The Rough Corner: Weird Medieval Guys ft. Olivia Swarthout
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 ⢠736 Ratings
đď¸ 27 February 2024
âąď¸ 40 minutes
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Summary
Data scientist by day and queen of medieval memes by night, Olivia Swarthout is the brains behind internet sensation 'weird medieval guys' on Twitter @WeirdMedieval - she's also just released a brilliant book called Weird Medieval Guys: How to Live, Laugh, Love (and Die) in Dark Times, and co-hosts a podcast called, of course, Weird Medieval Guys!
In this ep: "Balls balls balls!", the deal with the Voynich Manuscript, and the incredible story of the monk who made a deal with the devil.
You can get in touch with Dan Schreiber on Twitter and Instagram (@Schreiberland). In his bio, you'll find the link to our Discord channel - a global community of likeminded weirdos!
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| 0:41.8 | you make real food like porridge, it can be a bit, well, lumpy, splodgy, stogy, goopy, bloopy, |
| 0:49.5 | a shocker, a crocker, bad-looking, bag of spanners, butters, ghoulish, monstrous, unsightly |
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| 1:03.9 | it's all part of the charm, really, isn't it? Quaker, deliciously real, deliciously ugly. |
| 1:12.1 | This is a Global player original podcast. |
| 1:23.5 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:25.0 | Welcome to The Rough Corner. |
| 1:27.8 | This is the bonus episode that sits in between the main We Can Be Weirdo's shows where I get to chat about the weird things that have happened during my week. |
| 1:35.6 | I get to go through correspondence and more often than not, I get to chat to someone around the world who's doing weird things with their life. |
| 1:42.6 | And that's what's happening this episode. I'm very, very excited because we're chatting to someone who lives in the world who's doing weird things with their life. And that's what's happening this episode. |
| 1:44.3 | I'm very, very excited because we're chatting to someone who lives in the world of medieval |
| 1:49.0 | weird. Her name is Olivia Swarthout, and she is the curator and the creator of the |
| 1:55.2 | absolutely brilliant Twitter feed, Weird Medieval guys. If you haven't followed that, you're missing out on one of the |
| 2:01.9 | great feeds on the internet. Olivia is someone who goes through all the digitized manuscripts from |
| 2:07.0 | medieval times. She picks out the weirdest bits and she publishes them online, but not only that, |
| 2:12.2 | she publishes them in books. She has a brilliant book, which is out now, which is called Weird |
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