{"podcast":{"title":"Fan of History","slug":"fan-of-history-741603","podcast_index_feed_id":741603,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/c3b15c03-91fd-4759-a510-22929c8e3a5a","website_url":"https://play.acast.com/s/history","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/611a64ef06c05ec09bf4066a/1723474960667-2d7c0cc5-4260-4b19-95b5-1e965ecd9ec4.jpeg","author":"Dan Hörning & Bernie Maopolski","episode_count":239,"summary":"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, C…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T16:17:20.261958+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603"},"episode":{"title":"245. Confucius Part 3:The Pig, the Philosopher and the Rebel","slug":"245-confucius-part-3-the-pig-the-philosopher-and-the-rebel","published_at":"2026-09-01T23:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603/245-confucius-part-3-the-pig-the-philosopher-and-the-rebel","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603","url":"https://shows.acast.com/history/episodes/245-confucius-part-3the-pig-the-philosopher-and-the-rebel","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/history/e/6a885693e96a6b6c1903854e/media.mp3","summary":"Last time it was a cockfight. This time it's a pig. In Part 3 of Confucius: The World That Created the Sage, Bernie and Dan follow Confucius to the powerful state of Qi, where he finally gets the opportunity to discuss government with Duke Jing—and comes tantalizingly close to getting the political opportunity he has been waiting for. But when Confucius returns home to Lu, the political order has somehow become even more upside down. The great families who stripped power from their duke are now discovering that their own servants have learned the same lesson. Enter Yang Hu: a household retainer who rises to become one of the most powerful men in Lu—and who very much wants Confucius on his side. What follows includes political intrigue, rebellion, assassination plots, an attempted kidnapping, and one extraordinarily well-chosen gift of pork. And once again, the chaos surrounding Confucius helps us understand the philosophy taking shape in his mind. What does it mean to say \"let the ruler be a ruler and the minister a minister\" when rulers can't rule, ministers won't obey—and servants are beginning to rule their masters? PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO WHAT'S NEW IN HISTORY YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/@whatsnewinhistory This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski. Contact information: E-mail: zimwaupodcast@gmail.com http://facebook.com/fanofhistory https://twitter.com/danhorning https://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/ Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse. Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Last time it was a cockfight. This time it's a pig. In Part 3 of Confucius: The World That Created the Sage, Bernie and Dan follow Confucius to the powerf…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2703,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fan-of-history-741603/episodes/245-confucius-part-3-the-pig-the-philosopher-and-the-rebel/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fan-of-history-741603/245-confucius-part-3-the-pig-the-philosopher-and-the-rebel.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}