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Ep 111 - Hundred Years War 1:

hello patrons, this is your ad-free version of episode 111, hope you enjoy!

this week's question comes from Dr Goatherd

in this episode, Luke and Eleanor finally begin a series on the Hundred Years War between France and England but before we can get into the war itself, there's a lot to be introduced. we breakdown the numerous, long-standing issues that led to war such as: multiple French dynastic crises, the overlapping nature of Medieval land holdings, the compounding crisis of...

Bonus Ep 37 - Dante's Inferno 2: Let's All Go To Hell

hello, patrons! we're back with the second episode in our book club series on The Inferno by Dante Alighieri. this time, we delve into Hell itself as we discuss the cosmology and layout of Dante's Hell and cover the first 5 cantos. This takes us from the scary forest where Dante is rescued by Virgil through the gates of Hell and and the First Circle before finishing down in the Second Circle. 

We've also included a few maps of Dante's Hell for you to review when you aren't driving ...

Ep 110 - The Medieval Microcosm

patrons, here is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode. remember that part 2 of our series on The Inferno will be out later today.

in this episode, Luke and Eleanor look at the Medieval human body as the microcosm and the idea that a structural similarity exists between it and the macrocosm that is the universe. this touches on subjects from philosophy, to religion, to astrology, and even alchemy, so check it out!

if you like our new show art, check out Jen who goes ...

Ep 109 - The Medieval Universe

note: next week, we will release the 2nd of our book clubs episodes on Dante's Inferno but, due to recording schedules, it won't be posted until Friday (4/14/23) afternoon eastern time. the regular episode will also be released on Friday morning, just FYI.

in this one, Luke and Eleanor talk about how Medieval Christians viewed the cosmology and cosmogony of our universe. we discuss so many celestial spheres, how they retconned Aristotle's geocentric model to make it work with the Biblic...

Bonus Ep 36 - Current Events: How to Break Your Brain Completely

hello patrons, we're back with your second bonus episode of the month! this time, we're moving away from the Medieval stuff for an episode to discuss some current events and online discourse that are really breaking people's brains. first, we discuss a woman who can only be described as a vulva phrenologist and how people nowadays just love to use the patina of science as a cloak for their bigotry. then we turn to how William Shatner broke his own brain by going into space and seeing the curv...

Ep 108 - Medieval Maps

hello, patrons, this is your ad-free version of this week's regular episode, enjoy! also note that a new patron-exclusive bonus episode will drop on Friday!

we're talking maps, folks! Luke and Eleanor are here to talk all about humanity's long obsession with maps and cartography, the Medieval world maps known as Mappa Mundi, the stories they tell, and even where you might be able to find dragons or other scary sea monsters. enjoy!

Bonus Ep 35 - Dante's Inferno 1: Abandon All Hope

hello, lovely patrons, and welcome to the first episode of our new book club series on Dante's Inferno. This episode mostly serves as an introduction to Dante Alighieri, the guy, and The Inferno. We talk about Dante's early life, the historical circumstances that make him so, so mad at the leaders of Florence, and the ongoing fight over both his legacy and his bones. Then we discuss The Inferno as a work, what it still means to us culturally, historically, and spiritually more than 700 years ...

Ep 107 - Medieval Religious Orders 2

Hello, patrons, here's your weekly ad-free version of the regular episode. Note: next bonus episode drops tomorrow (Friday) and it will be the beginning of our next book club series about Dante's Inferno!

Luke and Eleanor are back to finish up the miniseries on Medieval Religious Orders. This time, we get to the more famous Mendicant and Clerics Regular orders, the ones that most people have heard of like the Franciscans, Dominicans, Poor Clares, Jesuits, and more! Enjoy!

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Ep 106 - Medieval Religious Orders 1

hello patrons, here's your ad-free regular episode for the week, enjoy!

we should've covered Medieval religious orders in our heresy series but simply overlooked it by mistake, so we're going to do 2 quick episodes about them. in this episode, Luke and Eleanor talk through 2 of the 4 subcategories of Catholic religious orders from the Middle Ages: the Canons Regular and the Monastics. this includes the Norbertines,  the Teutonic Order, the Benedictines, Cistercians, Trappist, and e...

Ep 105 - Heresies 11: Protestant Work Ethic

patrons! as always, here's your ad-free version of the weekly episode, enjoy!

in this episode, we wrap up our series on Medieval Hersies and the Reformation. we begin with a discussion of the Puritans: their initial persecution, fleeing for the New World, their meteoric rise and catastrophic fall during the English Civil Wars, and how they still govern our lives today even though they vanished after the 1740s. then we conclude the series by talking about what all of these heresies meant...

