{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Unpopular opinion: Pawn Stars is actually a really good popular history show; the bits explaining and contextualizing the...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/155384602998/", "html": "<p>Unpopular opinion: Pawn Stars is actually a really good popular history show; the bits explaining and contextualizing the artifacts \u201ccustomers\u201d \u201cbring in\u201d do a good job of exploring history through material culture in a non-academic register; the other stuff is a human interest/conflict hook but it works; if you (correctly) compare it to PBS kids shows it\u2019s got as much or more history per minute as 3-2-1 Contact had science, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego had geography, or Sesame Street had shapes/colors/numbers/letters<br/></p>"}