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420 Gank Mid posted:I wouldn't recommend citing Carlin in a paper the way you could probably get away with with Mike Duncan but he's a damned good narrator. I actually cited him successfully in a PolSci paper recently  But yes Carlin is more interested in getting you to understand the personal experience of different places and eras, whereas Duncan is much more the lecturer: big picture, big characters. I haven't dug much into that 10 Presidents podcast where they've been recruited as narrators, but the Nixon episode with Carlin is weird from what I have listened to. It seems a shame to get Dan Carlin and then force him to speedread, and between frequent sound clips no less.
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jng2058 posted:What's really bad is how no one bothers to mention things like the War of 1812 being a minor sideshow in the greater Napoleonic Wars. It's just "Impressment, Brits bad, White House burn, Battle of New Orleans we win, hooray!" I think, technically, the order of those last two go, "...we win, Battle of New Orleans, hooray!"
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A friend recently turned me on to the podcast "Lore." It's about folklore/history with a focus on the creepy stuff like ghost stories and vampire legends. Only 5 episodes out so far and it's decent, although I could do without the background music throughout. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/lore/id978052928?mt=2 http://www.lorepodcast.com
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Rodyle posted:I actually cited him successfully in a PolSci paper recently To use a crude analogy, if history podcasts were the Titanic then Mike Duncan is the ship's wikipedia page, while Dan Carlin is the James Cameron movie (especially the boxing scene)
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webmeister posted:To use a crude analogy, if history podcasts were the Titanic then Mike Duncan is the ship's wikipedia page, while Dan Carlin is the James Cameron movie (especially the boxing scene) I'm not following you at all, can you rephrase that in a boxing analogy?
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May 15, 2015 04:21
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webmeister posted:To use a crude analogy, if history podcasts were the Titanic then Mike Duncan is the ship's wikipedia page, while Dan Carlin is the James Cameron movie (especially the boxing scene) Except Mike Duncan is way more entertaining than a wikipedia page.
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May 15, 2015 04:31
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TontoCorazon posted:I'm not following you at all, can you rephrase that in a boxing analogy? In the historical narrative podcast arena Mike Duncan is a bantamweight, moving deliberately around the ring landing rhythmic, measured, well-timed and accurate punches. Not spectacular, but very effective. Dan Carlin, on the other hand, is a lumbering heavyweight that swings only rarely. But when he swings, he lands - big time.
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thrawn527 posted:I think, technically, the order of those last two go, "...we win, Battle of New Orleans, hooray!" And wouldn't it be nice if they taught it that way? 
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jng2058 posted:And wouldn't it be nice if they taught it that way? Well, my dad is a history teacher, so that's what he always taught me. But yeah, it would be nice if they taught it that way.
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jng2058 posted:And wouldn't it be nice if they taught it that way? Actually every class where 1812 came up it was very deliberately presented as New Orleans happening after the truce, but before the slow rear end trans-Atlantic messaging could get through. But we totally won a meaningless battle and that absolutely squares us with the Canadian-Brits burning down the White House and sacking D.C.
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webmeister posted:In the historical narrative podcast arena Mike Duncan is a bantamweight, moving deliberately around the ring landing rhythmic, measured, well-timed and accurate punches. Not spectacular, but very effective. Now that's better.
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webmeister posted:In the historical narrative podcast arena Mike Duncan is a bantamweight, moving deliberately around the ring landing rhythmic, measured, well-timed and accurate punches. Not spectacular, but very effective. You can read this in Dan Carlin's voice for added effect
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motorcyclesarejets posted:You can read this in Dan Carlin's voice for added effect I'm assuming it was written as such.
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Somethingawful forums poster Tonto Corazon, writes QUOTE I'm assuming it was written as such.END QUOTE And he's correct.
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Is the 10 American Podcasts episode for Mike Duncan really only like 16 minutes compared to Carlin's ep being more than an hour? Bummer.
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It's a Q&A, a sort of prologue. Duncan's going to make a proper episode but it said at the end of the Q&A that it was going to be out by the end of April, so, yeah.
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I want to give a recommendation to the Stuff They Don't Want You To Know podcast. Which by name and appearance would appear to be a conspiracy / fortean / wingnut vehicle, but actually is more focuses more on uncommon or little discussed knowledge. I've just listened to two good ones: "North Korea: Fact or Fiction" and "Are Diamonds a Scam". Well presented, not too long, decently researched. EDIT: listened to a few more of their episodes and they do get a bit more out there. But even those are well done. While I'm here, I may as well give a boost to the long departed but still available Truth-Driven Thinking, which was a sceptical podcast that was genuinely open-minded and looked at things like the effectiveness of speed limits, whether prostitution should be illegal, the historical evidence for Jesus etc. (With the massive caveat that TDT changes and arguably derails towards the end of its run with the host talking about his "personal journey", a novel being written and a whole lot of meta-discussion taking place.) nonathlon fucked around with this message at 18:01 on May 16, 2015 |
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Is there a decent (free?) Android app people like for their 4.5hr podcasts? I was punishing myself finding my place every time with Play but now it has decided it doesn't always want to play things when I do.
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I use Podkicker. It's a podcast aggregator, not strictly an mp3 player, so you'll have to subscribe to the RSS feeds of whatever shows you want to listen to. The search function within the app has always been very good about locating any shows I'm trying to find, though.
