We're Not So Different

WNSD Pod

A mostly Medieval history podcast about how we've always been idiots patreon.com/wnsdpod welcometothecrusades.com

  1. 4 DAYS AGO

    Medieval Land Mgmt 2: Labors of the Months

    folks, it's time to talk about Medieval farming. you've asked us to go in-depth on how it worked and that's what we're doing in this series. we talk about the yearly cycle in the forms of the Labors of the Months, how global climate shifts changed life for Medieval farmers, their understanding of ecological sustainability, and more about manure than you ever wanted to know. enjoy!

    1h 12m

  2. 4 FEB

    Medieval Land Management 1

    folks, we start our series on Medieval land management with a brief introduction because "land management" means a lot of things and we needed to define what we're doing. we also had to talk about the Neolithic Revolution, the smaller scale of the Medieval world, and a helpful framework from French Marxist Fernand Braudel.

    1h 13m

  3. 30 JAN

    On the Streets of Minneapolis feat Logan Weimer

    www.standwithminnesota.com folks, we invited Logan Weimer onto the show to talk about patriarchal violence against Jane Boleyn but ended up talking about the fascist occupation of Minneapolis by the federal government. Logan, who is a resident of Minneapolis, gives us a firsthand account of the feeling on the streets, the horrors they've faced, and the way people have come together to protect each other. it's a lot but we thought it was important to provide this perspective on the issue. we will start the series on Medieval land management next week. despite Luke introducing Logan as an attorney, she is not currently licensed or practicing and did not hold herself out as one, that was a factual error Luke made casually as an introductio

    1h 38m

  4. 21 JAN

    Medieval Greenland

    folks, Greenland is in the news for fairly stupid, very American reasons, so we decided to take a look back at Greenland during the Middle Ages. how did the Norse setup a colony on Greenland and keep it going in relatively European style for so long? what were their interactions like with the indigenous American groups? what were their lives like? and what happened to cause the end of the Greenlandic Norse settlements by about 1450?

    1h 22m

  5. 15 JAN

    January Mailbag

    folks, it's January and time for another dive into the Patron mailbag. if you would like to ask questions like these, you can subscribe for just $5 a month at patreon.com/wnsdpod. today, we talk about Medieval understandings of the Roman Republic, confirmations, Medieval Home Alone, Glup Shittos, and a counterfactual about friends of the show, the Mongols and the Theodosian Walls.

    1h 19m

  6. 9 JAN

    The Dying Empire

    folks, happy 2026! we're back and we'd love to talk about the Middle Ages but current events have overtaken us and we are forced to talk about the dying empire that is America. we chat about the illegal and baffling kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro and his wife, the ramifications of the event on global politics, the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis, and the coming domestic fallout. sorry to start on a bummer but we'll be back to the Middle Ages next time!

    1h 26m
  7. Patreon Ep Unlocked: We're Very Very Different: Irony

    2 JAN

    Patreon Ep Unlocked: We're Very Very Different: Irony

    we're unlocking this bonus episode because it's the week of New Year, it was originally published in early 2024. if you like it, why not subscribe at patreon.com/wnsdpod. in this episode, we actually talk about a way in which we're very very fucking different from the people of the past, not just those in the Middle Ages, but even our own parents and grandparents: Irony. obviously, dramatic and rhetorical irony have been around since storytelling began but a fully-involved ironic outlook on life is very recent, coming about around the 1800s and irony as a totalizing ethos that permeates all levels of culture and society is so new that it probably didn't start until 1965, at least according to Umberto Eco, and has only gotten more mainstream since then. we want to explore Eco's ideas on enjoyment, postmodernism, irony, and post-irony and look at a way in which we're so different from our forebears that we may as well inhabit two different worlds. so we talk about Eco's story of when irony entered the mainstream in 1965 and then explore what that means for us today and why it might explain both the great generational divide between people born before and after 1978 as well as the reasons our parents wouldn't let us watch the Simpsons. enjoy!

    1h 21m

  8. 24/12/2025

    Famous Medieval Dates

    folks, it's time to talk about some fun, important, and symbolic dates from the Middle Ages. we discuss what days of the year they found significant, their attempts at numerology, the fact that the Anno Domini calendar system is off by a few years, and then talk about some of our favorite Medieval dates and what they mean. enjoy and happy holidays!

    55 min
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A mostly Medieval history podcast about how we've always been idiots patreon.com/wnsdpod welcometothecrusades.com

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  • Creator
    WNSD Pod
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    260
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © Copyright WNSD Pod
  • Show Website
    We're Not So Different

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