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History podcasts by dorks, for dorks. Listen to History of Japan and Criminal Records Podcast on all podcatchers.


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I've become the kind of person who knows immediately exactly which primary source is being referenced when I Wanna Be Your Dog plays in a trailer for a drama about George Villiers

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Whoops, thanks for the correction! Guess who probably misread "Calvinist" as "Catholic" yet again (I did not get an A in my Protestant Studies class...)

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I'm going to be doing some site and RSS feed updates to make it a little clearer that we're a history show with a crime and punishment angle instead of a true crime show with a history angle, since the average true crime fan is probably not expecting so much discussion of cursed witch dick laws

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Currently using my very limited CSS knowledge to make some site updates, so if you see some incredibly wonky padding when you try to check the latest episodes, you know who to blame

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The man's got a lot to say about Dutch presence in Nagasaki

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I don't think I'm going to get Isaac to sit through enough of Blue Eye Samurai to make a bonus episode about it but maybe I can record the sounds he made in the first 5 minutes

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I am researching yet another totally normal guy.

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Isaac keeps trying to get me to put together a blooper reel for Criminal Records but it's all me saying "Jacobin" instead of "Jacobite" and failing to pronounce basic Dutch names

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I'm trying to convince Isaac to let me record a video of his flagrant chocolate crimes

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Editing a podcast is a fun way to discover all the insufferable vocal quirks you didn't even know you had

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(Isaac may have put the shoutout into episode 500 of History of Japan because he recorded it last week. But no more after that, I promise!)

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Obviously I gotta post the photo of Isaac's deer encounter

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Dr. Willing is not even the main criminal in the episode I'm working on now which should give you a little taste of how absolutely buck wild it's going to be.

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He told Congress it was a Shoshone term and they just took took his word for it without checking that with any actual Shoshone speakers.

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Fun #history fact of the day: Nobody knows for sure what the name "Idaho" actually means but one of the most likely theories is that George M. Willing, a con man/failed prospector/disgraced abortion doctor, made it up because he knew a girl named Ida.

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Isaac lets me do whatever I want with the podcast marketing so I have been using Canva to poorly edit pictures of Napoleon with headphones.

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