HardLore - Professer Bo's History Lesson

Episode Date: September 19, 2024

We take a small break from music to have our very own Professor Bo Lueders take time out of his busy schedule to answer some in-depth historical questions. He is right about 30% of the time, let's see if this week he can hit 40%. HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardlorepod HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef Get 20% OFF @manscaped + Free Shipping with promo code HARDLORE at MANSCAPED.com! #ad #manscapedpod FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/hardlorepod/ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/hardlorepod SPOTIFY | https://spoti.fi/3J1GIrp APPLE | https://apple.co/3IKBss2 FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/colinyovng/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/ColinYovng FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM | https://www.instagram.com/bosxe/ TWITTER | https://www.twitter.com/bosxe 00:00:00 - Start 00:02:26 - Dracula... Is he real? 00:03:11 - 9/11 00:05:04 - How Do They Get Sound on Vinyl 00:06:25 - Favorite War 00:11:18 - Favorite WW2 Fact 00:13:33 - Prohibition And Its Effects 00:16:54 - Favorite Chicago History lore 00:19:04 - Breaking Down The Electoral College 00:22:41 - What is more terrifying 00:27:01 - Favorite Fact from the Mongol Empire 00:29:58 - Did the Egyptians actually build the pyramids? 00:35:43 - Significance of the Battle of Gettysburg 00:39:18 - Pardon This interruption Professor Bo... 00:40:35 - What caused the great depression 00:43:52 - Vietnam 00:48:42 - The origin of Ghosts 00:52:22 - JFK / Abraham Lincoln Connection 00:53:43 - Political Motivated Murders 00:57:49 - A historical event that changed millions of lives   HardLore: A Knotfest Series, Fueled by Monster Energy Edited by Steven Grise • Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes. Join the HARDLORE DISCORD for community discussions and to participate in our future Q&A episodes. FOLLOW HARDLORE: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER, SPOTIFY, APPLE FOLLOW COLIN: INSTAGRAM FOLLOW BO: INSTAGRAM, TWITTER   For sponsorship opportunities, email us! [e-mail] Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Subscribe to the all-new hardlore Patreon now for early ad-free access to every episode and an exclusive episode every month. Professor, I have a question. Colin, please. Was Dracula real? Dracula was based on a real person, Vlad the Impaler. Yes. What did he impale? Thousands of people.

He made forests out of people. Supposedly related to the bushes. Big conspiracy theory is the bloodline you can follow. Interesting. From Vlad to the modern day bushes. Hello, welcome. It's Hardlord Time. How are you, Professor Bo?

I'm doing well today, Colin. Thank you. I'm a little nervous because this one is... This one's public now. It's public, yeah, I've got to be extra careful. Now, it's fine. So, you know, this is a segment we call Professor Boe. Because if you watch the show a lot or listen to the show a lot,

you would know that Bo is what I like to call a big time history. And honestly, like, 30% of the time he's right about what he's talking about. So today, I'm going to ask him a bunch of questions. Me and some people from our Discord sending some questions. Just, you know, stuff we wonder and we want an honest, unbiased. Because, you know, unbiased journalism is so hard to come across these days. Yeah, I pride myself and not being biased ever. No bias journalism, especially, you know, aside from Germany, maybe.

Yeah, maybe. So please, for those of you watching this, it's a bit tongue and cheek. Please give me a break if I get some things wrong. Take it easy. There's no tongue. There's no cheek. He's an actual professor. He's a learned doctor of historical inaccuracies.

So here, we're going to have some fun. you know, taking a little break from music because we just ranked every rock band and it was really hard to do. So, Professor Boe, first question, Professor about I have a question. Colin, please. Was Dracula real?

Dracula was based on a real person, Vlad the Impaler. Yes. What did he impale? Thousands of people. He made forests out of people. It was seen as a form of punishment and a form like of intimidation. Like don't fuck with us.

I'll put you on a stuff. spike. I'm impale you. You know it's my thing. Supposedly related to the bushes. Big conspiracy theory is the bloodline you can follow from Vlad to the modern day bushes. So they're Transylvanian. Basically, yes.

Things are adding up here. Which relates to my next question. Perfect. What are your thoughts on 9-11? This is a hot one. Yeah, Dracula 9-11 apparently are handed hand. Look at that. And what did I say? I love to learn. The, the

Bushes are involved in. When it comes to 9-11, I don't necessarily think that like, I don't necessarily think that George Bush was like, I'm going to do this. Let's go ahead and do it. You know what I mean? But I do, I definitely don't think whatever the story, the 9-11 commission has told us, I don't think that's what happened. Put it that way. Because what did go

down at building seven, you know? Well, it's a mystery to this day. One of the facts that I heard once that really did kind of with my brain is when building seven collapsed, it was the third building in the history of steel and steel structures, third building ever

to have a complete structural collapse due to fire. And the first two were? Towers one and two. So that's problematic, I think. I think that's a little odd. And then there's examples of Like there was some high rise that burned in in South America, maybe Brazil, for like 48 hours didn't collapse. Another one in somewhere in Europe or maybe England for 20 plus hours didn't collapse.

