Historium

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#78 The Blowout Mar 17, 2024

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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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[UNLOCKED] Bonus Episode #30: The Day Disco Died Jul 20, 2023

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(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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Historium Presents: The Wind May 11, 2023

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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."
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#77 ATOMIC DAWN - The Red Menace Mar 27, 2023

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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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#76 ATOMIC DAWN - Heavy Water Mar 20, 2023

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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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#75 ATOMIC DAWN - A Prime Suspect Mar 13, 2023

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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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#74 ATOMIC DAWN - Complementarity and Uncertainty Mar 06, 2023

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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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#73 Once in a Lifetime Nov 24, 2022

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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.

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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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#72: The Trial of Sunshine Charlie Oct 24, 2022

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Summer 1929 was the pinnacle of a new era of banking, and Charles E. Mitchell emblematized the live-fast-die-young ethos of roaring twenties stock salesmen. As the Great Crash led into the Great Depression, Charlie’s ambition brought about his downfall and forced him to go toe-to-toe with one of most doggedly committed prosecutors of the era: Ferdinand Pecora. It’s a story that’s more timely now than ever.
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Music:

Hindustan by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
Dogtown Blues by Bob Crosby & The Bob Cats
Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ by the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Easy Opium by Ben von Wildenhaus
Battle of the Species by Antibalas
Music for the Royal Fireworks by Handel
One Bad Motherfucker in His Day by Ben von Wildenhaus
Reckless by Brocker Way
The Ox by The Who
Potato Boy by Mac Demarco
Tryouts by Brocker Way
Heartaches by Al Bowlly
The Beast by Dick Dale
Let There Be Drums by Sandy Nelson
It Was a Town by Brocker Way
Glass Etudes by Etudes No. 6 by Philip Glass
Etude by Joep Beving
In Love and Justice by Colin Stetson
Happy Days are Here Again by Ben Selvin & The Crooners
End of Summer Part 2 by Johann Johannsson
Less Likely by Trent Reznor
1929 by Merle Haggard

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#71 Operation Eureka Jul 25, 2022

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Tehran 1943.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin meet together for the first time with hopes of overcoming their ideological differences in order to win the Second World War.

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Music:

Nightbook by Ludovico Einauldi
Vanguard by Bear McCreary
History is Listening by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
Increase by David Lang
Prelude by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
The War Rooms by Dario Marianelli & Vikingur Olafsson
Moscow, 1953 by Christopher Willis
Welcome to the Bloody first by Wilbert Roget II
Four Winds by Adam Hurst
Staging a Coup by Christopher Willis
Dungtitled (In a Major) by Stars of the Lid
A Softer World by Luke Howard
A Meaningful Moment Through a Meaningless Process by Stars of the Lid

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