Much of the “on the ground” detail is missed-I recall being told that life in the trenches were miserable, that it rained a lot, there were rats, and the soldiers put up with “trenchfoot.” Much of what you need to know is covered on a macro level with regards to dates, personalities, motivations and politics of the time. Blueprint for Armageddon, on the other hand, deals with events much closer to home in terms of history: the Western Front of World War I.Īs someone who has studied history at both the high school and university level, even for those of us interested in the subject, source material and texts are often dry and difficult to make your way through. Wrath was a fascinating, in-depth look at the Mongol conquest of Asia and Europe, but those events were so long ago that it’s a touch difficult to relate.
#Blueprint for armageddon podcast series#
After listening through the series, you are left with the knowledge that all the events we are taught in history class are somewhat minor in relation to just how much the Mongols changed the world.īut while Wrath of the Khans is cause for most of the recommendations of Hardcore History, the series that compelled me to write this article is one that was released more recently, entitled Blueprint for Armageddon. It’s utterly compelling, and transports you to a different time and way of life that is completely foreign. I’ve heard people recommend Carlin for Wrath of the Khans, which was a five-part, 16-hour odyssey chronicling the Mongol conquest of land under Genghis Khan and his heirs.
I’m talking about Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. I feel as though anything less would do it a disservice, because recommending it to a friend, my Facebook friends, or even my Twitter following just wouldn’t be enough. There is one podcast, however, that is so good I’m compelled to write an entire article on it. All run for at least an hour, during which you’re actually going to learn something worthwhile, and be forced to think. It should come as no surprise that the ones I keep coming back to are The Joe Rogan Experience, author Tim Ferriss’ show, and the podcast.
Too many are the simply standard, 30- to 40-minute interview format, where someone pitches their latest product, and nobody gets deep into anything. I’ve listened to many different podcasts over the last few years and have generally found them as a whole to be remarkably similar to commercial television-that is, 90 percent somewhat mindless and boring, with the other 10 worthwhile and interesting. Jean-Christophe Verhaegen/AFP/Getty Images Carlin doesn’t have that misplaced excitement over the boys’ toys that so many with an interest in military history do.
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