Stuff like this has happened. I mean, a, a bomber, a B-42 crashed in the Empire State Building in the 50s didn't collapse. So overall, you would say you're against 9-11? I'm not for it. Okay. I'm not for it. That's good to know. Which is timely because as of today, it's in two days.

Yeah, it's this week. It's 9-11. Oh my God. What am I doing? Hang on. I'll be right back. There we go. I can't believe you almost forgot.

That's insane. Never forget. Professor Bo, I have another question. Yes, Colin. How do they get the sound into vinyl? That's a really interesting. Do you ever put your ear to it up close? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And you can hear it. So there was actually a myth bust. episode super early on is there was this myth literally that while a piece of pottery was being made and was still wet

straw was brushed up against it and it created it created sound waves and so they tried to replicate it couldn't do it they like gave it like an ultrasound to like remake the sound waves they couldn't do it but basically that's what it is is it's a type of

polymer and a type of media that can hold such a sensitive level of vibrations that you get sound. That's all sound is is vibrations. You know, have you ever seen an anomaly? Yeah. You know the scene in the beginning where she's a little kid and she's like, I think she's like, in my mind, they're made like crapes. Oh, yeah. On the thing.

I like that theory. I like her theory. That's pretty good. I mean, you know how if you take like a crystal glass and do the, ooh, yeah, I guess it's like that. That's vinyl. That's literally, it's the same concept. Interesting. Professor Bo, do you have a favorite war? Oh, yeah.

I'm glad you asked, Colin. World War I is far and away my most favorite war. So the great war, you agree that it's still the greatest war? I think if you were to look at an example of aliens landing and starting a war, the closest example we have of that is like Cortez landing in the new world in the mid-15, hundreds. Totally. But after that, we're talking the conquest of the new world. Yeah.

400 conquistadors versus... Yeah, the formation of Earth, as we know. A modern colonization. Yeah. But next to that, you have a period of time where there was Lancers with breastplace on horseback wearing gas masks charging into machine gunfire with airplanes flying overhead. Just like... Never once.

Everybody figuring it out as they go. Yeah, everybody was like, holy shit. This is allowed? And it directly, Dan Carlin, hardcore history has this thing where it's like, who's the most important person in history? Who's like the most responsible, blah, blah, and Gavrillo Prince, I think I've talked about this before.

It boils down to the guy, the guy who shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Gavrillo is the guy who shot him, and he literally the first domino, because after that you have an entire generation in 1919, 19 men in France don't exist. It's called the lost generation. So many men died.

It's gone. Okay. You have that. The generation's lot. We lost it. You have the rest of the war. You have imperialism. You have, or the end of imperialism, in most cases, you have World War II and Hitler

and the Holocaust. And then the Cold War and Soviet Union, everything. Right. Kind of from this one thing is kind of the most pinpointed. So Ferdinand lived, was from where? He was the Austro-Hungarian prince or Archduke. who was killed by a Serbian radical. And then Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia and Germany backed them up.

But Russia backed up Serbia and the Great Britain and France backed up the others. And then Italy and Romania and some others and the Ottoman Empire. I mean, it's huge. Do you think now in your mind, Bo, is there a protagonist in World War I? A protagonist, kind of France? So France is the good guy. It's, I mean, good, I mean, we're talking about imperialistic states who have colonies. So there's no, there's, you know, everybody loses. It's all bad.

Yeah. So that, et cetera. That considered, then I would say it's definitely Great Britain and France versus Germany. The crazy thing, the real truly insane thing about this war is like Germany had a fighting force of like maybe 20 million men total. Or you're talking cooks, engineers and soldiers, right? Right. France had what they have, but they had some colonies. Great Britain, you have Somalian, tall-ass guys, and the Germans are seeing them, and they're, one day they're going, holy shit, this empire is never ending. They have an unlimited amount of men.

Imagine that. So Germany is petrified at some point. I mean, they had the greatest fighting force in the world ever. Right. From top to bottom, number one. And is that why the U.S. is still in like in our minds playing ketchup and just making sure like, hey, if this happens again, we're so ready? That's pretty loaded. It's, there's a lot of money that goes into that. There's a lot of money. I mean, all of the money seems to go into that. Yeah, right. So if we have, you know, 12 superclass aircraft carriers and the next nearest nation, I think has four. It's like, well, we could always have 12 or we.

you can always have 13. And they're only 5 billion each or whatever. You know what I mean? It's just one of those things. 5 trillion each, yeah. So it's kind of one of those things, but it's certainly like

what else do we got going for us? Really? What else does America have going? If America had an army... We got the movies? True. Culture. We got hardcore punk.

Very true. Got hip hop. We really do. Listen to... We got food. We got a... The greatest cultural melting pot of culinary excellence in history.

Some serious food. And we've got, unfortunately, the biggest military in the world. So if our military was, you know, an eighth of what it was, if we were just middle of the road, I don't think America is really able to kind of do some of the terrible shit that they're doing, and there you go, that we're doing, I should say. I'm not. Right. We're not personally doing it.

