14 episodes
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Dan Carlin
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4.8 • 7.2K Ratings
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In "Hardcore History" journalist and broadcaster Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", unorthodox way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This isn't academic history (and Carlin isn't a historian) but the podcast's unique blend of high drama, masterful narration and Twilight Zone-style twists has entertained millions of listeners.
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Twilight of the Aesir
This show picks up where Dan's Thor's Angels show left off. In the early Middle Ages Pagan Germanic-language speakers like the Vikings are a dying breed. Many of their contemporaries wish they'd die faster.
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BLITZ Human Resources
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.
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Supernova in the East VI
When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.
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Supernova in the East V
Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.
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Supernova in the East IV
Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal are three of the most famous battles of the Second World War. Together they will shift the momentum in the Pacific theater and usher in the era of modern naval and amphibious warfare.
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Supernova in the East III
Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe.
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Unedited ramblings of an old man
Remember college. Have you ever been stuck in the classroom of a teacher who was never either a good scholar or a good pedagogue? Felt like an hour was becoming two or three and that you’d still learn nothing by the end of the session?
This is what this podcast feels like. Dan Carlin cannot get enough of Dan Carlin talking the way Dan Carlin talks. You’ll spend entire hours listening to him talk and talk and talk without a clear view of where he’s going, or even the base of an outline, and after 2 hours, you’ll realize you’ve still learned nothing. He may draw onto examples, make comparisons, rephrase 4, 5, 6 times the same concept to somehow not make it clearer, but you don’t get into whatever he’s supposed to be talking about. You’re going nowhere, you know it, he knows it, he even brags about it at times, yet he goes on. He talks and listens to himself with delight.
This is endless. This is pointless. This is the 9th door. This is that Simpsons joke, “old man yelling at cloud”. I feel robbed of the 2-3 hours I spent listening to him. Probably ideal if you need half a day’s worth of meaningless background noise, otherwise find better podcasts.