1 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:10,880 Welcome to softcore History. Welcome back to softcore History. I'm your host for 2 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:14,359 a week, Dan Regester, and I'm joined as always by rough Fox Jake 3 00:00:14,359 --> 00:00:18,640 Goldman. What's up man? You ready to go? I am ready to 4 00:00:18,679 --> 00:00:21,239 go. I don't really care about your trip to Costco. I don't really 5 00:00:21,239 --> 00:00:23,800 care about Rob's kids. I was about to say not, Jake, you 6 00:00:23,879 --> 00:00:27,359 were off mic. You said you were saying how you went to Costco today, 7 00:00:27,719 --> 00:00:30,760 that something interesting happened. Then I'm not talking about it. No, 8 00:00:30,879 --> 00:00:34,640 what's about that? No? Absolutely not? Were they out of retisserie chickens. 9 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,840 I don't care about your Costco trip. I don't care about you moving 10 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:42,039 limestone in your backyard. I don't care about your unemployment. Someone's been reading 11 00:00:42,079 --> 00:00:46,000 the comments depressed life. My life's great. I got a tam brother. 12 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:50,159 You're just living life. Would like to watch you move line the stone in 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,320 your backyard. We're not doing that so that I can pretend that I am 14 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:57,159 an Egyptian foreman. Make sure to subscribe to our patre on picture on dot 15 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,280 com slash softcore history, where we get a little bit more fat, some 16 00:01:00,399 --> 00:01:04,719 loose with the topics. I want to kind of keep it on the street 17 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:08,359 and narrow today, I feel like this is a trap. It's not. 18 00:01:08,799 --> 00:01:12,680 I just have a lot to cover fair enough, So patroon dot com slash 19 00:01:12,719 --> 00:01:18,280 softcare history, two additional episodes every week. Uh, two years of evergreen 20 00:01:18,359 --> 00:01:23,680 content YouTube dot com slash software history. I think someone said it took them 21 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,519 six months to listen to our Patreon they did, yeah, and I think 22 00:01:26,519 --> 00:01:29,640 in a comment, right, it was a really nice view or a really 23 00:01:29,719 --> 00:01:32,239 nice review. We'll read some reviews actually at the end of the episode. 24 00:01:32,519 --> 00:01:36,280 Yeah, he said it took them about six months to get through our back 25 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:40,319 catalog, so a lot of content. And he listened like every day, 26 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:44,920 yeah, non stop. So that's how much content we have a lot. 27 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,079 Some would say we're too exposed. It's so cheap. It's so cheap. 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:55,439 Short us short, definitely short short. Five dollars a month, one hundred 29 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:57,000 dollars if you want to be a baller. Yeah, it's there. It's 30 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,439 there. It's an option. Somebody did at once for one month be our 31 00:02:00,439 --> 00:02:05,319 sugar Daddy. They didn't realize it was one hundred dollars a month, right. 32 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:08,439 If they immediately canceled. You can also get a discount for the year 33 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:12,639 fifty four dollars for the year. Yeah, you save six dollars. We'd 34 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,319 prefer you don't do that. Yeah, No, I mean that's fine. 35 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:16,800 I'd rather have you locked in for the year. I agree. Yeah, 36 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:22,240 software history dot com for merch and I'm excited for this. Let's get into 37 00:02:22,319 --> 00:02:25,960 it. Last week we touched on a lot of colts. Robbed in an 38 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:32,680 episode on some British dude who could purify women by fucking them on a pool 39 00:02:32,719 --> 00:02:37,319 table, while the rest of the church saying Jack did a Patreon episode on 40 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:40,479 the End Times and how many times we've come across the End Times. It's 41 00:02:40,479 --> 00:02:44,639 a lot of times, every thirty years, once a generation, once once 42 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,080 a generation. Yeah, so I want to get in on the action, 43 00:02:46,199 --> 00:02:51,240 guys, Okay, I want to do my own cult leader. All right, 44 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,759 except I'm really raising this takes here. Yeah, you were talking earlier 45 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,000 today or yesterday. You're really gassing up your your episode. You're like this 46 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,280 guy so much more fucked up than you. Guy. I wonder if it's 47 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:07,159 some one I know I'm willing to say today we're gonna talk about perhaps the 48 00:03:07,199 --> 00:03:15,240 worst person in human history. Okay, is it jj JJ Jim Jones? 49 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:21,759 Fuck no, good, good. This guy's responsible for way more dustin Jim 50 00:03:21,840 --> 00:03:24,719 Jones. I cannot wait. This dude is responsible for way more dustin Hitler 51 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:31,560 Stalin. Oh, we're doing Mohammad. We're not doing Mohammad. Thank god. 52 00:03:31,599 --> 00:03:35,879 You said a cult leader that's killed billions. Hey you said that. 53 00:03:36,039 --> 00:03:38,560 You said that, Dan Didn's. My name is Jake Golden. Fuck you. 54 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:44,280 That's Rob Fox the third his social I have on my phone. All 55 00:03:44,319 --> 00:03:50,719 okay, okay, No, we're going with China's Muhammad. Okay. We're 56 00:03:50,759 --> 00:03:55,199 talking about the Taiping rebellion. Hear about this, know about this the type 57 00:03:55,840 --> 00:04:00,319 I know, the Boxer rebellion, Yeah, typing tie pink, that's a 58 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,960 yeah, I know that one. We're talking about a man named Hang Chi 59 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:13,159 Kwang, and he is I'm gonna make you the argument today, the worst 60 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,319 human to ever live. Yeah, but like, who amongst us hasn't accent 61 00:04:17,439 --> 00:04:23,519 accidentally killed like six figures worth of Chinese people if you use an iPhone? 62 00:04:23,759 --> 00:04:27,720 Yeah, like that's I mean at least a million people made your iPhone yeah 63 00:04:28,079 --> 00:04:33,000 and probably died. There are there is responsible for I'd argue nine figures nine 64 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:40,399 figs nine a bill, A bill No. Nine would be one hundred million. 65 00:04:41,079 --> 00:04:43,959 All right, no, yeah, I would Oh no, you're right, 66 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:47,560 we're not softcore math. Well yeah, we're not even softcore math. 67 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:53,519 No, we're not even that. Still, yeah, one hundred mili plus 68 00:04:53,519 --> 00:04:58,240 one hundred million. And this wasn't some ancient time, This wasn't in the 69 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,800 medieval China. Well more people now, yeah, we're talking about the eighteen 70 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:05,879 hundreds. Yeah. Yeah, this is one reason Japan stacked so many numbers 71 00:05:05,879 --> 00:05:11,240 in World War Two. There are just so many Chinese people. They just 72 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:15,519 and when you have no regard for a land filled with people as you occupy 73 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:19,040 it, yeah, boy, you can put up numbers. Yeah. Those 74 00:05:19,079 --> 00:05:24,839 two guys had that race with the heading rate. Yeah yeah. Now forgive 75 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:29,040 me if I mispronounce names in the future. From here on out, I'm 76 00:05:29,079 --> 00:05:30,720 just going to refer to him as Hong. Sounds good, that's fine. 77 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:38,040 Hong so Hong was born January first, eighteen fourteen, on a farm as 78 00:05:38,079 --> 00:05:42,519 the youngest of three boys to a lower class Hakka family in Southeast China. 79 00:05:42,959 --> 00:05:47,800 Hakka is a group of people in China that are not necessarily regarded as the 80 00:05:47,839 --> 00:05:54,240 best. Is that kind of lower class farmernicity or something else? It's yeah, 81 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:59,439 an ethnicity. It kind of groups together people that migrated their eight hundred 82 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,759 years before. So in China, white people basically white people in China, 83 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,240 he says before, are Han Han Chinese. Han Chinese are what you think 84 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,439 of when you think of a Chinese person. They are the sort of white 85 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,800 people of China. And boy, if you think white supremacy is bad, 86 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:21,759 I should look into Han supremacy when you get the chance. It's mystical, 87 00:06:23,279 --> 00:06:29,079 like it's mystically racist. Yeah, which is sweet. Well, white supremacies 88 00:06:29,079 --> 00:06:32,759 also if you dive in, very mystically racist, but it's half half assed. 89 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:38,079 Oh no, it's it's it's from like spiritualism era. It's from the 90 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:41,639 like Blovatsky era. Yeah, mystics. And then you know, the KKK 91 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:45,879 calls there a leader, a wizard or something that was all so smart in 92 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:51,279 their end because like I remember while the KKK was using World of Warcraft like 93 00:06:51,399 --> 00:06:55,319 to recruit people, and it's like, how would you like to be a 94 00:06:55,399 --> 00:06:59,199 real wizard? Like that's got to be in the play. Has anyone ever 95 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,839 memed that you're a wizard, Hairry, You're a grand wizard, Harry. 96 00:07:03,519 --> 00:07:09,600 That's been done that if you've thought of it. Yeah, he didn't complete 97 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:14,199 it. Yeah. From a young age, Hong gravitated to academics, so 98 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,120 his family invested a ton of money and resources into his formal education that they 99 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:21,800 did not have, so he could complete the Civil service exams also known as 100 00:07:21,879 --> 00:07:29,759 the Kiju and land a high paying gig in the Chinese government. That's nice 101 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:32,040 of them. They it's like first kid to college. And this was during 102 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:40,199 the Qing dynasty. Okay, there were no ordinary simple mathematics or reading comprehension 103 00:07:40,199 --> 00:07:45,160 test. Every year, over a million applicants would grind over these things and 104 00:07:45,240 --> 00:07:49,279 some only had a passing rate of one percent. What that's a stringent test. 105 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:54,439 Mm hm, that's cool. So this is to become part of This 106 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:58,319 is pre communism obviously, this is to get involved in the Chinese government. 107 00:07:58,399 --> 00:08:03,079 Yeah, the dynastic Yeah, I guess. Yeah. He initially crushed his 108 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:07,399 preliminary exams, placed in first out of all candidates. He then moved on 109 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,079 to the imperial exams, which he then failed. What was a passing rate 110 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,240 on those? Again, one pa, So it's like double stack. Every 111 00:08:16,879 --> 00:08:22,879 exam is essentially damn not the biggest deal. If your family had money though, 112 00:08:24,399 --> 00:08:26,920 so you could retake them, but again comes from a poor hawk of 113 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,240 family. So Hong moved back to his village to become a school teacher and 114 00:08:31,279 --> 00:08:37,639 save up money so he could once again take the test. He was able 115 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,039 to do so at twenty two, only to fail for a second time. 116 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:45,480 Okay, I'm starting to feel a villain origin story building here. You're starting 117 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,600 to see kind of a Hitler story here. I'm just not that good didn't 118 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:56,360 get accepted. Yea, my art sucks. But perhaps maybe he wasn't being 119 00:08:56,399 --> 00:09:01,919 accepted because these tests were rigged against Hakka people, against pores. Oh well 120 00:09:01,919 --> 00:09:05,200 that you know, how are they rigged against poor people? You could honestly 121 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:09,759 pay to pass the test. Okay, so not so much rigged against poor 122 00:09:09,799 --> 00:09:13,440 people as rigged for rich people. They're not even rigged for them. Wow. 123 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,559 Okay, not shocked that this is how you're I'm watching you do the 124 00:09:18,559 --> 00:09:22,320 mental gymnastics out loud. I'm not saying it's not corrupt. I'm just saying 125 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,399 it's not like they wrote the test to somehow flunk out a Hakka like it 126 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:28,759 was just like man, whatever, they'll just pay to and we'll give it 127 00:09:28,799 --> 00:09:35,279 to him. That's still rigged against poor people. It makes it sound like 128 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:37,399 the test was written to fuck over poor people. It's more the system as 129 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:43,639 fucking over poor people, which is way