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 Globalization of Baseball

March 16, 2026 • 14 mins
Today, baseball is played at the highest levels on nearly every continent. Stars come from the United States, Japan, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Korea, and far beyond.  Yet for most of its history, the sport lacked a true international championship featuring the world’s best players.  That changed in the 21st century with the creation of the World Baseball Classic, a tournament designed to crown the best baseball nation on...
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The Greatest Oscar Snubs

March 15, 2026 • 13 mins
Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts the biggest celebration of movies and moviemaking: The Oscars. Thousands of members vote in multiple categories to honor the best films and performances of the previous year. …and in many years, they get it completely and totally wrong.  Learn more about the biggest Oscar snubs and the time the academy completely blew it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Da...
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The North American Bison

March 14, 2026 • 15 mins
For thousands of years, one animal shaped the ecology, culture, and history of an entire continent.  In vast herds that once numbered in the tens of millions, the North American bison dominated the Great Plains, sustaining Indigenous societies and transforming the landscape itself.  Yet within a single human lifetime, they were driven to the brink of extinction. Their story is one of abundance, destruction, and survival against e...
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North Sentinel Island

March 13, 2026 • 16 mins
In the Indian Ocean lies an island notorious for its extreme isolation from the outside world: North Sentinel Island.  The Sentinelese, who call North Sentinel Island home, are people who live a Stone Age existence and fiercely defend their territory.  Their isolation and violence towards outsiders mean that we know almost nothing about them and probably won’t for quite some time. Learn more about North Sentinel Island, the Sent...
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The Purple Heart

March 12, 2026 • 14 mins
Among all the decorations awarded by the United States military, one stands apart.  It is not given for bravery, leadership, or extraordinary achievement. Instead, it recognizes something far more personal: the physical cost of war.  The Purple Heart is awarded to those who have been wounded or killed in combat, making it one of the most solemn honors a service member can receive.  Learn more about the origins, history, and mean...
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The Harlem Renaissance

March 11, 2026 • 14 mins
In the early decades of the twentieth century, a neighborhood in New York City became the center of an extraordinary cultural explosion.  Writers, musicians, artists, and thinkers gathered to create works that reshaped American culture and redefined how Black Americans were expressed and understood.  Their influence reached far beyond Harlem, transforming literature, music, and politics across the United States and the world Lea...
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Skylab

March 10, 2026 • 14 mins
In the early 1970s, after the triumph of landing on the Moon, NASA faced a question: what comes next?  The answer was Skylab, America’s first space station. Built from leftover Apollo hardware and launched on the final Saturn V rocket, Skylab became humanity’s first long-term laboratory in space.  Astronauts lived aboard for months, studying the Sun, observing Earth, and learning how the human body adapts to weightlessness.  Its...
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Ivan Pavlov and His Dogs

March 9, 2026 • 15 mins
At the turn of the 20th century, a Russian physiologist made a discovery that would fundamentally change how we understand learning and behavior.  What began as research into digestion unexpectedly revealed that animals, and humans, could be trained to associate one stimulus with another.  The experiments involved bells, food, and a group of very famous dogs. Yet the implications reached far beyond the laboratory, influencing psy...
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The Mexican Revolution

March 8, 2026 • 14 mins
After Mexico gained independence from Spain in 1821, hopes for democracy gradually gave way to decades of instability and dictatorship.  By the early 20th century, frustration with the long rule of Porfirio Díaz finally erupted into revolution.  What followed was a decade of coups, assassinations, shifting alliances, and civil war involving figures like Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.  The conflict would topple a regime, resha...
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Who is Alan Smithee

March 7, 2026 • 15 mins
If you look at the Internet Movie Database, one of the most prolific directors over the last 70 years has been Alan Smithee.  He has been credited with directing over 156 feature films, shorts, and music videos, with several more projects in the works.  Despite his prodigious output, Alan Smithee has never been nominated for an award, appeared on a red carpet, or conducted an interview. This is because Alan Smithee doesn’t exist...
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The East African Slave Trade

