Doomed to Fail - Ep 172: What do you mean I can't wear drip? The Peasants' Revolt

Episode Date: February 11, 2025

Summer Of Blood Peasants Revolt Of 1381: Jones, DanThe 1300s were rough in England. There's the plague; there's the 100 Years War, and there's serfdom. An interesting thing that happened after the Black Death killed 50% of the population was that workers were worth more - there were 50% fewer serfs, so they started to be asked to be paid more! That obviously wasn't going to fly with the Lords; you see if they paid their serfs more, then THEY would make less money, they the Lords, you see what I mean? They couldn't possibly. This will lead to A LOT of heads on sticks, and a storming of London in 1381! Join us!  Join our Founders Club on Patreon to get ad-free episodes for life! patreon.com/DoomedtoFailPodWe would love to hear from you! Please follow along! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod  Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: [e-mail] 

It's a matter of the people of the state of California Versus Hortonthal James Simpson Case number B.A.019. And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you. Boom, we are recording, Taylor.

Happy, happy, happy, whatever day it is that this is going out. How are you? Good, how are you? Who cares what day it is? Who cares? I don't care. It's all the same thing. Yeah.

I'm good. I'm a little tired. I was just telling Taylor, or how I've been running back and forth between Dallas and Austin. It's been eventful a couple of days. It'll be an event full February, but yeah, that's life right now.

Cool. Sounds good. I'm a little tired, I think, just we were at a Super Bowl party most of the day yesterday. It was super fun. Well, go ahead and introduce us. We'll talk about the Super Bowl.

Hello, welcome to doomed to fail, where the podcast, it brings you history's most notorious disasters, epic failures. twice a week and i'm taylor joined by farce okay so when i heard that kendrick lamar was performing i was like man it's got to be rough being drake these days and then you hear everybody singing the a minor part like the entire stadium you're like oh poor guy everyone that i was with yeah everything you're with everything that was there and then and i was like okay well you know

it's just it's a it's a u.s thing who cares like he's a canadian like It can't be that big a deal for him. And then, like, 10 minutes later, they pan to, like, Germany, Sao Paulo, like, all, every country out there. And they're all watching the Super Bowl. It's like, oh, poor Drake. Oh, no, everyone's watching. I, um, I watch a Super Bowl in 2002 when I studied abroad in Italy. I watched at a bar at, like, two in the morning.

It was super fun. That is very fun. Yeah. Yeah. so hopefully we had a good party yeah it was fun we were with people who were um definitely eagles fans which was great and um they invited a ton of people but not a lot of people came so there was just like so much food and it was it was fun we had a good time very nice

yeah i i don't know what it is about them but man they're rough they're like the old raiders fans they're from philadelphia yeah yeah that's yeah yeah yeah that's yeah yeah there's something in the water there um there is there is i wouldn't like argue with a philadelphia sports fan no no that's a waste of time no and safety concerns yeah yeah they might they might take a little too personal yeah um cool you uh so you want wait we already did introduce us sorry um who is going first today i think i am sweet then uh the four where's yours all right i'm ready so yeah i um am preparing for women's history month and i'm like have my list i'm so i'm so dumb at my list i was like oh i have four

women that i want to do for women's history month in march and i loaded my list and there's four things on it the first word is just women are you going to cover the species of female. No, I'm going to find a fourth one. I'm sure there's plenty. I was just like, ugh, what's wrong with me? So for the rest of February, one, two, three, I wanted to do some medieval stories because I have one that I want to end February with. Then I got kind of caught up in some other ones. So I read a book for this episode. I'm going to tell you about it. So I went back to medieval times, and the book I read was called Summer of Blood England's First Revolution. What?

Damn it. Is it, oh, it's not Bathory? What? Elizabeth Bathory? The woman who, uh, bade the virgin blood? No. I'm like, what word are you yelling at me? Should have.

