Mike Duncan

Do we get a Yankee needing to wear a three digit number in our lifetimes?

Um if he wasn't born of a cherry tree then why did he have wooden teeth 🤔🤔🤔

I got some new glasses recently and the guy was about to start talking about the importance of the little special cloth and I was just like look man you know and I know I'm gonna use my shirt so lets skip this part

This is utterly beside the point but does my profile really show when I joined and say "Bluesky Elder" when I do a post? I don't see that when I look at it myself?

Men do spend more time than women thinking about the Roman Empire — and World War II | YouGov There are sizable differences in the amount of time that men and women spend thinking about historical topics, a recent YouGov survey finds — with men generally saying they spend more time than women ...

oh sorry meant to drop a link to that today.yougov.com/politics/art...

Also just to clear this up my pod comrade @dhmontgomery.com wrote up a poll back in the heyday of Men Think About the Roman Empire Everyday. It's not even close to true. Only like 4% of us are true Roman history sickos

We can't cede every space, topic, and platform to the Nazis just cause there are Nazis there. Sometimes we have to stay seated to maintain a beachhead of normal, cool, and good

The struggle is real

I am simultaneously exhausted beyond comprehension and completely wired. I will now be putting on the Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra and will watch it until sleep comes for me. Or death. Whichever. Both fine

Of all the posts I've seen go up this one most captures how i feel rights now

Ironically there is a person here who totally sounds like a moderately hallucinatory AI chatbot and it's not Kelsey

Oh yeah fascism then and now is absolutely a revolutionary movement. Just a right-wing one

When I go into detail moving through these things day-by-day week-by-week rather than just skipping from one Big Event to the next, I'm hoping the listeners take away that even a revolution is a slow moving process with lots of downtime and accumulation of small events

All brought to you by the same group that in a previous episode staged a riot inside the national capital to disrupt and prevent the legal transfer of power to their political rivals after losing an election

LIVE SOON: Live with Alexis Coe Starting Oct 7 at 8:00 PM EDT

Hello friends! @alexiscoe.bsky.social and I are doing a live feed on her substack tonight. Come hang! open.substack.com/live-stream/...

I was for some reason supremely zen yday. Built a dresser while watching the game. We lost. OK. Tonight finally got to me and I spent the last two innings pacing nonstop

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Substack is messing with us, but we will triumph!

Let's eff em up next Tuesday--same time, same day, same disappointing place!

open.substack.com/pub/alexisco...

Live hit in about 45 min. Come hang. Live!

Listen to us gush about the Mariners. It's so fun

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This was back in Aug 9

"The high-water mark of America’s influence over the world has come and gone. All empires are transitory, right? If you rise, you’re inevitably going to stagnate and fall," says American political history author and podcaster @mikeduncan.bsky.social.

Interview: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire? 'Revolutions' and 'History of Rome' host Mike Duncan discusses the decline of the American empire, comparing it to Rome and other revolutions.

Was the fall of Rome this stupid? I spoke to Revolutions and History of Rome host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about the decline of empires, and the unraveling of America.

Full interview at @rollingstone.com

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

I'm only half kidding when I say my last remaining ambition is to get us on an episode of Nailed It. We made this exploding Nerds Cake the other day just for the hell of it

Well as it happens me and my daughter do a lot of baking together so yeah it's prob gonna smell like cupcakes or cookies. But if you're in my house that means you'll get a cupcake or a cookie!

How Republics End (w/ Mike Duncan) [Unlocked] | Know Your Enemy Mike Duncan (host of the "Revolutions" podcast) joins to discuss the conservative obsession with the fall of Rome — and the real lessons of Roman history.

Fantastic chat between @mattsitman.bsky.social and @mikeduncan.bsky.social about the decline of Rome and the right's perverted efforts to map it on to today's big debates. Matt unearths some oldies but goodies. Highly illuminating all the way: know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/how...

For the uninitiated I was asked in the 250th Episode Q&A what, in my opinion, was the most accurate movie about the Romans and I said "Rome vs. Rome" starring John Drew Barrymore

Truly this is one of the greatest jokes I have ever given myself and it's amazing it's still coming up 10+ years late. A gift from me to me