1
00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:11,119
Welcome to Softcore History. Hello,
and welcome back to Softcore History. I'm

2
00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:14,279
your host for this week, Jake
Goldman. I'm joined as always by my

3
00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:18,440
two co hosts, Dan Regester and
Rob Fox. Lovely to be here today,

4
00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:21,280
boys, Thanks for having me on
your show. Guys, oh Man,

5
00:00:21,399 --> 00:00:24,320
you know when I introduce him,
he does that, it's always a

6
00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:27,600
pleasure. Yeah. When I don't
introduce him, it's you never introduced me.

7
00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,800
So that's the inside baseball you'll get
so far today. But before we

8
00:00:31,839 --> 00:00:34,960
talk any more about our amazing history
podcast, I do want to do one

9
00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,960
thing of housekeeping real quick. Just
one. We have a Patreon we do.

10
00:00:39,359 --> 00:00:43,759
It's patreon dot com slash soft core
History. Please, if you enjoy

11
00:00:43,840 --> 00:00:48,039
this content, for five dollars a
month, you get two additional episodes a

12
00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:52,799
week. That's eight episodes a month. Jake, everything is evergreen. Everything's

13
00:00:52,799 --> 00:00:58,679
evergreen hours. Oh, two years
of content, two years of extra content

14
00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:00,840
for five bucks a month. You
got long drive coming up? I know,

15
00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,359
I do. I'm about to go
to Florida. It's the perfect time

16
00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:07,879
to jump in. Got hours and
hours of time to kill. Listen to

17
00:01:07,959 --> 00:01:11,719
us just guys being dudes talking history, talking about dudes being guys. But

18
00:01:11,760 --> 00:01:17,920
I think no one said great recent
review, great banner, mediocre, history

19
00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,599
perfect. That's yeah, that's that
might be our tagline from here on out.

20
00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:25,319
Are you going to? Are you
gonna meet babies in Florida? Yeah,

21
00:01:25,879 --> 00:01:29,319
gonna meet nieces. You're gonna feed
any babies? You're gonna hold them.

22
00:01:29,519 --> 00:01:33,120
I will hold them, suckle at
a bottle. I don't know or

23
00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:34,879
how close is? How close is
your family? Are you allowed to hold

24
00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:38,519
the baby? Are you gonna hold
the baby while breastfeeds. It's not like

25
00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,480
you cradle it. It's actually gonna
suck on Jake's teat. There's multiple babies

26
00:01:44,519 --> 00:01:48,000
I'm seeing, so seen a lot
of babies. Well, get ready,

27
00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:51,319
my new uncle, So gotta see
them babies. Your nips aren't gonna be

28
00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:57,840
fresh anymore. Just toss them a
protein bar, muscle milk with a nipple

29
00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:00,239
on it. If I breast said
for me right now, Dan, would

30
00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:05,359
just muscle milk come out? Depends
have you been lifting? No? It

31
00:02:05,439 --> 00:02:08,439
depends on you. Oh, like
your your teet knows what I need.

32
00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:16,520
It's very it's very like caring.
I guess that's very providing. So it's

33
00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:21,080
gotta be in that like hour anabottlic
window. It's like if I suck on

34
00:02:21,159 --> 00:02:23,159
dance tea more than an hour after
I lift we it's it just shoots out

35
00:02:23,159 --> 00:02:28,439
water. It's like hydrate, you
idiot. Otherwise it's some electrolytes, pedia

36
00:02:28,479 --> 00:02:32,400
light or muscle milk, one or
the other. But uh, you know,

37
00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:37,840
today I wanted to talk a little
bit about something that no one's talking

38
00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,960
about right now. The Roman Empire. Yeah wow, yeah, a little

39
00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:46,599
wait on that mean my guy?
Yeah, but not any part of the

40
00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,199
Roman Empire in particular, that's good, or like, well look at the

41
00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:52,319
Roman Empire. Go, it's just
a general overview of the Roman emper We're

42
00:02:52,319 --> 00:02:54,759
gonna start from your one, the
history of Rome. No, we're not

43
00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:58,280
doing that. Oh, we're talking
about this is a little bit more of

44
00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:01,879
a complex thing we've talked about before. That's crazy. We have two episodes

45
00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:07,120
really about Italy this week when we
kind of accidentally do that all the there's

46
00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,680
a lot of three lines with that
we never planned either because we don't talk

47
00:03:09,719 --> 00:03:15,879
to each other. We don't want
to. Outside of this was like Oasis.

48
00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:20,159
We fucking hate it, surely for
personally sabotage rob every chance I get

49
00:03:20,599 --> 00:03:23,080
and speak poorly about him in the
press. Is that why the cookies you

50
00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:25,840
made were such dog shit? Those
cookies were fucking great. Oh I thought

51
00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:29,560
you sabotaged their taste to funk with
me. Yeah, you didn't like them?

52
00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:34,120
Real you didn't like those cookies?
What was wrong with them? Just

53
00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:38,400
kidding bits over? Oh? Yeah
no, it was good, delicious?

54
00:03:38,439 --> 00:03:40,080
Thank you? Yeah? Yeah,
Jake came in them. They were made.

55
00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:45,719
Well, that's what I would hope
is gotcha? Gotcha? Good?

56
00:03:45,879 --> 00:03:52,319
Was actually when they were cooling,
I emerald agassied them with salt, salt

57
00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:53,759
batim. Yeah, I hit them
with some salt. I could taste the

58
00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:57,919
salt or was that just the jizz? Yes? Yeah, that was the

59
00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:02,400
protein. Yeah what you eat before? Before I mean the cookies. No

60
00:04:02,599 --> 00:04:08,919
for the com Oh, pineapple class
pineapple and a lot of pineapple and papaya.

61
00:04:09,439 --> 00:04:12,879
Good for your tummy. I mean
I regret giving him my toddler.

62
00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:16,120
Yeah, that's on you. It
feels like it's on you. They were

63
00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,600
for your birthday, so they weren't. Are you sharing your birthday? Why

64
00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:24,519
would you do that? I don't
know, I don't know if you ca'ed

65
00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:29,439
like too good for us? Being
so selfless. We uh, we talked

66
00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:34,160
about this in particular subject like offhand
a lot, and I've had a couple

67
00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:39,680
of people ask me like, where
did the like the feudal monarchy come from?

68
00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,800
Yeah, and I was like,
fuck it, we're tackling that today.

69
00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:45,879
So today we're gonnam borrow. That's
fun. Oh by the way,

70
00:04:45,879 --> 00:04:47,480
real quick speaking of the Roman Empire. Right of course, right before we

71
00:04:47,519 --> 00:04:50,720
got on this, I saw a
headline on my Instagram that was like,

72
00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:57,360
uh, fuck, it's ridiculous.
It was something along lines of like hater

73
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,720
LGBT group declares hater and wall like
gay icon or something like that. But

74
00:05:02,399 --> 00:05:04,839
yeah, why, I don't know. There was a lot of there's a

75
00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:08,879
lot of dicks drawn on it,
fair enough, Roman soldiers. I mean

76
00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:12,360
I don't know that that. I
mean, if that's the case, then

77
00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,920
I have several notebooks from high school
that are iconic. Get a bathroom.

78
00:05:16,399 --> 00:05:19,040
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
You might be honest with something. A

79
00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:24,439
lot of a lot of medieval monk
books too. Gosh, yeah, everywhere

80
00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:28,680
cox snails like snail cocks, dix
that have a shell, that Knight's ride.

81
00:05:28,879 --> 00:05:33,120
We've always wanted to draw dicks it's
It's definitely one of the They're fun

82
00:05:33,399 --> 00:05:36,040
and easy to draw. They are
easy to draw. It's a lot easier

83
00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,319
to draw penis in it. It's
like that one s everyone drew in middle

84
00:05:40,319 --> 00:05:43,519
school that's been around for a while. No one knows the true origin of

85
00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:46,439
that. What is the name of
it? I forget the cool s,

86
00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:53,920
but I hope like the next like
horrifying genocidal fascist empire appropriates that s for

87
00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,360
their flag, so it becomes essentially
thiswaka. Yeah, the same way this

88
00:05:57,399 --> 00:06:01,759
swastika. It was like a totally
benign symbol peace. Yeah. Last time

89
00:06:01,759 --> 00:06:04,560
I was in New Orleans, I
went to a bar and the floor and

90
00:06:04,720 --> 00:06:09,879
was all from like the early eighteen
hundreds or yeah, laid eighteen hundreds whatever,

91
00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:13,000
and it was full swastik, pre
Nazi swastika. Yep. Yeah,

92
00:06:13,079 --> 00:06:15,279
it's hard to Like. The harder
thing for that would be, like,

93
00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:17,639
you know, for the Swaska people
be like, well, you know,

94
00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:23,639
it's part of this like Indian culture
thing, like with the coolest to be

95
00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,079
like middle school Austry. Yeah,
yeah, like there would be no like

96
00:06:27,439 --> 00:06:30,639
what was this before? It's like, well, we don't know. It

97
00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,360
was a show that you were dope. Yeah, people don't suck it up

98
00:06:33,399 --> 00:06:36,480
and make it a square on accident. It's like you couldn't do it,

99
00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:43,040
nerd. But yeah, today we're
embarking on a high level, comprehensive exploration

100
00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,439
of how the fall of the Western
Roman Empire led to a more modern concepts

101
00:06:46,439 --> 00:06:50,800
of monarchy and royalty through feudalism.
So this time period, I have a

102
00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:54,680
book on it that I really need
to read. What I just never do?

103
00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,839
Why about the time period? The
time period between the fall right around

104
00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:00,199
the fall of Western Rome, like
a low before it and then threw it

105
00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,120
up until the rise of Islam?
To me is like one of the most

106
00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:08,160
fascinating time periods in human history.
I just stabbed Julius Caesar and Assassin's great

107
00:07:08,199 --> 00:07:11,720
origins? Did you I did last
night? YouTube? Brother? Was he

108
00:07:11,759 --> 00:07:15,360
a real boner? Was he like
all like a little peak cut cry about

109
00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:16,759
it? He was? He was
kind of feeling himself. It was a

110
00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:19,279
heat check, and then I just
went in with a fucking knife. Nothing

111
00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:24,439
quite kills a heat check like a
stab in the back. Forty people.

112
00:07:24,519 --> 00:07:28,879
Yeah, you canna winn not today, bro, Sabby Stabby. I do

113
00:07:28,959 --> 00:07:32,680
love how they kind of appropriate history
and like throw you into it. Yeah,

114
00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:34,879
it's in those games. It's just
like, yeah, I'm gonna kill

115
00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:39,720
Caesar. It's a good gateway drug. I want to get plugged into some

116
00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:44,480
like historical video games that Tarantino Retcon's
history, and like I would love to

117
00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:47,319
play Glorious Bastards. I don't think
i'd ever suppling that game. Just light

118
00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:51,079
up Hitler in the movie theater before
you burn it. Glorious that's almost just

119
00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:55,759
Wolfenstein. Really, it is kind
of Wolfings. What was the Michael Bay

120
00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,480
movie where it was like Nazi zombies
or Nazi vampires. I don't think that

121
00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:01,199
was a Bay move. It wasn't. Scarscard was in it, I think,

122
00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,279
but yeah, I know what you're
talking about. It was and like

123
00:08:05,399 --> 00:08:09,720
Bad Boys Overlord, it was Overlord
because Operation Overlord is D Day. Yeah.

