Great podcast. Consider getting a sound engineer to EQ this recording for you and getting some sound treatment in your studio for the next one. It sounds like you are sitting in a racquetball court. Makes it hard to listen to for me. I'd be willing to give the sound EQ a shot for you. I'm not a pro sound engineer but have dabbled with my own recordings and have the software to try it.
Yeah, the sound quality is the first thing i noticed. Darryl does offer actually good content, which is why keep listening, but on the other, he is offering a paid product, and podcasting is a competitive field. Which is to say, i suppose, that if the quality of the content would drop, which probably would never happen, i cant see myself spending three hours on subpar sound quality.
Edit by way of a comment. I record some music at home so i know how difficult the technicalities of recording can be. Nothing but love for the podcast and respect for Darryl.
Really enjoyed the episode and I learned a lot. Such an interesting period in time- between the two World Wars. One thing that resonated with me was the Bolsheviks purposely using women so they could use the government's values against them. A tactic still employed today. I hadn't really thought about it being by design.
Thank you Mr. Cooper for covering a period my schooling completely just, well, skipped right over.
Thank you for this work.
I think it’s fabulous.
And more relevant today than I could have possibly imagined - I DO NOT MEAN the German and American conditions are anything close to the same - I mean relevant because you are talking about communism the way I believe it should be talked about.
You speak to its evil with a clarity that I believe could change people were they to listen and feel this episode.
Loved this episode and yeah I agree with Dale you could definitely use some mixing. I’m always happy to help also I’ve had years of experience doing audio engineering
This series will be one for the ages. great granularity and detail. We know the enemy must not be hated but understood. I second what has been said before though, the audio needs improvement. Thank you!
I had to drive to the beach and back this weekend and it's about 2 hours each way - since it was just me, I blasted this new episode the whole ride. It use to be Led Zeppelin or Robert Palmer back in the day... now I blast straight Daryl
Thanks for this Daryl! Always enjoy learning from your history podcasts.
I would suggest however trying to bring more complexity to the discussion of Liebknecht and Luxemburg and the Spartacists. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both peaceniks before 1914, and protested the war from the beginning. The anti-war resistance didn't just emerge while the soldiers were away 1914-1918. Both also were appalled by the violence of the Bolsheviks in Russia and advocated for peaceful democratic transition. Certainly their communist movement was hampered by the mob rule and violence of the juvenile revolutionaries, but to implicate both figures as instigators seems inaccurate. Luxemburg seems to have been a charismatic Mother Jones-like figure, whose double murder along with Liebknecht was plotted by Captain Pabst following an incident where a commanding officer found inspiration from the words of the tiny, limping woman who was a survivor of the Warsaw pogrom. Pabst and others who served in the war, feared that Luxemburg (and Liebknecht) were too powerful alive so they conspired to murder them. Liebknecht himself had a bounty of 100,000 marks on his head. Both were murdered rather disgracefully, which soon made it into public knowledge and caused a great upset.
It should also be noted that like Liebknecht and Luxemburg, Ebert was a socialist. You mention that he was a reformer not a revolutionary, which is correct, but I'd love if you addressed the political complexities better. Overall it was just a chaotic situation where the country was effectively plunged into civil war before the close of the war.
Sometimes your treatment makes the leftists and revolutionaries like 2d cartoons. As you've made the Germans of WWI three dimensional, giving the same treatment to their antagonists would do better justice to the history.
Sound quality sounds great for me. I am the first person to ditch a podcaster if their audio sucks, regardless of amazing content. So it must not be THAT bad. genuinely curious if it literally sounds different or if my taste is indeed that bad.
Darryl, you're a national treasure. But please, for the love of God, learn to summarize this shit. We're 8+ hours into this "WW2" series, plus a prelude, and you've just made it to 1919. I'd like to finish this series before my teenage children retire. At this point we'll have GTA7 and two new TOOL albums before you wrap it up.
I disagree. I enjoy the detail. The granular examination of a topic from multiple perspectives until a cohesive narrarive begins to form. I like to think of these as encyclopedias of distilled knowledge from books I don't have time to read, so the more information the more value to me.
Hard disagree. The interwar conflicts in Germany are complicated and fascinating enough to merit this level of detail. This and the Spanish civil war are more interesting than actual WW2 for me, because that war has been covered to death and past a certain point the history becomes deterministic. If TOOL puts out two albums before the end of this series, they'll both suck.
Great podcast. Consider getting a sound engineer to EQ this recording for you and getting some sound treatment in your studio for the next one. It sounds like you are sitting in a racquetball court. Makes it hard to listen to for me. I'd be willing to give the sound EQ a shot for you. I'm not a pro sound engineer but have dabbled with my own recordings and have the software to try it.
Yeah, the sound quality is the first thing i noticed. Darryl does offer actually good content, which is why keep listening, but on the other, he is offering a paid product, and podcasting is a competitive field. Which is to say, i suppose, that if the quality of the content would drop, which probably would never happen, i cant see myself spending three hours on subpar sound quality.
