Trump health news, Stephen Colbert replacement programming and Byron Allen, Joey Chestnut probation and Nathan's Hot Dog Contest return, Najee Marshall $5,000 restaurant tip story, Chicago Bulls 1992–93 championship banner auction, Aaron Rodgers retirement announcement, Carmen Electra Playboy return and Baywatch reboot tease RIPs: Kyle Busch (NASCAR driver), Mark Fuhrman (former LAPD detective), Rob Base (rapper, It Takes Two), Barney Frank (former congressman) HEADLINES: Michigan woman caught hiding stolen wine bottle while being booked into jail, Arthur Gea emergency bathroom break during French Open debut, Doctor accidentally fixes irregular heartbeat during unrelated procedure, Woman turns blue after taking common medication

On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast (05/25/26), Hank welcomes you to a special Memorial Day edition of the broadcast. In the midst of battling the evil of Nazism, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill's words ring true today as we celebrate Memorial Day in the United States. A day to honor those who, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, “gave the last full measure of devotion” in their sacrifice for freedom. We here at the Christian Research Institute offer our deepest respect, honor, and thankfulness to those who have sacrificed all to protect and defend the freedoms we enjoy in this country. But we are also committed to preserving freedoms that are definitively being compromised in the present generation. As history demonstrates, we must ever remain vigilant. Which leads to a quintessential question: “Under what conditions is war justified?”

"We shall not fail now. Let us move forward steadfastly together into the storm and through the storm."- Winston Churchill, February 1942This Memorial Day, we're republishing our favorite episode where we brought together both parts of our original Storm of War series into one complete telling of the Second World War, with speeches from Churchill, Eisenhower, and others who led through it.From Versailles to Hitler's rise, to the fall of France, to the Battle of Britain. We show you Moscow's frozen gates all the way to Stalingrad. Then, from Normandy to the bunker in Berlin.Here is the full story, on the day we set aside to remember those who didn't return.We honor them by remembering what they faced, what they won, and what it cost.From all of us at 15-Minute History, have a very happy Memorial Day.