124
00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:11,720
Have you ever seen Overlord? I
have not watched it. Transformers,

125
00:08:11,879 --> 00:08:18,920
yes, Transformer nazisticons in the Nazis
Pearl Harbor. I look, I like

126
00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,319
the movie Pearl Harbor. I just
like bet Aflick. I like Michael Bay.

127
00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:26,279
He's a great director. I don't
I don't care. He gets a

128
00:08:26,319 --> 00:08:30,480
lot of unnecessary shit. I also
like, did you ever hear his response

129
00:08:30,519 --> 00:08:35,360
when people called his movies like dumb
and and whatever, I'm rich and hot.

130
00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:39,919
Well kind of basically he goes,
I make he literally this is his

131
00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,279
quote, was I make movies for
thirteen year old boys. Oh what a

132
00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:46,840
crime. I've loved people that know
they're fucking lane. Yeah, and you're

133
00:08:46,879 --> 00:08:50,240
unapologetic. Yes, yeah, I
love that, And I love the comedian

134
00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:56,039
that accidentally tried to roast Zack Snyder. Have you seen that clip? Yeah,

135
00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,960
yeah, Well he's just like he's
doing crowd work. He's doing crowd

136
00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:01,840
work, and he's just like,
oh, you're a director. Hah,

137
00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,679
what have you made it? And
he's like, well, do you know

138
00:09:03,679 --> 00:09:07,679
any director's named Zach And he's like
yeah, Zack Snyder. He's like,

139
00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,759
well that's me. He was like, you have to be fucking kidding me.

140
00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:13,399
The guy must be like, well, shit, my day's over.

141
00:09:13,759 --> 00:09:16,879
I have a good one, Zack
Snyder. Well here's how you win that

142
00:09:16,919 --> 00:09:20,600
one. You go, uh oh, hey, well great to have you

143
00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,000
here. Did you bring your daughter? Oh I don't know the context of

144
00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:28,720
that. She's dead. Oh no, like tragically, extremely tragically. Yeah,

145
00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:31,360
it was unaware he had a child. Well, he doesn't well,

146
00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:37,519
yeah, that's true. If any
comedians are doing crowd work and Zack Snyder

147
00:09:37,559 --> 00:09:41,279
is in the crowd, peaks his
fucking head into it again, ruins your

148
00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:45,799
night because you can't get a good
joke off. Yeah, why don't you

149
00:09:45,879 --> 00:09:50,360
ruin his life? So I want
to cover how feudalism's origin and the shadows

150
00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,639
of the Roman Empire and its adaptation
through turmoil and post Roman Empire in Europe

151
00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:00,639
kind of influence, how feudalism gets
started, and we're going to kind of

152
00:10:00,639 --> 00:10:03,600
cross into like the height of influence
under Charlete Man and it's enduring legacy in

153
00:10:03,639 --> 00:10:07,720
our money. You stop talking about
what you're going to talk about and talk

154
00:10:07,759 --> 00:10:11,840
about talk about what you're going to
talk about. As I said that kid

155
00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:13,440
in high school is like, you're
not even ready for what I'm about to

156
00:10:13,519 --> 00:10:16,960
do. No, dude, you're
not even right. Like the things that

157
00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:20,799
are actually going on they make me
sick. You wouldn't sleep at night if

158
00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,840
you knew the truth, you know
what I mean? Like if you only

159
00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,159
knew, if you knew what was
run in this world, if you would

160
00:10:28,360 --> 00:10:33,200
ship your pants and vomit out your
eyeballs. I a year ago when Rory

161
00:10:33,320 --> 00:10:35,120
was really sick, and I'd just
like sleep with him at night to make

162
00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:39,840
sure he was sitting up because his
auction would get too low. It's fine,

163
00:10:39,879 --> 00:10:46,879
he lived. I'm not Zack Snyder
anyway. Look, there's plenty of

164
00:10:46,879 --> 00:10:52,799
time Zach's a fan of the show
to Zax well will for a review,

165
00:10:52,159 --> 00:10:56,960
catching else everywhere. God damn.
I think Zack Snyder is much like Michael

166
00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:01,840
Bay Like, genuinely, I think
he's criminally like people are too mean to

167
00:11:01,919 --> 00:11:05,279
him. Just the guy who just
said what he said well, I meant

168
00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,480
about his work. Well, his
work was like loved universally at first,

169
00:11:09,519 --> 00:11:13,759
and then people turned on him.
The Dawn of the Dead remake is one

170
00:11:13,759 --> 00:11:16,600
of my favorite horror movies, one
of the best remakes of all time of

171
00:11:16,639 --> 00:11:18,519
anything. Yeah, and then Watchman
is great. I don't care what anyone

172
00:11:18,519 --> 00:11:22,399
says. I don't care what little
nerd boys said on the internet. Watchman

173
00:11:22,480 --> 00:11:26,320
is a dope movie, and three
hundreds dope too. Those are like,

174
00:11:26,120 --> 00:11:30,840
I don't care. Is that his
fault? DC sucks ass. He wasn't

175
00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,320
the only one that made a shitty
DC movie. Every fucking person who made

176
00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:37,200
a DC movie made a shitty d
So then they hyped up the Snyder cut

177
00:11:37,279 --> 00:11:39,279
and it did not live up to
I'm sure it didn't. I didn't even

178
00:11:39,279 --> 00:11:43,559
bother with it. I'm actually like
an hour into the New The the the

179
00:11:43,639 --> 00:11:48,440
Batman, the Pattinson one. It
sucks. It's so far. I'm like,

180
00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:50,519
all right, I'm waiting. They
would just sit around me, like

181
00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:52,600
what's the point of this. I'm
like an hour in and I'm like,

182
00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:58,679
this better turns. So that's most
of my life. I'm sorry, Dan

183
00:11:58,639 --> 00:12:01,639
so as I said. The story
begins with the decline of the Western Roman

184
00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:07,559
Empire. The empire was stretched thin
by best territories and plagued by economic instability.

185
00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:11,080
Just blame the legal immigrants. Well, it's not like, is it

186
00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:16,440
immigration if you're forcing them to be
you, if you're borging them like when

187
00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:18,360
you're conquering. No, no,
they weren't conquering. Actually, it's really

188
00:12:18,360 --> 00:12:20,879
funny. One of the problems in
the late Roman Empire is that so like

189
00:12:22,279 --> 00:12:26,759
the Huns, and the Huns in
particular was funny because you know how it's

190
00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:28,039
kind of the opposite of this.
But you know how when there's a tsunami,

191
00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:33,000
all the water retreats back, yeah, and keeps going and so you're

192
00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,960
like, there's a reaction before the
primary, before the primary animals. Yeah,

193
00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:43,559
so before the Huns came in.
The Roman Empire was invaded immediately before

194
00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:50,159
that by people being like looking over
there showing like fuck, it's like coming.

195
00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,480
It's like there's people freaking out running. It's like a World War Z

196
00:12:54,799 --> 00:13:00,399
kind of situation. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah then yeah and then

197
00:13:00,440 --> 00:13:05,360
the Huns k that's what a nightmare. Yeah, but they could no longer

198
00:13:05,399 --> 00:13:09,600
maintain their grip on their far flung
provinces. The third century in particular,

199
00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,960
saw the Empire weakened by internal strife, economic depression, and a series of

200
00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:18,120
invasions by Germanic tribes. This period, they're getting invaded a lot. It

201
00:13:18,159 --> 00:13:22,840
was also interesting in late Rome,
if I recall correctly, because they actually

202
00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,799
kind of switched up their military in
general, switched a lot where instead of

203
00:13:28,879 --> 00:13:33,279
being basically the classic Roman army that
you think of, became a lot more

204
00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:35,919
cavalry focused, and they hire,
and they were using a lot more like

205
00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:41,759
auxilia and just basically foreign or like
non Roman citizens the right word, but

206
00:13:41,879 --> 00:13:48,159
like non Roman, non central Roman
Empire kind of troops, not like a

207
00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,840
lot of Germanic troops. But yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the

208
00:13:50,879 --> 00:13:54,600
periods that really kind of sets it
off is the Crisis of the third century.

209
00:13:56,240 --> 00:13:58,120
That sets at the stage for a
lot of the eventual downfall. And

210
00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:01,600
you know, we could do a
whole episode of the Crisis of the third

211
00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,559
century, which is just tons of
military conflict within the actual you know,

212
00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:09,080
it's military anarchy. U, what's
new. Yeah, it's really like the

213
00:14:09,159 --> 00:14:13,360
first second no, the second century, the one hundreds, yeah, right,

214
00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:18,039
that was largely that was sort of
the Pox Romana. I think Pox

215
00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,200
Romana started in the first century,
and it was like half first century,

216
00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,320
half second century. But that whole
period they were basically like, dude,

217
00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:28,440
this is sweet. We're like barely
having civil wars. Yeah, it was

218
00:14:28,480 --> 00:14:33,440
dope. Yeah, But the rest
of the Roman I mean, most of

219
00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:37,879
the biggest Romans you know about are
because of civil wars. Fucking Caesar for

220
00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,279
one, and Augustus and Mark Anthony
all in the same set of like eight

221
00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:45,320
civil wars in a row that they
had. And then if you want to

222
00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:50,039
go late Empire, fucking Constantine that
was he became emperor thanks to it,

223
00:14:50,279 --> 00:14:54,519
like civil war, like they were
always fucking having they were dipping their toes

224
00:14:54,559 --> 00:15:00,639
too much into other just like empires. Yeah, so that was really the

225
00:15:00,679 --> 00:15:05,679
issue kind of like why are you
fucking around in Egypt? Stop spreading so

226
00:15:05,759 --> 00:15:09,279
thill they controlled Egypt. I mean, it's a miracle they were able to

227
00:15:09,279 --> 00:15:13,200
control the entire perimeter of the Mediterranean
Sea at one point. But if they

228
00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:18,320
had really just built the wall kind
of on the Persians and not kept trying

229
00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:24,039
to conquer whatever that Persian Empire was
called in that iteration of it, like

230
00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,039
they spent and the Byzantines did this
too later, which is why Islam was

231
00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,720
able to roll over the Eastern Roman
Empire and the Persians is because like they

232
00:15:31,840 --> 00:15:37,480
just constantly fought and bankrupted each other
and then there would be horrible consequences within

233
00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:43,159
their own empires and then they'd regroup
and then to have another fucking eighty years

234
00:15:43,159 --> 00:15:46,840
a war. It would just run
through. Yeah, insane over time that

235
00:15:46,879 --> 00:15:50,759
the bases your currency, yeah,
causes economic collapse. And there was also

236
00:15:50,919 --> 00:15:54,679
the plague of Cyprian or Cyprian Cyprian
Cyprian, contributing to a lot of disorder

237
00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,840
they had just like peasant uprisings,
It did so much shit going on.

238
00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,200
Was the plague of Cyprian black death. I don't know actually, because they

239
00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:07,480
do think the plague they are now
like pretty positive the plague of Justinian,

240
00:16:07,519 --> 00:16:10,440
which was a couple hundre years later, was actually the first instance of black

241
00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:15,440
death. Yeah. Uh, but
Rob, what if I told you it

242
00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:22,600
was before, I would have told
you that black death was before. They

243
00:16:22,639 --> 00:16:29,559
think the Cyprian thing could have been
either smallpox, measles or a bowl of

244
00:16:29,639 --> 00:16:33,159
virus. Al yeah, they think
it could have been a bola be here,

245
00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:37,240
Like I think that would have wiped
really hard to transfer a bola.

