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Jewish Pirates - The Pirate Rabbi - Extra History - #3

Thank goodness for Zoey's ability to chart things. 


$10 Patrons can submit questions directly for Lies here

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Q&A livestream next week, April 29th at 5pm Pacific Time

We are doing our Q&A video livestream with Matt [showrunner], Rob [Extra History writer], & Geoff [studio director]. Geoff also wrote the Extra Credits episode on Roblox!

The Q&A will be next Thursday, April 29th starting at 5pm Pacific time (GMT - 7).  It will be 1ish hours long depending on how many questions we get (we always do our best to answer all of them!)

You can post questions at...

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4k Wallpapers - Roblox, Hades, Medgar Evers, and more

Here are all the wallpapers from our episodes throughout March including Roblox, a Tour Through Hades, The Night Marchers, Trolls & Touchdowns, Medgar Evers, Evil Races are Bad Design, and Do No Harm. 

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4k Wallpapers - Teddy Roosevelt

Here are some of our favorite stills from the Teddy Roosevelt series!

Art for the series was done by the ever fantastic Nick Dewitt

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Medusa - Monstrous Misconceptions - Extra Mythology

Medusa has so many variants, I'm a big fan of the one that Medusa is just a heckin' badass. 

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Jewish Pirates - Barbarossa’s Sidekick - Extra History - #2

It's always fun to piece together the history of someone who shares the name and title of a lot of other people.

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Easy Modes Aren't Easy - Designing Dynamic Difficulty - Extra Credits

What do you all think about difficulty in games? Is there a game you think does it best? (I really appreciated Hades' God Mode)

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Submit Questions for the Jewish Pirates Lies Episode

Got a question? Noticed something wrong with a flag? Let us know!

A reminder that you can submit questions for our lies episode directly! We'll do our best to include as many as we can, and give you a shout out in the episode.

The form will remain open for the length of the series and close the Sunday after the final episode airs. Feel free to submit as many questions as you like!

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Jewish Pirates - Fleeing the Inquisition - Extra History

NO ONE EXPECTS - aw forget it everyone expects that joke. 


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The Furies - Divine Vengeance or Justice? - Extra Mythology

The Greek gods had a bit of a complex around parricide

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♫ Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - "Monopolies" - Extra History Music

(Music Video Here )

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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Lies - Extra History

Suggested Further Reading

Taking on the Trusts by Steve Weinberg 

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Suggestion Survey is Open through 4/7!

Our theme for the month of March & April is Filling the Map!

The thing about world history is ... there's a lot of it. We've been covering history from all corners of the world but there are still places that we haven't covered yet! So please throw us suggestions from places that we haven't had a series on yet!

Some notes about suggestions:

  • If a suggestion we encounter only has enough research material/production scope for a one-o...

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Evil Races are Bad Game Design - Bioessentialism & Worldbuilding - Extra Credits

If you want to learn on the origins of orcs, check out James' blog here: https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2019/1/13/orcs-britons-and-the-martial-race-myth-part-i-a-species-built-for-racial-terror


Don't take philosophical lessons from the space marines. 

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The Assassination of Medgar Evers - A Hero Silenced - Extra History

When people talk about the civil rights movement and think of it solely as an event of the 60s, they often ignore how long the effects took, like Medgar Evers murderer avoiding being charged for 30 years.

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A Tour of Hades - The Ancient Greek Underworld - Extra Mythology

So where in the Underworld would you end up? I'm just here to rattle some chains and hang out with the flowers in Asphodel. 

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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Meatgrinder - Extra History - #5

Strongly recommend reading The Jungle even now... so long as you have a strong stomach.

$10 Patrons can submit questions directly for Lies here

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Trolls & Touchdowns - RPGs as Narrative Entertainment - Extra Credits

But can we mix up sports and tabletop games in the same show? 

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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Trainwreck - Extra History - #4

Every thumbnail thus far has had Teddy throwing down and honestly, it's the best way to sum up the series.

$10 Patrons can submit questions directly for Lies here

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The Nightmarchers - Hawaiian Army of the Dead - Extra Mythology

Matt had some fun on the voice acting for this one

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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Breaking Standard - Extra History

AND HERE COMES ROOSEVELT WITH THE CHAIR!

$10 Patrons can submit questions directly for Lies here

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4k Wallpapers - Designers, Kammapa, Cyberpunk, Maui

Here are the wallpapers from the midweek episodes in February! I'm obviously biased but my favorite is the Final Pam. What's yours?

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Do No Harm: Black Medical Exploitation - Why African Americans Distrust Medicine - Extra History

This was another really difficult one. Before we can go about repairing broken trust, we have to know what the history is and how it influences our current circumstances. 

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ROBLOX's $30 Billion Dollar Bet! - Why You Should Care About ROBLOX Going Public - Extra Credits

This may be our longest episode title ever. 

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POLL: Pick the Next Extra History Series! "Weird and Wonderous"

Wait, I hear you ask, isn't it fairly late in February for a poll? And you are correct! We noticed that the polls and topic suggestions were beginning to outpace the production schedule, so this poll will run through February AND March. More time for you to agonize over these four very good topics. 


Olympics!: Passing the Torch

The Olympiad. Pride of the world. A circle of champions. And... actually a hot mess. In this series we'll look at the an...

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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - The Regulators - Extra History

The reporter just rising out of the underbrush makes me giggle every single time


$10 Patrons can submit questions directly for Lies here 

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Māui - The Sun, Fire, and Fishing for Islands - Extra Mythology

Alternative title from the thumbnail alone: Beach bod for a demigod

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Submit Questions for the Roosevelt Lies Episode

Got a question? Noticed something wrong with a flag? Let us know!

A reminder that you can submit questions for our lies episode directly! We'll do our best to include as many as we can, and give you a shout out in the episode.

The form will remain open for the length of the series and close the Sunday after the final episode airs (11:59pm PT 3/21 ) Feel free to submit as many questions as you like!

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Suggestion Survey is Open through 2/24!

Our theme for the month of February is Weird & Wonderful

The kooky, the strange, the just plain fun—these are the stories we're looking for. History's most unusual, madcap or even heartwarming tales, so long as they're out of the ordinary. If you want to hear about the (supposedly) immortal Count of St. Germain, tulip mania, the odd but revolutionary life of surgical pioneer Dr. John Hunter, alchemy, Spiritualism, or you wanted a second crack at the ...

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Teddy Roosevelt the Trustbuster - Big Oil - Extra History

The stage is set with the beginnings of investigative journalism, a man who treats the free market like a god, and a scheme that'll change US business forever. 

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