More self-consciously curated than the Obama annual playlist.
When Dan Carlin wakes up from his year long nap to think about putting out a single podcast episode he's going to be so psyched
Well, they’re not the shittiest podcasts I guess…
Age of Napoleon guy is at least left-adjacent, he had Christman on for a whole episode just to talk about The Eighteenth Brumaire.
And full disclosure, I have a massive soft spot for Dan Carlin, so I may not be objective in talking about him. His podcasts were the thing that pulled me out of whatever my politics were a decade ago (he’s big into “money has corrupted the political system” thinking). He isn’t just a lib. He has a big anti-imperialist streak (he was talking about how the US shouldn’t meddle in Ukraine in 2014; and the American Peril ep is basically him saying the Spanish American War was the birth of American Imperialism) and tbh he seems like a good dude whose heart is in the right place.
Buuuuut I had to stop listening to his history podcast years ago, because frankly it just isn’t very good. I can see why Musk likes it. He tries to be about more than just “war” but somehow war is all he ever talks about w/r/t history and is almost exclusively focused on “the west”. It’s kind of a lib cliche but Carlin really is what people who don’t actually know history think a historian sounds like. Dan pays lip service to being against Great Man Theory but his scope of history is so anti-materialist it’s hard to listen to. He connect some dots correctly but come to some really weird conclusions.
But idk doubtful that Musk actually listens to any of this anyway.