246
00:16:37,600 --> 00:16:42,519
Yeah, it's anally mm hmm.
There was ever an empire? Yeah for

247
00:16:42,559 --> 00:16:47,399
real? Yeah, you're right,
flesh eating but virus. Yeah. Well,

248
00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:49,320
anyway, as Rome's power weighed through
all this, its ability to protect

249
00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:52,200
its citizens. Actually, I heard
a good joke the other day. Oh

250
00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:59,720
do it. It's like Greeks invented
threesomes, Romans involved women. It's probably

251
00:16:59,759 --> 00:17:03,000
true. Yeah, yeah, so, yeah, they couldn't really protect their

252
00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:07,279
citizens, especially in the further reaches
of the empire. In response, wealthy

253
00:17:07,359 --> 00:17:12,319
landowners began to fortify their estates and
offer protection to the surrounding community in exchange

254
00:17:12,319 --> 00:17:18,920
for labor or share of the produce
that was made on the estate. This

255
00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:22,160
is in effect kind of borrowed from
the Roman practice of patronage, which they

256
00:17:22,160 --> 00:17:26,920
invented, where wealthy landowners would protect
lesser citizens in return for services that's even

257
00:17:27,079 --> 00:17:33,039
within the city and things like that. That's basically this is the precursor to

258
00:17:33,079 --> 00:17:37,200
the feudal system. So this informal
system laid the groundwork for feudal relationships.

259
00:17:37,279 --> 00:17:40,240
And it was just basically people being
like, can someone help me not get

260
00:17:40,319 --> 00:17:42,000
raped? And they're like, we
got walls, Yeah, we got walls

261
00:17:42,039 --> 00:17:45,000
and stuff. We and we've kind
of talked about this too, like you

262
00:17:45,000 --> 00:17:48,480
know, people for their service and
things like that, and generals and shit,

263
00:17:48,519 --> 00:17:52,880
they'd get a fucking or they have
to fortify shit out there. So

264
00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:56,839
someone's put in position of power in
a tower or a castle or something out

265
00:17:56,880 --> 00:18:00,000
on the outskirts. They've got some
walled off land, right, shit's falling

266
00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,720
apart. They're like, I'm kind
of just like here now, so and

267
00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:08,119
like, look like these little estates
that the rich people had or whatever,

268
00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:15,400
Like they're obviously not going to stop
like a Hunnic army or a Gothic army,

269
00:18:15,519 --> 00:18:18,759
not the entire thing. Yeah,
what they will do is be too

270
00:18:18,799 --> 00:18:23,799
much trouble for raid parties breaking off
and bandits and anything like that, and

271
00:18:23,880 --> 00:18:29,160
that just get to thrive in the
chaos. Yeah, exactly, the offshoots

272
00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:32,880
of the bigger fights. Yeah,
like, if the whole army comes in

273
00:18:32,920 --> 00:18:34,119
the years doesn't matter. Yeah,
I mean, if they really want to

274
00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:38,319
fuck you up, they will.
But for the just kind of marauding assholes,

275
00:18:38,319 --> 00:18:41,599
you can fend them off a lot
better, which I mean these armies

276
00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:45,920
lived off the land. Yeah,
so well, speaking of the fall again,

277
00:18:45,000 --> 00:18:48,759
the final blow to the Western Roman
Empire came in the fifth century,

278
00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,799
when a series of invasions and culminating
in the Sack of Rome by the Visigoths

279
00:18:52,799 --> 00:18:56,920
and four ten and the Vandals in
four fifty five pretty much shattered the illusion

280
00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:02,759
of Roman invincibility. The deposition of
Romulus Augustulus and for seventy six by the

281
00:19:02,839 --> 00:19:07,839
Germanic chieftain odacer Is Otiser or whatever. Yeah, it's traditionally marked as the

282
00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,119
end of the Western Roman Empire.
It is funny that the last Western Roman

283
00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:18,880
empire was named Romulus Romulus Augustus Romulus
founder of Rome, Augustus, the first

284
00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:22,799
emperor. Yeah pretty uh really book
ended it well, yeah, poetic.

285
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:30,359
Yeah, So the Titanic of Emperor
name the power vacuum left in Europe left

286
00:19:30,599 --> 00:19:33,039
all of the structure of Europe at
that time fragmented, with numerous tribal kingdoms

287
00:19:33,160 --> 00:19:37,359
vying for dominance at that time.
All in all, the decline of the

288
00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,559
Roman Empire didn't happen overnight, though
there was a gradual process exacerbated by the

289
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:45,079
economic term one. Well, I
was told it wasn't built overnight. It

290
00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:48,759
wasn't torn down overnight, either,
but it definitely got a lot of gasoline

291
00:19:48,759 --> 00:19:51,519
port on it in the last few
hundred years of it. That's one of

292
00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:55,319
my like low key favorite thirty rock
lines. Jack is like in Congress and

293
00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:57,759
he's like, gentlemen, Rome wasn't
built in a day, and someone's just

294
00:19:57,759 --> 00:20:03,559
like, well one theory. I
can see Matt Gates saying that, yeah,

295
00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:07,839
yeah, yeah. So all of
this like change in power vacuum led

296
00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:11,880
to a shift in the way the
land was managed and protected. This is

297
00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,759
where feudalism just comes perfectly in.
It's like perfect, you go, It's

298
00:20:15,799 --> 00:20:19,440
already happening in a way, but
as central authority disintegrated, lords and landowners

299
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,319
turned into micro kings and became de
factor of rulers of their micro kingdoms,

300
00:20:23,759 --> 00:20:29,119
offering protection to the peasantry. At
its core, feudalism wasn't much different from

301
00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,240
what they were already operating on before
though, so it's kind of perfect.

302
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:36,279
They were still second class citizens before
that. Yeah, no, totally,

303
00:20:36,319 --> 00:20:40,759
they were plubs. Yeah, it
was just like it got a lot more

304
00:20:40,799 --> 00:20:45,279
intimate, I would say, like
it got way more localized. You're like,

305
00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:51,480
you're mine now, slave local It's
kind of like you're not a slave,

306
00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,000
but like if you stop working,
we'll fucking kill you. Yeah,

307
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:57,559
Like, well that's the thing.
So it's it is just really funny.

308
00:20:57,559 --> 00:21:00,359
So they got they ran in behind
the w and you know, the lord

309
00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:06,160
or the the patron or whatever had
armed people to man the walls. And

310
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:07,559
then once things calmed down and they
were like, okay, few, we're

311
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,640
leaving, and then those armed guys
that were looking out turn around and look

312
00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:15,119
back in and we're like, no, stay in. Yeah, man,

313
00:21:15,279 --> 00:21:18,799
isn't a two way wall. It's
armed in, armed out. Yeah,

314
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:22,160
you're not only trapped, you're you
were once saved. Now you're trapped here

315
00:21:22,279 --> 00:21:26,839
right. Well, sometimes in order
to elevate you have to look within.

316
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:34,359
Yes, self reflection is important,
and I always like to look in when

317
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:37,480
I have a bunch of people helping
me, and I'm like, hmm,

318
00:21:38,519 --> 00:21:41,440
let me look inside and see how
I can perpetuate this so I don't have

319
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:45,359
to do anything. That's the best
way to go about it. Yes,

320
00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:49,519
absolutely, that's right. So one
of the most significant aspects of feudalism,

321
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,440
that kind of the more intimate part
as I was seeing, was the concept

322
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:59,640
of fealty. So the development of
oaths of loyalty and service from a vassal

323
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:03,440
to his lord really starting to pick
up steam here. Uh. The oath

324
00:22:03,519 --> 00:22:07,200
was often sealed in a ceremonial act
of homage, where the vassal would kneel

325
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,240
before the lord and place his hands
between those of the lord as a sign

326
00:22:10,279 --> 00:22:14,240
of submission and fidelity to his lord. It's like, it's like a promise

327
00:22:14,319 --> 00:22:17,319
ring you give to your servant,
your servant gives to you. I don't

328
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,880
really like, I promise I'll always
work your lands. Bro, just sobbing

329
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,400
for the lord. You are like
at a certain point, this is I

330
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:27,880
guess, like it's essentially an the
entured servant. Dude, it's not quite

331
00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:36,039
slave they would be disgusted by the
current job landscape, job hopping disgusting.

332
00:22:37,079 --> 00:22:40,880
No, you would be Jake would
be dead immediately, Oh for sure.

333
00:22:41,599 --> 00:22:45,559
What is it? Uh? What's
the word? Not apogram? No,

334
00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:48,000
we're not going there. We're not
going to pograms quite yet. We won't

335
00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,160
get into that in this episode at
all. Maybe one day. Uh.

336
00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,119
What is the word for when people
run away? Not traitor, but they're

337
00:22:56,160 --> 00:23:00,240
abandoning their running away deserter. Yeah, everyon would be killed. This is

338
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:07,480
a deserter. Yeah, but yeah, the redmaker and you deserted. Who's

339
00:23:07,559 --> 00:23:12,240
going to slice the loafs? The
Baker's left us. The ceremony of fealty

340
00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:17,839
underscored the personal bond at the heart
of the feudal relationship, transcending more than

341
00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:22,960
mere economic transactions. This was pledging
your life to the guy whose house you

342
00:23:22,039 --> 00:23:30,319
lived at. So another important period
that kind of bolstered feudalism was the Migration

343
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:34,839
period, which was a time of
significant upheopal in Europe that occurred pretty much

344
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:40,599
right after the fall and during the
fall really, so from about four hundred

345
00:23:40,599 --> 00:23:42,759
and eighty to eight hundred eighty.
This is when feudalism just is like,

346
00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:47,799
yeah, that's it. Yeah.
Yeah. So during this era, various

347
00:23:47,839 --> 00:23:51,599
Germanic tribes, including the Goths,
Vandals, and Franks, moved across the

348
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:55,359
continent, often clashing with Roman forces
and other forces that were vying for power

349
00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,759
after the fall, and they would
just start settling into Roman territories too.

350
00:23:57,839 --> 00:24:02,960
It had to suck if you had
work for a low level guy. Yeah,

351
00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:06,440
like, I don't respect you,
bottom tier lord. Yeah, just

352
00:24:06,759 --> 00:24:11,240
fuck. I got Count Jim,
Like, I'm gonna be essentially an indentured

353
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,359
servant, but I gotta work for
somebody that has merit. You gotta feel

354
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,119
like you're you're yeah, you're part
of a winner. Yeah, gotta imagine

355
00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:22,079
if it's like Game of Thrones,
right, it's like you're not like the

356
00:24:22,079 --> 00:24:26,640
blacksmith at winter Fell. You're like, you're like, fucking what, what's

357
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:32,079
the one the Dreadfort. You're not
even the main dude. Like if like

358
00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:37,920
Walder Fray is your Lord Bridge,
I guess yeah, oh this guy fucks

359
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,599
everything and it's all young. But
yeah. As these different tribes settled,

360
00:24:41,599 --> 00:24:45,759
they established their own kingdoms and the
ruins of the empire, and they also

361
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,759
liked the way that ship feudalism worked. They're like, oh, so if

362
00:24:48,799 --> 00:24:53,440
we took great hey, instead of
uh, killing all of you, we're

363
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,480
just gonna settle up here and you
keep working and you swear to us now,

364
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,519
and that system. The work peasants
were like, hey, you got

365
00:25:02,559 --> 00:25:04,640
it. Don't rape and kill us? Yeah, well less do it less

366
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:07,000
do less? Maybe less of us
that would be cool. Well, we're

367
00:25:07,039 --> 00:25:12,359
useful to you now, so you
might not. Yeah, maybe no promises.

