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Here's a weird podcast crossover: Dan Carlin is the guest on the most recent Mysterious Universe.
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AFewBricksShy posted:I like Behind the Bastards, but sometimes the "throwin bagels" poo poo gets old. I've just started listening to Behind the Bastards over the last few weeks and I definitely agree, the bagel poo poo loving sucks and really just drains my interest away. The latest episodes about Jerry Falwell felt like it reached critical mass with his lead weight of a bagel obsession. Which is a shame because I really like every other aspect of the podcast.
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Dec 6, 2019 22:59
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VanSandman posted:There's some real cool parallels between France (all three, to be honest) and Russia. The Bolsheviks very consciously patterned themselves on the path of the French Revolution, following Marx in that regard. One of (not only) reason for the Great Terror was Stalin trying to prove Trotsky wrong that the USSR had entered its Thermidorean period, by showing it was still in the Jacobin phase. The very term Great Terror was a callback to the Reign of Terror. Speaking of Marx and the French Revolution, he was also very confused why the Civil War in the US didn't help usher in a radical revolution in the northern states a la the Revolutionary Wars in France.
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Jan 19, 2020 23:45
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oh dope posted:Can anyone recommend a podcast, or single episodes, that covers historical mysteries? Astonishing Legends scratched an itch i didn't know i had with their shows on things like Flight 19, and the Nazi Bell, and things that are just so old/obscure/bizarre that no one really knows anything about it, like Gobekli Tepe or Oak Island. I've pretty much exhausted their library of that stuff and I'm looking for more. I'm not at all interested in ghost stories or UFO sightings though, and they love that stuff on their show. New England Legends might be of interest. The caveat is there are a lot of UFOs and ghosts in it, but they also cover a wide range of genuine historical folklore from the New England states. Each episode is only 10-15 minutes long too, so not too much of an investment.
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Feb 5, 2020 00:17
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AceOfFlames posted:I keep bouncing in and out of Behind the Bastards due to despair overload but I really enjoyed today's episode on Basil Zaharoff and eagerly await the next one. I haven't listened to this episode yet but if you haven't watched it, you should watch the 1980s British TV miniseries Reilly, Ace of Spies. Zaharoff (played by Leo McKern from The Prisoner) is one of the main characters. It was also directed by Martin Campbell and it very much feels like his audition for eventually doing Bond movies (Sam Neill is the titular character, and he was up for Bond around this same time as well).
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Feb 18, 2020 22:39
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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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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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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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Mar 28, 2020 14:55
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Firstscion posted:His April Fools episode about the HMS Thunderchild was great. This is great!
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Apr 3, 2020 23:23
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:Gimme some good medical podcasts that are COVID flavoured preferably with real life doctors as guests. It's not a medical themed podcast but Binnall of America has been doing a weekly covid episode with a microbiologist who specializes in infectious disease (this guy: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/38891981_Tyler_A_Kokjohn ) That's the only podcast I follow that has a lot of covid episodes with doctors. Most have been on the economics and politics of the pandemic.
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Apr 8, 2020 03:01
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It's been a ride the last few weeks watching Patrick Wyman become increasingly radicalized by the various protests, and how that anger is driving him to only ramp up both his research reading and cardio regime.
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Jun 18, 2020 15:59
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I actually had no idea that Tides was behind a paywall. Though looking it up now, it looks like everything from September 2018 onwards is available. I forget when it actually switched over from being Fall of Rome so that might be all of Tides proper. As for the ad reads... they're ads. Just skip them. Or suffer for 60 seconds.
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Jun 25, 2020 03:49
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I have to say that way back in the day I always liked Fragmaster more. Just realizing I can never watch Doom House again. Appoda posted:I know it's jokes, but there probably isn't that much of interest about Lowtax himself. Something something, he got punched by Uwe Boll once. I have to say, between the last few days, and having listened to some interviews with Boll recently, my opinion of both of them have flipped 180. I hope it was Boll's punches that were the cause of Lowtax's spine problems.
