Doomed to Repeat It

Comedy

Leila and Tristan sat next to one another in history class. Tristan became a history teacher. Leila forgot. Everything. Join us as Leila asks Tristan questions about the past, and Tristan does his darndest to get her to remember. Anything. New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month. Email corrections and complaints to doomed.pod@gmail.com In service of search engine optimization, we reiterate that this podcast is about history, and contend that it contains comedy. History. Comedy. Doomed to Repeat It.

Location:

Vancouver, BC

Genres:

Comedy

History

Comedy

Description:

Leila and Tristan sat next to one another in history class. Tristan became a history teacher. Leila forgot. Everything. Join us as Leila asks Tristan questions about the past, and Tristan does his darndest to get her to remember. Anything. New episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month. Email corrections and complaints to doomed.pod@gmail.com In service of search engine optimization, we reiterate that this podcast is about history, and contend that it contains comedy. History. Comedy. Doomed to Repeat It.

Language:

English

Website:

http://doomed.libsyn.com/

Email:

doomed.pod@gmail.com

Episodes

DTRI - Ep. 30 (Democracy)

1/1/2017

Leila exercises her democratic right to muddle up idioms in new and spectacular ways. Tristan eulogizes the direct democracy of ancient Athens.

Duration:01:19:39

DTRI - Ep. 29 (Fascism)

12/2/2016

In the autumn of 2016, a young podcast's concern with xenophobic populism lightly turns to thoughts of fascism. Tristan tries to convince Leila that she is a fascist. Leila isn't having it.

Duration:01:13:46

DTRI - Ep. 28 (Hallowe'en)

10/31/2016

Leila celebrates her favourite holiday. Tristan finds the notion quite unwholesome, but brings the history nonetheless.

Duration:00:48:47

DTRI - Ep. 27 (Taj Mahal)

10/1/2016

Leila appreciates one of architecture's most beautiful creations, and perhaps, sort of, maybe one of history's greatest love stories. Tristan lurks in the wings, bursting bubbles as necessary.

Duration:00:53:02

DTRI - Ep. 26 (Boudica)

9/1/2016

Tristan unpacks the tale of a Celtic queen's vicious war of retribution against her imperialist tormentors. Leila, to her credit, never once screams, "Freeedom!"

Duration:01:32:31

DTRI - Ep. 24 (Prime Ministers of Canada - Part II)

7/26/2016

Tristan and Leila meander through Bowmarcs, bowties, and bomber jackets as they survey Canada's 20th century Prime Ministers.

Duration:01:25:12

DTRI - Ep. 23 (Prime Ministers of Canada - Part I)

7/5/2016

Tristan and Leila run down the first batch of Canada's Prime Ministers, the middling and the momentous, from 1867-1936.

Duration:01:10:27

DTRI - Ep. 22 (Joan of Arc - Part II)

6/15/2016

Tristan and Leila conclude Jeanne d'Arc's stunning rise and fall, and are amazed at, outraged for, and ultimately flummoxed by the girl from Domrémy.

Duration:01:14:12

DTRI Ep 20 - (Gladiators)

5/15/2016

Duration:01:10:22

DTRI - Ep. 19 (Witold Pilecki)

5/1/2016

Tristan and Leila explore the horrors of the early 20th century, and meet humanity's best answer to its very worst. It's not...hilarious. Episode 19, in which Leila discovers: - Baltic geography. - the history of the Polish scouting movement. - the triumphant peaks and depraved chasms of recorded human experience. This one gets a bit heavier as it goes along. And in which Tristan: - is present. Witold Pilecki (1901 - 1948) As a young cavalry officer (~1920) With wife and son...

