Is this worth a listen?

Is this worth a listen?

How good is this guy in general?

He's a great storyteller, but if you have ADD you wont make it through 1 of the 100 digressions he will make before you lose track.

I wouldnt cite him in a paper though, but you get the general gist of the events.

Dan Carlin is not a historian, he says that all the time.
But he is a great storyteller and puts together really good shows on interesting topics.
I would recommended him to anyone on this board really.

Dan is great, I really like him for introducing topics and supplying books for further education.
BUT
pic related isn’t very good. I feel like he went down an overly emotional route and was a little unfair to Caesar. He kept talking about a Gallic “genocide” but never really gave many good examples for a “genocide.”

>and then ceasar put us all in alessia and flushed town the potrucullis

He's a dumb crybaby

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No, it isn't worth a listen. It's a typical example of overly-emotional historical revisionism.

king of kings and the mongol one were the fucking best man

and yeah dan is cool

He's always pretty mean to Caesar and Alexander, because everyone loves them (him included).

I enjoyed it a lot Op, but then again I'm pretty obsessed with the Celts

I just want to note that it can't be a holocaust as it wasn't being done with fire. Genocide maybe, towards some tribes.

Honestly the Gauls were as much to blame for the "genocide" at Alessia as the Romans,

>"They were asking for it, literally."
t. Caesar

I just listened to that and King of Kings. He does a great job of summarizing lesser known parts of history but sometimes he strikes me as a fuxking autist because of how many pop culture references he makes. In King of Kings specifically he kept calling the Spartans “Clint Eastwood playing Batman” and calling Darius and Xerxses “Darth Vader” with this really cringey intonation.

>But in Britain, the arrival of Bell Beaker pots coincided with a shift in the island’s genetics. Reich’s team analysed the genomes of 19 Beaker individuals across Britain and found that they shared little similarity with those of 35 Neolithic farmers there. The pot-makers were more closely related to 14 individuals from the Netherlands, and had lighter-coloured skin and eyes than the people they replaced. By 2000 bc, signals of Neolithic ancestry disappear from ancient genomes in Britain, Reich’s team find — largely replaced by Beaker-associated DNA.
They deserved it.

Did you understand exactly what he meant?

I understood it, but the references are completely unnecessary and honestly detract from the story. I know he was trying to describe Darius and Xerxes being Darth Vader as the Greek perspective but it’s still unnecessary.

In our time is 10x better and you actually learn not just history but the evolution of historical thought towards the subjects

>too long episodes
>too much idle talking
>shitty analogies and references all around

He does talk about interesting topics though.

Well you shouldn't put on HH for a comfy shit or a quick trip to the supermarket.
Put it on when travelling from one end of the country to another. Or when spring cleaning your domicile. Or when working. I was lucky enough to receive KoK 3 just in time for a long trainride.....pretty comfy.

>The Celtic Holocaust

It's so that people who aren't knowledgeable about the subject can get a better grasp of what he's trying to say you autist.

one of his weakest podcasts, just listen to Death Throes, a lot better.

6 hours, oh how impressive DC

They could've just surrendered. Dan mentions this like 10 times in the episode that they literally chose death over just letting the Romans be in charge.

Let's be completely honest here, in 99% of all cases Vercingetorix would have won from the Romans
Anyone not names Julius Caesar would have fucked it up, gotten slaughtered and Gaul would have regained it's independence.

Yeah but it was also stubborn pride on their part. A lot of the tribes that sided with Rome got a pretty good deal out of it.

>genocide an entire culture and replacing it with shitty proto-commieblocks

R*man """""""Civilization""""""

Honestly they didn't really replace the Gauls, they just were using the territory for mining and logging.

maybe, but they had a very real chance of winning the war at several occasions
Caesar was dangerously undersupplied on several occasions, it feels like a more intense scorched earth campaign could have broken him without fighting

and given the political climate in rome at that time making a new civil war inevitable, following a victory Vercingetorix would have had a damn good shot at stabilizing Gaul in a semi-unified tribal association capable of withstanding Roman conquest for a long ass time.

Is this a podcast or something?

and his WW2 eastern front series. Fucking astounding.

He was saying the Romans we're manlets and that drove them to genociding celts

Dan is great, but this is one of the weaker episodes imo.

Listen to the WW1 and Mongol stuff, absolutely the best audio content ever released on any format at ant time.