The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
Mark Chrisler
4.7from 1,718 ratings
- 243
- Episodes
- 41
- Transcribed
- 1,718
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 24M
- YouTube views
About The Constant: A History of Getting Things Wrong
A podcast about exactly what it says it is: examining the bad ideas, mistakes and accidents that misshaped our world.
- Publisher
- Mark Chrisler
- Category
- arts · history · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 6 Dec 2017
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
41 of 243 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
A Real Sad Song
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Like They Never Existed
6 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Shocking (Redux)
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A Real Sad Song
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Like many of these traditions, after a while, you get one protagonist who comes along and sees possibilities that no one has seen before and lays down the full groundwork of this is what it should be, much like Beethoven did in classical music. In funeral violin tradition, that would be Herr Hieronymus Gretchenfleisch, late 18th century German. […]
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- YouTube views
- 24,263,572
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 879 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 839 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 63
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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