Best Joshua Marshall Podcasts (2025)

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Michelle Wang, "The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China" (U Chicago Press, 2023) 52:59

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What can a map do, beyond showing us where things are? Michelle Wang's new book, The Art of Terrestrial Diagrams in Early China (U Chicago Press, 2023), explores this question through images painted on bronze, wood, and silk that were buried in tombs between the fourth and second centuries BCE. Wang encourages readers to look at these images as ter…

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Episode 135 - General Dąbrowski (Dombrowski), Poland's patriot in Napoleon's ranks, with special guest Jonathan North 34:09

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In this episode, we explore the life and legacy of General Jan Henryk Dombrowski, the Polish patriot who fought to restore his nation’s independence—on and off the battlefield. From the formation of the Polish Legions in Italy to his leadership under Napoleon Bonaparte, Dombrowski became a symbol of national resilience and pride. Special guest Jona…

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Melissa David from Parachutes for Pets & Tuff Dreger from Tuff Dreger Racing 29:34

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Joshua is joined by Melissa & Tuff to discuss Parachutes for Pets, Tuff Dreger Racing, charity work & sponsorship. If you’d like to make a donation towards Parachutes for Pets you can click link below. https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/49510?v2=true

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Robert L. Worden and Jane Leung Larson, "A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911" (Brill, 2025) 2:14:03

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A Chinese Reformer in Exile: Kang Youwei and the Chinese Empire Reform Association in North America, 1899-1911 is an encyclopaedic reference work documenting the exile years of imperial China’s most famous reformer, Kang Youwei, and the political organization he mobilized in North America and worldwide to transform China’s autocratic empire into a …

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Lali Toor from APNA Hockey 1:05:46

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Joshua & Lali sit down to talk about Edmonton Oilers, Calgary Flames & Team India.

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Joshua Eisenman and David H. Shinn, "China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:42:23

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Since Xi Jinping’s accession to power in 2012, nearly every aspect of China’s relations with Africa has grown dramatically. Beijing has increased the share of resources it devotes to African countries, expanding military cooperation, technological investment, and educational and cultural programs as well as extending its political influence. China'…

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Haunted Hydrology (SPOOKY LAKES) with Geo Rutherford 1:13:12

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Monica Liu, "Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides Under China's Global Rise" (Stanford UP, 2022) 41:24

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Commercial dating agencies that facilitate marriages across national borders comprise a $2.5 billion global industry. Ideas about the industry are rife with stereotypes-younger, more physically attractive brides from non-Western countries being paired with older Western men. These ideas are more myth than fact, Monica Liu finds in Seeking Western M…

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Episode 134 - Battle of Talavera, Wellington makes his mark, with special guest Josh Provan 40:28

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The tactical brilliance of Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, was on full display at Talavera. Special guest Josh Provan discusses his strategic decisions, his partnership with the Spanish army, and his troop movements during the Battle of Talavera, a pivotal victory over French forces. X/Twitter: @LandOfHistory, @andnapoleon…

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Xiaobo Lü, "Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China's Republican Era" (Cambridge UP, 2025) 57:25

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How and why did the Chinese Communist Party rise to power in the 1940s at the expense of its Nationalist (KMT) rival? In his new book, Domination and Mobilization: The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in China’s Republican Era (Cambridge University Press, 2025), Professor Xiaobo Lü (UC Berkeley) adopts a new model for thinking about this question…

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Gerta Keller, "The Last Extinction: The Real Science Behind the Death of the Dinosaurs" (Diversion Books, 2025) 59:52

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The story behind Dr. Gerta Keller’s world-shattering scientific discovery that dinosaur extinction was NOT caused by asteroid impact, but rather by volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula, a discovery that highlights today’s existential threat of greenhouse gasses and climate change—and one that sparked an all-out war waged by the scientific est…

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Serpopsychology (WHAT’S CREEPY?) with Frank McAndrew 1:09:30

