Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

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Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened episodes

  • Santa Claus
    He goes by many names, drives a huge sleigh through the sky with magical flying reindeer, keeps a giant book with the names of all children and information regarding their behavior, and delivers presents to those deserving of them... but where did the story of Santa Claus come from?
    MERRY CHRISTMAS!
    25 min
  • Holistic Medicine: Why the Divide?

    Western Medicine and Eastern Medicine have deeply divided roots. Many people in the West consider Eastern Medicine to be 'pseudoscience,' while the results of much of the Eastern philosophies have been proven to be effective. Why the divide? In this podcast, designed to meet the criteria of a University assignment, (thanks in advance for the good score, professor,) we explore the roots of the East-West Divide.

    17 min
  • The Harlem Renaissance
    In the late 1910s to the late 1930s, a series of events came to be known that defined the African-American culture in the United States through music, literature, and art, with the epicenter existing in a single large neighborhood on the island of Manhattan: Harlem.
    16 min
  • MKULTRA

    In 1953, as the Korean War was coming to a close, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States initiated a top-secret project that would experiment with psychoactive drugs on human beings in order to attempt to create some sort of mind-control effect, and for the next twenty years, this project would create a general sense of unease and distrust in the United States federal government... because most of the subjects had no idea they were being experimented on. 

    28 min
  • Dracula: The Story of Vlad The Impaler

    In the 15th century, an Eastern European ruler by the name of Vlad Dracula would perpetrate a series of acts that would cement himself in human history as one of the most notorious, and most heroic, leaders of all time. This is the story of Vlad Dracula.


    Happy Halloween!

    37 min
  • Roanoke

    In 1590, John White returned to his beloved colony off the coast of North Carolina, only to find that all 117 inhabitants had seemingly vanished into thin air. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island?

    22 min
  • Yugoslav Wars

    It's one of the most forgotten conflicts in modern history, fueled by ethnic tensions and unresolved disputes. The 1900s ended just as it began: with war in the Balkans.

    32 min
  • The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911
    On a cold, Saturday afternoon in March of 1911, a cigar butt was tossed into a bin of scraps in a clothing factory. The tragic aftermath would create a movement to protect workers that led to safety procedures that we still abide by in our modern workplaces.
    19 min

About Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

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Tanner likes to talk about history and find threads that pass through everything that has ever happened. If you wanna listen, you can.