Dan Carlin (hardcore History podcast) crashing out hard over Trump.
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Can you give a few examples of episodes that you thought were good?
I like most of his stuff. Death Throes of the Republic is good. Mania for Subjugation, I think that's his latest, about Alexander the Great is good.
He's not a historian but he's good at theater of the mind
I'm tempted to, when I have the time, to get an authoritative book on Alexander the Great and compare it to the podcast, to see how good it actually is.
Nothing against this guy specifically, though he seems to deserve it. I'm just very skeptical of people speaking about a subject they haven't devoted their life to. While this is true for me of any subject I speak, no one is relying on me on information, and rightly so.
Do it, and you'll find that Carlin is not any type of historian.
Read Peter Green's book Alexander of Macedon 356-323 B.C.: A Historical Biography and you would see how superfiicial Carlin really is.
I wouldn't cite him in a graded paper either. But he tells a good story and does provide where his information comes from. He admits he is a storyteller and not a historian.
As long as people take it with a grain of salt. Though I honestly don't even trust myself to take something with the appropriate amount of salt, because you get influenced by what you consume, even when consciously resisting it.
Anything involving ancient history is great. His episode on the Celtic holocaust is one of my favorites. I could go more in depth, but i'm at work right now
What is the Celtic holocaust? Caesar's campaigns?
Yes, that was his term for caesar's campaigns in western europe
I watched a Civilization series streamers do a St. Paddy's day live once. But there's no Irish civ, so he picked the Gauls led in the game by Ambriorix.
They have him portrayed as a ginger with red braids, beard & mustache. I'd never really thought of the connection between the mainland Gauls & the Emerald Isle Celts before.
Then I started thinking back to the old Asterix & Obelisk cartoons coming out of France that have the ancient Gauls portrayed with red hair as well just like their modern day Irish cousins.
Considering that he supposedly killed 1 million, enslaved 1 million and let 1 million live, perhaps only the burning element of 'caust' is missing.
Precisely.
Tiger of the East was phenomenal until the last half hour of the last episode. Worth a listen.
And as always Blueprint for Armageddon.