Yeah, I'm not personally doing it, but I'm certainly privileged to not be dealing with some of the bullshit. Sure. Do you have Professor Bo? Yes, Colin, please. A single favorite piece of World War, the Great War or World War II trivia? Like one fact that would just be like, I didn't know that. FDR, who was president at the end of the Great Depression and then through World War II and then died shortly before the end of World War II, but was aware of the bomb, was elected three times. times. He, which is, there's no law saying that someone can't be elected any number of times just kind of became the standard. He was elected three times. He died during the third. And then

Truman took over. So, and then on the, in England, you have. But is that because the entire, he was beloved? Yeah. He, he along with some, some policy changes that for better or for worse, I don't want to get into that, because that's like politics. politics. Got the U.S. out of a pretty precarious position, crazy unemployment rate. But we also kind of

profited from the war because we were making so much shit for our allies. Bonds and whatnot. Bonds. War bonds definitely helped and all that stuff. There's a cool thing. There was all this stuff where it was like, hey, we have a rubber drive. We have an aluminum drive where the whole community, whatever neighborhood would collect aluminum, deposit,

give it to the war department. It was never once used. It was all scrapped. It was just kind of to get people come on rally. It was to rally, you know. Much like 9-11 did for better or worse. You're absolutely right.

The big three of the allies during World War II was FDR, Stalin, and Churchill. That's who Stalin knew in the beginning. By the time the war ended, Churchill was out of office, FDR was out of office. FDR died. So it was Truman, whoever took over after Churchill. I honestly don't remember Montgomery, maybe.

And then Stalin. He was the only one to know everyone through this whole thing. Wow. And it's like a weird, interesting thing where he never trusted anyone and he was absolutely right because a lot of our generals said, okay, we got the Nazis licked. Let's go into Russia. Let's get them. Makes sense. Fantastic stuff, Professor Boe. Thank you so much. Professor Boe have a question. Yes,

Colin. Could you tell me about prohibition and its negative and positive effects on the American economy? Prohibition is a really interesting time period. Think about the whole country. The whole country was straight edge, briefly. Briefly. I don't really know. I know amendment, the 18th Amendment is when it went into a fact. And I think the 21st Amendment is when it was ended. It was very brief.

I don't actually know the exact. I think it was 1920 to 29. I'm going to take a guess. That's a long time. It is a long, it is. Like that was nine years of secret speakeasies and mob, mob joints and fucking moonshine. I think that's probably directly responsible, if not related to the discovery of using opioids and barbiturates as recreation. Perfect.

Right? It's directly... It's responsible for the band A18 on New A-18. It was from course of disapproval. There you go. But it also is definitely directly responsible for the rise of the American mafia. and bootlegging and rum running. And bootlegging, as we know it now,

means something much different. That meant making illegal alcohol and selling it in a funky fresh place. Dancing. Yeah, 100%. Jazz. Tell me about jazz and prohibition. Dude, jazz is possibly the truest form of American art. Yeah.

Do you want to know, do you know the development of the word man? Like if I could say, hey man, how you doing? Do you know why, how that turned into pop culture? How that became just like of saying as well? It was, dude, this is one of the most beautiful things that kind of gets to be choked up to talk about sometimes. Black Southern youth, their grandfathers and fathers were slaves. So we're talking the 20s, 30s in the South. When they were being spoken down.

out to. They were called boy. Right. Hey boy, go and do this as a derogatory term from racists. Right. So they started calling each other man to uplift one another. Are you fucking kidding me? That's how that general expression came about. It's in the Ken Burns documentary about jazz. That is one of the forms in which that came to modern parlance. Wow. I'm oblifting you. I'm calling you a man because that's how I see you. And we're in this. I mean, dude, jazz is pump. A hundred percent. Jazz is the original musical rebellion. Yeah, I think so. That's American history.

It's beautiful. It is beautiful. If you haven't seen that Ken Burns documentary, check that one out. Legend. You're so good at your, imagine being so good at your job that they rename zooming in on a photograph slowly, your name. Does the Ken Burns effect? It's awesome. What a gangster.

So many of his documentaries, too, are literally like, talking head. photograph or letter zoomed, talking head. And that's just called his name now. Yeah, that's just it. Crazy. Wow, beautiful stuff. But Professor Boe, speaking of mobsters and prohibition and you being from Chicago,

is there any cool or dark Chicago history from this century or last century that really gets you riled up? There's a thing called the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. You know about that? I do. I want to hear more about it. So it was, you know, warring families. I don't know which family.

I know Capone and Capone's family was involved, but there were guys who were just Tommy Gunned to death during the, on the 14th of February. I don't even know what year. It would have been during the 20s, I'm sure. Capone is one of those things where everybody here has a story where it's like, you know, your grandfather, he brushed elbows with Capone.

You know, my family has a thing where my great-grandfather was at a white socks game. And Capone asked him to go get him a paper and gave him like a $5 bill and told him to keep the change. And how old is your grandfather this time? At this time, you would have been a child. So, and five bucks in the 20s was, oh, you know. Yeah. There is a ice cream store on Western Avenue right by where I live called Margie's Candies, which has a picture of Capone. in there.

