Already a top notch show, but the live one had me audibly laughing, and I am an angry, cynical old (expletive). The bad reviews are also funny, maybe could be read on a bonus ep. -If you don’t like banter with your history, read a book. If you don’t like the political leanings of a podcast, find one that agrees with you (it’s much less challenging)

Definitely not from Quebec.

I love listening to this show because it presents history in such an entertaining way. Thanks guys

Year long subscriber here, I doubt people enjoy the fact that 50% of the dialogue is these little side banters and jokes which are painfully not funny. You guys are like millennials who are past it, just stick to the script. Also would prefer not to hear your political opinions, we get it you’re libturds. I keep my subscription active because Joe is Armenian.

Joe is awesome and very knowledgeable and knows how to tell history in a interesting way that keeps me engaged but Nate ruins it for me. He clearly doesn’t know anything about history and says the same three phrases to Joe’s sentences. Ye constantly interrupts, very often doesn’t or can’t grasp the info Joe is explaining. Like not everything needs a response dude. But Joe is amazing. Hate to say it but show would be a lot better if he wasn’t a guest.

Joe and his rotating crew manage to stay hilarious while covering the boneheaded leadership of soldiers as their podcast name implies, but also do an excellent job covering the darker side of war and history that we absolutely should not lose sight of. Their respectful coverage of atrocities and genocide while mocking the perpetrators is pure art. If I have any advice it’s to listen to some of the more recent stand alone episodes and then dive into a couple recent series. The earlier episodes are fully worth going back for, but you can definitely tell the production value bump when Nate and Tom were brought on board. I wouldn’t want anyone to decide to bail early because a guy tried his best with what he had in the early days - again the early content is 100% worth going back for, it’s where I got hooked. Also join the patreon, they deserve it, but also the bonus content is worth it!

The history they failed to teach in American high schools, or at least the one I attended.

I’ve spent years looking for great podcasts and this is the best I’ve found so far and think I will ever find. The men who put their lives into this podcast found a great way to deliver knowledge to the listener; the mix of comedy and incredible research leads to the listener being able to go to family dinner with entertaining knowledge of their own cultures. I love this show and absolutely recommend this show to all. Question for the show: have you ever heard of the giants of Kandahar?

I used to fall asleep to the dulcet tones of the knowledge fight guys and trained a pavlovian response in myself to fall asleep whenever I hear the voice of Alex Jones. The vibes have been bad though the last few months however and now the lovely monotone descriptions military history entertain me while awake and lull me sleep when needed <3

Started with the Stalingrad series, very interesting and captivating series with well cited sources. Good balance of seriousness and humor, glad I checked it out!

Its amazing, ive learned so much from it, been listening for 3 years and have loved it the whole time!

Started listening about a year ago and started from episode 1. Content started great. Different guests would come on and the banter was good. It slowly started moving to no guests hosts anymore and just Nate and Tom talking and interrupting Joe all the time. I get how easy it is to get off topic but the Boar war series was it for me. Maybe an hour of actual content and the rest is Tom and Nate interrupting talking about random stuff and how their day was last week.

The content is dumb, but accurate. It’s a perfect blend of the stupidest military & political decisions and the results of why things are the way they are.

Better than south Florida

And that’s important because it goes to show just how little of a hick he actually is. He is the son of a millionaire auto dealer and when he moved to “the city” to be a hip hop artist, he actually moved to Mount Clemens (not “the city”). He didn’t actually live in Detroit until he was already famous (and could afford to live in a safe neighborhood) and never lived in Westland.

Venue staff: BOOK THIS PODCAST! Joe really handles history with great care, and often gets the point across in exactly as brutal and blunt a fashion required (the recent Rwanda series, for example). May require an animal fact after, but well worth the listen.

Great podcast, very factual. I scrolled through the negative reviews and they are hilarious. People get so mad about stuff that everyone knows is true

Mostly accurate, thanks to Joe. Tom’s commentary is just really annoying and doesn’t add anything to the show. You can probably skip the first 5 - 10 min if every episode because Tom is ranting about something irrelevant to the subject, which continues throughout the episode. A great example of this is episode 270, every time he makes a comment, no one laughs or agrees and just moves past it. I’ll listen but as long as he’s on the podcast I’ll never be a patreon member. If I could do a petition to remove Tom I would if I thought it would work.

Started at the first episode and am impressed with how far the show has come. Keep up the good work.

These guys are not serious guys. If you want to listen to frat boy, jokes and guys taking shots and people they don’t like politically i.e. the right then don’t waste your time on this. It’s laughable they took a shot of Ben Shapiro who is years more intelligent than these two clowns. Take history seriously, and stop with the politics and people may listen. Smh

Everybody is raycist according to these morons.

You guys are hilarious and have been my morning commute for like a year now. Thanks for the great content!

Quality stories and fun people making jokes. 10/10 would recommend.

Loved it at first after the host moved to Armenia, the guest hosts changed and now the Irish fella just puts me to sleep. Not great for listening at work

This show has a great balance between going through the timeline of the event featured in the episode and being hilarious about the topic as well. The hosts are funny and awesome! I look forward eagerly to each new episode that comes out!

A couple of snarky millennials looking at history through the lens of entitled virtue signaling. Painful to listen to.

