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Trig Discipline posted:Hey that Dan Carlin thing I was working on is pretty much done now. Dan briefly mentions this on the new Rogan podcast.
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Caught Mike Duncan's presentation and book signing for Storm before the Storm outside Chicago last night. It was on the floor of a bookstore, there were probably 75 people or so in attendance, 50 of whom had chairs. He did about 45 minutes of a prepared talk about the book (and things around the book) then answered questions for another half hour or so. He re-iterated that he's planning on ending Revolutions with Iran, and mentioned that he's going to also do at least Russia and Cuba as well. Questions related to comparing America 2017 to Rome 133 BC were interesting, but his thoughts on how they differ, aside from obvious technological advances, I thought were even more so. For instance, the Roman Republic never really had a Civil War equivalent, and the (small c) conservative nature of Roman society made them less well equipped to adapt to the societal changes forced upon them from suddenly growing from city-state to Mediterranean empire. I bailed before the book signing part itself, but the talk was pretty good. If you plan to go, take his advice and get there earlier than 15 minutes before it begins, or else risk sitting on the stairs like I ended up doing.
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Megazver posted:Dan briefly mentions this on the new Rogan podcast. Jesus it's three hours long. Is Dan on the entire time or can I skip part?
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Grand Fromage posted:Jesus it's three hours long. Is Dan on the entire time After Rogan stops selling you his kettlebell dick pills, yeah. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceItMiYZe9Y&t=1132s is the bit about Trump of Doom.
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Anyone here got recommendations for podcasts on finance & trading? So far I've found: - Bloomberg A Closer Look - Bloomberg Odd Lots - Motley Fool Money - Paul Merriman There are a couple more (well many), but these are the ones I liked. Econtalk got recommended a couple times, but I don't know it had a simplistic vibe I didn't like.
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I'm looking for some true crime podcast recommendations for my mom. She loved Serial, and chewed through all of Casefile's episodes in like a month. Is there anything similar to Casefile out there? I tried a couple like sword and scale but they just seemed like low-rent ripoffs trying to capitalize on Serial's format and popularity.
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Martian Manfucker posted:I'm looking for some true crime podcast recommendations for my mom. She loved Serial, and chewed through all of Casefile's episodes in like a month. Is there anything similar to Casefile out there? I tried a couple like sword and scale but they just seemed like low-rent ripoffs trying to capitalize on Serial's format and popularity. It's more episodic than Serial, but Criminal is a great true crime podcast. Edit: Also, it's not exactly what you asked for, but Ear Hustle may be of interest - it's sort of true crime-adjacent, as it's a podcast about prison life, produced by prisoners.
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Martian Manfucker posted:I'm looking for some true crime podcast recommendations for my mom. She loved Serial, and chewed through all of Casefile's episodes in like a month. Is there anything similar to Casefile out there? I tried a couple like sword and scale but they just seemed like low-rent ripoffs trying to capitalize on Serial's format and popularity. Detective is alright.
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Dec 1, 2017 23:11
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I've found Criminal's quality to be wildly inconsistent. On some things Phoebe will go in depth but on more than a couple occasions she will interview someone, not really ask any questions relevant to the situation and go welp bye see you next week.
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Just wanted to echo that Casefile is quirky but great. Never going backpacking or getting near a backpacker if I go to Australia.
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I've only listened to the first season but Breakdown was pretty good. I haven't listened to any of Crimetown but it's on my list. Lore does some true crime stuff sometimes (I started listening because they did a Hinterkaifeck episode) as well. The Manson season of You Must Remember This should count as well; she just re-released it (I think as "You Must Remember Manson" or something) after he died. e: There's a podcast about Heaven's Gate going on right now that I haven't touched yet if that counts too?
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I'm behind on a lot of these so apologies if any of them dropped in quality recently, but here are some nice clean/mom safe ones that are a little lesser known. The Trail Went Cold - http://trailwentcold.com/ - Covers a nice mix of weird deaths and disappearances were "the trail went cold." The whole thing is an homage/fanboy project for Unsolved Mysteries. Sometimes he leans on it too heavily, and a few of the early episodes are basically just summaries of Unsolved Mysteries episodes, but it's still reliably good and scratches a certain itch. He also uploads pretty often. In Sight - http://www.insightpod.com/ - It's pretty good. A nice hook is that one of them is Australian so they cover a number of Australian mysteries that don't get talked about as much here. Warning that the first few episodes aren't great, since they originally had a third person who didn't have as good of chemistry imo. Already Gone - http://www.alreadygonepodcast.com/ - I liked the few episodes I listened to earlier this year but haven't listened to it too much. Their selection of mysteries was pretty great though, with some coverage of modern disappearances. Don't remember much else though. And the benefit is that all 3 have guest hosts and plugs for other mystery podcasts, so you can usually find out when new worthwhile ones start up.
