he also did another podcast called “Revolutions” where he goes through historical revolutions, including the Russian revolution (though I personally haven’t reached that series yet, so I can’t vouch for its accuracy.)
He is horribly lib sometimes in the first 3 (English, Yankee, French) but as soon as he reaches Haiti he starts to realise the hypocrisy of liberalism and it only gets better after that. On the first two he was working on the constraint of “15 episodes per revolution” so they suffer a lot for it, so you can skip to French or Haiti if you just want to check it out. The dude is an incredibly skilled podcaster though with a lot of attention to detail, and he always makes sure to correct every mistake when pointed out. His Rome one was what got me into history in the first place.
He also spawned a whole trend of in-depth history podcasts (like History of Byzantium) and while I haven’t found one so catching yet, I think it is harder to be spewing nonsense if most of your audience is already a bunch of history nerds who will correct you endlessly. YouTube mostly encourages going for aesthetics and briefness so it’s actually harder to put a similar amount of research and information density. I guess hbomberguy has become a modern conspiracy history channel for the last 2 years after the midlife crisis. He only posts once a year. Youtubers are weird.
He is horribly lib sometimes in the first 3 (English, Yankee, French) but as soon as he reaches Haiti he starts to realise the hypocrisy of liberalism and it only gets better after that. On the first two he was working on the constraint of “15 episodes per revolution” so they suffer a lot for it, so you can skip to French or Haiti if you just want to check it out. The dude is an incredibly skilled podcaster though with a lot of attention to detail, and he always makes sure to correct every mistake when pointed out. His Rome one was what got me into history in the first place.
He also spawned a whole trend of in-depth history podcasts (like History of Byzantium) and while I haven’t found one so catching yet, I think it is harder to be spewing nonsense if most of your audience is already a bunch of history nerds who will correct you endlessly. YouTube mostly encourages going for aesthetics and briefness so it’s actually harder to put a similar amount of research and information density. I guess hbomberguy has become a modern conspiracy history channel for the last 2 years after the midlife crisis. He only posts once a year. Youtubers are weird.