368
00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:15,240
I mean, like we would really
it would be chill if you didn't,

369
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,400
because that's kind of how it went
with the last guy. Because I

370
00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:22,480
promised you to work for you,
and it would cool if you promised me

371
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,079
to not murder me and rape my
family. I don't know if you're aware

372
00:25:26,079 --> 00:25:30,799
of how this agreement works, but
before, before we didn't get raped and

373
00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,839
murdered because we were working for this
guy and you killed him. Good job.

374
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:40,960
But if we could keep that agreement, that would be really swell.

375
00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,799
But yeah, the leaders of these
tribes became new aristocracy, new kings,

376
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:49,000
new lords, whatever you want to
call them, and they granted land to

377
00:25:49,039 --> 00:25:52,160
their warriors and return for military service. So they kind of just continued to

378
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:57,079
practice and that evolved into the formal
system of vassalage and fiefdoms in the feudal

379
00:25:57,119 --> 00:26:00,559
era, so you started getting more
people. Once they set up micro kingdoms,

380
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:03,640
they would expand set up more territories, and this is how you start

381
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:10,519
getting into like the hierarchy of monarchy. Basically start to build nations. Yeah,

382
00:26:10,559 --> 00:26:15,559
you're you're building nations slightly. Also
in the power vacuum, an interesting

383
00:26:15,599 --> 00:26:18,519
thing, the church was like we're
still here. Yeah, we're still here

384
00:26:18,799 --> 00:26:25,519
for about anywhere. The church itself
became basically a feudal lord as an institution,

385
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:32,359
No, not a the feudal lord. The pope was goaded yeah,

386
00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,720
I mean definitely after the fall of
the Western Roman I mean kind of during

387
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,119
like I don't really know the specifics
of like how the trained of operating,

388
00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:44,680
like as it was falling. The
pope at the time what came out from

389
00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:51,119
Rome and met Attila the hunt and
was like God wants you to leave.

390
00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:56,160
And apparently allegedly, uh, Saint
Peter appeared over the Pope's shoulder and that

391
00:26:56,319 --> 00:27:00,880
scared at till of the hunt and
he left. That makes sense, that's

392
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:04,759
canon, I think so, because
he's a saint because of it. Let

393
00:27:04,799 --> 00:27:08,880
me look it up. Well,
Peter's a rock. He's like Geo dude.

394
00:27:10,039 --> 00:27:12,400
Yeah, he has an alegs the
head in arms and made out of

395
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,039
rocks. I'd I'd be terrified.
Leo the Great is the Pope. I

396
00:27:17,079 --> 00:27:22,119
will I will look this up.
But yeah, the spread of Christianity through

397
00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:29,599
basically I'm sorry I jumped ahead a
little. The system of feudalism was bolstered

398
00:27:29,599 --> 00:27:33,440
by the spread of Christianity, which
played a crucial role in unifying the different

399
00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:37,799
tribes and kingdoms of Europe under a
common faith. That's why the Church was

400
00:27:37,839 --> 00:27:41,599
able to do it so well,
because Christianity and the spread of it was

401
00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:45,480
really just full steam ahead at this
point, especially when things are falling apart.

402
00:27:45,599 --> 00:27:48,640
Yeah, they're like, oh,
guess what come to Daddy? Come

403
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,680
to God? You got you?
I'm a Catholic. Yeah, So they

404
00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:56,880
held vast tracts of land across Europe. Monasteries and bishops wielded a lot of

405
00:27:56,920 --> 00:28:00,279
power, especially locally, often acting
as intermediaries between the peasantry and the nobility.

406
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,839
So they were getting in between and
as we know from so many episodes,

407
00:28:03,839 --> 00:28:08,160
if you're in an intermediary for anybody, you get to control a lot

408
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:12,039
more than you probably should, but
maybe it is what you deserve because you're

409
00:28:12,039 --> 00:28:15,960
the one doing the talking. Who
knows. But yeah, between the fall

410
00:28:17,079 --> 00:28:19,880
of the Western Roman Empire and the
rise of Charlemagne, Europe owner went significant

411
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:26,279
transformations. So there's the Meravingian Maravingian
dynasty which ruled over the Franks. They

412
00:28:26,279 --> 00:28:32,279
saw the fragmentation of power as territories
were divided among heirs, so they started

413
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:37,480
really doing like once they started spreading, they were like, hey, I

414
00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:38,960
got these kids, Yeah, I'm
going to set them up in all these

415
00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,240
different power states kind of get them
established. So that really entrenched the feudal

416
00:28:44,279 --> 00:28:48,240
system as something that could be what's
the word, like nepotistic, but based

417
00:28:48,279 --> 00:28:53,759
on hereditary lineage basically. So like
that started. That's where you start seeing

418
00:28:53,799 --> 00:29:00,880
like the development of royalty through being
passed out through a line but more so

419
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,319
than even like the Roman emperors.
Oh a lot of them were sons,

420
00:29:03,319 --> 00:29:07,319
but a lot of them weren't or
they were like quote adopted sons. But

421
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:11,119
like with where you get straight up
like sun or bust, it's kind of

422
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:15,839
European monarchy. Yeah, that's where
you start to lead in Europe. It

423
00:29:15,319 --> 00:29:18,599
it moves from we got to have
some sort of merit with these people were

424
00:29:18,599 --> 00:29:22,559
giving things to to that's my kid, Yeah, yeah, it goes to

425
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:26,200
my kid. Yeah, fuck you. So it's against this backdrop that Charlemagne

426
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,880
emerged, uniting most of Western Europe
under his rule. Charlemaine's reign, which

427
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:36,759
is from seven sixty eight to eight
fourteen, marked the like peak of feudalism,

428
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,640
being the hyper like it allegedly if
he actually existed, If he actually

429
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,359
existed, we don't know for sure. He could be ave been part of

430
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,000
that Roman Catholic calendar. They made
up, made up a bunch of stuff.

431
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,039
I feel like they could have made
up cooler people, like two hundred

432
00:29:49,039 --> 00:29:55,160
and ninety seven years or whatever.
M hm. Yeah. He he implemented

433
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:59,559
a more structured system of governance.
So he divided his empire into counties,

434
00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:04,640
and march is overseen by So he
had counties overseen by counts. And I

435
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:08,680
guess a term called margraves is something
that he had as well, to you

436
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,240
know, count, margrave, lord
whatever. Those were all appointed by him.

437
00:30:12,559 --> 00:30:18,559
This system ensued loyalty to him while
allowing for efficient local governance. Charlemagne's

438
00:30:18,559 --> 00:30:22,359
efforts to promote education, culture,
and Christian unity. Further solidified the feudal

439
00:30:22,359 --> 00:30:26,480
system, embedding it within the social
and political fabric of Europe. So he

440
00:30:26,599 --> 00:30:29,839
just bought all in. He was
full sale. He's like, I got

441
00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:32,559
to set up at like he kind
of looked back at what happened with the

442
00:30:32,599 --> 00:30:36,000
Roman Empire where it was like,
you know, all these people were putting

443
00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,400
them out far away, right,
it's falling apart. They're going to buy

444
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,640
for power, Like I gotta just
like hook these guys up, really pamper

445
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:44,400
them, let them know that they're
my boys, let them have and let

446
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:47,440
them do their own thing. Let
them do their own thing, because really

447
00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,680
all I need them for is a
little bit of tax money. And if

448
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:53,160
I ever need an army exactly,
and that's a really important part to the

449
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:57,119
idea of an army. And the
way that changes kind of is the downfall

450
00:30:57,119 --> 00:31:03,000
of feudalism in a weird way,
too professional army standing armies. Yeah.

451
00:31:03,039 --> 00:31:07,640
So his reign saw not only the
expansion of his empire, but also significant

452
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,799
cultural and administrative reforms that would strengthen
the feudal system at the time. He

453
00:31:12,119 --> 00:31:17,319
included reforms such as the standardization of
weights and measures, which was really important

454
00:31:17,359 --> 00:31:22,039
for economics like he kind of standardized
economic systems of trade through that. I

455
00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:25,960
mean that's huge, like the fact
that it wasn't what you go over to

456
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:27,759
another town and you're like, oh, it's great, I'll go I'll got

457
00:31:27,759 --> 00:31:33,319
full clink claxes yeawn, Like oh
you might. It's probably two quick collect

458
00:31:33,359 --> 00:31:37,519
there and we don't call them,
you know, like it's just it's bananas.

459
00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:40,799
No one's knowing what they're saying to
each other. They have to do

460
00:31:40,839 --> 00:31:44,640
all these conversions. So standardizing that
shit really allowed the economy to boom more

461
00:31:44,759 --> 00:31:48,880
and the empire to grow. Uh. He also brought back the revival of

462
00:31:48,039 --> 00:31:52,000
Latin learning, so he was trying
to kind of hark back to that like

463
00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:56,880
Roman Empire stuff, right. He
also introduced the Carolinian minuscule script, which

464
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:02,279
improved literacy and record keeping. These
reforms facilitated better management of the states and

465
00:32:02,359 --> 00:32:07,559
the codification of feudal obligations, making
the system more like entrenched and systematic.

466
00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,759
Again, so the more literate people
were, the more they realized what they

467
00:32:10,799 --> 00:32:13,599
were. Well, you know what
this really tells me, And it's so

468
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:20,039
I think it's so funny that they're
always shit on. They're like in ho

469
00:32:20,119 --> 00:32:22,759
AA or something like it. They're
so easy to shit on that you forget

470
00:32:22,799 --> 00:32:28,480
that there's like a lot of positives
to it. But essentially what made this

471
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,559
empire or what, yeah, I
guess empire really secure and competent, and

472
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:35,960
it made people where how people's lives
got better and so on and so forth,

473
00:32:36,559 --> 00:32:40,119
bureaucracy, It worked. Bureaucracy.
You want know why the Roman Empire

474
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:45,519
was able to withstand everything at all, its civil wars and all these invasions

475
00:32:45,599 --> 00:32:52,160
and even thrive two reasons, One
the economy and two which kind of plays

476
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,839
into one and is also its own
thing, the bureaucracy. It's interesting,

477
00:32:55,960 --> 00:33:00,000
well, run, it's interesting you
say that just because like it's not even

478
00:33:00,039 --> 00:33:06,799
that like breucracy bad whatever, Like, oh, it's it comes down to

479
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,319
the fact that people just want to
know what to do. It's like that's

480
00:33:09,359 --> 00:33:14,119
a playbook. Bureaucracy is a playbook
more or less on how to govern right.

481
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:16,079
And it's like, oh, like, obviously you can get bloated and

482
00:33:16,160 --> 00:33:21,519
you can get into like triplicate forms
and shit like that. Too much of

483
00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:25,640
anything is bad, but giving just
random dudes that may otherwise not know what

484
00:33:25,799 --> 00:33:29,279
to do at any given moment,
like a kind of a playbook and a

485
00:33:29,319 --> 00:33:31,640
code. Yeah, allows them to
operate more efficiently because they don't have to

486
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,920
think as hard. Yeah. So
I'm not saying plebes were stupid, but

487
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,119
it's some people in power were flound
They just got a call script, right,

488
00:33:39,519 --> 00:33:42,759
Yeah, they're working out a center. I'm just saying, man,

489
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,920
hello, sir, how is your
day. Oh I'm very happy or sad

490
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,440
to hear that. Just go buy
the playbook. Don't go off script.

