The Tenpenny Files with Jared Knott

The Roman Empire didn’t fall because it was weak.
It fell because a gate was left unlocked.

The Titanic didn’t sink because the technology failed.
It sank because binoculars were locked away and a key was never handed off.

Thousands of women didn’t die in childbirth because medicine lacked answers.
They died because doctors refused to wash their hands and punished anyone who challenged them.

Jared Knott lays out a brutal historical pattern most people have never been shown. World-altering disasters are rarely caused by massive unknowns. They are caused by small, visible errors that are noticed early, and then deliberately ignored by people in power. Over and over again, evidence appears, someone speaks up and then the system closes ranks.

This is not ancient history. We see it happening today. The same decision-making failure has shaped the last five years of your life. We know now that early signals were purposely dismissed. Data was sidelined and even buried while experts were silenced as institutions choose “narrative stability” over being corrected. In fact it was all played out according to an agenda despite the damage to life and freedoms as we knew it. When outcomes turned destructive, there was zero accountability and the story was rewritten.

Knott connects the fall of Constantinople, the sinking of the Titanic, the Bismarck disaster, medical arrogance that delayed germ theory, and laboratory mistakes with radically different outcomes into one continuous human behavior pattern. The details differ but the mechanism does not. Authority resists any kind of interruption to the plan and ego (or actors?) overrides evidence. The primary protections are always geared toward the systems themselves first.

Meet our Guest:

Jared Knott, author of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters Book 2: The Many Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever, is the international bestselling author of Tiny Blunders/Big Disasters: Thirty-Nine Tiny Mistakes That Changed the World Forever.

Jared has had numerous articles published in the Mensa Bulletin and in graduate school textbooks on subjects ranging from Supreme Court Reform to Arctic Exploration. He was a decorated combat infantry officer in Vietnam in the First Air Cavalry Division. In his civilian career, he has served as a vice president of sales + marketing and marketing director in the home improvement industry. A father of five, he lives in the Atlanta area with his wife, Kathryn.

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