Because it's because I forgot if it's Elizabeth or something else. I'm pretty sure it's Elizabeth Bathory. Um, it is, but that's in Hungary. Okay. I'll stop yelling. And it's like 200 years later. Got it. I stand corrected.

I apologize. So can I finish to tell you the title of this book? Because I think maybe if you, you get it. Okay. Summer of Blood, England's first revolution. England, we're in England. Anyway, this is the peasant's revolt of 1391. So, oh, 1381.

It's 1381. So I still can't spell medieval. I tried the trick. I can't do it. Don't care. But there are some, like, This is still a point if you want to think about what people looked like during this time. It's like the images that we have of medieval life are like very flat, two-dimensional images that are like on a tapestry.

You know what I mean? Can you picture that? I can picture like flat horses, flat people and like flags that are like a rectangle with a triangle cut out on like a pole. Yeah. That's what we're talking about. We're at the very, very end of the medieval times, which is Middle Ages, dark ages, we don't say that anymore, but you know what I mean, which was from about 465 to 1400, so we're at the very end and we're about to flip over into the Renaissance. And of course, you don't know that you

are living in the end of an era until much later. You know, like they didn't know they were living at the end of the medieval times and about to go into the Renaissance. They were just living. sometimes I think you can tell if you watch the news for the most part you don't know if you're in the end of an era right um so people didn't really expect this but big things are coming big big things are changing so we're in england and it's a peasant's revolt of 1381 so leading up to this revolt is a whole bunch of stuff that is makes the life in england very tense and i know that we talk about all the time but like it was just really fucking hard to be alive for most of time. Yeah. And the medieval times are no exception. So most people are serfs where someone else owns the land. They're like a local lord and you work it. And sometimes you could potentially work your way to owning your own land, but usually no. And part of your responsibility is to farm the land and disperse the food to the lord and the rich people. And you kind of can never get out of that. That's, that's your job. So most people have that job, which is not

great. And then, right before this, the plague happens. So the black death starts in 1348 and kills 50% of the population in England, which is insane. So crazy. So COVID, like, people were sicklier there than anyways. So like. But I don't think, I mean, they certainly didn't have any chance of like not getting it, you know? Yeah. That's true. Like, you know, so like now, so I looked up COVID. COVID killed less than 1% of Americans. And I know people who, I don't know anyone personally who died from COVID, but I know people who's like parents died, you know.

But just imagine half the people you know are dead. Yeah, that's crazy. And everyone else has like probably gotten it. So they're like pockmarked from the boils or whatever. And yeah, I mean, they didn't even know how it happened. You know what I mean? Yeah, they didn't know how it transmitted. Yeah.

So that, that, that, half of people are dead. So what happens after that is half of the people that aren't dead are like, my labor is now worth more than it was before because there are less of us. So they would do things like shopping around for jobs so they can, you know, get a couple more logs and be a little less dirty and things like that. And the, um, the lords are like, we don't want that. Like that can't happen.

like you can't do that but they were like but now we see that you need us more than we need you you know you need someone to do this um also remember monti python when the king is like i'm the one not covered in shit yes yes so it's like that it's terrible for everyone else um and another thing that happened i don't really think oh i'm not going to talk about it much after this but the priests also died because they're humans and humans die but people were confused about that because they're like why would the priest die if they ask God not to kill them you know so it put a little bit of distrust in the church because they're like if this thing is even killing the priests then something is like very wrong the pope didn't die though the pope didn't die because he

stayed like in a sealed room sure but like your local priest probably died right you know all the guys up in the monastery they died so the lords were like like, okay, hold on. If I see this, so if I pay you more money, I'm going to make less money. So like, you see how I can't do that. You know, that's what they're saying. Got it. And so they passed a law in 1351 called the statute of laborers where they couldn't pay anyone more than they paid them pre-plague.