Edit by way of a comment. I record some music at home so i know how difficult the technicalities of recording can be. Nothing but love for the podcast and respect for Darryl.
Yes. It’s noticeable and off putting.
Unrelated, but I've really been enjoying your Provoked podcasts recently. Your empathy inspires me to be a better human. Thank you!
Really enjoyed the episode and I learned a lot. Such an interesting period in time- between the two World Wars. One thing that resonated with me was the Bolsheviks purposely using women so they could use the government's values against them. A tactic still employed today. I hadn't really thought about it being by design.
This is by far my favorite podcast now. Keep up the great work and looking forward to future episodes. Episode was amazing and interesting.
Great show Daryl! Thanks for your work
Thank you Mr. Cooper for covering a period my schooling completely just, well, skipped right over.
Thank you for this work.
I think it’s fabulous.
And more relevant today than I could have possibly imagined - I DO NOT MEAN the German and American conditions are anything close to the same - I mean relevant because you are talking about communism the way I believe it should be talked about.
You speak to its evil with a clarity that I believe could change people were they to listen and feel this episode.
It was beautiful in a terrible way.
For those wondering, the very au point outro is
As Rome Burns by Primordial
https://open.spotify.com/track/2f0VtI7eqLjckJxsKLfRFd?si=C1QODCj_Q264nIRayFqwDw
Thank you - was coming to the comments in hopes to find the outro song.
Killer song. Never heard it before.
Loved it.
(Honestly, just re-read that…no pun intended 😂)
Loved this episode and yeah I agree with Dale you could definitely use some mixing. I’m always happy to help also I’ve had years of experience doing audio engineering
This series will be one for the ages. great granularity and detail. We know the enemy must not be hated but understood. I second what has been said before though, the audio needs improvement. Thank you!
I’m an hour and a half in. You’re back! Phenomenal stuff, and reminds me why I’m a subscriber.
I had to drive to the beach and back this weekend and it's about 2 hours each way - since it was just me, I blasted this new episode the whole ride. It use to be Led Zeppelin or Robert Palmer back in the day... now I blast straight Daryl
Thanks Darryl keep up your work. It is incredibly important. Happy to support it 🫡
Thanks for this Daryl! Always enjoy learning from your history podcasts.
I would suggest however trying to bring more complexity to the discussion of Liebknecht and Luxemburg and the Spartacists. Liebknecht and Luxemburg were both peaceniks before 1914, and protested the war from the beginning. The anti-war resistance didn't just emerge while the soldiers were away 1914-1918. Both also were appalled by the violence of the Bolsheviks in Russia and advocated for peaceful democratic transition. Certainly their communist movement was hampered by the mob rule and violence of the juvenile revolutionaries, but to implicate both figures as instigators seems inaccurate. Luxemburg seems to have been a charismatic Mother Jones-like figure, whose double murder along with Liebknecht was plotted by Captain Pabst following an incident where a commanding officer found inspiration from the words of the tiny, limping woman who was a survivor of the Warsaw pogrom. Pabst and others who served in the war, feared that Luxemburg (and Liebknecht) were too powerful alive so they conspired to murder them. Liebknecht himself had a bounty of 100,000 marks on his head. Both were murdered rather disgracefully, which soon made it into public knowledge and caused a great upset.
It should also be noted that like Liebknecht and Luxemburg, Ebert was a socialist. You mention that he was a reformer not a revolutionary, which is correct, but I'd love if you addressed the political complexities better. Overall it was just a chaotic situation where the country was effectively plunged into civil war before the close of the war.
Sometimes your treatment makes the leftists and revolutionaries like 2d cartoons. As you've made the Germans of WWI three dimensional, giving the same treatment to their antagonists would do better justice to the history.
Sound quality sounds great for me. I am the first person to ditch a podcaster if their audio sucks, regardless of amazing content. So it must not be THAT bad. genuinely curious if it literally sounds different or if my taste is indeed that bad.
Darryl, you're a national treasure. But please, for the love of God, learn to summarize this shit. We're 8+ hours into this "WW2" series, plus a prelude, and you've just made it to 1919. I'd like to finish this series before my teenage children retire. At this point we'll have GTA7 and two new TOOL albums before you wrap it up.
I disagree. I enjoy the detail. The granular examination of a topic from multiple perspectives until a cohesive narrarive begins to form. I like to think of these as encyclopedias of distilled knowledge from books I don't have time to read, so the more information the more value to me.
Hard disagree. The interwar conflicts in Germany are complicated and fascinating enough to merit this level of detail. This and the Spanish civil war are more interesting than actual WW2 for me, because that war has been covered to death and past a certain point the history becomes deterministic. If TOOL puts out two albums before the end of this series, they'll both suck.
Outstanding
DC!!! Holy smokes!! Another banger! It’s gonna be sunny and 80 degrees in Pensacola today. Perfect for a second listen!!