It's hardcore history.

It's hard core history.

There are two kinds of people that listen to this, um, podcast.

One group are history fans. The other group are people who are in the process of

becoming history fans. And so I'd like to talk to them for many history fans already know what I'm going to say here, but it's an interesting

aspect of why the past in terms of a field of study should matter to us today.

We exist in a time period where the value of a history education,

for example, among several humanities slash social science

disciplines are sort of at a low ebb because a whole bunch of factors including people who

come out of college with huge student loans they have to

pay back is geared towards you know trying to maximize the investment that was your

you know university education which is totally understandable, but it causes us to sort of look too knee jerk at the connection between education and earning potential, right?

You know, you study computer science, you get out, you have a job,

as opposed to you become a more formidable person

by immersing yourself in the humanities,

which helps you in a whole bunch of ways as life requires you to adapt over and over again.

I understand people devalue it and maybe those subjects are not the same as they used to be,

but there was always a practical value to learning about things like history, although

not always in the way non-history fans assume, again, history fans already know this.

Let me use my favorite example. You'll often hear

usually when we're talking about some military affair that might involve, you know, combating a dictator or something you'll hear the 1938 Munich

appeasement argument brought into play. You'll often see this.

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