Gimme them takes. I want the takes. Gonna get around to this probably later today or tomorrow.
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.
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.
Hbomberguy and Hardcore History coming out in the same week is like bullets colliding in day of defeat or something. That's good enough. Everyone gets it.
Shaun also dropped a video on Harry Potter this week
and if you're into web culture Sarah Z dropped one too. Just missing the GOAT but Line Go Up is probably it for a few months
Never heard of Sarah Z, but I see that she talked about Homestuck and then got sued by them, so that sounds like a fun watch.
All i know is that I proposed a hypothetical stupid essay topic and it turns out she had actually made it.
It's the coalition of vaguely left wing media pseudo-analysis that we're all here to sit through 3 hours of at a time.
i enjoyed the series on wwi. i haven't heard any of his other stuff, but i get the vibe he is a chud so i assume it six hours of social darwinism
Never got chud vibes off of his Hardcore History stuff, just a bit too excited by military history sometimes.
The Common Sense podcasts he does are aggressively centrist and both sidesy, though.
Yeah, the Common Sense thing is what gave me that impression. Never listened to it, it just seems like anyone who uses the phrase (much less builds a brand around it) is sus
I'd only listen to it if you need to get through some long boring road trip (possibly alone) and need something to get you irritated and talking loudly at your podcast player to fight off sleep.
my take is rocz from wtyp sounds a hell of a lot like a less dramatic dan carlin
