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“This podcast was a big disappointment, I downloaded about ten episodes to listen to at work. I dont know how it has some good reviews.
Firstly, the narrator, he speaks like a 14 year old version of myself, liking history, liking Age of empires 2, but knowing very little 'real' truth and having no broad understanding. The narrator lacks any kind of character, warmth, humor or enthusiasm, truthfully, he makes great history a bore.
Worst of all, his knowledge base is very, very shallow, I sat listening and actually started to get rather irritated. Hageman makes alot of historical rooky mistakes, putting across alot of not quite accurate, shallow pieces of basic information full of common misconceptions and worse, inaccuracies as fact, many of which are matters in conjecture. Most obvious to me, as an ancient history graduate, were the inaccurate and clearly unresearched (except by watching gladiator or scanning wikipedia) statements made.
The script and subjects are chosen apparently at random, 11 unique warriors for example, I expected the most out there and unique units in history, yes Ninjas- good thats a good one. But hoplites, preatorian guards (basically Roman soldiers equipment wise)- they are not the unique units I want to hear about, they're common very widely used units, interesting yes, but not interesting for being unusual, they dont fit the description. He just picked the 1st 11 he thought of, then described them in a few sentences and added not a sausage to my knowledge.
Look elsewhere if you want intellectual and honest history, rather than a bland account that teaches you nothing whatsoever.”
Aethelred89 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
08/31/13
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“Great range of topics that are invariably interesting, however when the host strays from facts to opinion he gets off course. His opinions or readings of the facts tend to be a little shallow.”Read full review »
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04/05/08
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“As a history buff, I appreciate George's attempts to rely the information but his delivery needs work. These are exciting topics. There's no passion in his voice; the monotone quality is, frankly, boring. A little drama in the reading would go a long way here. Mispronunciations and poor...”Read full review »
cetok01 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/11/07
“Very badly done. Poor reading skills to start. But mostly I hated it because it sounded like this guy was reading an outdated history textbook from his grandpa's high school. So many of the "facts" were believed back in the day due to propaganda, but have since been discredited. If you want a...”Read full review »
Krazychemist78 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/14/12
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