- 362
- Episodes
- 29
- Transcribed
- 88
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 188K
- YouTube views
About History Nerds United
Let's make history fun again! Come listen to interviews with award winning authors, the rantings of a history nerd, and various other things. Enjoy!
- Publisher
- Brendan Dowd
- Category
- arts · history · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Oct 2021
- Latest episode
- 13 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
29 of 362 episodes have a transcript.
13 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Johnny Carson with Mark Malkoff
6 Oct 2026
The California Gold Rush and the Road to the Civil War with Nathaniel Philbrick
29 Sept 2026
A Decimated Family and the Battle to End Dementia with Robert Kolker
Inside a recent episode
Johnny Carson with Mark Malkoff
Published 13 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What was the backstory to things? What was Carson like in New York? I mean, NBC erased the first 10 years, almost everything of the 62 to 1972 in New York. What was going on backstage and what was Carson doing in retirement? And I could not believe from talking to these people on the podcast and then for my book. How wrong the media got Carson. They would call him cold and aloof and just no friends of J.D. Salinger recluse. And then I started talking to his friends and the people that loved him, and it was completely the opposite. It was very reminiscent of the John Belushi book Wired by Bob Woodward. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on History Nerds United
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- Mark Malkoff
- Nathaniel Philbrick
- Robert Kolker
- Catherine Grace Katz
- Ben Macintyre
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 188,400
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 41 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 47 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 90 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 85
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