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Liked this a lot. A little overproduced with short episodes, but rocketed through season 1.
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Piquai Souban posted:Liked this a lot. A little overproduced with short episodes, but rocketed through season 1. The first season guy's name is Joe Kenda. He has a huge true crime TV show called the Homicide Hunter, apparently. Also, he just did Nerdist for the second time and that interview's really interesting, more interesting that the usual Nerdist talk, I recommend checking that out.
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Goon Danton posted:Yeah, but they haven't really done anything yet. Albert the Worker and Louis Blanc just got brought in to the provisional government before he moved on to Austria. It will be months before he gets to that revolution, but the way Mike Duncan treated the Luxembourg commission and the National Workshops in the most recent episodes seems pretty fair.
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Goon Danton posted:Yeah he's absolutely at his best when he's sinking his teeth into Can someone post that again? It was hilarious but I can't find it. e: nm found it http://objectdreams.tumblr.com/post/153158660124/hardcore-history-segment-written-using-a quote:There’s another famous incident where Lenin said, quote, “Everything is happening and it’s so horrible and greasy and I often think about how many things are happening right now in history.” End quote. ***** I've got a day-long drive ahead of me soon, where might be a good place to start with the Revolutions podcast? The way its archived makes it a bit hard to tell where one part ends and another begins. Count Roland fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Dec 17, 2017 |
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primary source stuff. That fake HH transcript with the "Everything is happening now and it's horrible and greasy" fake-Lenin quote was incredible for exactly that reason.
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Count Roland posted:I've got a day-long drive ahead of me soon, where might be a good place to start with the Revolutions podcast? The way its archived makes it a bit hard to tell where one part ends and another begins. Depends on the subject matter you want to cover, but if I were just starting, I’d begin with 3.1 from July 2014 (beginning of the French Revolution).
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I'll put in a good word for season 1 (English Civil War) as well, mainly because I didn't know anything about it beyond "Cromwell was Lord Protector for a bit" before listening.
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They're all good, but the French Revolution really brings everything together. However I found it really it hits stride and got interesting starting with the Haitian revolution. The Latin American independence movement episodes were great too. But again both are really linked to the French Revolution so you might want to listen to that first.
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Dec 17, 2017 20:23
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I would say at least listen to the English Civil War first, it lays a lot of the ground work of the later revolutions. You probably can skip the American revolution if you want but the French on is the best by far.
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Dec 17, 2017 21:34
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I personally loved all the descriptions of the battles in the Spanish American revolution and that is also the one I started with
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Dec 17, 2017 21:42
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Just start from the start of the podcast. There's connective tissue driving the broader narrative.
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Dec 17, 2017 21:46
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The American Revolution also introduces people who pop up again in France, like Lafayette and Paine. And definitely listen to England, because "he wants to be the next Cromwell!" will be the go to accusation for political opponents until Robespierre gives them a new boogeyman.
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Just make sure you've got a map handy for the English Civil War, because even though my knowledge of English geography is reasonable, I was totally losing track of who was where and matching to meet whom and so on. But I'd agree the American series is the weakest. Approaching it as a non-American, there were parts that assumed knowledge I didn't have. And his (thankfully now gone) habit of saying "and, then, famously, Captain Fartbottom did this". Not famous to me it ain't, buddy 
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webmeister posted:Just make sure you've got a map handy for the English Civil War, because even though my knowledge of English geography is reasonable, I was totally losing track of who was where and matching to meet whom and so on. At least 6 of the 12 years of public history education in America are just rote memorization about the progress and battles of the American Civil War and War for Independence where one was a battle of Absolute Good vs Absolute Evil and the other had heroes on "Many Sides". I'll let you guess which is which.
