#dan carlin

[victusinveritas]

[houseofbrat]

[avalynramsaygames]

Finally started my copy of Dan Carlin's The End Is Always Near and got a good laugh out of the preface.

[kindsoulbuddy]

I’m currently listening to the 6 part podcast series on WWI, called “Blueprint for Armageddon”. And Dan Carlin makes a great point.

Blueprint for Armageddon Series – Dan Carlin

Like it or not, the idiosyncrasies of our world leaders and the influential people of our time affect our history.

Like Rasputin and his hold on the Tzar’s family in WWI and everything leading up to what happened to them in 1916.

Rasputin was a peasant but he influenced royalty.

And I’m worried for our country because people like Trump and Elon Musk have affected history and culture and continue to do so, no matter how little we think of them.

[wisdom-and-such]

"Across the board this is a problem Humanity has: we are not getting our best people in the best positions, and I think we all suffer because of that.

...As a society we produce everything we need but the people that are the production that can get us out of a million different messes, don't end up where we need them.

This sounds like some Totalitarian society : "Let me, the great leader, put all the people into the proper places". [But nevertheless, through today's job market] ...what we're missing out on is the ability to take advantage of all the talent that's out there in our society."

-- Dan Carlin on The Jordan Harbinger Show

[edityourhome]

New pet peeve: Bros bragging about their knowledge of history, when all they did was listening to an episode of Hardcore History called "Hitler vs Alexander the Great" or "The Celtic Holocaust". 

Just going by these titles I can tell you that this podcast is big bs. Go read a goddamn book. Mary Beard had some pretty big shitstorms, listen to her if you’d like to be entertained and learn smth about ancient history. I mean narrative history telling is good and well, but have some self-respect, John. 

[warsofasoiaf]

I was listening to a Dan Carlin episode once, it centered on Alexander and how he would fare as a commander in a battle like Waterloo, Carlin has also done things like this in comparing the Romans to early medieval armies like the Normans. Do you think that commanders, or armies separated in time by such a gulf would be able to fight on anything like equal terms or would differences make it impossible to say. Thanks!

It depends on the eras you’re talking about. One of the things that Dan Carlin likes to compare is the training of smaller unit leaders and NCO’s, as a means of emphasizing discipline and the ability of armies to create and exploit breakthroughs, establishing the nebulous rout threshold in pre-modern combat that turns the battle from a melee to a pursuit. Depending on the different eras, equipment differences might not be very significant as compared to other factors on the battlefield.

Personally, I think by that large of a gulf, Alexander would have some difficulty, because in the Napoleonic age artillery was rapidly becoming something that talented commanders needed to utilize, but again, it depends on the era.

Thanks for the question, Anon.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[eclectic-reviews]

Educational content creators who aren't incredibly boring:

Kurzgesagt-8/10 interesting content, fun animations and decently regular uploads, my only real complaints is there's not enough to watch and that it is absolutely impossible to spell their name.

Dan Carlin (hardcore history)-9/10 high quality content with a lot of research put into it, an endless stream of podcasts to watch even if you don't buy any episodes there's still hundreds of hours to listen to. Takes an interesting view on all kinds of history across the globe.

CGP Grey-10/10 Amazing content on a huge collection of incredibly specific topics, from which voting systems are the most fair to how much he hates tumbleweeds, always an obsessive level of research and dedication to a video along with a fun animation.