Category: Bloopers

If you’ve ever looked at texts from the 18th Century, you’ve encountered the medial s, that funny way of printing the letter s that looks like a lower case f.  In our recent episode about solar eclipses, we decided to see what it would sound like to pronounce them as they appear.

Here’s the reading:

This is why the “Oxford” or “Harvard” comma is important in a list of three or more items…

Otherwise, you end up with this: Continue reading Blooper: Oxford Comma

In which co-host Jake just has to say the name “Quock Walker,” and completely loses it.

 

Sometimes, the scripts we write for ourselves don’t sound as good when spoken out loud as they did in our heads. When that happens, we have to rewrite the show in real time.  This is what that sounds like.

In which I have to say the words tomaszewski  and ostracization in the same sentence.  (mildly NSFW)

How do you know that the hosts of a history podcast were humanities majors, not hard science? Listen to us try to subtract 1942 from 1993.

What does it sound like when a podcast host’s chair almost overturns during a recording session?  You’re about to find out.

Here’s a fun blooper from Jake.  While I was hosting solo last week, I ran up against the Boston history podcaster’s Achilles heel… a complete inability to say the word “Massachusetts.”  I stumble almost every time, and it’s a word that comes up a lot.  Here, I try several times to say “Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination,” with sad results.

It’s been a while since I shared a blooper, so here’s a fun one.  That cow that interrupts my discussion of a Revolutionary War skirmish?  My dog, groaning with boredom in the background.  You’d be shocked how often I have to edit similar vocalizations out of the podcast.

In this outtake from , Jake and Nikki struggle to keep it together for a quote from Samuel Sewall on the impropriety of April Fools’ Day.