My name is Isaac Meyer, and I’m a former PhD student at the University of Washington, specializing in modern Japan (with sub-specializations in modern China, modern Europe, and international relations). Today, I work as a teacher at an independent school in the Seattle area.
I also have a tendency to go off on random historical tangents. One day, I decided to combine these two traits in podcast form, and thus was born the History of Japan Podcast!
In 2018, I decided start the Criminal Records Podcast with my wife, Demetria Spinrad. This podcast gives me the chance to talk about world history–and the weird, wonderful world of historical crime and punishment.
Sam,
Interesting subject especially to be taken on by a man.
I enjoyed your talk but next time please talk a little slower. Although my first language is English, you were rather hard to follow.
I’m terrible at public speaking and would never have the courage to actually broadcast my thoughts about anything, so please don’t take this as a criticism.
I also understand that you had time constraints. I’m sure you will do it better next time.
Regards.
Charles
I’ll pass that one along to Sam. He does tend to talk very fast; even I have trouble understanding him sometimes!
Sorry for the late reply; WordPress keeps changing the dashboard format on me and I keep missing comments as a result!
Fascinating subject and content was great, however, I must agree that Sam talked way to fast to make this episode enjoyable.
I will say that to make it more enjoyable, and easier to follow, I slowed the podcast episode down to half speed – which rendered Sam much more intelligible, and gave him an entertaining “drunk-high-surfer-activist” sort of flair.
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Same here – interesting topic/content, but went so fast *I* was getting nervous….!