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Hosted by Jonathan Millard · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 23 episodes
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What Would They Think explores the gap between the world that was imagined and the one we’re actually living in. Through ironic, often uncomfortable comparisons, it brings the voices of the past into today’s headlines—technology, culture, power, and belief—and asks how they would interpret the systems, behaviors, and contradictions that define modern life. The result is less explanation, more confrontation.
Jonathan Millard hosts What Would They Think?, a history show with 23 episodes published.
What would Xerxes make of a war in which the largest military ever assembled has spent five months failing to reopen thirty-three kilometres of water, held shut by a country whose leadership it killed in the first fortni
What would Adam Smith think of a world where the thing he said we were actually chasing — not the money, not the house, but the sensation of being looked at — got detached from the money, made into a product, and sold ba
What would Aristophanes think of a world where the oldest complaint there is — that the young are soft, silent, and ruined by their own cleverness — has become an industry, with bestsellers, national legislation, and a g
What would Thomas Aquinas think of a world where one American adult in nine has bought their way out of hunger — the oldest appetite there is, switched off weekly by injection, marketed as health, resented as cheating, a
What would Alfred Hitchcock think of a world where the most gripping thing in your earbuds is a real murder — a stranger's last hour, withheld and doled out and scored, pressed play on by millions for the pleasure of the
What would Marcel Duchamp think of a world where the hardest thing to own is a picture anyone can copy for free — a JPEG, right-click-saved a million times, yet trading for tens of millions because one instance of it was
What would Marie Antoinette think of a world where a person can be destroyed before lunch — by a sentence they never spoke, a clip cut from its meaning, an image that was never real — and millions will believe it, repeat
What would Marie Antoinette think of a world where a person can be destroyed before lunch — by a sentence they never spoke, a clip cut from its meaning, an image that was never real — and millions will believe it, repeat
What would Cleopatra think of a world where the face is the job — where millions paint and edit and inject not to take a throne but to be seen taking the trouble, and the proof is a face four million filters have already
What would Cleopatra think of a world where the face is the job — where millions paint and edit and inject not to take a throne but to be seen taking the trouble, and the proof is a face four million filters have already
What would Marco Polo think of a world where the journey is the job — where millions cross the earth not to see it but to be seen having seen it, and the proof is a photograph of a thing four million phones have already
What would Marco Polo think of a world where the journey is the job — where millions cross the earth not to see it but to be seen having seen it, and the proof is a photograph of a thing four million phones have already
What would Cecil Rhodes think of a world where the hardest money on earth is a thing that doesn't exist — no metal, no vault — trading for tens of thousands of dollars, mined by machines that burn the power of small nati
What would Gandhi think of a world where a single family's wedding runs for the better part of a year and costs, by estimates no one will confirm, hundreds of millions of dollars — staged in his own country, on the same
What would Rosa Parks think of a world where you summon a stranger's car with your thumb — where the app built to end the refused ride cancels on Black-sounding names at twice the rate, and the newest fix is a car with n
What would Henry VIII think of a world where a thin free-trade deal is considered a triumph, and a border down the Irish Sea is the price you pay to make your own laws? He invented modern English sovereignty from a royal
What would Coco Chanel think of a world where a hundred million plush monsters were sold last year, and a forty-thousand-dollar Birkin is considered naked without a fourteen-dollar gremlin clipped to its strap? She inven
What would Frida Kahlo think of a world where ninety million self-portraits are produced daily, and a teenage girl can generate more images of her own face in a Saturday afternoon than Frida painted in twenty-eight years
What would Nostradamus think of a movement that took his entire playbook — cryptic clues, decoded breadcrumbs, an apocalypse always one Tuesday away — and ran it on 4chan? He wrote his quatrains in a Provençal stone room
What would Andy Warhol think of a world where a few seconds of raw street bravado can launch a global business empire, and a southern factory worker becomes an accidental trademark before she creates a single piece of co
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What Would They Think? is hosted by Jonathan Millard. The show is categorised under history and has published 23 episodes.
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