At the end of the 19th century, the great European empires are the most powerful nations in the history of mankind. To fuel their growing industrial economies, they expand into Africa, settling, buying, and outright seizing whatever land they can. In Britain, men like Cecil Rhodes dream of a united British African Empire extending “from Cape to Cairo.” In France, explorers like Jean-Baptiste Marchand aim to beat Britain to the punch, creating their own continent-spanning empire from Senegal to Djibouti. Meanwhile, in South Africa, the independent Boer republics are fighting their own battle against British imperialism. WARNING: Some strong racial language.   TABLE OF CONTENTS: Chapter One: Flashback - The English Civil War – 00:04:08 Chapter Two: Why Else Was Victorian-Era Britain So Powerful? – 00:40:42 Chapter Three: The British Empire Enters Africa – 00:50:02 Chapter Four: The Rhodes Colossus – 01:28:53 Chapter Five: France Before the Scramble – 02:12:13 Chapter Six: The French Scramble for West Africa – 02:28:38 Chapter Seven: The Fashoda Incident – 02:50:57 Chapter Eight: Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Belgium – 03:13:09 Chapter Nine: A Brief History of Bismarck's Germany – 03:31:52 Chapter Ten: The Berlin Conference, Belgian Neutrality, and Germany's African Empire – 04:00:36 Chapter Eleven: The Second Boer War – 04:23:40 Chapter Twelve: The Siege of Kimberley – 04:41:20 Chapter Thirteen: The Empire Strikes Back – 05:08:04 Chapter Fourteen: Guerilla War in the Transvaal – 05:27:49 Chapter Fifteen: The End of the Scramble – 06:03:39   SUBSCRIBE TO RELEVANT HISTORY, AND NEVER MISS AN EPISODE! Relevant History Patreon: https://bit.ly/3vLeSpF Subscribe on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/38bzOvo Subscribe on Apple Music (iTunes): https://apple.co/2SQnw4q Subscribe on Any Platform: https://bit.ly/RelHistSub Official website: https://bit.ly/3btvha4 Relevant History on X: https://bit.ly/3eRhdtk Relevant History on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2Qk05mm   Episode transcript (90% accurate, includes bibliography): https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR5yy3nbsD9_n8ySLibMMtDJpWQgGqTdwT6jq9MtHFYjwL5VgPUaiwOtNn6GnQm8aPsd1WYXm7g3hnC/pub/ Complete list of Season Two sources: https://bit.ly/418JbI6/   Music courtesy of: https://www.youtube.com/@publicdomainclassicalmusic3961/   SOURCES: Ackroyd, Peter - The History of England, Volume III: Civil War Barraclough, Geoffrey (ed.) - Harper Collins Atlas of World History Benjamin, Thomas (ed.) - Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism Since 1450 Brendon, Piers - The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 Christiansen, Eric - The Northern Crusades Churchill, Randolph S. - Winston S. Churchill, Volume I: Youth, 1874-1900 Churchill, Winston - A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Volume II: The New World Davidson, Apollon - Cecil Rhodes and His Time Davies, Norman - Vanished Kingdoms: The Rise and Fall of States and Nations D'Este, Carlo - Warlord: A Life of Churchill at War, 1874-1945 Erickson, Edward J. - A Global History of Relocation in Counterinsurgency Warfare Farwell, Byron - The Great Anglo-Boer War Fremont-Barnes, Gregory - The Boer War, 1899-1902 Gilbert, Martin - Churchill and the Jews Hobsbawm, Eric - Industry and Empire: From 1750 to the Present Day Holmes, Richard - The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French Horne, Allistair - La Belle France: A Short History Jenkins, Roy - Churchill: A Biography Lewis, David Levering - The Race to Fashoda: European Colonialism and African Resistance in the Scramble for Africa Lockhart, J.G., Cecil Rhodes Manchester, William - The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 Maylam, Paul - The Cult of Rhodes: Remembering an Imperialist in Africa Nasson, Bill - The War for South Africa: The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 Overy, Richard - A History of War in 100 Battles Overy, Richard (ed.) - The Times Complete History of the World Pakenham, Thomas (1982) - The Boer War Pakenham, Thomas (1991) - The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 Prochaska, David - Making Algeria French: Colonialism in Bône, 1870-1920 Quigley, Carroll - The Anglo-American Establishment Rhodes, Cecil - Confession of Faith Roberts, Andrew - Churchill: Walking With Destiny Rotberg, Robert I.; Shore, Miles F. - The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power Schama, Simon - A History of Britain, Volume II: The British Wars 1603-1776 Seward, Desmond - The Monks of War: The Military Religious Orders Smith, Leonard V. - French Colonialism: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Stanley, Henry Morton - The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration, Volume I Steinberg, Jonathan - Bismarck: A Life Stone, Norman - Europe Transformed, 1878-1919 Taylor, A.J.P. - Germany's First Bid for Colonies, 1884-1885: A Move in Bismarck's European Policy

This edition of the In The Money Media Players' Podcast late-week show kicks off with a segment focused on action from the Jersey Shore for Saturday (May 23)! Peter Thomas Fornatale (PTF) is joined by Jonathon Kinchen (JK) to analyze the Late Pick 5 sequence from Monmouth Park for Saturday before PTF sits down with BCBC champ Drew Coatney for the next segment focused on action from Woodbine! Mikee P then takes the reins to wrap the show alongside handicapper and morning line oddsmaker Nick Tammaro to give spot plays for Saturday's racing from Churchill Downs.