worse. I'm not grading it at 130 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:48,600 all. I'm just saying test no. But the test is a byproduct of 131 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:50,000 a system that is in it itself rigged. So yes, the test is 132 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,279 rigged. It makes it sound like it's like the SAT right. It makes 133 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,480 it sound like, oh, poor people can't take the USA two because it's 134 00:09:56,519 --> 00:10:00,440 not. First off, that's not even true. But it's not him to 135 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:03,480 do. Yeah, a fucking balance a checkbook. But like it's it's more 136 00:10:03,519 --> 00:10:09,159 like state tests nowadays, where richer schools do better on those tests, so 137 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:13,639 they get more public funding, no child, Yeah, which is stupid as 138 00:10:13,639 --> 00:10:18,480 fuck, but yes, yeah, and then the poorer schools get worse because 139 00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,279 I don't have the money of resources to actually provide for these kids. And 140 00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,960 then you teach a test and you don't teach a subject anymore, and yeah 141 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:28,759 that's what Yeah, it's all about passing the test. Yeah, that's why 142 00:10:28,159 --> 00:10:31,840 nobody gives a shit about the kids. Life is a test, and no 143 00:10:31,879 --> 00:10:33,519 one gives a shit about you. It sounds like we're training them exactly like 144 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:39,559 we should. Who's testing you in life? Down in the dumps. Defeated 145 00:10:39,919 --> 00:10:45,279 and humbled once again, Hang was ready to accept his fate and his lot 146 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:48,639 in life until he stumbled into something that would change his life in the country 147 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:54,000 of China forever. A coalition of cough ak forty. So no murder, 148 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:56,559 just hey, you can kill people. You can kill people. I'm talking, 149 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:01,960 of course about Christianity. Oh yeah, that'll do it. I think 150 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,320 he said. This guy is a villain Protestant. Oh yeah, villain. 151 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:11,679 We're anti Protestant on this podcast. Except he's not really a Protestant because he 152 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:16,519 makes his own thing. That's whatever you want. But yeah, he built 153 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:24,519 off this Protestant missionaries. Technically this church is Protestant, the Pentecostal. These 154 00:11:24,559 --> 00:11:28,240 guys just make everything up. Yeah. So he ran into a man by 155 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:33,120 the name of Edwin Stevens, a Protestant from the good old us of A 156 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,200 and former teacher at Yale who went to spread the good Word of Christ in 157 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:39,399 the East. Throw an interpreter, of course, because he didn't speak Chinese 158 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:41,840 himself. Yeah, this is the old guy. Sounds like a failure, 159 00:11:41,879 --> 00:11:46,240 too unimportant. You don't need to speak Chinese in China. No No. 160 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,919 Hong was pretty captivated by the pair and took home some literature that he stashed 161 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:56,559 away for a bit and ultimately forgot about for a good portion of time, 162 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,240 and so it kind of on the bookshelf. Yeah. Man, No, 163 00:12:00,399 --> 00:12:05,080 he sounds like, well, he sounds brilliant already because he's like he's going 164 00:12:05,159 --> 00:12:07,799 to just use it later yet put it in the bank. Yeah, just 165 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,600 like I might be able to manipulate this somehow. It's like when you're playing 166 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,159 a video game and you just stash a bunch of loot as you keep going, 167 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,720 I grab that my beautiful later. Yeah, yeah, and you keep 168 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:18,759 being like, should I get rid of this? Should I? I don't 169 00:12:18,799 --> 00:12:22,559 know, should do this Bible away? Then like a level later, they're 170 00:12:22,559 --> 00:12:26,840 like, where is your Bible? You're dead. He returned to teaching to 171 00:12:26,840 --> 00:12:31,120 save up for the exam once again, and unfortunately failed for a third time. 172 00:12:31,039 --> 00:12:35,039 Damn. Years of studying and stacks of cash were essentially lit on fire, 173 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:41,200 and Hong had a complete mental breakdown. This is also why these are 174 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:46,000 bad ideas. He was in such bad shape that his family started making arrangements 175 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,559 for his death. And honestly the world would have been much better off if 176 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:56,080 he took his own life. Okay. Hong, during this delirium supposedly fell 177 00:12:56,120 --> 00:13:01,399 into a deep hallucination for several days important and had a detailed vision of heaven, 178 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,879 where he encountered his celestial family distinct from his family here on earth. 179 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:11,759 His heavenly father, in a black dragon robe and golden beard, gave Hong 180 00:13:11,879 --> 00:13:16,039 a sword and asked him to combat the evil spirits who had taken over his 181 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:22,480 realm with his brother Jesus Christ. Hell. Yeah, Jesus was Hong's brother 182 00:13:22,639 --> 00:13:26,240 in this vision. Yeah, and so God was the dragon man with the 183 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:30,200 gold beard. Of course, who else is God? He didn't know that 184 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:33,279 at the time, right, I mean, I think God likes to present 185 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:37,480 himself. It's like contact. Yeah, Like we decided we should look like 186 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:41,039 your father to present a way that you know makes you comfortable, and like 187 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:43,720 God is Like, I'm gonna present what a Chinese guy would think was off. 188 00:13:45,879 --> 00:13:48,200 Yeah, I'm gonna present how this white guy would think was off, 189 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:52,039 you know what I mean? Yeah? Yeah, Like there's some I mean, 190 00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,559 the dragon robe guy would appeal to masses here in America as well. 191 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,360 Yeah, like any more ninja kid but web yeah, just kid with a 192 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:03,399 body pillow right, Yeah, what did God present like to you? During 193 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:09,159 this dream, he even saw Confucius getting the business from his heavenly father for 194 00:14:09,279 --> 00:14:13,240 leading China astray. So wait, he saw Confucius getting punished by God. 195 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:18,279 I'm just gonna pretend it's God spanking Confusius getting the business. Yeah, he's 196 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,399 getting bent over. I imagine just maybe with like a bamboo stick. Oh, 197 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:26,120 just like a big switch, little whip. Yeah, yeah, I 198 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,039 could see that. The vision stuck with Han. Those close to him said 199 00:14:31,080 --> 00:14:35,000 he was never the same, and he actually became more kinder, confident and 200 00:14:35,039 --> 00:14:41,879 smiled more. Initially, It's that most crazy people do speaking to God. 201 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:48,639 Hi, you get you know, I thought God spanked Confucius. I hope 202 00:14:48,679 --> 00:14:52,440 you have a good day. Like, oh, he's doing better, he's 203 00:14:52,639 --> 00:14:54,879 great. He was speaking gibberish before, so I think he could have come 204 00:14:54,879 --> 00:15:01,519 out of that that hallucination Comba, but he seems wonderful. He went back 205 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:05,279 to teaching the youth for a few more years, bouncing from village to village, 206 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:09,799 and eighteen forty three decided to give the exams another crack. Four times 207 00:15:09,919 --> 00:15:15,240 charge. Lord, he's theo what is he eighteen what eighteen forty three, 208 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:20,080 so he's almost thirty. Yeah, he's the buffalo bills of the fuck he's 209 00:15:20,080 --> 00:15:24,440 born in fourteen. Yeah, so he's thirty nine twenty. I mean, 210 00:15:24,559 --> 00:15:28,799 yeah, he failed again perhaps because again, like I said, these exams 211 00:15:28,799 --> 00:15:33,519 may or may not have been rigged to those from a wealthier background who bought 212 00:15:33,519 --> 00:15:37,759 their spot into the government. Feeling down once more when you hold them by 213 00:15:37,799 --> 00:15:43,519 the way, still thinking China very hereditary to get into the Communist Party, 214 00:15:43,600 --> 00:15:46,200 of course it is. You mean, the people that formed the revolution, 215 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:50,120 pulled the ladder up and took control. Definitely, because I've told it before. 216 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,039 I've told the story before on the show about how Spencer was hooking up 217 00:15:54,039 --> 00:15:56,320 with that Communist check in China, like a Chinese communist. She's on the 218 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,600 phone with her dad, her family. He was, and he was like 219 00:16:00,159 --> 00:16:03,320 families in the party, because there's families that are in the party and then 220 00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,679 there's just you're just Chinese and here, yeah, you know what I mean, 221 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:10,159 And that's what this guy was clearly dealing with, like his family obviously 222 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:17,000 not in whatever the party was back then. Was yeah, yeah, so 223 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,840 he was down, and he went back home, and you know what, 224 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,639 he went to his bookshelf, and you remember, he had that Christian pamphlet 225 00:16:26,159 --> 00:16:29,240 that he received years earlier, and he went to Africa and saved lives. 226 00:16:29,360 --> 00:16:37,639 He saw what he was pretty sure was it the Abrahamic Judeo Christian God spanking 227 00:16:37,759 --> 00:16:45,080 Confucius. And he waited four years to go pick up that pamphlet, just 228 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,600 forgot about it after he saw God spank Confusion. He didn't know who it 229 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,279 was. Okay, he has no idea, you know, he kind of 230 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:55,919 wreckconned it a little bit. He was like, oh, yeah, gold 231 00:16:55,960 --> 00:17:03,559 Beard was yahweh yeah okay, and his brother yeah no. Hon came to 232 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:10,119 the conclusion that the bearded man was the Christian God and his brother in general 233 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:14,000 by his side fighting the evil spirits with Jesus Christ. Hon came to the 234 00:17:14,039 --> 00:17:18,880 conclusion that he was the second son of the Almighty. Ah, I see 235 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:23,000 it. That's some real a to b thinking straight line. It was now 236 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:27,319 his duty to bring righteousness to the world as he had in his vision. 237 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:34,440 He went around tearing down statues of Buddhism, and Confucius began preaching his version 238 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:38,079 of Christianity around his village. I'm sure people loved that. That must have 239 00:17:38,079 --> 00:17:44,720 been initially, No, I can't imagine they did. His neighbors were not 240 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:48,359 all too pleased with this sudden and rash change in Hong Can you imagine, 241 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:52,599 like real quick, you imagine if I was like yo, I had this 242 00:17:52,720 --> 00:17:56,640 dream and I saw like l Ron Hawbird and he was beating the shit out 243 00:17:56,640 --> 00:18:00,759 of Jesus, and I just started going around town tearing out. Yeah, 244 00:18:00,799 --> 00:18:02,640 wouldn't go. I mean, you just get shot after that. I would 245 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,799 get killed immediately. Yeah. Yeah. He went from a respectable teacher who 246 00:18:06,839 --> 00:18:14,319 tutored their kids to a religious lunatic overnight smashing educational tablets and toppling religious statues. 