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 Baseball Hall of Fame

January 26, 2026 • 15 mins
In the 1930s, the United States was in the grip of the Great Depression, and baseball was approaching its 100th anniversary.  One enterprising business leader in Cooperstown, New York, came up with the idea of establishing a museum and a hall of fame to honor the greatest players in the game.  Since its establishment, the Hall of Fame has become one of the most beloved institutions in the country and a source of perpetual controv...
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Sigmund Freud

January 25, 2026 • 15 mins
If you know anything about the field of psychology, you’ve probably heard of Sigmund Freud.  Best known as the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud fundamentally changed the field of psychology for decades to come. His impact extended far beyond psychology, and in the process, he became a notable figure in popular culture.  Learn about the life and theories of Sigmund Freud on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors ...
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The Clovis First Hypothesis

January 24, 2026 • 15 mins
In 1932, archaeologist Edgar B. Howard made a major discovery near the town of Clovis, New Mexico.  He found a stone spear point embedded in the rib of a woolly mammoth, which inspired what became known as the Clovis First Theory.  According to this theory, the creators of these spear points, known as the Clovis people, were the first to settle the Americas about 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists accepted this for decades, but ne...
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The Mali Empire

January 23, 2026 • 15 mins
The Mali Empire was one of the largest and most influential states in African history, rising in West Africa during the thirteenth century and reaching its height in the fourteenth. Known for its immense wealth, the empire became an economic powerhouse, famed for its vast gold reserves. But despite all its money, like all empires, it eventually fell. Learn about the history, government, and economy of the Mali Empire on this epis...
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The May Fourth Movement

January 22, 2026 • 14 mins
Few dates in China are as significant as May Fourth, which marks two distinct revolutionary periods in modern Chinese history.   On May 4th, 1919, student protests erupted in China in response to the country’s outrage over being ignored at the Paris Peace Conference. This event became known as the May 4th Movement. Seventy years later, in 1989, a resurgence of movement inspired the Tiananmen Square student protests.  Learn more ...
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The Year 2025

January 21, 2026 • 15 mins
525 days ago, I began looking at the state of the world every century, then every fifty years, and finally every twenty-five years as the pace of change accelerated.  After almost a year and a half, we have finally reached the present….or at least the world as it was three weeks ago.  The first quarter of the 21st century was a period of dramatic changes, and in some ways, very little change…..and most of you were there for the w...
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The Julio-Claudian Dynasty (Encore)

January 20, 2026 • 14 mins
The Roman Empire was ruled by a single family for its first century. The family was actually a merger of two of the most distinguished clans in Roman history.  This family included some of the best and worst emperors in Rome’s history. It also included a host of potential emperors who showed great potential but were killed under mysterious circumstances. Ultimately, paranoia and poor leadership caused the family to collapse. Lea...
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The Great London Fire of 1666

January 19, 2026 • 13 mins
From September 2 to September 5, 1666, one of the largest urban fires in history took place.  The Great Fire of London swept mercilessly through the city, reducing roughly 80% of its buildings to smoldering ruins, possibly killing thousands of people. In the ashes of the inferno, the city reinvented itself, determined to ensure such widespread destruction would never happen again. It also laid the foundation for the London that e...
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The Grateful Dead

January 18, 2026 • 14 mins
One of the most popular music groups over the last half-century is also one of the most unlikely.  They were seldom played on the radio,  they almost never appeared on network television, and they only had one song ever make the Billboard top 100.  Yet, they have more Top 40 albums than any group in history and are one of the best-selling live acts of all time. Learn more about the Grateful Dead’s unique legacy and how it cemen...
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The Tokyo Trials

January 17, 2026 • 15 mins
Following the conclusion of World War II, decisions needed to be made about how to handle the defeated Axis Powers. Due to the vast scale of atrocities committed, it was not feasible to punish everyone involved. Instead, the Allied victors chose to put key members of the leadership on trial. For aggressors in the Eastern Theater, it was decided that the Tokyo Trials would be held to try political and military heads for war crimes...
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Insanely Ridiculously Absurdly Large Numbers

