Tanner Talks About Stuff that Happened

Originally released in February of 2020, this episode covers the events that transpired at the end of June 1914 in Sarajevo, Bosnia, which sparked the fire that led to the First World War.

The final pieces are put into place to ignite the great powder keg in Europe as the threat of the first global war looms.

During a rare time of peace, European leaders begin to look elsewhere for the means to enhance their national prestige and bolster their struggling economies. 

Italy takes down Austria, Prussia rips France to shreds, and Russia exacts its revenge on the Ottomans. Battle lines are being drawn.

France, Britain, and Sardinia join forces with the Ottoman Empire in facing off with Russia over dominion of the Black Sea. It gets ugly.

The roots of the World Wars lie in the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte to the throne of France, where the country would experience a meteoric rise, and equally humbling fall, as the first modern European empire.

On the first ever Live Edition of this podcast, I give an unscripted, unedited analysis of what happened at the United States Capitol Building today, on January 6th, 2021, as Congress attempted to certify the election results that now solidify Joe Biden's seat at the Resolute Desk.

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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!

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...

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.

From 1996 to 2002, one of the largest wars in history was fought between nine countries and countless insurgencies, taking the lives of millions... and you've never heard of it.

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... b...

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!

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?

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.

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.

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 ha...

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.

Less than three months before the Soviet Union dissolved, the largest single-day rock concert in history was held in Moscow, in a country where, only five years before, western rock music was effectively outlawed. It is remembered as being a symbol of revolution in the once-feared communist country as it died with a whimper. 

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...

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.