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

NASCAR

December 4, 2025 • 16 mins
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, better known as NASCAR, has become one of the most recognizable and uniquely American forms of motorsport.  It emerged from the traditions of the rural South, shaped by the ingenuity of moonshine runners and the broader story of the American car.  Over time, the sport transformed into a highly sophisticated enterprise defined by advanced engineering, stringent safety standards, ...
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The History of Nintendo

December 3, 2025 • 15 mins
Nintendo is one of the most legendary video game companies in the world. Many of you have probably owned a Nintendo system to play video games. If you are old enough, you might have even played some of their games in a video arcade.  Even if you have never played a video game, through cultural osmosis, you are probably still aware of many of its popular characters, like Mario and Donkey Kong. Learn about the history of Nintendo...
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The Year 1975

December 2, 2025 • 16 mins
By 1975, the world had seen 25 years of radical change. The changes seen in the first half of the 20th century accelerated even faster. Empires ended, there were social and technical revolutions, new nations were created, humans landed on the moon, and the world was in the midst of peak Cold War.  Energy, inflation, and civil rights, which had always been issues, were now front and center.  Learn more about the world in the year ...
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Questions and Answers: Volume 37

December 1, 2025 • 13 mins
In the north, things are getting colder, snow is starting to fall, and the days are getting shorter.It is also the season for gift-giving.  As I can’t personally give all of you a customized gift, I can do the next best thing and answer your questions.  Stay tuned for the 37th installment of questions and answers on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day return...
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Panama

November 30, 2025 • 15 mins
Panama is best known as the location of the Panama Canal, the waterway that revolutionized international sea transportation. However, there is a lot more to the country. Its history is unlike any other nation in the Americas, and its path to independence was unusual to say the least.  Given its location, it also has a geography unlike any other country in the world.  Learn about the history of Panama on this episode of Everythin...
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Italian vs German Fascism

November 29, 2025 • 16 mins
Fascism is one of the most notorious political ideologies that shaped the 20th century. Fascism is typically only thought of in tandem with Nazi Germany, but it wasn’t the only country that adhered to the ideology, and they weren’t even the first.  The originator was Italy.  Despite many similarities between fascist Italy and Germany, the two nations developed forms of fascism with significant ideological differences.  Learn abo...
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The Desecration of St. Denis (Encore)

November 28, 2025 • 12 mins
The French Revolution was one of the most significant events in history.  It wasn’t just a political revolution where one government replaced another. It was also a social revolution where the revolutionaries attempted to upend the entire foundation of French society. But it wasn’t just enough to change France. There were also efforts to obliterate France’s past.  Learn more about the Desecration at St. Denis and the purposeful ...
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The Apollo 1 Disaster (Encore)

November 27, 2025 • 14 mins
In the early 1960s, the United States was always a step behind the Soviet Union in the space race.  By the mid-1960s, the Americans had caught up. They didn’t have many glamorous firsts, but they were doing increasingly difficult things in space. All of that came crashing to a halt on January 27, 1967, when three astronauts died in what was a seemingly routine training exercise.  Learn more about the Apollo 1 Disaster, how it ha...
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Imperial Units of Measure (Encore)

November 26, 2025 • 17 mins
Almost every country in the world uses the metric system…..almost. There are still a few stragglers, like the United States, who use units handed down to them from the British. These are known as Imperial Units. These units often confuse those living in countries that use the metric system….as well as those who live in countries that use Imperial Units.  They don’t often make sense. They don’t have any consistency between units,...
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Roller Coasters

November 25, 2025 • 14 mins
For over a century, people have enjoyed the thrill of visiting an amusement park and riding roller coasters. The very first thing we can point to and call a proto-roller coaster had neither rollers nor did it coast. It was more of a slide. Over time, Roller coasters have evolved into massive steel giants, testing the limits of physics and engineering to create thrilling, unique rides that thrill some and terrify others.  Learn ...
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The Paraguayan War (Encore)

