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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by crusso on Thursday February 21, 2019 @02:32PM (#19219816)
Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on World War I, and it will change your mind on the need for a podcast to have a conversation.

https://www.dancarlin.com/

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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by pmoriarty on Thursday February 21, 2019 @03:56PM (#19220501)
For me, the best series by far that Dan Carlin did was the one on Genghis Khan ("The Wrath of the Khans", I believe it's called). The WWI one was also quite engaging, though. Before hearing it, I really was not interested in WWI at all, but he managed to make it very interesting for me.
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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by BurningFrog on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:32PM (#19223149)
The Tuchman book "The Guns of August" is an amazing book on the first month of WW1.

https://www.amazon.com/Guns-August-Pulitzer-Prize-Winning-Ou...

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Re:We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts by BurningFrog on Thursday February 21, 2019 @11:23PM (#19223109)
I have listened, and you're right that they're amazing. Perhaps OP is right that they would be better printed, but I doubt it, Carlin does speak with a passion.

In my defense, i did use the weasel word "mostly" :)

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