What the Hell Have I Learned

In this episode, John reviews through what he has learned so far doing the show. John covers a variety of topics that he has gone into detail on in previous episodes, stretching all the way back to the very first How the Hell Did We Get Here. John starts out by talking about the Pre-Columbian period and the years between Columbus and the settlement of Jamestown, before discussing all the things he learned about the colonial period that he did not know before he started researching for the show, including the plantation of Ireland, how it affected English settlement of North America, Oliver Cromwell’s Western Design, and other lesser known historical tidbits. John goes on to cover the American Revolution, the creation of the U.S. Constitution after the Articles of Confederation showed itself to be unworkable, and the ways that the experiment in democratic republicanism brought about unexpected problems and benefits. John Also talks about the first three presidential administrations and the things he learned that went on during those administrations. There’s also a pretty spicy assessment of the Trump administration before he gets to the history stuff, so don’t say we didn’t warn you!