Sep 26, 2026 · 1 hr 22 min · 27 segments
Clowns are buoyant, which may explain how this podcast stays afloat. This month, Jonah, John, and Rob ponder the lousy-man theory of history, admire a podcast whose hosts actually do research, and…
Jon PodhoretzHost
Rob LongHost
Jonah GoldbergHost
The Rest Is History podcast to me, maybe four or five years ago or something like that.
And we've talked about it here before, and I hadn't really started listening to it until this year.
And the conceit of it, you know, if you haven't listened to it, is it's these two very erudite guys who then go do a lot of research.
It's as though it's a sports chat show, and they're talking about the New York Yankees, only it's the Great Terror.
So the reason I was thinking about this, because of your, Catherine, the great reference there, is that I found earlier this year this incredibly illuminating episode of a very obscure, what is now a very obscure historical event that was One of the most important events of the late 19th century that I finally understood because I listened to them, which is this murder-suicide admiring.
and ended up murdering his mistress and killing himself in a family retreat called Meierling.
And they lay out the story, which is like a modern true crime story, I mean, a murder-suicide story, except that it basically leads to World War I.
The Rest Is History podcast to me, maybe four or five years ago or something like that.
And we've talked about it here before, and I hadn't really started listening to it until this year.
And the conceit of it, you know, if you haven't listened to it, is it's these two very erudite guys who then go do a lot of research.
It's as though it's a sports chat show, and they're talking about the New York Yankees, only it's the Great Terror.
So the reason I was thinking about this, because of your, Catherine, the great reference there, is that I found earlier this year this incredibly illuminating episode of a very obscure, what is now a very obscure historical event that was One of the most important events of the late 19th century that I finally understood because I listened to them, which is this murder-suicide admiring.
and ended up murdering his mistress and killing himself in a family retreat called Meierling.
And they lay out the story, which is like a modern true crime story, I mean, a murder-suicide story, except that it basically leads to World War I.
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