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

Francisco Macías Nguema

August 26, 2025 • 15 mins
In 1968, the colony of Spanish Guinea was granted independence and became the Republic of Equatorial Guinea.  In its first open election, which turned out to be its last, it elected as president Francisco Macías Nguema. He very quickly turned out to be a dictator. However, he wasn’t just a dictator. He became one of the worst dictators of the 20th century.  Learn more about Francisco Macías Nguema, his reign of terror, and how h...
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Emperor Nero (Encore)

August 25, 2025 • 14 mins
In the year 54, the Roman Emperor Claudius died, and his adopted son Nero became the Emperor of Rome at the age of 16.  His reign was one of the most infamous in history, and over 2000 years after he came to power, his name is still used to invoke the image of a cruel ruler and a despot. But what exactly made him so bad, and was he really as bad as the legends say?Learn more about Emperor Nero and why his reign became so infamous...
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European Exclaves

August 24, 2025 • 15 mins
We have all looked at a map and seen all of the different countries represented by different colors. A country has some sort of border, and everything inside that border is what makes up the country.  However, there are some exceptions. There are exclaves, which are bits of a country that are separated from the main landmass, and enclaves, which are parts of a country totally surrounded by another country.  Why in the world would...
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The Spanish Inquisition

August 23, 2025 • 15 mins
At the end of the 15th century, Spain had almost completed the Reconquista and the removal of the Caliphate in the Iberian Peninsula, ending centuries of Islamic rule. One of the first things they did was usher in an attempt to unify and purify the country as a Catholic one, rather than a multi-religious one.  After receiving permission from the Pope, the Spanish monarchy persecuted hundreds of thousands of people for the crime o...
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Cyprus

August 22, 2025 • 17 mins
Strategically located in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, with access to Europe, Asia, and Africa, is the island of Cyprus.  Cyprus has a history that goes back as far as civilization itself, and it has had a history with almost every major civilization and empire around the Mediterranean..  Its history isn’t just a relic of the ancient world. It has remained strategically important and a source of conflict to the present day.  Le...
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The Invention of the Telephone (Encore)

August 21, 2025 • 15 mins
The 19th century was one of rapid technological advancement.  Of all of the innovations to come out of this century, and there were many, perhaps none was more important than that of the telephone.  The telephone radically changed communications, allowing personal communications over long distances.  Despite what many people are often told, this invention wasn’t simply the genius of one man, but was rather something developed ov...
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Rasputin

August 20, 2025 • 14 mins
In the early 20th century, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, the Tsarina Alexandra, welcomed a homeless monk into their home.  As this scruff, unkempt-looking man became closer to the royal family, he seemingly performed miracles, predicted the future, and cured illnesses.  He starts to gain influence over the Imperial Family, too much influence for comfort.  So, a group of nobles decided that he needed to be eliminated...
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Nuclear Power

August 19, 2025 • 15 mins
One of the most important and least understood sources of energy in the world today is nuclear power.  Nuclear power has an energy density tens of millions of times greater than fossil fuels and has one of the most impressive safety records of any energy source.  Yet, for decades, controversy has surrounded it and has hindered its adoption. Learn more about nuclear power and how it works on this episode of Everything Everywhere ...
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The Trail of Tears

August 18, 2025 • 15 mins
Between 1830 and 1850, the United States forcibly displaced 60,000 Native Americans living in the Southern United States under the ‘Indian Removal Act.’ While being moved, thousands would die due to starvation, disease, and exposure.  Its impact has led some scholars to classify the event as a genocide. Regardless of how it is classified, it remains one of the greatest tragedies in American history. Learn about the Trail of Tear...
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The 1956 Suez Crisis (Encore)

August 17, 2025 • 14 mins
In 1956, one of the most important geopolitical events of the post-war period took place in Egypt.  The Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, one of the most important waterways in the world. In response, a coalition of several countries tried to take it back. However, it didn’t go as planned, and it signaled a major reshuffling of the geopolitical order.  Learn more about the Suez Crisis and how it ...
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Joan of Arc (Encore)

