EP25 The Long View

Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Addendum

Dan Carlin

Classical, Discussion, Rome, Ancient, Military, History, Archival, War, Modern

4.8 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Dan tries focusing a much wider historical lens on perennial human issues like war, land ownership, immigration, ethnicity, environmental worries and the double-edged sword that is human inventiveness. 1. Agricola and Germania by Tacitus 2. A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich by Christopher B. Krebs

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0:00.0	It's hardcore history.
0:04.5	Attention.
0:05.5	I hear from many of you that say just turn on the microphone and talk and it'll be a
0:11.9	good show and we'll be glad to get it.
0:14.8	So today will perhaps be a test of this theory's validity.
0:21.0	What's held up today's show for a while now is probably some old training in a news business
0:28.4	that doesn't exist anymore.
0:31.4	Where as a youngster learning the ropes, you would come back to your editor with some facts,
0:38.2	some information, some quotes, some background stuff and you'd present it to them and they'd
0:45.7	say, okay, what's the story?
0:49.2	Right?
0:50.2	Meaning all these elements that you have have the makings for a good news story.
0:54.8	But what are you trying to say?
0:56.0	I mean, is this a man bites dog story?
0:58.1	Or is it a dog bites man story?
1:00.4	I mean, you don't know.
1:04.0	Lot of the more complicated stories require somebody telling you what the story is.
1:09.2	What does all this mean?
1:10.2	Write all this information you're throwing my way.
1:12.2	What am I supposed to think?
1:14.2	And so I was trying to apply that to today's show and it just completely discombobulated
1:20.0	the entire thing because I'm not trying to tell you what to think at all.
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