Duration:00:56:36

DTRI - Ep. 18 (Fountain of Youth, Ponce de León)

4/15/2016

Tristan and Leila sort out fact from fantasy in search of the real story of the Fountain of Youth. Tristan vents his spleen on a very stupid Floridian "archaeological" park. Episode 18, in which Leila discovers: - a deep and immediate bond with the Queen of Spain, immediately before her untimely death. The Queen's. Leila's fine. - the secret recipe for long life. Now with 100% more boiled meat. - that the real Ponce de León story bears absolutely no resemblance to the one she thinks she...

Duration:00:53:54

DTRI - Ep. 17 (Sufism)

4/1/2016

Tristan and Leila explore Islamic mysticism, or Sufism, with help from a very special guest. Let's not be coy. It's Leila's mom. Episode 17, in which Leila discovers: - that her word on mysticism is pretty much as good as anyone else's - (not for the first time) that a first generation parent can tell their kids just about anything. "Why do we have to go to bed at 5pm?" "Because we're Sufis, now finish your marmalade." - a book on a shelf, rendering her co-host utterly (but...

Duration:01:01:57

DTRI - Ep. 16 (Seven Wonders of the Ancient World)

3/15/2016

Leila redefines the very concept of "wonder". Tristan disputes this wholeheartedly, and offers a scenic tour of the known world's must-see attractions, circa 250 BC. Episode 16, in which Leila and Tristan take a scenic tour of: - the really quite shockingly old Great Pyramid - Babylon, Nineveh, and nowhere in particular in search of the Hanging Gardens - the often forgotten Ishtar Gate and the walls of Babylon - the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. Not that Artemis. This one. - the...

Duration:01:10:18

DTRI - Ep. 15 (American Revolution)

3/2/2016

Tristan and Leila crawl out of their igloos to look down on their neighbours to the south. Why couldn't they have just asked politely for freedom? And seriously, guys? Slavery? We ask the hard-hitting questions, 240 years late.

Duration:01:22:44

DTRI - Ep 15 (The American Revolution)

3/2/2016

Duration:01:22:44

DTRI - Ep. 14 (Dark Ages)

2/15/2016

Duration:01:06:26

DTRI - Ep. 13 (Boxer Rebellion)

2/1/2016

Episode 13, in which Leila discovers: - That when your revolutionary motto is "Revive the [Chinese government], exterminate the foreigners," calling it a "rebellion" might be a biiiit rich - That she has yet another German to add to her kick-in-the-shin-via-time-machine list And in which Tristan: - Gives serious consideration to changing the name of the podcast to "the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Co-Hosts"

Duration:01:49:18

DTRI - Ep. 12 (Cold War)

1/2/2016

Leila tries to impersonate Joseph Stalin, and winds up doing a pretty good German vampire. Tristan warns Leila to never, ever watch the nuclear war docudrama, "Threads". We also discuss all the times we were almost vaporized without realizing it. Fun! Episode 12, in which Leila discovers: - That it's really German vampires who pronounce "the" as "zee", and not, as she had hoped, Joseph Stalin - That hackneyed jokes about Soviet paranoia are a half decent way of understanding the Great...

Duration:01:53:59

DTRI - Ep. 11 (Louis Riel, King Arthur and Friends)

12/1/2015

Episode 11, in which Leila discovers: - That the history was inside of her all along, as she does a bang-up job of narrating the story of Louis Riel and his various rebellia acts of resistance - That the name Arthur was a bit dorky long before PBS ever got its aardvark paws on it And in which Tristan reminds us: - That while it is, of course, perfectly acceptable to jump down your friend's throat for mangling a quotation, it is considered impolite to then deliver the quote correctly...

Duration:01:20:25

DTRI - Ep. 10 (Captain Oates, Why Britain?)

11/1/2015

Episode 10, in which Leila discovers: - That it might please the eternal pessimist Lawrence Oates to know that 103 years later he is still making people very sad - How Britain got so big while being (as she astutely and repeatedly points out) so very small And in which Tristan realizes: - That he will never, ever get Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett properly segregated in his mind, so why even bother? - That reading the name "Alfred Thayer Mahan" dozens of times can still leave a person...

Duration:01:22:04