Podcast recommendations, episode discussions, and struggle sessions about which shows need to be cancelled.
Rest In Power, Michael Brooks.
More self-consciously curated than the Obama annual playlist.
Dave Anthony in shambles right now.
He's gonna be so mad on Twitter now
When Dan Carlin wakes up from his year long nap to think about putting out a single podcast episode he's going to be so psyched
Well, they’re not the shittiest podcasts I guess…
Age of Napoleon guy is at least left-adjacent, he had Christman on for a whole episode just to talk about The Eighteenth Brumaire.
And full disclosure, I have a massive soft spot for Dan Carlin, so I may not be objective in talking about him. His podcasts were the thing that pulled me out of whatever my politics were a decade ago (he’s big into “money has corrupted the political system” thinking). He isn’t just a lib. He has a big anti-imperialist streak (he was talking about how the US shouldn’t meddle in Ukraine in 2014; and the American Peril ep is basically him saying the Spanish American War was the birth of American Imperialism) and tbh he seems like a good dude whose heart is in the right place.
Buuuuut I had to stop listening to his history podcast years ago, because frankly it just isn’t very good. I can see why Musk likes it. He tries to be about more than just “war” but somehow war is all he ever talks about w/r/t history and is almost exclusively focused on “the west”. It’s kind of a lib cliche but Carlin really is what people who don’t actually know history think a historian sounds like. Dan pays lip service to being against Great Man Theory but his scope of history is so anti-materialist it’s hard to listen to. He connect some dots correctly but come to some really weird conclusions.
But idk doubtful that Musk actually listens to any of this anyway.