The end is always near : apocalyptic moments, from the Bronze Age collapse to nuclear near misses

Carlin humanizes the past, wondering about things that didn't happen but might have, and compels his listeners to 'walk a mile in that other guy's historical moccasins.' A political commentator, Carlin approaches history like a magician, employing completely unorthodox and always entertaining ways of re-looking at what people think they know about wars, empires, and leaders across centuries and millennia. But what happens to the everyman caught i...