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Weird, Wicked, and Wild

Podcast door James Wils and Jeremy Cayton

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Geschiedenis & Religie

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Welcome to Weird, Wicked, & Wild, a new hard-hitting podcast about the world we live in and how we got here. Part storytelling, part conversation, we're two old friends talking about what we've learned--or failed to learn--from our histories. In our show, we'll explore the historical record to find the weirdest, wickedest, and wildest takeaways from the great--or not-so-great--stories from the past that help us make sense of where we are now.

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ONUG: A City Upon a Hill

Pilgrims and Puritans have an interesting reputation in American history. Popular culture has long flattened the truth about them to the point that they often come off as cartoon bad guys. The real story is that they were devout people under enormous pressure to establish a model Christian society in an unfamiliar land. Their experiences were informed by religious zealotry, imperial agency, frontier colonialism, and ideas about divine collective "chosenness." If our last episode set the stage for how wildly different American Christianity would be from the origins of the faith, this episode is all about how American Christianity took on its specific character. Those English settlers in Massachusetts planted seeds that took deep root in America. Christian nationalism is the resulting thornbush.

20 mei 2026 - 59 min
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The Aberration

Forty-three men between 1789 and 2017 demonstrated the awesome and growing power of the American presidency. Sometimes they were blunt, other times much more deliberate. But in 2017, something shifted, and since then we've seen how extremely fragile the presidency is, too. The two men who've held the office since then have exposed its frailty over and over again. One battered norms with open contempt, mistaking spectacle for strength and grievance for governance. He treated institutions as obstacles to be humiliated into submission. The other stretched executive authority past its snapping point in the name of restoration, governing through emergency and exception. Then that first guy came back, but worse, and that's where we are now. Whether through chaos or consolidation, they both marked radical departures from the managerial, post-Cold War presidency. They weren't course corrections -- they were disruptions. Joe Biden and Donald Trump: the Aberration.

29 mrt 2026 - 3 h 12 min
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