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webmeister posted:New episode up on Fall of Civilisations, three hours on Han dynasty China Is it a one parter like the others?
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Can anybody recommend some good podcasts or podcast episodes dealing with American history specifically after the Revolutionary War but before the Civil War?
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Feb 27, 2020 17:39
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Gripweed posted:Can anybody recommend some good podcasts or podcast episodes dealing with American history specifically after the Revolutionary War but before the Civil War? Just recently, the Behind the Bastards episodes on John Brown and William Walker. Between the two of them, there's a lot on the development of slavery as an increasingly radical issue in the decade or so before the Civil War.
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Feb 27, 2020 20:05
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Chairman Capone posted:Just recently, the Behind the Bastards episodes on John Brown and William Walker. Between the two of them, there's a lot on the development of slavery as an increasingly radical issue in the decade or so before the Civil War. for the record, John Brown is his annual Christmas Behind the Heroes Who Are Cool As Hell episode. And the William Walker two-parter is crazy! I was completely enthralled by part two this morning.
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Feb 27, 2020 20:09
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webmeister posted:New episode up on Fall of Civilisations, three hours on Han dynasty China Not sure anything could match the Aztec episode, but so far so good
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Feb 27, 2020 21:45
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Spoeank posted:And the William Walker two-parter is crazy! I was completely enthralled by part two this morning.
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Feb 27, 2020 22:44
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I knew about William Walker, but not about his veneration by the Cato Institute. Something which is both surprising yet completely expected.
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Feb 28, 2020 06:30
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webmeister posted:New episode up on Fall of Civilisations, three hours on Han dynasty China the end of the Han episode...  i think i need to hold off on anything related to civilisational collapse for a while
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Feb 29, 2020 00:11
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Really made me want to pick up another campaign of Total War Three Kingdoms not gonna lie.
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Feb 29, 2020 00:16
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in our time hype! sorry just dont feel like finding my last post
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Feb 29, 2020 05:38
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It's a loving miracle, Dan Carlin managed to put it another Addendum episode quickly, looks like it's an interview this time
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Mar 2, 2020 04:57
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I am very ready for this podcast episode, whenever it comes out, which is hopefully soon https://twitter.com/seansrussiablog/status/1235199074426638338
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Mar 5, 2020 01:50
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Sheesh. The Fall of Civilizations podcast is amazing. I was familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it was really cool learning the backstory that led up to it. Also, I’d always been under the impression that the Great Wall of China was a big, dumb monument to hubris, but I like the notion that it actually made sense for the precursors to the wall to be built. The Han Empire was constantly fighting wars with the horse-warriors of the steppes, and their best move was to build fortifications, so they kept building more and more fortifications consisting of long walls that archers could rain arrows down from. It was a pretty good idea. Overall, the Fall of Civilizations guy does an amazing job of showing things through the eyes of the various players in history, and how they were all acting in their own best interests, no matter how tragic the overall outcome was. If you’re a dowager empress, you’re hosed if you don’t push for your male children to become emperor (and maybe push to murder all the other viable males). If you’re one of the peoples who got conquered and hosed over by the Aztecs it makes sense to let these weird new people from the east in and support them as they try to overthrow Montezuma. And if you’re a farmer in Greenland whose whole way of life has collapsed because there were several super-cold years, it makes sense to look over at the people who’ve been living for thousands of years in the super-cold and try to imitate the stuff they’ve been doing. Also, the narrator has a voice that I at-first assume will soothe me to sleep, but it actually ends up kind of riveting. Not sure how he pulls that off.
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Mar 8, 2020 05:18
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I do like the way the Fall Of Civilizations podcast sets up the episodes, reminding you of the physical and cultural backdrop to the subject so you always have the context in which the story plays out which is not to say it is always obvious where the story goes. I also appreciate the soundscapes chosen for it, often related to the cultural context of each episode, although there are some repeated themes common to all episodes. The easiest long-form podcast to listen to, and one that repays repeated listens.
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Mar 8, 2020 12:15
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Blastedhellscape posted:I was familiar with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, but it was really cool learning the backstory that led up to it. I legit was like 2/3 of the way through before I it dawned on me that he was describing the historical basis of this thing. 
