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About the show

Working show title: TBD (use "Boring History Podcast" as placeholder). The name in the header is the showName value in src/site.config.ts.

Show bible

• Tone: dry, exhaustive, gently comic "boring history". Precise sentences, one quiet aside per beat, no hype, no host memoir.
• Length: 35–45 min spoken (~5,000–6,500 words).
• Segment template: cold open (~400–600 words: hook + the wrong popular story) -> Act 1 / Act 2 / Act 3 (~1,400–1,800 words each; claim -> evidence/constraints -> open question) -> outro (~200–300 words) that locks the next episode's question.
• Always label speculation vs established science where it matters. Never invent citations; sources come only from Research packs.
• Pipeline: Producer outline -> Research source pack (claims tagged CONFIDENT / DISPUTED / MYTH-ADJACENT) -> Script drafts cold open then acts -> Aaron review. No hosting, RSS, or social until Aaron greenlights.

Episodes on this site

The status on each episode is the badge on its page. Episode text is marked as a draft.

• Episode 1, Soup to Us: script v3 final, fact-checked and reviewed, awaiting host review. About 7,300 spoken words (~50 min). Sources are the checked citation list, grouped by section.
• Episode 2, Dinosaur de-extinction: cold open drafted, in review. Sources are Research pack v1.1. Acts 1–3 and the outro are not written.

Credits

Headings are set in Source Serif 4 (Frank Grießhammer, Adobe). Body text is Source Sans 3 (Paul D. Hunt, Adobe). Both are self-hosted from Fontsource under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The plate mark in the header and favicon is original. Nothing here is a stock microphone.