This one is too good not to share here.Our guest today is John Roosevelt Boettiger, psychologist, author, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. He is also one of the very few living people who spent his childhood inside the Roosevelt White House, where his grandfather Franklin was busy running the free world, and his grandmother Eleanor was traveling it.While John is the grandson of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, he's also the son of Anna Roosevelt and John Boettiger, a Chicago Tribune reporter who fell in love with the president's daughter on the campaign train in 1932. His book, "A Love in Shadow," tells the story of their marriage, and of his own long journey to understand a father changed by war and lost far too soon.In this conversation, John shares witty, warm, and deeply personal stories from his years inside the wartime White House, including memories of Churchill, of Eleanor, and of the man he simply called Papa. We talk about his father's moral injury, his mother's quiet courage, and the complicated grace of growing up a Roosevelt. We also talk about John's years as a civil rights activist, his time in Selma, and what it means to carry that history forward into a political moment like this one.It is a remarkable life. We are lucky he wrote it down, and luckier still that he came in on a Sunday to share it.Find John's book "Love and Shadow" here - https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/love-shadow-story-anna/author/boettiger-john/

Dave's been throwing parties. Three in four days. Confirmation sponsor for a friend's son, family and friends over the next night, and then — because the universe has a sense of humor — some local gentleman decided to remodel Dave's brick mailbox. With his truck. At speed. Bricks were found over a hundred feet away. The guy left his license plate behind, which Dave is now holding like a man who accidentally picked up evidence and doesn't know what to do with it. The driver's fine. Well — he's in jail. But he's alive. Dave wants him to know that God's mercy is always ready and present, even for the man who turned a brand-new brick mailbox into gravel.Meanwhile, Adam got a new plum tree. Planted a maple. He's getting oaks for the pig pen so they'll drop acorns someday. One of his chickens died in a water barrel trap that nobody designed on purpose — the lid flipped, the chicken couldn't get out. Farm life. And then the real news: baby Mary is doing better. Haylee got to hold her. Adam held her for over three hours — only his second time since she was born in February. Three months of NICU, and the man finally got to just sit with his daughter. Praise God. Keep those prayers coming.Also — Adam's turning 40 on June 2nd. And Lady Pamela is due with their next baby on June 4th. They floated the idea of recording an episode in the delivery room. Pamela has not been consulted.This week we're sipping 13th Colony Distilleries Southern Rye Whiskey, French Oak Finish, Small Batch — 47.5% ABV. Platinum award-winning. Silky texture with hints of rye, apricot, and brown sugar. The rye's there but it doesn't overpower — still has a lot of bourbon elements to it. About forty bucks. That's a great buy.Then the conversation turns to something Adam's son Jude sparked. Jude — Adam's second oldest — just finished reading the entire Bible, Genesis through Revelation, straight through. Now he's reading the Council of Trent Catechism. He's a kid. Nobody told him to do this. He just had good books lying around the house and picked them up. That's the whole point.The virtue of study — studiositas — isn't what school taught us it was. It's not cramming. It's not memorizing facts to dump after the test. Aquinas calls it a habit of the mind ordered towards truth. Classical education at its best doesn't fill your head — it forms the way you think. The more you read rightly, the more you can arrive at correct conclusions through a sound process, not just recall. Study leads to contemplation. Contemplation is rest in truth. And it's not about finishing the book. If you're reading to check the box, you've already lost the plot. Sit with it. Let yourself be carried. The intellectual life doesn't compete with the family — it serves the family.From there, Adam and Dave go back and forth on the books that actually formed them. Adam leads with Joseph Pieper's In Tune with the World — a short, devastating argument for why festivity dies when we strip the divine out of celebration. Dave counters with The Soul of the Apostolate — the book that reordered his understanding of what has to come first before any ministry means anything. Adam brings John Senior's The Restoration of Christian Culture — hard opinions, harder truths, and a quote worth sitting with: the virtue of study requires a canon, a body of great works proven across time. Without tradition to guide what's worth studying, you're just chasing novelty.Dave goes deep on Fr. Timothy Gallagher's The Discernment of Spirits — a practical walkthrough of St. Ignatius's rules that shed light on the stages of the spiritual life and how the enemy shifts tactics as you