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Jun 26, 2020 13:23
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Jack B Nimble posted:I've heard him do that sometimes, yeah; my defense of Matt Yglesias would be that he's insightful. I have to be honest, solely from reading what he writes on Twitter I have a hard time believing this. The guy not only seems dumb, but completely lacking any introspective quality. Only a couple weeks ago he was making grand pronouncements on medieval history based on some book he read for fun and wondering why no one taught this and got dogpiled by historians. From another viewpoint, Yglesias started his "journalistic" career by supporting the Iraq War and Mitt Romney and has kept failing upwards since. But I guess coming from a rich and well-connected family helps in that regard.
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Jul 17, 2020 14:15
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Robert Evans had mentioned that Behind the Bastards will eventually do an episode on the failed coup, but he wanted to wait for more details to come out. And obviously some stuff has happened since then that has taken precedence.
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Aug 26, 2020 21:34
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Kazak_Hstan posted:Is everyone else getting ads for “Bunga Bunga” in like every podcast they listen to? These ads are so pervasive and obnoxious I will go out of my way to not listen to it. Whitney Cummings hosting a podcast about Silvio Berlusconi seemed like some kind of weird meta-humor thing the first time I heard it.
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Sep 24, 2020 13:53
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Appoda posted:I listen to like 40 podcasts and I have never heard of Bunga Bunga. My least favorite ads are the ones that have the words "Ron Burgundy" in them. I invite you to listen to the Geico basketball ad.
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Sep 24, 2020 21:18
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Cockblocktopus posted:I'm finishing The Fault Line: Bush, Blair and Iraq and it's a pretty interesting podcast about the leadup to the Iraq War (with a focus on the UK government's march to war, but some substantial Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld-Powell drama recurring). A nice companion to the Bush v. Gore Fiasco podcast I mentioned at the top of the page and the Floodlines podcast about Hurricane Katrina if the Bush years are all starting to run together for you. You might also want to listen to Blowback, a 10-part miniseries on the Iraq War that came out earlier this year.
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Dec 15, 2020 17:10
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I'll second Know Your Enemy. Plus it only comes out once a month so it's not overwhelming.
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Dec 23, 2020 12:39
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Cockblocktopus posted:Planet Money is usually pretty good although I'm still not over them airing a two-parter of Pinochet apologia. The Indicator is also pretty good and daily. Planet Money has always had a pretty clear free market obsession. Back in 2016 they had an episode endorsing Gary Johnson for president because he supposedly had the only "realistic" economic policies.
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Dec 28, 2020 20:52
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Carlin lost a lot of credibility for me a year or two ago when he went on Mysterious Universe. Giving any kind of endorsement, even if it's just appearing on their show, to those loving cranks is something that anyone who considers themself to be interested in serious history should never do. I say this as someone who, even as a hardcore skeptic, still used to enjoy them for a while. But since 2016 or so they have just doubled down on "anti-materialism" and alternative history and crypto-alt-right stuff like China hysteria and covid denialism. Their version of history is Graham Hancock. For Carlin to go on it was really souring.
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Jan 27, 2021 16:00
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Our Fake History is pretty good for what I would say are beginning-to-moderate in depth overviews of particular topics that you might not know about, and will set you up for looking into more on your own recently. He just did a two-parter on the history of the Ethiopian claims to own the Ark of the Covenant that was used to discuss the history of Ethiopia, its particular type of Christianity, the Kebra Negast, its relation with other Christian and Muslim powers, etc.
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May 6, 2021 20:19
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He's happy to talk about how little he knew Jeffrey Epstein when they hung out together.
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May 13, 2021 22:09
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https://twitter.com/edward_guimont/status/1395504959056187393
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May 21, 2021 00:38
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The few times I've listened to Planet Money, it has always had a very clear libertarian streak, up to having episodes where they outright endorsed Gary Johnson in both the 2012 and 2016 elections.
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May 25, 2021 17:26
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Sydin posted:Besides the answer being ABSO-loving-LUTELY he manages to undermine his own mealy-mouthed bullshit by making an offhand comment of "Now you could ask why we didn't also intern German-Americans and Italian-Americans", a thought if explored even a little bit reveals that the truth is that climate of fear was exploited by those in power to pursue racist policy that ultimately benefited a lot of rich white people There's even a corollary to that just from a few weeks ago in Canada, where Trudeau apologized for the country having "interned Italian-Canadians" during WWII. In context, Canada interned a few hundred Italians, who were all either Italian government and military officials or active fascist supporters, and the push for an apology to "the Italian-Canadian community" came from far-right groups trying to get fascists rehabilitated.
