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...
I’ve always been fascinated by how empires decline, not just from conquest, but from the slow erosion of economics, infrastructure, and politics. Rome’s story is a perfect example, especially when the city itself was effectively abandoned as the center of power. By...
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...
The Myth of Rome’s Dramatic Fall Whispers of doom echo through the annals of history: barbarian hordes thundering at the gates, flames devouring the Eternal City, the mighty Roman Empire crumbling in a single, cataclysmic night. That’s the legend we cling...