Like you couldn't ask for more and you couldn't pay anybody more than they were paid pre-plagged. that's a good way to do it make it legislate it so they were like I can't pay more than it before like you know you get it like it's a crime if I pay you more yeah like I have to pay you this much money

this is just the way it's always been but some people were like no I don't like that so they just left like they would leave they would go get jobs in cities similarly not like they weren't working from home but they were like you know in cities making more money

they're buying power of the average surf went up 40%. they started making a lot more money. And then they were like, hey, I have another idea. Now that I have more money, why don't I buy nicer things? Instead of wearing this sack, I'm going to buy a dress. I'm going to buy a hat. And that really pissed people off.

They were like, how will we know you used to be poor if you dress nice? It's actually a valid criticism. But I mean, like they go there like, we need to know that you used to be poor. Like we can't have, we can't be mistaking you for one of us, you know? Yeah. So they made laws in 1363 to stop them from buying nice things. So you really couldn't get ahead. Yeah, they couldn't wear fabrics that were like a certain color.

Yeah. It's a much of nonsense. Yeah. So all this is happening in the background. And then also we are in the middle of the 100 years war. That was actually 116 years long, which we know is, again, France and England, just like those two need to call. out because they're all fighting each other. Actually, I kind of take back what I just said about it being stupid, not letting people

wear expensive clothes, because now we have Klarna and we have people who make like $15,000 a year buying Louis Vuitton stuff. And it's like, are they still doing that? I feel like that's not in fashion. I don't have a Louis Vuitton purse. Louis Vuitton anything in like 20 years. Also, you live in Joshua Tree. So I don't think you're going to see a lot of that there.

I said 20 years. I lived in LA and New York citizens and then and I haven't seen hardly any. No, I think fashion comes around every now and then. But I do think that you can buy stuff on like credit, like the weekly credit. Yeah, yeah. So beyond me at this point.

But yeah, don't do that. But you can still have nice things. You know what I mean? Like just because sometimes if you see a person who you think shouldn't be able to afford an iPhone and have an iPhone, like maybe they set up for it. Maybe someone bought it for them. Maybe it was like they're, you know,

something important. that they got from someone else. You know, it's not. I think a farmer in a firm's market caps, like $20 billion apiece. You can still have nice things. Like, you don't have to, like, be dirt poor. You can save up and have one nice thing, you know? But.

Yes. But they're saying you can't have any nice things. Like, absolutely not no nice things. And then it's a hundred years war in France and England are fighting again. William the Conqueror was like just there taking over. Now they're like back and forth. And I wrote, if we go to 23 and me, all these people are just the same. you know um but the last one of the last times that britain attacked france was in 1940 during

world war two when they yeah they were like bombing some of their boats and france was pissed but they were like well how can we trust you when the nazis taken over france you know so they haven't even had peace for a hundred years those two hopefully they can figure it out but like enough if you're listening england and france no stop it better be over um in war as we know is expensive in men and in money, and England is running out of money. So they have a poll tax, and it starts out as four pence per person over 14, which is a lot of money. And it's also a discount if you have a married couple, but like single women were like, I don't want to pay just because I didn't get married, you know? And some people are like, just people obviously don't

want to do it. They don't make that much money. The government doesn't raise that much money. They try to do it again on like a sliding scale to say like, you know, you know, based on how much money you earn, but it still doesn't raise enough money to fund the war and people are mad about it. So all that's happening. It's the plague just ended. People want to be paid more. It's a hundred years of war. There's a lot of like class things happening. And our king is 10 years old.

His name is Richard the second. And I want to pause. talk about a thing that I learned on Instagram called the Tiffany Effect. Have you heard of this? No. And I feel like we've mentioned this before. So the one that I, so the Tiffany effect is essentially that you assume the name Tiffany is modern, but it isn't. It's from like the medieval period, at least. And you, but you couldn't put the word, the name Tiffany into a movie about the Middle Ages. You'd be like, that's super weird, you know? True. So I'm the same as if the name Jessica.

