your boy needs to make another podcast

Downloaded the iTunes just for this and love the first episode. I'll be checking out the rest next week.

DL'd and listened to the first 3 episodes of this yesterday based on recommendations itt. Thanks for mentioning it - it's really good. I like your man's straight to the point seemingly one take delivery. Hope he keeps it going for a long run.

Since it's free anyway I've hosted episode 1 on Google Drive here. **** Apple. Haven't listened yet.

Hosting it won't help him and is considered not cool even though it's free. People downloading from an official source like Apple improves the podcasts rank and visibility. If people download from your source then it actually harms his podcast growth.

Fair point. I'll take it down.

Apple does suck though. Downloaded itunes just to listen to this and really enjoyed the first one so I'll be listening to the rest soon.

Solid cast. I knew about both the topics in the first one, but he's definitely entertaining and to the point. I like that these were brought to us by slobodan milosevic and Vladimir Putin. I'll definitely listen to the other three.

Do you guys use your computers to listen to podcasts? That seems strange. There's plenty of Android apps like Pocket Casts, that eliminate the need for itunes.

Yep

+1 for endorsing Pocket Casts, it is cross platform for both iOS and Android and syncs between them as well. Sorry for the derail.

I've listened to all six episodes. They're good. I now know more about diamonds and horses and explorers than I used to.

It does sound like Bob, but he claimed to be Boris Yeltsin (at the end of one episode anyway).

Wierd

Fan death is a myth and misconception, well known in Korean culture, that running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows can lead to death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

Even more wierd is how you spell weird.

Wierd


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird

This is short enough to copy / paste the entire thing here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joey_Coyle

Joseph William "Joey" Coyle (February 26, 1953 – August 15, 1993) was an unemployed longshoreman in Philadelphia who, in February 1981, found $1.2 million in the street, after it had fallen out of the back of an armored car, and kept it. His story was made into the 1993 film Money for Nothing, starring John Cusack. as well as a 2002 book by Mark Bowden, Finders Keepers: The Story of a Man Who Found $1 Million.

Coyle passed out some of the money, in $100 bills, to friends and neighbors. He was arrested later in 1981 at JFK Airport while trying to check into a flight to Acapulco; police found $105,000 of the cash in envelopes taped around his ankles. He was tried, but found not guilty of theft by reason of temporary insanity. The armored car company, Purolator Armored Services, eventually recovered around $1 million of the original amount.

Coyle struggled with drug addiction for most of his adult life. He committed suicide by hanging in his basement on August 15, 1993, about one month before the film Money for Nothing was released.

all in all, thats a pretty good way to end it.

Another 2p2er mentioned this podcast to me and I've listened to all of them, it's great. Hope your friend knows he's getting a very positive reaction here and keeps making more!

Wanted to chime in also and say the podcast is great, legit lols at some parts

I relayed the encouragement from this thread. And I asked him when the next episode is since it seems like it's been a while, and apparently he's been sick but it should be done by tomorrow.

I've also started to listen to hard core history. That takes some getting used to, but is quite good: I'm twelve hours into World War One.

I started listening to the same set for my first foray into Hardcore History. I wasn't paying too much attention when I downloaded each episode, and started listening to the first one a couple hours before I had to leave the house. I told myself I'd get ready to go at the end of the first episode, and after about 90 minutes was like, "wtf," and checked on how much was left. Oh, only another 2.5 hours or so.

I'm finally coming up on the Battle of Verdun, after about 12 hours of listening. My wife thinks I'm nuts.

I went through all of Carlin's free ones in a week, I think that's 40+ hours worth. It's pretty crazy how good of a host (podcaster?) Carlin he is. I'll be purchasing the rest later, this just served as a good reason to stop listening for awhile. Dan is a bit different though, his topics are usually things I know that I'm going to love beforehand. I'm not particularly interested in WW1 but it's a subject I like, and stuff like the Mongols, or Persia vs Greece... I love those subjects are have read several books on them, I know I'm going to love them before I even start.

I thought this was a pretty good video:




What I really appreciate about this story and also Interesting Things is their ability to take a subject that I would normally not go out of my way to find information on and they make it fascinating. 1904 marathon? Don't really care about that, but then after 20 minutes I was like "wow that was great, maybe the dumbest event ever."

Rabies and Crackamatoeha? "Those don't sound too interesting" then at the end of the podcast I'm wishing that there was another 20 minutes. They're very similar to the purpose of this thread, can't wait to listen to the other ones.

Carlin is a little repetitive at times and sometimes telegraphs his points. But there is something oddly compelling about his presentation, and even though I know a fair amount about WWI, I really like this series. That was a vicious war.