History and Housecats, a tale of Civilization
https://youtu.be/E2383ElpU4U

#Cats #Civilization #TheHistoryGuy #Caturday #history #housecats

Watched a YouTube video from #TheHistoryGuy #BecauseDontAllGoodStoriesInvolvePirates in which he mentions the episode is sponsored by "Above And Beyond" - a new documentary on MagellanTV.

I go to MagellanTV, and search for "above and beyond". See 1st screenshot.

Search for just "above" and find it. Oh, it's an ampersand, which their pedantic-literal-nitwit search tool can't grok.

2 min in, I see the title.

Lying, lazy, motherfuckers.

Among the segment's sins: poor show notes and no timestamps for different discussions.

There's some good discussion on existential risk(s) (middle-ish), a segment toward the end on the practice, evolution, technology, and business of podcasting (focusing excessively on Rhymes-With-Schmoe-Brogan, but with good bits despite that), history, and other bits.

Also, for a change, the guest speaks more than Lex, and Dan's got the far superior podcasting voice.

I'll probably listen again.

#Podcasts #TheHistoryGuy #DanCarlin

I'm not a fan of Lex Fridman's podcast generally (Because Reasons)...

... and 3h26 minutes is far too long ...

... but ...

... Dan Carlin's appearance is actually a pretty good interview.

IMO it should have been split into 5 or 10 segements of 20--40 minutes, rather than one massive bolus of nearly 210 minutes. But it covers a lot of interesting ground, with only a few digressions into Fridman's rather predictable and less-than-illuminating areas.

https://lexfridman.com/dan-carlin/

It also makes me think I might want to subscribe to Carlin's podcast. (He's "The History Guy" on YouTube, and I've caught a few of his episodes there. IMO this interview is more interesting than many of those.)

https://lexfridman.com/dan-carlin/

#DanCarlin #TheHistoryGuy #Podcasts