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mike12345 posted:Holy crap, You Must Remember This is really good. Didn't expect much, but the fact it provides social commentary and historic context got me really excited. Listening to the series on Manson btw. I've been listening to the current season on the Communist blacklist, and while the info is good, the host never changes inflection so the regulatory of hey voice makes me drowsy. Also, I don't typically notice or care about vocal fry, but she really fuckin' loves doing that with hey voice at the end of sentences. I end up getting pissed at way too many podcasts because the hosts have annoying speech pattern tics or vocal problems, and it annoys me that these things annoy me. I listen to a lot of podcasts and audio books and a lot of people who get into podcasting need some radio voice training. Carlin is great, and so is Mike Duncan, but too many others drive me batty. Thinking sideways, last podcast on the left, how did this get made are all good examples.
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Mar 21, 2016 16:25
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I only listened to The Wrath of Khans two months ago, and that Bill Cosby reference will be the most awkward and dated part of it.
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This is pretty much the first time I've read the book the show I is on. It doesn't make the podcast bad, just different, I'm listening more for the Carlin presentation and analysis than the point by point. I have a friend that theorized that Dan has to have side gigs to account for how long this takes, anyone know of anything?
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Jack B Nimble posted:This is pretty much the first time I've read the book the show I is on. It doesn't make the podcast bad, just different, I'm listening more for the Carlin presentation and analysis than the point by point. He's a drug dealer on the side.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:24
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He claims Ben (if there is a Ben) as a dependent for welfare money.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:28
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rotinaj posted:I've been listening to the current season on the Communist blacklist, and while the info is good, the host never changes inflection so the regulatory of hey voice makes me drowsy. Also, I don't typically notice or care about vocal fry, but she really fuckin' loves doing that with hey voice at the end of sentences. I listened to so many crappy recordings the past few weeks, so the clear audio of Must Remember was really nice. I noticed her tics after you mentioned them, but the writing is so good that I don't care. Her imitating deranged Susan Atkins got me laughing every time. The actor doing Polanski, Manson and all the others was great as well.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:30
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Jack B Nimble posted:I have a friend that theorized that Dan has to have side gigs to account for how long this takes, anyone know of anything? Well he does his "Common Sense" political podcast once or twice each month, and does audio editing/production stuff for other people.
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Mar 21, 2016 20:19
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The Erland posted:Hardcore History: An assassination related startup company. Carlin's doofy rear end anologies are the main reason why you should listen to him. There's a dozen other podcasts who can teach you the same history but nobody else is going to tell you how the Achaemenid Empire was actually a brilliant modern corporation.
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I guess I'm not the only one finding it hard to get through the You Must Remember This Blacklist episodes. I was expecting something a bit more, but it really feels like the same story over and over. "So this person was kinda-sorta friends with some Socialists/Anti-Fascists/Communists during the war, and that led to them being blacklisted/ignored/unable to have a better career ... which was pretty dumb, right." Or alternately, "and then they supported the blacklist, which is pretty obviously a dumb thing that some people did." The Manson series is one of the best, though. Most of the MGM stories are pretty well done, too. Karina Longworth's generally got a great voice, and her impressions are never not entertaining, but I do agree the rare times when she goes creaky it's pretty awful. "Mubi..."
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Kalos posted:Carlin's doofy rear end anologies are the main reason why you should listen to him. There's a dozen other podcasts who can teach you the same history but nobody else is going to tell you how the Achaemenid Empire was actually a brilliant modern corporation. His recent 30 minute digression on whether a group of people from los Angeles could function in a phalanx was awesome.
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I have to also recommend the Myths and Legends podcast. It should probably be added to the OP given it's all about pulling tales form history and presenting them to a modern audience.
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euphronius posted:His recent 30 minute digression on whether a group of people from los Angeles could function in a phalanx was awesome. I particularly enjoyed the pants-making GBS threads discussion.
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Mar 23, 2016 15:25
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The business analogies in this episode reminded that a while back I bought Rome, Inc because Carlin talked it up so much during the Marius episode of Death Throes of The Republic. It really sucked and I'm not sure what a guy like Dan Carlin would get out of it.
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Mar 24, 2016 00:55
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The description of 300 ships being crashed in the storm was great, although a significant part of the last two episodes has been solely "Herodotus made up a lot of poo poo!"
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Mar 24, 2016 19:04
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Caustic Soda, podcast of the weird, awful, and gross has come to an end. Just a few episodes ago they were mentioning tabling topics for later episodes and they just decided to end the show. It's so abrupt that I'm kind of hoping that this is just their April fools prank. The show was never one of my favorites but I am going to miss it.
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Random Stranger posted:Caustic Soda, podcast of the weird, awful, and gross has come to an end. Just a few episodes ago they were mentioning tabling topics for later episodes and they just decided to end the show. It's so abrupt that I'm kind of hoping that this is just their April fools prank. The show was never one of my favorites but I am going to miss it. I'm baffled as to why they'd just up and end the show but I'm hoping everything is ok 
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Mar 29, 2016 05:38
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Maybe they just got tired of it and want to do something else? Apparently they've been doing it for six years and over 300 episodes. I've listened to many episodes and like it for commute listening but I still have a colossal backlog of Caustic Soda episodes.
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Mar 29, 2016 08:31
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Yeah at the beginning of their last episode they say that they want to dedicate more time to their other projects, which I'm going to believe is the actual reason since Toren already has plans to make a new album.
