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Episode: #136 – Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
Pub date: 2020-11-03

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(00:00) – Introduction

(07:53) – Nature of evil

(14:50) – Is violence and force fundamental to human civilization?

(19:58) – Will we always have war?

(29:38) – The Russian front in World War II

(37:32) – Ideologies of the US, the Soviet Union, and China

(50:15) – Putin

(1:02:50) – Journalism is broken

(1:10:16) – Genghis Khan

(1:24:36) – Greatest leader in history

(1:32:21) – Could Hitler have been stopped?

(1:49:21) – Hitler’s Antisemitism

(1:55:12) – Destructive power of evil

(2:04:26) – Will human civilization destroy itself?

(2:16:31) – Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX

(2:24:53) – Steering around the iceberg – wow do we avoid collapse of society?

(2:47:00) – Advice on podcasting

(2:50:12) – Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the future of podcasting

(3:05:19) – Future episodes of Hardcore History podcast

(3:20:21) – Is Ben real?

(3:21:05) – Meaning of life

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