The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong

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11/17/2020

In September of 1822, a ship carrying 70 immigrants left London bound for St. Joseph, a bustling city on The Mosquito Coast in the small Central American nation of Poyais. They were followed by hundreds more pilgrims, all looking for a better life. They were about to be severely disappointed.

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Dan

11/23/2020 09:31:00 am

Mark,
I really enjoy your brand of story telling. I've shared many episodes with friends and family. However, your "zingers" at the President, such as the one at the end of the Gregor McGregor episode are the intellectual equivalent of flapping your weenie at a bus load of school kids. It serves no meaningful purpose except to drive away listeners and perhaps to make you feel better.
You put out a better product when you keep those political views to yourself.

Dan in CA

Mark

11/23/2020 12:43:59 pm

Hi Dan,
I appreciate you listening, and I appreciate you wanting to help me improve the show, if that is your aim. Unfortunately, however, your advice here isn't actionable.
History stories are never about the past, just as science-fiction stories are never about the future. Stories are always about the present, and they are always political. The job then, as the Chicago humorist and newspaper man Finley Peter Dunne once put it, is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
I'm not saying my flapping always or even usually succeeds in that mission, but you enjoining me to stop might be a sign that my weenie is at least pointed in the right direction.

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Tony Brych

1/16/2021 04:39:03 pm

I really enjoy the stories and the subjects you cover. This enjoyment is shattered when you toss in unnecessary and completely unrelated political comments. Please, stop. You cheapen the story and yourself.

Robert Courtney

3/5/2021 03:45:29 pm

Mark, as you unrolled the story of Gregor MacGregor before us, I found myself thinking, "Jeez, this jackass sounds like Donald Trump."

Thank you for bringing these stories to us, and for reminding us that no matter how much time passes, charlatans and swindlers will *always* be with us.

Cheers,
Rob

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