491
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,599
Don't go off script because at the
end of the day, like the script

492
00:33:52,759 --> 00:33:55,079
worked in boiler room, it wasn't
the script's fault. It was that they

493
00:33:55,119 --> 00:33:59,640
were doing legal shit with it.
But the script was not at fault and

494
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,880
boiler you ever see boiler room?
No, but I've worked in the call

495
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,160
center, so yeah, I mean
so you know the deal reco anyway,

496
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:10,519
feudalism reached its peak. Ever,
I mean, cold calling is the worst.

497
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:14,400
Yes, it's terrible. It's easily
the horrible. I wouldn't wish that

498
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,440
job on anyone. Yeah, all
of us here have done it. That's

499
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:22,880
why we're so great at talking.
I'm not that great at talking, Honestly,

500
00:34:22,079 --> 00:34:27,199
that wasn't that good at cal Colin
kind of it's cold calling sex.

501
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,559
Warm calling is fine, you get
an inbound lead. Nice, at least

502
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:34,960
this guy wants to talk to me. Kind of set up that pipeline.

503
00:34:35,079 --> 00:34:38,880
Yeah, dude, go into the
funnel. Anyway. Feudalism reached its peak

504
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000
in the eleventh and twelfth centuries,
but began to show signs of strain as

505
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:50,800
populations grew. Trade started to revive
and cities expanded. And trade revitalization is

506
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,440
an interesting point. It's other trade
went away or anything like that. It's

507
00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:00,199
just when you're in a four hundred
year period of chaos. Yeah, Like

508
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,400
trade gets a little hard. People
are stealing, there's marauding bandits. Well,

509
00:35:05,519 --> 00:35:12,079
when the economy becomes more dynamic,
the primary maybe like only economic pillar

510
00:35:12,199 --> 00:35:15,840
becomes less important. The other thing
that sits to me with feudalism is it

511
00:35:15,039 --> 00:35:21,920
is really a non urban system.
Oh yeah, so it works for fields.

512
00:35:22,079 --> 00:35:28,880
Yeah, and cities were like,
i mean, Rome at its peak

513
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,960
had over a million people in it
and after its quote fall it had like

514
00:35:31,079 --> 00:35:35,679
fifty thousand people living there. I
mean it was a fucking ghost town.

515
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:37,679
Yeah, everyone was spread pretty thin. So feudalism makes sense. But once

516
00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:43,719
power starts reconcentrating. I mean Rome
was a pretty urban empire. I mean

517
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,559
it had obviously, like you know, Constantinople was huge Rome other cities.

518
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:50,639
But uh yeah, once the city, once people start wanting to live in

519
00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:55,079
cities again, once cities start thriving
again, and then the economy becomes more

520
00:35:55,159 --> 00:36:00,280
diversified. Yeah, yeah, totally. Actually, one thing I just remember,

521
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:04,280
I forgot the dumb I was reading
some stuff about like just day to

522
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:07,880
day lives of people that were living
a surfs or fief. So they had

523
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:13,079
better lives than us because they only
worked four hours a day or something.

524
00:36:13,599 --> 00:36:16,280
We've talked about it, I know, weekends. I still see that fucking

525
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,280
meme every once in a while and
it drives me insane. It's like,

526
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,159
so, when you're not working for
your lord, you have special projects,

527
00:36:24,159 --> 00:36:28,800
which are dig this hole here.
You're oh, you're not farming. They

528
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,039
got more vacation days, Like,
no, they didn't. Their vacation day

529
00:36:31,119 --> 00:36:34,960
was their day off from the field
work. They did to dig trenches and

530
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,400
do special projects like okay, all
right, here's a great way to put

531
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,840
that. I'm sorry. They were
given purpose. Imagine you know how you

532
00:36:42,039 --> 00:36:45,039
like you like you know how like
a random person spends their weekend, they'll

533
00:36:45,079 --> 00:36:49,360
do like the Spartan Race or whatever. Yeah, imagine that that's how you

534
00:36:49,519 --> 00:36:52,519
spend your free time. But you
don't have a choice that you were told

535
00:36:52,559 --> 00:36:58,079
you're doing this. The Spartan race
is necessary for you to survive, you

536
00:36:58,199 --> 00:37:01,400
know, it's like covered in mud
and exhausted. I think the perfect thing

537
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:04,840
is, like you remember, you
know sometimes we do things outside of work

538
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:07,519
for work where it's like, oh, we got to film an exec board

539
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:10,039
or something like that, or we
got to like go to this party and

540
00:37:10,159 --> 00:37:14,719
show face at it, or something
we have to record softcore history. Right,

541
00:37:15,639 --> 00:37:16,920
it would be like if every single
day they're like, all right,

542
00:37:16,960 --> 00:37:21,079
now you got to go record for
eight hours. Yeah, like, oh

543
00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:25,360
thanks. I guess that's why people
hated that. But I was reading about

544
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:30,719
like the day to day, and
I love how petty people always have been.

545
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:35,800
Oh yeah, so, like typically
what the servants or serfs or whatever

546
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,800
you want to call them, they'd
pay their like tribute and grain. A

547
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:43,280
lot of them are like whatever crop
they could like dry and give off that,

548
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:46,679
but typically was grain. One guy
wasn't really thrilled about like the whole

549
00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:50,440
situation with what was going on or
like the way they were being treated.

550
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:53,679
So he paid his tribute that month
in live chickens, which was a fuck

551
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:57,559
ton of live chickens. Like,
it was a lot of live chickens.

552
00:37:57,679 --> 00:38:00,920
Yeah, I think it was at
least one hundred. Like this cart full

553
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:04,800
of chickens. And he rolls up
to the front of wherever this guy lives.

554
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,760
There's these beautiful, like immaculate gardens. Right, he just throws the

555
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,440
thing, throws the thing down and
lets the chickens goes like you're paid,

556
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:13,679
and they just tear apart his garden. Fuck. Yeah I didn't. I

557
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,880
can't imagine that ended well for him. He probably died. But it's kind

558
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:20,000
of like when you show up to
the tow truck place and you pay in

559
00:38:20,079 --> 00:38:22,639
pennies. Yeah, it's like three
hundred dollars in pennies. Here you go

560
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,719
and they try to say you can't
pay that way. Then they smash out

561
00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:29,760
your windshield and they're like, all
right, here you go get it out

562
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,599
with slash tires, bro can like
this. Sorry. Yeah, pettiness is

563
00:38:32,639 --> 00:38:36,639
a two way street, because I'm
sure a lord probably just killed that guy

564
00:38:36,679 --> 00:38:39,960
out of pettiness too. But yeah, the growth of trade and commerce in

565
00:38:40,000 --> 00:38:45,039
the late medieval period led to the
rise of a wealthy merchant class whose power

566
00:38:45,159 --> 00:38:47,920
was not based on land but on
capital. So that's obviously a big challenge

567
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:52,159
to the feudal system. This shift
diminished the economic basis of feudalism, as

568
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:57,840
money became a more important source of
power than land. And that's pretty significant

569
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:00,480
for where we are now. I
would say, like, land is still

570
00:39:00,519 --> 00:39:06,320
obviously very important, and it was
very important. It still is, but

571
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:08,880
you didn't have to have it.
I mean, look at it this way,

572
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:13,519
right, Like you and me both
own houses, which means we have

573
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,800
a certain amount of like asset you
can borrow against two. Yeah, that

574
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:22,159
you can borrow against it. But
that just because you have land don't mean

575
00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:25,840
you're liquid. No, does not. And I think for the first time,

576
00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:29,880
yeah, but just because you don't
have land doesn't mean you are liquid.

577
00:39:30,079 --> 00:39:35,320
That's a good point, touche.
But yeah, no, like for

578
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,320
the first time in hundreds of years, it was like, oh, you

579
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,559
don't need land to be set,
and that's a huge paradigm shift for the

580
00:39:40,599 --> 00:39:47,760
way people operate. Additionally, our
old friend the Black Death led to labor

581
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:52,079
shortages. Yeah, yeah, it
definitely does it, especially when people are

582
00:39:52,159 --> 00:39:54,320
working in close quarters. Yeah,
oh guess what your little micro kingdom with

583
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:59,079
your little castle walls, everyone's fucking
dead. Oh dude, that means you

584
00:39:59,159 --> 00:40:04,119
can ask for more those wages of
yeah, ay man were paying good over

585
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,000
the market baby. Yeah. Unfortunately
didn't work that way, just because people

586
00:40:07,079 --> 00:40:13,440
started fleeing more and more to cities
for easier lives. Again, back to

587
00:40:13,519 --> 00:40:19,760
the peasant thing. If living the
peasant life was so fucking sick, cities

588
00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:23,039
wouldn't have become a thing. Cities
wouldn't have exploded. No one would have

589
00:40:23,199 --> 00:40:25,199
been like, oh, you know
what, gonna leave the farm for this

590
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:29,480
shit hole? Yeah, well I
want to work more hour. They're like,

591
00:40:29,559 --> 00:40:31,360
you know, I'd like digging ditches. I'm sure there were people like

592
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:36,960
that, but yeah, honorable work. Cities would not have exploded if that

593
00:40:37,159 --> 00:40:39,599
was good, like the best work
out there, right, get a nice

594
00:40:39,719 --> 00:40:45,960
tan, get jacked. But it's
being the dance point. Surviving peasants started

595
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:51,360
realizing their value and did start demanding
higher wages. So that put a strain

596
00:40:51,559 --> 00:40:53,079
on some of the minority. Uh
what do you want to call it?

597
00:40:53,159 --> 00:41:00,320
Like the the manor system if you
will, Or they left to see better

598
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:05,159
opportunities in towns. Right, So
this led to the erosion of the surf

599
00:41:05,280 --> 00:41:09,599
lord relationship that was pretty sent that
was integral to the feudal economy. The

600
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,639
other thing that really kind of they
could have had it going for a lot

601
00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:21,079
longer, but monarchs started wanting to
centralize authority. Yeah. Yeah, they

602
00:41:21,079 --> 00:41:22,039
were kind of tired of well,
I mean, you know, and there

603
00:41:22,119 --> 00:41:28,760
was a certain like there's a certain
amount of like they got challenges from these

604
00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:30,159
people. Yeah, you know what
I mean, Like it wasn't like they

605
00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,280
everyone was just like, Okay,
you're up there, and I'm third,

606
00:41:34,679 --> 00:41:38,239
Like, these are all arrogant motherfuckers
running their own fifdoms. Yeah, they're

607
00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:43,519
all They all like power. They're
not sad. Even the Kings aren't satisfied

608
00:41:43,559 --> 00:41:45,320
whether they were. If they were, they wouldn't fight wars to get more

609
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,280
land and shit. Yeah, I
mean those coffers run dry eventually. Yeah,

610
00:41:49,679 --> 00:41:52,320
extended. So I mean, yeah, you're constantly the centralization of authority

611
00:41:53,079 --> 00:42:00,920
shuts down challengers to the throne exactly. So that consolidation of power in the

612
00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:06,480
hands of the monarchs really weakened the
feudal system too, because you're eliminating other

613
00:42:06,679 --> 00:42:10,280
outside. You're bringing everything under one
umbrella again, which allows for empires to

614
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:15,199
kind of fill in more to Another
big thing, of course, is the

615
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:21,480
Renaissance. Right, So that had
an emphasis on humanism and individualism, which

616
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:25,639
further kind of fucked things up because
you know, they're starting to change the

617
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,719
way laws are thought about in general, and what people are not just workers,

618
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:35,159
they're like individuals with thoughts and feelings
and things like that, which a

619
00:42:35,159 --> 00:42:39,239
lot of people would argue was where
it all went wrong. Yeah, there's

620
00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:43,840
one man to blame, and it's
Da Vinci. Yeah, him, or

621
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:49,880
maybe Voltaire. Is he honestly one
of the more impressive men to ever walk

622
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,400
the planet? Da Vinci? Yeah? Does he not get enough of like

623
00:42:52,559 --> 00:42:57,480
flowers? I think it's plenty of
flowers. I don't think so. Actually,

624
00:42:57,519 --> 00:43:00,800
don't think he gets enough because he
never he was not like a conqueror.