grow. Adam responds with Raymond Arroyo's biography of Mother Angelica — a story of suffering, faithfulness, and a woman who said yes without knowing where it would lead. Dave makes a case for the Psalms — Psalm 51, the De Profundis in Latin, and the realization that there's a psalm for every moment of a man's life, and he'd been skimming past them for years.Adam goes deep cut: Fr. Paul Murray's Aquinas at Prayer — a book that reoriented his understanding of St. Thomas from pure intellect to contemplative soul. Dave brings Divine Mercy in My Soul by St. Faustina — hundreds of pages of our Lord's words on mercy that are sometimes scandalously generous. Adam throws in Simon Sinek's Start with Why as the non-Catholic book that changed how he thought about business, marriage, and fatherhood. Both men land on fiction that haunts them — Adam with Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter, Dave with Candice Millard's Hero of the Empire on young Churchill. They touch on Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Gone with the Wind, the bishop chapters of Les Misérables, Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death, and close with John Senior's Thousand Good Books — the canon itself, the list that connects it all.They end where they always end: with Plato. They're halfway through the Republic in their great books group. David sits on the dumb couch. He knows he sits on the dumb couch. He's fine with it.Raise your glass.TOPICS COVEREDDave's brick mailbox obliterated by a truck — bricks found 100 feet away, driver in jail, license plate left behindThree parties in four days at Porter Prairie: confirmation, family gathering, and involuntary demolitionDave building a grain cradle for his scythe for the upcoming grain harvestAdam's new plum tree, maple tree, and oak trees planned for the pig penThe chicken that died in a water barrel trap nobody designed on purposeBaby Mary update — doing better, Adam held her for three hours, Haylee held her tooAdam turning 40 on June 2nd and Lady Pamela due June 4thBourbon of the week: 13th Colony Distilleries Southern Rye Whiskey, French Oak Finish, 47.5% ABVJude Minihan reading the entire Bible and now the Council of Trent Catechism — and nobody told him toWhy having good books lying around the house matters more than assigned readingThe virtue of studiositas — Aquinas on study as a habit of the mind ordered towards truthStudy isn't cramming — it's forming the way we think, not filling our headsWhy finishing the book isn't the point — sit with it, let yourself be carriedThe intellectual life doesn't compete with family — it serves the familyJoseph Pieper's In Tune with the World — why festivity dies without the divineThe Soul of the Apostolate — what has to come first before any ministry mattersJohn Senior's The Restoration of Christian Culture — hard opinions and the necessity of a canonFr. Timothy Gallagher's The Discernment of Spirits — St. Ignatius's rules made practicalRaymond Arroyo's biography of Mother Angelica — suffering, faithfulness, and saying yesThe Psalms as treasure — Psalm 51, the De Profundis in Latin, and why Dave had been skimming past themFr. Paul Murray's Aquinas at Prayer — reorienting Aquinas from intellect to contemplativeSt. Faustina's Divine Mercy in My Soul — mercy so generous it's almost scandalousSimon Sinek's Start with Why — a non-Catholic book that changed everythingSigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter — fiction that haunts you because it doesn't read like fictionCandice Millard's Hero of the Empire — young Churchill before the cigar and the brandyPatrick Lencioni's Five Dysfunctions of a Team — why hard conversations are acts of charityGone with the Wind — Rhett Butler as a man whose virtues take a lifetime to findThe bishop chapters of Les Misérables — Hugo's best character, written by a man who wasn't even a fan of the ChurchNeil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death — prophetic in 1985, terrifying nowJohn Senior's Thousand Good Books — the canon that connects all the great worksThe Count of Monte Cristo as a commentary on Dante's InfernoPlato's dialogues — the Republic, Euthyphro, the Symposium, and why you need a great books groupAdam sits on the dumb couch at great books night and he's fine with itREFERENCED IN THIS EPISODEBooks & Writings:In Tune with the World: A Theory on Festivity by Joseph PieperLeisure, the Basis of Culture by Joseph Pieper (mentioned)The Intellectual Life by A.G. SertillangesThe Soul of the Apostolate (Dave's pick)The Restoration of Christian Culture by John SeniorThe Death of Christian Culture by John Senior (mentioned)The Discernment of Spirits by Fr. Timothy Gallagher (based on St. Ignatius's rules)Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network by Raymond ArroyoAquinas at Prayer by Fr. Paul Murray, O.P.Divine Mercy in My Soul by St. Maria FaustinaStart with Why by Simon SinekKristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid UndsetAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick LencioniGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellHero of the Empire: The Boer War, a...

