Dan Carlin
It's a hard recipe to master, but when passion and reason are finely blended the results can be unpredictable and intoxicating. They can also be maddening. This is part of the attraction of Dan Carlin. Original and outside-the-box thinking on current events and history to be sure, but could he also be woefully out of step with conventional wisdom?
He talks fast, he's loud, he's a deep thinker who adores history and who will challenge your view of the world, while he does the same thing to himself. He's a bit of a throwback to something from the past, and yet not quite like anything else yet seen. It's a New Media/ “eye of the beholder” sort of thing. You'll have to decide for yourself. His style is not for everyone. It's not meant to be.
Common Sense with Dan Carlin is an independent look at politics and current events from popular New Media personality Dan Carlin.
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"Thinking, not blind opinion. This is neither left nor right...it's an intelligent, articulate, knowledgeable person talking to you as if you have a mind. If you do, listen and treat yourself! I wish there were more like this. Nice dry sense of humor too."
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In "Hardcore History" the very unconventional Dan Carlin takes his "Martian", outside-the-box way of thinking and applies it to the past. Was Alexander the Great as bad a person as Adolf Hitler? What would Apaches with modern weapons be like? Will our modern civilization ever fall like civilizations from past eras? This is a difficult-to-classify show that has a rather sharp edge. It's not for everyone. But the innovative style and approach has made "Dan Carlin's Hardcore History" a New Media hit.
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I figured it was past time to issue a progress report on the latest Hardcore History episode (#41)...especially since we are currently two weeks past our self-imposed deadline.
This is not only not unusual for us, it has become the norm. We consider this to be a bad thing, but we really don't know what to do to alter the state of affairs. With this current episode we instituted three or four major elements to help us get the show out sooner, and none of them worked. Today in a discussion with “Ben” (if there is a Ben... ;) ) I just blurted out “Maybe we can't do one of these shows in two months.”. And maybe we can't.
Now, most people have been extremely understanding of our situation. It's somewhat rare (but not abnormal) to get somebody warning us that this will affect our business and personally being a bit frustrated with us. More common is the increase in subscription cancellations and the like as the show gets increasingly overdue. I can't blame people though. We say “A buck a show” not “Three bucks a month...auto deducted from your PayPal account”. I stick by that though. We don't expect to be paid when shows aren't out...only when they come out. The incentive is huge (in more ways than just that) to get them out as soon as possible. But, they seem to have a life of their own.
In fact, if I weren't always so stressed and worried about it, I think I would be fascinated watching the process from a third person vantage point. The creativity is popping all the time, and stuff gets added to the show as we go (and then we sometimes go back and insert thoughts that occurred to ... (Read More)
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