You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
Welcome to this shiny series about the power of history to help you understand the Strangeness of Now. Sure it may be disconcerting to find that you—and everyone else alive today—are a bunch of weirdos. But it's going to be okay; your host Doug Sofer is a doctor of history and has been trained to help people in situations exactly like yours.
After all, he is a weirdo—just like you.
You Are A Weirdo (with Historian Doug Sofer, Ph.D.)
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You Can't Head West When The West Is In Your Head
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