One of my top 3. GREAT!!!!!

A better use of your time would probably be just reading the materials they list in the show notes. I can’t believe I listened to this show quasi-religiously for almost a year and actually thought they were funny at one point. The only reason it’s not one star is because at least the episodes aren’t full of awkward pivots to cringey “self aware” ad reads.

Was really liking your program until you start monolithing the FL panhandle as racist and then go and insulting our accents and parts of our culture. Not cool man we have enough to deal with down here without all being demonized. 🥺

I like the chosen topics, but the snickering tone that accompanies every line of exposition doesn’t add anything for me. It creates an atmosphere of incuriosity about people’s actions and motivations. “Why’d they do that? Because they’re so stupid!”

I found this podcast when trying to learn about the Wagner group for a paper, and not only did I find more than I bargained for in terms of information and detail and depth of history, but I also developed my worldview in a really meaningful way that wasn’t accomplished by other podcasts in the past. Joe and his guests tell stories that broaden perspective with a basis in the histories that they share as well as the stories of their own experiences. I would like to thank them for that.

Fantastic military history podcast, coming at it from the perspective of common soldiers. The hosts academic background (Genocide studies) as well as his being a combat veteran with multiple tours in Afghanistan adds unique insights you can’t really get anywhere else.

I suggest you take a listen. It’s a really good show about military history.

While the podcast does delve into parts of military history that most people are familiar with; they go over the most obscure parts with a dose of humor and somewhat mirthless laughter aimed at the engineers and mechanizations of military screw ups. Nonetheless, the hosts read the room when they have to recount the necessary details in heavier parts of episodes. It’s worth checking out and if you like ventures detailed here then check out their Patreon

Very funny. Very Good. Very Interesting. Very Educational.

Great show. Apple’s captions turned Yerevan to Eurovan.

Robert Evan’s & BTB brought me here. The topics are all new to me and fascinating at that. Mr. Kassabian’s experiences in Armenia have prompted me to learn more about that nation.

For every hour there is 5 minutes of narrative content and 55 minutes of unfunny irrelevant Dennis Milleresque analogy joke like things.

This is a well-delivered show, with good information and storytelling about the ridiculous side of military history, but it would be better if Nate could go five minutes without talking about himself. At this point, you could piece together a multi-volume biography from the sheer amount of time he talks about himself or his experiences. If you took a drink every time he did so, you’d be dead from alcohol poisoning halfway through an episode. Often, it’s not even related to whatever the topic is. Just cut down on the self-aggrandizement, man.

Like, one of the hosts who like inserts “like” into like every sentence like way too many like times. I really enjoy the show except for that one glaring, annoying verbal tics.

My older brother showed me this podcast last June and I’ve been listening since I am still in middle school so I don’t have free time but I always listen on the way to the bus stop and on the bus

I was excited to listen to this podcast, but soon discovered it is very erroneous and problematic. It is apparent the hosts do little research and supplement this with subjective opinions stated as fact. I appreciate differing perspectives and long to digest them through an academic lens, however there is no meat in their stew, it is little more than bitter tasting broth. Unfortunate.

These people are better than you

A bunch of friends discussing terrible and depressing stuff from the past

Play Helldivers. It’s your cup of tea.

Going through this show’s backlog as I nurse my baby; interesting topics from a variety of eras from ancient to medieval to modern that seem well sourced; the hosts are likeable and the intro banter is not bad at all. Love that there’s no ads, hope to donate to the patreon going forward.

This podcast is everything that’s intellectually wrong (and right) with the American military, but pointed in a different direction. Thus, the good outweighs the bad, but the bad is so unnecessary. Conversations about ridiculously tragic military history blend solid research with humor that is hilariously military. They provide a solid foundation for thought-provoking discussions that the clearly intelligent host could facilitate… if he could be arsed. Unfortunately, the host exemplifies the military he critiques by demonstrating incredible insight into the world he sees, but lazily extrapolating his conclusions to the world he doesn’t. If he bothered to draw distinctions, explain degrees, or grapple with opposing views, the banter with his secondary hosts would be so much more than highly entertaining episodes of show-and-tell. Unfortunately, the narratives are punctuated by shallow sanctimony posing as insight that resembles carpet bombing: hitting more targets than necessary, making a bigger mess than intended. Sure, it’s all in good fun, but the podcast remains Rogan-grade analysis of historical tragedies that deserve so much more from a person capable of, but not interested in, providing it.

met the loml through this show so, pretty prettyyyyy cool

Conscription leads to fragging. Always and forever. My uncle let’s call him Bob was a Marine recon leader. 65-67. 3 Purple Hearts. Just a guess but the thought of fragging uncle Bob was fleeting and suicidal. He and his friends liked camping and hunting. No one made them do it.

This is as sloppy as a high school presentation where the hosts really just want to talk about video games or sports, but are forced to talk about a real subject. This is far more just banter about the hosts and other unrelated things. What little real content that is mixed in has opinions thrown in right next to facts without clarifying. They frequently mislead the audience (possibly due to very limited research) with inaccurate details or by leaving out very important parts of major events. Overall, the tone of this is “We are so freakin’ awesome! Listen to how fun we are! Here are a few awesome smart things we read in some books! Booya!”