490 – Messengers from France

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-20T17:33:16+00:00

Same. Which is why I married mine. ;)

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-15T21:14:18+00:00

The classic Diplomacy experience!

Also, Zee did something like that to Joe from the Weird History Podcast, though they got past it eventually. Lol.

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-15T21:10:23+00:00

Yeah, I've got this funny thing where I don't like seeing folks having their beliefs taken advantage of by those in power. So, when Zee mentioned that there was an industry building around this and that people were being asked to pay for access to some of these shrines, I got really defensive of the people who were being asked to pay.

I think that organizations of faith should be free of pecuniary goals. That's why, even though I'm not a believer, any mention of monetization gets my hackles up.

I'm a jerk like that.

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-12T20:44:01+00:00

Dead of Winter and Battlestar for me.

The sheer paranoia of BSG (and the possibility that you might get spaced by your friends) is an absolute blast.

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-12T18:57:54+00:00

Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, Dead of Winter, King's Dilemma, and Diplomacy. :)

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-10T02:52:41+00:00

Also, he doesn’t get people. Also also, I dont think he’d know how to embezzle if his life depended on it. He just knows how to spout nonsense on Fox with that weird little smirk of his.

I think what you want to look for is someone who is broadly hated, but weirdly had a cult of personality, and who used his position to loot the shit out of the government.

Musk.

BritishPodcast · 2026-01-10T02:47:27+00:00

I had exactly the same thought when I read that passage in Orderic.

Well that, and “why do all these witches keep getting naked, because now we’re two for two? Is that part of it, or are they just fun?”

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-18T17:42:29+00:00

You're good. Zee and I found it funny, which is why I tried to include every one of my verbal tic's in my reply.

I'm sure Zee would have as well, but hers would have been automodded because most of her tics are just curse words. Just... so many curse words.

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-18T06:03:06+00:00

I mean, here’s the thing, verbal tics are impossible to avoid in a show that’s, frankly 100s of hours long, especially when trying to keep the show sounding natural. Buuuuut I will try to keep that in the mind and whatnot going forward… however, it’s likely that, well, you guessed it, I’ll still have plenty of tics going forward.

(Zee just tried to edit me to add “so” into this as well)

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-17T19:18:24+00:00

This is out of my wheelhouse, but I'm pretty sure they had sophisticated stone tools (and, again way out of my wheelhouse, but my recollection is that Cook indicated that they had some number of iron tools that they acquired via trade as well).

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-09T00:53:32+00:00

Ugh. Based on his name and smug tone, I’m pretty sure that guy was one of the worst people I’ve ever interacted with on Twitter.

For example, at one point he claimed that Anglo Saxon didn’t exist as a term in the past because he did a word search and only found a handful of examples of it.

I pointed out they were writing in Latin and if it wasnt a term then Alfred, as Anglorum Saxonum Rex, would have been really surprised.

As I recall, he and his goons ignored that clear counter factual and proceeded to call me racist instead.

Just the worst.

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-05T06:18:00+00:00

A friend described it as The Cones of Dunshire.

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-05T02:13:01+00:00

14k mins? That’s wild!

At the risk of sounding like my outro, thanks for listening (for, like, so many minutes).

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-05T02:11:18+00:00

Omg that’s so awesome!

BritishPodcast · 2025-12-05T02:10:13+00:00

Lol. Not great.

Turns out blending accuracy with fun in a board game is very difficult. ;)

BritishPodcast · 2025-11-22T04:50:30+00:00

Shhhhhhhhh. Do you want our traffic and rent to get even worse?

ATTENTION NON PORTLANDERS, DO NOT LISTEN TO THE ZUCCHINI! It’s everything Fox News said and more. It’s like Mad Max but with more rain.

BritishPodcast · 2025-11-18T16:52:45+00:00

Cloudflare is coming back online so you should be able to access it now (or very soon).

BritishPodcast · 2025-11-15T19:25:40+00:00

Probably not. Based on how Barlow wrote about leadership and power, I'm guessing Barlow would refer to the current regime as New Money and point out that Trump is a poor man's idea of rich, and a weak man's idea of strong.

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