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Just finished History of Rome. Remember it being kind of rough and awkwardly done in the early going, but came away feeling like I appreciate Duncan's dry-but-comprehensive style over Carlin's melodrama. My one nitpick on Duncan is his tendency to "spoil" his narrative by saying things like ...and by the way, this guy kills that guy five years from now... Even where I already new a lot of that stuff, it just tripped up the flow somewhat. Does he still do that in Revolutions? Thinking of starting that soon.
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Blues Hammer posted:Just finished History of Rome. Remember it being kind of rough and awkwardly done in the early going, but came away feeling like I appreciate Duncan's dry-but-comprehensive style over Carlin's melodrama. Not as much, though there's occasionally a "...and this other guy was there too. Remember him for later."
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Aug 22, 2018 00:33
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I find the idea of being spoiled on events that took place 2000 years ago very entertaining.
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Blues Hammer posted:Does he still do that in Revolutions? Thinking of starting that soon. A little bit, at least in the France series. Though the spoilers are more like footnotes rather than narrative-ruiners. Except he did prematurely spoil the fate of King Louis XVI.
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Aug 22, 2018 02:16
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uPen posted:I find the idea of being spoiled on events that took place 2000 years ago very entertaining. "If I haven't seen it, it's new to me!" Seriously one of the things Carlin is really good at is pulling the human drama out of ancient events and putting it at the forefront. It's more fun of you don't know how a particular person leaves the stage. Sure, everybody knows what happened to Julius Caesar or Cleopatra, but the lesser known figures have cool stories that benefit from being told dramatically.
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buglord posted:A little bit, at least in the France series. Though the spoilers are more like footnotes rather than narrative-ruiners. Except he did prematurely spoil the fate of King Louis XVI. I'd have a hard time believing that anyone interested enough in history to listen to an in-depth podcast like Revolutions wouldn't already be at least partially aware of what happened to Louis and Marie Antoinette
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webmeister posted:I'd have a hard time believing that anyone interested enough in history to listen to an in-depth podcast like Revolutions wouldn't already be at least partially aware of what happened to Louis and Marie Antoinette They make it out okay, right? 
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Aug 22, 2018 09:00
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They went to live on a palace upstate somewhere
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Aug 22, 2018 09:33
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Mike Duncan was the only reason why I watched the second season of Roman Empire on Netflix. It's pretty much a run-of-the-mill history dad narrative of the life of Julius Caesar, with one of the talking heads they used to give the story credibility being an author of a certified New York Times Best Seller.
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Appoda posted:They make it out okay, right? Yeah, they're still alive iirc
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webmeister posted:They went to live on a palace upstate somewhere All he had to do was not get out of the drat carriage.
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all he had to do was stay in paris, where he was still reasonably popular and seen as Big Papa despite a few close shaves
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Are there any good podcasts on Islamic history or theology? Or religious studies in general really.
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ZeusJupitar posted:Are there any good podcasts on Islamic history or theology? Or religious studies in general really. Seconding this question. I've been looking for a good podcast on religious history/comparative religion for ages.
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Aug 24, 2018 22:26
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Semi relatedly, I was listening to Sunday School Dropouts which is supposed to be a comedic and (at least implied) informational podcast but I couldn’t make it past the first episode. The premise interested me because one of the hosts is also an ex catholic/Christian and I think that offers an interesting perspective when talking about the bible. But instead it’s just like “they had SEX lol”. Or talking about how weird it is that eve’s kid or whatever was 800 years old. Don’t get me wrong I love myself some biblical dick jokes and butt jokes about Our Lord but I was really hoping for something more academic.
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Anyone who dropped The RFK Tapes because it seemed like the host was too credulous about the conspiracies should give it another try. He does a good job in the later episodes of discounting and explaining the inconsistencies and ultimately finds them unconvincing.
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In our time has a ton of Islamic issues podcasts. They just had an excellent one on the Merovingians.