247 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:18,559 He was banned from teaching in his village immediately. Yeah, that's a 248 00:18:18,559 --> 00:18:21,839 good reason to fire teacher. Yeah, No, I don't think so. 249 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,680 Toppling religious things, no, fuck that. Not in America. You can 250 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,880 do that all day. You actually can't just go destroy private property, are 251 00:18:29,920 --> 00:18:32,680 you kidding me? Not? Man? No, man, Someone just tosses 252 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,039 a brick through a fucking mosque and they're like, hey, whoa whoa whoa 253 00:18:36,079 --> 00:18:41,359 whoa whoa whoa Not mosques, dude, Church just churches. Man, we 254 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,960 don't do anything about it. Like, well, I mean, what's the 255 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,559 to your their side of the story. That's no I can. That's what 256 00:18:48,599 --> 00:18:55,240 you get when you're in charge. We'll get ours. Hong went on preaching, 257 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:00,039 like you haven't. What's the Vatican worth? Uh? Probably like a 258 00:19:00,079 --> 00:19:04,640 trillion dollars. It's immeasurable. Yeah, there is no value number. Well, 259 00:19:04,640 --> 00:19:08,240 Hank went on preaching. Uh. Didn't really have much success at first, 260 00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:12,400 but kind of hit the countryside and talked to his fellow people of the 261 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,759 Hakka and the master bit of a following, including most of his family, 262 00:19:15,799 --> 00:19:21,000 who now believed he was the son of God. How those are the last 263 00:19:21,119 --> 00:19:23,240 people you should be able to talk into that, your family. Yeah, 264 00:19:23,319 --> 00:19:26,279 no, they should be talking you out of it constantly. Yeah. Like 265 00:19:26,359 --> 00:19:30,000 if I just showed up and was like, hey, mom and dad, 266 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:33,440 so I'm the son of God, they'd be like, I know you're not, 267 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:37,720 you're my son. Yeah. I saw you come out and be I 268 00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:41,960 know you better than you know yourself in any ways, I can assure you. 269 00:19:41,960 --> 00:19:47,039 You're just a narcissist, you fucking psycho. Once they went to rural 270 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:52,799 China, his homie Fang Yung Shan kind of took his preaching and made it 271 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:59,039 a legit religion with what he called the God Worshippers Society. Oh that's a 272 00:19:59,039 --> 00:20:03,960 good name. Fucking aces, and the two put together their own version of 273 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,440 the Bible. Always good to just kind of. You gotta make it your 274 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:11,839 own, right, like if you're redo, if you're remaking a story like 275 00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,960 Greta Gerwig's Little Women, you know she didn't go linear, she did dual 276 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:18,119 timelines. You gotta make it your own. Yeah, yeah, you got. 277 00:20:18,319 --> 00:20:21,599 You gotta put your own spin on it. Yeah. I think if 278 00:20:21,799 --> 00:20:23,440 you gave the three of us an eight ball of cocaine and like a handle 279 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:26,599 of whiskey, we could write our own doctrine pretty quickly, write our own 280 00:20:26,640 --> 00:20:30,039 Bible. But the thing is, you just take the IP and all the 281 00:20:30,039 --> 00:20:33,920 shit that's already there, yeah, and just reweave it. We would just 282 00:20:33,039 --> 00:20:37,960 rip off the Unibomber's manifesto. It would be like the UNI Bomber's Manifesto, 283 00:20:37,039 --> 00:20:42,400 the Gnostic Bible, and then like Timothy Dexter's fucking biography. Yeah yeah. 284 00:20:45,039 --> 00:20:51,119 Now, Han's version of this Bible rejected the Christian message of forgiveness, Metal, 285 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:55,359 smart, good and he gave more merit to his own divinity over his 286 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:00,559 brother Jesus. Even better, Well, he's like the new pope. Where's 287 00:21:00,599 --> 00:21:04,119 Jesus. People flocked to join this movement, not necessarily because they believed in 288 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:10,759 Hang or were overly religious. No, they simply enjoyed his anti government rhetoric 289 00:21:11,079 --> 00:21:14,880 that went along with his preaching, which was big on the end of private 290 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:22,519 property and social classes. Oh so a precursor to what's to come. Yeah, 291 00:21:22,599 --> 00:21:23,920 you're starting to pick up on it. He's starting to pick up why 292 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:30,880 he's responsible for so many deaths. Oh, he's the godfather of the ideology. 293 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,599 We'll get to it. Okay, No, I okay, I'm really 294 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:38,200 interested. He even initially gets backed by Karl Marx. Oh no, so 295 00:21:38,319 --> 00:21:41,480 wait he's alive at the same time. Man, oh man, you know 296 00:21:41,519 --> 00:21:45,119 how we're always like Karl Marx just wrote a book. We might be wrong 297 00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:48,000 on that. I might be right. Yeah, we might have to amend 298 00:21:48,079 --> 00:21:53,720 that take. Under the Qing dynasty, life in rural China was tough sledding. 299 00:21:55,319 --> 00:21:57,920 Hong was able to captivate the audience with talks of an uprising and cleaning 300 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:03,079 out the demons that infested their country's highest positions of power. I don't want 301 00:22:03,079 --> 00:22:07,119 to. I don't want to put that on the dynasty. I don't. 302 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:14,119 I can't particularly recall a time when life in world China was peachy. No, 303 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,720 no, I don't think that's one dynasty's fault. Dude. Also, 304 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,160 communism didn't help it. We go out and kill some sparrows and then you 305 00:22:21,279 --> 00:22:23,799 just starved to death for some reason. Yeah, that was after I know, 306 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,920 I know what I'm just saying, like it's it's it's a lot of 307 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:32,119 shooting yourself to the feet. Yeah. Yeah. What Hank started as a 308 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,960 religious endeavor quickly pivoted to a social revolution, and much of his following got 309 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:42,599 together, living in compounds and communes. The Ching dynasty began to take notice 310 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:45,119 of this, of course they did, and wanted to nip this in the 311 00:22:45,119 --> 00:22:48,920 bud before it got real traction. Smart Yeah, oh, the people that 312 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:53,640 are gaining followers that are calling you literal demons. Yeah, maybe stop that. 313 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:59,079 You would think this is smart, but perhaps this was the gasoline. 314 00:22:59,759 --> 00:23:02,319 Well, well, it goes one in two ways, right, either it 315 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:07,200 works or you made a martyr. You made it one hundred times. Yeah, 316 00:23:07,599 --> 00:23:11,240 when you come for the cult leader you best not miss. In eighteen 317 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:17,720 fifty a famine was bucking in the providence of Gwangje when wasn't it and drove 318 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:21,680 much of the community to join Hanng's movement. It's just like famine in China 319 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:26,000 go together. What does not a famine look like? I swear to God, 320 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:30,720 Yeah, because like think about that too, Like how often reading about 321 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,079 it in the history of United States? Do you hear about like famine in 322 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,200 the Midwest once that I do think of, that's the only times it. 323 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,400 In China, it's like every fifteen years there's a fucking famine. And you're 324 00:23:44,799 --> 00:23:48,519 at least in medieval Europe even up to the seventeen hundreds in the Little Ice 325 00:23:48,559 --> 00:23:51,920 Age, there's famine and stuff. You This is probably why America is like 326 00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:55,079 op is, because you never hear about it, and then there's one that 327 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:56,359 we're kind of like, oh, yeah, I heard that's bad. And 328 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,559 then meanwhile in China there's like a minor famine and in twenty million people died. 329 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:02,599 Yeah. No, I mean that's pretty much it, right, Like 330 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:08,440 we also just have one of the most fertile countries on Earth. You say, 331 00:24:08,759 --> 00:24:15,079 you say for now, yeah, no, ching soldiers entered and threatened 332 00:24:15,079 --> 00:24:18,960 to kill any converts. In response to this threat, Hong declared his own 333 00:24:18,039 --> 00:24:26,799 dynasty, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom sick good name. Hong organized and put together 334 00:24:26,839 --> 00:24:30,759 his own army of about thirty thousand men, initially tied red cloths around their 335 00:24:30,799 --> 00:24:37,359 head and declared war on the government forces red cloths. Huh, that's so 336 00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:41,240 impressive. An initial army of thirty thousands, that's a lot. Yeah, 337 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:47,920 it's a lot. Fuck ton. That's the size of my university. So 338 00:24:48,079 --> 00:24:52,400 he would also take women, the women bodies, dude, yeah bodies. 339 00:24:52,480 --> 00:25:00,160 Yeah. Yeah. Hong organized and put together this army, and in January 340 00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:06,279 eighteen fifty one, their first class with the ching force of seven thousand men 341 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,920 began. They had thirty versus seven. Holy shit. Also, I kind 342 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:18,039 of think when your armies just like probably semi to very untrained, it doesn't 343 00:25:18,039 --> 00:25:21,000 really matter if it's a dude or a chick, if you're going against professional 344 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,720 soldiers. Yeah, I mean, when you're that out number, obviously they're 345 00:25:23,759 --> 00:25:26,559 professional soldiers, but there has to be some sort of element of like, 346 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:30,400 oh, they don't know what they're doing, so we can't adequately respond the 347 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,240 way we will they also don't show up all thirty thousand men at first. 348 00:25:33,279 --> 00:25:38,359 Oh okay, but I mean Hong at this point in this battle gets surrounded 349 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:44,759 and uh, it almost seems like it could end right there. However, 350 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,079 reinforcements show up a little battle of the bastards situation, and they win the 351 00:25:49,079 --> 00:25:52,960 battle. Bang, he gets his first dub one for one. That's impressive. 352 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:57,119 It is really impressive to do that with a So to give some perspective 353 00:25:57,160 --> 00:26:02,079 on that, you remember we talked about in the started in Lama Lynche or 354 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,880 however it was it's actually supposed to be pronounced. Anyway, the Spanish were 355 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:15,640 fucking uh winning battles against like professional or at least semi pro Indian soldiers, 356 00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:19,880 you know, out number ten to one. The fact that like a professional 357 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:26,359 army of a seven thousand should definitely beat a non professional army of double or 358 00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:29,519 even triple that size. In my opinion, that's still a lot of work. 359 00:26:29,599 --> 00:26:33,480 Though, like the amount of work you like, it's not easy to 360 00:26:33,559 --> 00:26:37,039 do it. Maybe it double but triples. These were also hard people, 361 00:26:37,079 --> 00:26:41,039 they were, yeah for sure, and I'm sure actually yeah, they were 362 00:26:41,039 --> 00:26:44,119 probably like veterans amongst them, and stuff like that too, you would have 363 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:48,640 to think someone was scripted into armies. Yeah, there's someone that has some 364 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,799 sort of experience there. After this, several more days of fight and ensued, 365 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:56,759 and the Tai Ping scored a major victory after faking a retreat into an 366 00:26:56,839 --> 00:27:02,640 ambush of the Ching soldiers that followed after that's fucking incredible. Bang. Yeah, 367 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:07,799 Hong claimed victory and in this battle and left over one thousand soldiers dead. 368 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,559 After this conflict, Hong and the Tai Pings went from city to city, 369 00:27:11,599 --> 00:27:15,319 building their army and bringing on new converts. So every city they would 370 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,359 kind of conquer, even if you know there was no Ching soldiers there, 371 00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:21,799 they would just kind of take over and then be like, hey, join 372 00:27:21,839 --> 00:27:25,599 the army or die. I was gonna say, Ah, wasn't that friendly. 373 00:27:25,839 --> 00:27:30,000 Wasn't friendly? Yeah? Yeah, but most people were kind of on 374 00:27:30,039 --> 00:27:33,440 board initially. Yeah, like he's pretty cool. Yeah, it was mostly 375 00:27:33,519 --> 00:27:36,599 yeah, fuck the government. I can't imagine. Yeah, Like the overthrow 376 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,359 of these towns was like hyper violent all the time. It's probably there's a 377 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:41,920 lot of I mean, yeah, we hate this shit too. We hate 378 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:48,039 this shit too, man. Yeah, let's do it. Men and women 379 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:52,279 signed up for this new vision of China, and we're ready to die for 380 00:27:52,319 --> 00:27:56,680 it. By eighteen fifty three, his army was approaching close to a million 381 00:27:56,759 --> 00:28:02,799 Soldiers's fucking insane. How much radicalization throughout history do you think can be attributed 382 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:06,799 to the boredom of the masses? Like I'm thinking about this right, Like 383 00:28:06,839 --> 00:28:11,079 he's rolling into these like probably you know, rural or even just like you 384 00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:15,759 know, feudal type towns where these people have whatever lives that aren't very interesting. 