Dan Carlin is a historian, political thinker, and founder of the Hardcore History podcast.
OUTLINE:0:00 - Introduction2:36 - Nature of evil9:33 - Is violence and force fundamental to human civilization?14:41 - Will we always have war?24:21 - The Russian front in World War II32:15 - Ideologies of the US, the Soviet Union, and China44:58 - Putin57:33 - Journalism is broken1:04:58 - Genghis Khan1:19:19 - Greatest leader in history1:27:04 - Could Hitler have been stopped?1:44:03 - Hitler's Antisemitism1:49:54 - Destructive power of evil1:59:09 - Will human civilization destroy itself?2:11:14 - Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX2:19:36 - Steering around the iceberg - wow do we avoid collapse of society?2:41:43 - Advice on podcasting2:44:55 - Joe Rogan, Spotify, and the future of podcasting3:00:02 - Future episodes of Hardcore History podcast3:15:04 - Is Ben real?3:15:48 - Meaning of life