So of course I screwed up the announcement post for the new Hardcore History by not including g the art of Erich Sayers that goes with the show. So...here it is now

Hi all. I know it's been a long time. Sorry for the wait. Hope it's halfway decent. "Happy Hardcore History Day". dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

I know it's not what you're waiting for. But here's an absolutely fascinating conversation with a nuclear history expert about Harry Truman and a completely new way to look at his role in the dropping of the atomic bombs. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

Ok, new Common Sense just released. It's timely and pithy and hopefully you think it worth your time (and mine). We called it: "Who's the Boss?" dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

We will release a new Common Sense show sometime in the next few hours about the illegal order question and the "treason" statements by the President currently in the headlines. It'll be a pithy one. After all, I've got Alexander the Great stuff to work on...

Thank you all so much for coming out last night and talking with me Portland! You guys are the best.

Six days until (what I think is) the last live event I'm doing in 2025. Join me if you're in the Portland, Oregon area on the evening of September 12th! www.etix.com/ticket/p/943...

So, my last scheduled live event for 2025 is in my home away (but not too far)from home Portland, Oregon. The last one we did there sold out...hope we do that again! If you want to go, we'd love to have you. www.etix.com/ticket/p/943...

“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.” ― Marcus Aurelius

Just touched down in Houston. Looking forward to tonight's show! If you want to join me, tickets are available via our website at www.dancarlin.com

Thanks Austin! You were FANTASTIC! Great crowd, so enthusiastic. Houston tomorrow night!

A few hours from showtime in Austin...looking forward to seeing you guys!

En Route to Austin for the show tomorrow night, then Houston on Saturday and (other than Portland in Sept,) I think that'll probably be it for the year. Hope to see you! Tickets available from www.dancarlin.com

Robert, I'm gonna use your post as an opportunity to thank all the people who came out to the event. I can't always do the handshaking stuff...different venues,different rules...but I wanted you all to know how much I appreciate it. It was a great night too.

Just got the word that Ben Wright of "the 15 Minute History podcast" will moderate our Aug 16th Houston show in addition to the Aug 15th Austin event. So for both shows I'd wager that means "WW1 is back on the menu boys!" Tix available at www.dancarlin.com

Lord...they're babies. Except Paul Cook. He looks to be in his early 40s.😂

"Darkly Hilarious" is an interesting way to put it. Whoever thought THAT would be the aspect of those shows to make them later seem dated.

"In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues." -Thomas Macaulay (1849)

Atlanta and Raleigh were really fun. Thanks to all who came out! Met some great people. Austin and Houston (Aug 15th and 16th respectively) are next. Then one Portland show in Sept and that's it for the year I think. Tickets for those shows available at www.dancarlin.com

Ok Raleigh! My first time here and I'm really looking forward to tonight's show. Hope y'all can make it!

Atlanta, thank you all SO much for coming out tonight! You all were great. I'm such a fortunate person. My listeners have made my life...and it was so nice to shake some of your hands and tell you that face to face. Thank you!

Thanks my friend! John ( www.johnroderick.com ) is great and we DID have a blast. He'll do Atlanta (tonight) and Raleigh with me tomorrow. Hope we live up to the hype! (Tix available at www.dancarlin.com ).

The fabulous @johnroderick (on Instagram) will be the moderator (weird title) at the live event I'm doing in Atlanta (Aug 1) AND Raleigh (Aug 2). He did the same thing for me earlier this year in Seattle and it was awesome! Join us! (Tix available from www.dancarlin.com )

Well...some variation of that might be in the cards. Certainly audience participation will go up!😂

So if we don't end up with a moderator at one of these August Southern shows I'm doing, those in attendance may witness the invention of my new one-person show. Perhaps in real time. "Hardcore History" indeed. You won't want to miss that. It'll be a complete surprise for all of us.