March 6, 2026 • 14 mins
Most people are familiar with the transatlantic slave trade, which enslaved over ten million people over a period of centuries. Fewer people are aware of the other African slave trade, which was centered in Eastern Africa along the Indian Ocean. It was centuries older, lasted decades longer than the Atlantic slave trade. While the systems differed, the human costs were equally staggering. Learn more about the East African Slave ...
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The Plot to Steal the Body of Abraham Lincoln

March 5, 2026 • 15 mins
The 1876 plot to steal the body of Abraham Lincoln is one of the strangest and most audacious crimes in American history. The scheme aimed to ransom the corpse of the assassinated president in exchange for the release of a jailed criminal and a huge sum of money.  Although the attempt ultimately failed, it triggered years of secrecy, multiple reburials of Lincoln’s remains, and the creation of a private guard to protect the tomb....
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The Inca Empire

March 4, 2026 • 14 mins
The Inca Empire was the largest and most sophisticated state ever created in the pre-Columbian Americas, stretching along the Andes from present-day southern Colombia to central Chile and Argentina by the early 16th century.  What makes it historically significant is that the Inca managed to build and administer this enormous realm without many technologies that Eurasian civilizations relied on, such as iron tools, wheels, draft a...
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The History of Tobacco

March 3, 2026 • 16 mins
When Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, members of his crew observed the Taíno people offering them dried leaves as gifts. They had no clue why, but they soon found out that native people smoked the burning leaves, and when they brought these leaves back to Europe, it became a sensation.  It created a demand for the product, which lasted for centuries and defined entire economies, until research in the 20th century fou...
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The Young Turks

March 2, 2026 • 15 mins
The 19th-century Ottoman Empire was in decline and was called the “sick man of Europe”. The Ottoman Empire, like Qing China and Imperial Russia, failed to implement the forces driving European nations toward dominance. A group known as the Young Turks developed a strong admiration for the west were determined to modernize their country.  Learn more about the Young Turks and how they changed Turkey on this episode of Everything E...
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Questions and Answers: Volume 40

March 1, 2026 • 16 mins
March is upon us. Here in the northern hemisphere, the days are getting longer, temperatures are getting warmer, and people are about to go nuts over college basketball for several weeks.  There is an old saying that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. That might be true, but I tend to think that March comes in like a question and goes out like an Answer.  Stay tuned for the 40th installment of Questions and Answ...
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Edgar Allan Poe

February 28, 2026 • 15 mins
Edgar Allan Poe was one of the most influential and haunting voices in American literature, a writer whose imagination reshaped horror, detective fiction, science fiction, and the modern short story Poe lived a life marked by poverty, personal loss, and professional struggle, yet from that turbulence he forged works of enduring power such as The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, and The Fall of the House of Usher.  His poetry explored ...
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The American Basketball Association

February 27, 2026 • 15 mins
One of the most compelling stories in American professional sports is the rise of the American Basketball Association or the ABA. Founded in 1967, the ABA emerged as a rival to the NBA, which had become predictable and stale. The ABA emerged as a flamboyant contrast.  Fans packed tiny gyms to watch the ABA shatter NBA norms, showcasing epic afros, brilliant dunks, a three-point shot, and an iconic red, white, and blue ball. Lear...
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Marvel Comics

February 26, 2026 • 15 mins
Marvel Comics has been one of the most prolific comics publishers over the last century. Not only have they been one of the biggest comic publishers, but they have also created some oft he most famous fictional characters in the modern world.  Popular superheroes like Spider-Man, the X-Men, and the Avengers have cemented Marvel’s place in popular consciousness and built a brand worth billions. Learn about the origins, developmen...
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Did George Mallory Climb Mount Everest First?

February 25, 2026 • 15 mins
Almost everyone knows that the first people to climb Mount Everest were Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who reached the summit and returned in 1953. However, some believe another group might have reached the summit nineteen years before they did.  It is a debate which had raged for decades, and recently discovered evidence on the slopes of Everest hasn’t quieted the discussion. Learn more about George Mallory and attempts to ...
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