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Jun 9, 2021 20:28
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Bohemian Nights posted:Everyone should listen to Our Fake History The recent episode on Guns, Germs, and Steel is definitely good, especially for people who are actual historians and often get it as a gift or suggestion from well-meaning family members.
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Jul 2, 2021 20:12
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On Thursday, Mike Duncan's going to be talking with Patrick Wyman about Wyman's new book. https://twitter.com/Powells/status/1417151415307280387
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Jul 19, 2021 17:44
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If you're interested in Castro, just listen to the new season of Blowback. I was listening to last week's episode (on the training of the Bay of Pigs mercenaries) and my girlfriend, who normally just tunes out podcasts, was getting really into it as well.
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Aug 2, 2021 15:09
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The current season of Blowback, on a comprehensive overview of the Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs, and Cuban Missile Crisis, and how they all fit into broader US cold war foreign policy.
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Aug 19, 2021 21:06
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Prof. Banks posted:It really caught me off guard last week when I got ads for a nearby casino. So I guess they can also insert ads based on your location, either that or a tiny casino is Arkansas decided to go very wide on their ad buy. I remember visiting my sister in Philadelphia, and weeks later when I listened to podcasts I'd downloaded there I was suddenly hearing a ton of Wawa ads and getting really confused.
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Aug 21, 2021 14:17
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Appoda posted:I feel like the only ads I get from history podcasts are either from the podcaster themselves, or it's an ad for another podcast, usually true crime or some terrible comedy show. Ron Burgundy used to be everywhere. Those Ron Burgundy ads were absolutely terrible. They're also the only time I've ever heard anything about the podcast, which looking it up is approaching its three year anniversary. I think Geico used to have a basketball ad that I would sometimes hear three times in a row during ad breaks. I remember for a time there would be podcast episodes on Iheartradio that would only have that ad, something like four or five times in the episode.
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Aug 27, 2021 13:51
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Know Your Enemy, QAnon Anonymous, Fever Dream
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Aug 28, 2021 05:18
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Episode 9 of Blowback S2 comes down pretty heavily on "Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby were part of the CIA/Cuban exile movement" and that the Cuban exiles were the ones who had JFK assassinated.
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Aug 30, 2021 13:34
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CharlestheHammer posted:But the assaination attempt succeeded? So I doubt they had anything to do with it. They did quote Fidel from an interview in the 90s where he talks about how the exact same time Fidel was speaking with Kennedy's unofficial representative about trying to normalize relations after the missile crisis ended, a CIA agent was also handing out a poison pen to a mafia guy as part of yet another failed assassination attempt.
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Aug 30, 2021 15:51
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adebisi lives posted:I hope there's another episode on Watergate. Aside from Kennedy's brain turning into confetti, you could also link the bay of pigs and Cuban exiles to that. Nixon ominously did in his taped conversations, and several of the operatives arrested for doing the wire tapping were Cuban exiles. In one of their earlier episodes on the early opposition to Castro, they did at least mention that some of the people involved would later play a role in Watergate. Actually, I think it may have been in the episode where they use audio clips from Secret Honor.
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Aug 31, 2021 14:10
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Not quite a podcast, but Patrick Wyman has an interview in Jacobin. The guy interviewing him is Will Sloan, who is the cohost of the Michael and Us podcast which is a great film review show. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/10/local-gentry-patrick-wyman-class-wealth-power
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Oct 2, 2021 19:36
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Appoda posted:Ah yes, the underappreciated role of spending trillions to blow up poor people from the stratosphere or develop weapons systems that can end all life on earth. It's really funny that Musk is on en episode citing those Tooze books, since Tooze is pretty left wing and I am sure Musk would disagree with his economic views if he ever bothered to actually look at what they are.
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Dec 14, 2021 15:48
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I'll second Strange Animals. Very enjoyable podcast, informative and laid back.
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Blowback season 3 coming this July, on the Korean War.
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