Latest Wnsd Podcast Episodes
Weird Medieval 5: Chinese Inventions and the Mongols
We're Not So Different - April 18, 2024 12:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we're back with more weird, interesting, neat, and wild shit from the Middle Ages. this time, we explore the numerous Medieval inventions of Imperial China such as the compass, gunpowder, printing, and much more. we discuss why Imperial China was able to foster such innovation and why it f...
Weird Medieval 4: Sweet Potatoes, Genetics, and Gold
We're Not So Different - April 10, 2024 11:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we're back on our weird Medieval shit with part 4 in our series. this time, we focus on the amazing fact that Medieval Norse and Polynesian peoples crossed both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to reach the Americas hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus was even born and how modern ...
Medieval Women's Anatomy Understander (Patreon Ep Unlocked)
We're Not So Different - April 03, 2024 14:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsas we said on the last episode, there's no new show this week due to travel and timing and all that, so we're unlocking a bonus episode from the Patreon for all listeners. if you're interested, this is the perfect excuse to subscribe at patreon.com/wnsdpod. normally we don't do episodes based on ...
Weird Medieval 3: Let's Rank Some Little Guys feat. Weird Medieval
We're Not So Different - March 28, 2024 15:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we couldn't do a series on weird Medieval shit without talking about our favorite weird Medieval little guys who show up in marginalia of illuminated manuscripts from the era. and to do so, we brought on Olivia Swarthout, aka at Weird Medieval on twitter, to help us out. we discuss why hum...
Weird Medieval 2: Medieval Supernovae
We're Not So Different - March 22, 2024 18:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're back with the second episode of our Weird Medieval series and this time we're talking about space. in recorded history, only eight possible supernovae within the Milky Way have ever been witnessed by direct observation, and three of them occurred during the Middle Ages. we talk about those ...
Weird Medieval 1: Stealing the Secrets of Silk
We're Not So Different - March 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we've started a new series and this one is all about Weird Medieval shit. the Middle Ages were an incredibly fascinating time and we want to celebrate and emphasize that by looking at the events, people, and things that make you go, "damn that's wild." we're going to cover stuff from all a...
Proto-nationalism: Tradwives feat. Dr. Lauren Hill Griffin
We're Not So Different - March 08, 2024 14:32 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe finish up our intermittent series on proto-nationalism and nationalism by discussing the modern concept of tradwives, or women who endorse a so-called traditionalist perspective and aesthetic online, either out of pure belief or as a grift. and to do so, we interview Dr. Lauren Hill Griffin, a...
Patron Mailbag Time
We're Not So Different - February 28, 2024 15:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe have had a lot of great interviews lately and that means we haven't had much time to answer the backlog of patron questions we have, so we decided to do a mailbag. we answer questions ranging from Robin Hood's death to Silk Road safety to experimental archaeology to a counterfactual about capi...
Medieval Enshittification feat Cory Doctorow
We're Not So Different - February 21, 2024 13:55 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, things are getting worse everywhere but especially on the internet and so we decided to go to an expert to discuss how modern things are getting shittier all the time: author, blogger, and creator of the neologism "enshittification" joins the show to talk about why the modern world seems t...
German Peasants War feat November from Trashfuture
We're Not So Different - February 15, 2024 12:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsthis time, Luke and Eleanor welcome special guest November, co-host of the Trashfuture, Well There's Your Problem, and Kill James Bond podcasts to the show to talk about the German Peasants War, which turns 500 this year. we talk about the attempted radical Reformation, the magisterial reaction, ...
Nationalism and Nostalgia feat Dr Rachel Moss
We're Not So Different - February 08, 2024 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsthis week, we're continuing our series on proto-nationalism and nationalism by talking to Dr. Rachel Moss about the ways nostalgia is used for evil and, specifically, how false nostalgia for a Middle Ages that didn't exist fuels modern nationalism. we talk about how rose-tinted glasses are used t...
Christian Nationalism Then and Now feat Bradley Onishi
We're Not So Different - January 31, 2024 17:41 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsThis week, we welcome Dr. Bradley Onishi, co-host of the Straight White American Jesus podcast, onto the show as part of our series on proto-nationalism in the Middle Ages. As we promised earlier this month, we had some guests lined up to discuss other aspects of proto-nationalism and nationalism...
Medieval Women: Theodora & Theodelinda
We're Not So Different - January 24, 2024 15:31 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsthis time, we return to our occasional series on Medieval women, where we look at the lives and times of ladies who were able to rise to positions of power and esteem despite the extremely patriarchal nature of the Middle Ages. we have previously done these for the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene ...
Proto-nationalism: Borders and Rulers
We're Not So Different - January 18, 2024 15:19 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratings150th episode wooooo! this time, we continue our miniseries on what we're calling Proto-nationalism in the Middle Ages by talking about two very big materialist reasons why they couldn't really have nationalism back then: malleable borders and dynastic rulership. Medieval borders were porous, lig...
Nationalism in the Middle Ages?
We're Not So Different - January 11, 2024 15:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsnationalism is, unfortunately, once again on the rise in the modern day and while you might think that it has very little to do with the Middle Ages, you'd be wrong. because while the nationalism we see today didn't exist in the same form back then, the roots of it began to take hold even back th...
