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Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

RandomPauI posted:

I can already imagine what his talks about trench warfare will sound like;

"So imagine what it must have been like to be told "Well, we gotta take out that, gotta take out their machine gun nests so the charge happens tomorrow at dawn and by the way we're sorry that so many of you are gonna die". And you hear that every day so you go over the top, charge it, somehow you don't die trapped in the barbed wire or cut to ribbons by, by a Maxim. And you take the trench. But then your Commanding Officer says "Congratulations, we're going to do the exact same thing tomorrow!" So you do it. Again and again and again!..."

You forgot to add in the twenty minutes of him saying he doesn't mean to offend anyone, he is going to butcher every foreign word and that he isn't a real historian just a fan of history.

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Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

If you pretaped it, then you would have to have some sort of plan and trying to get several different historians to coordinate and plan something like that together is not going to happen.

# ¿ Mar 23, 2014 16:27

Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

sweetroy posted:

I've pretty intentionally avoided listening to Common Sense because I'm worried his political views will ruin what is by far and away the best historical podcast.

His views spill over into his history podcast all of the time. Its sometimes hard to see past his huge war boner and your own frustration for him to actually start talking about the topic at hand.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2014 03:25

Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

Mr. Pither posted:

To me I feel like Common Sense is a carry-over from what his old radio show must have been like. He uses a lot of those talk-radio techniques like never wasting a chance to tell the audience how he was right about something, explaining things multiple times for people who are unfamiliar with whatever he's talking about, and framing issues in ways that try to mitigate the arguments that angry callers might make. It comes off a bit weird in a podcast, where you already had to opt in to listen to it rather than just come across it on the radio dial.

I just figure that he's blowing off steam between Hardcore History shows.

He does just about all of this in his Hardcore History podcast as well.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2014 07:53

Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

Zorak posted:

I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet, but the researchers behind the really excellent BBC Quiz Show QI have a new strange-facts orientated podcast called No Such Thing As A Fish. Soundcloud, iTunes.

Zorak, what do you actually do for a living? Its something science based I figure based on your posts, but just wondering.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2014 08:48

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Stravinsky: May 31, 2011

Lawman 0 posted:

I just finished the history of Rome podcast!

Congratulate

# ¿ Jun 1, 2014 11:30

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