──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:33] CRS Report: 42 US Aircraft Lost in Iran — Hegseth Refused to Provide Data, So Congress Built the List From News Reports The CRS compiled the list from news reports: 4 F-15Es, 1 F-35, 2 A-10s, 7 KC-135 tankers, 24 MQ-9 Reapers. Knight: if you're winning, you don't hide this information. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:08:39] UN: The World Has Six Months to Avert a Major Food Crisis — Hormuz Closure Is a Systemic Shock, Not a Disruption The UN food agency says Hormuz is a systemic shock to global food prices. Knight: the 1973 OPEC embargo was 15% of US supply — this is 20% of the entire world's oil. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:52] Lindsey Graham Calls for Bombing Iran's Civilian Energy Infrastructure to 'Hurt Them More' Graham said he would give up both houses of Congress for it — Knight: he asks South Carolina parents to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East, knowing he won't be among the Marines who land in Iran. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:29:36] Knight: We Are Playing the Role of the Nazis — Attacking Countries That Did Not Attack Us for Israeli Living Space Graham invokes Churchill; Knight invokes Lebensraum. We are attacking a country that did not attack us, backing a state that bases its existence on the concept of a master race. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:32:05] The School Strike Was a Double-Tap Tomahawk — First Missile to Flush Survivors, Second to Kill Them Scott Ritter identified it as a Tomahawk from day one. A loitering drone photographed the reaction, a second missile was sent when survivors emerged. A girls' gym was hit two hours later killing 21. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:37:39] Tony Arderman: The Monetary System Since 1971 Is an Experiment Built on Trust — and the Trust Is Gone Arderman: everything since 1971 has been based entirely on trust, and trust is evaporating. The thunder from the Iran war hasn't reached us yet — the full economic shock is still coming. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:24:28] Trump's Bunker Ballroom: Leaders Who Have Somewhere to Hide Think Differently About Starting Wars Knight: a leader with a bunker is more cavalier about foreign adventurism and dismisses rising prices as peanuts — gone from decadent extravagance to open preparation for domestic conflict. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:48:59] Senate Republicans Won't Fund the Ballroom Bunker — Trump Says He'll Build the 250-Foot Arch Without Congressional Approval Senate Republicans refused to fund the bunker. Trump declared he will build it anyway using the same emergency framework he uses to bypass Congress on wars and tariffs. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:52:41] Trump's $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund Reports Only to Him — He Picks the Administrators and Can Fire Them at Will The fund gives Trump $1.776 billion, run by administrators he selects and can remove without cause, reporting only to him. Knight: the J-6ers will get none of it. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:57:02] Trump Sued the IRS Then Settled With Himself to Get Billions — Even Soros Never Did That Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, then dropped it for the anti-weaponization fund — on both sides of the table. Knight: even Soros never paid himself this way. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

