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mike12345 posted:Is there a podcast on nature or animals that's worth listening to? Maybe weird facts about animals? Weird animals? I dunno. It might be not quite what you're after, but Paleocast is quite nice, a bunch of British (and one american) PhD students in palaeontology talking about theirs and others work.
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I recently started listening to the history of the crusades, and while it's good, does she ever stop doing this thing... .... where she takes a way to long break in the middle of a sentence?
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Guy Goodbody posted:I started listening to History of the Crusades. Does she ever fix her drat audio? I got to the end of the second crusade and so far she hasn't.
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uPen posted:He's doing some one offs next and then 1848 then ??? Maybe Mexico will be a quick one off or short multi-parter like the July revolution. As a Belgian I'm looking forward to his take on the Belgian revolution of 1830, the only revolution that was kicked of by people getting angry after watching an opera.
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feedmyleg posted:Yeah, I've been jumping around, but the Sinbad ones were the final straw for me. Yeah, I started listening to Myths and legend because it's something I find fascinating and I was looking for someone who would put those stories in a socio-cultural context, which he sometimes does, like with some of the Vikings sagas he told, but very often he completely ignores it. Also I kind of enjoy Brian Dunning, he's a smug prick but his podcast is only 12 minutes per week, so whatever. There's always skeptics guide to the universe if you want longer content in the same vein, but those guys can get a little absorbed talking about irrelevant nerd poo poo sometimes.
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Just when I have a long trip around the world. Thank you Mr Carlin and thank you airport WiFi
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CharlestheHammer posted:He does it at the begging and occasionally the end. He does do it more than other podcasts I listen to. I always skip the first 2 minutes of the revolutions podcast and sometimes he's still selling his stuff by that point. But off course, it's his podcast that he makes available for free, so you can't complain.
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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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Sep 6, 2018 12:42
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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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nonathlon posted:Jon Ronson's The Butterfly Effect morphed into The Last Days of August, concerning the (apparent) suicide of porn star August Ames. It certainly kept me hooked and it's punchy (there's only 7 medium length episodes), but left me with mixed feelings. The whole thing is fairly sad, and almost everyone interviewed is messed up and/or a massive liar. Multiple interviewees ask Ronson why he's so interested in the story and while they're mostly trying to push him off the case, it's still a good question. It feels a little like a grubby shock expose. However, fair dues to Ronson, early on he tells you that it's not a murder mystery and avoids going the true crime way. Does it come up with anything interesting? There were quite a few suicides of porn actresses at that time if i recall correctly. Also she was dating that goon that did the Ask/Tell threads about being a porn director.
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nonathlon posted:Did they unveil any crime or factor linking the deaths: Thanks, sounds like I can skip it.
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May 7, 2019 10:59
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Something true is coming back on july 16th, for all of you who enjoy strange stories from the dustbins of history.
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Starts writing a history series on revolutions, becoms revolutionary. Welcome comrade.
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AnEdgelord posted:Just noticed Duncan has been playing with the banner text on his website. The great american revolution of 2020
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mariooncrack posted:I’m interested in learning more about the American revolution. Besides revolutions, is there anything else I should check out? I’m also open to audiobooks too. Not about the american revolution, but Inward Empire is a really good podcast on specific moments in American history.
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Oct 11, 2019 08:29
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mike12345 posted:it's removing the pause between words aka speeding up a podcast without changing the pitch And I cannot stand it. Listening to podcasts at 1.1 or 1.2 speed (i increase it depending on my backlog) doesn't bother me though.
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GodFish posted:I listen to ~40 hours of podcasts a week I need less ways to run out of episodes not more. Also it's way harder to understand people without the gaps between words. I'm at a similar number to you I think, roughly 34hours/week and I sometimes feel like I have a problem. I'm already picking video games I want to play based on how well they combine with listening to podcasts. It's mostly some stupid fear of missing out on interesting content I guess.