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Mar 8, 2020 23:05
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I don't know if this is the proper thread for ReplyAll, but the most recent episode is absolutely fantastic. Edit: Just in case, this is about Episode 158: The case of the missing hit. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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Mar 9, 2020 16:50
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AFewBricksShy posted:I don't know if this is the proper thread for ReplyAll, but the most recent episode is absolutely fantastic. 90’s history? It was a fantastic episode - I lost it 10 minutes in when they just said gently caress it and recorded their own version. And then the moment where the song starts taking over everybody’s life? Some exceptional story crafting in that episode.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:52
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It felt like that episode was a lot of unnecessary digging when all they needed to do was search Facebook. I partially remember there was another episode recently that was something similar - a big mystery with a very simple way to find the answer - and i wondered in both cases if they had indeed solved it early on but then inserted all the hunting around for the sake of making a good episode.
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Mar 9, 2020 21:57
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Their searching skills are absolutely worthless. The episode was fun but those lyrics weren’t that hard to google. It’s like they never tried using quotes or the word lyrics.
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Mar 9, 2020 22:08
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It's a fairly popular podcast; is it not possible that the results in google today are just people discussing it since it came out?
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Mar 10, 2020 02:45
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~Coxy posted:It's a fairly popular podcast; is it not possible that the results in google today are just people discussing it since it came out? Not to mention that the ep ends with Tyler vowing to add the song's lyrics to the Internet himself. I'm guessing he was the one who added them to Genius. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Mar 11, 2020 |
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Mar 10, 2020 17:22
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I’m just mad that the one time “know it? I wrote it!” would have been appropriate it wasn’t used.
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Mar 10, 2020 19:59
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That Reply All episode was great, I've only listened to two of their stories ever, but liked them both a great deal. Maybe I should check out more? Since the other one was the mystery of why 99% Invisible episodes would refuse to play in certain cars I figured I should recommend their recent episode also about a song. Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out There were a lot more twists and turns to that story then I was expecting
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Mar 11, 2020 18:37
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The one where they track down a phone app (snapchat i think?) hacker and talk to him on discord was pretty good.
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Mar 11, 2020 19:13
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Reply All can occasionally be frustrating when they don't really dig into a story and let questions and slight bullshit stand, but I still love it overall. #141 Adam Pisces and the $2 Coke is a really fun little mystery with a lot of turns. #112 The Prophet is an interesting one about a street attack in Mexico leading to a crazy but seemingly real conspiracy to manipulate social media.
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Mar 12, 2020 00:13
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I can't believe Inward Empire made me feel a little bit sorry for Pinkerton agents. What the gently caress. Not any of the lieutenants, of course, just the unemployed guys who took a job that was basically like selling encyclopedias door to door, with the added bonus of being handed a gun you didn't know how to load and being ordered to fight with protesters.
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Mar 16, 2020 17:29
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This is a long shut but does anyone know what podcast I'm talking about from these incredibly vague clues? I listened to a few episodes about 1-2 years ago: * History podcast either about the whole history of England or just medieval England * Host was an American man * I think the host specialised in legal history so there was kind of a legal bent to the show * At one point he gives the etymology of the word "farm"...
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fuf posted:This is a long shut but does anyone know what podcast I'm talking about from these incredibly vague clues? I listened to a few episodes about 1-2 years ago: Sounds like History of English Podcast. Still going strong still fantastic. It's by Kevin Stroud, a lawyer/legal aide who does a great job going through the evolution of the language and how it's tied to history. Presumably he'll get to the US and Australia and what not, but that's a ways from now if ever. Enjoy it while you can.
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Mar 17, 2020 10:22
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100YrsofAttitude posted:Sounds like History of English Podcast. Still going strong still fantastic. It's by Kevin Stroud, a lawyer/legal aide who does a great job going through the evolution of the language and how it's tied to history. Presumably he'll get to the US and Australia and what not, but that's a ways from now if ever. Enjoy it while you can. Thanks but unless my memory is getting really mixed up I don't think it was that. I've been listening to the History of English recently and it's fantastic. This one was more history focused... the farm etymology thing was more of an aside while talking about how medieval economy / law / feudalism worked...