November 24, 2025 • 15 mins
In the 1860s, one of the bloodiest wars in the Western Hemisphere took place….and it wasn’t the US Civil War.  It was a war between Paraguay and an alliance of Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, and it was one of the bloodiest ever fought in Latin America. It was a conventional war that resulted in a guerrilla war, which spawned famine and disease. Learn more about the Paraguayan War or the War of the Triple Alliance on this episod...
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The Ottoman Empire

November 23, 2025 • 16 mins
One of the most important empires in history was the Ottoman Empire.  It wasn’t the biggest empire, but it had an outsized impact on the world due to its strategic location and its moment in history.  The Ottomans shocked the world by capturing the city of Constantinople and later almost conquering much of Central Europe. Despite having a six-hundred-year run, as with all empires, it eventually weakened and collapsed. Learn mor...
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The Kokoda Track

November 22, 2025 • 14 mins
In July 1942, Japanese forces landed on the north shore of the island of New Guinea  Their goal was to cross the island by land and take the strategic city of Port Moresby.  If they had been successful, the entire fate of the war in the Pacific would have altered.  They didn’t take it, thanks to the tenacious resistance put up by Australian forces.  Learn more about the Kokoda Track and how it turned the war in the Pacific on t...
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The Phoebus Cartel

November 21, 2025 • 15 mins
Companies that sell products to the public have to follow a fine line.  On the one hand, they need to sell stuff to make money, and the way they do that is by making a good product.  However, if their product is too good, then people might not need to buy it again, or at least not for a long time.  Almost 100 years ago, a consortium of industrialists plotted to make their products worse just so people would buy more of them. Le...
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The Marshall Plan (Encore)

November 20, 2025 • 15 mins
At the end of the Second World War, Europe was a mess. The economies of most countries were in shambles and the threat of communism loomed over the continent.  In a speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposed a plan which could help get Europe back on its feet.The plan is widely considered one of the most successful foreign aid programs in history. Learn more about the Marshal...
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Swiss Neutrality

November 19, 2025 • 15 mins
There are several rules that should be followed when going to war: Germany should never fight wars against the entire world Don’t invade Russia in the Winter.  Never fight a land war in Asia. There is also one other rule that should be added to that list: Don’t count on Switzerland as an ally. For over two centuries, Switzerland has remained staunchly neutral, even when wars were being fought just over its borders.  L...
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Hollow Nickel Case

November 18, 2025 • 14 mins
In 1953, a newspaper delivery boy in Brooklyn, New York, made an odd discovery. One of his customers gave him a nickel that seemed lighter than the others.  When he dropped it, it popped open, exposing a small piece of microfilm. It was the bizarre beginning of the exposure and discovery of a spy ring in the United States that ultimately contributed to one of the most notable events in the entire Cold War.  Learn more about the H...
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The V2 Rocket

November 17, 2025 • 14 mins
The Second World War saw the development of many new weapons. Perhaps none was more terrifying than the development of long-range strategic rockets.  Rockets had been used in combat for centuries, dating back to their development in ancient China; however, the rockets developed by Germany were a different matter altogether.  They terrorized civilians in England and actually served as the starting point of the space race.  Learn ...
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Alexander Hamilton

November 16, 2025 • 15 mins
Alexander Hamilton was a U.S founding father who has been growing in popularity due to the popular musical Hamilton, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Hamilton was the first U.S Secretary of the Treasury and was foundational in the formation of American finance and government policies that remain in place to this day.  He is featured on the US Ten Dollar Bill and is one of the most famous Founding Fathers who never held elected office. Lea...
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The Fra Mauro Medieval World Map

November 15, 2025 • 14 mins
Sometime around the year 1450, a monk living just outside of Venice created one of the greatest maps of the medieval world.  It was an enormous map, even by modern standards, and it had a level of detail that had never been seen before.  It took years to make and was a major advancement in cartography.  Perhaps most importantly, it contained many details that no one had yet verified firsthand.  Learn more about the Fra Mauro ma...
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