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I will admit to secretly loving the offseason. It gives us a chance to exit the car of narrative inertia and stretch out our weirdo legs a bit, and nothing allows me to do that more than 45 minutes of unmonitored podcast time, a massive head cold, and a co-host willing to incentivize me talking about both Game of Thrones and the American Civil War.
But hey; it's the offseason, baby. Everything is on the table, and that means that you become more critical than ever in helping us with the Eleven Dubcast. We had a ton of excellent questions for Ask Us Anything this week (which you can do either via e-mail or Twitter), so much so that we couldn't get to them all! We'll make up for it next week, but until then, please remember to rate and subscribe and maybe ask us to confront human fragility or something? That'd be cool.
0:00- So, yes, I'm obviously aware that the books are collectively called "A Song of Ice and Fire." "Game of Thrones" just happens to be a billion times easier to say, so I stuck with it.
23:24- Ask Us Anything! Let's pay some players, why not? And to be honest, there are plenty of stumbling blocks, and we appreciate the dialog with our listeners who don't necessarily agree. You guys are great at articulating your point of view on this one.
39:50- Okay, brief clarification here: while there were many Confederate monuments put up in the South in response the Civil Rights era (and the flying of the Confederate flag above statehouses/Stone Mountain was definitely of that time), even more monuments to the Confederacy and Confederate troops were erected throughout the south by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and other hereditary groups in the very early 1900s. While myself and many others would argue that the UDC's goal was and still is Lost Cause revisionism, they were reacting more to the ebb of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow than the Civil Rights period.
And that will do it! Thanks to you for listening, thanks to Travis for our sweet, sweet logo, and if you want to help us out, check out the Dry Goods store. See you next week!