So those are like names that are like hundreds of years old, but they feel newer. So I just like like Richard, somebody could be named Richard today and I don't think that's weird. That is a name from, but also in the past, but like Tiffany is a name that you can't do that with. And it also reminded me, remember when we talked about Cyrus the Great and Darius? Yeah. And I was like, that name just seems so normal. And then there's a guy in the Eagles named Darius Slay. And I'm like, that name feels so normal.

But it's like, it feels so modern. but it is an ancient name. I think it's Darayush. You literally told me it was Darius when I was calling it something else during our Cyrus the Great episode. Yeah, well, I changed my mind. God damn it.

But another thing that is fun for the Tiffany effect is the word goth is obviously from the gothic architectural style, but it was kind of a derogatory term during the Renaissance to describe medieval architecture

because they didn't like it, which I think is funny. Also, in the this story. I felt like this is like, I just wanted to talk about these names. There's a lot of towns that are like Brentwood and Scarborough and Rochester, which is fun because they're just words that you hear all over the world. It's not just a different one. I think we named most of our towns after English. We did. And like I get it when I hear like New York, but when I hear like Rochester, that's always funny to me. It'll always be funny. For Paris, you know, like the ancient city of Syracuse.

Like that always makes you laugh. Um, so anyway, that that's our king, Richard. He is 10. He is. His grandfather was Edward III. He was the one who started the Hundred Years' War. He was like, you know what? I want France back. And he passed away, and also Richard's dad was named Edward, the Black Prince. I don't really know what he did, but that's also kind of a cool name. They both died.

And so Richard is the king. He's 10 years old. So obviously he has people who are telling him what to do. One of them is his uncle John of Gaunt. So John is his uncle, one of his many regions. There's people telling him what to do. so there's tension and as you expect when you get to a renaissance which obviously they don't know they're doing but things are happening like people when people have more money they have more time to do things like educate themselves so people are learning to read and wanting to govern themselves and they want to do things like create their own communities rather than have a community that's like just a bunch of poor people around a lord they were like we could do this better if we worked together and lords are like not excited about that They actually go back and they read the Doomsday book, which I talked about in the Battle of Hastings episode, because in 1066, after William the Conqueror came to England, he essentially did a census of all of England to figure out how many taxes he was going to get from people.

And he has this book that was written in 1086 that lists all the people. So here we are 200 years later and or 300 years later. And people are like, well, wait a minute. like my great great great grandfather owned a lot of land what happened you know like that should be mine like the lords were like taking over all the little pieces of land or whatever and they were like trying to use that to be like we should have our land back and obviously that didn't work in court but people were like thinking like i deserve better than this you know hey so is it fair to say the renaissance could only happen because of what you said people having time so

they could actually like paint or read or learn how to do things I think a lot of it is that like rich people probably were always like doing art but there's a space for everyone to have that opportunity or more people to have that opportunity I also feel like there's something else

that I don't have any sources for but there's something to me about in the Renaissance they started to invent eye glasses and I feel like that would change the world. I just learned about that. So it was

It was called a reading stone or something. So I don't think it was invented during the Renaissance. I think it was a little bit after. It was like the 1600s. I think I actually don't know when the Renaissance says. It's 1600s? No. The Renaissance started in around 1400, but glasses were invented between 1260 and 1,300.

The ones that actually sit on your face, the ones that you have to like press against a piece of paper. Oh, wow. Okay. All right. I sang rected. But. but yeah can you imagine most of humanity you didn't have that so if your eyes were bad like I don't know my husband's worn glasses for his whole entire life he would be fucked what do you do you know so I don't know pretty pretty incredible I think but I think that's a part of it too is like you can read now because you can see the words in a lot of cases it's always helpful yeah so it's the summer of 1381 and we are in Essex which is a town in England and a man named John Bampton coming into town to collect taxes. And they're like, nope, we already paid them. And he's like, no, you

didn't. They're like, yes, we did. I don't think they did. They were like, we don't want to do this. And he, John Bampton runs away, but the people that are with him get killed. So the news is spreading that people are resisting paying these taxes and they want to talk to the king. So they start moving towards London. So a lot of people start going towards London just to have, like, to revolt and riot and be like, we don't want them to live like this anymore. I also saw a tweet from yesterday that was someone who was reading the police scanners in Philly and they were like

so funny. They were like, things were on fire. There are fireworks in the street. One of them was like, there's 5,000 people coming your way. I don't know what you should do. What would have happened if they lost too, by the way? Oh, absolutely. No, no, no, no, no matter what. That was all going to happen. But I love that. It's so funny.

