#847 - Dan Carlin

Joe Rogan (0:01)

Three, two, one, yes, Dan Carlin, we're live. What's up, buddy?

Dan Carlin (0:07)

Back again.

Joe Rogan (0:08)

Always a pleasure, my friend.

Dan Carlin (0:10)

Deja vu all the time.

Joe Rogan (0:11)

You to me are like this guy that's working on this never-ending project that occasionally you release these chunks of these never-ending projects. But I look at your podcast as like this great work, this long, never-ending, dramatic interpretation of history that's so exciting and interesting. But when you, like we were talking before the podcast about podcasting, but I don't think of what you do as anything remotely like what I do.

Like you was like, you do so many podcasts. I'm like, yeah, but there's nothing to it. You start it, you start talking, and that's it. You have like preparation and research and you know, when you're doing hardcore history, that's like a great work. Like you're doing like this thing that's evergreen, that's going to be passed down forever and bit torrented the fuck out of.

Dan Carlin (1:02)

Daniele Bollelli had a great line to me because you know, he does a history podcast now too, and he started off by doing just a talk one like My Common Sense kind of is.

And he said the difference with the history one is you actually have to, it has to make sense when you're done. I mean, the facts. So that's a huge, I mean, I sit there like forever and I end up in my, my wife's never heard it by the way, and my kids don't understand why anybody would want to hear me talk for me.

Joe Rogan (1:25)

Right.

Dan Carlin (1:25)

And you know, so, so, but when I come out of the studio and you know, it's like sweat pouring off me and I'm trying to, and then we'll look at it and it doesn't, you'll listen and you'll hear a mistake and you'll have to repair the mistake and you know, when you're just doing a, when I'm talking on the political podcast and we make a mistake, I'll say afterwards on Twitter, oh, I got that wrong. On the history one, like you said, it's forever. And so you really have to dot your i's and cross your t's and all that kind of stuff. It makes it a lot harder.

Joe Rogan (1:50)

Yeah, when you're doing Common Sense, you're essentially just sort of ranting about your thoughts on what's going on.

Dan Carlin (1:57)

That's a pretty good description.

Joe Rogan (1:58)

Yeah, when you do those and you release them and you find out you made an error, that is a fucking pain in the ass, right?

Dan Carlin (2:05)

I recently blamed one on concussions or brain damage or something like that. So yeah.

Joe Rogan (2:09)

In reference to Hillary Clinton?

Dan Carlin (2:13)

No, I said, I was talking about that stuff they throw out of airplanes to jam radars and I called it flash and of course it's chaff and of course 10,000 military people go, you know, it's chaff. And I go, of course, I know it's chaff. I wouldn't have brought it up. It's brain damage. Don't make fun of people who are injured, you know.

But on the history show, you have to go, okay, I've got to go recut that, refix it. I do a lot more editing than I used to.

Joe Rogan (2:33)

Yeah, that's, yeah, it's, you're like I said, like you have a podcast, but then you also have this thing, the Hardcore History.

Dan Carlin (2:42)

The two podcasts are killing me, by the way. I'm going to, at some point, I'm going to have to just do like one podcast a year. You know, I just, I am the slowest podcaster in the world. I have one claim to fame, number one in time it takes to get a new show out.

Joe Rogan (2:54)

It's not the same. See, that's the problem with calling your thing a podcast. It's an audio show.

Dan Carlin (2:59)

It is at this point. Evolved into that unintentionally.

Joe Rogan (3:02)

Well, you have a podcast too.

Dan Carlin (3:04)

I do.

Joe Rogan (3:04)

Yeah.

Dan Carlin (3:05)

That's getting longer and longer between shows too.

Joe Rogan (3:08)

Well, it's got to be like, when I listen to some of your podcasts, like the one on Martin Luther and what was the name of that one?

Dan Carlin (3:14)

The Prophets of Doom.

Joe Rogan (3:15)

The Prophets of Doom.

That one, you're like, I learned about Lutherism from you. I didn't.

Dan Carlin (3:21)

Let's hope we got it right, Joe.

Joe Rogan (3:23)