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  • #78 The Blowout
    Mar 18 2024

    The story of one of the worst numerical beatdowns in the history of professional sports.

    Music:
    - Reckless by Brocker Way
    - Green Groves of Erin by Yo Yo Ma
    - Concerto No. 2 in G minor by Vivaldi
    - Classic Battle by Sam Spence
    - Denmark by Portland Cello Project
    - Independant by Brocker Way
    - Tilting at Windmills by Brocker Way
    - Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner
    - Spanish Flea by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
    - 2 by AAEPSO
    - Climax Rag by James Scott
    - Chariots of Fire by Vangelis
    - En Gang Agde by 1900
    - Epilogue by Brocker Way

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    40 min
  • [UNLOCKED] Bonus Episode #30: The Day Disco Died
    Jul 20 2023

    (This is an unlocked Patreon bonus episode. For more bonus episodes, check out www.patreon.com/historium)

    Chicago, 1979. Disco was on top of the world. And some people didn't like that…

    When a failing baseball team and a peg-legged promoter hosted an anti-disco radio DJ armed with a quarter stick of dynamite… things quickly got out of hand.

    Welcome to Disco Demolition Night.

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    1 h et 32 min
  • Historium Presents: The Wind
    May 11 2023

    An episode from a show I love called The Wind.  

    "Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do."

    For more episodes: https://thewind.org/

    For our bonus episode with Fil: patreon.com/historium

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    51 min
  • #77 ATOMIC DAWN - The Red Menace: The Cold War and the Trial of Robert Oppenheimer
    Mar 27 2023

    Neils Bohr returns with a new plan for world peace, Oppenheimer’s enemies close in from all sides as the Cold War warms up, and shadowy figures from the world of high finance work to expand the American nuclear weapons program.

    Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/

    Additional music by Alarm Will Sound, Marisa Anderson, Kali Malone, Zoe Keating, Julie Kent, Ben Von Wildenhaus, Brocker Way, William Basinski, Nine Inch Nails, Mulatu Astatke, Richard D. James, Jon Hopkins, and Nils Frahm. Final song by King Dude.

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    1 h et 31 min
  • #76 ATOMIC DAWN - Heavy Water: The Norwegian Commando Mission to Sabotage the Nazi Nuclear Program
    Mar 20 2023

    Norwegian commandos execute a daring sabotage mission to cripple the Nazi nuclear program. The fall of Werner Heisenberg. 

    Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/

    Additional music by Hildur Guðnadóttir, Max Richter, William Basinski, Moondog, Sølvguttene, Jed Kurzel, Hala Strana, Anne Hytta, Nine Inch Nails, and Nico.

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    59 min
  • #75 ATOMIC DAWN - A Prime Suspect: Robert Oppenheimer, the Manhattan Project, and the Investigation of a Soviet Atomic Spy Ring
    Mar 13 2023

    Robert Oppenheimer leads the Manhattan Project at a secret research facility in Los Alamos. Meanwhile, counterintelligence seeks to unearth a secret communist spy ring within the very heart of the nuclear weapons program. A cold war starts before a world war ends.

    Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/

    Additional music by Ludovico Einauldi, Luke Howard, Alarm Will Sound, Ben Sollee, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, and Lulu Belle & Scotty. 

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    1 h
  • #74 ATOMIC DAWN - Complementarity and Uncertainty: Neils Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, and the Nazi Atomic Bomb
    Mar 6 2023

    On the eve of the Second World War, physicists learn of the possibility of splitting the atom. Two rival nuclear programs emerge and the race to the atomic bomb begins... 

    Original music for this series by https://mountainstandardtime.substack.com/

    Additional music by Kali Malone, Benoît Pioulard, Zoe Keating, Nine Inch Nails, Choral Arts Northwest, and The Louvin Brothers.

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    49 min
  • #73 Once in a Lifetime
    Nov 24 2022

    The story of Halley’s Comet—the only reoccurring comet visible to the naked eye that shows up every 75 years or so. Throughout history its appearance has marked profound change, from the conquest of the British Isles to the fall of the Qing Dynasty.

    For more bonus episodes: patreon.com/historium 

    Music:

    • Hello! by David Wingo & Explosions in the Sky
    • Time’s Blur by Lord Huron
    • Opening (arr. for marimba) by Philip Glass & Nathaniel Bartlett
    • Katrina Outtake by Matthew Robert Cooper
    • Ceiling Gazing by Mark Kozelek
    • Expectation by Matthew Robert Cooper
    • Never Ever by Lord Huron
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    25 min