Hosted by William Murray · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 32 episodes
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Welcome to the Lessons Lost in Time Podcast. I’m Bill Murray. Here, with a few fellow misfits and sharp minds, we’re digging through the wreckage of history—looking at how real leaders dealt with real problems when the stakes were high and the playbook was blank. If you’re the kind of person who likes to question things, pick at the edges, and think a little deeper about why the world is the way it is and what we can do about it, then pull up a chair. Because if we want new solutions, we need to discuss old problems. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
William Murray hosts Lessons Lost in Time, a history show with 32 episodes published.
The Syracuse Trap: Laying the Foundation of Collapse Piraeus, Greece 415 BC. You can hear it before you see it. Drums. Cheering. Sound bouncing off narrow alleyways until it’s everywhere at once. The streets are packed.
The sun hasn’t even thought about breaking the horizon, but the Gulf is already boiling. Over 2000 oil tankers. Massive, rusting, floating cities of crude, currently dead in the water. They are burning money, burning ner
Forget the flag waving. If you want to understand why Ukraine is still standing, follow the money. In this episode, venture capitalist Perry Boyle pulls back the curtain on the cold, hard mechanics of how modern wars are
Wars usually end. The Korean War didn’t. It just hardened. Turned into concrete, wire, artillery, and seventy years of unfinished business. Today we’re cutting through the history with LTG (R) Scott McKean. A leade
China does not remember war the way the West does. For China, war is not an event. It is a condition. The twentieth century did not arrive there with optimism or industry. It arrived with invasion, starvation, and
Smoke curls through the alley. The air stings—metal, burning tires, sweat, tear gas stings the nose and eyes. Shouts bounce off concrete walls, almost deafening. People push past each other, running, yelling, trying to b
A generator hums, dragging life into a street that shouldn’t need it. Kids kick a tattered ball, their laughter sharp, brittle against the heat, carried over the scent of diesel and frying arepas. Bolívar stares down fro
You can still feel that wind off the Liaodong Peninsula if you listen hard enough, it carries the ghosts of Port Arthur, Mukden, and the empires that thought they were too big to fail. One bled out. The other walked away
Japan. An island chain born of fire and salt, where mountains plunge into restless seas and the air smells of cedar, smoke, and ambition. A place where beauty comes with an edge and tradition carries the weight of centur
It starts like any good story, with a promise. America, the liberator, the shining beacon. But behind that gleaming façade? The ugly truth of an empire trying to carve out a piece of the world’s pie, by any means necessa
This war didn’t just redraw a map. It rewired the balance of power in Asia and set the world on a path to Pearl Harbor, the invasion of Manchuria, and today’s tensions in the Taiwan Strait. You think 1894 is ancient hist
Russia. The land of frozen winters, boiling tempers, and a history so thick with blood, betrayal, and bombast you could bottle it and sell it as a Molotov cocktail. This isn’t just a country. It’s a worldview forged in w
The Spanish American War 1898 (Part 2): The War of Empires w/ Drew Dornstadter The sun was setting on the Spanish Empire—bloated, brittle, and running on fumes. Four hundred years of conquest and gold, galleons and God,
Today is Sunday 15 June, just two days after Operation Rising Lion - Israel’s decisive strike against Iran that began in the early hours of June 13th, 2025. We’re going to discuss everything that I’ve been able to gather
The Spanish American War 1898: The War of Empires w/ Drew Dornstadter The sun was setting on the Spanish Empire—bloated, brittle, and running on fumes. Four hundred years of conquest and gold, galleons and God, unravelin
How do nations keep going—through war, peace, and all the mess in between? They tell stories. About glory. About sacrifice. About who they are, and who they think they are. These stories build will, shape identity, and s
You can smell the history here before you see it—dust, diesel, sweat, jasmine. It hangs in the air like a ghost that never got the memo to move on. Welcome to the Indian subcontinent: where time doesn’t just pass—i
How do Russians think about strategy and international relations and how does it shape the way Russia sees warfare, peace, and everything in between? I hope you’re ready to join me and my new friend and expert, Dr. Ofer
What lessons can we uncover from a short Russian War against a democratic neighbor and former soviet republic? I hope you're ready to join me and my close friend, Colonel Chad Ramskugler, in discussing the Russo-Georgian
What lessons can we uncover from a Russian War that turned defeat into victory? I hope you’re ready to join me and my close friend, Anthony Benedosso, in discussing the Second Chechen War and how the lessons of pha
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