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Curious minds welcome, clueless takes guaranteed!Don't Know, Do Care is a curious mix of comedy, commentary, and casually intense learning. Every episode, one of us brings a topic the others know nothing about and tries to "educate" them, just enough for them to feign interest.
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Don't Know If The Trojan War Was Real (opens the original)
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Is the Trojan War a historical fact, or just the world's most successful piece of ancient fanfiction? We all know the pop-culture version containing a thousand ships, an invincible heel, petty gods sabotaging boats, and a giant wooden horse that somehow fooled an entire city. But for historians, turning Homer's Iliad into actual history is a total nightmare. In this episode, we treat the Trojan War like an ancient cold case. We look at why the Iliad isn't the military logbook people think it is
Don't Know Why The Media Loved Hitler (opens the original)
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Last episode, we looked at how much of the Western media practically rolled out the red carpet for Benito Mussolini. This week, we move on to Adolf Hitler, and somehow, the reporting gets even stranger. Unlike Mussolini, Hitler wasn't treated like a visionary. He was treated like a joke. Major American newspapers described him as a loudmouth, a political clown, and a man whose moustache and mannerisms "suggest Charlie Chaplin." Journalists mocked his appearance, dismissed his supporters as gulli
Don't Know Why The Media Loved Mussolini (opens the original)
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We like to imagine that the media is at its best when democracy is at its worst. That journalists become fearless, newspapers hold power accountable, and propaganda is easily spotted for what it is. History suggests that's not quite the case. In the first episode of a two-part series, we look at how the global media covered Benito Mussolini's rise to power, and it's far stranger than most people realise. Long before he became synonymous with fascism, dictatorship, and World War II, Mussolini was
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