Wow. Enjoying. So he was a crean, he was a real deal creamer, Capone? Dude, yeah, I think he was a serious eater. He was a, you took a real eater at that mug? I could see that. Come on. Dude, all Italians are real eaters.

Spaghetti, et cetera. And not even that. I mean, you're talking like fish and from the north. The best steaks, they got to deal with the steak guy. You know? You can power that shit. They get, yeah, they get the whole cow delivered to him. Yeah.

Yeah, say Valentine's Day is crazy. There's a. There's a skyscraper on the riverfront that has a bar at the top of it that had a single car elevator made. So he, Capone, could drive into the basement and take his car to the top and dine in the top. That's called running shit. A literal gangster. Professor Bo. Yes, Colin.

What's the deal with the electoral college voting system? Why isn't it, hasn't it been updated? Well, wouldn't you think, you know, with the massive population, growth since it's inception that it would be time to do something about it? Well, it is curious because I don't fully agree with it, but I also understand why it exists. You have representatives and constituents, and you don't necessarily have constituents who are aware of what might be best for the state or what the rest of the state is necessarily voting for. Absolutely.

So that doesn't, it doesn't, it's kind of a moot point. Obviously, it was invented because 12 people lived in a town. Yeah. And there was one representative and they went on to the state senator. But you'd think there'd be a massive amount of rescaling that would need to be done. Yeah. I don't understand. I don't understand why certain states, I don't even do states like Illinois is worth 18 electoral college votes.

Does that change? Was it always worth 18? You know, I don't know. I don't know. I still don't think that's enough if. I don't. I don't really. get it. There are, there are states with, you know, a hundred square miles of an inhabitability,

you know? Right, right. Yeah. That have, you know, half, even, even a quarter of the amount of votes is somewhere like Illinois would be insane. Yeah. Here we are. You know, it's one of those things that's like, the land doesn't vote, people vote. Where people live is, is where the, votes are coming from. Absolutely. I don't, I would love. to, I'm sure it exists, like a map, or not a map, but just like the history of all elections without the electoral college, like just the popular vote, who would have been president moving backwards? That would be interesting.

Yeah, I don't know why it exists. I mean, I know why it exists. I don't know why it still exists and hasn't been updated. You know that guy that's predicted like every major election except for Gore? That was the one he got wrong. That was the one he got wrong, which he technically didn't get wrong. You know? Ooh, interesting.

Isn't that interesting? It is. I wonder, yeah, you know, something to remember is like, I think Bush got elected in 2000, and then 2001 9-11 happens. You know, it's one of those things that's just like, holy hell. And was the inauguration in 2001? I think so, yeah. It would have been January, right?

Yeah. It's like, God damn. Eight months, huh? Yeah, you're the boss for eight, smooth months. He really, no, he made shit happen in eight months, I guess, is what we've come to a little. Yeah, he got to it. And it's crazy that, like, not to go back to 9-11, but-9-11 is pretty much what got him re-elected. Yeah, you know, even like, like my, I don't think she would mind me saying this.

My mom is very much a Democrat, very much, very left-leaning. Even my mom was like, he did a good job. He did a good job. Because at the time, people were brainwashed, you know. People were fully brainwashed. We thought X, Y, and Z happened, and they had this, and we have to go get them and blah, blah, blah. And obviously, that just wasn't the case. But at the time, you've seen Vice, right?

You've seen the movie? Dude. Yeah, Dick Cheney did the job. You used a big boss man right there, yeah, for sure. Crazy. What a wacky little world we live in. Professor Brough, I have a question. He has Colin.

What is more terrifying to you? space or the depths of the ocean? The depths of the ocean is far scarier to me. I couldn't agree more, Professor Bow. If you are in a capsule, right, a space station capsule or a submarine, and either one has a fault, you're dead instantly regardless, right? And it's probably a great ending, you know? It's gone.

You don't even, you don't, there was that thing with the submarine down by the Titanic where like your nerves have a response time of point oh whatever. Yeah. And this implosion happened in point oh oh. They were not aware of their deaths taking place. It's a great way to go. The purpose way to go. But space has like some forms of light.

You have something. The ocean is just pitch fucking black. Pitch darkness with creatures we don't know about. Have you ever like, have you ever like snorkeled? I've never snorkeled. I never scuba, I wouldn't do. But like I've snorkeled like off like in Costa or Puerto Rico and stuff. Taking the mask and the snorkel and doing the blowing out and going down 10 feet to the bottom.

The amount of weight above you like the pressure on your mask is so insane. And that's not, you're not even deep. No, you're not even deep. We'll never know. We just watch Jaws, right, at your place. Yeah. And, like, they purposely kept the shore away from the camera most of the time. But near the end, you start to see the shore because they're going back.

The second you see that shore, it's like, oh, they're fine. Like, they can make it. You know, that's safety. If I was in space, I don't even think you just, you're not thinking that way. It's almost like you let go. But, like, which is fine. water, you're still on earth. You're still home.

Like that water has always been on this earth. And now it's real. It's too real. Dude, I'll tell you one thing worse than both of them. Fucking spulunking, cave diving. Oh, no, no, you couldn't pay me. You could not pay me. You could offer me a hundred.

