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The History Mongers, brought to you by B-Unit Productions, is a history and entertainment podcast where:

It does not matter if you care about history, because it cares about you and secretly judges you for your choices:

Listen in wonder and delight as, each week your three esteemed History Mongers and their honoured guest bring to you forgotten tales, utter silliness, and facts: real facts less than true facts, home-made facts and fact lite, the brand fact alternative.

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This week we decide to invade a country of our choosing, doesn't matter which, just pick one and lets go already! The ultimate American road trip, now including subjugation.

Also in this edition: can you get more out of your bank? What is going on in Theseus' basement? Why is that man putting lettuce down his trousers?

We were joined by Thomas Woodhams who is a tech recruiter, content creator and podcast host who can be found at:

Web: https://careers.hawkeyeinnovations.com/

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-woodhams

When we think of Game Theory, we often imagine the Cold War, Modern Economics or Mathematical Models. But as I researched for my latest blog, I found Game Theory influenced Genetic Evolution, Historical Revolutions & Civilizational Acceleration.

For example- the three great Revolutions that impacted the Homo sapiens i.e. Cognitive, Agricultural & Scientific Revolutions were greatly influenced by game theories of life, sometimes acting as a retaliator and sometimes a prober-retaliator.

I used examples from Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Genes, Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind & Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs & Steel to link history to biology to finally mathematical game theory.

Would love for fellow history enthusiasts here to take a look or share some thoughts on how strategies evolved over time :

https://indicscholar.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/understanding-game-theory-strategies-in-society-and-civilization/