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Weird Sandwich posted:Yeah at the beginning of their last episode they say that they want to dedicate more time to their other projects, which I'm going to believe is the actual reason since Toren already has plans to make a new album. I'm sure it's exactly what they said. Just worn down and wanting to commit time to other things. I'm glad they decided to give a special final episode rather than just fade away like some other podcasts do.
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Mar 29, 2016 12:27
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Yeah, I was surprised to see them go. They were very consistent throughout their run. No drop in quality towards the end. R.I.P. 
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Random Stranger posted:I'm sure it's exactly what they said. Just worn down and wanting to commit time to other things. I'm glad they decided to give a special final episode rather than just fade away like some other podcasts do. Yeah, I can understand that and it's cool of them to at least do a finale type deal instead of just stopping. I just feel kind of blindsided to have all of a sudden get hit with 'The End!' maybe if I used twitter or something I'd have seen someone talk about it coming up there, but I didn't get any sense they were planning to wrap up and end the podcast before this.
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Kalos posted:Carlin's doofy rear end anologies are the main reason why you should listen to him. There's a dozen other podcasts who can teach you the same history but nobody else is going to tell you how the Achaemenid Empire was actually a brilliant modern corporation. Dan picks topics a lot don't really care about focusing on. I wish he was better. The dude needs an editor bad.
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Apr 1, 2016 05:32
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CharlestheHammer posted:Dan picks topics a lot don't really care about focusing on. I wish he was better. The dude needs an editor bad. He also needs to start drawing on sources that were written after the 1960's. The WWI series was painful to get through because of how outdated a lot of his information was.
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MikeCrotch posted:He also needs to start drawing on sources that were written after the 1960's. The WWI series was painful to get through because of how outdated a lot of his information was. What stuff was outdated? I just finished part six last night.
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I've posted about it a few times, but last week's episode of In Our Time about Agrippina the Younger was really good, probably the best one I've heard in ages. Interesting topic (even if I already knew a lot of it), well spoken guests with interesting thoughts who didn't ramble on or stammer like they're having a nervous breakdown, and Lord Melvyn seemed to be in a good mood for once - he hardly even interrupted anyone! Well worth a listen if you're at all interested in Roman history, or just an infrequent listener to In Our Time.
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Is there a podcast on nature or animals that's worth listening to? Maybe weird facts about animals? Weird animals? I dunno.
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mike12345 posted:Is there a podcast on nature or animals that's worth listening to? Maybe weird facts about animals? Weird animals? I dunno. Not precisely what you're looking for, but No Such Thing As A Fish is full of weird facts that are often about animals. Just not always. Well, always weird facts, just not always about animals. You know what I mean.
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Ugh, the editing on the latest Reagan episode of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics is really rough. Jesus.
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Thwomp posted:Ugh, the editing on the latest Reagan episode of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics is really rough. Jesus. I kept thinking my phone was somehow on and I was bumping buttons in my pocket.
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I'm really sad that this season of Revolutions is coming to an end. I love that he's doing revolutions I have zero familiarity with. Also, the Haitian Declaration of Independence is wild as gently caress.
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Well Gran Columbia is going to be the next topic, and that's something I have next to no familiarity with. I'm not looking forward to the big break after that though.
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mythomanic posted:I'm really sad that this season of Revolutions is coming to an end. I love that he's doing revolutions I have zero familiarity with. Also, the Haitian Declaration of Independence is wild as gently caress. Yes! Now I can start listening to it! I have no patience to wait week by week so I prefer to binge after they end. I cannot wait for Gran Colombia. I almost done reading García Márquez's The General in His Labyrinth and need to more about what happened around there and who the players were.
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Listened to Ezra Klein's interview with Grover Norquist today. What a completely batshit insane person...
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mcmagic posted:Listened to Ezra Klein's interview with Grover Norquist today. What a completely batshit insane person... He apparently came up with the tax pledge idea when he was 12 
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I really tried to keep an open mind during that interview. Forming your own bubble of information is a real thing. So I agreed with Ezra's opening point that while Norquist is certainly controversial, he's a huge player in DC and understanding his motivations is something worthwhile. But the dude's motivations are bonkers and he's clearly stuck in the 80s. Well, his rationales are stuck there. Communists! Unions! Reagan! Deregulation! All Democrats are owned! Like, 
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mike12345 posted:Is there a podcast on nature or animals that's worth listening to? Maybe weird facts about animals? Weird animals? I dunno. From the inevitable thread: fritz posted:DO I
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mike12345 posted:Is there a podcast on nature or animals that's worth listening to? Maybe weird facts about animals? Weird animals? I dunno. It might be not quite what you're after, but Paleocast is quite nice, a bunch of British (and one american) PhD students in palaeontology talking about theirs and others work.
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webmeister posted:I've posted about it a few times, but last week's episode of In Our Time about Agrippina the Younger was really good, probably the best one I've heard in ages. Interesting topic (even if I already knew a lot of it), well spoken guests with interesting thoughts who didn't ramble on or stammer like they're having a nervous breakdown, and Lord Melvyn seemed to be in a good mood for once - he hardly even interrupted anyone! He was in a pretty good mood on this week's episode on neutrons too. I've listened to IOT for years and it's funny how he's become moody more recently. Still the best podcast out there though in terms of quality of information/guests.
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mik posted:He was in a pretty good mood on this week's episode on neutrons too. I've listened to IOT for years and it's funny how he's become moody more recently. Still the best podcast out there though in terms of quality of information/guests.
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