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On another note, as someone that is quite enjoying Blowback right now (I'm on season 3!), I also feel that it's over-recommended as well.
Still, I feel that it's better than Guerrilla History, at least, and so I prefer it.
I like Blowback a lot, but sometimes think it can be hard to follow. I can't remember the name of every Afghan warlord they mentioned in a previous episode
I forgot they actually tried to tackle the Afghan war, which is more hard to follow historically.
My enjoyment and understanding of any podcast/audio book like this would be greatly enhanced by a relationship web of all the different players--if you wanted to be fancy, you could make one master web and then generate incremental ones for each episode as different entities and relationships are introduced so it's not so overwhelming. Keeping track of that many names is difficult but doable when you read them, since you internalize them better and can also quickly and precisely flip back a few pages for a refresher; aurally, it's nigh impossible, at least for me, and especially when so many are in languages I don't speak.
The tightest season for me it's Cuba. S1 is kind of hard to figure out maybe because I have first hand memories of the events being spoken of, and the Korean war is a solid effort, but not as compelling a story as our boys in Havana.
Season 2 is so far the best, but I do like Season 3 better than Season 1.
Aren’t those two fundamentally different podcasts? Blowback is straight up edutainment. Guerrilla History at least has a pretense of being educational.
I'm talking about what's most commonly recommended.