Museum of Everything

Dan and Josh delve into the fascinating history of the Zeppelin. It was the first means of crossing the oceans by air, likely the first vehicle to reach the north pole. How dangerous were they -- and why do they no longer exist? #history #museumofeverything #zeppelin #flight #aircraft #ww1 #ww2

In this episode: Museum of Everything Pub Trivia, Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, and the vision for the Museum of Everything. 00:00 – Museum pub trivia begins with history, art, military, and geography questions. 12:18 – Josh and Dan turn to honorable mention space missions, beginning with Mercury and Alan Shepard. 20:55 – Gus Grissom's Liberty Bell 7 mission and a defense of his legacy. 26:...

Dan and Josh finish their countdown of the top ten greatest space missions of all time. As always, they begin with a discussion of what they've recently been reading, touching on Walter Scott's Waverly novels and the calming effects of reading Chaucer when you're on a delayed flight out of LaGuardia. The final four missions discussed on this episode: 4 -- Apollo 10 3 -- Gemini 3 2 -- Apollo 8 1 --...

Dan and Josh begin a new countdown of the top 10 most important space missions of all time , starting with the back half of the list. They open, as always, with what they’ve been reading—this time a detour through 19th-century travel writing, American manners, Flashman , and George MacDonald Fraser’s gleefully irreverent view of empire, history, and literary adventure. From there, they move into a...

Dan and Josh continue their “most beautiful man-made objects in history” series with a wide-ranging honorable-mentions episode. They open with Franz Ferdinand’s travel diaries, hunting, Teddy Roosevelt, Hemingway, Ian Fleming, and Salinger, then return to the beautiful-objects list to cover the great things that did not quite make the top ten. The conversation moves from the Sistine Chapel and Ven...

Dan and Josh continue their series on the ten most beautiful man-made objects in history. This time they open not with books but with music—Glenn Gould, Bach, temperament, Beethoven, and the limits of describing music in words—before returning to their lists. The episode ranges from Duccio and Fra Angelico to Bernini, firearms design and engineering, crayons, Gothic glass, and the Saturn V’s might...

Dan and Josh launch a new series: THE TEN MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN-MADE OBJECTS IN HISTORY . As usual, they begin with a lively reading segment—ranging from Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s travel diaries to history, architecture, and aesthetics—before turning to the list itself. The discussion moves across aircraft, ships, automobiles, sacred books, Renaissance architecture, temples, and submarines, asking w...

Dan and Josh conclude their multi-part discussion of the greatest movies of all time with picks #16–20, then move into a long and wide-ranging honorable mentions section. The episode ranges from Golden Age musicals and courtroom dramas to Shakespeare, Bond, noir, war films, Hitchcock, and a few later favorites like Apollo 13 and Die Hard . As in the earlier episodes, the fun is in both the overlap...

Dan and Josh return for Part 3 of their all-time greatest movies discussion, moving through picks #11–15. They begin with another lively books segment and reflections on recent reading, then continue their rankings with more spirited disagreement and overlap. This episode ranges from classic war epics and golden-age comedies to Hitchcock suspense, Bond, action blockbusters, and holiday favorites—s...

Dan and Josh return for Part 2 of their all-time greatest movies countdown. They open with what they’ve been reading lately—from Agatha Christie to the Russian classics—then recap the previous episode’s #1–5 selections before diving into picks #6–10. Expect spirited debate on Hitchcock, classic war films, Shakespeare on screen, golden-age Hollywood craftsmanship, and what separates “great art” fro...

The 20 Greatest Movies Ever Made (Part 1) Join Josh and Dan for the first installment of an ambitious countdown as they reveal and debate their respective lists of the 20 greatest movies ever made . Steeped in a lifelong education from Turner Classic Movies, the duo explores why the Golden Age of Hollywood continues to outshine modern cinema, which they argue has become increasingly homogenous and...