Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

Burning Man is an annual gathering taking place in the Black Rock Desert region of Nevada. Originally established in 1986 as a counter-culture gathering centered around self-expression, it has become something far different in recent years.

DISCLAIMER: I started school two weeks ago and have been making a significant adjustment between school, work, and this podcast, along with other writings I have been doing, so this podcast is a bit shorter than usual.

Between 1776 and 1914, a series of transformations took place in the global military ecosystem that revolutionized the way war was fought between nations. These transformations would cost the human race millions of lives.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains dramatizations of warfare, and may be a trigger for listeners suffering from PTSD or Schizophrenia.

At the tail end of the 8th Century CE, a group of raiders from Norway plundered a sacred priory off the coast of Scotland, instigating what is now known as the "Viking Age." Who were these terrifying warriors, and were they really as horrific as we are led to believe?

Why do Western powers hate communism so much?

Following World War II, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States all had economic booms fueled by the new industrial revolution, and freshly communist China wanted in on that action, so Chairman Mao Zedong set into action a five-year plan that was designed to match the economic output of the United Kingdom as quickly as possible.

It was one of the worst humanitarian disasters in history.

In 1915, the German Empire began executing Unrestricted Submarine Warfare surrounding the British Isles, ultimately sinking thousands of ships in a four year period. Their fatal mistake? One of those ships had over one thousand civilian men, women, and children on board. It may have ultimately cost them the war.

They challenge what we know about our origins as a species. They go against our understanding of ancient societies. They raise new questions about our abilities as a human race. Stonehenge, the Giza Necropolis, the Pyramid of the Sun, and Gobekli Tepe: these are some of our Megalithic Mysteries.

Systems of economics are far more complicated than "right" and "wrong." So, why do so many people in the United States proclaim Capitalism or Socialism to be inherently evil? I'm going to give you an explanation for each of these systems of economics.

It's one of the most beloved electronic companies in the world, but it's a bit older than you might think. Even... a century older.