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Are you creepy? How would you know? What’s “creepy” as opposed to scary or eerie? We talk to the pioneer of this research, Serpopsychologist, Dr. Frank McAndrew, a professor emeritus at Knox College. We chat: dates that give you the willies, Weary Willie the Clown, haunted dolls, college goths, dark alleyways, evolutionary neurobiology, what NOT to…

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Rivals in a Tight Embrace Russia, China, and the Central Asian Chessboard 21:31

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This podcast episode by Alevtina Solovyeva traces Central Asia as the enduring crossroads “between empires,” where caravan routes outlast the borders drawn over them. It opens with the Silk Roads: trade as the region’s original superpower – moving goods, ideas, and identities. The narrative then tracks how Qing–Russian rivalry and the 19th century …

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Episode 133 - Napoleon's strategies, with special guest Jonathan Abel 56:24

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Napoleon revolutionized tactics and operational strategy during his legendary career. Special guest & podcaster Jonathan Abel tells us how Napoleon strategically approached his campaigns. We also discuss how Napoleon's system has influenced future generations of military planners. X/Twitter: @HistorianAbel, @andnapoleon…

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Episode #199: Politics, Podcasts, and Friendship with Andrew Gavin Marshall and Chelsey G 1:11:24

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Today we sit down with friend of the show Andrew Gavin Marshall and Chesley G to discuss their friendship, how they began the podcast "In This Mad World," and the recent Israeli attack on Qatar and the larger ramifications, both regionally and regarding US-Israeli relations. Shownotes In This Mad World-Apple Podcasts In This Mad World-Spotify In Th…

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Kenneth R. Valpey, "Yoga and Animal Ethics" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) 43:42

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This open access book, Yoga and Animal Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) offers a comprehensive understanding of yoga theory and practice as it bears on several dimensions of animal-related ethical reflection and action. "Yoga" has become a household word in recent decades and, increasingly, has drawn physical yoga practitioners to explore its phil…

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Revolutionology (REBELLIONS & SOCIAL CHANGE) with Jack Goldstone 1:30:26

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Storming the Bastille. Facing off with tanks. Canceling a streaming subscription. We’re talking protests, boycotts, insurrections, and demonstrations. Scholar, professor, and actual real life Revolutionologist Dr. Jack Goldstone lays out the whys – and the hows. What revolts have been the gold standard? How has social media impacted social change? …

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Xiang Biao and Wu Qi, "Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) 1:39:40

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Today I had the pleasure of talking to Professor Xiang Biao on his new book, Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World, which was originally written and published in Chinese. The English translation has just come out with Palgrave Macmillan. Self as Method provides a manifesto of intellectual activism that counsels China’s young people t…

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Episode 132 - Clausewitz vs. Jomini, Military Strategy Showdown, with special guest Joshua Meeks 47:35

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In this episode, we compare and contrast 2 minds of war: Clausewitz vs. Jomini. Special guest and professor Joshua Meeks joins the show to give us an overview on their respective biographies and their military theories. We will discuss all of the following: 🔍 1. Philosophy of War 🎯 Theory vs. Application 🧠 View of the Commander ⚔️ Tactical and Stra…

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Yu Zhang, "Going to the Countryside: The Rural in the Modern Chinese Cultural Imagination, 1915–1965" (U Michigan Press, 2020) 57:41

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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, modern Chinese intellectuals, reformers, revolutionaries, leftist journalists, and idealistic youth often crossed the increasing gap between the city and the countryside, which made the act of "going to the countryside" a distinctively modern experience and a continuous practice in China. Such a spatial…

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Paying Attention with Anya Daly 32:30

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In this episode Pat speaks with Dr Anya Daly. Dr Anya Daly investigates the intersections of phenomenology with philosophy of mind, the philosophy of perception, the philosophy of psychiatry, embodied and social cognition, enactivism, ethics, aesthetics and Buddhist Philosophy. They discuss meditation and perception, the divide between continental …

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Christopher Joby, "Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Beliefs, and Practices" (Brill, 2025) 1:00:47