August 16, 2025 • 15 mins
In 1428, a young girl from the village of Domrémy, France, audaciously set out to meet the heir apparent to the French throne, the Dauphin, and told him what he had to do to defeat the English occupying her country.  She claimed that she was told what to do by God.  Against all odds, the Dauphin took her advice, and it worked. After a series of military victories, the Dauphin was crowned king, and the young girl went on to become...
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The Whiskey Rebellion (Encore)

August 15, 2025 • 13 mins
In the late 18th century, the newly independent United States of America faced its first major domestic crisis.  Settlers in its westernmost regions rose up in open armed rebellion against the government. The cause of the rebellion had to do with taxes, which was the very thing that the American Revolution was about in the first place. The rebellion was seen by some as a threat to the very existence of the new country.  Learn mo...
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Frequent Flyer Programs

August 14, 2025 • 15 mins
One of the things that almost every airline has in common is frequent flyer programs.  Frequent flyer programs were initially designed for loyal customers who flew frequently. However, they eventually branched out to people who used certain credit cards and earned miles by making everyday purchases. These programs have become so popular that many airlines now make a considerable amount of their money from them, and in many cases,...
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The Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio

August 13, 2025 • 14 mins
Two of the most important concepts in the world of mathematics and nature are the Fibonacci Sequence and the Golden Ratio. These two concepts seem separate, but they are actually tightly intertwined.  While they have been known since the ancient world, they are still highly relevant today and can be found all over nature.  Best of all, despite being important mathematical concepts, they are also among the easiest to understand. ...
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Amateur Radio

August 12, 2025 • 16 mins
The early days of radio were like the wild west. There were no rules, and that lack of rules often led to problems.  Eventually, frequency regulations were put into place, which left a large swatch of spectrum available to amateur radio operators.  Over time, these operators created a worldwide community that predated the internet by decades. It is still a community that exists today with thousands of people around the world. Le...
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The Bank of England

August 11, 2025 • 16 mins
In the late 17th century, King William III of England was facing a problem.  He was in the middle of a prolonged war with France. He was in desperate need of money, and he had exhausted most of the traditional sources for funding a war. A proposal came forward for a new bank that could lend the crown money at favorable interest rates, and also solve several problems for merchants in the country.  Learn more about the Bank of Eng...
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Yellowstone National Park (Encore)

August 10, 2025 • 15 mins
Located in the state of Wyoming and a little bit of Montana and Idaho lies one of the greatest national parks on Earth: Yellowstone.  In the 19th century, Yellowstone was declared the first national park in the world. However, what makes Yellowstone special actually dates back millions of years.  The geologic circumstances that led to the creation of Yellowstone today make it one of the most visited parks in the world.  Learn mo...
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The Soviet Bomb

August 9, 2025 • 15 mins
On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb. The announcement shocked the world, especially the United States, which predicted the Soviets wouldn’t have Nuclear Weapons until the mid-1950s. The big question was, how did the Soviets make the bomb so fast? Well, the Americans inadvertently helped them, as did the resources they captured in Eastern Europe.  Learn more about how the Soviets got the...
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The Great Leap Forward

August 8, 2025 • 15 mins
In 1958, the People’s Republic of China instituted its second five-year plan since the revolution.  Its goal was to rapidly industrialize China and boost agriculture to levels on par with the advanced economies of the Western world. China was going to become a modern country, not through the widespread adoption of machinery, but through the mass mobilization of labor. It didn’t work. Not only didn’t it work, but it was one of th...
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The Banality of Evil

August 7, 2025 • 13 mins
When you think of evil, characters like Hannibal Lecter, the Joker, and Michael Myers probably come to mind.  But what is evil really? Evil can take different forms: sadistic and brutal, but it can also be boring and normalized.  During the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, political philosopher Hannah Arendt reported on the trial for the New Yorker Magazine. Her journalism became incredibly controversial due to her account of Eichma...
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