He has a podcast called Hardcore History that, while the storytelling can be compelling, is based mostly on his "just asking questions" approach to history, almost like a weird parallel evolutionary branch of Joe Rogan thinking. He's not an historian, he just likes books about WWII and ancient Rome. His most recent series was about Imperial Japan and there were a lot of admiring words for both sides in the Pacific theater.
He's not the actual worst, but he's the perfect example of skeptically approaching politics without a material lens. He's got the right idea but the exact wrong approach that leads to wildly incoherent conclusions that, since they're not the accepted mainstream dogma, must be correct.
I just thought it was near how he focused on the horror of warfare in WW1. Something that was usually overshadowed in American highschool education because WW2 was the big topic.
He simultaneously flip-flopped between "was is hell and terrible" to "hey isn't this weapon system cool?"
He’s pretty close to the bottom of the barrel though, he had Elon Musk on his other podcast which is devoted entirely to liberal civility politics. Same show went on hiatus when trump was elected because he got too weepy about “how divided our country is now” to continue
He has a podcast called Hardcore History that, while the storytelling can be compelling, is based mostly on his "just asking questions" approach to history, almost like a weird parallel evolutionary branch of Joe Rogan thinking. He's not an historian, he just likes books about WWII and ancient Rome. His most recent series was about Imperial Japan and there were a lot of admiring words for both sides in the Pacific theater.
I liked his WW1 series, but everything after that has made me start to question the legitimacy of that series.
He's not the actual worst, but he's the perfect example of skeptically approaching politics without a material lens. He's got the right idea but the exact wrong approach that leads to wildly incoherent conclusions that, since they're not the accepted mainstream dogma, must be correct.
I just thought it was near how he focused on the horror of warfare in WW1. Something that was usually overshadowed in American highschool education because WW2 was the big topic.
He simultaneously flip-flopped between "was is hell and terrible" to "hey isn't this weapon system cool?"
He had probably just read The Face of Battle by John Keegan and riffed from there.
I think he did mention that at some point, but I listened to it like 7 years ago and don't feel like relistening to a 17 hour podcast
He’s pretty close to the bottom of the barrel though, he had Elon Musk on his other podcast which is devoted entirely to liberal civility politics. Same show went on hiatus when trump was elected because he got too weepy about “how divided our country is now” to continue
The barrel goes way deeper than that my friend
Oh for sure, he’s just got my personal loathing among podcasters I’ve listened to lol
Yeah that's exactly where he's at. The greatest possible amount of annoying from a podcaster that I'll ever listen to.
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