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Jan 15, 2020 10:09
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UncleButts posted:Tides of History has a lot of on-the-ground early modern (15th-16th) century Western Europe content in general, I *feel* like there's got to be some France in there Is this a good podcast in general (not just this episode)? Sounds like it could be interesting.
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Jul 13, 2020 08:39
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Appoda posted:I feel like he does best when he describes a unique moment in history, like stalingrad, munster or the one with all the sharks. There isn't much interesting to gain from "the Japanese had this very narrow win condition, aaaand... They hosed it up, here's four more hours of podcast" I thought his Munster episode was one of his best, but when I started looking into it, it seemed that most of the crazier stuff was unverified anti-munster propaganda coming from the side of the besiegers.
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Jul 29, 2020 08:12
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Sydin posted:Yeah it's weird how bad he is about getting help with non-English sources. As good as Dan's storytelling is about the Anabaptist Munster rebellion he makes a point that he's constrained to only one or two sources because those are the only ones he could find in English, and apparently there are a ton of German sources that contradict a lot of what he asserts about the whole incident. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult for somebody of Dan's renown to get assistance in finding and translating international sources, but That whole episode felt like someone regurgitating the propaganda of one side in a conflict.
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Nov 17, 2020 09:17
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I'm a bit behind on my podcasts but last week's tides of history, with the interview with the professor of theoretical archaeology was unbearable. He keeps interrupting his guest over and over, it sounded extremely unprofessional.
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Dec 18, 2020 15:55
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Appoda posted:New releases are seldom, but each are so well made that they're worth a re-listen. Yeah, he used to create amazing content 10 years ago when there wasn't much competition, but these days the overall quality of podcasts has increased so much, and he hasn't been able to keep up.
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Jan 26, 2021 10:42
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feedmyleg posted:Just jam that Forward 30 Seconds button. I'm legitimately surprised that all the podcast apps haven't colluded to take that away from us. There are podcast apps that let you automatically fast forward a set amount of time at the beginning of every episode. Of course tides of history circumvents that by having a little podcast intro, followed by ads, so you lose out on some content if you do it. Tides of history also has some of the worst ads. 'BUSINESS WARRRRS'
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May 6, 2021 13:53
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Appoda posted:Giant Beastcast, yeah. Giant Bombcast seems like it'll truck along but maybe not in a form that will be totally recognizable to us who have been listening to the same dudes for a decade plus. Mike Duncan from the revolutions podcast has implied that he has some plans for a future series right? We'll probably just have to wait a while. Does anyone have any good articles about the business behind podcasting? How the sponsorship deals work, etc?
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May 7, 2021 09:22
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CommonShore posted:If you're tempted to listen to Malcolm Gladwell download a podcast on a topic you know a lot about and then count how many times he says things that are wrong in the first 10 minutes and then delete it. What I call the 'Yuval Noah Harari experience'. I just listened to the tides of history episode on the indus valley civilization, super interesting.
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glynnenstein posted:Anyone have a recommendation for a single episode or very short series that gives a good, lite overview of D-Day? I have a couple friends visiting Normandy who are not into mil-hist at all but would like an outline of events. Watch the longest day 
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Violet_Sky posted:Does anyone know of any podcasts on Prohibition? I can't watch the Ken Burns documentary without Inward empire did two episodes about the pinkertons, that's the closest I can think of
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Jun 27, 2022 20:35
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because I'm not in the US.
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Appoda posted:Is Tides generally recommended? I feel like I've heard it comes with an asterisk, but I realize now that I don't really remember what that was, or if I'm confusing it with something else. Maybe you're confusing it with Hardcore history? Tides is pretty good.
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uPen posted:Besides bias (political/racial etc.) those historians may not have had access to primary source documents that are now public. I'm pretty sure the person you're quoting was joking.
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Demographic replacement, cool, one step away from claiming Israel needs more Lebensraum
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You could mention Inward Empire on the off chance he starts making episodes again.
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