You Are A Weirdo

About You Are A Weirdo

Welcome to this shiny series about the power of history to help you understand the Strangeness of Now. Sure it may be disconcerting to find that you—and everyone else alive today—are a bunch of weirdos. But it's going to be okay; your host Doug Sofer is a doctor of history and has been trained to help people in situations exactly like yours. After all, he is a weirdo—just like you.

Publisher

Doug Sofer

Category

comedy · history

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Dec 2022

Latest episode

3 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Aug 2026

   Rome, Around the World: Part 2A of the miniseries "You Can't Head West When The West Is in Your Head"

   Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D. explores the complex identity of ancient Romans and their diverse empire in this interview episode.

2. 

   9 Jan 2026

   You Can't Head West When The West Is In Your Head

   Scholars, politicians and meme-slingers alike talk about Western Civilization as if it's something concrete. Since it's named after a compass direction, you might even assume it refers to some actual place. But even old-school, traditional Western Civ textbooks show that The West is a much, much messier concept than it first appears. Find out why the West isn't just about Western Europe. Sometimes it's in the East, or the Middle East, or in Western Asia, or in North Africa. And sometimes...

3. 

   2 Jan 2025

   You're A Room Full Of World Historians (Live From SEWHA 2024)

   How does history help us come to grips with the strangeness of now? Find out as the scholars of the Southeast World History Association tackle that very question! This special session of SEWHA's annual meeting was recorded live in November 2024 at Southeast Missouri State University. Join us as we cover issues of technology, science, religion, spirituality, big yellow school busses, getting folks out of their comfort zones, community celebrations, and even the importance of history itself.Don...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

31 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

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Quality

30

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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