385 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,799 It's like, hey, do you want to change to the fucking world? 386 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,960 Like, how much do you think it is out of boredom? For 387 00:28:23,079 --> 00:28:26,839 some people? I think you need both boredom and discomfort. Well, yeah, 388 00:28:26,880 --> 00:28:33,839 discomfort for sure, But like I because in America everyone's very bored everyone's 389 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,079 also very comfortable. Yeah, but I mean, hey, like people get 390 00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:41,720 radicalized here all the time, like yeah, but very few of them do 391 00:28:41,759 --> 00:28:45,920 anything. Yeah, I mean it's it's an incredibly small amount of people that, 392 00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:48,960 yeah, but still like I gotta think it's people that are like my 393 00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,480 life's born here especially it's but boredom helps for sure, and a lot of 394 00:28:52,519 --> 00:28:57,640 them they have discomfort issues, right, They basically mental hocket And I'm like, 395 00:28:57,759 --> 00:29:02,960 yeah, right, right, right right. People can definitely get radicalized 396 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:07,039 to the point you know where they'll post some really gnarly just fucked up shit 397 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,960 whatever side of the political spectrum, but they won't really, No, that's 398 00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:15,480 their outlet, that is that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, 399 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:18,759 for sure, it doesn't go beyond that. Maybe they go to a protest. 400 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,240 I honestly think like a lot of it in America is just like I'm 401 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,440 not getting paid, I'm not getting laid. That's honestly the crux of a 402 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:30,799 lot of radicalization. Yeah. Yeah, Hang decided to go into attack mode 403 00:29:30,839 --> 00:29:33,839 March sixth Oh, he wasn't in there. Eighteen fifty three, in force 404 00:29:34,839 --> 00:29:41,400 of seven hundred and fifty thousand Tai Pings laid siege to Nanjing. Holy fuck 405 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:47,839 so where eighty thousand Ching soldiers held on for thirteen days before eventually being overrun. 406 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:52,319 That's incredible too, seven hundred and fifty thousand they had walls and everything 407 00:29:52,799 --> 00:29:56,000 still, but I means still gonna lay siege ten to one though, Yeah, 408 00:29:56,119 --> 00:29:59,000 I mean it was more so the seage. Once they get in, 409 00:29:59,119 --> 00:30:03,319 yeah, it's over. Yeah. You know how they get in howe Hong 410 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:11,480 soldiers dug tunnels and disguised as Buddhist monks to place explosives and set fires all 411 00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:14,160 around the city walls. Dude, we need this to be a movie. 412 00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:18,960 I don't understand how it's I want to give some perspective of he laid Seede 413 00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:26,440 with seven hundred and fifty thousand men. In eighteen sixty four, the Union 414 00:30:26,559 --> 00:30:30,400 Army was the largest army in the world. It had five hundred and thirty 415 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:36,200 three thousand men across all fronts. So these guys had a quarter of a 416 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,359 million more. Yeah, that's insane. That's insane. I'm gonna give you 417 00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:45,279 more impressive stats at the end. Okay, okay. Two of the bombs 418 00:30:45,319 --> 00:30:48,519 went off as planned, but one was delayed and accidentally killed a decent amount 419 00:30:48,559 --> 00:30:53,920 of hong z Own soldiers. You're going to go meet his dad. Despite 420 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:59,440 the minor speed bump, the Tai Pings unleash their assault and the city quickly 421 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,680 fell shortly after. Yeah, how many people to even kill his guest? 422 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:03,400 I haven't heard fifty thousand. Yeah, it's like, sure, twenty thousand 423 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:08,759 matter are dead? Like all right, that's well. Nanjing became the new 424 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:15,240 capital of the Heavenly Kingdom. Hong then planned two more offensives the Northern and 425 00:31:15,279 --> 00:31:19,799 Western Expeditions to eventually form a pincer move and surround the majority of China. 426 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,920 Damn like whole country pincer. It is a pretty smart dude. Yeah, 427 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,039 I mean definitely, there are people that were helping him. I have to 428 00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:30,920 imagine all he had to do was pass goddamn exam. One never happens. 429 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:37,039 That's why just if your kids need help on the test, cheat for them. 430 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:41,480 Just don't teach cheat. Yes, I agree with that. Get your 431 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:47,920 funding. Initially, the Northern Expedition planned on taking Beijing, but audibled to 432 00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:52,759 Tanjing. This was a critical error. Tonjing held its own and slowed down 433 00:31:52,839 --> 00:31:56,319 Hang and his forces to give Beijing enough time to beef up their reinforcements. 434 00:31:56,720 --> 00:32:01,079 So the Northern Expedition fails and his calls is called back. The Western Expedition, 435 00:32:01,119 --> 00:32:06,680 however, fares much better. Multiple cities are taken, tens of thousands 436 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:12,160 of Ching soldiers are merked, and new recruits grow exponentially in these new territories. 437 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,319 Did it say? Why they didn't and it's fun you don't have it? 438 00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:19,759 Why they didn't hit Shanghai, which is like just to the east of 439 00:32:19,759 --> 00:32:22,480 they get to Shanghai. They didn't want to They didn't want to go right 440 00:32:22,519 --> 00:32:27,079 away. Not here. Okay, they get to Shanghai. Eventually you got 441 00:32:27,119 --> 00:32:30,039 a blitz, you know what I mean. They kind of got a little 442 00:32:30,039 --> 00:32:31,440 greedy here. They're likeyeh I, we'll take the city too. Where you 443 00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:37,839 take anything? Where is nin king Nanjing? Ninjing? It's just to the 444 00:32:37,839 --> 00:32:42,480 west of Shanghai. Okay, I'm just trying to and a little bit in 445 00:32:42,519 --> 00:32:45,039 a fair bit, fair bit south of Beijing. I just looked at a 446 00:32:45,039 --> 00:32:47,480 map. I'm not recalling this memory. Now. They have a lot of 447 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:53,960 success off the bat because the Qing dynasty was spread thin. Not only were 448 00:32:54,039 --> 00:33:00,400 the Tai Pings in open rebellion, but there were other inner conflicts with Mahler 449 00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:07,960 warlords. And you know this little nation England, Yeah, England and France 450 00:33:07,759 --> 00:33:12,759 kind of retavocked during the Opium Wars. Everyone's kind of getting their little fingers 451 00:33:12,759 --> 00:33:20,079 in. It was the perfect storm for typing success. After these offenses, 452 00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:24,680 Hong took a step back from his military duties. He gave full power to 453 00:33:24,759 --> 00:33:29,680 his generals, and you know what, you got to start reaping those rewards. 454 00:33:30,119 --> 00:33:32,119 What year is this, by the way, what are we going now? 455 00:33:34,039 --> 00:33:37,240 Right now? We're about eighteen fifty three, eighteen fifty four, Okay, 456 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:39,960 I mean this is like a crazy time in human history. You have 457 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:45,039 the US just doubled in size. Yeah, the French are all over the 458 00:33:45,039 --> 00:33:49,880 police right now. They keep having revolutions. The Crimean War eighteen fifty three. 459 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:52,839 I think the Crimean War is literally about to start or is happening. 460 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,519 Like this is just like this makes what the current geopolitical situation seemed fucking quaint 461 00:33:59,559 --> 00:34:02,000 honestly. I mean, yeah, we're having some proxy wars right now. 462 00:34:02,119 --> 00:34:07,480 Yeah. An army of almost a million ravaging through China again, so there's 463 00:34:07,519 --> 00:34:14,840 like a superpower growing on a continent that was only discovered three hundred years ago. 464 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:19,920 Yeah, like I was fucking crazy. Now. What did hang do 465 00:34:20,119 --> 00:34:25,639 during his days in power when he no longer served the military, Well, 466 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:29,599 he was in his palace with a few dozen women he would keep around in 467 00:34:29,599 --> 00:34:36,320 his personal chambers, which was kind of funny because in the Taiping Christianity it 468 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,480 was forbidden to participate in sexual activities, including husbands and wives. How do 469 00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:45,920 you make more? He's conquered, Okay, go find more. Eventually run 470 00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:50,480 out. I don't think he's worried about it. Not in his time. 471 00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,519 He's like, once I die, who cares the tomorrow problem? Yeah, 472 00:34:53,559 --> 00:34:58,800 everything's a tomorrow problem when you're a narcissist, yeah, or someone else's. 473 00:34:59,039 --> 00:35:01,679 Yeah. So he lives by the do as I say, doing as I 474 00:35:02,039 --> 00:35:07,960 do philosophy. Oh of course. Yeah. This becomes a pretty major dividing 475 00:35:07,039 --> 00:35:13,719 line within as Hong and one of his most influential powerful general's Yang Yu shing 476 00:35:15,079 --> 00:35:19,239 Uh kind of gets upset about it. He's like, hey, man, 477 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:22,599 I thought this was he's like the one true believer. Yeah he's not. 478 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:29,000 But Han personally kicks out one of Yang's ladies out of his bed, and 479 00:35:29,039 --> 00:35:31,119 that didn't really sit well with Yang. Wait wait, Han kicked one of 480 00:35:31,239 --> 00:35:36,000 Yang's ladies out of Hank's bed, out of the Yang's bed, he made 481 00:35:36,039 --> 00:35:37,599 one of yangs. He went to Yang, he saw Yang was with a 482 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:40,079 woman. He's like, you gotta go, and then he went back and 483 00:35:40,159 --> 00:35:45,559 kept fucking m oh yeah yeah. Yeah. So he kept fucking women and 484 00:35:45,599 --> 00:35:51,400 he kept making his generals be abstinate. So he's cocking everybody a little bit. 485 00:35:51,599 --> 00:35:54,880 Yeah, starting to buy his own hype a little too much. Yeah, 486 00:35:54,960 --> 00:36:01,239 he's heat checking. This became the divide line, and Yang would openly 487 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:07,519 criticize the leadership of Hong, had his own power inside, started military campaigns 488 00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,840 on his own, even had his own visions where he claimed to be the 489 00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:14,440 voice of God. Oh he was like, hey, you know what, 490 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:20,079 and he started calling started calling Honk a false prophet. Oh how'd this go? 491 00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:24,119 Not well for Yang? Not well for Yang? I can't imagine. 492 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:30,760 Hong finally snapped with the insubordination and ordered the rest of the general's back to 493 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:37,719 name Jing. And they assassinated Yang in the most visible way possible and killed 494 00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:43,280 his family and anyone in his bloodline in very public fashion. Man, they 495 00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,920 were really big on that in the East. The whole your entire bloodline has 496 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:50,480 gone. Yeah, they did that a lot. Not only that. He 497 00:36:50,519 --> 00:36:54,280 then executed all of Yang's soldiers. Ooh like hey, man, uh, 498 00:36:54,400 --> 00:37:00,239 it's about twenty thousand people in the streets. So fucked So was like a 499 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:04,519 unit for him, Yeah, seriously, that would be a platoon in an 500 00:37:04,519 --> 00:37:07,360 American army. He did it slowly too, did it over two months? 501 00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,960 Oh, No one was catching wind to this. Were they all in prison? 502 00:37:12,039 --> 00:37:16,239 Basically all the Yang's men were just in prison. Ok. Yeah, 503 00:37:17,079 --> 00:37:22,679 they trapped them, imprisoned them, executed him slowly just to make a point. 504 00:37:23,199 --> 00:37:28,199 Geez. All right, and the general that was in charge of this 505 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,760 was actually executed too. Wait really the roundup crew guy? General Way? 506 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,920 Yeah, he had he had to. He had to clean his hands. 