Yes, he is my favorite part of watching Game of Thrones because I know the next day I get to hear him goof on it in the most wonderful way, and he has a very good podcast called “Getting Curious” about anything and everything, where he’s still 100% Jonathan (“like that’s really gorgeous and she’s fierce!”) but…

He has a really delightful podcast called “Getting Curious” with some hits (talking to a historian about the Armenian genocide and why Americans don’t know more about it) annnnd some whiffs IMO (not crazy about the Traditional Chinese Medicine one but that’s me), but the entire premise of the podcast is “Let’s learn…

I live in an area where you drive 30 minutes east and BOOM welcome to Appalachia. A lot of my coworkers either hunted, or had a spouse who hunted to stock their deep freezes to save money on not buying factory processed meat. But these are people who also still have summer gardens and know how to can things safely…

I super wish that was always true, I’ve had some funny exchanges with bikers who joke about my spider being “bigger than theirs!” but the worst interaction by far was a dude at a bar who decided the best way to get the chick with a big ass spider and web tattoo on her friggin bicep, was to LICK HIS THUMB (uuuuughhhhh)…

Oh good lord, someone needs to cram him in whatever mini autoclave that shop has and let him cook for a couple cycles. I feel extremely fortunate that the artist my entire family has seen for tattoos is very good, and an actual human being. My sister got a fist sized piece on her sternum and not only was our tattooist…

I felt the same way about mine. I got my first few in easily covered fairly private places, but it felt like me declaring ownership about my body and decorating my skin in a way *I* found pleasing, and using my body as a canvas for beautiful pictures as opposed to using it as an outlet for my rage and stress. Also I’d…

Yes, another poster pointed out that Hadrian’s wall had many purposes, including “keeping troops busy” and now we add “customs” to them. But either way, the kingdoms of Scottland and Ireland (and a lot of Wales) gave pretty much everyone white hot hell for a few centuries.

Above my desk hangs one Dollywood Dollar, it never fails to make me smile, and I’m now deeply envious of your Dolly car plates!

I think Dolly and Johnny Cash in the same box works, the “Man in Black” persona of Johnny Cash was entirely explained in song form as his public visibility in all black as a way to remind himself and the world that he wears the black for the people who are often forgotten. I would hazard, and this is purely…

I legit had a teary eyed well-up moment thinking about Vice President Dolly Parton, running with like Tammy Duckworth or Kamala Harris, or literally any good charismatic and “likeable” Dem (because you have to be likable now I guess, or completely reviled but seen as a “straight shooter”). VP Dolly reading books to…

Thank god there’s only one Trump. More would be too much to bear. (Also I can’t remember who, but they made a Caligula reference when Ivanka was sent to some summit meetings in his place, and it was likened to Caligula appointing his horse to the senate. Sure it’s a nice horse...but it doesn’t belong in the Senate)…

Oh no question Hadrian’s wall likely served many purposes, the least of which would have been “Fuck whoever lives over there, I don’t feel like dealing with them” (but it is always a good joke nowadays to Hadrain’s wall vs the proposed “Trump’s Wall”) and that the Roman presence, even with the client king system…

Having little suitable farmland for all (“Vikings” at least), being very good at fighting with a religious belief structure that exalts death in battle (at least according to what few sources we have), and very good at boats. And some of them were blonde!

I’m not as super well versed in the hardcore history of Rome, so there are probably a LOT of people who could tell you who Rome’s Trump would have been, but based on my moderate knowledge, I’d have to vote Caligula as Rome’s trump. Except Trump would need to be called “Tiny gloves” as Caligula’s common name apparently…

Oh man, would the prophecy of Mel Brooks be true!

But, then they got fancy like the Saxons, another group of rough and tumble sailing-and-chopping folks, who converted to Christianity, apparently forgot how boats worked and then got got by the Vikings, and THEN the Normans! Civilizations and conquering groups rise and fall, always and forever. Each one is horrible…

Cool story, where in my comment did I intimate that this had to do with skin complexion color/genetic linkage instead of “hey every great civilization was made by a mix of trade, commerce, and exchange of ideas and everyone would do well to remember that” and instead want to go balls deep into the genetic links…

I want to like it, I’m gonna watch it, but I will be internally grumbling that every portrayal of pre-Roman Britain is as a place where dirt=makeup and everything is sexy orgy dances with neolithic antler shit errywhere. Just like it’s not okay to piss, shit, and vomit all over Stone Henge every year because you’re…

Meanwhile the Romans, and later, the Normans had such a hard time coping with the indigenous populations of Scotland and Ireland respectively that they put up physical walls saying “Just don’t even try going North of Hadrian’s very good wall that the Picts or whatever will pay for” or “Don’t go beyond the Pale.” And…

I’m gonna throw this out there as a fellow Jew: Hey Benny, where did that worshiping one god thing get us? NOT FUCKING FAR THAT’S FOR SURE. Though the re-brand went over VERY well for Mohamed and Mecca.