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Prairie Bus posted:Anyone who dropped The RFK Tapes because it seemed like the host was too credulous about the conspiracies should give it another try. He does a good job in the later episodes of discounting and explaining the inconsistencies and ultimately finds them unconvincing. It's almost become more of a documentary about the RFK conspiracy community than about the RFK assassination, which has suited it pretty well.
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I've been listening to season 2 of Slow Burn about the Clinton impeachment scandal and it's actually eye-opening in many ways: there's so much poo poo that's been memory-holed, and everything is adorably simple and straight-forward compared to all the things that have happened afterwards.
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Chazani posted:I couldn't finish History of Rome because of his narration, occasional smacks and the breathing sounds. Admittedly, I do have ADHD and all those little annoyances made me lose focus on the content, on which there is no fault. It wasn't bothering me until I got to the first Punic War, at which point he seems to have decided to make a podcast about wet mouth noises. 
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Sulphagnist posted:I've been listening to season 2 of Slow Burn about the Clinton impeachment scandal and it's actually eye-opening in many ways: there's so much poo poo that's been memory-holed, and everything is adorably simple and straight-forward compared to all the things that have happened afterwards. Oh I didn't know there was a 2nd season, I guess I'll check that out. I may have gotten the recommendation from this very thread, but if not, The Wild Episode is a good if clumsily named podcast. The topic is zoology, and each episode the presenter and his dry sense of humour go over the strange and cool and horrifying creatures that inhabit our world. I find it very enjoyable.
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Count Roland posted:I may have gotten the recommendation from this very thread, but if not, The Wild Episode is a good if clumsily named podcast. The topic is zoology, and each episode the presenter and his dry sense of humour go over the strange and cool and horrifying creatures that inhabit our world. I find it very enjoyable. Yes! I plugged it at least twice. I'm glad someone else likes it. He's done about 1 a month for the summer, but after the September episode, which should hit in a few weeks, he plans on going back to bi-weekly, so the content is going to start picking up. The content is great, but I'm personally just surprised by the production value. It's not a major podcast like something off of Slate or Ear Wolf or whatever, but it's all just very crisp sounding and well put together.
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buglord posted:Semi relatedly, I was listening to Sunday School Dropouts which is supposed to be a comedic and (at least implied) informational podcast but I couldn’t make it past the first episode. The premise interested me because one of the hosts is also an ex catholic/Christian and I think that offers an interesting perspective when talking about the bible. The ex-Christian host was very much not Catholic. And honestly throughout the whole series it becomes quite clear that their denomination really really did not read the bible itself all that much despite heavily referring to themselves as "bible-believing" and other terms like that. It's a whole interesting narrative as the show goes on that she really only read very scattershot sets of passages and single verses throughout her time as a Christian, but it's definitely not what you'd expect from the stated premise of the show. And that kinda takes a long while to become interesting as neither of them really understand that's what happened with her until like a year into it. And of course there's a bunch of the "I can pretty much just say the specific church I went to represents all Christian churches" narrative to it as well but at least she grows out of that as the series goes on. It's also kinda funny how the lapsed Jewish guy who was never all that big into religion in the past clearly has a lot better grasp on like the Bible in particular (even the new testament stuff he barely touched) and Christianity as practiced in general than the ex-Christian does. So I guess ultimately what I like about it is that they completely by accident are telling a much different and more interesting story about religion than they thought they were going to do, and they still don't really realize they're doing that.
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ZeusJupitar posted:Are there any good podcasts on Islamic history or theology? Or religious studies in general really. Not exactly what you are looking for, but Historiansplaining is a good podcast that frequently has religious history topics. There are a couple of episodes about the origins of Islam, other episodes about the origins of Judaism, the bible, Jesus, Luther, the Catholic counter-reformation, as well as lots of episodes about the Middle Ages and so on that take the religious views and motivations of the people involved into account in a very human way. The presenter is a history lecturer by trade, so as you may expect this podcast is more like a series of lectures than some other podcasts.