You gotta be a fucking loser to get into that, right? Oh, my fucking. What? Who harmed you? Who fucked your world up so bruised? that you had to escape to the caves. I'll kill you right now. I'll do you one better.

Yeah, I got you. Don't worry about it. Doing the thing where it's like... No. And then that, the drawing, the artist rendering of the guy that's stuck. Yeah. And the thing that's...

You know what's crazy? This is really grim. So we're talking about the... I think it's called the peanut butter caves or silly putty caves or... Excuse me? Something like that. That guy died in the cave system.

they couldn't pull him out because of the angle but it's like if I'm him I'm saying you'll break my fucking legs yeah pull me get me out of something I don't care out if you need to yeah do whatever pull me out in pieces can they they were talking to him yeah they were able to communicate to him but the thing is he is where they just like yeah

Peter you're gonna die man yeah he is fixated in like a couple of hours like it was it's at least quicker than 48 hours You know, like, he just, he was in such a tight spot that he eventually couldn't breathe. He gradually lost air. He gradually lost air. That's horrible.

That, I'm not saying it's not. I'm just saying, like, I would rather gradually lose air over three hours than 48. Yeah. No, for sure. Yeah. I just, but like, I just wouldn't go. A fellow like me would never be in that position. Couldn't do it.

Wouldn't. A haunted house, a cave in a haunted house, that might get. like if it's a way out if it's a way out but if it started that narrow I think I would look at it and be like I don't think this is happening guys yeah I don't think this is the root humans don't have whiskers we need whiskers you know yeah so

just show us like no this ain't gonna work it's not it ain't happening Professor Bob I have a question yes Colin do you have a favorite piece of trivia regarding the Mongol Empire I you know what's so funny is maybe 35 minutes ago I just

said to Taylor on our way back home, 10% of every human male today can trace their ancestry back to Genghis Khan. That's a real eater. Yeah. And not necessarily in the best ways. No, in the worst ways. They also, the Golden Horde killed so many people that they lessened the carbon emissions on Earth.

The Golden Horde existed at the same time. as Columbus reaching America. What? That's crazy. Yeah. Good shit. Imagine if he had made it, you know?

The Mongols were notoriously cool if you cooperated. Interesting. If they were like, hey, we're here. Other than women, really. No, no, no. Not even necessarily.

So if like, if you were like, hey, we're here. If the Mongols were like, we're here, we need this much of, a month, we're taking this territory, and you're going to help whatever we need. If you said, fine, we're down. They let you practice your religion. They were very tolerant. They didn't involve themselves in things for the most part. If you insulted them by saying, like, no, we're going to fight. They would decimate you. So how do they go down? What do you mean? Oh, who stopped the

Mongols? Once the Great Khan died, it went to, like his, it became a matter of succession. If it was like, Okay, now who takes over? Then I went to Shao Khan. Yeah, yeah. Et cetera. Yeah. But yeah, so it just became a matter of, there was a great thing, and then it got divided up into like four or five.

So it lasted his entire life. Yeah, yeah. Tengen, I think was his name. I think I could, or no. I think so. I think or Tengen was the sun. But anyway, basically it was a matter of like the great horde got divided into like five smaller hordes and split up.

But they went as far... Were they like reconquered? Or was it just like, okay, we're done? They... Like, did they get killed? They kind of... No, they didn't really get killed,

but they just kind of like lost steam. They kind of... Like they were over it. They didn't want to conquer anymore. They were from as far east in Russia. So almost Alaska to Egypt, to China to Poland. They conquered.

It was... All of Asia. Wow. Yeah. Fucking crazy. Wild stuff. Unimaginable today. Oh, yeah, right.

Professor Bo, we spoke about this on the Patreon version, but do you believe in your heart of hearts that the Egyptians actually built the pyramids on their own? No. I don't think so either. The thing that fucks me up about that is like, Cleopatra lived closer to 2004 than the building of the pyramids. So to them, to Caesar, to Cleopatra, to Mark Anthony, they were just as confused. They were antiques.

They had always been there, thousands of years. And then you have this weird thing where the sphinx is different and made differently and of different rock than the pyramids. There's all these things that don't really match up. Do they know what kind of minerals they were all made out of? It was limestone. Limestone. Yeah.

Was that common in Egypt at the time? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. But not nearby. That's what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah, yeah. How are they fucking getting that around? There's all these theories about water and obviously slave labor with the heroes.

Well, that's that. I mean, if somehow it is proven to be 100% true that it was all Egyptians. It was 100% Egyptian slaves. Yeah, it was the Hebrews, for sure. And look, like, I mean, we, the Bible, the Old Testament, and the Torah can be considered a certain historical

record to an extent, to an extent, right? And that does line up. But then there's all kinds of weird shit, man, where it's like, oh, they've done that you can, you can go to a piece of land and dig, right? You can dig in a tube a hundred meters down, and

I do it all the time. You can see through the sediment like, oh, here was a plague. Here's where when slaves would have been here. Here's when this was underwater. Whatever. You can see the history in a... Correct. And they've not found evidence of this build happening.

