160 episodes
Historical Blindness Airwave Media
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4.0 • 704 Ratings
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The Historical Blindness podcast is a podcast about history’s myths, mysteries, and forgotten truths. By examining cases of outrageous hoaxes, pernicious conspiracy theory, mass delusion, baffling mysteries and unreliable historiography, Historical Blindness searches for insights into modern religious belief and political culture.
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Raging Against the Machine: Thoughts on Technofear and Luddism
In a somewhat unorthodox episode, I share some meandering thoughts on modern technology and concerns about its potential harms, looking at some historical examples that may offer insights into the technological misgivings of today.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
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Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Remedy for Melancholy."
Additional music licensed through Blue Dot Sessions under a blanket license active at the time of this episode's publication, including "Black Ballots, "Access Road 442," "Tarte Tatin," "Game Lands," "Cicle Deserrat," and "The Gran Dias."
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The Hunt for Lost Nazi Gold Trains
In the final installment of my series exploring the legends behind Indiana Jones films, I look at both the reality and the myth of Nazi gold trains, specifically looking at the tragedy behind the Hungarian gold train and the urban legend of a buried Nazi gold train in Poland.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
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Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!
Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness.
Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "daemones," "Remedy for Melancholy," "Comatose," "July," "Oneiri," "daedalus," "Daylight PON II," and "Sentinel."
"Adventure Theme" by Adam Monroe was licensed commercially through Pond5.
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The Piltdown Fraud
In this standalone episode, I tell the story of the most successful and famous hoax to ever disgrace the field of paleontology, a fraud widely used by Creationists to discredit evolutionary science, but not before providing a robust defense of evolution science and deconstruction of Creationist arguments.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
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Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!
Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness.
Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Remedy for Melancholy," "Tumult," "Denouement," "Comatose," "Global Warming," "July," and "daedalus."
Also featuring:
"Leaving Home" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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The Forging of the Crystal Skulls
In this new standalone installment of my now long-running series on the lore explored in Indiana Jones films, I look at the fabled crystal skull forgeries, claimed to be Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican artifacts as well as relics of Atlantis endowed with supernatural power.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes!
Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!
Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness.
Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "daedalus," "Remedy for Melancholy," "Comatose," "daemones," and "Maree."
"Adventure Theme" by Adam Monroe was licensed commercially through Pond5.
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The Source of the Fountain of Youth Myth
In another episode on myths that drove European conquistadors, I trace the Eurasian legend of the Fountain of Youth to the New World and find that it afterward became a historical myth, erroneously claimed to have been an indigenous American legend and falsely said to have been the object of Ponce de León's voyage to Florida.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes!
Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!
Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness.
Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Nothing (Bonus Track)," "Remedy for Melancholy," "Cold War Echo," "Oneiri," "Denouement," and "Something (Bonus Track)."
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The Search for Cities of Gold
In this standalone episode, I once again explore a topic central to an Indiana Jones film! In this one, I look at how the rumors of hidden cities of gold animated conquistadors in the 16th century, how such rumors started, and what truth there ever was to them.
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Find a transcript of this episode with source citations and related imagery at www.historicalblindness.com sometime before the release of the next episode.
Pledge support on Patreon to get an ad-free feed with exclusive episodes!
Check out my novel, Manuscript Found! And check out the show merch, which make perfect gifts!
Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness.
Some music on this episode is by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0), including "Remedy for Melancholy," "daemones," "Wake Up," "Seeker," "Daylight PON II," and "daedalus."
Also featuring: "Dragon and Toast" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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"Adventure Theme" by Adam Monroe was licensed commercially through Pond5.
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Customer Reviews
Topically Interesting but Filtered Through Opinion
Sometime in the past, the exercise of writing history obliged the author to feign objectivity. This author doesn’t shy away from not only sharing his opinion but, more deleteriously, begins his research through a filter of sociopolitical beliefs.
An example can be heard in the Gun Violence episode, in which the podcaster willingly conflates the possession of (assault) guns by whites with the disproprtionate deaths of Blacks by guns, suggesting a casual, if not direct relationship of the former killing the latter. In fact, these two phenomena are more nuanced, particularly when you look at who is killing Blacks and who is conducting mass-killings, and compare that with another fact that the podcaster evades, i.e. gun deaths in America. (Most gun deaths are not caused by mass-shootings). As a rational gun-control advocate, I found the historical information compelling, but the opinionated conclusion disingenuous and counter-productive to serious political debate, as the opinion ends in cul-de-sac of political ideology, rather than the historical elucidation that is full potential of writing about the past. This bias of this example, tragically, is ubiquitous throughout the show.
Topically, I like what the podcaster focuses on, but would listen to it only for footnotes of where to begin serious historical research.
Well researched and beautifully presented
Stumbled on this at the start of my summer work season and have not listened to anything else since. The wide range of topics all fit together well as well as having amazing audio quality. Nathaniel offers unbiased information by presenting all angles of a story and deeply analyzing presented information. If you listen and label Nathaniel as a left wing nut job you should consider asking your parents if you had lead paint growing up
Stumbled apon
Felt like I needed to hear some history, searched history on apple podcast and your name piqued my curiosity. Really have enjoyed the episodes Ive listened to. Thanks.