![]() If you take nothing else from this review, please listen to The History of Rome podcast. More than anything else on the planet, The History of Rome Podcast ignited my current love of Roman history, for which I owe Duncan a debt of gratitude. 476 (including appropriate discussion over whether the empire really fell and if so what that actually meant) through 179 increasingly informative, witty, and entertaining episodes. Heralded by GarageBand snippet Acoustic Picking 18, Duncan traces the history of Rome from its mythical roots after the Trojan war, up to the fall of the empire in A.D. His podcast, aptly named The History of Rome podcast started out modestly, with a meek Mike relaying the basic 101-level myths about the founding of the city of Rome. ![]() Duncan made his entrance upon the podcasting stage with what is arguably the broadest possible topic that still gives you any specificity at all: the history of Rome. I will however argue that the second best history podcaster on the internet is Mike Duncan. Neither shall I insult you the reader by claiming that there’s someone out there with a better history podcast than Dan Carlin. Any history podcaster worth their salt will pay lip service to Dan Carlin as the grand-daddy of history podcasts – no one is really stupid enough to pretend that they have a better history podcast than he does. Carlin, who holds a bachelor of history and spent his early years cutting his teeth in the world of talk radio and broadcast news, hosts what is almost certainly the largest and best respected history podcast on the internet: Hardcore History. In the world of history podcasts, one name stands similarly head and shoulders above the rest: Dan Carlin. No one was stupid enough to pretend they had a better engineering program than Waterloo, and no one would insult my mother by pretending that she was that stupid to believe that. ![]() To her amusement, every university she visited made the same claim about the quality of their engineering program – they had the second best engineering program in the country, after of course Waterloo. She would travel around the various universities in Ontario to try and recruit the province’s top mechanical engineering prospects. In the 1980’s my mother began her career in HR as a recruiter for General Motors. ![]()
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