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Pener Kropoopkin posted:McLellan writing to himself about how magnanimous he is for not becoming a dictator, has the same kind of energy as a gaming forum poster who literally thinks he'll be the God Emperor.
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https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1493154320312770563?t=ym3h5t4kY_1uTfW7VASuhw&s=19 Carl setting himself up for heartbreak again I just started listening to radio war nerd a lot, wondering if anyone has any episodes they particularly recommend because there are quite a lot and they all look interesting already listened to off the top of my head: Serbian red berets American civil war most of the Carl zha ones some of the Ukraine stuff NED ones Crimean war Australian frontier war
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I think the Sci-Fi & Fascism episode is universally beloved which is funny since it's not really what the podcast normally covers, but John and the guest are both really passionate about the subject and it's just a great conversation. Still has one of my favourite John Dolan bits where he talks about in a post-apocalypse he'd rather be the leader of the mutant raiders than some solo survivalist nutjob.
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Sci-Fi & Fascism also has the worst dangling thread of any War Nerd episode, because John is almost about to get into Guns of the South but they never come back to it!!!
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I don't know why it took that episode for the scale to fall off my eyes but after listening to it I was seeing everywhere the absolutely terrible sociology and psychology that post-apoc sci-fi is rife with. In a genre were nerds will get apoplectic if an author gets a Delta-V equation wrong those same nerds will excuse any shoddy sociology if it reinforces white supremacy and suburban patriarchy. Which post-apoc sci-fi even portrays the cohesion a tightnit minority group or a church congregation would have in a realistic way? Parable of the Shower is the only one off the top of my head. That book also emphasized how much more likely it would be to survive with group solidarity vs an individual going their own way.
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I used to be a really big fan of post apocalyptic fiction, and still am in a lot of ways, but my favorite post apocalyptic story of all time is Yokohama Shopping Log. It's one of the only works I've ever seen that could be described as post apocalyptic optimism. For most stuff the best you can hope for is a dark world where the hero is restoring hope through bla bla yaddy yadda - but Yokohama doesn't have any heroes or villains. It's a meditation on death and its acceptance. Humanity is for the large part ok with its gradual decline and almost certain extinction, because the androids represent the continuation of a legacy that's more essentially human than the literal propagation of the species. The essential glue that holds society together is the certainty that their efforts aren't in vain.
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XMNN posted:https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1493154320312770563?t=ym3h5t4kY_1uTfW7VASuhw&s=19 I really enjoyed their 100 years war series, it's a hell of a story.
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Seems like you've hit most of the highlights already, but I'd also recommend the Yeltsin coup episodes since it's something Mark knows a lot more about that most people and does a good job telling. Or just dive in and start listening to the back catalog in sequence like a real war nerd 
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I don't know who Carl Zha is but goddamn don't click that cat tweet if you like animals, what a bummer
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Annibale eps are all solid gold. Listen to all of his appearances in chronological order.
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Joementum posted:Seems like you've hit most of the highlights already, but I'd also recommend the Yeltsin coup episodes since it's something Mark knows a lot more about that most people and does a good job telling. I'll second the Yeltsin Coup run of episodes, it's really interesting to hear Mark talk about that stuff having been there to see it all go down and for someone who was fairly unfamiliar with the actual active goings on there was a lot to learn.
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I really like the rashidun episodes because the guest is so excited
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Pryor on Fire posted:I don't know who Carl Zha is but goddamn don't click that cat tweet if you like animals, what a bummer I feel for him. Since I moved to Istanbul I pretty regularly bring in and try to nurse the cats in the area and get them to vets, but the attrition rates are pretty dire regardless. The kittens are the worst because they bond with you even if you don't want them to and also have the worst outcomes.