5,000 people come your way, good luck. That's kind of what was happening right now. So some people are, there are some leaders. So some of the names of the leaders of the, of the revolt are, there's Watt Tyler, W-A-T-T-T-T-L-R-A-T-R-A-T-R-A-R-E, John Ra, W-R-A-W-E, Ray, I'm going to say Ray, John Ball, William Grindacomom, and then there's a woman named Joanna Furrier, F-E-R-R-U-R, which is someone who makes horseshoes. So Jack Straw might not be real. He might be like a pseudonym, but there's a couple that we

know a little bit about. So John Ball is a priest, and he has been. in jail a lot. So because he is speaking out on behalf of the people. And he was kind of like a lyrical speaker. People really liked hearing him. And one thing he said kind of on the subject of freedom is he said, would say, quote, when Adam delved Eve and Eve span, who was then the gentleman? For the beginning, all men by nature were created alike. And our bondage or servitude came in by unjust oppression of naughty men, which I think is fun. I like, so he's like, we should, you know, recover liberty, cast off the yoke of bondage, all that kind of stuff.

But it's probably radical, which is probably radical for them. Yeah, that's why he was in jail so much. Oh, got it. Because people didn't like it, yeah. I mean, people liked it, but the people in charge didn't like it. Yeah, right. So he ends up getting freed by the rebels as they marched through town, and he kind of goes with them towards London.

there's Joanna who was a lady which is exciting she led groups to storm some buildings in london and we'll get to those there's also watt tyler he was the the leader and he had like you know strong leadership good strategy and he led them as they walked towards london and as they get there they are you know attacking on the way picking up more people like moving towards london being like we're riding against these taxes essentially on the way there they see the king's mom trying to leave london and they just kind of like let her go but they kind of laugh at her and let her go but by june 10th they in london they know that this group of people is coming like they know that there's people marching toward the city so the king moves into the tower of london for safety he's 14 right now so yeah so he's 14 years old he's in the tower of london is surrounded by all these like

old men trying to tell him what to do you know i didn't want this i didn't ask for this yeah yeah um So the king agrees to beat them on the river. And also remember, most of your generals and, like, strong military leadership, they're in France. They're fighting a war. Like, they're not even there to help you. And the rebels are like, hey, you know what? We like the king. We just don't like all these tax collectors.

Like, we think we could talk to the king about it. So they're coming to have that conversation. And so they say, we're going to meet you on the Thames, meet you on the river, and we'll have this talk. So on June 13th, Richard gets on a boat to the Tower of London. and sails up the time is to meet the group and the group is on the side that's like not London, the other side of the river, because London, remember, has a wall around it.

Yep. Like a literal wall. And they are excited. So they're like, oh, the king is here. And they're yelling. So imagine you are 14 years old. You were on a boat with people telling you that every one of these peasants wants to kill you.

It wants to get out of their social contract being peasants. And you see a group of like thousands of men who are dirty, screaming with like I don't know pitchforks you know but they're excited but he gets scared which I think is fair yeah I would get scared too yeah and goes back to the tower of London without talking to them so it's impossible because it was impossible for them to communicate they're pissed they're like the king was here and then he just left so they start start going into London they walk over the London bridge and bridges at this time like the um I learned this also when I lived in in in Italy, like the Pontavecchio in Florence.

