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A.D.D. History
by Wilson King
A condensed and comical history of Earth and Humanity. This podcast explores 12% of everything that's happened on Earth, roughly in order, from a volcanic rock, to monkeys with smartphones, and points out how charmingly absurd it all is.
Episodes
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3.6: Everybody Wants To Rule The World
This is the absurd tale of the second king of Persia, Cambyses, who was known for starting the Persian navy, conquering Egypt, and being incredibly insane. Or, perhaps that's not the full story. Eventually, every incompetent fool in power has it taken from him, but in this case we get a rare...
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3.5: Cyrus The Great, King Of Kings
This is the story of one of the most important men in history, who a lot of people have never even heard of. Cyrus The Great was... Great, and his story is too.
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3.4: Chaos Out Of Order
There is a lot going on in this episode. Maybe I'll re write this someday to explain that, but i got stuff to do right now, so just listen to it. It's a great story. Thanks, Wilson King.
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3.3: Karma Is... A Mean Female Dog- The Fall Of Assyria
Assyria was truly a charming civilization. After almost half a century of their brutal domination of every civilization they made contact with, they finally got a tummy ache, so everyone went to Assyria to return their hospitality.
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3.2: It's Only A Warcrime If You Lose- The Crimson Age Of Assyria
Remember the last episode where i talked about how the Assyrians were a bunch of violent nutjobs? Yeah, they kept doing that for quite a while. A lot of big picture developments happen in this episode though, so... listen to it. It's so cool to not live in times like the one in this episode.…
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3.1: Dawn Of The Iron Age- The Rise Of Assyria
In this episode, we set the stage for the next series of events in western-ish history, which all kind of hatches out of Mesopotamia. There's a new main character civilization for a while, the Assyrians, but they're more of a super villain. Somehow the actions of this brutal culture you've…
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2.8 The Trojan War, And The Bronze Age Collapse
Good Gods, this one took some work. But, good things take work, and this story is Awesome. This is (mostly) the story of the Trojan War, which actually has a lot more to it than the giant wooden horse. there's romance, violence, horrors beyond our modern comprehension, and a lot of dubious...
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2.7 Endings And Beginnings
This is the penultimate conclusion to this season, the A.D.D. History of "the cradle of civilization." In this episode, we tie up the messy and intertwined stories of the Egyptians and the biblical narrative, as far as I'm going with both of them. By the end, we leave Egypt at the dawn of The New...
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2.6 The Golden Age Of Egypt
Good Old Egypt. Well, they were old, at least. On this episode we briefly explore the roots of one of Earth's most famous civilizations, and cruise through around 850 years of the poorly documented period of The Old Kingdom. This is when they built all those absurdly famous pyramids (supposedly)...
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2.5 Goofy Genesis, Part 3: Jacob And Joseph
This is the rest of Genesis. Stairway to Heaven. Joseph is cool. I need sleep. I love you, goodnight.
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2.4 Goofy Genesis, Part 2: Abraham And The Boys
Abraham is the father of the three largest religions on Earth. This character is pretty important, whether he existed or not, though i think he probably did in some way. P.S. I hope this episode comes out alright, i really need to leave and i didn't get a chance to listen to the finished product.…
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2.3 The Bronze Age, What's Up With That?
Someone figured out agriculture and writing. They (not necessarily the same person) also figured out how to mix copper with tin and make bronze. All of this was a big deal, it turns out. In this episode, i also talk about: The Sumerian King's list, (for too long,) How economies formed, And Sargon...
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2.2 Goofy Genesis, Part 1
This is my feeble wacky retelling of the Biblical story of Genesis. This story starts with the epic creation of the universe in a convenient seven day work week, and ends with Noah getting hammered on home made wine after his whole story with the floating zoo and the flood. I'd love to go into…
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2.1 The Old Stories
Ancient Eastern Mediterranean mythology. In this episode, I manage to casually cover the supposed beliefs of Egypt, Greece, Hercules, and a fairly brief stint on the Canaanites. I didn't really have time to get to the Babylonians or Hittites, but, honestly, it's a pretty similar story. Well, I...
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1.6: Species With Amnesia
Between 12,800 years ago, and 11,600 years ago, the ice age ended, Hard. There's a lot of theories on what caused it, (probably a comet impact on the Canadian ice sheet) but evidence is becoming more clear all the time that it was a cataclysmic time across most of Earth. There was a mass...
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1.5: The Megalithic Age
It's an hour long rant about big ancient rocks. There's more to it than that, but I'll write this up later when i get a second. Puma Punku is super weird. With Love, Wilson.
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1.4 Nerd Legend- Ancient Aliens?
Yep, this is gonna be the weirdest episode for quite a while. I have no idea if it's true, but it's a fun story either way. This is the story, or interpretation, of the alien sky gods on Earth in the ancient past. In the immortal words of Forrest Gump, "that's all I got to say about that." For...
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1.3 In The Beginning III, The Rise Of The Humans
In this episode we explore Human Evolution and the Middle Earthy world it happened in. Human ancestors began walking upright, practicing monogamy, and hanging out near fires, and all of that was a pretty big deal. Eventually humans got pretty good at playing with fire, making tools, and started...
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1.2 In The Beginning II, The Rise Of The Mammals
This is the story of that time between the dinosaurs and us. There were sixty six million years in there, and nobody gives a flying squirrel about it, but it's actually pretty fascinating. Mammals happened, for one, which is something mammals should care about. The world got absurdly hot for a...
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1.1 In The Beginning I, Rocks And Reptiles
In this episode, I explore the vast majority of time, focused on Earth, how little we actually know about it, and how little all of that actually matters to our perspective of upright walking primates. The universe began, somehow, at some point, and that was pretty cool. Stars formed, yadda yadda...
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1.0 Thoughts And Theories
Originally, this was an episode that explained the big picture of the following season, and explained a couple hypotheses about how our idea of super ancient history is probably missing most of the story. Objects get lost, stories get weird when you tell them to kids around a campfire in a cave,...
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Introduction To A.D.D History
This is my introduction to the world of A.D.D. History. Just listen to the first five minutes, the rest is basically a waste of time. I'll let you know. Should you dare to listen farther, I'll explain a bit about myself and who I am, why I'm bothering to do this, and how I plan to go about it…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A condensed and comical history of Earth and Humanity. This podcast explores 12% of everything that's happened on Earth, roughly in order, from a volcanic rock, to monkeys with smartphones, and points out how charmingly absurd it all is.
HOSTED BY
Wilson King
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A condensed and comical history of Earth and Humanity. This podcast explores 12% of everything that's happened on Earth, roughly in order, from a volcanic rock, to monkeys with smartphones, and points out how charmingly absurd it all is.
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