Episode #93: Hardcore Dan Carlin
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2014
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Ben interviews Dan Carlin in a wide-ranging conversation on WWI, NSA, and how to make a podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:14.7 | That's patreon.com slash LawFair. |
| 0:18.2 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 1:25.6 | That's the voice of Dan Carlin, podcaster extraordinaire, creator of both the hardcore |
| 1:35.9 | history and the common sense podcast. |
| 1:39.2 | Over the past several months, Carlin has been on the hardcore history podcast, doing |
| 1:45.2 | a project that will be of intense interest to many LawFair listeners, a giant series |
| 1:52.0 | on World War I. |
| 1:53.8 | It's rich, it's riveting and it's a great length. |
| 1:57.8 | Meanwhile over at Common Sense, Carlin takes on NSA surveillance which he hates and US |
| 2:04.4 | interventions overseas which he really hates in a eclectic political podcast that everyone |
| 2:11.7 | will find something to disagree with in. |
| 2:14.6 | I caught up with him by phone in a wide-ranging conversation earlier this week. |
| 2:20.9 | That's the LawFair podcast, episode 93, hardcore Dan Carlin. |
| 2:31.3 | So let's start with hardcore history. |
| 2:33.0 | When I, if so many had told me that I would be completely mesmerized by a podcast that |
| 2:40.4 | composed of a guy talking for anywhere from two to four hours about events in world history |
| 2:52.9 | of often a very grizzly nature, I would have been skeptical. |
| 2:58.8 | And yet I find that when one of those episodes comes on and particularly these latest set |
| 3:06.2 | of episodes about World War I, I can't... |
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