Hello 2025! How History Will Help
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, everyone! What will 2025 bring? We're not in the prediction business, but we do think there's a lot of history that can help us navigate whatever this year has in store.
We discuss which historical era and theme we have at the top of mind, how to stay engaged as things seem to be spiraling out of control; and what we want this little podcast of ours to be in the coming year.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:11.8 | And welcome to 2025. So this is our first episode of the year. We are continuing this sort of video episode, conversation here looking forward now to 2025 we look back |
| 0:22.8 | to 2024 in the last episode but here on youtube on video and in the new year are Nicole |
| 0:28.7 | Hammer of Vanderbilt and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley hello there happy 2025 hey hey there |
| 0:35.9 | keen listeners on YouTube will notice that we're wearing the exact same clothing right now. |
| 0:39.5 | We're in the exact same place. |
| 0:40.7 | So we recorded this at the same time. |
| 0:42.2 | I like to repeat. |
| 0:42.9 | The magic of podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah, for continuity, right? |
| 0:45.7 | I script editor came over and said, oh, you should wear that. |
| 0:48.4 | But no. |
| 0:49.2 | So look, last episode, we shouted out some stuff we did in 2024. |
| 0:53.8 | The favorite episodes, the live shows, the newsletter. |
| 0:56.6 | I want to look forward now to 2025, both in terms of plans for this show. |
| 1:00.8 | But I don't want to just make it about this show. |
| 1:02.6 | So let's make it about the world and kind of our work, I say your work as historians. |
| 1:08.3 | My work is a person who talks to historians? |
| 1:11.2 | But is there a big, either historical idea that you are carrying into this year |
| 1:17.0 | or an era of history that you were thinking about in particular going into this year? |
| 1:23.1 | But kind of as we start this year with our history lens, |
| 1:26.7 | trying to process what is sure to be a moment this year. |
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