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How do new ideas and beliefs take root when they cross cultural and linguistic borders? In seventeenth-century Taiwan, both Dutch and Spanish missionaries tried to replace Indigenous gods, practices, and laws with their own Christian traditions. Christopher Joby’s Christian Mission in Seventeenth-Century Taiwan: A Reception History of Texts, Belief…

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Human Technomorphology (SWAPPING OUT BODY PARTS) with Mary Roach 57:48

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Pigs with human kidneys. Iron lungs. Bionic prostheses. And bendable genitals. Mary Roach is here, and Alie is freaking out. Over the last two decades, this science icon has written seven New York Times bestsellers, including Stiff, Bonk, Gulp, and Packing for Mars. Her latest release, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy is all about Human…

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Getting Through On-Set Crises | guest Richard Currie 29:52

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Richard Currie is a Scottish filmmaker from Cambodia who was 1stAD on a feature film that went wrong. He has a degree in TV from Aberdeen College and has spent years on TV and indie film productions. A "horrific" and "cursed" film shoot in Scotland led him to write a book about his experiences called Lights, Camera, Anarchy. GET REAL INDIE FILM[CAS…

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Episode 131 - Battle of Lutzen, Napoleon's bounce-back victory, with special guest Jonas de Neef 42:42

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In 1813, the Allies thought Napoleon and his army was a spent-force following the disastrous Russian invasion a year earlier. The Allied army found out the hard way that Napoleon could bounce back quickly. Special guest Jonas de Neef joins the show to discuss the brutal Battle of Lutzen. X/Twitter: @andnapoleon…

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Ceramology (POTTERY) with Potted History’s Graham Taylor & Sarah Lord Taylor 1:12:52

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Porcelain. Earthenware. China. Archaeology. Stoneware. Anthropology. Amphora. Throwing wheels. We got it all. Master potters, history aficionados and Potted History’s icons Sarah Lord Taylor and Graham Taylor are here for our 8th anniversary episode. We get the dirt on ceramics versus pottery, where clay comes from, if there’s enough in the world, …

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Barry Butt from Premier Strength 26:14

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Joshua sits down with Barry to discuss speed, power & strength at Premier Strength. https://www.premierstrength.com/?fbclid=PAZnRzaAMt9xJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp6iPMIlSzZD6iQlqkMBh7xt5kyCd_xzd9TfjPBRezGiMpXG-2cctXUKXvpWS_aem_7u3QjFjx6gqhkUHVxX_SUg You can follow Barry at https://www.instagram.com/premier_strength?igsh=NGx6NXNuMnY3MjU3…

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Doug MacLean 22:13

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Joshua sits down with Doug to talk about the Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers and Connor McDavid.

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Episode #198: The Age of Supraliberalism with Dr. Joshua Lew McDermott 1:20:58

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Today we chat with Dr. Joshua Lew McDermott about his most recent article. We discuss what the post-liberal world order means for the US, how multipolarity might look like, the US turning it's economic destruction inward, and the negative social effects of viewing technology as a savior and AI social interactions. Shownotes The Age of Supraliberali…

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Sarah McLaughlin, "Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and Borderless Censorship Threaten Free Speech" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2025) 41:51

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In an era of globalized education, where ideals of freedom and inquiry should thrive, an alarming trend has emerged: foreign authoritarian regimes infiltrating American academia. In Authoritarians in the Academy, Sarah McLaughlin exposes how higher education institutions, long considered bastions of free thought, are compromising their values for f…

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Episode 130 - French General Loison, the wicked "Maneta", with special guest Charles Mackay 26:01

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Despised for his cruelty, looting, and terror against the Portuguese, French General Loison was nonetheless a brave officer who served throughout the Peninsula War under Napoleon's marshals. Special guest Charles Mackay joins the show to discuss this infamous scourge of Portugal, nicknamed "Maneta" or "One-Hand". Bluesky: @bubblesvampire.bsky.socia…

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Daniel Horowitz, "Bear With Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America" (Duke UP, 2025) 48:37