January 16, 2026 • 16 mins
One of the first mathematical concepts that most of us grasp when we are children is that there is no such thing as the biggest number. No matter what number you pick, you can always add one to it.You might think that such a simple idea wouldn’t have any profound impact in mathematics, but it does.In fact, mathematicians have come up with numbers so mind-bogglingly large that it is difficult to even grasp their size, and new forms ...
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The House of Wisdom

January 15, 2026 • 15 mins
The Abbasid Caliphate stood as a vibrant center of commerce, technology, and learning from the 8th to the 13th centuries.  At the heart of this Islamic dynasty was the House of Wisdom. It was an extraordinary institute that drew scholars from across the known world, which made Baghdad an unrivaled center of learning. It also preserved much of the knowledge of the ancient world when Europe was in decline. Learn more about the Hou...
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Moldova

January 14, 2026 • 16 mins
Sandwiched between Romania and Ukraine is the nation of Moldova. As with many landlocked countries in Central and Eastern Europe, it has a long history as a crossroads for armies and people. In addition to serving as a crossroads of civilizations, it has also served as a buffer between states.  All of which has made for a very interesting history.  Learn more about Moldova on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Spon...
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Leninism vs Maoism

January 13, 2026 • 14 mins
Communism is an ideology that millions of people had to live under during the 20th century.  Despite the communist label many nations adhered to, there were often vast differences in how they practiced communism or even what they considered communism to be.  In fact, Karl Marx would have probably been shocked to see where Communist governments were established.  Learn about the differences between Maoism and Leninism on this epi...
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The Honey Hunters of the Sundarbans

January 12, 2026 • 14 mins
The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and a UNESCO World Heritage site spanning the border of India and Bangladesh.  This landscape is home to nearly ten million people who live alongside some of Earth’s deadliest predators. Driven by chronic poverty, residents of the region are forced to extreme lengths to survive and are forced to take risks that few others would dare contemplate. Learn more about the honey hun...
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Area 51

January 11, 2026 • 15 mins
Area 51 is a place where secrecy became legend and speculation turned into modern mythology.  Tucked away in the Nevada desert, it has been the alleged site for alien autopsies, hidden spacecraft, and technologies decades ahead of their time, all while the US government insisted it barely existed at all. The reality is far less dramatic or conspiratorial.  Learn about the creation, secrecy, and theories surrounding Area 51 on th...
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The Last Emperor of China (Encore)

January 10, 2026 • 14 mins
In 1908, a two-year-old boy named Puyi was installed as the 11th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty in China.His life would prove to be radically different from that of any other Chinese emperor who came before him. He would see the end of Imperial China, become a puppet ruler for those who wished legitimacy, wind up in prison, and finally live out his final days as a commoner.  His personal story can be seen as a microcosm of the histor...
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The Night Witches

January 9, 2026 • 13 mins
In the dark skies over the Eastern Front of World War II, the Soviet Union deployed one of the most unusual and effective combat units of the war: the Night Witches.  Officially the 588th Night Bomber Regiment, this unit flew outdated, fragile biplanes on nighttime harassment missions against German forces, cutting their engines to glide silently toward their targets before dropping bombs.  More notably, the regiment was entirely...
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Earthquakes

January 8, 2026 • 14 mins
Approximately 55 times a day, or 20,000 times a year, an earthquake occurs somewhere on Earth.   Of those, the vast majority go unnoticed and cause no damage whatsoever. Nonetheless, earthquakes are commonly considered among the most feared natural disasters due to their sudden, unpredictable nature and their potential to unleash incredible devastation.  Learn about earthquakes, how they are measured, and the most impacted regi...
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Gabon

January 7, 2026 • 15 mins
When you think of countries in Africa, it is unlikely that Gabon will be one of the first to cross your mind.  It is entirely possible that some of you might never ever heard of Gabon.  Considered “Earth’s last Eden,” Gabon is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, yet very little is known about it because not much has ever happened there to make it into the news. In fact, one of the biggest things to have ever happe...
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