The Biographers
Hosted by Akiva Meola · The Biographers
4.7from 154 ratings
- 133
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 154
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 36K
- YouTube views
About The Biographers
The Biographers is a deep-dive biography podcast that aims to tell the full and complete stories of history’s most fascinating and influential characters. Join hosts Daniel Newman and Akiva Meola as they take you through the expansive and entertaining stories of various historic figures. In a time where short-form, hardly-researched videos flood TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram, we are doing the exact opposite. The Biographers gives you the chance to learn the full life stories of historic figures, both famous and obscure, without cutting corners. With hour-long, deep-dive research, we provide a bigger, better story than what’s in your feed. If you love true crime, but are craving stories about people who truly made a difference, then you’ve just discovered your new favorite podcast.
- Publisher
- The Biographers
- Category
- history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 3 Jun 2023
- Latest episode
- 17 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 133 episodes have a transcript.
17 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Office Hours Ep. 12: Vinegar Sticks
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Marcus Aurelius Part 3: Pestis Antonina
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Office Hours Ep. 12: Vinegar Sticks
Published 17 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Or they would roll them out super thin into sheets and then hand cut them into, like, more noodle-like kind of things. I mean, after Wu Zhao, are we surprised that... No, not at all. They were ahead of the game. I just would have assumed that that form would have spread way faster. I did hear a... Oh, go ahead. I was going to say, China to Italy, it is a long distance, obviously, but it's not an impossibly long distance. And there were European traders that were going into China and back to Europe at that time. So I'm just sort of surprised that noodles... didn't make their way to italy sooner yeah and it sounded like some of the stuff like the the atria the dried long form pasta it was actually being made in persia and then uh people conquered persia and then as they like moved to italy to try and conquer again that's when they brought it with them yeah but then previously the pasta was nothing was like really dried out It was all like fresh made. […]
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- YouTube views
- 36,466
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 72 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 82 ratings
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- 48
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 82
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