The Slow Erosion of an Empire’s Heart Picture the Eternal City in its twilight: marble forums cracked under the weight of neglect, once-thronged streets whispering echoes of forgotten triumphs, and the Tiber’s waters lapping lazily at banks overgrown with...
About This Episode: Are we actually less capable of handling collapse than past generations—or are we just adapted for a different kind of world? In this conversation, Dan Carlin (Hardcore History / The End Is Always Near) breaks down why modern society may be more...
About This Episode: Most people think collapse is an explosion. A wall falls. A city burns. A single date on a timeline. But that’s almost never how it happens. Rome didn’t “fall in 476.” That’s the lie. Rome faded — slowly — through a series of rational “fixes” that...
About This Episode: In 1938, Nazi officials stripped the Warburg name from a Hamburg bank. At the same time, another Warburg was embedded inside the architecture of the American financial system. This episode investigates how one banking family helped design the...
About This Episode: In 260 AD, the unthinkable happened. A Roman emperor was captured alive by a foreign enemy. Not killed in battle. Not ransomed. Not executed. Instead, Emperor Valerian was publicly humiliated—forced to kneel while the Persian king used him as a...
About This Episode: On September 21st, 1327, King Edward II of England was “murdered” at Berkeley Castle in one of the most infamous executions in medieval history. But what if Edward II didn’t die at Berkeley Castle at all – and the truth has been buried for 700...
