Everything Everywhere Daily

Everything Everywhere Daily

Learn something new every day! Everything Everywhere Daily is a daily podcast for Intellectually Curious People. Host Gary Arndt tells the stories of interesting people, places, and things from around the world and throughout history. Gary is an accomplished world traveler, travel photographer, and polymath. Topics covered include history, science, mathematics, anthropology, archeology, geography, and culture. Past history episodes have dealt with ancient Rome, Phoenicia, Persia, Greece, China, Egypt, and India. as well as historical leaders such as Julius Caesar, Emperor Augustus, Sparticus, and the Carthaginian general Hannibal. Geography episodes have covered Malta, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Monaco, Luxembourg, Vatican City, the Marshall Islands, Kiribati, the Isle of Man, san marino, Namibia, the Golden Gate Bridge, Montenegro, and Greenland. Technology episodes have covered nanotechnology, aluminum, fingerprints, longitude, qwerty keyboards, morse code, the telegraph, radio, television, computer gaming, Episodes explaining the origin of holidays include Memorial Day, April Fool’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day, Christmas, Ramadan, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Canada Day, the Fourth of July, Famous people in history covered in the podcast include Salvador Dali, Jim Thorpe, Ada Lovelace, Jessie Owens, Robert Oppenheimer, Picasso, Isaac Newton, Attila the Hun, Lady Jane Grey, Cleopatra, Sun Yat Sen, Houdini, Tokyo Rose, William Shakespeare, Queen Boudica, Empress Livia, Marie Antoinette, the Queen of Sheba, Ramanujan, and Zheng He.

Episodes

The Lisbon Regicide

July 22, 2025 • 15 mins
On February 1, 1908, the political fortunes of Portugal changed forever.  The royal family was returning to Lisbon, traveling in an open horse-drawn carriage.  While they were traveling, in broad daylight, and in front of dozens of witnesses, two radicals gunned down both the king and the heir apparent, throwing the Portuguese monarchy into chaos.  The effect of what happened almost 120 years ago can still be felt today. Learn ...
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Holy Relics

July 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Some of the most venerated objects in many different religions are holy relics.  Relics offer a tangible connection to significant figures in various religious traditions, and they are often highly prized and sought after. In the Middle Ages, relics became a big business, and if a church had the right relics, it could boost a local economy. It became such a big business that many people began to question their authenticity.  Lea...
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Air Conditioning (Encore)

July 20, 2025 • 15 mins
One of the biggest problems that humanity has faced for thousands of years is heat.  Excessive heat made it difficult to work in the middle of the day. Heat was especially problematic in the tropics, where a shockingly large percentage of humanity lived.  As cities became more developed, excess heat, all year round, became a limiting factor in how tall buildings could get.  All of these problems were solved with one invention. ...
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The Sinking of the Mignonette and Justified Cannibalism

July 19, 2025 • 17 mins
On May 19, 1884, a small yacht containing four men set sail from England to Australia.  On July 5th, the ship was hit by a massive wave and capsized.  The crew escaped the shipwreck on a lifeboat, but was left in a horrible situation. They were hundreds of miles from land, with no fresh water, and a single pound of turnips for food. Three weeks later, on July 25, food was out, and the men were still adrift, and the sailors made ...
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The Battle of Cajamarca (Encore)

July 18, 2025 • 14 mins
Some of the most important battles in history, the ones that changed the course of civilizations, are often very small battles.  In 1532, a battle, really just a skirmish, took place, which completely changed the future paths of Peru, Spain, and the entire continent of South America.  Despite the importance of this battle, few people have ever even heard of it.  Learn more about the Battle of Cajamarca and how it changed the sha...
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Australian Wildlife

July 17, 2025 • 16 mins
Australia is unique among the countries in the world. It is a continent, a country, and an island all wrapped up into one.  Australia is also home to some of the most bizarre species in the world, most notably its large number of marsupials, which comprise 70% of all marsupial species worldwide. Why do Australia’s animals differ so significantly from those of the rest of the world, and what led to the dominance of marsupials?  ...
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Costa Rica

July 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Located in the heart of Central America is the Republic of Costa Rica.  Costa Rica is situated between Panama and Nicaragua and shares a similar colonial history with other countries in Central America.  However, over the last 100 years, it has taken a radically different path. A path that has allowed the country to avoid most of the problems that have plagued the rest of the region.  As a result, it has been much more stable an...
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Wilhelm Canaris: Working Against the Nazis From the Inside

July 15, 2025 • 16 mins
Throughout World War II, Nazi Germany was a formidable force due to its military strength and success. A large reason for this success was its intelligence network. What most people don’t know is that the Nazi head of military intelligence was actively working against Adolf Hitler. Through a series of active and passive measures, he went from a loyal Nazi to a double agent. Find out about Wilhelm Canaris and how he resisted Hit...
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The Storming of the Bastille

