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I've been really sinking my teeth into this podcast and been reading bits and pieces of the exile. the wistful and humorous depression of John and Mark is kinda a cozying effect while absorbing all these amazing histories
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gh0stpinballa posted:this is the best pod isn't it, let's be real here Yeah pound for pound it is absolutely the best. It's the only one I'd recommend people buy into unreservedly. Otherwise the $1 patreons are good like donoteat's.
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I wound up buying the Roger Crowley Venice book but actually read his other book on the fall of Constantinople first and it's a rollicking read. The few books I've read recommended by the show are informed (or appear so to me) but first and foremost know how to turn history into a drat good story.
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gh0stpinballa posted:this is the best pod isn't it, let's be real here
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The more I've learned about China, the less plausible the EU seems. China has not always been so centralized and of course is constituted of a ton of different ethnic groups, languages, and regions that I absolutely never, ever learned about in school - it makes one wonder if Napoleon or someone earlier had united and successfully held together Europe - that people would think of Europe the same way "it's all basically French" or "it's all German" - whichever would've consolidated a lasting state and identity. This is kind of half a thought but it just drives home that there's really no such thing as a European identity in the same way as there can be a Chinese identity. However authoritarian that identity has been imposed upon East Asia for so many centuries, it's certainly real now. Because we're past the point (I think) of a dominant force in Europe subjugating the entire continent. Obviously a good thing, Hitler was the last to try, but I guess climate disaster could give someone another go at it (Greater Serbia). So the idea of the EU was to attempt to consolidate the continent, economically, culturally, and politically through... neoliberalism, capitalism, no tariffs, and some unpopular financial institutions? It's pretty clear with the clusterfuck that is the EU in 2019 that "European" as an identity is pretty bunk unless it can be reformed on completely revolutionary grounds, and that would likely be a global effort at this point - but it sure as poo poo isn't going to come from the current EU and from Brussels with German capitalism leading and French capitalism playing second chair to it in the current configuration.
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Might as well ask. Does anyone remember a War Nerd article or just the story in general about a lone American who travelled to Pakistan with the intention of fighting terrorists? I think he was mentally challenged and didn't wind up hurting anyone.
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Maybe somebody else can give better help, this is all I remember: There have been some Syria stories...they talked about Kayla Mueller (young uh "idealistic" american human rights activist who went to Syria and got uh "forcibly married" and then was killed by her captors or a bomb or who knows). I don't know if they ever talked about Brace Belden or Kevin Dawes (also Syria stories). Most of the stories I can remember them talking about were disaffected westerners going to fight FOR ISIS or Al Queda.
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There was the guy Nicholas Cage starred in a movie about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98oxZOM_niU
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Atrocious Joe posted:There was the guy Nicholas Cage starred in a movie about http://exiledonline.com/wn-osama-porn/ quote:Gary Faulkner was not a people person, unless you count talking the voices in his head. And even if he had been, he was something like 40 years old when he hit Pakistan. He’s going to learn Pashtun at that age, when he’s probably never learned another language in his life, even menu Spanish? Ni modo.
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I'm looking for a novel set in post-soviet russia, that got recommended on this podcast. I think the writer is a woman? That's all I know. Also it's depressing (lol).
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mike12345 posted:I'm looking for a novel set in post-soviet russia, that got recommended on this podcast. I think the writer is a woman? That's all I know. Also it's depressing (lol). it's a non-fiction oral history called "second hand time" by svetlana alexievich. absolutely beautiful book but very heavy. also check out her other books boys in zinc and chernobyl prayer. gh0stpinballa has issued a correction as of 15:23 on Dec 18, 2019 |
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Yeah that's her, tyvm! Also I've been looking for something more personal about the soviet-afghan war, will check out Boys in Zinc.
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It's translated as Zinky Boys sometimes. It's also really heavy.
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There's even a manga of her book War's Unwomanly Face https://mangadex.org/title/36625/war-s-unwomanly-face
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coathat posted:There's even a manga of her book War's Unwomanly Face https://mangadex.org/title/36625/war-s-unwomanly-face woah, I feel like you don't see a lot of historical manga about non-fascists. neat did we ever get ames and dolan to watch evangelion
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animist posted:woah, I feel like you don't see a lot of historical manga about non-fascists. neat Dolan commented about watching evangelion on facebook (which is what got me to finally check it out, no way some old man is gonna know more about modern culture than me) where he was cheering on the angels.
