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Today's Doodle

Today's Doodle

This one isn't any sort of official patreon doodle, I just couldn't resist That Much Hair and I feel like 30% bad for all my AASS Spicy Takes about such an icon of pop culture

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OSPod 76 After-After Show-Show!

Join the OSCrew for riveting updates on Red's disgusting coffee, questionable takeout adventures, and a solid half-hour wall of Red and Indigo's ADHD perfectly harmonizing into an unstoppable argument about Sailor Moon!

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Misc. Myths: Artemis and Apollo

Misc. Myths: Artemis and Apollo

What do we know? What don't we know? Which is more interesting??

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New Merch Store!

New Merch Store!

Hey Patrons! We've got a brand new merch store for you all! https://overlysarcastic.shop/ 

We've got Shirts, Hoodies, Mugs, Stickers, Pins – and coming very very very soon, plushies – all in one place!

We've also got The Vault, a special patron-on...

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History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv!

History Summarized: The Splendor of Kyiv!

It's got 19 domes, what do you expect from me?

ALSO, our new merch store is live! It's at https://overlysarcastic.shop/ , and all patrons have access to The Vault, a special collection of products exclusively for you all. The passcode for the vault is superse...

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OSPod 75 After-After Show-Show!

Join the OSCrew and special guest Rocco Buttliere in a casual chat about coffee, cinema and the logistics of expensing tiramisu as a business lunch!

(Also, we've set up a patreon-specific RSS for the After After Show Show, so you should be able to get it on your preferred podcast platform!)

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What should I talk about?

Hi all!

Say, hypothetically, that your boy Blue here was giving a free presentation at a public library this fall – What would you want to hear me talk about?

I could talk about a specific topic in history – discuss the creative process working on OSP – crack open some of my favorite media like it's a one-man Detail Di...

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Trope Talk: Prison Break!

Trope Talk: Prison Break!

This video is not 100% about Last Airbender or Andor and I need you all to be proud of me about that

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History Summarized: The Roots of Rome

History Summarized: The Roots of Rome

The Roots of Greece is olive trees, the Roots of Rome is... well, whatever Livy and Virgil tell us they are.

-B

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OSPod 74 After-After Show-Show!

Join the OSCrew for a rollicking good time of Greece tourism and a post-script full of extra thoughts on the latest Detail Diatribe!

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Detail Diatribe: Superheroes in Empty Worlds

Detail Diatribe: Superheroes in Empty Worlds

Red finally identifies something that's been bugging her and then dishes for two hours!

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History Summarized: Malta – An Empire In Miniature

History Summarized: Malta – An Empire In Miniature

Have you ever wanted a video where I don't trim the architecture tangents and just talk about absolutely everything?

Well, want no longer, because here it is!

-B

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OSPod 73 After-After Show-Show!

Join Red and Indigo's patrons-only bonus audio from today's Overly Sarcastic Podcast, featuring kaiju media, an Oppenheimer hot take, and confusion over what constitutes a gundam!

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Trope Talk: Unreliable Narrators

Trope Talk: Unreliable Narrators

"I was the world's nicest guy and they ruined my life for no reason!" and other stories

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History Summarized: The Fall of Babylon

History Summarized: The Fall of Babylon

Can't wait to be eviscerated for my take that the ziggurat which inspired the tower of babel has weird proportions. My architecture goblinry is limitless

-B

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OSPod 72 After-After Show-Show!

Join us for our very first patrons-only bonus audio from today's Overly Sarcastic Podcast for loose conversation about My Adventures With Superman, the character assassination of J. Jonah Jameson Jr., and workers of the world uniting!


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Legends Summarized: The Epic of Gilgamesh!

Legends Summarized: The Epic of Gilgamesh!

two bros chilling in a ziggurat

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History Summarized: The Great Ziggurat of Ur

History Summarized: The Great Ziggurat of Ur

In the river valley where urban society first arose several thousand  years ago, my attention naturally focuses in on the moment they started  building ginormous stuff. In this video we will learn two things: 1) The  great Ziggurat of Ur is one of human civilization's earliest urban  masterpieces, and 2) I'm impeccably basic....

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OSP SUMMER SEASONAL UPDATE!

Oh heck, it WARM. Summer’s here, and that means it’s time for another update on what’s new and next for us at OSP!

We’ve had a busy spring, with Red, Cyan and I (and Dominic Noble) heading to New Zealand to attend Hello Future Me’s wedding – an absolute blast of a time, and truly magical to celebrate with them in person. After ...

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Trope Talk: Pinocchio Plots

Trope Talk: Pinocchio Plots

Let's all become Real Boys™!

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History Summarized: The Castles of Wales

History Summarized: The Castles of Wales

Every castle tells a story, but when one small country has over 600  castles, the collective story they tell is something like "holy heck  ouch, ow, oh god, why are there so many arrows, ouch, good lord ow" –  And that's Wales for you.

-B

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DD: TTRPGs That Aren't D&D (and why they slap)

DD: TTRPGs That Aren't D&D (and why they slap)

Today's guest presenter schools us in the New Ways of RPGs!

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History-Makers: Plato!

History-Makers: Plato!

This video looks fine on a laptop, phone or TV, but for the best experience you have to project it onto the wall of a cave.

-B

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Trope Talk: Faustian Bargains!

Trope Talk: Faustian Bargains!

Let's shake on it!

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History Summarized: Iceland's Hallgrimskirkja

History Summarized: Iceland's Hallgrimskirkja

A name is more complicated than the church itself.

-B

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Legends Summarized: The Nine(?) Realms

Legends Summarized: The Nine(?) Realms

A super casual descent into madness!

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History Summarized: Sparta's Finest Hour

History Summarized: Sparta's Finest Hour

It's the criminally-little-known story of Kleomenes III and his mother Kratisikleia, an all time great story from Greek history.

Also it was the subject of my undergraduate honors thesis 5 years ago. Link to that paper is available in the description.

-Blue

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Trope Talk: Bathos

Trope Talk: Bathos

it's right behind me isn't it

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Detail Diatribe – Historians Playing Historical Games: Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?

Detail Diatribe – Historians Playing Historical Games: Why Do We Hurt Ourselves?

My and Ludohistory's panel from Pax East last month! Had an absolute blast giving this presentation live in front of hundreds and hundreds of you!

-B

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Detail Diatribe: Arcane's Unbreakable Bonds of Love

Detail Diatribe: Arcane's Unbreakable Bonds of Love

For a show where half the main characters are destined to become eternal nemeses with the other half, Arcane sure likes making that difficult.

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