Fan of History
Hosted by Bernie Maopolski and Dan Hörning · Dan Hörning & Bernie Maopolski
4.8from 77 ratings
- 341
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 77
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
- 543K
- YouTube views
About Fan of History
Dan Horning and Bernie Maopolski discuss the events of ancient history all over the world, decade by decade, starting at 1000 BC and moving forward. We love history! History, History, History! That’s all we think of … History in the morning, History for lunch, History for dinner… even history right before bed! And we talk about all the key people in Ancient History – Julius Caesar, Gilgamesh, Jesus, Budha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Solon, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Herodotus, Homer, Ashurnasirpal, Sennacherib, Ashurbanipal, Croesus, Cyrus the Great, and Pisistratus. And the Great Historical Civilizations in History like the Assyrian Empire, Israel, Judah, Babylonia, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Roman Republic and Roman Empire, The Zhou of China, India, and the historical civilizations of the Americas like The Olmecs, Maya, and Chauvin. We have another show on this same feed - What’s New In History - that spans all the eras of history. On What’s New in History we talk about AI, DNA studies, archeology, and characters of history like Christopher Columbus, Napoleon, Adolf Hitler, Joan of Arc, Martin Luther, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Charles Darwin, and Jesus. We have guests like Daniele Bolelli of History on Fire, Gil Kidron of a podcast of Biblical Proportions, and Gary Stevens of History in the Bible. Dan Horning Talks about history from Stockholm Sweden and Bernie Maopolski talks about history from Scranton, PA, USA So if you like History podcasts, like Dan Carlin Hardcore History, you will like our history podcast too! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fanofhistory?locale=sv_SE E-mail: zimwaypodcast (at) gmail.com for Eva and Zimway and bmaopolski@gmail.com (mailto:bmaopolski@gmail.com) for Bernie Follow Dan on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- Dan Hörning & Bernie Maopolski
- Category
- history · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 14 Jan 2015
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 341 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
What's New in History - Bernie and Thomas together in Stockholm talk about a 1,000 year old whale trap found in Norway
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
246. Confucius Part 4 — Yang Hu's Wild Ride & Confucius' Rise
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
What´s New In History - The Secret of Rome's Self-Repairing Concrete — Solved?
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What's New in History - Bernie and Thomas together in Stockholm talk about a 1,000 year old whale trap found in Norway
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Maybe they'll have robot ones one day. Maybe. Find all these ancient places like Doggerland and stuff, right? Yeah, or Atlantis, who knows? Well, maybe, maybe. It's a couple of islands sunk into the sea, of course, ancient civilizations. Yeah, like the article says, it's a fairly big structure. The Norwegian west coast is pretty rocky, and that also goes underwater. Once they had lured or chased the whale into this sound or bay, they wanted to keep it there. We're talking mink whales. They're large. Vågevål in Norwegian. How big are they? That's a good question. A grown-up can be somewhere between 7 and 10 meters. […]
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- Bernie
- Garry Stevens
- Gary Stevens
- William Hafford
- Thomas
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- YouTube views
- 542,623
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 41 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 36 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 78 / 100
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- Quality
- 64
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 95
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Bernie Maopolski and Dan Hörning host the show. Published by Dan Hörning & Bernie Maopolski.
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