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Mar 17, 2020 10:31
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Maybe the British History Podcast? The host has an American accent but immigrated from the UK as a kid. He used to be a lawyer in a previous life.
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Mar 17, 2020 13:23
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Oh poo poo I bet that's it!
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Mar 17, 2020 17:53
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Tides of History re-posted their episode on the Black Death in Europe from a couple of years ago as "bonus" listening during lockdown. Timely, especially the societal implications!
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JaneError posted:Maybe the British History Podcast? The host has an American accent but immigrated from the UK as a kid. He used to be a lawyer in a previous life. Yeah my guess is it's BHP. It's fine, if incredibly incredibly slow moving. Which is fine because it seems he wants to make it like a twenty year project. I would highly recommend putting it on 1.25x speed though - his cadence is painfully slow.
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Apraxin posted:Yeah, the Grey-Eyed Man of Destiny is a hell of a trip. Just got around to listening to it the other day. One thing that struck me about the episode was when Robert and guest wondered, "Why hasn't anyone made a movie about this?" There actually is a movie by Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy) called Walker. Though it isn't what one might call the most historically accurate film you'll ever see. Cox chose to make his Walker an absurd, quixotic idiot as he was mostly interested in stripping Walker and his cause of any dignity (not that there was much to begin with). The movie is also shot through with anachronisms as a stylistic touch to show how things change yet stay the same since it was made in '87 and Iran-Contra was fresh in the headlines. Ed Harris stars as William Walker, he wears a lot of black. So if anything else you can watch it like it is a particularly insane Westworld scenario.
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Vaguely related there is the 1969 movie Burn! directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Marlon Brando plays a British agent in the mid-1850s who is sent to organize a slave rebellion on a Caribbean island so a British sugar company can move in and take it over. It's not directly related to the real Walker, but Brando's character is named William Walker after him, and the slave leader is named José Dolores Estrada after the Nicaraguan general who defeated Walker. It's a good movie to watch overall though, even if it's not directly based on the real Walker.
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TheLoquid posted:Yeah my guess is it's BHP. It's fine, if incredibly incredibly slow moving. Which is fine because it seems he wants to make it like a twenty year project. I would highly recommend putting it on 1.25x speed though - his cadence is painfully slow. Love BHP (it’s on Cnut and the episodes are great), but I listen to everything on 1.5. It might be fine at any speed, not sure about that, but 1.5 also works. Speaking of which, I use Castro, which is great for managing huge numbers of podcasts. It shows you all the episodes you could download without auto downloading them, then allows you to add the ones you want to an actual DL queue (or to set certain podcasts to auto download if you want that on a per podcast basis). I love all of that but hate the subscription model they recently put in place. Does any other podcast app have this sort of selection based DL and queueing system?
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Mar 31, 2020 15:52
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Player FM is what I use. I don't think there's a download queue, if there is one I haven't needed to use it, but when you subscribe you can choose how you want it to download. So for like a history in order podcast you can set it to start with the first episode and download X episodes when you're on wifi, and it'll always keep X number of episodes ready for you. E: To be clear subscribe to the podcast, Player FM is free. Grand Fromage fucked around with this message at 01:06 on Apr 1, 2020 |
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Mar 31, 2020 21:43
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Numberphile’s most recent episode is an interview with a mathematical biologist talking about COVID modeling https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-numberphile-podcast/id1441474794?i=1000470103099 https://www.numberphile.com/podcast/kit-yates-coronavirus There’s an abridged version on YouTube as well https://youtu.be/mTvKQYTV0Yw
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Grand Fromage posted:Player FM is what I use. I don't think there's a download queue, if there is one I haven't needed to use it, but when you subscribe you can choose how you want it to download. So for like a history in order podcast you can set it to start with the first episode and download X episodes when you're on wifi, and it'll always keep X number of episodes ready for you. Thank you Grand Fromage, will check it out!
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Gave a listen to the first few episodes of the British History Podcast, and I gotta say I don't like it. The host sounds like he should be narrating listicle videos on youtube.
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