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I recommend all of the Aamer episodes, I like his topics and delivery better than Annibale or Carl 
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aamer is more americanised in his presentation than either of the other two, but imo if you don't find annibale's insanely knowledgable rambling in a thick italian accent charming you have no soul
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V. Illych L. posted:aamer is more americanised in his presentation than either of the other two, but imo if you don't find annibale's insanely knowledgable rambling in a thick italian accent charming you have no soul proh-bab-ley
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V. Illych L. posted:aamer is more americanised in his presentation than either of the other two, but imo if you don't find annibale's insanely knowledgable rambling in a thick italian accent charming you have no soul JOHN DARK
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paul_soccer12 posted:proh-bab-ley lol this is all I hear my hearing is bad, so thick accent with 1940s landline means I retain nothing spoken
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Yeah I think I heard 3 Annibale episodes before my brain started doing the language math but I'm bad at that sort of thing
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Annibale's Years of Lead episodes are loving wild if you've never heard of it before.
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V. Illych L. posted:aamer is more americanised in his presentation than either of the other two, but imo if you don't find annibale's insanely knowledgable rambling in a thick italian accent charming you have no soul my problem is that his mic quality was just bad enough I couldn't listen to him when I was commuting by car all the time, and i have yet to go back and listen to the years of lead pods.
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Nothus posted:Annibale's Years of Lead episodes are loving wild if you've never heard of it before. Yes. Venice is insane also
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Carl Zha stop posting dead kittens challenge
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Seconding anything with Annibale, but the story arc on the italian resistance and the years of lead in particular. "Eetler" is the best Annibale-pronunciation
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so that means I can be a cheapskate and post about posting instead of having some wit or spending any more on comedy avs for people. Which I'm also incapable of. Comedy.
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The Imjin Wars (#116) is one of my favorite eps because it's an amazing story about something I'd never heard of before. Great guest too, Richard Kim. Wish they'd have him back more often. But yeah, Annibale is the RWN GOAT.
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:The Imjin Wars (#116) is one of my favorite eps because it's an amazing story about something I'd never heard of before. Great guest too, Richard Kim. Wish they'd have him back more often. Yes! The Imjin Wars are amazing and Yi Sun-Sin's story is one of the best in recorded history imo
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TenementFunster posted:Carl Zha stop posting dead kittens challenge Yeah I might have to unfollow him. He's breaking my heart T_T
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thanks for all the recommendations, I listened to the sci-fi one and it was excellent, will probably check out the annibale stuff nextTenementFunster posted:Carl Zha stop posting dead kittens challenge it was still alive when I posted it but I think the writing was on the wall unfortunately
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Dreylad posted:Yes! The Imjin Wars are amazing and Yi Sun-Sin's story is one of the best in recorded history imo It's funny to think that palace intrigue was a hair's breadth away from totally destroying the Korean navy. His haters wanted to kill him for being too good at beating the Japanese.
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Another great new episode of La Guerra Nerdo. It's neat to hear some of the economic realities posted in the Eurasia thread talked about on the pod. If I was a meaner guy I'd clip the soundbyte of John saying "woohoo!"
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Despite being from a completely different part of the world and generation, I can relate to the war nerd's love for looney tunes cartoons.
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it's funny that kids' entertainment in the 70s and 80s was so sparse and terrible they just kept bugs bunny in syndication for forty years. i'm shocked at how hard they are to find online now
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Tankbuster and I are now in an elite fraternity.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Tankbuster and I are now in an elite fraternity. exposing random people to pictures of a mutilated infant, to own the people who thought Hiroshima was a bit much?
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i say swears online posted:it's funny that kids' entertainment in the 70s and 80s was so sparse and terrible they just kept bugs bunny in syndication for forty years. i'm shocked at how hard they are to find online now Bugs Bunny rocks and should still be in syndication.
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StashAugustine posted:exposing random people to pictures of a mutilated infant, to own the people who thought Hiroshima was a bit much? drat, I don't think the late era termite terrace shorts were that terrible.
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i say swears online posted:it's funny that kids' entertainment in the 70s and 80s was so sparse and terrible they just kept bugs bunny in syndication for forty years. i'm shocked at how hard they are to find online now
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Only just actually listened to Radio War Nerd, specifically the episodes on the Ukraine / Gas Pipelines. In one episode I have learned way more than I got from the pages of histrionics in the D&D threads.
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