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On that subject, what about a general history of religion sort of podcast? I'm interested in modern religions forming from ancient ones, but maybe moreso from the perspective of why than how. Would Historiansplaining be along those lines? feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 19:45 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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buglord posted:Semi relatedly, I was listening to Sunday School Dropouts which is supposed to be a comedic and (at least implied) informational podcast but I couldn’t make it past the first episode. The premise interested me because one of the hosts is also an ex catholic/Christian and I think that offers an interesting perspective when talking about the bible. The Bible Geek might be up your alley
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The Human Bible by the same guy was good, and intended for beginners to academic biblical criticism, but every time I tried to get into the Bible Geek itself, it seemed to be about the host more than the material.
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PerilPastry posted:Melvyn Bragg is completely insufferable as an interviewer. Bragg serves a pretty useful purpose, which is he tees up an old orthodox standpoint for people to come in and knock down. But the main differentiator is just the expertise of the guests vs literally all other podcasts.
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Disinterested posted:Bragg serves a pretty useful purpose, which is he tees up an old orthodox standpoint for people to come in and knock down. But the main differentiator is just the expertise of the guests vs literally all other podcasts. I love Mervyn, but the disdain he has when he's forced to do an episode about exact sciences is palpable.
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kanonvandekempen posted:I love Mervyn, but the disdain he has when he's forced to do an episode about exact sciences is palpable. The p v np ep where he halts all discussion to admit he can’t comprehend exponential growth is an all-timer, along with the time he described the early colonization of africa as “nibbles round the rim” also he was the screenwriter for jesus christ superstar cmon
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I quite like American history tellers, any more like it ?
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ZeusJupitar posted:Are there any good podcasts on Islamic history or theology? Or religious studies in general really. Check out the section of the history of philosophy without any gaps on Islamic philosophy.
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WEH posted:The p v np ep where he halts all discussion to admit he can’t comprehend exponential growth is an all-timer, along with the time he described the early colonization of africa as “nibbles round the rim” I think he almost got hostile towards one of the professors specifically and science in general during the Dark energy or Dark matter episode. Classic Mervyn.
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Is there anything good for Stuart England outside of the first seasion of Revolutions? I'm particularly interested in the civil wars and witchcraft. History of Britain is nowhere near that era yet, Dan Carlin's nowhere near, I don't listen to anything else similar.
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number one pta fan posted:Is there anything good for Stuart England outside of the first seasion of Revolutions? I'm particularly interested in the civil wars and witchcraft. As far as the last one, The History of Witchcraft's got you covered. Highly recommended.
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Lizzy posted:I quite like American history tellers, any more like it ? I think Tides of History and The Fall of Rome podcasts are similar.
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https://twitter.com/HardcoreHistory/status/1044288951962394624 New Hardcore History Addendum episode
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/HardcoreHistory/status/1044288951962394624 Not his strongest outing. I found it suffered from the same issues as did (the first part of) Painfotainment. The whole "just imagine if you were there" thing repeated continuously. Yes, I have already imagined it, 30 minutes into the show with no new details, I don't need to be prompted to imagine it again. And in this one he didn't even say how the story ended-- how were these guys rescued?
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God loving dammit I now have the brain worms you people have that make it so I can't stop hearing Mike Duncan's mouth sounds. What the gently caress! gently caress you guys!
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Count Roland posted:Not his strongest outing. I found it suffered from the same issues as did (the first part of) Painfotainment. The whole "just imagine if you were there" thing repeated continuously. Yes, I have already imagined it, 30 minutes into the show with no new details, I don't need to be prompted to imagine it again. And in this one he didn't even say how the story ended-- how were these guys rescued? I didn't finish Painfotainment, and zoned out while listening to his Asia episode. Especially the Asia one goddamn those analogies were so bad. Maybe he should take a break.
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