"One of the very first podcasts I ever heard, and still a towering presence in the world of audio. The greatest deep dives into our past as a species, always asking questions about how the mirror of history reflects, refracts, and distorts our understanding of the present."

- Gabriel Urbina, Wolf 359/Unseen/Zero Hours/Time:Bomnbs/No Bad Ideas/Hit Singles/The Signal

Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History is an epic feat of narrative endurance—less a podcast than a historical odyssey, delivered with the intensity of a battlefield sermon. Carlin doesn’t just recount the past; he inhabits it, conjuring the moral weight and psychological turmoil of ancient wars and collapsing empires with visceral urgency. Episodes stretch for hours, but never drag, propelled by his relentless questioning and cinematic pacing. Blending scholarly rigor with dramatic flair, Hardcore History transforms distant events into living, breathing dilemmas, making the listener feel history not as fact, but as lived experience—messy, brutal, and achingly human.