It has stores in it now, but all this time, all the bridges would have like stores on the sides of it, you know? Like, there would be like, like, that'd be where you would buy jewelry or you'd buy meat or like whatever. So like the bridge is crowded. It's not just like... It's like an outdoor market, right? Yeah. So they walk over the London

bridge. They come in all different gates because remember there's a wall, but they come in all around London, they come in the gates, and they start burning shit down because they're pissed and they're scared and they're like, don't know what to do. Joanna leads a group to the Savoy Palace, which is the house of John of Gaunt, and they burn it down. They get 10,000 pounds worth of stuff, like money pounds, and they get like gold and all kinds of cool stuff. It says that they burned all the soft furniture, and I hope at least one person got a nap in before that happened.

I do too. Never saw a couch before. Hopefully the pillows were saved. Yeah, I hope like someone was like, I'm going to take this. I've never, what is, I don't know the word for pillow. I've never had one, but like, I would, this thing's great to put under my head. At some point, they, in the history books, a man named John Furrier, so Joanna's husband, potentially, saved the life of a young boy named the Earl of Derby.

His name was Henry Boilingbroke. And Henry Boilingbroke is the future king of England. So Joanna and John, they like, like, played a big part in England's history, if that's true. That's like a myth, maybe. So, London is now on fire. People are being beheaded and they're carrying heads around on sticks. They're killing a lot of like the bishops and the tax collectors and the people that are in the, in the government. On June 14th, it is early in the day and the government is all basically hiding in the Tower of London because it makes sense you'd hide. And

no you solve the problem and i don't think solving the problem was done by just hiding but at the moment at the moment you're hiding like you don't know what to do you can't hide forever but like you're hiding so they're hiding and then the rebels agree to meet at miles end which is like a little bit outside the aldgate at like the top of london i couldn't tell which direction my map was when i looked at it but like it's on the edge of london they're going to meet out there. So the king goes out to try to talk to the rebels at mile end. And then a bunch of people stay in the tower and then 400 rebels rushed the tower. And there's tons of looting and killing one particular person, the Archbishop of Sudbury. He had his head chopped off, but like it

took like 25 times. And at one point, they accidentally chopped off his hand and it was awful. Like you were saying before. Do you think that people back then valued their own lives, the way we value our own lives. I don't know. It feels like it's so cheap to just, like, die all a time for nothing, no reason at all. Yeah. I mean, like that, obviously, I also feel like you have to be, and I feel like I've learned us in a bunch of history reading that, like, the act of being that close to someone and

killing them is something that, like, a lot of us couldn't even imagine, you know, like, that brutality. Yeah, but it happened, like, all the time. Well, that's, so we couldn't imagine it because, like, it's not it wasn't a part of our upbringing right but these guys could especially if you've already seen like most people you know have died of the plague anyway you know like you're not I think you don't value like like how can you possibly value your own life if it's just so cheap yeah no totally I don't know it's good question um so they killed up that that archbishop the king's mom is there again

and they on Wikipedia when I was like reading through this they said that they just make fun of his mom and his sister and let them go and like I don't want that to make you think that they like didn't sexually assault people because they absolutely did you know there's obviously like there was obviously like looting and sexual assault and killing for fun it was like a purge night you know basically which like probably was kind of fun for like some of them yeah like imagine like you're like 40 years old. You've been taxed to death. You had nothing. Your kids have nothing. Yeah, go slaughter some rich people. Yeah. There are heads on London Bridge, a lot of heads around, you know, it's wild. So London is a mess right now. It's blood in the streets. It's on fire. And now it's June 15th. The king goes to us, Mr. Abbey, to pray that he is going to figure this out. He agrees to meet Watt Tyler, who's our leader on a hill. And something happens that we're not 100% clear on. So at first,

Tyler, who he's like super excited, he's like, hey, brother, let's be friends. Like, I know you don't want your subjects to have a terrible life. I know we can work with you and we can work something out. And the first thing he asks for is like, let's just stop doing the poll tax. That's it. Let's just stop that.