507 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,599 He's like, all right, you got to go to you just you just 508 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:44,239 massacred are men. I know I ordered you to, but now you have 509 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:45,840 to know too. Can't have you hanging around? Is that like a weird 510 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:52,519 consolation for anyone left that's like maybe mad at the situation. Yeah, I 511 00:37:52,519 --> 00:37:55,280 don't think so. A general Way I don't believe was super excited to kill 512 00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:59,199 his own guys. No, I can't imagine was. Yeah, so he 513 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:04,639 gets ticking out by on bodyguard. Oh, although some armies were fine with 514 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:07,920 it. You know, the Romans did decimation. Yeah, if you didn't 515 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:14,000 perform well one out of ten, this was a catastrophic mistake. It became 516 00:38:14,079 --> 00:38:17,760 obvious that he was no longer a freedom fighting group or this utopia they promised. 517 00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:22,679 It was in fact a brutal dictatorship run bind insane, paranoid leader who 518 00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:25,599 would do anything to maintain power. Who could have seen that coming meet the 519 00:38:25,639 --> 00:38:30,679 new boss, someone seeking power was insane. But real communism has never been 520 00:38:30,719 --> 00:38:37,800 tried. Remnism never tried. Never. The problem is that when they try 521 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:42,639 it right ever, always happened. Human I saw someone said something like to 522 00:38:42,679 --> 00:38:47,199 the extent of the problem with like progressivism is a deep and fundamental misunderstanding of 523 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:52,719 human nature, right, And it's like it's not wrong, like exactly right. 524 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,960 Yeah, Like you can't just have The reason governments are piecemeal together is 525 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:01,400 because human nature is hard to get a grip on, so you have to 526 00:39:01,639 --> 00:39:06,920 use a bunch of different tools. And like, communism works until you introduce 527 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:10,239 people into it. Yeah, every government does, right, Every government in 528 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:15,440 its purest form kind of forgets that, right. Yeah, then you try 529 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,119 to put it in practice, it's like, oh man, some people just 530 00:39:17,159 --> 00:39:20,840 don't want to work, so we're gonna need some sort of safety net here 531 00:39:21,039 --> 00:39:24,880 or they get hurt or like, oh god, like these people there's just 532 00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:29,280 maniacs. We gotta have a prison system in place, and it's a Communism 533 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,000 is kind of like be like it's got to like a tea a mediocre team 534 00:39:32,039 --> 00:39:36,119 going into a football game and being like all we gotta do is complete every 535 00:39:36,159 --> 00:39:39,920 path right exactly. It's just got to hit shots. Yea. If we 536 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,199 are one hundred percent from the three, yeah, we will win, like 537 00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,559 yeah, pro no shit. Like coaches say that, and sometimes it makes 538 00:39:47,599 --> 00:39:51,400 sense though. You just gotta make shots. Just I don't know. It's 539 00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,559 just you just got to make all the shots. It's even more so like 540 00:39:53,639 --> 00:39:59,320 in a in a more realistic way, it's trust the fundamentals. It's hey, 541 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:01,360 if you stick to your fundamentals, you will win regardless of town. 542 00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:07,960 No one says that past sixth grade bad coaches do. That's true. I 543 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,639 watch all the Mizoo Hiat videos and Eli Drinkwitz is like, I just need 544 00:40:09,679 --> 00:40:13,920 you to do the small things. You you do small things for gonna win. 545 00:40:14,639 --> 00:40:21,280 I trust coach, May eighteen sixty. This is where things you know 546 00:40:21,679 --> 00:40:29,440 slowly but surely start to go wrong. They do have some minor success the 547 00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:31,440 last seven years, the Ching troops have been trying to lay siege to nang 548 00:40:31,519 --> 00:40:37,199 Jing. They ultimately kind of shoot them away just they're like hit and run 549 00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:42,480 operations. This is such like a comical game of total war where you lose 550 00:40:42,519 --> 00:40:45,320 like a big province and it's just like a full stack of rebels and you're 551 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,079 just like, God fucking damnit, and you keep sending armonies, but you 552 00:40:49,079 --> 00:40:52,320 don't have enough people because you got a hundred things going on with San Andreas. 553 00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,239 The fucking ballers are attacking your just got all the territory except for one. 554 00:40:55,320 --> 00:41:00,719 Now there's drive all the way across San Andreas. Yeah, it's like, 555 00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:05,599 will this ever end? No? No, God damn it. Just 556 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:09,519 surrender. Hong took a little bit of this momentum captured two of the wealthiest 557 00:41:09,559 --> 00:41:15,519 provinces of the Qing dynasty. However, this was around the same time Ching 558 00:41:15,599 --> 00:41:21,519 dynasty signed a truce with British and French troops and could now put all their 559 00:41:21,519 --> 00:41:27,400 resources towards Hong and the Kingdom. Oh question, because this is an interesting 560 00:41:27,519 --> 00:41:35,039 sort of time in China. Obviously, all the European armies are like fully 561 00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:40,639 gunpowder right like since well before this time period, right full every infantrymen gunpowder, 562 00:41:40,679 --> 00:41:45,960 maybe cavalryes kind of combined arms. What is the west? What comes 563 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:53,480 with the truce guns for the chain artillery? Because I'm guessing that Hong's army 564 00:41:53,760 --> 00:41:59,320 is maybe a little bit of firearm old firearm situation, but a lot of 565 00:41:59,599 --> 00:42:04,079 edgeways on the Guess who immediately upgrades the Qing dynasty. Yeah, sick. 566 00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:08,559 Guess who now has French and British and even American troops and mercenaries the Qing 567 00:42:08,679 --> 00:42:14,440 dynasty. Who We've had people fight in mainland China. Yeah, the Boxer 568 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,480 rebellion we had. There were several marine Yeah, in terms of fighting it, 569 00:42:17,519 --> 00:42:21,039 mainly in China World War two, we were all over there. Yeah, 570 00:42:21,039 --> 00:42:22,400 you're right. No, I mean, I guess, like for a 571 00:42:22,599 --> 00:42:28,239 Chinese domestic issue, not like a World war. Yeah that's but no, 572 00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,400 you're right. The Boxer rebellion we did. I forgot about Todd Ping's were 573 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:34,800 a little disheartened by this news. This whole time. They were trying to 574 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:40,039 get the international community on their side. How I'm god, Yeah, that 575 00:42:40,119 --> 00:42:45,599 doesn't usually play. I mentioned Karl Marx earlier, who supported the movement initially 576 00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:52,280 but publicly came out against it once he started to dig into what they were 577 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,199 about, you know what, like, oh, they're insane. That is 578 00:42:55,239 --> 00:43:00,119 actually Karl Marx called them insane. Yeah, so on braind and for everyone 579 00:43:00,159 --> 00:43:06,000 who loves Karl Marx, he hears that there's some just like anti person who's 580 00:43:06,039 --> 00:43:10,039 in power movement doesn't really dig in beyond that, says hell, yeah, 581 00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:15,599 they're the good guys, and then later they find out a little bit more 582 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:20,639 after horrible things have happened, and they're like, well, it's complicated. 583 00:43:21,119 --> 00:43:24,760 I don't think I support them, but let's not forget it started well, 584 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:30,280 and those other guys are bad too, So there's no good guys. And 585 00:43:30,360 --> 00:43:32,880 I was only a little bit wrong. No, you caught a sound bite. 586 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,719 It confirmed your bias, and you bought in. Yep, yeah, 587 00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:42,079 that's it man, Fuck Carl, damn it. I mean we weren't like 588 00:43:42,360 --> 00:43:45,760 huge fans. We were kind of like, what do he really what he 589 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:50,119 really do? Like, I still am of the opinion I don't think he 590 00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:52,599 cost everything. He didn't really do he personally didn't really do. Again, 591 00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,480 at some point, if you're putting bodies at the feet of Karl Marx, 592 00:43:57,519 --> 00:44:01,880 you need to put bodies at the feet of Jesus and Christianity. I'm fine 593 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:07,239 with both. I'm sure he used both. Yeah, now, this guy, 594 00:44:07,559 --> 00:44:12,079 he really did co op both Christianity and Communism, which don't king they 595 00:44:12,079 --> 00:44:16,559 are not compatible. Actually somehow managed to No, you can you can put 596 00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:21,000 first off, you can jam anything into anything Oh, well, yes you 597 00:44:21,079 --> 00:44:24,880 can with cognitive dissonance. But like, what I'm saying is like communism is 598 00:44:24,960 --> 00:44:30,280 like not about any sort of hierarchical thing. It's not even about heavenly hierarchy. 599 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:36,559 It's just the people. I guess it would be more like comm communalism 600 00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:43,119 if you wanted to do Christianity socialism, right, Like, it's like nothing 601 00:44:43,199 --> 00:44:45,519 matters here, so we all share because we're trying to get to heap. 602 00:44:45,559 --> 00:44:50,079 We all equalna the eyes of God. It's an easy thing to easily smash 603 00:44:50,119 --> 00:44:52,480 together. But then it becomes a sort of like socialist situation where it's like 604 00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:55,239 the people own the means and all that stuff. Well, socialism is just 605 00:44:55,239 --> 00:45:00,920 a step to communism, right Like, yeah, but communism is complete lack 606 00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,920 of power structure. Yeah yeah, yeah, except not at all. No, 607 00:45:05,039 --> 00:45:10,360 Well weird how people need that since they've been fucking around Like we're social 608 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:15,840 animals. Social animals create hierarchies to understand their social settings, like it's how 609 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:22,119 we fucking operate. Realizing they were at an alloy, realizing they were now 610 00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:25,519 out gunned, the Taiepings tried to adapt with more guerrilla style hit and run 611 00:45:25,559 --> 00:45:32,199 attacks, and they go after Shanghai. This battle lasts over a year a 612 00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:37,679 siege or they just like kind of fucking with it both. Okay, well, 613 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:40,760 no, what they can't get the Qing dynasty prevails. Okay, yeah, 614 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:45,760 I'm rooting for the Qing. The Qing then retook the coastal city of 615 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:51,400 a Ching thanks to British blockade and siege that went on so long that the 616 00:45:51,599 --> 00:45:57,599 Taie Pings and locals resulted to cannibalism to survive, even the town's markets starting 617 00:45:57,599 --> 00:46:01,280 to sell human meat. Cool human mate. Here, there's actually a I 618 00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,360 don't have a picture from this one. I'll have to look it up. 619 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,400 I'll show you guys. At some point there's a picture of like a Russian 620 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,280 famine situation, and it might have been nineteen nineteen, nineteen twenty. It's 621 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,760 just a family standing in front of human body business like Stalingrad. No it 622 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,280 was, it was pre World War two, but post revolution. I think 623 00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,639 it was just one of the you know, I've seen that picture where it's 624 00:46:21,679 --> 00:46:24,239 a it's a meat market and it's arms or something like. It's like arms 625 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:29,800 and legs shit. Pretty narly. More battles happened in smaller cities and by 626 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:34,599 that I mean one hundreds of thousands of people were still involved, and in 627 00:46:34,639 --> 00:46:38,639 total, about six hundred towns were wiped off the mat to complete ash took 628 00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:43,079 good perspective today, and this still, I think is the case back then 629 00:46:43,119 --> 00:46:49,440 to an extent. China's got like twenty cities the size of Chicago. Yeah, 630 00:46:49,639 --> 00:46:52,320 they had more, They're gone. Now, how does that say? 631 00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:58,320 Like, like, also perspective, six hundred towns is probably about the size 632 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,840 of I mean, that's an entire state. Like imagine, just imagine you 633 00:47:04,119 --> 00:47:09,639 just eradicated Florida, like Florida. Florida's got eight hundred or so. Listen, 634 00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:15,079 you think the global emissions that China puts out now are bad if this 635 00:47:15,119 --> 00:47:20,639 man doesn't exist, twenty times worse so green? Yeah, Actually he's actually 636 00:47:20,679 --> 00:47:25,079 changing my mind. His carbon footprint is I mean, it beats Jangus. 