The Last Mailbag!
Tides of History
Audible / Patrick Wyman
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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It's time for one last mailbag! I cover everything from which historical figure would be the best Poster on social media to how ancient authors collected their letters for publication to how making Tides has shaped my interests in the past.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody, from Audible, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Patrick Wyman. |
| 0:11.0 | Thanks so much for being here today. |
| 0:13.8 | As we get ready to wind things down on tides before our final episodes in April, I wanted |
| 0:18.0 | to give folks a chance to get their thoughts and queries out there. |
| 0:25.8 | So I got some really fantastic questions on social media, and I am really excited to answer them today for this mailbag episode. So without further ado, let's dive in. First question up is |
| 0:33.3 | from Kelly M.B. If you could give any historical figure a Twitter account, who would it be |
| 0:39.1 | and why? This is a really fantastic question. And over the years, I've been asked many, |
| 0:44.3 | many times who I think would be the best poster out of the historical figures that we |
| 0:50.1 | know, love, and hate from the past several thousand years. And I always come back to a couple of go-to answers. |
| 0:58.2 | I think my actual answer here is Martin Luther because Martin Luther was just a poster born |
| 1:05.7 | and bred. |
| 1:06.8 | Like one of the really interesting things about Martin Luther's thought is that it was always |
| 1:11.5 | oppositional. So he very rarely made positive statements of what he believed or why he thought |
| 1:19.6 | something was wrong. What he did was he defined his own thought in opposition to things that |
| 1:25.7 | were being said to or about him. It's what made him such an incredible |
| 1:29.4 | pamphlet here. Like, if you think back to the episodes that I did on Martin Luther, which were now |
| 1:33.5 | a long time ago, I realized this. But the episodes I did on Martin Luther really focused on him as a |
| 1:38.1 | media personality and on his mastery of the medium of the pamphlet, which was kind of a new genre in publishing in the |
| 1:45.8 | early 16th century. |
| 1:47.4 | But basically, the reason that he was so successful and why his thoughts spread so fast, |
| 1:54.2 | so far was because he really mastered this whole like, okay, people say a thing. |
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