Hardcore History Ep68 – (BLITZ) Human Resources

it's hardcore history the blitz edition these shows that we do are improvised there's no script i'll usually come in the studio remember where we were the day before write down some thoughts that might have occurred to me in just sort of maybe bullet point form or whatever and then we improvise and if we don't like it we throw it away if we do like it strings together with the stuff we did previously but the reason that matters is i don't have a real road map or idea of how what we're about to start here is going to go we take this journey together and then you look at what you have and say oh what is that there's no chance to you know go over the script later double check things decide if this works or that doesn't you know time it out none of that is available to us and i think that's partially why it sounds kind of different than a lot of the similar productions but but this is part of how we've always done it right so i don't know how this is going to go the people that have advised me that i've divulged what i'm going to talk about today the people that i've i've talked to have told me it is not going to go well it doesn't matter what i do it's not going to go well um they said you should not touch this topic it is a no-win situation just go to you know go do one of the pleaser topics there's so many you know the people will love and i wrote down a quote uh that sort of summed up the problem and the reason that those people are saying that uh it's attributed i always say that now because every quote is somehow debunked nobody ever said anything they're quoted as saying in history apparently but the ohio state university historian robert c davis is quoted as saying that history is often is not are present politics projected on to the past and you can see that easily i mean that is an obvious statement when you go and look at for example the brand new books that are coming out on certain historical things and and how they they'll tend to they'll tie it in it's something that the editors want ...