Episode Transcript: #328 - Dan Carlin
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The Joe Rogan Experience.
Old school. We went old school with the music, folks, because Dan Carlin's here of Hardcore History and DC Common Sense.
You have two podcasts.
Yes.
And I'm telling you, man, there's very few people that have been requested as many times as you by the fans.
I owe you for having me here. I had no idea we had such crossover on the audience.
Apparently quite a bit because people on my message board are super pumped about this.
People online are super pumped about this.
I think now more than ever in this country, there's a learning, a yearning rather, to understand how the hell we got here.
When you look at the financial crisis and you look at our ridiculous actions overseas and you look at like, wow, there's a lot of kids that are growing up right now that are in their 20s and 30s.
And they look at this mess that we're in as a society, as a culture, as a race really, as a whole human race.
How the hell did this all happen?
And because of that, I think there's more of an interest in history today than at any time I remember young people being really interested in history when I was younger.
But it seems like there's more of a clamoring for this knowledge now than I think I've ever heard before.
It kind of helps when the History Channel is doing Monster Quest and Ice Road Trucker.
It kind of leaves a vacuum for some of us to sort of just shoot through to.
Yeah.
Does that drive you crazy when you're watching the History Channel?
You know, I don't know if it does.
Part of me starts to think that, yeah, it opens up.