So do you believe, A, it was extraterrestrials or some ancient, long-forgotten peoples, a civilization that predates anything? What I think is the most exciting and interesting theory is the idea that there was a pre-civilization, a major cataclysm, a flood, and then the rebirth of what we now call Egyptian people in the Delta and in the Nile who then... So how many... Is there a rough estimate of when the pyramids were built? Yeah. It's 10,000 years ago. So do Christians believe that the pyramids are real? It's a great question.

Any you fucking idiots watching, do you believe that the pyramids are real? It's like 8 to 10,000 years or something like that. Is the belief? So that thing is their own story doesn't add that. Some people, they speak as if the earth is 2024 years old. I think 7,000 years old. Biblically? Yeah, biblically.

Okay. So they believe that there were 5,000 plus... There were 5,000 years prior to Christ and now. Okay. So it's like Adam and Eve... That ain't enough either. It's like Adam and Eve, 5,000 years, Christ, now us. So the pyramids would have had to have been...

Dinosaurs were put... Oh, I mean, that never happened. By God to test us, obviously. I was just talking about this, too. did you know that from you to Christ is about 40 grandmothers. I don't, my grandmas are dead, so. 42.

42. It's roughly the lifespan of 40 of your grandmothers. Just to Jesus? To be 2,000 years. Yeah. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. It's just kind of wild because, like, I do three.

I mean, he is a real guy. Like that's, that's... Probably. Kind of proven. Probably. There's a book called A Case for Christ that my dad made me read when I really was kind of, kind of over it. And he was like, if you can read this and still not believe it, then we'll just agree to disagree. And I read it, and I did not...

Like, it was all, like, spiritual. You know, there's some historical shit, but nothing, you know... And you would really be diggined for that historical tea, if you will. Yeah, yeah, I know that there's like, there's a shroud and there's like sites and there's stuff. I'm not going to sit here. Those are off. Those are like currently being perpetuated by the dumbest people I know. Yeah.

The dumbest people I know are like the shroud is real. Yeah. So I don't, you know, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I'm an expert on that. I think he probably existed in some way or another. I don't think he came back from the dead. I don't think he performed miracles. No, I think maybe he did a cartwheel. Yeah, you know.

And they were like, holy fuck. Yeah, this guy is God. This is God's son. There's cult leaders. You know, there's, David Koresh was a real guy. They're still going. They're still out there. Yeah.

Awesome. But yes, I'm sorry. To get back to the question, I do think there was a pre-civilization that built these structures somehow. Or, or was the island. Preservo. Yes, sir. Collins, please. What was so historically significant about the Battle of Gettysburg?

Oh, well, the Gettysburg was, it was as far north as the South ever got. And Pickett's charge was the turning point of the turning point of the war. Tell me about Pickett. That was the hill. That was the location. But it was Custer being like, come on, you Wolverines to the fucking, the Michigan Wolverines. Right. It's fucking, let's get them out of here.

And they charged. Got him out. It was basically, it was as far as the South got north. And it's technically north of D.C. which is crazy. They were fucking far. But the issue is the North just had

so much more industry and people. Right. That it was a war of attrition. We could just didn't matter. He could throw men at the problem and eventually the South is going to lose. Okay. Which is a really ugly way,

but a war of attrition. It is, but I mean that's... It was a real thing. Still kind of how war works. In, again, back to Ken Burns, in his documentary on the Civil War, which is probably the greatest documentary that exists.

There's an amazing historian named Shelby Foot, who just has the most delightful southern accent, and he's very well-spoken. And he's talking about it. Just sadly got stuck with that name, huh? Shelby Foot, yeah. Yeah. He basically says, you know, I'm a proud southerner, and I've studied this war my entire life. But he says, I don't think the South ever really had a chance. I think if the North had the other hand out from behind its back and was fighting with two.

it would have been over a lot quicker. It wasn't total war for the North. Things were happening in the North. Right. Right. It was total war. We were just kind of like, what the... Anyway.

What are you doing down there? Yeah. Yeah. Being so loud. Yeah. Interesting. But yeah. So Gettysburg, was that the last battle?

It was not the last battle, but it was the bloodiest. It was the, you know, there's that the technicality of, that was the single greatest loss of life of American lives in one day. Period. Because they were both Americans, right? So it's kind of this technicality. In that war or ever? Ever.

How many? Do you know roughly how many? A couple hundred thousand. 100,000? Yeah, yeah. That may be across the whole war, excuse me, if I get that incorrectly. So possibly 1009-11s.

Possibly, yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, it was a bad one. That's crazy. Well, and a lot of guys didn't die from the fight. You died from your injuries and from shitting yourself to death. It was terrible, dude. I would have done that.

Yeah, you would have been, oh my goodness. Dude, imagine me in the war. There aren't enough bathrooms in the world. That's one of the things that Jackson did when they went back to Atlanta. Had it bathrooms? No, he just had the troops shit everywhere. Really? Because they couldn't stop shit.

Well, it was to send a message. So clean this up. Pretty brutal, dude. Not the greatest guy, Mr. Jackson was. No, no, no. He's pretty rough. Ugliest, ugliest. Billman, you think?

Yeah, ugliest Billman, I would say. It's pretty ugly. Yeah, very long. Universal monster-looking ass. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Very Carl-off. Yeah, I agree. What?