And then we'll be happy. And then he goes a step further and says that he wants all of serfdom to be abolished and then he starts to kind of get excited and asking for more things and something happens in the book that I read they said that he like drinks water and spits it out which is like supposed which is like really disrespectful to the king or something something happens

where the Lord Mayor of London William Walworth stabs Tyler in the neck and then stabs him again in the head and then he runs away and Tyler turns around he gets like gets on his horse and turns around and starts to ride back, but he falls off, and everybody's confused because they're like, he's coming back, but then he fell and like he's dead and what happened. And then the king's people take his body, they, you know, they put it on a pole, put the head on the pole, and now things are

a mess because the rebel leader is dead. And no one knows what to do because they don't have any leadership anymore. Meanwhile, there are other things happening in other places around England. So it's not just London is happening in smaller places as well, but you know that the things start to kind of fall apart for the rebels after after tyler dies and this is when the suppression starts so the king gets together he wants every man under 60 in london to get together which is like kind of hard because a lot of the men are away at war but he gets four thousand men to come and start pushing them out of london and the leaders of the revolt are starting to get rounded up to get executed.

We think that Joanna was okay that she didn't get executed, but the men pretty much all did. Tyler and John Raw, their bodies were hanged, drawn, and quartered, and then each quarter of their body was taken to the four corners of the realm,

which is, what a job. This is rough. Like, Hey, Fires, could you take this guy's top right half just as far northeast as you can go? No, you don't tell them what it is. Do you?

Yes. I guess. I mean, I feel like you'd probably be like I'm honored my king you know it's a ham sandwich just go but then you'd open it and be like oh no it was not a ham sandwich yeah that's true I didn't buy lunch I thought I had a ham sandwich you know after that they did not do a poll tax again um they were able they you know they at the end of 1381 they decided to reduce the military effort the war went on but they did didn't collect money for it in that way. They also surfdom itself did decline, but it took about, you know, about 200 years. So in, you know, about 200 years, it'll be totally gone. And it's kind of because of the economy and people, you know, wanting to make, obviously,

more money. There was more, like, opportunities for leasing and things like that. Like, it wasn't great, but it was, like, a little bit better. So it did start to get a little bit better. So serfdom would eventually, you know, not be there anymore. Um, our king Richard would not live very long. Um, he was 14 when this happens. And within a year, he's going to get married, um, to a woman named the Anne of, Anne of Bohemia. And she was called the good queen Anne. People really, really liked her. She would ask for leniency for some of the people who were on trial after the revolt. Um, she died of the plague in 1394. So the plague is also still around. And they had no children. he then married Isabella of Alloy, and she was literally a child. She was six when they got married.

And she brought dolls. They did not consummate the marriage. They were just friends. And he would die before her, before she turned, I think 12 was their age of consent, which you know, obviously not great. But he would die before her. She would end up marrying someone else. She married her cousin and died in childbirth when she was 19.

So poor thing. What a rough life. What a poor thing. Richard ended up kind of in the middle of his marriages. He fought with the lores appellate, which is like the men in charge. And he kind of went in and out of power. He did believe that like the king was appointed by God. And he would, you know, commission a lot of art and architecture while he was king.

In 1399, he banished his cousin, Henry Bolingbrook, who was the son of John of Gant, who you'll remember, was saved in the Tower of London, probably. by John Ferrier, who was the husband of Joanna, who's one of our leaders. And Henry came back to England, banished Richard, whatever, back and forth, and Henry's became Henry the fourth, and his people murdered him. They murdered Richard the second when he was 33. He probably starved to death in jail. It had such a horrible time. I know.