625
00:43:00,519 --> 00:43:06,519
And also, oh I see what
he created so many things, but

626
00:43:06,639 --> 00:43:10,159
they were like and so imagine if
like, imagine if like Thomas Edison invented

627
00:43:10,159 --> 00:43:14,599
all the stuff he invented but no
one ever used it. That's Da Vinci,

628
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,159
you know what I mean? I
know, but no one ever used

629
00:43:17,199 --> 00:43:20,239
it. He was too far ahead
of his time. Yeah. Yeah,

630
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,360
it's like Da Vinci's like rocking up
with like a fucking Zeppelin and people are

631
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,599
like, the fuck is that the
dumbest shit because she's trying to get to

632
00:43:25,639 --> 00:43:30,159
the fucking moon, Like the moon, You're so stupid, What do you

633
00:43:30,239 --> 00:43:35,280
want up there? It's just cheese? Yeah, shut up? But uh

634
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,280
yeah, So another big thing,
I'm sure you guys agree with this,

635
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:40,440
The Protestant Reformation kind of fucked shut
up too, as it did with everything.

636
00:43:40,559 --> 00:43:45,960
I al don't have to tell me
twice, which I'm sure you can

637
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:51,400
guess, challenge to the Catholic Church's
authority, which creates problems, and by

638
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,880
extension, since the Catholic Church is
such a large feudal power, challenges the

639
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:59,920
idea of a feudal system in conjunction
with yeah, the Renaissance that's going on

640
00:44:00,079 --> 00:44:05,000
on. So by the seventeenth century, the developed the development of all these

641
00:44:05,039 --> 00:44:10,000
things is really coming to a peak. And then you're also seeing a large

642
00:44:10,079 --> 00:44:16,079
scale focus on developing standing armies.
Yeah, and that makes the military service

643
00:44:16,119 --> 00:44:22,559
provided by serfs way less essential.
You're having trained, standing armies that are

644
00:44:22,599 --> 00:44:27,280
existing for the sole purpose of conquering
and fighting so these plebes that just fucking

645
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:31,880
rake your yard not as useful,
especially when warfare gets more specialized with firearms

646
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:34,599
and stuff like that. Well,
I don't know if it made it more

647
00:44:34,639 --> 00:44:42,000
specialized, but it's the type of
thing where like it's it's hard to standardize

648
00:44:42,079 --> 00:44:45,880
firearms if you're just like calling a
levee, right, you know what I

649
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,639
mean? Ye, like you need
if you like you need to, Like,

650
00:44:49,320 --> 00:44:54,000
yeah, it needed to be.
I think firearms really necessitated a restandardization

651
00:44:54,400 --> 00:45:00,280
of militaries because obviously there was standardization
to like the Roman Army U for a

652
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,719
long time and stuff like that.
But yeah, it feels like that once

653
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,519
not rifles, muskets, and cannons
came about, they were like, all

654
00:45:07,599 --> 00:45:13,360
right, we need to we need
a trained, cohesive force. We can't

655
00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:17,440
just call up like farmers are useful
in some context, like minute men right

656
00:45:17,519 --> 00:45:22,000
in the American Revolution, but like
you can't actually make a force out of

657
00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:24,400
those people. It's it's a lot
harder to cobble together a bunch of random

658
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:28,719
pieces. Like it's like, yeah, they're very good at like taking a

659
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,000
dive, such as the Boston massacre. Yeah exactly. Yeah, it's like

660
00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:37,440
you're giving like one hundred random legos
or one hundred legos specifically to make a

661
00:45:37,519 --> 00:45:42,199
tank, Like, what's you know
you're gonna make like something that looks kind

662
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:44,480
of like a tank, or you
can make something that's specifically supposed to be

663
00:45:44,519 --> 00:45:46,920
a tank, right, Like,
if you're cobbling together a bunch of farmers,

664
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,599
you can make what looks like an
army, but it's not gonna operate

665
00:45:50,639 --> 00:45:52,760
the way you want it to.
It's gonna have a lot of fucking problems.

666
00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:54,519
Yeah, so the development of this, like, can I go go

667
00:45:54,559 --> 00:45:59,000
back to Dan's point real quick that
Chrispus Addicts was a crisis actor. He

668
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:01,159
was. I mean, there's a
reason John Adams got the British off.

669
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:06,760
Yeah. I never thought about it
like that. That's my favorite thing.

670
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:09,239
It was a justified police shooting.
You can call me a boot liquor.

671
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:14,280
I don't care. Boot liquor loyalist. Yeah. Do you know how many

672
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,800
people at the height of the American
Revolution supported the American Revolution in the colony?

673
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:22,920
Probably not that many. He's like, that's more than I would have

674
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,360
thought. Honestly, that's more than
I would have been. They didn't even

675
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:28,599
break fifty. Yeah, of course
they didn't. So the approval rating of

676
00:46:28,679 --> 00:46:34,480
the American Revolution. That's my approval
ratings are bullshit. It doesn't matter what

677
00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:38,840
the rate. And it was everyone
in Massachusetts. Yeah, it pulled really

678
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:42,880
well. That Yeah, they were
like, man, fuck them, but

679
00:46:43,079 --> 00:46:46,320
no, it's that's what Polls never
matter. Like, also, who's pulling

680
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:52,119
it? Yeah? Sah, what
do you think? Get the fuck out

681
00:46:52,119 --> 00:46:55,239
of here real quick before we get
into this. We do have start nowhere,

682
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:59,599
sorry, real quick, before we
keep going, We do have some

683
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,599
ad its. First up is factor
Head to factor meals dot com slash softcore

684
00:47:02,679 --> 00:47:07,440
fifty and use the code softcore fifty
to get fifty percent off. That's code

685
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:13,519
Softcore fifty at factor meals dot com
slash Softcore fifty to get fifty percent off.

686
00:47:13,599 --> 00:47:15,920
Look, eating is better with Factors
Delicious ready to eat meals. Every

687
00:47:16,079 --> 00:47:21,400
fresh, never frozen meal is chef
crafted and dietician approved and ready to go

688
00:47:21,559 --> 00:47:23,639
in just two minutes. You'll have
over thirty five different options to choose from

689
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:28,239
every week, including Calorie Smart,
Protein Plus, and Keto. From there

690
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:30,239
are more than sixty add ons to
help you stay fueled up and feeling good

691
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:34,599
all day long. What are you
waiting for? Get started today and get

692
00:47:34,760 --> 00:47:37,000
after your goals. These are two
minute meals you fuel up fast with Factors,

693
00:47:37,119 --> 00:47:40,320
restaurant quality meals that are ready to
heat and eat whenever you are.

694
00:47:42,199 --> 00:47:44,559
They do all kinds of stuff from
breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I'm

695
00:47:44,559 --> 00:47:47,639
talking pancakes, smoothies and more.
Discover a wide variety of easy options for

696
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:51,480
the entire day. Like I said, they have breakfast, they've got snacks,

697
00:47:51,519 --> 00:47:53,599
They've got obviously dinner and lunch.
There's it is no prep, no

698
00:47:53,679 --> 00:47:57,960
mess meals. I'm telling you,
you just peel off the film and you

699
00:47:58,119 --> 00:48:00,920
are ready to go after you heat
it up. Don't need to wash dishes

700
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:04,920
except for a fork and knife maybe
depending on the meal. I mean.

701
00:48:05,079 --> 00:48:10,360
It is low, low, low
intensity meals in terms of cleanup and stuff

702
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:14,079
like that. It's flexible to your
schedule. Get as much or as little

703
00:48:14,119 --> 00:48:16,440
as you need by choosing your meals
every week. Plus, you can pause

704
00:48:16,559 --> 00:48:21,559
or reschedule meal deliveries at any time. Factor is the perfect solution if you're

705
00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:23,800
looking for fast, premium options with
no cooking required. If you're like me,

706
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:28,599
you got two kids, busy life, busy wife, Factor is super

707
00:48:28,679 --> 00:48:34,320
helpful for a lot of days,
especially dinner when we're just gassed. Sign

708
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:37,360
up and say, if we've done
the math factor is less expensive, then

709
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:39,920
takeout and every meal, like I
said, is dietician approved to be nutritious

710
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,840
and delicious. So again, head
to factor meals dot com slash soft Core

711
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,440
fifty and use the code Softcore fifty
to get fifty percent off. That's codes

712
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:52,199
Softcore fifty at factor meals dot com
slash soft Core fifty to get fifty percent

713
00:48:52,639 --> 00:48:59,480
off. Next up, we have
got ghost bed. Head to ghostbed dot

714
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:05,960
forward slash Drinking Bros. And you
will get the best mattress you can find

715
00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:10,960
freaking anywhere. I am telling you
these mattresses are glorious. Go to goostped

716
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:15,440
dot com forwards last Drinking Bros.
They got a bunch of deals they're running

717
00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:19,480
right now. Use the promo code
Drinking Bros. To get off to it

718
00:49:19,599 --> 00:49:24,079
depends on which deal you want.
They've got bundle deals, They've got deals

719
00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:28,679
with the code. Just go check
it out. The mattresses are made in

720
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,920
America. You can try one hundred
one night's freaking on't like. You can

721
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:35,880
send it back. They've got sheets, pillows, weighted blankets. Everything has

722
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,199
cooling technology. Like I said,
it's all made in America. I just

723
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:45,559
can't. I can't express enough how
much better these mattresses and betting is than

724
00:49:45,639 --> 00:49:49,039
anything else on the market, anything
else you get anywhere, especially mattress wise

725
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:52,079
though, and their bed frames and
stuff like that too. Don't go to

726
00:49:52,159 --> 00:49:55,760
some creepy store in a strip mall
or whatever. Just go to gosped dot

727
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,800
com forards the last drinking Bros.
That you can work everything out from there.

728
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:05,159
Check it out. But yeah,
so these standing armies, obviously they

729
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:10,800
give way to the necessity for a
nation state and the formation of state led

730
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:19,800
governments or states led by a centralized
monarchical coal figure. And this this from

731
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:23,000
some dickheads who couldn't stop fighting each
other in Rome. Yeah, leads to

732
00:50:24,519 --> 00:50:29,760
the fall and power vacuum that leads
to these people living in these little castles,

733
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:34,039
which leads to higher up people trying
to consolidate them, which leads to

734
00:50:34,559 --> 00:50:38,000
the current people we still have today
that are in existing monarchs like monarchies.

