History with Dad
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History With Dad is a chronological world history podcast that shows how the past still explains the present. Grounded in historical evidence and told with clarity, analysis, and a touch of Dad humor, each episode guides listeners through real events step by step. Dad Tangents trace ideas across time, revealing how different eras wrestle with surprisingly similar problems. Built for curious minds ages 10+.
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Dad Tangent - Who Gets to Write History? From Vikings to World War I
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May 28, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - When Old Defenses Stop Working: From Vikings to Blitzkrieg
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May 27, 2026 |
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S3E9 - The Viking Age - The Viking Raid on Lindisfarne (793): Why Europe Was Terrified
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May 26, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Last Stands Explained: Why People Fight Battles They Can’t Win (Thermopylae, Alamo, Warsaw)
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May 21, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - End of the World Predictions Explained: From Year 1000 to Y2K and Why Humans Keep Getting It Wrong World
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May 20, 2026 |
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S3E8 - The Viking Age - Ragnarok Explained: Norse Mythology, the Viking End of the World, and What It Really Meant
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May 19, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Burials Are for the Living: What Graves Really Tell Us About History
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May 14, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Trying to Cheat Fate: Why Humans Never Stop Attempting the Impossible
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May 13, 2026 |
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S3E7 - The Viking Age - Viking Fate, Death, and Burial: What We Know About Their Beliefs
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May 12, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why History Focuses on Heroes: And Why That’s Not the Whole Story
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May 07, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - How People Choose the “Right” God: From Vikings to Rome and Beyond
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May 06, 2026 |
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S3E6 - The Viking Age - Norse Gods Explained: Odin, Thor, Freyja, Freyr, Tyr and Viking Religion in Practice
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May 05, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Can We Trust History? What Changed, What Didn’t, and How We Know
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why History Sometimes Looks So Organized (But Wasn’t): The Truth Behind “Neat Systems”
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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S3E5 - The Viking Age - Norse Mythology Explained: Viking Cosmos, Yggdrasil, and What We Actually Know vs Later Sources
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Silver Drove Expansion: From Ancient Empires to the Viking World
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Outlaws, Exiles, and Outsiders: Why History Changes at the Edges of Society
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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S3E4 - The Viking Age - Why Viking Raiding Began (Late 700s– Early 800s): Prestige, Silver, and the Likely Causes Behind Early Viking Expansion
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why “Good Enough” Technology Wins: From Viking Ships to Modern Tools
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why It’s So Hard to Say Who Invented It First: The Messy Truth Behind Historical “Firsts”
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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S3E3 - The Viking Age - Viking Ships Before the Viking Age (650–790): How Longships Were Built, Designed, and Used
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Trade Comes Before Conquest: From Phoenicians to Empires
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Geography Breaks Countries Apart: Mountains, Islands, and Why Some Regions Resist Unity
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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S3E2 - The Viking Age - Scandinavia Before the Vikings (650–750): Geography, Kinship, and the World That Shaped Norse Society
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Trade Never Really Dies: From Ancient Collapse to Global Disruption
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Who Really Holds Power? When Rulers Aren’t in Charge: From Rome to Shoguns
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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S3E1 - The Viking Age - Europe After Rome (650–750): What Europe Was Really Like Before the Vikings
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - History Is Written by the Victors? Rome, Carthage, and How Bias Shapes the Past
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Season 2 Thank You Finale & Season 3 Teaser — Rome, Carthage, the Punic Wars, and What Comes Next
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - How Archaeology Changed History: Carthage, Lost Cities, and the Science That Proves Ancient Writers Wrong
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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S2E18 - Rome & Carthage - After Carthage Fell (146 BCE and After): How Rome’s Victory Changed the Republic Forever
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Eyewitness Historians: When Writers Actually Saw the Events They Recorded
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Did Rome Salt Carthage? The Truth Behind the Salt Myth and How Historical Legends Begin
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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S2E17 - Rome & Carthage - Fall of Carthage (146 BCE): Scipio Aemilianus, the Siege of Carthage, and Rome’s Final Destruction of Its Greatest Rival
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Nations Took Hostages: The Surprising History of Hostage Diplomacy from Ancient Empires to Royal Courts
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Victors Demand Disarmament: From Ancient Sparta to Modern Wars
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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S2E16 - Rome & Carthage - Siege of Carthage Begins (149 BCE): Rome’s Ultimatum and the City That Refused to Die
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Winning a War Can Make Nations More Afraid: History’s Paranoid Victors Explained
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Preventive Wars in History: When Nations Strike First to Stop Future Threats