July 14, 2025 • 15 mins
On July 14, 1789, in Paris, France, one of the most iconic events of the French Revolution took place.  Thousands of French citizens stormed a prison to liberate the weapons from its armory and to free any political prisoners who were held within. It is considered to be the start of the revolution and the beginning of the end of the French monarchy.  Learn more about the Storming of the Bastille and how it sparked the French Rev...
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The Greatest Comebacks of All Time

July 13, 2025 • 15 mins
More often than not, in competitive sports, when a team or player has a significant lead, the outcome is often just a formality.  While that is usually the case, it isn’t always the case.  On rare occasions, sometimes very rare occasions, a huge lead does not guarantee victory.  A team that is down can beat the odds and come from behind to win.  In the rarest of cases, those come-from-behind victories become legendary.. Learn m...
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The Fundamental Forces of Nature

July 12, 2025 • 16 mins
Everything in the universe, from galaxies to the atoms in your body, is driven by just a few fundamental forces.  It took centuries for physicists to identify these forces, but once identified, they believed that some of these forces were merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon.  Once they realized this, some physicists felt that all the forces in nature could be explained by a single theory of everythin...
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The Gulf of Tonkin Incident (Encore)

July 11, 2025 • 15 mins
In August of 1964, an event occurred off the waters of North Vietnam that would have repercussions that would echo in US foreign policy for decades.  Two alleged confrontations between US Navy vessels and North Vietnamese ships set off a chain of events that resulted in a dramatic escalation in the United States’ involvement in Vietnam and a subsequent backlash that would change military policy to the present day.  Learn more abo...
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The Haitian Revolution

July 10, 2025 • 19 mins
Between 1791 and 1804, the only successful slave rebellion in human history occurred. The revolution was an insurrection of enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in the Caribbean colony of Saint-Dominge.  The success of the revolution led to the establishment of a free state known as Haiti. Yet, despite achieving their freedom, the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution has led to long-term problems that plague the country...
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Fabergé Eggs

July 9, 2025 • 16 mins
In 1885, the Russian Tsar Alexander III commissioned an Easter gift for his wife. It was a rather unusual gift. He asked one of the finest goldsmiths in the country to create a jeweled egg. However, it wasn’t just to be an expensive bauble. Inside the egg was to be another exquisite surprise.  This began a tradition that would last for over 30 years and resulted in some of the finest and most valuable decorative works of art in ...
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Transistors

July 8, 2025 • 16 mins
One of the most important inventions of the 20th century was the transistor.  Prior to the transistor, electronic devices were large and bulky and dependent on vacuum tubes.  Vacuum tubes were large, fragile, power-hungry, and prone to failure. The transistor not only replaced the vacuum tube in many applications but also enabled the miniaturization and reliability required for modern electronics, including computers, phones, and...
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The Peloponnesian War

July 7, 2025 • 16 mins
In the 5th century BC, the Greek world found itself in the middle of one of its greatest wars. This wasn’t one of their existential conflicts against the Persians; this was a war of Greeks against Greeks.  An alliance of city-states led by Athens fought a coalition led by Sparta for control of the Greek world.  Over nearly 30 years, the two city-states fought for supremacy, leaving a lasting impact on the Greek world. Learn more...
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Madame la Guillotine

July 6, 2025 • 16 mins
The Guillotine has become infamous for being the main weapon utilized during the Reign of Terror and a modern symbol of the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror.   It has been responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of people since its invention in April of 1792. Of all the ways to execute people, why did they create an elaborate contraption when simpler methods were available? Learn more about the guillotine, why i...
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LEDs: Light Emitting Diodes (Encore)

July 5, 2025 • 15 mins
One of the most important inventions in human history was artificial lighting.With the electric lightbulb, the night could be illuminated, allowing people to extend the productive hours in a day and to work in places that were otherwise difficult or impossible.  While the incandescent bulb was a breakthrough, it wasn’t actually very efficient. It wouldn’t be until decades later that a radically more efficient way of producing arti...
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The Chinese Communist Revolution

July 4, 2025 • 16 mins
The 19th Century wasn’t a good one for China. It was marked by the nation being taken advantage of by foreign powers and the signing of lopsided treaties.  The 20th Century started out promising, but eventually devolved into a series of warlords and a civil war between two major forces for control of the country, on top of the Japanese occupation of most of the country.  When the dust settled in 1949, the victors were the Communi...
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Michigan vs Ohio

July 3, 2025 • 16 mins
Michigan and Ohio are two states renowned for their intense rivalry.  When you think of the rivalry between the two states, you may automatically think of the rivalry between the University of Michigan and Ohio State on the football field.  However, their rivalry extends far beyond that. In 1835 and 1836, the two states came close to going to war over a border dispute.  The results of that dispute can still be seen on the map t...
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