735
00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:40,719
Like, there's not a lot of
them, it's it's it's more than you

736
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:45,320
think. It's more than you think. A lot of them are completely figureheads,

737
00:50:45,320 --> 00:50:49,239
oh totally. But like there're still
a king of Spain. Yeah,

738
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:53,039
they're still a King of the Netherlands. There's the Netherlands Royalty. No,

739
00:50:53,159 --> 00:50:58,280
not the Netherlands Denmark, Yeah,
Denmark. Netherlands has been a republic for

740
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,079
a while. Yeah, I think
all the skin and Navian countries have gotten

741
00:51:00,159 --> 00:51:06,079
rid of their Most countries are just
oligarchies, bro, Yeah, man,

742
00:51:06,639 --> 00:51:08,719
I mean no, that's true,
though I do believe that, like the

743
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:12,599
United States is an oligarchy. In
my opinion, every the world is.

744
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:15,800
Yeah, I mean yeah, Now
it goes somewhere like what do you find

745
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:21,519
it's going to happen, Like,
the last place it's gonna the last place

746
00:51:21,599 --> 00:51:25,920
power will be is the fucking masses. Dude. Sweden has a king,

747
00:51:27,159 --> 00:51:31,679
dude, King Karl Gustav. Was
it Finland that doesn't have Maybe yeah because

748
00:51:31,679 --> 00:51:37,000
of the Russia. O, because
Finland had that hot chick the Prime Minister

749
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:42,400
did a PM. Yeah, I
mean yeah, but was that Finland or

750
00:51:42,639 --> 00:51:45,960
Norway? Dude? Victoria Crown Princess
of Sweden. Let me look her up

751
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:47,760
real quick. Rob's gonna see if
she's hot. He's gonna just kind of

752
00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:52,679
scroll through our Instagram real quick.
But yeah, he's gonna get lost in

753
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:55,440
the sauce the seventeenth centuries where you
start to see good enough, good enough

754
00:51:55,480 --> 00:52:00,039
to marry. Certainly the fall of
like traditional feudalist monarchy and to just classical

755
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:04,719
like what we think of as monarchy
now over a larger swath of like a

756
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,599
country. Yeah, we kind of
when we picture monarcha we think like King

757
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,400
George. Yeah, we think of
a king of an entire country, not

758
00:52:10,639 --> 00:52:15,320
George is in that era, there's
four straight Georges. I think something like

759
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:19,639
that. Ye, yeah, well
ours was George the third against the American

760
00:52:19,679 --> 00:52:22,360
re We covered our basis. That
was like, fuck George could have been

761
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:25,559
on any George, could have been
any vote George, vote George. Fuck

762
00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:30,360
George all that. I think it
was for George's and a William. I

763
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:34,440
think that sound right. It sounds
like a rom Com for George's and a

764
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,960
William. Yeah. But despite its
decline, feudalism left quite the mark on

765
00:52:39,039 --> 00:52:43,360
modern society. It still does.
One of the most visible legacies is in

766
00:52:43,440 --> 00:52:47,599
the legal system, especially of land
ownership, particularly in England or feudal law

767
00:52:47,679 --> 00:52:53,440
influenced common law. The concept of
a fee for land held in exchange for

768
00:52:53,519 --> 00:52:58,400
service can still be seen in some
legal systems today, like holdovers and stuff

769
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,199
like that too. When did they
just give the death penalty to any crime?

770
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:06,800
What? When did they give like
the feudal system. They would just

771
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,039
kill you for nothing. That predates
the feudal system. Okay, yeah,

772
00:53:10,159 --> 00:53:15,760
but but yeah you're talking like he's
he stole a chicken ing them. Yeah,

773
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:19,559
and then the main dude of the
house or the man man, yeah

774
00:53:19,599 --> 00:53:22,320
whatever. Fuck but I mean that's
like the Old West too, right,

775
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,119
You steal a horse, they fucking
hang you. Can you imagine that you

776
00:53:24,159 --> 00:53:29,119
steal a car and he just like
some earily that comes from England though by

777
00:53:29,159 --> 00:53:31,440
a shower was like highwayman. And
yeah, a lot of criminals in England.

778
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:36,320
I think they passed some law in
like the seventeen fifties just to kind

779
00:53:36,360 --> 00:53:39,400
of curb it. Were not only
did they kill you for everything, but

780
00:53:39,559 --> 00:53:45,119
they also like made sure you didn't
get into heaven. They wouldn't bury you,

781
00:53:45,239 --> 00:53:47,480
they would hang you in the public. God, there's a really great

782
00:53:47,519 --> 00:53:52,599
anecdote about uh draconian law, because
like people was so draconian, Like the

783
00:53:52,679 --> 00:53:59,119
guy Draco I believe it was his
name. It's actually dracon Dracondra, Draconi,

784
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:05,280
Draken, whoever that's named after.
People actually loved that guy, Like

785
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:07,599
was it like how everyone thing like, you know, you call something machiavellian,

786
00:54:07,679 --> 00:54:12,320
but it's actually he was like being
facetious the whole time. He was

787
00:54:12,519 --> 00:54:15,119
kind of playing both sides of that. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah,

788
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:22,480
like he his whole thing was like, well, like I He's like,

789
00:54:22,599 --> 00:54:27,159
honestly, death for death makes sense
to me, but I can't think of

790
00:54:27,199 --> 00:54:30,199
anything worse than death to sentence people
for it, because like stealing, I

791
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:32,079
think is worse than killing someone.
Right, That was the whole reason they

792
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:39,440
had that law pass in seventeen fifty
one. I think in England they there

793
00:54:39,519 --> 00:54:44,119
was so much crime because it wasn't
a deterrent to just kill them. Yeah,

794
00:54:44,239 --> 00:54:46,119
but they're like, you know what, we're gonna like tax your family.

795
00:54:46,559 --> 00:54:51,239
Yeah, we're gonna make sure you
don't get into the afterlife. You

796
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:54,760
gotta do a lot. It's just
a De Niro and the untouchables. I

797
00:54:54,880 --> 00:55:00,159
want him debt, I want his
family debt. I wanted to, but

798
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:04,760
yeah. The practice of swearing an
oath of allegiance pretty much comes from feudalism

799
00:55:04,880 --> 00:55:07,400
for the most part. Like in
a lot of our legal system stuff.

800
00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:13,360
Still, for instance, we swear
in senators, you know, a House

801
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:15,880
of Commons, they get sworn in. Yeah, it's still a holdover from

802
00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:21,559
that time period, you know in
Japan, the influence of the Samurai code

803
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:24,559
and completely different, Like feudalism wasn't
just a European thing either, right,

804
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,760
called feudal Japan for a reason,
right, exactly, Like it was a

805
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,159
system showgun. I mean, feudalism
to me is like a pyramid, right,

806
00:55:31,679 --> 00:55:37,119
It's literally like it is like a
logical hot like social pyramid. And

807
00:55:37,559 --> 00:55:40,239
you know, what's the easiest way
to build a building? Do it like

808
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,920
a pyramid? What's the easiest way
to build a society? I guess just

809
00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,719
do it like a fucking pyramid.
Well, I mean it's like one of

810
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:50,320
those things. Is like power structures
find find their way, Like it's always

811
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,159
path of least resistance, right,
it's like water. Yeah, it's power

812
00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:57,440
structures exist because that's the way they're
going to like shouts to my Portuguese brether

813
00:55:57,519 --> 00:56:00,239
in the Madue it to Japan first, Yes, out to them. They

814
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:04,280
must have loved that changed the culture. I think that's why you like Asian

815
00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,480
chicks so much. It could be
it's just you have some ancestor far rolled

816
00:56:08,559 --> 00:56:14,719
up to Japan and was like,
dear God, is a god in the

817
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,840
spot? Yeah, I've died and
gone to heav I have never had an

818
00:56:17,880 --> 00:56:23,480
erection like this in my life.
Months long guys leaking blood just from his

819
00:56:23,599 --> 00:56:28,519
dick. That makes sense. That
sounds good, though, I recommend watching.

820
00:56:28,599 --> 00:56:31,480
We'll have to have to watch that. But yeah. Similarly, the

821
00:56:31,519 --> 00:56:37,239
European tradition of noble titles and heraldy. Heraldry, though largely ceremonial, still

822
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:42,079
continues to fascinate and influence social hierarchies
today. So we still have holdovers from

823
00:56:42,119 --> 00:56:45,400
that shit too. I mean,
like things don't just go away forever like

824
00:56:45,480 --> 00:56:46,800
and disappear. We have a lot
of holdovers from fuel. I mean shit.

825
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:52,199
The concept of landlord and tenant is
a feudal holdover. Landlord land lord.

826
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:53,480
That's where it comes from. They
are the lord of that land.

827
00:56:53,639 --> 00:56:57,760
That's funny. It's a funny title. Yeah, and people still pay rent

828
00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,639
like dickheads. I'm sure someone's trying
to pay with it. Can still to

829
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:02,639
this day. Well, landlords are
evil, No, I don't think so.

830
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:07,079
I don't either it's like if you
like, I think, what are

831
00:57:07,079 --> 00:57:09,719
they supposed to do? Man?
I think they're like predatory ways to be

832
00:57:09,800 --> 00:57:13,519
a landlord. But it is funny
because it's like, all right, okay,

833
00:57:13,599 --> 00:57:16,039
okay, all right, you don't
want especially when funny when they go

834
00:57:16,039 --> 00:57:20,920
after small landlords, because every great
landlord I've had was just some guiding a

835
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,559
place where it's never a fucking organization
like Gray Star, no Ship. It's

836
00:57:24,599 --> 00:57:27,599
like, so, all right,
you don't want a small landlord. You're

837
00:57:27,639 --> 00:57:30,039
mad at that guy because he owns
the property that you live in. So

838
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:31,599
what do you want to replace it
with? Because there's only two options if

839
00:57:31,639 --> 00:57:37,840
it's not a small landlord, it's
a fucking corporation or the state. You

840
00:57:37,920 --> 00:57:42,199
want to live in fucking government housing, or you want to live in a

841
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,239
corporate in a corporate apartment, because
I've done that too. They don't give

842
00:57:45,239 --> 00:57:49,239
a fuck about you. They're like
move then, yeah, they're like moved.

843
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:54,239
Yeah. It's like we'll just rat
they make it and shittier. We

844
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:58,320
won't find a way to write off
your empty apartment. Yeah, no,

845
00:57:58,519 --> 00:58:00,079
for real, like we were just
talking about today, they'll find a way

846
00:58:00,079 --> 00:58:04,039
to write off you. Yeah,
we're looking at like apart. All the

847
00:58:04,079 --> 00:58:07,000
apartments are built so close to the
interstate, and you notice this, like

848
00:58:07,039 --> 00:58:08,440
when you're just going up and down
I thirty five, they're like so fucking

849
00:58:08,519 --> 00:58:12,239
close to the edge. Yeah.
Right. I was thinking, like,

850
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:15,559
obviously that's for marketing when you're driving
into a town, like so people see

851
00:58:15,559 --> 00:58:16,400
it. It's like, oh there's
that. Yeah, you see it when

852
00:58:16,400 --> 00:58:19,599
they're going into a city center.
But do you think some of that's for

853
00:58:19,719 --> 00:58:22,639
like iminent domain where they're like,
we can take a huge ride off if

854
00:58:22,679 --> 00:58:25,679
the government expands this road, wouldn't
hurt Yeah, like because think about how

855
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,400
much that's the backup plan. Yeah, it's like the oh and if the

856
00:58:29,440 --> 00:58:32,360
government wants to stretch this high and
by the way they I feel like if

857
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:37,719
you are again, like a giant, a giant corporation, like the major

858
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:42,679
landlord like Grace Arn and stuff,
are unlike say our company who's getting eminent

859
00:58:42,760 --> 00:58:47,119
domain, who is a small business
for a big ass corporation like that.

