I haven’t listened to Dan Carlin for years, I sort of moved too far to his left, but I really did love the WW1 series, and the Muenster Anabaptist one. I wonder how radical he’s willing to get with his analysis on the slave trade?
The Münster story was truly mind-blowing. I happened to visit the city a few weeks after listening to it and when I walked by a church in the center I looked up... and I saw the empty black cages still hanging from the church. :meow-knit:
The past is a different country. Except it's the same fucking country.
I've been a fan of his since around 2013. Tbf you haven't missed much. Everything he's done since WW1 has been... not bad but imho not all that interesting. He just finished a 6 part series (which of course took him almost 3 years) on the Pacific theater in WW2. Which is fine but it's military history (Zzzzzz) and if you're an American it's already an over-saturated topic. And before that he did a 3 part series on Persia. Persia is cool and all but it's so old that we don't have a ton of good information to go off of.
I think this one will be good though. A long time ago Dan did a history of slavery and his thesis was basically that chattel slavery like in the US is nothing like slavery in the past. I learned a lot from that one. Dan seems to genuinely despise racism, so that's good.
Btw you all should really listen to his HH episode "American Peril". It's tied for my favorite ep of his with "Prophets of Doom". It's like an awesome prequel to "Blowback" season 2. Dan's not a leftist but he has a solid track record of anti-interventionism / anti-imperialism. He did a Common Sense ep back in 2014 where he said antagonizing Russia with the Maidan stuff and NATO expansion was a bad idea (episode was literally called "Poking the Bear"). And he has said before the issue that he would get worked up the most over back in the 80s when he was in college was US intervention in Latin America.
Was the Muenster one him?? Lmao I thought it was the dollop I haven’t heard Dan since he got all weepy after the 2016 election and ragequit podcasting. Figured he was done for good.
He really was the smartest enlightened centrist in knowing when to punch out. Very funny in the immediate wake of him putting out a podcast a week straight up called "Common Sense" and talking about BIG IDEAS of world changing importance. And as far as anything that's happening this century, he does appear to be good and done. :rat-salute: Big ups to our favorite CB radio operator/history lib.
I haven’t listened to Dan Carlin for years, I sort of moved too far to his left, but I really did love the WW1 series, and the Muenster Anabaptist one. I wonder how radical he’s willing to get with his analysis on the slave trade?
The Münster story was truly mind-blowing. I happened to visit the city a few weeks after listening to it and when I walked by a church in the center I looked up... and I saw the empty black cages still hanging from the church. :meow-knit:
The past is a different country. Except it's the same fucking country.
I've been a fan of his since around 2013. Tbf you haven't missed much. Everything he's done since WW1 has been... not bad but imho not all that interesting. He just finished a 6 part series (which of course took him almost 3 years) on the Pacific theater in WW2. Which is fine but it's military history (Zzzzzz) and if you're an American it's already an over-saturated topic. And before that he did a 3 part series on Persia. Persia is cool and all but it's so old that we don't have a ton of good information to go off of.
I think this one will be good though. A long time ago Dan did a history of slavery and his thesis was basically that chattel slavery like in the US is nothing like slavery in the past. I learned a lot from that one. Dan seems to genuinely despise racism, so that's good.
Btw you all should really listen to his HH episode "American Peril". It's tied for my favorite ep of his with "Prophets of Doom". It's like an awesome prequel to "Blowback" season 2. Dan's not a leftist but he has a solid track record of anti-interventionism / anti-imperialism. He did a Common Sense ep back in 2014 where he said antagonizing Russia with the Maidan stuff and NATO expansion was a bad idea (episode was literally called "Poking the Bear"). And he has said before the issue that he would get worked up the most over back in the 80s when he was in college was US intervention in Latin America.
I have listened to American Peril before, but it's been a really long time
Was the Muenster one him?? Lmao I thought it was the dollop I haven’t heard Dan since he got all weepy after the 2016 election and ragequit podcasting. Figured he was done for good.
He really was the smartest enlightened centrist in knowing when to punch out. Very funny in the immediate wake of him putting out a podcast a week straight up called "Common Sense" and talking about BIG IDEAS of world changing importance. And as far as anything that's happening this century, he does appear to be good and done. :rat-salute: Big ups to our favorite CB radio operator/history lib.
Bernie libertarians truly were a sight to behold.
Was he really a Bernie bro? Feel a little bad about the CB crack now.
He was yeah but in a “he won’t get what he wants done but will get what we want done” kind of way.
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ghosts of the ostfront was worth it