Bonus Ep 34 - More Mailbag Fun

beloved patrons, we bring you another bonus episode. this time, we answer a bunch of additional questions we got from one patron, I Would Whack 500 Moles on the Discord,  for our 100th episode mailbag. we cover stuff like which conspiracy theory we would like to know the answer to, favorite smell, worst job, and more!

as we said in the post from earlier this week: sorry it's a bit late and we will try to get 2 bonus episodes in for March since this was supposed to be for February b...

Ep 104 - Heresies 10: We Killed God

howdy patrons! remember, new bonus episode drops tomorrow (Friday) afternoon where we're going to do some more fun mailbag stuff. also: here's your ad-free version of this week's episode.

we're back! the series on Heresies and the Reformation continues as we discuss the separate, yet simultaneous Counter-Reformation efforts that followed the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. Then we get to the Thirty Years War, a brutal conflict which had the side effect of killing public religion as a uniting...

This Week

Folks, due to weird schedules this week, the regular ep will release on Thursday morning but the bonus ep won’t be out until Friday afternoon eastern time (probably around 2pm if you’re curious).

The regular ep is our penultimate one in the heresies series while the bonus ep will be us answering a bunch of mailbag questions from a patron (I would whack 500 moles in the discord) that we got for the 100th episode show. Even tho it’s technically March, we will still be trying to get ...

Ep 103 - Heresies 9: Counter-Reformations

patrons, here's your ad-free version of the weekly regular episode. we will have another bonus episode next week just fyi. 

in part 9 of our series on Heresies and the Reformation, Luke and Eleanor discuss backlashes against the Protestant movements across Europe. From the Church's first effort at countering the Reformation with the Council of Trent, to the HRE finally turning its sights on the protestants with the Schmalkaldic Wars and Peace of Augburg, to the brief reign of Mary ...

Ep 102 - Heresies 8: The Rise of Calvinism

patrons, here's your ad-free regular episode, enjoy!

note: the sound is a little weird in the first 10 mins due to audacity changing settings, sorry about that.

the heresy series continues, this time focusing on the disunified nature of the Reformation, the Munster Rebellion, the emergence of John Calvin and the Reform movement that became the Calvinist confession, and why Charles V didn't just turn his armies on the Protestants from the get-go to stamp them out entirely.

Bonus Ep 33 - Building Biblical Canon

hello patrons, thank you so much for subscribing. since we've been doing heresies on the main show and everyone keeps making appeals to scripture, we figured we should talk about how we got the Bible in its current forms. when were the books of the Hebrew Bible established? what did Martin Luther change when he translated the Bible into vernacular German? why has the New Testament largely stayed the exact same for 1800 years except for that one time a guy named Marcion started his own Bible? ...

Ep 101: Heresies 7: Not Radical, Only Magisterial

hello patrons, here's your ad-free episode for the week, enjoy!

in this episode, Luke and Eleanor continue their series on heresies and the Reformation by discussing the immediate aftermath of the 95 theses and how this reform movement splintered instantaneously. we then talk about how the magisterial and radical reformations got going simultaneously but the princes of the HRE and the nobles weren't going to let the radical version win.

Ep 100 - 100th Episode Mailbag Spectacular

hello patrons, here's your ad-free version of episode 100! enjoy!

Luke and Eleanor are back to celebrate the 100th episode of We're Not So Different with a mailbag episode featuring many listener questions. we cover background info on the show, questions about the British crown, Luke's hyperfixations, and more! enjoy and thanks for 100 episodes!

Bonus Ep 32: The Silmarillion 7: The End of Days

hello patrons, we're back with the final episode in our book club series on The Silmarillion. we talk about the downfall of Numenor, the remaking of the world from a flat disc into a round sphere, and get a nice timeline of events from the beginning of the Second Age to after the events of the Lord of the Rings. Oh yeah, and something about the end of the world and the last battle: Dagor Dagorath. we were so happy to do this series and hope you enjoyed as much as we did!

several maps ar...

Ep 99: Heresies 6: First Reformed

patrons, please enjoy this week's ad-free episode! our final episode on the Silmarillion will drop on Friday, so look forward to that!

we're back with part 6 of our series on Medieval heresies against the Catholic Church after our brief convalescence. this time, we start by briefly discussing the Spanish Inquisition before turning out eyes to the greatest heresy of them all: the Reformation. we talk about the historical circumstances, both secular and holy, that made it possible and int...