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It's the beard shaver. You just like set the guard level. I use a four. Amazing. Fantastic. Mine would probably be the crop reviver at the end of the day. Just due to its convenience and ease of use, if your balls stink even a little bit,

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You'd have to be some kind of historical moron to not use this deal. Imagine if they had manscaped in the Civil War That would have been over immediately Done would have done deal All that shit in the streets you would have never known Yeah, we'd never know Andrew Jackson never would have had that happen

That fucking dumbass If there's any Jackson's out there Who are related to Andrew Fuck you That's probably like eight grandmas ago Yes, Colin please What caused the Great Depression Wow

Everybody's just bummed down or what? That's a good question that I don't know too much about. I know it has to do with stock markets. Stocks, right? It has to do with a global... I mean, this is post-World War I. Yeah.

All economies were fucked. England owed us so much money. Germany, it was cheaper in Germany to burn Deutsch francs than it was to burn coal or wood. So like the actual paper notes. It was more fiscally sound to burn those for warmth than would because it was worth so little. Do you know anything about like suicide statistic rates going up? I know that the story about like guys jumping out of buildings when the on Black Friday when the stock market crashed

or Black Tuesday one of the days. Um, it was was a myth. Like that didn't really happen. So a bunch of guys being like, we're going to fucking jump today, dude. It's going to be crazy. This is it. It's over. Um, I, I know. know that I'm sure it went up. Unemployment rate went up. I'm sure the use of substances went up. I'm sure suicide rates went up for sure. Had to have. And then oddly, so what got Germany out of that war was a dictator taken over and saying, fuck the treaty of Versailles. We're going to make our army. We're going to restart our arms manufacturing because Germany is a very plentiful place minus fuel. they had everything else that they needed.

Who was that? That would be Adolf Hitler. Ah. Got them out of a pretty crazy financial situation as the rest of Europe was kind of limping by. Right. And then when the war starts up, America's got agriculture and steel mills

and oil refinery for days. Yeah. Kind of got us out of that. Got us out of there too. It's pretty ugly. Hitler did? I'm about saying that Hitler was responsible for it, but one thing, everyone was suffering financially.

FDR helped out, the New Deal helped out, some policy changes in domestically helped America out for sure, but then there's this sudden need for a workforce and for steel and for arms manufacturing and oil refinement and airplanes and tanks and all this shit. We could ship it over and make a ton of money. Jesus Christ. Yeah, it's pretty, pretty dark, but it's true. That's very dark. I mean, and that's still happening today with Israel right now.

Of course. It's the same story. There's a reason where the number one arms manufacturer in the world, you know. Two countries who actively committed genocide, which is what is happening right now. And we are funding and aiding and abetting. And it ain't the first or surely the last time. I mean, Vietnam is the same thing. It's the same.

Before Vietnam, the military budget was like something like 10 billion. During Vietnam, it's 80 billion. And now it's infinity trillion. Yeah, yeah. It's name a number. You can't. Right. We got it.

Speaking of Vietnam. Why do we go there? Did we know it was a lost cause to begin with? Well, so the French had it first. Had it? As a colony. Right. I say had it.

And I mean that derogatorily. Right, right. Not great. France was there first. England was kind of there a little bit. And then as the Soviets were coming down, we can't let that happen. So it was all this fucking proxy war bullshit where we're... So the Vietnam War was about us stopping other countries from maintaining it as their own territory?

It was about publicly it's about stopping the spread of communism. Okay. Behind the scenes, you're sending a message to Khrushchev. you're sending a message to Cuba, you're sending a message to be like, hey, don't fucking do this, or we're coming in Army Green and we're going to bomb the place. But it didn't work out because Vietnam had been a fucking battlefield for decades. They knew exactly what they're doing. It's the same thing with the Korean War.

That's why we were in the Korean War. It's a spread of Soviet. What was the catalyst for the ending of the Korean War? How did that take place? Because Vietnam, we gave up, right? Same thing in the Korean War Was it the 48th parallel? There was a certain line and we said,

that's good and that's where the DMZ line is. And that's why there's a South Korea and a North Korea. Holy hell. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it ain't good. But it's nice to know that, you know, we got humbled at least twice. Well, and then really did anything change

after the first desert storm and then after 9-11? No, it's all the same shit. And this is ignoring all. the stuff that happened in the Philippines in Latin America and South America it's never fucking ending dude it's never ending it's true do you know how

we discovered Russians were building missiles in Cuba no or I should say building the missile silos and shipping B2 bombers were doing reconnaissance missions way up over Cuba

so far that like you radar couldn't detect it that's why it was and some of the pictures came back. Someone brought it to Kennedy. It was like, sir, we need to look at this. And they were soccer goalposts, right? And it was like, well, I don't understand what I'm seeing kind of a thing. And he was like, well, sir, Cubans play baseball.

Russians play soccer. And it was this like, oh, shit, there's Soviets there. Like, this isn't Cuba building stuff up. this is the Soviets using Cuba to build stuff up because they were a Soviet. Communist country. I don't think they were technically Soviets. But yeah, it was this like realization. You ever see the movie 13 days? Kevin Costner? It's okay. It's an okay movie.

