ICYMI: The men who burned down the world: A conversation with Dan Carlin
Angry Planet
Matthew Gault
4.2 • 898 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
RE-RELEASE: Dan Carlin, who hosts the Common Sense and Hardcore History podcasts, joined us last year to discuss men and women who fundamentally change the worlds they are born into. Good may eventually come from what these "historical arsonists" do, but the price paid by their contemporaries is usually in blood.
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| 0:29.0 | We took the fork in the road and anything that got us to that fork in the road is positive but what if the fork in the road that |
| 0:34.2 | we're on isn't as good as the fork in the road we could have been on. |
| 0:37.0 | This week on War College, we're talking about historical arsonists. |
| 0:47.0 | These are the people who set the world on fire, often literally, and they plant the seeds for the world that we live in today for better or worse. |
| 0:57.0 | You're listening to War College, a weekly discussion of a world in conflict focusing |
| 1:07.7 | on the stories behind the front lines. |
| 1:10.6 | Here's your host, Jason Fields. |
| 1:13.0 | Hello and welcome to War College. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm Reuters opinion editor Jason Fields. |
| 1:20.0 | And I'm Matthew Gault with Warus Boren. |
| 1:22.0 | We're very excited to be talking to Dan Carlin. |
| 1:25.0 | He's the host of the popular podcast's hardcore history and common sense. |
| 1:31.0 | We'll be discussing a concept he's brought forth to the world. |
| 1:34.7 | Historical arsonists. |
| 1:36.7 | Dan, thanks for joining us. I appreciate you guys having me, thanks. |
| 1:40.3 | So can you start off by just explaining what a historical arsonist is? |
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