Everything was just so bad. Yeah. Everything was terrible. So that is the story of the peasant's revolt And then next week I'm going to tie this story Into fairy tales again Because guess who was there the entire time

Well it wasn't Brothers Grimm No Mary Shelley No that's wait Who Chaucer and it's Canterbury Tales Got it got it He was in London during the Peasants Revolt

So I'm going to learn about him And talk about him next week Very cool so several things one um i was going to text you earlier because i went down this rabbit hole earlier about um or about Leonardo uh da Vinci about say Decaprio the other Leonardo um and was just like because i know that you've seen all these things and like i was thinking about the renaissance it was really weird that you brought this up when you did because i was literally just dwelling on this stuff um and how it's

seeing like he's he was part of like the spark of the renaissance like he's like a case study of the renaissance absolutely yeah anyways that's it um no he is yeah the nirder da vinci is the renaissance i also was thinking that i think we're on the precipice of the next renaissance with ai yeah so i think that's fair like i was well i think we're i don't know if it's i I don't know what I have to. The Renaissance is like exactly right, but I do think we're on the end of something, the beginning of something else. Yeah, yeah, not Renaissance. Yeah, you're right. It's an era. It could be. The change of it. Because, like, I was listening to this podcast for had who it was about how when tech was becoming like a big thing. It was all about like businesses catering to the employees and like mostly engineers, you know, like food and huge pay and huge equity, whatever and all that. and with AI it's almost like a manifestation

of like the rage they felt of like how much they had to bend over backwards for the employees and that yeah who knows what that means for everyone it's probably not going to be good but also I mean we've done a lot of engineers

who take a lot of advantage of the fact that they're engineers and I'm not totally sad about it I'm kind of happy about it to be honest um no I know someone someone that we worked with when time was like

can't wait until these fucking engineers or stop being so like in demand I know I mean there was one that was close in my life anyways I'm not going to go into it

yeah totally so yeah sweet well thank you for sharing and so it sounds like gonna be weaving these stories together then yes and then I have one more medieval story up for the end of February

I think very very fun yeah cool thank you for sharing anything you want to sign off with yeah we have a bunch of interactions on our TikToks which is super fun some people were like I found you on TikTok and I've been listening so thank you for doing that that is so awesome and we also had a couple of people who you know how we had talked about with our John Brooks booth like what a good metaphor would be like who famous person and a good one would

be like if Travis Kelsey did it like not that he would but like he's like a famous brother he's like handsome you know which i was like that's a good one do a lot of people know what he looks like yeah i guess so yeah now i just picture him sad but yeah he was pretty sad yesterday i like his beard um yeah anyway i thought that was fun and then a lot of people were commenting on i i am talking about our older episodes as well in the the andrea yates episode um and a lot of people are talking about her husband was told not to keep impregnating her because she was severely depressed and he kept doing it yeah we talked about it yeah so they're like a lot of you know talking about how he's definitely to blame oh yeah absolutely absolutely he left his children alone with her

they knew she was mentally ill yeah yeah yeah you don't do that yeah so yeah but thank you i love talking to people on tech tak it's super fun i feel like i don't know that's fun i like it i appreciate everybody who's following us you are so much hipper than i am i never got on it i'll tell you this much. Every now and then, I see, not every down then, always. I see the clips that you make. And I'm always like, how did she do that? Like, how do you

make your image appear? And then there's a background behind you. And then there's like music playing, but then you can hear it. It's so multi-layered. And like, I think I, I don't know. Good for you for knowing tech. So. Thank you. No, that is all I know how to do is the one green screen.

Like some people, some like history accounts have like hundreds of thousands of followers. followers and they like they must I don't know they must write a script and rehearse and then like do the images when I can't do that but I can do one image and I can talk so that's what I've been doing if you're interested in our graphic designer intern please write to us at do nipholpotta gemo dot com TikTok intern yeah but no but hey I'm doing it I'm doing it in my ripe old age every time I post we get more followers so you know you don't have a ton but we have some it's cool no it's awesome thank you for doing that um Cool. Anything else? That is it. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, yeah, Doom DeFelPod on all the social media is fantastic. At Dubedipfelpod on social media. Doomedeplepod at gmail.com. All things.

Sweet. We'll go ahead and cut off and rejoin you all later on this week. Thanks, Taylor.