History

What podcasts said about history

Lines from episode transcripts that say “world war”, “civil war”, “cold war”, “ancient rome”, “middle ages” or “historians”. Newest first, at most two per episode and three per show. Lines that look like ads are left out. Found automatically.

1. 

   My First Million the 6 traits of people who can’t stop making money

   “So I think, you know, there's some people who are like, you know, in Game of Thrones, the guy who's like, he's like just copying, writing things down on scrolls, like the historians.”

2. 

   Freakonomics Radio 691. Is This What a “Good Billionaire” Looks Like?

   “There's the American story, conversations with master historians, and the American experiment, dialogues on the dream.”

3. 

   Freakonomics Radio 691. Is This What a “Good Billionaire” Looks Like?

   “In addition to his private equity and philanthropic work, Rubenstein also hosts a few TV shows on Bloomberg and PBS, interviewing CEOs and politicians and historians.”

4. 

   Masters of Scale The AI race to save American science and reshape medicine forever

   “But like the last 80 years, like following the Second World War, we've led the globe in science and engineering and innovation.”

5. 

   Odd Lots Nate Soares on How AI Really Could Kill Us All

   “And the analogy that Nate uses and his co-author is, well, you know, we did big things before for World War II, but even something like a World War can have capitalistic undertones, right?”

6. 

   Motley Fool Money Mailbag, incl: What to do if you’re sure there’s a crash coming? October 11, 2026

   “World War II, market finish higher than it started.”

7. 

   The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway No Mercy / No Malice: Asymmetry

   “The Pentagon reduced defense spending by 30% between 1988 and 1997 because we were no longer fighting the Cold War.”

8. 

   The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway No Mercy / No Malice: Asymmetry

   “The current president asked Congress to boost Pentagon spending by 45% to $1.5 trillion more than the US spent at the peak of World War II adjusted for inflation.”

9. 

   Masters in Business Balancing Conviction and Risk: Masters in Business with Maria Vassalou

   “It doesn't need this military subsidy that it has been receiving since the Second World War.”

10. 

    Masters in Business Balancing Conviction and Risk: Masters in Business with Maria Vassalou

    “US has never really paid off its debt even after the Second World War. It just grew at high rates and reduced the debt to GDP ratio.”

11. 

    The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing Andrew Ang: Should AI Agents Run Your Asset Allocation? | #653

    “I think just to set the scene here debt to GDP ratio is at the same level as it was during World War II, you know, above 100 percent, well about 100 percent.”

12. 

    Capital Allocators – Inside the Institutional Investment Industry Real Estate Credit Over Yield at Invesco – Charlie Rose (EP.519)

    “…on lessons learned from the last correction, which, by the way, the correction in commercial real estate between 22 and 23 was one of the three most severe corrections in commercial real estate in modern history since World War…”

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    BiggerPockets Real Estate Podcast Scott Galloway: Stop Being an Earner, Start Being an Owner

    “Post World War II, 80 years of prosperity through cooperation by rebuilding Japan and Germany and largely being seen and a lot of people push back on us largely being seen as the good guys enforcing freedom of navigation…”

14. 

    Animal Spirits Podcast Sudden Wealth Syndrome (EP. 485)

    “Look at the chart going back to 1940, the start of World War II essentially, this was a tenure treasury.”

15. 

    Motley Fool Money Mailbag, incl: Do we have a free market? October 4, 2026

    “We're at a point now where government spending is the highest percentage of GDP outside of World War II. And it's been growing very rapidly.”

16. 

    Freakonomics Radio 689. Here’s Why Your Hamburger Just Got So Pricey

    “Check out the episode from our archive called How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War. It's episode number 386. I'm Stephen Dubner. This is Pre-Konomics Radio. We will be right back.”

17. 

    Dwarkesh Podcast Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

    “When he arrived, there was civil war, the previous supper Inca, when a car back had died in 1525, and his two sons, Al-Hualpa and Hwasgar, turned to each other, Al-Hualpa had just won the Civil War.”

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    Dwarkesh Podcast Si Sheppard – How did a few hundred Spanish soldiers topple two empires?

    “And from that, he's been condemned by generations of historians. This was a mistake to bring the conquistadors into the heart of the empire itself.”

19. 

    The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing Dave Iben: The World Is on Sale While America Trades at a Premium | #652

    “Years ago, Japan was considered the enemy from World War II.”

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    The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing Roger Ibbotson - Why Isn’t Everyone Rich? | #651

    “And people say, well, that's survivorship bias because there are other markets like Argentina, which look great in 1900 that actually did very poorly and other markets and World War didn't even barely survive World War II…”