Dan has an extended and completely unplanned conversation with TV and podcast host Mike Rowe about jobs, history, media, politics and the current zeitgeist.
Who are the speakers and what is the format of this conversation?
It's Hardcore History. The show you're about to hear was recorded a little while ago because I got a Common Sense show out, and it took everything to do it. This got put on hold for a tad, and so you'll hear us refer to some events that are now in our past and whatnot, and me focusing inordinately on my major problem at hand, which was the Common Sense show, while I did this show.
it's not an interview it's a discussion i'm not the world's greatest interviewer as many of you know it's a weird thing to admit to oneself though when i've been doing it as long as i have so clearly been getting by on my looks all these years now this is a conversation that we're going to have on today's show and it's reminiscent of conversations we've had on other addendum shows um
where we get into a lot of different subjects. Thank goodness I made the description of Hardcore History Addendum so broad that you could drive a You know, a lawyer could drive a truck through it in terms of saying, well, of course this fits into the feed. Anything fits into the feed.
And so sometimes I try to bring you conversations, which I know a lot of podcasts do, and I'm jealous of all of them. All those podcasts that can just, you know, have a great conversation with someone and then boom, it's up on the feed for them and a piece of content's out. The only time I get a chance to imagine what that feels like is when I do the same thing like I'm going to do today.
But I know that the conversation is going to go a long time because I've talked to this guy before on his podcast. And it always just I mean, we we turn the microphone off at a certain point. That's a good way to put it. I told his producer I was so fixated because I'm a unit tasker, not a multitasker on the common sense needs at hand that I didn't plan anything for this show.
So I was like apologizing to him. And he said he just laughed. He said, I'm not worried. Meaning, you know, when you have two people who talk should be OK. But it just went where it went. And it touched all sorts of subjects, including some politics. So if that is something you can't listen to, don't listen to this. It's not a huge part of the show.
The biggest part of the show is probably about something that needs to be talked about more anyway. And not by design, just by where the conversation went. And, you know, I think good conversation is a dying art. But I'm getting older and it's normal to look back on the good old days and say, back in my day, we'd have long, deep conversations with people that were stimulating, right?
Um, but they're particularly good if you happen to be, uh, just finding the open spot at the cocktail party. And if you're a wallflower like I am, you sit on the couch and you turn, you realize you're going to have to talk to the person next to you for a while. And it turns out to be, uh, Rick Rubin or somebody like that. We had a show we did with him and
It's hard to have a bad conversation with him. So just, you know, I always say half the battle here in choosing a hardcore history topic is the topic. You pick an Alexander the Great. You're far ahead of the game because the story is already good. Now it's yours to screw up. You have Rick on the show and it's, you know, if the conversation is not good, it's your fault.
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