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Antares posted:Is there a decent (free?) Android app people like for their 4.5hr podcasts? I was punishing myself finding my place every time with Play but now it has decided it doesn't always want to play things when I do. Beyondpod or pocketcasts
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Antares posted:Is there a decent (free?) Android app people like for their 4.5hr podcasts? I was punishing myself finding my place every time with Play but now it has decided it doesn't always want to play things when I do. And to round out the suggestions there is Podcast Addict which is free and has all the features but is ugly as sin with way too many menus.
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webmeister posted:Somethingawful forums poster Tonto Corazon, writes Could you post this agyyyaaaiiin?
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Riptor posted:Could you post this agyyyaaaiiin? Folks,
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Ugh! The 10 American Presidents podcast on Nixon by Dan Carlin is just impossible to listen to, at least if you're anything like me and hate being constantly interrupted by sound clips accompanied by some kind of lovely soundtrack. How anyone figured that this would be a good way to present a history podcast is completely beyond me - if your attention span is so short that you need pumping music and "exciting" clips every few minutes to keep you interested, you're probably not the kind of person that enjoys hours-long episodes about historical subjects.
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Offler posted:Ugh! "And then, just as the BEF was cornered at Dunkirk, Hitlers orders the Panzers to stop!" *laugh track* AAAOOOOGA! DING DING DING!
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This is why I had to stop listening to radiolab.
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It actually had a few songs in the background that are on my playlist but they were still distracting for that very reason. If I wanna listen to The Cinematic Orchestra I'll just listen to it.
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The 10 american presidents isn't badly done it's just not produced in the way most podcasts are; a dude in a room talking into a mic. The soundclips didn't bug me since they were mostly just speeches/clips from interviews and for a modern figure why quote him when you can just put the audio clip of him talking right in the thing. The music was annoying though. e: Also the timeframe on this thing is insane. The Q&A episode mentioned the next episode coming out in late May and the Q&A went up April 4.
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Judging by the first two, you'd think the timeline would be way easier to manage. Apparently every president has a different guy doing it, so if one falls behind surely one of the other 8 dudes is ready. I just really want the Jackson episode to be up. That is one fascinating, crazy, son of a bitch.
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Gyges posted:I just really want the Jackson episode to be up. That is one fascinating, crazy, son of a bitch. They might as well just put up the episode of the Dollop for him, I can't imagine anyone else topping that
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uPen posted:The 10 american presidents isn't badly done it's just not produced in the way most podcasts are; a dude in a room talking into a mic. The soundclips didn't bug me since they were mostly just speeches/clips from interviews and for a modern figure why quote him when you can just put the audio clip of him talking right in the thing. The music was annoying though.
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Risket posted:I really like the format of Carlin's episode, but I'm wondering why Carlin's episode on Nixon is well over an hour, and Mike Duncan's Washington episode is 16 minutes long. I mean, it's loving Washington, you could do 55 hours on that guy and not be done. Maybe they left the format up to the speaker, and Carlin isn't capable of doing a history podcast that is less than 2 hours. The 15 minute thing is just a Q&A preview, the full Washington episode isn't out yet.
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Offler posted:Ugh!
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Risket posted:I really like the format of Carlin's episode, but I'm wondering why Carlin's episode on Nixon is well over an hour, and Mike Duncan's Washington episode is 16 minutes long. I mean, it's loving Washington, you could do 55 hours on that guy and not be done. Maybe they left the format up to the speaker, and Carlin isn't capable of doing a history podcast that is less than 2 hours. If you listen to that episode it's a 5 minute preview of the episode and then the producer cuts in and does an interview with Mike Duncan and then says the full episode will be up in late March. (2016?) Gibfender posted:They might as well just put up the episode of the Dollop for him, I can't imagine anyone else topping that Also replace the Washington episode with the episode about Washington's horror mouth filled with clockwork gadgets and dead men's teeth.
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Gibfender posted:They might as well just put up the episode of the Dollop for him, I can't imagine anyone else topping that Thank you for this. Took some time getting used to a literal Morning Zoo Radio History Podcast, but drat, that was a great story.
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I like how sure Brian Dunning is in there not being listeners of Skeptoid who like Kanye West.
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Captain Shortbus posted:Thank you for this. Took some time getting used to a literal Morning Zoo Radio History Podcast, but drat, that was a great story. I highly recommend the following dollops: Newport Sex Scandal Samuel Whittemore The Rube Ten Cent Beer Night They also cover the Killdozer story from start to finish in the Marvin Heemeyer episode.
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Rhesus Pieces posted:I highly recommend the following dollops: Added to the list. I listened to the Ghosts episode and spent the last 45 minutes of it laughing my rear end off. Funniest bit I've heard in a long time.  for the suggestions.
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Currently listening to the SLA episode. Those guys sound like LF become flesh. lol E: the sla are lf, not the hosts of the show midnightclimax fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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So...I can't tell if these posts are recommending Dollop or not. Guess I'll just go check it out. p.s. Whistlestop and You Must Remember This remain pretty decent. I'm not one of those serial killer-interested guys necessarily and the details are already known and gruesome to me, but You Must Remember This is doing a pretty good multi-parter on the Manson family and Hollywood right now. p.p.s. FREE BRIAN DUNNING Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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