Episode 149: Potbelly - the Infamous Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt
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Hello and welcome to History for Weirdos.
We're your hosts, Andrew and Stephanie. And we're going to take you on a journey into the strange, obscure, and relentlessly entertaining corners of human history.
Now listen up, friends, because it's about to get weird.
Weirdos, welcome back to another episode of History for Weirdos.
Do you know what episode number it is?
Oh, I have no idea. Same. I stopped doing the episode numbers and the introductions like... a long time ago who knows how many episodes ago i don't know it's like probably either 140s maybe 150 something like that wow we've been doing this already a long time yeah i remember doing our 50th and like 50th episode right before we traveled to rome like years ago oh wow yeah it was like the last episode we did uh and it was that special like q a episode
Did we do it here at Spotify?
Okay. So much different.
Much more professional.
We were literally in bed recording that.
That's right. That's right. We were extra silly.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well, today we're at Spotify.
Oh, yeah. Again.
Again. Oh, my gosh. So thank you so much to our lovely friends at Spotify who let us use this space. It's so professional.
Yeah, I know.
And everyone's always so nice.
Always. Always so nice. And you might be noticing my sweatshirt here.
If you're watching video, you could see that Andrew has some of our merch on for the Kudiyun Wrestling Club.
This is honestly like one of my favorite, I think, merches that we have.
The design?
Yeah, the design. It's so sick.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I didn't design it, everyone. So I had someone design it, but it was my concept.
Yeah, it was your brain. Yeah. Your brain came up with it.
Before we jump into the episode today, Andrew and I thought it would be fun if I pulled a tarot card for us.
I was like, you know what? It's history for weirdos, right? We need to add the weirdo element here.
Also, I wonder if it's going to be cool to hear the cards shuffling.
Oh, yeah.
Do it. Was that fun?
That was fun.
Was that satisfying?
It was, actually. I messed up the shuffling. She's usually really good at shuffling, guys.
Yeah, because I've been shuffling since I was seven years old. Andrew asked me once, he's like, how are you so good at shuffling? And I was like, what do you mean? Everyone shuffles since they're kids. And he's like, what, what? And I was like, wait, did you not shuffle for your parents when they'd play blackjack?
And I was just like, no.
And I was like, did you also not play bartender and mix the drinks for them?
And I was like, no.
We had slightly different childhood experiences.
You know, just slightly.
Just slightly.
There we go. That was better.
That's a little bit better.
Oh, maybe not.
Oh, my God. Shut up, babe. Okay, okay, okay. There we go. I'm going to have you cut the deck.
All right, I'm going to cut it. I got a kitty.
And then I'll lay out the card for our reading for today. Today, weirdos, the card we've pulled.
What is it? The five of swords.
And I pulled it reverse for the camera, but it was upside down. That means something. So show it upside down.
Or like.
Yes. I actually don't know what that means, so let me look it up.
You insist on doing this and you're like, actually, I have no idea. That's amazing.
I have a really good site that I use. It's called Bitty Tarot.
Oh, that's cute.
Okay. The five of swords reversed represents reconciliation, making amends, and healing past resentment.
Really?
So maybe someone listening to this needed the reminder that it is time to make amends and heal past resentment.
Okay.
Okay?
That's better than I thought.
Yeah. I'd say that's pretty positive.
I don't think that relates to the episode at all, does it?
No, not at all. Should we get started?
Yeah. Speaking of which, while we're here, let's get started. Stephanie, it is your week this week. I hope you have something prepared. I know for a fact you do. But Stephanie, this one was a fan favorite, like a fan favorite of... suggestion we had so many people suggesting this episode and it's in the ancient history realm which most most of the time is usually like geared towards me but this time it's about a subject that you know far more about than i do yes i'm really excited to hear you tell it well i hope i know more than you do i'm always so nervous when i do an ancient history episode because you don't want to disappoint me yeah and it's so hard these are such harder ones
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