#186 - FDR’s Fireside Chats
President Roosevelt’s “Fireside Chats” are famous for breaking new ground in how political leaders communicate with their people. But where they really as ground-breaking as we all tend to believe? Di...
8 Mar 20171h 12min
#185 - Quote or No Quote: Abe Lincoln | Fool Some of the People
Have we all been fooled all the time by people applying this quote to Abraham Lincoln? Where did the quote originate? Honest Abe or someone else? When was it said? During the Lincoln-Douglas Debates? ...
6 Mar 20173min
#184 - Clean Wehrmacht
How “clean” was the regular German army (Wehrmacht) during World War II? The Nazis and the SS usually get all the blame for war crimes and for the Holocaust. How much blame can be placed at the feet o...
1 Mar 20171h 12min
#183 - Quote or No Quote: Sigmund Freud | Sometimes a Cigar is Just a Cigar
Many things seemed phallic to Freud, the father of psychoanalysis. But did this include the humble cigar? Or did Freud just dismiss overanalysis by saying, “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar”? What th...
27 Feb 20173min
#182 - Special Episode: All American Legacy "War’s End"
Join members of the 82nd Airborne Division of the US Army as they interview Professor Jennifer Keane and our own Professor Buzzkill! We discuss the complicated history of the end of World War I, as we...
24 Feb 201746min
#181 - Quote or No Quote: Marilyn Monroe | Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History
Lots of people are credited with coining the great phrase, “well-behaved women rarely make history.” These include Marilyn Monroe, Gloria Steinem, Eleanor Roosevelt, Anne Boleyn, and our own Aunt Ging...
20 Feb 20174min
#180 - Executive Orders
Huge numbers of listeners have flooded the Buzzkill Institute with emails, faxes, texts, and Tweets, asking about President Donald Trump’s Executive Orders. They’ve come so fast and furious! With a li...
15 Feb 201721min
#179 - Quote or No Quote: St. Valentine | “Your Valentine”
Valentine’s Day is here again, Buzzkillers, and you can be certain that we’re depleting the Buzzkill bank account at a rapid clip so that we can give Lady Buzzkill all the best tokens of love and affe...
13 Feb 20174min