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animist posted:woah, I feel like you don't see a lot of historical manga about non-fascists. neat The most War Nerd mangaka Hayami Rasenjin has a sadly not completely translated manga about a female NKVD officer and Baba Yaga's assistant fighting Nazis https://mangadex.org/title/2147/kutsuzure-sensen His other manga Guns and Stamps is a neat alternate history military logistics focused war story https://mangadex.org/title/8002/guns-and-stamps
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coathat posted:There's even a manga of her book War's Unwomanly Face https://mangadex.org/title/36625/war-s-unwomanly-face Very interesting that this has a more dedicated Arabic translator than English.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Very interesting that this has a more dedicated Arabic translator than English. yeah i agree. i zipped through the first issue and liked it but it's too bad there's a lot left to do
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i say swears online posted:yeah i agree. i zipped through the first issue and liked it but it's too bad there's a lot left to do the second chapter hosed me up
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Dolan is churning these episodes out and they're all pretty fantastic. First 3 episodes straight of Venice, and now Xenophon. Happy as a pig in poo poo.
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Honestly, someone needs to make a John Dolan travel show. Just him stuck in hotel rooms around the world being a sad sack while paying too much for food delivery and having the locals try to sell him on timeshares. Every season finale he has to get to the airport before the local police find out that he made fun of their ancestors dying in a pike charge a thousand years ago in an article from 1998.
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It'd be a lot better than Maron.
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Joementum posted:Honestly, someone needs to make a John Dolan travel show. Just him stuck in hotel rooms around the world being a sad sack while paying too much for food delivery and having the locals try to sell him on timeshares. Every season finale he has to get to the airport before the local police find out that he made fun of their ancestors dying in a pike charge a thousand years ago in an article from 1998. an entire tense episode with him trying to avoid the macedonian pizza place that hates his guts Dreylad has issued a correction as of 00:53 on Dec 31, 2019 |
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Episode 221 - Trapped in the Stall - 2:53:17
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I had to marathon listen to the last two venice episodes just to catch up. Good stuff.
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Joementum posted:Honestly, someone needs to make a John Dolan travel show. Just him stuck in hotel rooms around the world being a sad sack while paying too much for food delivery and having the locals try to sell him on timeshares. Every season finale he has to get to the airport before the local police find out that he made fun of their ancestors dying in a pike charge a thousand years ago in an article from 1998. He should write a book on travel. I'd buy it
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coathat posted:He should write a book on travel. I'd buy it chapter six: the best countries for getting an abscess lanced when you’re broke and can’t speak the local language
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Folks I’ve taken the excellent advice of this thread and subscribed, can I listen anywhere besides on the patreon app? It’s terrible; it doesn’t save your place and each episode takes half the screen as you scroll through them. sorry for the dumb question I’m a big dum dum when it comes to this sort of thing
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Drexler posted:Folks I’ve taken the excellent advice of this thread and subscribed, can I listen anywhere besides on the patreon app? It’s terrible; it doesn’t save your place and each episode takes half the screen as you scroll through them. Because John and Mark are bad at computers, the rss link only gets sent out in the newsletters, instead of being available on the patreon page. There's one due any day now. They change it occasionally, when they see the number of downloads vastly exceeding the number of subscribers i guess. Joementum posted:Honestly, someone needs to make a John Dolan travel show. Just him stuck in hotel rooms around the world being a sad sack while paying too much for food delivery and having the locals try to sell him on timeshares. Every season finale he has to get to the airport before the local police find out that he made fun of their ancestors dying in a pike charge a thousand years ago in an article from 1998. I think i said it before in the thread but the chit chat parts of the episodes should be free, with the guest chat and their own deep dives paywalled. i think it would bump the listenership a lot. They got hit with a ton of the most common scams in that lovely hotel in Sri Lanka, 'No we dont take cards for the whole payment, you have to pay cash up front now, i'll drive you to the atm' https://katherinedolanwrites.blog/2019/12/25/hotel-california-with-an-indian-ocean-view/ echomadman has issued a correction as of 20:40 on Jan 6, 2020 |
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Drexler posted:Folks I’ve taken the excellent advice of this thread and subscribed, can I listen anywhere besides on the patreon app? It’s terrible; it doesn’t save your place and each episode takes half the screen as you scroll through them. There's an android (and others?) podcast listening app called Podbean that has the subscriber feed. Kind of sketchy because you don't actually need to subscribe to the patreon to get the podcast, but if you're a good person you already have so that doesn't matter.
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Yeah the newsletter has RSS feed URL at the top -- most any decent podcast app should let you add a podcast with an RSS feed.
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