Ep 148 - 2023 Year in Review
We're Not So Different - January 04, 2024 14:28 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsit's our first episode of the new year but we're just not ready to move on quite yet, so we're taking a look back at 2023 and then taking a little peak ahead into 2024. we talk about Medieval news and studies from last year, review a little of what happened on the podcast, and talk about some of ...
Dante's Inferno 1: Abandon All Hope (Patreon Ep Unlocked!)
We're Not So Different - December 27, 2023 14:34 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingshello listeners! what you're about to hear is one of our patron-exclusive bonus episodes from March 2023, the first of our seven part book club series on Dante's Inferno. in it, we introduce Dante Alighieri's masterwork, The Inferno, by discussing the author's life, the background of Medieval Ita...
Open Mailbag Fun
We're Not So Different - December 20, 2023 15:27 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, it's the holidays and so we decided to post some prompts on twitter and bluesky and answer some questions about history, life, and culture from the general audience. we cover everything from Chinese feudalism to the Panera lemonade that kills you to counterfactuals on how imperial Italy co...
Medieval Dad-coded feat Patrick Wyman
We're Not So Different - December 13, 2023 15:03 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we've got podcaster, historian, dad-aficionado, and friend of the show Patrick Wyman back on the show to talk about dad culture, what it means to be a dad as opposed to just a father, Medieval dads, dad-coded behavior, and much more. this is Patrick's 3rd appearance on the show and we love...
Another Patron Mailbag
We're Not So Different - December 06, 2023 15:14 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsthis time, we take a dive into the backlog of questions from our patrons and answer a few of them. we tackle everything from how to explain the Middle Ages to a 5 year old, to how bad was Henry VIII really to Eleanor Rykener and even who was the worst person in the Middle Ages. we cover 11 questi...
Princes in the Tower News
We're Not So Different - November 30, 2023 15:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsas you may have heard, the Princes in the Tower are in the news again, 540 years after their supposed deaths. recently, Philippa Langley, who famously help find Richard III's body in a parking lot back in 2012, hosted a television special in the UK which alleged a new theory about the Princes in ...
The Last Duel Review
We're Not So Different - November 22, 2023 12:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we're finally doing a review of Ridley Scott's 2021 Medieval history film, The Last Duel, a film that asks the question: what if Ridley Scott just didn't do all the stuff he's known for and instead made an intimate portrait of a Medieval soap opera in the style of Rashomon that revolves ar...
Tudor Depictions feat. Phoebe Roy
We're Not So Different - November 15, 2023 15:04 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, in this episode we brought in a special guest and friend of the show, Phoebe Roy, co-host of the Ten Thousand Posts and Masters of Our Domain podcasts, to talk with us about depictions of Tudor England in books and TV. the Tudors are, of course, a foundational aspect of English history and...
Arthuriana 6: The Death of the King
We're Not So Different - November 08, 2023 14:37 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsLong cold open this time, actual episode starts around 18 mins in. Luke and Eleanor close our their series on the Medieval Arthurian canon in style, covering the rest of the post-Galfridian era to the end of the Middle Ages. finally, at long last, we get the real connective tissue in place to li...
Arthuriana 5: Knights and Round Tables
We're Not So Different - November 02, 2023 14:08 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsthis time, the series on Arthuriana continues into the post-Galfridian era. following Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, which created the narrative structure and foundation of the Arthurian canon we know today, a whole bunch of writers got in on the fun and started adding to that ...
Arthuriana 4: Historia Regum Britanniae
We're Not So Different - October 25, 2023 13:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsupdate: the last 3 minutes of this episode got cut off in the initial upload for unknown reasons, the file has now been fixed. sorry about that and enjoy! in our 4th installment in the Arthuriana series, we finally get to the work that truly defines Medieval Arthurian legend: Geoffrey of Monmout...
Arthuriana 3: Pre-Galfridian Stories
We're Not So Different - October 19, 2023 14:33 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsour series on Arthuriana continues as we move past introductions and start talking about the stories that make up the early part of the Arthurian canon, known as the pre-Galfridian (aka before Geoffrey of Monmouth). these stories survive to us in Welsh and Latin from roughly 600 to 1135 AD and sh...
Arthuriana 2: The Once and Future King
We're Not So Different - October 11, 2023 14:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingswe're back with more talk of Arthurian legend. this time, we continue to trace the canon into the Modern era, from its nadir in the Early Modern period to its resurrection in the 19th century by Lord Alfred Tennyson and finally to taking its place as a foundational myth in the English-speaking wo...
Arthuriana 1: Building a Medieval Canon
We're Not So Different - October 05, 2023 11:47 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsfolks, we're finally doing that series on King Arthur and the Arthurian Legends you've all been asking for. Luke and Eleanor start the series by talking about Arthur and the legends more broadly before discussing how a bunch of people in the Middle Ages built a cohesive, narrative canon with defi...
How Often do You Think About the Roman Empire?
We're Not So Different - September 27, 2023 14:52 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 177 ratingsLuke and Eleanor are back to talk about the meme that's been making the rounds for the past few weeks: How often do you think about the Roman Empire? we discuss how often we actually think about Rome and its successor states before moving on to talk about why this meme became so popular, why guys...
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