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Now, back to lions led by donkeys. The Hello and welcome to another episode of lines led by Donkeys Piled Cast I'm Joe and with me today is Matt Palmquist

He's a journalist and he runs the Civil War humor Twitter, which is the only humorous historical Twitter

account that I actually like. So welcome to the show, Matt. Thanks very much for

having me. It's great to be here. So you run, well obviously the Civil War humor

Twitter account, but like what made you want to do that? Like it seems like

it's obviously it's super niche like any random historical fandom that exists on the internet but

what made you want to do that? You know I needed more angry mentions. You know I just a couple years ago as you know some of these

issues around the Civil War you know are kind of frighteningly relevant I you know kind of thought I wanted to kind of look for a way to you know talk about you know history on Twitter but maybe use a different way in than most people do and of course you know when most people think about the civil

wars they think comedy so you know but I thought if I sprinkled in you know some

humor with you know some of the actual history stuff that I was trying to get

across that might be a way of reaching different people and you know I've been really gratified with the response it's been really great so so far so good.

Yeah that's that frighteningly relevant thing and like it

totally sticks out to me but and there's another thing I think kind of scared me

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