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Under the vegetable posted:eisenhower maintained an immaculate kd ratio for his entire term  Let's get Bizzay!
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This is my favorite episode of HH since Ghosts of the Ostfront. Ancient history isn't as interesting to me as modern stuff and I've been fascinated by the cold war ever since learning about the Cuban Missile Crisis so this really is the topic I've been wanting him to cover forever.
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ColonelJohnMatrix posted:This is my favorite episode of HH since Ghosts of the Ostfront. Ancient history isn't as interesting to me as modern stuff and I've been fascinated by the cold war ever since learning about the Cuban Missile Crisis so this really is the topic I've been wanting him to cover forever. And thermonuclear war is more relevant now than it's been in a while, to boot! I've listened to about three hours of it so far, and it's pretty good.
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It was a good episode, best episode is still the one about the Anabaptists taking over a town.
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Jan 27, 2017 18:43
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uPen posted:It was a good episode, best episode is still the one about the Anabaptists taking over a town. Seriously. That one was loving nuts.
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uPen posted:It was a good episode, best episode is still the one about the Anabaptists taking over a town. Just relistened to that after seeing  It's the cages Carlin started and ended the story about. They are still there.
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uPen posted:It was a good episode, best episode is still the one about the Anabaptists taking over a town. Yeah have to agree. That one was long enough ago that it isn't really sad anymore (Ostrofront) but not so long ago that it seems ancient, and was insane enough to be entertaining instead of just dreary.
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It really was the best ep, I wish he'd hunt down more stuff like that instead of like "y'all heard of ww2??". Hope he never wastes his time doing an American civil war ep even tho it's perfect for his demo
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Punkin Spunkin posted:It really was the best ep, I wish he'd hunt down more stuff like that instead of like "y'all heard of ww2??". Hope he never wastes his time doing an American civil war ep even tho it's perfect for his demo if you have to do a civil war ep, i think inward empire did a pretty great job at not just rehashing dead horses
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I still have a huge Inward Empire back catalog to go through but it seems like a high quality history podcast. I dumped the Italian guy Joe Rogan vouched for or whatever tho, that show was somehow more entry level and cornball than HH
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The inward empire strike episodes were my first real introduction to that era of labor and robber barons and I can't recommend it enough. Like DC it's long but the delivery and tone is consistent so the first ten minutes will tell you if you like it.
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Carlin is better when he's talking about more modern stuff. His King of Kings series was so terrible, I get that he doesn't have a lot of primary sources to go off but filling it in with his weird ramblings like "Persia at the time was more of a Batman ...in a Clint Eastwood role" was unlistenable.
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The weird Eastwood business aside KoK E1 is actually one of my favorite episodes, Carlin's narration style totally fits poo poo like The Histories or for describing Assyrian wall reliefs (Judgement at Nineveh is also great obviously but that was sort of made obsolete by KoK).
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Rodyle posted:The weird Eastwood business aside KoK E1 is actually one of my favorite episodes, Carlin's narration style totally fits poo poo like The Histories or for describing Assyrian wall reliefs (Judgement at Nineveh is also great obviously but that was sort of made obsolete by KoK). Yeah, I think it was ok in KoK part 1, but it was overbearing by the time we got to part 3 and he spent an hour just discussing "do you think modern people could do this poo poo?"
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I zoned out of 3 a lot but that's more because I am beyond done with Alexander than anything.
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Carlin said (maybe in a CS episode?) that he wasn't really interested in the civil war
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Trabandiumium posted:Carlin said (maybe in a CS episode?) that he wasn't really interested in the civil war If so, I'm really glad to hear it. Would be super bummed out if he wasted months on some civil war series of shows
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Bohemian Nights posted:If so, I'm really glad to hear it. Would be super bummed out if he wasted months on some civil war series of shows A series of shows on anything would take years at his current rate.
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Jan 28, 2017 18:11
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Goddamn, the doctor on Sawbones sounded like she was about to cry at the end of the latest episode.
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Mr. Squishy posted:What? Why? They were talking about the possibility of Obamacare going away
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Anabaptists is ep 48, for the curious. Definitely worth a listen. Trabandiumium posted:Carlin said (maybe in a CS episode?) that he wasn't really interested in the civil war Thank God.
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An overview of US/Mexican relations over the centuries would be interesting.
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RandomPauI posted:An overview of US/Mexican relations over the centuries would be interesting. your av does a good job at that
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Trump doesn't know about the US occupation of Veracruz. He'd probably think that chick Vera Cruz asked for it.
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Listened to Radiolab for the first time in years, and is it me or has it actually improved? The last two episodes didn't seem to feature nearly as much heavy handed editing and forced banter as back in the day. Is this an accurate impression of the direction of the show or is it just that their latest stories were farmed out to other reporters, leaving less room for Krulwich and Abumrad's overproduced BS and annoying personas?
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Can't confirm, as I haven't returned to Radiolab in years, but I'd be curious about any rise in quality as well. I enjoy their subjects, but as soon as they talk about something you know a decent amount about you realize how surface-level and borderline inaccurate everything they say is. If their research has gotten better I'd be interested in returning to it. It's always interesting outside of the over-production, but it's total fluff.
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PerilPastry posted:Listened to Radiolab for the first time in years, and is it me or has it actually improved? The last two episodes didn't seem to feature nearly as much heavy handed editing and forced banter as back in the day. That would be great! Maybe that's why I keep meeting people who love it, I just assume they make the wrong choices about podcasts.
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I get that Radiolab is like, podcast 2.0 overproduced, but they put out some really good media. And hell, I'd say they kind of paved the way for new media/podcasts, even if it's a bit overproduced. Am I way off here??
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Wake_N_Bake posted:I get that Radiolab is like, podcast 2.0 overproduced, but they put out some really good media. And hell, I'd say they kind of paved the way for new media/podcasts, even if it's a bit overproduced. Am I way off here?? You got it
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Paved the way, sure, but slick production values and listenability don't make up for the fact that they are (or at least were) flat out wrong about lots of stuff.
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Their terrible signal to noise ratio is certainly what put me off them originally.
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PerilPastry posted:Their terrible signal to noise ratio is certainly what put me off them originally. I don't understand what you mean by that. Could you play some sound of morse code beeps when you say signal, and some static when you say noise?
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I heard an episode a while ago about a guy from Wright-Patterson AFB that worked on a drone spying/picture taking thing that police used to track drug dealers and thought it was pretty good. That's my radiolab story thank you
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They pushed a lot of Malcom Gladwelly stuff, I think. Wildly overinterpretating brain studies to make sweeping conclusions about Human Nature etc
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they did an episode about the guy behind Candid Camera and while a lot of it was interesting they tried really hard towards the end to try and make the story emblematic for the entire shift in media over the past 50 years
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PerilPastry posted:Listened to Radiolab for the first time in years, and is it me or has it actually improved? The last two episodes didn't seem to feature nearly as much heavy handed editing and forced banter as back in the day. Jad has been busy with a lot of other projects, so the last few Radiolabs felt like they were either outsourcing it to others or was just Robert doing a story. It's good though because that whole Poverty series was really good and worth a listen.
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They did an episode with a segment about a magic trick nobody could figure out how it worked. At the end they said they knew how the trick worked, but the answer was disappointing so they weren't going to say what it was. The mystery was better than the answer, they said.
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