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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S2E15 - Rome & Carthage - Cato the Elder, Carthage’s Comeback, and the Road to the Third Punic War (190–149 BCE)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - When Winning Becomes Dangerous: Athens, Napoleon, Britain, and the Problem of Too Much Victory
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - War Indemnities in History: From Carthage to Versailles — Why Winners Send the Bill
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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S2E14 - Rome & Carthage - After Zama: The Long Peace, Hannibal’s Political Rise, and Rome’s Eastern Ambitions (201–190 BCE)
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Punishing Peace: When Winning a War Quietly Sets Up the Next One
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - When Heroes Make Republics Nervous: Why Successful Generals Scare Their Own Governments
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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S2E13 - Rome & Carthage - From Africa to Zama: How Rome Took the War to Carthage and Changed the Mediterranean (206–201 BCE)
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Training the Army You Actually Have: How Scipio, Rome, and Other Armies Learned to Adapt the Hard Way
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Feb 12, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Winning the War Without Fighting the General: How Scipio, Napoleon, Grant, and WWII All Learned the Same Lesson
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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S2E12 - Rome & Carthage - Scipio Africanus in Spain (214–206 BCE): Carthago Nova, Roman Intelligence, and Cutting Hannibal Off in Italy | Second Punic War
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Why Sieges Were the Worst Job in the Ancient World
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - The Day Rome Panicked: How Bad News Broke the Republic After Cannae
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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S2E11 - Rome & Carthage - Aftermath of Cannae: Rome Bleeds, but Doesn’t Break (216–214 BCE)
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Ancient Lost-and-Found: The Strangest Things History Left Behind (and How People Keep Losing Stuff)
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Ancient Worst-Case Scenarios: Some of History’s Most Avoidable Disasters (and How Not to Be That Guy)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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S2E10 - Rome & Carthage - Cannae: Rome’s Darkest Day - Hannibal’s Double Envelopment and the Battle That Shaped History (216 BCE)
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - The Quiet Ones: From Fabius to Washington and the Power of Not Charging In
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Jan 22, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - When Grain Goes Missing: Rome’s Food Crisis and Why Supply Chains Still Break Today
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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S2E9 - Rome & Carthage - Hannibal’s Italy: Fear, Strategy, and the Road to Cannae
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Hannibal’s Disappearing Act: Why Ancient Armies Got So Lost (and Why We Still Do)
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - When Rome Panicked: Ancient Superstitions and Today’s Weird Sports Rituals
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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S2E8 - Rome & Carthage - Hannibal in Italy: From Saguntum to Lake Trasimene (218–217 BCE)
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Rome Swipes Right: The Gaulish Alliance Dating Game
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - Spain’s Silver Rush: Carthage Accidentally Invents the Ancient Tech Boom
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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S2E7 - Rome & Carthage - The Spanish Years: Hamilcar’s Legacy, Hasdrubal’s Rise, and Rome’s Growing Alarm (237–218 BCE)
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - “Oops, We Forgot to Pay the Army” — History’s Worst Civil Wars (That Started at Home)
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Dad Tangent - “How to Raise a World-Class General (Step One: No Toys)” — Hannibal’s Wild Childhood
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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S2E6 - Rome & Carthage - Fire and Debt: The Mercenary War That Nearly Destroyed Carthage
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Spartan Who Saved Carthage: Xanthippus and the One-Hit Wonder War
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Dec 25, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Elephants on the Front Lines: How Carthage Weaponized Giants (and Sometimes Regretted It)
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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S2E5 - Rome & Carthage - The First Punic War: Mercenaries and Mutinies (256–241 BCE)
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Corvus: How Rome’s Boarding Bridge Broke Physics and Beat Carthage
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Dec 18, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - How to Build a Navy in a Year: Rome’s Great DIY Fleet Project
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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S2E4 - Rome & Carthage - The First Punic War: The Battle for Sicily Begins (264 – 256 BCE)
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Road Rage, Roman Edition: The Ancient Commute from Hades
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Ancient Receipt Rage: When Carthage Invented the Return Policy
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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S2E3 - Rome & Carthage - The Economies of Empire: How Money, Roads, and Trade Built Rome and Carthage
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Coin That Conquered: How Ancient Money Made Rome and Carthage Addicted to Math
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The World’s First Board Meeting: How Ancient Rome and Carthage Invented the Meeting That Could’ve Been an Email
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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S2E2 - Rome & Carthage - From Kings to Councils: How Rome and Carthage Learned to Rule Themselves
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Alphabet That Traveled the World: How Ancient Traders Invented the ABC’s (and Texting)
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The World’s First Luxury Brand: How Snails Made the Rich Smell Terrible
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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S2E1 - Rome & Carthage - Foundations: Two Myths, One Sea
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Season 1: Thank You — and What’s Next in Season 2 of History with Dad!