637 00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:32,360 Massive death is green. Yes, genocide is green. No, it has 638 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:37,440 to be in genocide. Genocide do not doesn't have to be ethnic or anything. 639 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:42,280 Can just be people. Yeah, genoside does not have to be racist, 640 00:47:42,559 --> 00:47:45,559 specialist or anything. What a specie. No, it kind of does. 641 00:47:45,679 --> 00:47:47,880 Actually, it has to be a specific group of people you're eliminating. 642 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:54,280 I believe. Yeah, you know, so what would just be killing a 643 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:58,639 species? No, not even a species, just like I want to kill 644 00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:05,199 fifty million people, but of all races, what would that be? I 645 00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:14,000 mean just mass murder, mass homicide. But like homicides don't it's not ethnic 646 00:48:14,079 --> 00:48:17,519 cleansing. So maybe genocide does fit. But I think genocide is there has 647 00:48:17,559 --> 00:48:21,679 to be an ethnicity. Okay, link to it. I'm not sure I'm 648 00:48:21,679 --> 00:48:22,639 gonna look it up. Who could say there's no way to look it up? 649 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,000 No way to know? Uh? Real quick, before we get back 650 00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:30,159 to my favorite Chinese guy of all time? As I'm learning, uh, 651 00:48:30,199 --> 00:48:34,360 we do have some ads. First up is ghost bed. Go to ghostbed 652 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:37,079 dot com Ford slash Drinking Bros. Use the promo cod Drinking Bros. You'll 653 00:48:37,079 --> 00:48:45,039 get fifty percent off everything, every single thing tossed as much as you want 654 00:48:45,079 --> 00:48:46,679 in that cart. You will get fifty percent off. So you moved in 655 00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:51,599 a new house nor apartment or whatever. Need a couple of new mattresses, 656 00:48:52,159 --> 00:48:54,880 Bang, throw a couple of mattresses in there. Fifty percent off of a 657 00:48:55,079 --> 00:49:00,760 thousands and thousands of dollars. Order pillows, sheets, bed frames, adjustable 658 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:06,400 bed frames like electric You can up down like a freaking hospital bed, whatever, 659 00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:10,039 it doesn't matter. Fifty percent off and ghost Bed This is the best 660 00:49:10,039 --> 00:49:15,480 betting and mattress company in the world. They are so much better than anything 661 00:49:15,519 --> 00:49:19,360 you will get anywhere else from like a dinky strip ball or or whatever. 662 00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,320 It doesn't matter, like toss all the other stuff out. Ghost Bed is 663 00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:27,199 It. They are made in America first and foremost. You can try their 664 00:49:27,199 --> 00:49:29,119 mattresses one hundred and one night for free. If you don't like it, 665 00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,239 you can send it back. All of their stuff this is important for summer. 666 00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:37,119 All of their stuff, mattresses, sheets, pillows, everything has cooling 667 00:49:37,159 --> 00:49:40,199 technology. So even when the AC's on, the fans on whatever, your 668 00:49:40,199 --> 00:49:45,800 sheets and pillows and mattresses cooling you two. It's incredible. They have weighted 669 00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,320 blankets. They have, like I said, everything you need for betting, 670 00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,360 and you can finance it too. It's like zero down, zero percent financing 671 00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:58,920 again, fifty percent off, fifty percent off anything and everything. You toss 672 00:49:58,960 --> 00:50:02,559 it into your cart. Promo code Drinking Bros. This is an American company 673 00:50:02,960 --> 00:50:08,159 made in America. Cooling technology, cheap financing, freaking everything man, ghost 674 00:50:08,159 --> 00:50:10,880 Bed is It. This is the only place you should be buying mattresses. 675 00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:16,679 They're also just insanely comfortable. Insanely comfortable. You can even and they can 676 00:50:16,719 --> 00:50:20,360 even like adjust your comfort, Like I know. They're pillows. You can 677 00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,480 order like extra filling for it, and their filling is incredible. I just 678 00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:28,199 I can't recommend any of their stuff enough. In fact, they're cooling pillow 679 00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:31,320 is like bananas to me, I don't It defies physics. I don't understand 680 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:35,320 how it works, but it's just like perma cool. It's freaking awesome. 681 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,119 Dude, ghostbed dot com Forward slash Drinking Bros. Use the promo code Drinking 682 00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:45,360 Bros. To get fifty percent off of of everything everything. It's awesome. 683 00:50:45,519 --> 00:50:51,039 Next up, we've got factor head to Factor Meals dot com slash Softcore fifty. 684 00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,480 Use the code Softcore fifty to get fifty percent off your first box plus 685 00:50:54,519 --> 00:51:00,840 twenty percent off your next box. That's code Softcore fifty at five Meals dot 686 00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,599 com slash Softcore fifty to get fifty percent off your first box twenty percent off 687 00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:09,280 your next box while your subscription is active. What is Factor? It is 688 00:51:09,519 --> 00:51:15,320 my favorite meal delivery service that I have ever ever tried. I've done a 689 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:17,199 bunch of them. I've done the ones you cook. I've done the ones 690 00:51:17,519 --> 00:51:23,719 that arrive fully prepared but they're frozen. Factor is the best of both worlds 691 00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:28,480 in that it is fresh, never frozen, but you don't have to do 692 00:51:28,599 --> 00:51:31,920 a whole bunch of meal prep where you're where it's not. It might be 693 00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:36,440 the meal prep stuf or the cooking the stuff we have to cook and clean 694 00:51:36,679 --> 00:51:39,280 like. It might be fresh and that's nice, but there's still a ton 695 00:51:39,519 --> 00:51:45,440 of work involved. It doesn't make your day any easier. Factor is the 696 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:49,920 best of both worlds. The frozen nonsense world, but their stuff's not frozen, 697 00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,760 and the fresh food delivered right to your door, but you have to 698 00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:57,679 cook it. They these meals come fresh to your door, but fully prepared 699 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,719 already. You just have to warm it up, is it? You just 700 00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:02,320 warm it up a little bit and it is good to go. These are 701 00:52:02,639 --> 00:52:09,719 chef prepared, Dietitian approved meals. They can fit whatever type of diet you 702 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:12,199 like to eat. You know what I mean. If you need to be 703 00:52:12,239 --> 00:52:14,960 low calorie, they have that with Calorie Smart. If you want if you're 704 00:52:15,039 --> 00:52:19,519 keto, they got Keto. If you just want high protein, but you 705 00:52:19,559 --> 00:52:22,679 know you're still eating other stuff too. They've got protein plus they also do 706 00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,719 vegan and vegetarian anything you can imagine. They do breakfast, they do lunch, 707 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:29,679 they do dinner, they do snacks, they do appetizers. You can 708 00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:34,480 cater if you're having I don't know, just people over for the weekend and 709 00:52:34,519 --> 00:52:37,880 watch some baseball games or whatever. A fourth is aly even I guess if 710 00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,440 you want to do that, whatever, factor can do it. But the 711 00:52:40,480 --> 00:52:45,199 food, I have to say, we use it. My wife uses it 712 00:52:45,199 --> 00:52:49,880 in particular because I'm not at home during the day. It's so good. 713 00:52:50,159 --> 00:52:53,079 Until dinner, it is so so good. They've got stuff like pork chops, 714 00:52:53,079 --> 00:52:58,360 filet mignon, ravioli, pasta. The veggies are really good, Like 715 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:01,760 everything is amazing. They also sent Keeso one time, or like some kind 716 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:08,159 of sort of like a yeah Keso like beef dip so good. Had to 717 00:53:08,199 --> 00:53:15,199 provide my own Freedo's. But otherwise glorious. They do sixty add ons every 718 00:53:15,199 --> 00:53:16,800 week so you can mix and match stuff. Like I said, they do 719 00:53:16,840 --> 00:53:20,719 snacks, breakfast, all that stuff. These are chef prepared meals. They're 720 00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,599 ready in two minutes and you don't have to clean up. Prep is minimal. 721 00:53:23,719 --> 00:53:28,119 The only dishes you're doing are a fork and knife. That is it. 722 00:53:28,519 --> 00:53:31,199 That is absolutely it at most fork knife and I guess whatever you're drinking 723 00:53:31,199 --> 00:53:35,719 your beverage out of that is literally at the are no fuss, no mess 724 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,400 meals. They eliminate the half hassle of prepping, cooking all that stuff, 725 00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:43,679 and as taylor to your schedule, you can customize your weekly meals with the 726 00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:45,559 flexibility to get as much or as little as you need, and you can 727 00:53:45,599 --> 00:53:49,360 pause or reschedule. It's the summer, you're going on vacation in July or 728 00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,280 something like that. Boom, no problem, pause it that week, doesn't 729 00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,559 matter. Whatever it needs to suit your lifestyle, they can do. Factor 730 00:53:54,639 --> 00:53:59,480 is your solution for fast, premium meals without the need for cooking, and 731 00:53:59,519 --> 00:54:02,719 their cell reading Earthday all month long look out for the Earth Month eats a 732 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:06,840 badge on your menu for the lowest carbon footprint meals. If you're into that, 733 00:54:07,039 --> 00:54:09,159 head to factormeals dot com. Slash softcore fifty. Can you use the 734 00:54:09,199 --> 00:54:15,239 code softcore fifty to get fifty percent off your first box and then twenty percent 735 00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:19,320 off your nextbox. That's Softcore fifty at factor meals dot com slash softcore fifty 736 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:22,360 to get fifty percent off your first box, twenty percent off your nextbox while 737 00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,880 your subscription is active. Next up, we've got into Cloud. Into Cloud 738 00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:32,320 is celebrating four twenty all April long with forty two point zero percent off. 739 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:37,320 It says forty two percent, but forty two point zero forty two points erectly 740 00:54:37,360 --> 00:54:42,039 correct. Yes, forty two points zero percent off your purchase. Head to 741 00:54:42,079 --> 00:54:46,920 into cloud dot co slash soft core. That's into cloud dot co slash softcore 742 00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:52,480 to get forty two percent off your first order and tell them dumb dumbs and 743 00:54:52,599 --> 00:54:59,400 Dragons sent you. That's into Cloud dot co dot dot com dot co slash 744 00:54:59,400 --> 00:55:05,639 softcore to get forty two percent off your first order. Into Cloud is the 745 00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:09,159 legal THC product company that can shift to all shift to all fifty states and 746 00:55:09,199 --> 00:55:14,519 give you high quality, dispensary grade highs. They get dispensed, They send 747 00:55:14,519 --> 00:55:19,039 dispensary grade products delivered right to your door. I really like they sent me 748 00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,599 stuff a couple of weeks ago. I have been enjoying it quite a bit. 749 00:55:23,199 --> 00:55:25,079 Yeah, man, d a bit, nice little wind down at the 750 00:55:25,159 --> 00:55:28,159 end of the night. That's usually how I like to do it. Hey, 751 00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,159 you know it's twenty twenty four, man, Like, it's not time 752 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:37,719 to get busted for going down to some low grade place and figuring out what 753 00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,960 it's legal and what isn't. Just go with your gut. Go with something 754 00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,760 that's lab tested, has lab reports on the website. You can see what's 755 00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,599 in it. You know what you're getting. These days, you don't want 756 00:55:49,599 --> 00:55:51,760 to deal with stuff, but you don't know where you're getting it from, 757 00:55:51,840 --> 00:55:53,800 and this is the perfect place for it. Yeah. It really like into 758 00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,840 Cloud dot Co. I'm a big fan of their Edibles. That's kind of 759 00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,440 like how I roll now, which is funny because in college Edible was like, 760 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:01,679 Oh it's gonna be a serious night, and now Edibles it's like, 761 00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,920 oh it's gonna be a nice chill dig Yeah, it's like a nice it's 762 00:56:04,920 --> 00:56:07,800 a nice quaint. It's like, oh, I'll have a gummy and you 763 00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:12,199 just like watch Showgun or something, you know, like you're just like chillin'. 