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From teddy bears and Winnie-the-Pooh to Smokey Bear, Yogi Bear, and Cocaine Bear, American popular culture has been fascinated with real and fictional bears for more than two centuries. Bears are ubiquitous, appearing in advertisements, as logos for sports teams, and as central characters in children’s books, cartoons, movies, and video games. In B…

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Update on Connor McDavid’s contract extension 12:16

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Latest update on Connor McDavid

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Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster 1:37:01

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Neurons. Immune systems. MRIs. Weed gummies? One of the greats in neurology, Dr. Aaron Boster, takes time to chat all about Multiple Sclerosis, a neurological autoimmune disease close to our hearts. Alie’s mom, your grammapod a.k.a. Fancy Nancy, was diagnosed with MS over two decades ago, and this episode explores in depth the factors that can caus…

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Margaret E. Roberts, "Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall" (Princeton UP, 2020) 50:55

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We often think of censorship as governments removing material or harshly punishing people who spread or access information. But Margaret E. Roberts’ new book Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall (Princeton University Press, 2020) reveals the nuances of censorship in the age of the internet. She identifies 3 types of cen…

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Joshua Specht, "Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America" (Princeton UP, 2019) 30:37

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Why do Americans eat so much beef? In Red Meat Republic: A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (Princeton University Press, 2019), the historian Joshua Specht provides a history that shows how our diets and consumer choices remain rooted in nineteenth century enterprises. A century and half ago, he writes, the colonialism and appropri…

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Episode 129 - Battle of Albuera, bloodiest day of the Peninsula War, with special guest Marcus Beresford 51:38

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In 1811, General William Beresford's Allied army collided with Marshal Soult's French army in the Spanish town of Albuera. Special guest Marcus Beresford joins the show to discuss the single bloodiest day of warfare in the Peninsula War. X/Twitter: @andnapoleon

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The end of aid? US, China, and the future of development 52:05

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In early 2025, headlines announced that the Trump administration would move to dramatically slash USAID—the United States’ flagship development agency. For many, the move was surprising, even self-defeating: why would a president so focused on countering China weaken one of Washington’s most effective tools of soft power? At the same time, China’s …

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Lutrinology (OTTERS) Encore with Chris J. Law 1:02:42

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YOU’RE NOT READY. But it’s time. Otters. Sea otters. River otters. Big beefy otters. Tiny otters. Giant river otters. Otters chasing you down the street. Dr. Chris J. Law, a professional Lutrinologist, shares tales about coastal vs. inland otters, otter terrorism, magical teeth, lustrous fur, rock pockets, kelp naps, otter terrorism, cautionary mot…

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Kane Lafranchise from Shyft Hockey & Brian Shackel from Making Stridz 47:27

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Joshua sits down with Kane & Brian to talk about a lot of great hockey topics. • Opening segment will be an introduction from Kane & Brian. Where you played & why you got involved with skills & developing players • Second segment will be the difference between in season development vs off season development why both can be important to grow your ga…

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Dan Wang, "Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future" (Norton, 2025) 1:02:50

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Dan Wang is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover History Lab, and previously a fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Before that, he was an analyst focused on China’s technology capabilities at Gavekal Dragonomics, based across Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Dan is perhaps best known for a series of annual letters, pub…

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Timothy Barnard, "Imperial Creatures: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942" (NUS Press, 2019) 44:02

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In Imperial Creature: Humans and Other Animals in Colonial Singapore, 1819-1942 (National University of Singapore Press, 2019), Timothy Barnard explores the more-than-human entanglements between empires and the creatures they govern. What is the relationship between the subjugation of human communities and that of animals? How did various interacti…

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Episode 128 - General Montbrun, one of Napoleon's famous cavalry commanders, with special guest Jonas de Neef 1:02:26

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One of more striking figures in Napoleon's cavalry squadrons was the imposing General Montbrun. Special guest and blogger Jonas de Neef joins the show to discuss this intrepid commander of the Grande Armee who died on the battlefield of Borodino. X/Twitter: @andnapoleon