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Meme Wars: How Humor, Propaganda & TikTok Shaped History
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Spy Who Zoomed In: How Cyber Spies, Hackers & Wi-Fi Replaced James Bond
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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S1E20 - Russia & Ukraine - On the Brink: Ukraine Faces Pandemic, Politics & Putin — The Season 1 Finale (2019–2022)
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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TL;DR Dad! Season 1 Russia & Ukraine: Episode 11-20 Recap
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - When TV Characters Run the Country: From Sitcom Scripts to Presidential Speeches
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Reform Fatigue and Gym Memberships: How Ukraine’s Post-Revolution Optimism Hit the Treadmill
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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S1E19 - Russia & Ukraine - Between Two Worlds: Ukraine’s Slow War, Zelenskyy’s Rise, and the Struggle for Change (2016–2019)
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Panama Papers: How the World’s Rich Hid Their Treasure Maps
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Billboard Wars: How Ukraine Turned Propaganda Into Public Art
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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S1E18 - Russia & Ukraine - Ukraine at War: Poroshenko, Donbas Battles, and Reforms (2015–2016)
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Frozen Conflicts: The Wars That Never Really Ended
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Crimea’s “Choice”: The Referendum Ballot That Wasn’t Really a Choice
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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S1E17 - Russia & Ukraine - Crimea and the War in Donbas: Russia’s Annexation and Ukraine’s Fight to Hold the Line (2014–2015)
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Yanukovych’s Great Escape
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Mystery of the Little Green Men
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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S1E16 - Russia & Ukraine - Euromaidan: Ukraine’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity Explained
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Golden Toilets Through History
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Oct 16, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Day Parliament Hatched an Egg Fight
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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S1E15 - Russia & Ukraine - Yanukovych’s Ukraine: Corruption, Gas Wars, and the Road to Euromaidan (2010–2013)
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Braid That Conquered Politics: Yulia Tymoshenko’s Iconic Hairstyle
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Gas Wars: When Putin Played with the Thermostat
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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S1E14 - Russia & Ukraine - Ukraine Between Revolutions: Orange Revolution Aftermath, Yushchenko & Tymoshenko (2005–2010)
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Orange Crush: A Brief History of Color Revolutions
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Tape-Gate: Ukraine’s Watergate with Worse Audio Quality
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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S1E13 - Russia & Ukraine - From Scandal to Revolution: Ukraine’s Orange Awakening (1999–2005)
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The One and Only President of Crimea
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Blankets, Pillows, and Politics: The All-Nighter that Wrote Ukraine’s Constitution
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Sep 24, 2025 |
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S1E12 - Russia & Ukraine - Between East and West: Ukraine in the Mid-1990s (1994–1999)
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Whose Ship Is It Anyway? The Black Sea Fleet Squabble
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Chickens for Shoes: The Wild World of 1990s Barter
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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S1E11 - Russia & Ukraine - Independence and Uncertainty: Ukraine’s First Steps (1991–1994)
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Comrade, You Forgot Your Homework: The Secret Life of Soviet Schoolkids
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - In Triplicate, Please: The Glorious Paperwork of Soviet Life
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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S1E10 - Russia & Ukraine - Cold War Shadows: Ukraine in the Soviet Century
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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TL;DR Dad! Season 1 Russia & Ukraine: Episode 1-10 Recap
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Stalin’s Big Parade: Victory Day and the Most Micromanaged Party in History
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Soviet Trophy Brigades: Raiders of the Lost… Piano?
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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S1E9 - Russia & Ukraine - Stalin Marches West: Liberation or Occupation?
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Statues That Wouldn’t Die: Lenin in Every Town
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Orphan Armies: What Happened to Ukraine’s War Orphans?
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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S1E8 - Russia & Ukraine - From Liberation to Control: Ukraine After the Guns Fell Silent
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Crimean Tatars: Deported for Being Themselves
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The NKVD: Stalin’s Secret Police After Liberation
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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S1E7 - Russia & Ukraine - The Red Tide Rolls West: The Soviets Strike Back (1943–44)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - General Winter: Russia’s Coldest Ally
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Aug 13, 2025 |
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S1E6 - Russia & Ukraine - The War Turns Stalingrad, Kursk, and the Nazi Retreat (1942–43)
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Nine Pages of Hunger: Tanya Savicheva’s Diary
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Youngest Hero: Valya Kotik’s Fight Behind Enemy Lines
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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S1E5 - Russia & Ukraine - The War in the East Begins, The Eastern Front Ignites (1941–42)
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Leon Trotsky: The Revolutionary Who Couldn't Sit Still
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Stalin: The Man, the Mustache, the Mayhem Host
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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S1E4 - Russia & Ukraine - World War II and the Double Occupation
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Vladimir Lenin: The Bald Guy Who Broke an Empire
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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S1E3 - Russia & Ukraine - War, Revolutions, and Independence (Sort of)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Rasputin: Agent of Chaos
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Freedom, Kind of - The Abolition of Serfdom in the Russian Empire
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Life in Two Ukraine's - Under Russia vs. Austria-Hungary
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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S1E2 Russia & Ukraine - Lost Autonomy, Lingering Identity
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Catherine the Great and the Disappearing Hetmanate
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - The Cossacks, Wild, Free, and Armed to the Teeth!
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Mongols the Original Amazon Prime
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Welcome to History with Dad!
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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S1E1 - Russia and Ukraine - 1,000 Years of It's Complicated
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Dad Tangent - Rurik and Olga
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Jul 08, 2025 |