OFH Throwback- Episode #10- Did the Aztecs Think Cortes Was a God? (Part II)
In this throwback episode Sebastian revisits "Part II" in the Season One series on the conquest of Mexico. In the freshly recorded introduction the host reflects on criticisms that this episode first ...
10 Aug 20211h 6min
OFH Throwback- Episode #9- Did the Aztecs Think Cortes Was a God? (Part I)
In this throwback episode Sebastian revisits a series from Season One of OFH. After the shows on Jared Diamond it seemed like a good time to take another look at the conquest of Mexico. This was also ...
4 Aug 202150min
Episode #138- Any Questions? (2021)
Season 6 wraps up with Sebastian taking questions from the listeners! He gets into everything from the name of the podcast, to his most loved shows, to the nature of humanity itself. Tune-in and find ...
27 Juli 20211h 6min
Episode #137- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part II)
Is Jared Diamond's 1997 bestseller a work of staggering genius, or a piece of intellectual garbage? Has it moved our understanding of humanity forward, or has it set us back by decades? Are these bina...
14 Juli 20211h 13min
Episode #136- What's the Deal with Guns, Germs, and Steel? (Part I)
When Sebastian first read Jared Diamond's Pulitzer Prize winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel as an undergrad, he thought it was brilliant. That was until a Professor he deeply respected, dismissed it ...
30 Juni 20211h
Episode #135- Who Won the War of 1812? (Part III)
Every spring thaw between 1812 and 1814 seemed to inaugurate a completely new war in North America. The momentum in the War of 1812 would swing wildly between the Americans and British until the two s...
16 Juni 20211h 21min
Episode #134- Who Won the War of 1812? (Part II)
When Sebastian first learned about the War of 1812 when he was a Canadian middle-schooler, there were two words he was told he had to remember of the test: manifest destiny. Back then it was heavily ...
2 Juni 20211h 4min
Episode #133- Who Won the War of 1812? (Part I)
American historians sometimes refer to War of 1812 as the "Forgotten War", but this has never really sat well with Canadians. You know who has not forgotten about the War of 1812? Canada, that's who! ...
19 Maj 202159min