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webmeister posted:Just make sure you've got a map handy for the English Civil War, because even though my knowledge of English geography is reasonable, I was totally losing track of who was where and matching to meet whom and so on. Yeah I'll be driving 14 hours through probably several blizzards on the shortest day of the year, so I won't be looking at too many maps while listening. The English Civil War sounds great because I know nothing about it. I might stick to the French one though because I know some of the broad strokes and am fairly familiar once Napoleon comes on the scene. Having some familiarity will help me I think as I need to keep a bit of attention on the road.
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One of the big strengths of Revolutions is that the dude had already done a like a billion episodes of History of Rome before he started it. So he already knew what he was doing and there wasn't that terrible period most podcasts have at the beginning where the host is clueless and recording into his laptop's built-in microphone
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Guy Goodbody posted:One of the big strengths of Revolutions is that the dude had already done a like a billion episodes of History of Rome before he started it. So he already knew what he was doing and there wasn't that terrible period most podcasts have at the beginning where the host is clueless and recording into his laptop's built-in microphone When Diplomacy Fails demonstrated that in a major way recently. For the podcast's 5 year anniversary he dumped like 75 podcasts on us patreon subscribers all at once and dribbled them out every few days over five weeks for the normal feed. They were the original episodes "remastered" which meant going back to each subject (i.e. particular wars and what led up to them) starting with the original scripts, and massively revising them to cover the topic all around better. Sometimes this meant more episodes to cover a topic than before, sometimes less, but always to higher audio, technical, and historical standards. The sheer amount of work done means he must be an absolute madman of course, but fully worth the effort.
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What's When Diplomacy Fails? That sounds like it could be a decent historical podcast.
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I also recommend the French Revolution series for your car trip. I hope you are not particular about pronunciation of French names.
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French Revolution it is! Thanks guys.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:What's When Diplomacy Fails? That sounds like it could be a decent historical podcast. https://www.acast.com/whendiplomacyfails Essentially it started out as just being the diplomatic/negotiation stuff around wars and why they happened, but now it's also about the wars themselves too, if that makes sense. As mentioned, probably for the best to not bother with most of the episodes from before he did the "remastered" thing this year, as the "remasters" are strictly better versions of the stuff they cover. There's some other stuff done like his series on the Easter Rebellion or the one that was based on his master's thesis that didn't get the remaster treatment because they didn't need them, pretty interesting perspectives on both things.
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Any recommendations for podcasts that do a deep dive into middle eastern history?
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Dan Carlin is trying to do shorter, more frequent shows again http://dchhaddendum.libsyn.com/ Episode 2 is a crossover episode with Mike Duncan, discussing Rome
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The Glumslinger posted:Dan Carlin is trying to do shorter, more frequent shows again I'm guessing 5 episodes before they start lasting 5 hours and take six months to come out
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The Glumslinger posted:Dan Carlin is trying to do shorter, more frequent shows again Any guesses on how long this one will last before it too goes to 6 hours every 3 months? Also I'm glad he's breaking out the interview-type shows into a different feed. They can be good, but it definitely feels like a different show when he does them.
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that first episode sounds like the daddest poo poo ever but Duncan And Dan holy poo poo sign me up
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Rodyle posted:that first episode sounds like the daddest poo poo ever but Duncan And Dan holy poo poo sign me up It's pretty good, his main argument is that Nazis are terrible at everything.
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Omnibus is kinda not very good. They have interesting topics, but it feels like I'd learn more about them if I just read the Wikipedia page myself. I have no idea how the episodes are 40 or 50 minutes long. I guess it's all the saturday NPR program style banter?
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I want to thank those who recommended Revolutions, and the French Revolution in particular. It was good during my road trip, and now its standard listening for most of my commute to work. I'm up to 1793 now! The fellow is fairly dry, and his humour is that sort of nerdy, not very funny sort. And he also goes a bittt too deep for me sometimes. A committee being created and dissolved and created again and dissolved... well I do glaze over sometimes. But these are pretty minor, considering the huge volume of content of stuff I've already heard from him. I've learned a great deal, and I think I'll get some sort of companion book to look into more of this stuff. How good are the previous revolutions? He mentions the British one quite a lot which makes me curious. One thing I'll say: I can play Dan Carlin while someone else is in the car and however they start, they usually end up pretty enthralled. Duncan though, he puts people straight to sleep.
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