start with the ww1 season "blueprint for armageddon"
when you are done listening just delete them shouldn't be an issue with memory
Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
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start with the ww1 season "blueprint for armageddon"
when you are done listening just delete them shouldn't be an issue with memory
I subscribed, but it looks like it only downloaded the latest one. If I go to the first one and download it, will it then take off from there?
on the hardcore history podcast area (via the podcast section on ipod) you should be able to toggle between "unplayed" and "feed". feed will have all available free episodes, should start at "show 48 profits of doom".
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I had no idea he was so widely known. How the heck did I miss out on this for so long? It's understandable that Pride didn't know. He lives in a hut next to his goat farm with no running water, let alone electricity, but I'm plugged in. I've got my finger on the pulse of humanity. I can't believe this slipped past my radar for as long as it did.
I believe there are only 10 free ones at a time, so each time one is released than one goes away.
@Cyclonepride I think you would also like "American Peril". It is about the Spanish/American War.
Can't really go wrong on any of them, but like I said earlier, I really enjoy Profits of Doom.
Can't really go wrong on any of them, but like I said earlier, I really enjoy Profits of Doom.
Dan Carlin is a heck of a storyteller. I had a job that required a ton of traveling and flights and long drives last year, and Blueprint to Armaggedon (the Great War five-part series that was about twenty hours long while listening to it) got me through most of it.
His political commentary is thought-provoking in ways most political commentary... NPR, 538, whoever else... is not, too. Carlin thinks like a historian and thinks in long-term cycles, not lurching from crisis-to-crisis or short-term news cycle and horse race issues. It's very interesting to me, even if I do not agree entirely with his politics, to listen to somebody analyze today as future historians will, looking for the deep, structural issues to our problems and the nature of our society and our world rather than just the latest poll and tweet from an orange gremlin.
I like polls, too, but it's nice to have a guy who only comments a few times a year, too, on some of the deeper and long-term issues on the horizon coming for us.
His political commentary is thought-provoking in ways most political commentary... NPR, 538, whoever else... is not, too. Carlin thinks like a historian and thinks in long-term cycles, not lurching from crisis-to-crisis or short-term news cycle and horse race issues. It's very interesting to me, even if I do not agree entirely with his politics, to listen to somebody analyze today as future historians will, looking for the deep, structural issues to our problems and the nature of our society and our world rather than just the latest poll and tweet from an orange gremlin.
I like polls, too, but it's nice to have a guy who only comments a few times a year, too, on some of the deeper and long-term issues on the horizon coming for us.
Janny, thanks for bringing this podcast to my attention. I just finished Show 48: Prophets of Doom and it was awesome. I didn't want to dive into one of his multi-show series to start, so I picked this one about the Radical Reformation after Martin Luther and specifically the lunacy of the Munster Rebellion.
For those that think a 4 hour podcast seems like a bit much, I wouldn't worry. I found it to be a lot like reading a good book. You can listen for 20 to 30 minutes, pause the show, and then come back to it later and start right where you left off without missing a beat. Carlin does a fantastic job of synthesizing massive amounts of source material and weaving a fascinating narrative (although he did admit that there wasn't much source material that wasn't in German for this particular podcast.)
For those that think a 4 hour podcast seems like a bit much, I wouldn't worry. I found it to be a lot like reading a good book. You can listen for 20 to 30 minutes, pause the show, and then come back to it later and start right where you left off without missing a beat. Carlin does a fantastic job of synthesizing massive amounts of source material and weaving a fascinating narrative (although he did admit that there wasn't much source material that wasn't in German for this particular podcast.)
I'm a fan of both of his podcasts. Hardcore History is fun, but I like Common Sense as well. It's more rambling on current events and such, but fascinating at the same time.
I can usually tell "which side of the aisle" people are on pretty easily, but Dan's been a little harder for me to peg. Or rather, not completely on either side, which is refreshing.
I can usually tell "which side of the aisle" people are on pretty easily, but Dan's been a little harder for me to peg. Or rather, not completely on either side, which is refreshing.
For those that enjoy Carlin's WW1 stuff and want more of a technical look at some battles the "Battle of Verdun Podcast" and "Battle of the Somme" podcast are growing on me.
Love hardcore history.
Listened to Wrath of the khans, Prophets of Doom and the World War 1 series. Was that the Blueprint for Armageddon? Been years since I listened to it.
Currently listening to King of Kings. It's nice to hear some history about the Persians opposed to just the Greeks take.
Listened to Wrath of the khans, Prophets of Doom and the World War 1 series. Was that the Blueprint for Armageddon? Been years since I listened to it.
Currently listening to King of Kings. It's nice to hear some history about the Persians opposed to just the Greeks take.