HHAddendum EP25 The Long View

I've been listening to HH for years, but this episode, The Long View, was the one that made me want to become a patreon member. It's so good. I've listened to it over and over again. Thank you for all you do!

Juli Hoffman

The original citizens of Rome were the dregs of humanity, people of such shady backgrounds and lowly births that they literally had to steal women so the new settlement didn't die out in one generation.

Che

Amazing. Dan always does a great job researching, preparing and then presenting. But this type of show is also terrific. Instead of just presenting an historical topic, it created a deeper thought process on a good subject. Keep them coming.

David Q

Great pod as always! But I wanted to suggest a possible American exception to Dan’s rule that every group traces their ancestry to some noble but distant hero. The American mythology often takes a more “common man”/ “build your own country” angle. The scene in Stripes delivers this theme in a way that was funny but also had a resonance of authenticity: Bill Murray character: “We're all very different people. We're not Watusi. We're not Spartans. We're Americans, with a capital 'A', huh? You know what that means? Do ya? That means that our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world. We are the wretched refuse. We're the underdog. We're mutts!… So we're all dogfaces, we're all very, very different…. But we're American soldiers! We've been kicking ass for 200 years! We're ten and one!

I think, that while Dan correctly notes that people have moved a lot, it is also important to mention that, especially in the so called "Old World" (i.e. where the "indigenous" population was not guns-germs-and-steeled by colonizers), people have remained genetically unchanged in some places for thousands of years. Sure, they have changed language, culture, ethnic identity, religion, material culture, etc., but take a gene sample from my native Balkans and you'll find the same Early European Farmers, who came from Anatolia over 8000 years ago.

Radi Radev

This episode was great!

This episode confirmed that I would love to have Dan at one of my dinner parties.

More of this please

UrpleDeath

Excellent!

Ian Modestow

I love when I wake up in the middle of the night to a notification about a new episode

Infin1ty

Can’t wait! Thank you Dan!

James Mckinnon