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Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136

Dan Carlin: Hardcore History | Lex Fridman Podcast #136

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Tesla

Tesla

“create a car that if you're only motivated by your self-interest you'll buy it anyway and it will help the environment”
“what he's done is recognize that problem and instead of building a car that's a piece of crap he's trying to create a car that if you're only motivated by your self-interest you'll buy it anyway”— guest

The guest's own work

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Hardcore History

Dan Carlin

“the following is a conversation with dan carlin host of hardcore history and common sense podcasts to me hardcore history is one of if not the greatest podcast ever made”— host
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Common Sense

Dan Carlin

“you've uh recorded an episode of steering into the iceberg on your common sense program yeah that has started a lot of conversations”— host
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The End Is Always Near

Dan Carlin

“so i have a book that i wrote right and uh and in a book you have a hard deadline right so harpercollins had a hard deadline on that book”— guest
MediaBy the guest

Blueprint for Armageddon

Dan Carlin

“blueprint for armageddon the first world war series we did that was in my back pocket the whole time”— guest

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler

“if you believe hitler's writings for example mein kampf uh which you know is written by a guy who's a political figure”— guest
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From Here to Eternity

James Jones

“james jones who wrote uh uh books like from here to eternity fictional accounts of the second world war but he based them on his own service”— guest
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The Secret History of the Mongols

Anonymous (inferred)

“there's something called the secret history of the mongols and there's things written down by mongolian overlords through people like persian and chinese scribes”— guest
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer

“i've uh i've recently almost done with the rise in the fall of the third reich it's one of the historical descriptions of hitler's rise to power”— host
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The Next 100 Years

George Friedman

“i read a book a while back i want to say george friedman the stratfor guy wrote it was something called the next hundred years”— guest
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This Is Spinal Tap

Rob Reiner (inferred)

“i always say we make it like they made things like spinal tap and some of those other things where um the material”— guest