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18 Facts About Dan Carlin

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Daniel L Carlin was born on November 14,1965 and is an American podcaster and political commentator.

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Daniel L Carlin was born in Los Angeles County, California, on November 14,1965.

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Dan Carlin is the son of Academy Award nominated actress Lynn Carlin and film producer Ed Carlin.

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Dan Carlin broke into the television news business in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and covered the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

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Dan Carlin has worked as a television news reporter, an author, a columnist, and a radio talk show host.

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Dan Carlin has achieved recognition in internet radio, podcasting, and the blogosphere.

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Common Sense began in 2005, and is similar in scope to several Dan Carlin-hosted radio programs that aired between 1994 and 2004.

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Dan Carlin has described his political philosophy as "neoprudentist", taking a skeptical approach to evaluation of the current political trends and forces.

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Dan Carlin fosters discussion by developing and presenting self-deprecating thought experiments on solutions to current problems.

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Dan Carlin's podcasts are hardly reminiscent of the dry history lectures you might remember from school.

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Dan Carlin puts the "hardcore" in Hardcore History by focusing his narratives on the most violent and dramatic moments in human history, filling his show with colorful anecdotes that were most likely left out of your high school history class.

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In 2019 Dan Carlin developed a virtual reality experience in coordination with MWM Immersive and Skywalker Sound.

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Dan Carlin is outspoken on issues like state surveillance, foreign intervention, concentrated power, free speech, education reform, the problems of a two-party system, and civil liberties.

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Dan Carlin stated he would vote for Joe Biden in the 2020 Presidential election, despite not voting for Democrats or Republicans since 1992.

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Dan Carlin has served as a panelist on CBS This Morning and was invited to speak at the TEDx Mt.

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Dan Carlin appeared on season 17 of Real Time with Bill Maher on October 25,2019, as part of the panel while promoting his book The End Is Always Near.

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Dan Carlin's voice was featured as a podcast host in a 2019 episode of The Twilight Zone entitled "Nightmare at 30,000 Feet".

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Dan Carlin has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.