860
00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,880
It's the city who is at a
disadvantage because they can throw serious lawyer money

861
00:58:53,039 --> 00:58:59,239
into it and the city has more, uh, instead of to settle on

862
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:05,000
a price more and pay more yeah
against a smaller landowner, like the people

863
00:59:05,079 --> 00:59:08,840
we work for the city has more
legal muscle and more legal funding. And

864
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:14,199
every complex in the city is owned
by the same company. Absolutely, like

865
00:59:14,440 --> 00:59:15,840
there's no you can't escape them.
I mean, fun you look at that.

866
00:59:16,039 --> 00:59:19,639
But anyway, yeah, fuck that
old guy that owns the fucking house,

867
00:59:20,119 --> 00:59:23,360
the one dude, the guy owns
three houses and right, yeah,

868
00:59:24,119 --> 00:59:30,039
a proper three fucking houses. But
yeah, he doesn't rent him out,

869
00:59:30,079 --> 00:59:31,440
so he's a good guy. He
doesn't let other people live in his houses,

870
00:59:31,679 --> 00:59:36,159
so he's a good guy. Exactly. Yeah, you fucking moron,

871
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,000
stop it, all right, but
that's it for feudals. Man thinks a

872
00:59:39,039 --> 00:59:43,000
lot romans for sucking it up for
everybody, but no, would have happened

873
00:59:43,039 --> 00:59:45,000
regardless, and it's just how it
goes. Yeah, but I think it

874
00:59:45,079 --> 00:59:49,079
is interesting how like the Fall,
like it's like one of those it's not

875
00:59:49,159 --> 00:59:52,920
even a small domino, but like
it's like you push that little domina fall

876
00:59:52,039 --> 00:59:58,800
Western Roman Empire, like Kate Middleton's
We're worried where she is? Like the

877
00:59:58,880 --> 01:00:01,599
Kate Middleton's butt lift raised question right
exactly, Like it's that's how we get

878
01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:05,800
there, That's how we get to
the version of monarchy we're familiar with today.

879
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,440
It's just people are like, Okay, I guess I own this land

880
01:00:07,559 --> 01:00:13,000
and everyone in it now. Yeah, but Rome had elected officials. Yeah,

881
01:00:13,199 --> 01:00:16,000
and then they didn't exist. I
know, So why are we thanking

882
01:00:16,039 --> 01:00:19,960
them for falling? We're not.
It was big. It's like thinks a

883
01:00:19,960 --> 01:00:24,880
lot Rome. I mean, there
were, depending on elections, happened throughout

884
01:00:25,199 --> 01:00:29,960
human history. It just depends on
the level of it. So like there

885
01:00:30,079 --> 01:00:35,920
were elected positions still within you know, feudal society and stuff like that.

886
01:00:36,559 --> 01:00:38,679
No, I mean it's like for
your office bonus, do you want a

887
01:00:38,719 --> 01:00:42,960
pizza party or a bar tup right? Not just cashing your hand? Yeah,

888
01:00:44,280 --> 01:00:46,480
police for sure, always barte.
But also if it could just be

889
01:00:46,599 --> 01:00:51,079
cash, it never is. But
all right, so, uh, who's

890
01:00:51,159 --> 01:00:55,800
Hitler? I'm sorry, but you
learned today? What did I learn?

891
01:00:55,960 --> 01:01:05,679
Either Hitler are today? Yeah,
I gotta say it's on Rome, Roman,

892
01:01:06,320 --> 01:01:09,239
the Roman landlords. It's the Romans. So essentially, imagine this like

893
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:14,079
all the rich guys you know in
town they get killed by the huns or

894
01:01:14,119 --> 01:01:16,280
whatever, so you gotta go live. This is where it gets. Maybe

895
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,559
I don't totally speculate here, but
you gotta go out to the country and

896
01:01:20,679 --> 01:01:27,679
live on some rich, redneck asshole
huge property him. Yeah, those guys,

897
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,559
those guys, yeah, fuck them, I would say. Also,

898
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:32,960
the Visigoths and the Vandals are also
Hitler. They're fine, you know,

899
01:01:34,519 --> 01:01:36,960
they just do what they do.
You either start out as Hitler or live

900
01:01:37,039 --> 01:01:39,920
long enough to become the hero.
Those people became the French, and the

901
01:01:40,119 --> 01:01:45,639
and the Spanish. I think,
I mean the Gulls were the French.

902
01:01:45,320 --> 01:01:49,079
Yeah, yeah, I mean they
were like in the Franks obviously, And

903
01:01:49,719 --> 01:01:52,519
I can't remember which one settled in
Spain if it was the Visigoths or the

904
01:01:52,599 --> 01:01:54,960
van I think the Vandals were North
Africa and the Visigoths were Spain. Maybe

905
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:02,039
the Vandals were both all all great
names. Yeah, the Galls kind of

906
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:06,519
in Spain two maybe a little bit. Yeah, they dipped it toe.

907
01:02:06,679 --> 01:02:09,880
I mean that would make sense because
they border France. Okay, cool,

908
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,440
Well that's it for today, you
guys, thanks so much for to learn.

909
01:02:13,679 --> 01:02:17,800
Yeah what you learn just how feudalism
came to be. Yeah, thanks

910
01:02:17,840 --> 01:02:21,039
for that, Jay, Yeah,
you're welcome. Thanks for that little it's

911
01:02:21,039 --> 01:02:22,840
actually a history lesson. Like sometimes
I like to talk about how things happened

912
01:02:23,119 --> 01:02:25,639
like how we got Look, it's
always a more fun show when we actually

913
01:02:25,719 --> 01:02:30,800
learned something. I didn't learn anything. I knew all this time. Why

914
01:02:30,840 --> 01:02:32,480
do we even have you here to
learn and not to learn to correct us?

915
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:36,639
So what he said was he didn't
have fun. He had zero fun.

916
01:02:36,719 --> 01:02:38,400
He he chimed in a lot,
though, which was helpful. He

917
01:02:38,519 --> 01:02:42,639
chimed in too, but in a
more fun way. Okay, I thought

918
01:02:42,639 --> 01:02:44,960
you were calling me out for like, oh, wait, to talk up,

919
01:02:45,039 --> 01:02:46,400
Dan. I didn't know. I'm
not saying you didn't talk I'm just

920
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:50,519
saying like he was, like,
you know, he he knows more than

921
01:02:50,599 --> 01:02:53,480
us on Rome especially, I don't
think so. I think he's just confident

922
01:02:53,519 --> 01:02:57,960
in what he says. You're probably
right, We're just like he actually was

923
01:02:58,119 --> 01:03:04,400
totally wrong the other day about Pidgeon
Forge. That's true. I doubted myself.

924
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:07,559
I've been to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. I've been in a cabin in

925
01:03:07,599 --> 01:03:10,360
Pigeon Forge, right next to Dollywood, and he somehow convinced me that it's

926
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:14,880
in Georgia. It's not. Because
he quoted three year letterman. They were

927
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:16,760
like, oh, yeah, he's
a Georgia guy. Check it out.

928
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:21,079
You haven't been to Pigeon Forge,
Dan, Wait, hear him out.

929
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:22,960
I'm not gonna hear you out.
Let him cook, I've been just you,

930
01:03:23,119 --> 01:03:27,320
you haven't been to Pigeon Forge.
I know for a fact you have

931
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:30,960
been a ship Jake. I think
I'll I've never been a pigeon boy.

932
01:03:30,519 --> 01:03:34,320
I think it's a Georgia man.
It might be enjoyed thin, it's God

933
01:03:34,400 --> 01:03:36,519
damn well, who knows where it
is? I know you haven't been there.

934
01:03:37,599 --> 01:03:38,880
We can't even if we can't even
determine where it is. And I

935
01:03:39,000 --> 01:03:42,519
know that Dan can't have been there, of course, I mean, just

936
01:03:43,159 --> 01:03:45,360
you can't undo that. That's just
a to B the B two C.

937
01:03:45,639 --> 01:03:50,480
You know I don't know where Pigeon
porges, then Pigeonforge is somewhere Dan hasn't

938
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:52,559
been. Why do I do this
job? I should be a fucking attorney.

939
01:03:52,639 --> 01:03:55,039
Should followed the man. Dude,
go up there and confidently be like,

940
01:03:55,199 --> 01:03:58,719
think, does this man look like
a murderer to you? He does

941
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,199
not? He does not, He
does not. If you've never seen a

942
01:04:01,280 --> 01:04:04,000
murderer in real life, have you
even seen a murder? Then how do

943
01:04:04,079 --> 01:04:06,079
you know what a murderer looks?
Like, how can you judge this man?

944
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:10,440
Are we sure he's even real?
He could be AI. I want

945
01:04:10,480 --> 01:04:13,119
to get that because I want to
get my client back on the street raping

946
01:04:13,159 --> 01:04:16,880
and killing, I mean, not
doing that the opposite. Not my problem

947
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:20,320
what he does before or well,
it is my problem what he did before

948
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:24,159
he got to me. It is
not my problem what he does after he

949
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:27,599
leaves me. You would crush in
New York right now? What do you

950
01:04:27,679 --> 01:04:31,719
mean? Just with all the immigrants
they're shipping up there? Would I crush?

951
01:04:33,320 --> 01:04:38,760
What's a to b? It's fair? Right? The immigrants that got

952
01:04:38,840 --> 01:04:41,440
off that just beat the ship on
the cops and just left. Oh yeah,

953
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,039
I could be their lawyer, certainly. I still I mean as terrible

954
01:04:45,079 --> 01:04:47,519
as it was the Martha's Vinyard thing, where it's like that's pretty funny,

955
01:04:47,760 --> 01:04:53,360
like, yeah, what are they
gonna don't don't be a yard signed liberal

956
01:04:53,440 --> 01:04:59,639
if you don't want that ship on
your front fucking yard. Fair. Yeah,

957
01:04:59,719 --> 01:05:01,559
that's it for today, guys,
So hope you learned something. Please

958
01:05:01,639 --> 01:05:05,119
leave a review five stars please,
and thank you Apple. Can you write

959
01:05:05,119 --> 01:05:08,960
a review that would really helpful?
We'll read those next week. We have

960
01:05:09,039 --> 01:05:11,599
a bunch if we can get up
to one thousand, I can drink again,

961
01:05:11,639 --> 01:05:15,000
so that would be cool. Fifty
short forty six I think short like

962
01:05:15,119 --> 01:05:21,519
fifty short guys changes making dance so
damn healthy. So please please and thank

963
01:05:21,559 --> 01:05:27,000
you five stars on Spotify too if
you can and appreciate it. Yeah,

964
01:05:27,159 --> 01:05:29,880
well that's it for me, for
Dan or Justin Ron Fox, I'm Jake

965
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:30,320
Goldman. You just got saw served.