764 00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,440 It's it's great. Man. I really like their Delta nine Hybrid, 765 00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:22,159 the Strawberry Funta that is my personal favorite, the strawberry strawberry soda, the 766 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:24,480 way to put it. They got all your favorite varieties too. I mean, 767 00:56:24,519 --> 00:56:29,360 I'm looking right now at the website. They got Blue Dream Pineapple Express. 768 00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:34,199 Uh you know black runs like these are all classics. Yeah, Like 769 00:56:34,440 --> 00:56:37,320 it's not anything. You're not gonna go there and be like, well what 770 00:56:37,360 --> 00:56:39,280 do I get. You're gonna know it's the same stuff you've always gotten, 771 00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:43,920 but it's legal, and it's got lab reports. It's awesome. Yeah, 772 00:56:43,960 --> 00:56:45,800 that's a huge thing, the lab report thing. And they're twenty milligram is 773 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,440 a piece, so if you want to if it's a little you can go 774 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,559 eat half. If you're just a little more on my side of things, 775 00:56:52,599 --> 00:56:53,840 like a little bit of a lightweight, or if you know, if you're 776 00:56:54,199 --> 00:56:58,039 more on Jake side of things, you can take the whole twenty and you're 777 00:56:58,079 --> 00:57:00,320 good to go. But they do everything man like. They have flour vabes, 778 00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:04,920 pre rolls. It's it's sweet. I even like their merge to be 779 00:57:04,960 --> 00:57:09,880 honest, Into Cloud. It is my absolute favorite legal THHC product company. 780 00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,679 It's it's it's great, and they reached out to us, which was super 781 00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:17,000 sweet, like they liked us, so I it would be a big favor, 782 00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:22,400 It would be appreciated by us. If you hit up into Cloud I 783 00:57:22,639 --> 00:57:28,960 N D A C l O U D dot co dot dot com slash softcore 784 00:57:29,280 --> 00:57:34,840 to get forty two percent off your first order. All their products are real 785 00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,599 weed products they contain, but they also contain less than zero point three percent 786 00:57:38,679 --> 00:57:43,880 THC, which makes them legally compliant across the US. But dude, like 787 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,039 I said, they pack up punch twenty mil for me I eat. I 788 00:57:46,119 --> 00:57:50,920 usually do half because that's just who I am. But they offer more milligrams 789 00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:54,719 of THC per product than you might find in even recreational states, because usually 790 00:57:54,719 --> 00:58:00,000 you see ten. Yeah, so it's the same amount of like gummies per 791 00:58:00,079 --> 00:58:06,159 pack, for example, but double the double the millies. Yep. I 792 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:07,440 into clouds dope, And again, like I said, they reached out to 793 00:58:07,519 --> 00:58:10,360 us. They liked our stuff, and they wanted to advertise with us. 794 00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:15,320 So if you ever, if you appreciate this podcast and you like gummies and 795 00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:19,000 all that or anything like that, into cloud loosening Up. Yeah, Yeah, 796 00:58:19,039 --> 00:58:23,239 into cloud dot Co slash soft Core to get forty two point zero percent 797 00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:30,239 off your first order. Check it out. Chin Commander Jang Guofan went on 798 00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:34,920 a bit of a redemption tour after initially sucking in battle early in the war 799 00:58:35,599 --> 00:58:37,559 and he was feeling himself. He started burning down everything in his path during 800 00:58:37,559 --> 00:58:42,119 his campaign in the countryside, kind of to his own little sherman. Okay, 801 00:58:42,199 --> 00:58:47,079 hell yeah, Hung himself never adjusted. He just kept saying God would 802 00:58:47,119 --> 00:58:52,000 do his work for him. Yeah. That's uh. I only get so 803 00:58:52,079 --> 00:58:57,440 far. It has to be either a national, ethnic, racial, or 804 00:58:57,480 --> 00:58:59,960 religious group. Okay, that you're a limit. Okay, So if you're 805 00:59:00,239 --> 00:59:02,400 just if it was like, all right, so it is genocide because it 806 00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:05,960 is a yeah, I guess so, because it is a religious group, 807 00:59:06,039 --> 00:59:10,880 yeah, or a dynastic group two a national group they like, it's a 808 00:59:10,960 --> 00:59:14,199 national group. It is a national group, so it would be a genocide. 809 00:59:14,239 --> 00:59:17,960 Yeah, okay yeah. Most of Hong's generals bailed and turned themselves into 810 00:59:19,000 --> 00:59:22,800 the Qing dynasty, either to save their own lives or the lives of their 811 00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,119 men, or try to work out a deal. One of the generals, 812 00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:30,480 Shi da Ki, tried to negotiate a deal, but was executed by slowly 813 00:59:30,559 --> 00:59:37,159 being sliced apart aka death by a thousand cuts and two thousand of his members 814 00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:40,440 slaughtered along his side. Not ideal by the way. That means Gang Is 815 00:59:40,519 --> 00:59:46,199 Khan did not commit genocide or he committed like a hundred genocides. Everybody could 816 00:59:46,239 --> 00:59:50,239 get it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, the worldless is genocide. But 817 00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,360 he wasn't doing it because they were that way right, right, rh he 818 00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:58,119 took back down. Genocide requires intent in a way, it does. It 819 00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:01,400 has to be intentional toward it one. Yeah, yeah, based on this 820 01:00:02,039 --> 01:00:05,559 parameters. But yeah, like so if you want it, you're like, 821 01:00:05,599 --> 01:00:07,599 I need to kill fifty million people. You didn't care how or who they 822 01:00:07,639 --> 01:00:12,280 were whatever, and they always happened to be the same. Like that doesn't 823 01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:15,760 count. It doesn't count because the intention isn't through like that sort of right, 824 01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:20,239 It's just mass murder, right Yeah. Eighteen sixty four, the Ching 825 01:00:20,719 --> 01:00:24,880 essentially had complete control of China again other than nan Jing. It was time 826 01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:30,400 for the final siege and to route out Hong from the capital of the Tai 827 01:00:30,519 --> 01:00:35,800 Pings. During the siege, Hong was like, God will take care of 828 01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:38,960 us. You're good, He'll provide us mana, although he had a bit 829 01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:45,679 of a mistranslation of mana. Did you think mana was gatling gun? Yeah? 830 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:50,320 He thought mana was weeds? Weeds? What is? How would that 831 01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:52,400 be better? He didn't think it was bread? How would that be better 832 01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,840 for him, like to just stop them, because the weeds are something I 833 01:00:55,840 --> 01:01:00,360 think bread and weeds are a wash for his sea. It's really bad. 834 01:01:00,679 --> 01:01:07,920 It's a really bad mistranslation. Because he sees some weeds growing, eats them 835 01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:14,840 with some berries that were super poisonous, and he gets deathly ill. He 836 01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:17,079 pulls the fucking into the wild. Yeah the hell, Yeah, what a 837 01:01:17,119 --> 01:01:20,239 way to go. What a story. He's like, Hey, look it's 838 01:01:20,239 --> 01:01:23,000 coming out of the fucking dirt. Oh what weeds? The things that always 839 01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:29,920 have mana just like that pamphlet sitting under his pillows or whatever. You know. 840 01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,559 It used to be that crazy loaners could somehow whip up a whole nation 841 01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:37,480 and go go off and conquer shit, Hitler Hong whatever. Now our crazy 842 01:01:37,519 --> 01:01:42,760 loaners are so shunned. Society's working properly, so they just wander off to 843 01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:47,199 a bus at Alaska, eat some weird shit and die. Yeah, he 844 01:01:47,239 --> 01:01:52,599 dies from that. He dies from the weeds. I mean, no bad. 845 01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:55,159 He needed to go worse than that. And he hands off the power 846 01:01:55,199 --> 01:01:59,519 to his fifteen year old son. Oh no, I can imagine that lasted 847 01:01:59,559 --> 01:02:02,679 longer. Well, nope, because the chings broke through and the slaughter was 848 01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:09,360 on. When the dust settled, a low estimate of the war was about 849 01:02:09,440 --> 01:02:15,920 twenty to thirty million people. Oh my god, over fourteen years you promised, 850 01:02:15,519 --> 01:02:21,760 not done. Not done yet? Okay. Every leader of the Taipings 851 01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:29,559 was hunted down and Bratley executed. Hang himself was exhumed, defiled, beheaded, 852 01:02:29,719 --> 01:02:32,760 I mean, fucked, cremated, and then he had his ashes blown 853 01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:37,079 out of a cannon. I would have you got dumb him in a in 854 01:02:37,119 --> 01:02:43,519 an outhouse. Yeah, and here is why I think he is responsible for 855 01:02:43,639 --> 01:02:50,280 nine figures. Okay. Though the Taiepings revolt failed, they are often idolized 856 01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:55,679 and credited by mal Zadong. Okay. Oh, and he credits them for 857 01:02:55,800 --> 01:03:00,679 laying the groundwork of the CCP, playing a blueprint. Yeah. He got 858 01:03:00,719 --> 01:03:06,239 all of his motivation and all of his just kind of ideas from Hung. 859 01:03:07,559 --> 01:03:10,639 So I count I count Mal's numbers with him. Yeah. If you do 860 01:03:10,679 --> 01:03:15,280 that, then it's a fuck ton of numbers, man. It should be 861 01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:17,440 noted. By the way, So how many people died in that war without 862 01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:22,920 the maleshit twenty low estimates thirty million, twenty to thirty million some I mean 863 01:03:22,039 --> 01:03:24,480 I saw numbers as high as one hundred million. Okay, well let's say 864 01:03:24,559 --> 01:03:30,360 let's call it forty million caught forty or you said twenty to thirty, we'll 865 01:03:30,360 --> 01:03:36,320 call it thirty. That's fine, third thirty thirty five. World War Two 866 01:03:36,519 --> 01:03:40,719 was between fifty and eighty five million. So this thing you've also more than 867 01:03:40,719 --> 01:03:45,639 World War One. Yeah, this thing you've never heard of, never heard 868 01:03:45,679 --> 01:03:49,159 of, or maybe heard it, but you didn't know what it was. 869 01:03:49,679 --> 01:03:52,239 Yeah, killed almost as many people as World War Two, killed more than 870 01:03:52,280 --> 01:03:57,559 World War one, more people than World War One. And you're not learning 871 01:03:57,639 --> 01:04:00,199 it. You're not learning that shit in high school, like like no, 872 01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,599 yeah, I mean you might have if you're like ap World or some ship. 873 01:04:03,679 --> 01:04:06,039 They probably don't. They might teach it in China. Actually, because 874 01:04:06,039 --> 01:04:11,239 he is kind of the godfather of communists, you're gonna gass up whatever. 875 01:04:11,719 --> 01:04:18,360 Yeah, lends credence to you. Yeah. Yeah, So that is the 876 01:04:18,440 --> 01:04:26,440 typing revolution. That is our man hung our man, your man, none 877 01:04:26,519 --> 01:04:30,119 of our men, none more man. Yeah, Hong Chi kwan if he 878 01:04:30,199 --> 01:04:34,199 was Catholic, but yeah he's Protestant, budd Yank Protestant based. So next 879 01:04:34,239 --> 01:04:39,280 time you see your Protestant friend, tell them. How many doests tell them? 880 01:04:39,280 --> 01:04:42,440 How much blood? Yeah? When they wh about the crusades them a 881 01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:48,440 fucking hog. Would you guys learn today, oh so much about the Typing 882 01:04:48,480 --> 01:04:56,199 Rebellion? I guess I didn't realize that the Typing Rebellion had this element of 883 01:04:56,679 --> 01:05:01,000 insane religious hallucination to it. I knew it was like a rebellion against the 884 01:05:01,079 --> 01:05:06,039 dynastic group right then, but you know I didn't. I am very you 885 01:05:06,039 --> 01:05:11,679 know, eurocentric. We all are because we are in basically a European founded 886 01:05:11,800 --> 01:05:18,440 nation. We are what yeah, we all fucking European. So you know, 887 01:05:18,519 --> 01:05:21,599 I don't know a ton about Chinese history and so when you hear but 888 01:05:21,719 --> 01:05:26,639 I do know though that they are like war after war of just obscene death 889 01:05:26,679 --> 01:05:30,559 tolls because there's just so many. China has always been so populated, and 890 01:05:30,760 --> 01:05:32,480 it is part of me is just like I don't know what happens. Somebody 891 01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:36,199 got there, Jimmy's rustled about something, and then I fucking twenty million people 892 01:05:36,239 --> 01:05:41,039 died. That's kind of what I think about any war in China, basically 893 01:05:41,079 --> 01:05:44,719 prior to after a certain number, it just it's like a vase craft. 