──────────────────────────────────────── [00:02:33] CRS Report: 42 US Aircraft Lost in Iran — Hegseth Refused to Provide Data, So Congress Built the List From News Reports The CRS compiled the list from news reports: 4 F-15Es, 1 F-35, 2 A-10s, 7 KC-135 tankers, 24 MQ-9 Reapers. Knight: if you're winning, you don't hide this information. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:08:39] UN: The World Has Six Months to Avert a Major Food Crisis — Hormuz Closure Is a Systemic Shock, Not a Disruption The UN food agency says Hormuz is a systemic shock to global food prices. Knight: the 1973 OPEC embargo was 15% of US supply — this is 20% of the entire world's oil. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:18:52] Lindsey Graham Calls for Bombing Iran's Civilian Energy Infrastructure to 'Hurt Them More' Graham said he would give up both houses of Congress for it — Knight: he asks South Carolina parents to send their sons and daughters to the Middle East, knowing he won't be among the Marines who land in Iran. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:29:36] Knight: We Are Playing the Role of the Nazis — Attacking Countries That Did Not Attack Us for Israeli Living Space Graham invokes Churchill; Knight invokes Lebensraum. We are attacking a country that did not attack us, backing a state that bases its existence on the concept of a master race. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:32:05] The School Strike Was a Double-Tap Tomahawk — First Missile to Flush Survivors, Second to Kill Them Scott Ritter identified it as a Tomahawk from day one. A loitering drone photographed the reaction, a second missile was sent when survivors emerged. A girls' gym was hit two hours later killing 21. ──────────────────────────────────────── [00:37:39] Tony Arderman: The Monetary System Since 1971 Is an Experiment Built on Trust — and the Trust Is Gone Arderman: everything since 1971 has been based entirely on trust, and trust is evaporating. The thunder from the Iran war hasn't reached us yet — the full economic shock is still coming. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:24:28] Trump's Bunker Ballroom: Leaders Who Have Somewhere to Hide Think Differently About Starting Wars Knight: a leader with a bunker is more cavalier about foreign adventurism and dismisses rising prices as peanuts — gone from decadent extravagance to open preparation for domestic conflict. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:48:59] Senate Republicans Won't Fund the Ballroom Bunker — Trump Says He'll Build the 250-Foot Arch Without Congressional Approval Senate Republicans refused to fund the bunker. Trump declared he will build it anyway using the same emergency framework he uses to bypass Congress on wars and tariffs. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:52:41] Trump's $1.776 Billion Anti-Weaponization Fund Reports Only to Him — He Picks the Administrators and Can Fire Them at Will The fund gives Trump $1.776 billion, run by administrators he selects and can remove without cause, reporting only to him. Knight: the J-6ers will get none of it. ──────────────────────────────────────── [01:57:02] Trump Sued the IRS Then Settled With Himself to Get Billions — Even Soros Never Did That Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, then dropped it for the anti-weaponization fund — on both sides of the table. Knight: even Soros never paid himself this way. ──────────────────────────────────────── Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to https://davidknight.gold/ for great deals on physical gold/silver For 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to https://trendsjournal.com/ and enter the code “KNIGHT” For high quality made in America products go to HomeSteadProducts.shop and use promo code “Knight” for 10% off your purchases Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-real-david-knight-show--5282736/support.

This week we look at whether the world is burning, Guy Macpherson and Roger Pielke; Polygamy in the UK; Hamas and women;  Father Ted and Eurovision; Tickle v. Giggle; Scotland and Misgendering; Country of the Week - Cuba; Feedback; Green Lamborghini hypocrisy; Zack Polanski and tax avoidance; Negative gearing and Australian government ministers; the Drewitt-Barlow scandal; the decline of Latin and Greek in Princetown Classics; Blasphemy and Churchill; and the Final Word.with music from the Ruts, Trio Mandili, Celia Cruz, the Bottle Rockets, Andromeda, Dara, BB King, Seven Nation Army in Attic Greek, and Petra

Following the 1943 discovery of the Katyn Forest massacre, where the Soviets executed thousands of Polish officers, FDR and Churchill knowingly supported the Soviet lie blaming the Nazis to preserve the alliance. Stalin used this event as a strategic lever to break off relations with the Polish exile government in London. Sean McMeekin explains that this maneuver allowed Stalin to isolate moderate Polish patriots and clear the path for the installation of communist puppets. By endorsing the lie, the Allies effectively facilitated Stalin's goal of dominating Poland's political future and destroying any viable alternative to Soviet-backed rule. (5/8)UNDATED BAKU

Winston Churchill viewed the Soviet Union as a necessary bulwark against Hitler, leading him to treat Stalin as a "brother-in-arms" despite Soviet crimes. To keep the Russian army fighting as "cannon fodder," Churchill diverted crucial equipment—including 200 Hawker Hurricane fighters and tanks meant for Singapore and North Africa—directly to Stalin. This massive transfer of resources retarded Britain's own domestic manufacturing and aircraft industries. Sean McMeekin argues that Churchill's "historical imagination" allowed the British to avoid direct land combat with Germany for several years while the Russians suffered the brunt of the casualties, leading to modern Russian moral blackmail arguments. (3/8)1905 BAKU

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes.Release date: 15 May 2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues to continue a series on The Second World War, Churchill's sprawling memoir and history of World War II in six volumes. Release date: 15 May 2026 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.