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Volume 47 · AllzweckAffeCovering current events and anniversaries
AllzweckAffe on Discord asks Hello Gary! I listen to some history podcasts that are very “up-to-date” in the sense that they refer to things/events that have an anniversary. I think you mentioned a few months ago that you do not care for those “current” events as topics for the podcast. Now you have done two podcasts giving summaries of the current Nobel prizes and the current Ig-Nobel prizes, which I thoroughly enjoyed and found them very informative. What made you change your mind?
Not trying to sync episodes to anniversaries isn’t a hard-and-fast rule. I have done it, especially with holiday episodes, and I’ll do it again. However, I don’t want to be limited to a “what happened in history on this date” format.
I want the flexibility to cover any topic on any date. That doesn’t mean we won’t occasionally tie an episode to a particular date, but I don’t want to be bound to talk only about specific events on certain dates.
I have nothing against podcasts that talk about what happened on a particular date, but I find it limiting. It makes it impossible to discuss bigger issues that span longer periods of time.
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