Ep 98 - A Knight's Tale Review (Patreon Ep Unlocked)

edit: wow, you can tell I'm out of it because I didn't hit publish until now. my bad!

Patrons, here's the ad-free version of this week's episode. I know it might seem weird to be posting this after we posted it on the bonus feed a week ago but I don't want to get the episode order and numbering screwed up in here again, so it's getting posted like everything else.

hello friends, this week your two co-hosts are sick and rundown and just couldn't find time to record a new episode, s...

A Knight's Tale Review Livestream Video

patrons, as promised, here is the video of our livestream review of A Knight's Tale! we had a lot of fun doing it and, as an added bonus, you occasionally get to see Luke's cat lounging around in the background. so enjoy this and hopefully we can do more of them in the future! again, sorry for the last minute changes and mixups, we hope you like the video!

Bonus Ep 31: A Knight's Tale Livestream Review

hello patrons! here is the audio from our livestream review of A Knight's Tale that occurred earlier this week for those who couldn't make it or just want to relive the magic. I do apologize for the delays and last minute changes but now we know that Discord works perfectly for this, we can do it there in the future. 

Regardless, we had so much fun doing this and hope you'll like it too. Video of the event will be posted shortly if you'd rather watch instead of just listen.  2023-01-13 13:06:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Livestream Info - Delayed 1 hour (UPDATED!)

hey everyone, we have had to delay the stream 1 hour due to Eleanor's other work running a bit long today. sorry about that. as such, the stream will now begin at 1EST/6GMT PM.

also, the stream will be on our discord server, not youtube or twitch. this is because youtube doesn't want to work with multiple people and twitch won't let you privately stream content anymore. so, Discord it is. now some of you don't have discord and don't care for it and if t...

Ep 97: Heresies 5: Let's Name Some Czech Guys

hello patrons, the ad-free version of Ep 97 is now live, enjoy! also please remember our live stream review of A Knight's Tale will take place today, Wednesday, January 11 at 12EST/5GMT pm on our youtube page, youtube.com/@wnsdpod. the link will be sent out in a separate post in a little while. 

in our 5th episode on Medieval heresies, Luke and Eleanor finally get to some guys who we can actually call reformers. we start by talking about Wycliffe and his Bible, the...

A Knight's Tale Livestream Info

hello all! we have scheduled our livestream review of A Knight's Tale and it will take place at 12EST/5GMT pm on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. this will be a private stream for patrons only on our youtube channel, which can be found at: youtube.com/@wnsdpod, to celebrate getting to 300 patrons! my guess is that it lasts around 2 hours.

we will start the episode with our review of the movie and then have time for yall to ask questions about what we though...

Ep 96: Heresies 4: Antipopes & Black Death

lovely patrons, here is your ad-free episode of the week! enjoy! just a quick note: the livestream for our Knight's Tale review will be next week, we will let you know the specific date and time ASAP!

happy 2023! we're back with part 4 of our series on heresies against the medieval church. this time we talk about Free Spirits, Beguines, and Templars before moving onto the Antipopes, the Avignon Papacy, and the Black Death breaking everyone's brains, as you might expect.

Ep 95: Christmas & Saturnalia Redux

here's your ad-free version of episode 95, enjoy!

this week, we're taking a little break for Christmas and New Years so we're just reposting the holiday episode we recorded in 2021 for you to enjoy. it's about the origins of Christmas and its relationship to the pagan holiday, Saturnalia. enjoy!

300 Patrons and Updates!

Happy holidays, patrons! Just dropping a quick update on things. We recently got to 300 patrons and that means we met our stretch goal so we will be doing a live stream of our review of A Knight's Tale. You'll get to watch us record the episode and be able to ask questions if you're in the chat. Due to time zones, it will probably have to happen early in the day for Americans, but don't worry because we will be posting video and audio of the episode on the patreon feed. And if yall like the l...

Ep 94: Heresies 3: "Crusades" Against Christians

patrons! here's your ad-free version of regular episode 94, enjoy!

in this episode, Luke and Eleanor continue their series on Medieval heresies against the Church by moving into the late 12th and early 13th centuries. We talk about Peter Abelard, Henricians, Cathars, whatever a Cagot is, and a bunch of political endeavors for land, money, or power dressed up as "crusades" against heretical Christians. enjoy!

by way of reminder, no new episode next week because of the holidays.