Checked the weather for my Aug 1 live event in Atlanta:expected to be down to 87 degrees with possible rain.Glad I missed this week's heat 😂 Hope you'll come out and help shape the night's narrative. I suspect some of "the deep questions" be on the agenda. www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E0062...

Thanks TIME Magazine for including us in your too100 podcast of all time list! time.com/collections/...

Reminder, i'll be in Raleigh on August 2.If you're nearby, come and join me! www.ticketmaster.com/event/2D0062... Also,I'll be in Atlanta, Austin,Houston and Portland this summer as well. Tix available from dancarlin.com

We at @vikingologypodcast.bsky.social had a fun convo with @dancarlin.bsky.social! Check us out! vikingology.substack.com/p/dan-carlin...

Well,this has made me think we must have term limits. Maybe only a single term. I realize we lose tons of experience that way (and we do), but so much of what's killing us in terms of courage is the craven willingness to sacrifice anything for re-election. Maybe better to just take it off the table?

Reminder that I'll be out in Atlanta August 1. Why not come on out and join me? Hope to see you there! www.ticketmaster.com/event/0E0062...

...um...yeah. Strong agree. It's my only silver lining outcome for everything we're going through now. A post-Watergate, presidential powers limitation reform moment (as happened then) spurred on by another power-hungry presidency. Sometimes reform only happens after bad things do.

Can anyone think of a good historical analogy for this Trump-Musk thing we have going on?

Just released a Hardcore History Addendum with the son of famed U.S. Marine (and author) Eugene Sledge. Sledge wrote one of the best combat memoirs from the American side of the Second World War. His son has written the definitive follow up! It's a great talk. dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3...

Then you're gonna like our next HHA release. Should come out this week I think.

I said the same thing to my wife several times. I feel like I'm actually learning about the past living through what we're experiencing now. There WAS so much that was weird and hard to understand about earlier (similar) eras that I currently say to myself "oh...I get it now." A case study indeed.

Thanks for saying that. Almost feels out of date already at the speed things are moving...

What an awesome thing to say! Thank you.

They are all on our website my friend! www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-his...

Also, reminder that I'm doing some live events in the South this August (because you asked!). Here are the dates and locales (and places to get tix) if you're interested: www.dancarlin.com#upcoming-eve... Also doing Portland Oregon again in Sept (tix here: www.etix.com/ticket/p/943... )

Also posted something on Substack about our 20th anniversary. Remember that our Substack page is free and if you sign up we send you notices when new shows are released or something else you might care about happens. Consider signing up! dancarlin.substack.com/p/it-was-20-...

Some new art from Erich Sayers that we plan to use extensively. It's cool, isn't it?

See, but that's what's so nefarious here. The POTUS DOES have all this wartime authority. He shouldn't, but he does. There's nothing SCOTUS can do here. The missing element is Congress. The Prez' isn't supposed to be the one who decides to take us to war AND then get the powers...nowadays he can.

So, now that Iran has been bombed the question for we living here in the U.S. is does POTUS invoke his extreme wartime authority/powers or not?

Ok, agree 100%. But you haven't used this power since the middle 1940s! We've had a lot of combat deaths since then. What are you going to do to claw back this power? (Because it NEEDS to be clawed back...)

We are facing a serious threat to democracy, law, and liberty. The abuse of prosecutorial power to intimidate, investigate, and detain political opponents is upon us. It is a constitutional crisis. I will keep speaking out until public outrage overflows. I just hope it’s not too little, too late.

a quick comic to dispel the demon of having not made a comic

Writers, if you have a minute--forgive yourself. Everybody else is also welcome to try.

I assume a lot of you have done those ancestry tests where you send DNA to a firm and they send you back things like "ethnicity estimates". Curious about your thoughts on those. I've done it myself...but I wonder what you think about the whole thing.

Our parties suck.One might suck worse than the other...but they seem to deserve each other. I mean,how did this guy get the job as the nation's #1 opposition leader? In a time of grave constitutional danger? If you told me he was voted in by the other side I wouldn't dismiss you out of hand. Geeze.