894 01:05:44,760 --> 01:05:46,199 It's all the same, right, and it's not because I don't care. 895 01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,039 I don't think it's interesting. Because it's fascinating, but it's just not my 896 01:05:49,239 --> 01:05:53,840 history. Uh, but it is, so it is interesting to comprehend. 897 01:05:54,039 --> 01:06:01,400 It is interesting to learn the that's just random as fuck. Eighteen fifties eighteen, 898 01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:08,719 very modern. Yeah, Christian sort of but not really thought he was 899 01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:13,719 Jesus's brother. Yeah, that's co opted Christianity. Like with Karl Marx, 900 01:06:15,519 --> 01:06:17,920 he somehow mashed the two together. I think Karl Marx has heard about it 901 01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:20,639 and was like, yeah, people are doing stuff. And then and then 902 01:06:20,719 --> 01:06:25,320 like read a little more and was like, oh, Karl Marx. I 903 01:06:25,360 --> 01:06:29,320 learned that Karl Marx is just like everyone who loves Karl Marx. Yeah, 904 01:06:29,679 --> 01:06:32,599 get out, which, by the way, makes sense. It's just pseudo 905 01:06:32,639 --> 01:06:35,559 intellectuals, right. Yeah. Well, I guarantee you. The way Carl 906 01:06:35,599 --> 01:06:39,599 Marks found out about it was he was having cocktails with some other person that 907 01:06:39,679 --> 01:06:43,000 mentally masturbates all day, like, did you hear the typing rebellion? They're 908 01:06:43,000 --> 01:06:45,599 getting rid of classes. He's like, that's amazing. Putting my stamp on 909 01:06:45,639 --> 01:06:49,280 that. No private property anymore perfect, that's what we're going for here. 910 01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:54,519 And well Car Marx wasn't really going for anything. That's just what he thought 911 01:06:54,639 --> 01:06:57,920 was gonna happen. Maybe he was. I don't know, but I'm not 912 01:06:57,920 --> 01:07:00,159 going to reread the book. But Hung really lost the plot though by not 913 01:07:00,239 --> 01:07:03,920 letting anybody fuck besides him. If he would have not done that, it 914 01:07:03,960 --> 01:07:08,320 would have been over. Do you know why the Mongolians did so well the 915 01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:11,880 Romans did so well? Probably a lot of Chinese nasties. It's so well 916 01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:15,559 they pillaged and rape, they let everyone fuck that. And also, I 917 01:07:15,599 --> 01:07:18,559 mean, like you know, I think the Romans as much as they pillaged 918 01:07:18,599 --> 01:07:23,519 and shit too. If you're willing to bend the knee, all right, 919 01:07:23,559 --> 01:07:27,039 you're ours. We're just gonna tax you. And I guess Hong wasn't about 920 01:07:27,039 --> 01:07:30,000 a long time. He's about a good time because he wouldn't it make sense, 921 01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:34,320 like you said, to have children. Yeah, like wives and husbands 922 01:07:34,360 --> 01:07:39,760 couldn't have sex. Narcissism. The foresight of narcissism is as far as your 923 01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:43,639 nose, Like that's that's as far as it goes, man, Like you 924 01:07:43,719 --> 01:07:47,039 see this far away. It's the moment, not the plan. So be 925 01:07:47,199 --> 01:07:53,760 narcissistic. Live in the moment. Who's Hitler. It might have been the 926 01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:59,559 easiest hot we've ever done. Should we now call the segment Who's Hong for 927 01:07:59,559 --> 01:08:01,679 a little bit, just a little just for today. Hitler is kind of 928 01:08:01,679 --> 01:08:05,199 a smack in the face to Hong when we should really crab. No, 929 01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:12,639 Hitler killed more people in hung dances one hundred million? Well world War two. 930 01:08:13,400 --> 01:08:17,039 Yeah, first off, he's adding names, which fair, fair, 931 01:08:17,239 --> 01:08:20,560 but if we go by the thirty World War two, that was a lowest 932 01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:26,560 men. Again, they said they have numbers for this specific fourteen year period 933 01:08:26,600 --> 01:08:30,520 up to one hundred million. Okay, it could sit. I'm not saying 934 01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:35,039 Hitler's absolved me Hitler. You'll also have to combine Hitler or Stalin like that 935 01:08:35,279 --> 01:08:40,960 they're both responsible. Eh, No to blame the guy who started the war, 936 01:08:41,239 --> 01:08:46,000 even though Stalin's piece of shit. Those are separate things to like communism 937 01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:51,039 didn't involve as a response to Nazism like in Russia. Yeah, yeah, 938 01:08:51,119 --> 01:08:56,840 that's so I can't call Stallins that's tied to Hitler's. Like, I mean, 939 01:08:56,880 --> 01:08:59,199 are you saying, Oh, you're saying like in World War two of 940 01:08:59,239 --> 01:09:01,119 total you have to contribute. Yeah, yeah, I see what you're saying. 941 01:09:01,119 --> 01:09:04,920 Oh, so what is the CCP doing right now? Nothing cool? 942 01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:10,800 Nothing cool? Ask the wigers. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm adding those 943 01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:15,840 bodies to honk to everybody's every everything from Hong to Mao and on. Is 944 01:09:15,880 --> 01:09:25,239 Hong he inspired Mao and Mao inspired this? Yeah? So that's all I 945 01:09:25,239 --> 01:09:29,720 got today. It's good. I didn't know much about this man before I 946 01:09:30,119 --> 01:09:32,439 researched. It's kind of crazy how even find him. He doesn't get any 947 01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:38,159 fucking play. Do you just google crazy Chinese leaders? You go down like 948 01:09:38,199 --> 01:09:42,800 Reddit holes? Yeah, red holes are good. You know, I think 949 01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:45,119 it is fun. These kind of episodes are really great too, because you 950 01:09:45,159 --> 01:09:49,000 know, it's easy for us to kind of fall into the European influence history, 951 01:09:49,760 --> 01:09:54,520 but when we get into like Africa and Asian history and stuff like that, 952 01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:58,760 it gets really fun because it's like, shit, this is significant and 953 01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:01,800 you've never heard. Yeah, there's just a lot with with Asian in particular, 954 01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:04,960 because yeah, I even count a lot. I feel like a lot 955 01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:09,640 of people kind of wouldn't, but like annoying people wouldn't. But really, 956 01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:13,640 though, if you look at how Western history is taught, it starts at 957 01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:16,680 the Fertile Crescent with the Sumerians. So even that stuff in ancient Egypt. 958 01:10:16,720 --> 01:10:20,079 We learn a bunch about ancient Egypt. Even that stuff is kind of Western 959 01:10:20,159 --> 01:10:23,479 history, like we kind of claim it who went this way, who went 960 01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:26,520 that right? Right right? And like China just gets kind of left out 961 01:10:26,680 --> 01:10:30,000 India too, uh oh, definitely. But I don't want to know anything 962 01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:32,319 about India. Yeah, yeah, I know you're I just don't like India. 963 01:10:32,640 --> 01:10:38,119 India scares them, it really does. I don't. I see those 964 01:10:38,520 --> 01:10:42,920 videos of the trains. It's just like claustrophobic. I can't do that. 965 01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,119 There's people on top of the trains. You gotta go man, more on 966 01:10:45,199 --> 01:10:48,079 top of the trains than on the train. Also very handsy. I don't 967 01:10:48,159 --> 01:10:53,039 like that they hold hands. No, no, no, they like I'm 968 01:10:53,079 --> 01:10:56,560 saying, like handsy, they're like molest you, I know. But also 969 01:10:56,600 --> 01:10:58,840 the men hold hands as a sign of effect. That's fine. Well that's 970 01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:01,760 that's a fucking Portugal. You can see that. That's not true. He 971 01:11:01,960 --> 01:11:08,239 can. I saw not a one group of friends holding hands in Portugal. 972 01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:14,640 There's there's some Hispanic slash. I had a fraternity brother who is Indian and 973 01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:15,800 he's still had family Indian and he's he was like, yeah, I go 974 01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:18,720 back there every couple of years. And he's like, I was walking around 975 01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:23,039 the city with my cousin, like male cousin, and he just tried to 976 01:11:23,079 --> 01:11:26,199 hold my hand because they just do that. They just walk like guys walk 977 01:11:26,239 --> 01:11:28,640 around holding hands there. And he was like, what the fuck you doing? 978 01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:31,439 Weirdo? Brother? He was like, what we did this? Like, 979 01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:33,640 I mean there's a lot of people. You might get lost, Like 980 01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:38,119 yeah, yeah, like at some point you get into the wrong market. 981 01:11:38,199 --> 01:11:41,439 I'm like yeah, seriously, I'm like my own toddler. I'm like, 982 01:11:42,239 --> 01:11:45,760 yeah, you put me in fucking like New Delhi, in a fucking wet 983 01:11:45,840 --> 01:11:48,840 market. I'm like, dude, just show me where to go, don't 984 01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:53,039 let me go. Yeah, all right, make sure to leave a five 985 01:11:53,119 --> 01:11:56,720 star review please and thank you on Spotify and Apple. Rob if you could 986 01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:00,960 pull up some reviews on Apple. Yeah, I got and I really liked 987 01:12:00,960 --> 01:12:03,800 the review. I actually posted my Instagram. I think that's where we saw. 988 01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:05,880 It was a nice one. It's very nice, but it was also 989 01:12:06,319 --> 01:12:11,880 long and detailed. It was he was a good dude, So let's give 990 01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:15,159 him the shine. First off, we got. I just want Delko to 991 01:12:15,239 --> 01:12:19,520 drink again from I d Craig eighty one. Honestly probably my favorite show on 992 01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:23,800 the network, enough that I watched the YouTube videos and listen to the episodes 993 01:12:23,840 --> 01:12:27,760 on here and keep up the banner and the laughs. Red White and John 994 01:12:28,119 --> 01:12:31,880 said, bread of the sandwich variety. Don't know what that means. It's 995 01:12:31,920 --> 01:12:34,920 about me, man. Yeah. And then here's your uh, your one 996 01:12:34,920 --> 01:12:38,800 that you love. Or it could be a deep cut about how I used 997 01:12:38,840 --> 01:12:44,079 to eat bread sandwiches. Oh it is that is for you. But yes, 998 01:12:44,359 --> 01:12:46,720 Sean Bryce said, love the podcast. Totally found it because of hardcore 999 01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:49,560 history, which I always love. By the way, I love when people 1000 01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:55,720 accidentally find us because of the the connection. Yeah, our was our stepdad, 1001 01:12:56,239 --> 01:13:00,399 claiming. Carlin initially thought you guys were morons but funny and eventually realized 1002 01:13:00,399 --> 01:13:03,279 it's actually a combination of good writing and absolutely winging it first time and willing 1003 01:13:03,319 --> 01:13:09,680 to pay to play and don't regret subscribing to the Patreon episodes regular bonus content 1004 01:13:09,720 --> 01:13:12,199 alone. We're a thick game. Shows. Voicemails are gold. Listen to 1005 01:13:12,279 --> 01:13:15,800 Rob Wine enough to let him stay and risk to make a comeback makes him 1006 01:13:15,800 --> 01:13:19,359 the King Queen question mark of power bottoming, Yeah, power, Power, 1007 01:13:19,399 --> 01:13:23,439 bottom that went. Unfortunately. The podcast is so good. I listened to 1008 01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:27,920 both the entire man and Patreon in six months, learning my personality, altering 1009 01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:30,880 my personality enough my mora's changed and I got three complaints from HR and was 1010 01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:33,319 fired. Just kidding. We keep a good work, boys, boys, 1011 01:13:33,600 --> 01:13:38,640 you know what? Sean honestly hit us with a DM on Patreon and I'll 1012 01:13:38,640 --> 01:13:42,640 send you some. We'll get you some merch merch that's like sick review and 1013 01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:46,279 then everybody else software history dot com from merch please and thank you. I 1014 01:13:46,359 --> 01:13:51,319 mean if you joined the Patreon EA discount too. So I also like this 1015 01:13:51,319 --> 01:13:58,920 this one silly history podcast. Exclamation point from aha haa uh. I've listened 1016 01:13:58,920 --> 01:14:00,880 to the entire back catalog. Recommend this podcast all my friends. I tell 1017 01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,399 fun history stories and lighthearted goofy way to keep you interested. This is my 1018 01:14:04,399 --> 01:14:08,479 all time favorite podcast, and I gotta love someone from Saint Louis like me, 1019 01:14:09,199 --> 01:14:11,640 what up, that's why you read it? I didn't even I've not 1020 01:14:11,680 --> 01:14:14,439 read this before. I didn't know this was here. The banter could pull 1021 01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,920 them away from the topic sometimes, but they always come back to topic and 1022 01:14:16,960 --> 01:14:20,960 it just adds to the fun. Very sweet. Thanks thanks, guys, 1023 01:14:21,039 --> 01:14:25,960 we do like what are we? What's the review number at? We're seventy 1024 01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:29,399 closing in on a thousand so I can finally drink again. Nine to seventy 1025 01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:34,199 six. He's gonna get violent on this show. I'm excited. But thanks 1026 01:14:34,239 --> 01:14:39,359 for tuning in. Guys, it's your first time. Welcome. Hopefully stay 1027 01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:45,479 and if you're returning, we love you so for Rob Fox, Jake Goldman, 1028 01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:47,039 I'm damn Chester and you just guess all served