But it does a pretty good job of explaining how intense the Cuban missile crisis was. Jesus Christ. 90 miles. And how quickly did we move on that? We put a... Do we come at Russia? Like, we know what you're doing? Yeah, we put a blockade around the island. And we said, if you come in with an X amount of distance from us,

we're going to shoot, we're going to blow up these ships containing nuclear warheads. And there was a standoff. The Russians turned around. So it was like, oh, Khrushchev got beaten. But really, it was. Khrushchev maybe saved the world. Save the world. I mean, who knows?

It's hard to say, you know, it's easy to be on the side of America at that time and be on the side of Kennedy at a time. But it's like, really. And out of like pure like personal saves. Like, oh, I'm not getting bombed now because we did it. Yeah, exactly. And it's the same thing with part of the negotiation was, okay, we won't have missiles in Cuba. But America, you have to take your missiles out of Turkey. And we said, yeah, no problem.

So they turned around. And then we said, we're leaving those in Turkey, by the way. We reneged on the deal. I mean, it's ugly, you know, it's geopolitics. Do we, how many countries do you think we have missiles in? Every single. How many countries are there? Okay.

So anywhere we have an embassy, probably. Probably. It's funny to assume that like imperialism is over when there's like the Philippines and Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands and all these places. Imperialism is, that is our economy. Yeah, it's just not outrightly. We're fake, fake capitalists. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but 100%. It's all war.

It's all war. Professor Bobo, I have a question. I'm going to change the subject. Please do. Colin, how can I help? If ghosts aren't real, how did the notion of them come into existence? It's the same concept as God and spirituality and anything else like that.

Just general CBGBs? Yeah, I think when people can't explain something, the first thing we do is jump to. Imagine being a Viking and seeing the Aurora Borealis. seeing the magnetic field of the earth creating a fraction of lights and of solar ions bouncing out of it. I would be like, I mean, it must be a dragon. Clearly, that's the word dancing. Yeah.

Of course. Of course. You don't know what lightning is. It's fucking Zeus throwing bolts. Right. Yeah. Of course. And that sounds cool.

So at that time, you're like, that sounds awesome. So then it becomes, oh my God, these two lovers were going to meet up at the, the woman died on this bridge when her car crashed and every anniversary she's there. When in reality, there's some... There was a... In Illinois, in the suburbs, there's this road called shoe factory road.

There was a thing where you would go and you would park your car on shoe factory road and park your car on the train tracks that crossed shoe factory road. You'd put your car in neutral and you would roll forward. Oh, yeah, we've got a gravity hill here in more park. And it was the kids. who died pushing.

Yeah, there's footprints on the back. Yeah, handprints on the dirt. How about that? We both have the same fucking thing. Yeah. A thousand miles apart. Except mine sounds real. Yeah, right, of course.

But it's uphill. That's the thing. Yeah, it looks uphill, but it isn't. No, it's uphill. Who do you think, do you think there's record of the first ghost story ever told? I mean, the first, like, thing is the, the, the record of Gilgamesh, right? So it's God, and I'm sure there's spirits in that.

Cyrus the Great supposedly saw a hand writing shit on the wall. He, like, hallucinated it. So, yeah, I'm sure. What did you say? Did he hallucinating? I don't know. Are there any, like, major historical figures with ghost stories out there? Like, has, was Lincoln ever like, oh, I saw a ghost?

interesting. I don't know. I don't, I don't actively. Finally stumped him. Yeah, baby. I just, you know what? That's truly a subject that doesn't interest me. Like spirituality and ghosts and shit like that. It's not spiritual. It's real. It's different. Okay. It's not the Holy Ghost. It's a real ghost. There has to be something. Yeah. I mean, I'm trying to think. It's like, obviously there's, like, yeah, I don't know if anything off the top of my head, but I'm sure. Oh, yeah. Caesar. Caesar was supposedly visited by the ghosts of his, his, ghosts of his family being like, you're a fucking failure. Like, get out there. Make Rome what it is, you know. And that just sounds like.

That sounds like Moulon. It's fucking. It's Christmas Carol. Yeah, it's, yeah, literally. It's nothing. But he reported this and he has a journal that's really super detailed, but it's all in the third person. It's really weird. It's like, on this day, Caesar, Maybe he just knew like this is going to be a banging ass. I better change the perspective. Just all fire. This is going to be a New York Times bestseller. Yeah.

I better write this differently. Interesting. Professor Boy, I have a question. Yes, Colin. What are your thoughts on the potential JFK Abraham Lincoln connection? I think it's just a cool. Do you know about these connections?

No. So like Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Lincoln. Lincoln was killed in a theater and then John Wilkes Booth ran to a book warehouse. Kennedy was shot from a book depository and then Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested

in a theater in Dallas. There's all these like interesting I think Lincoln's Secretary of State was named Kennedy. Kennedy had someone in his cabinet named Lincoln's shit like this. There's just like a lot of weird. And that's just most of those are just coincidental. Both assassins had three names.

Lee Harvey Oswald John Wilkes booth shit like that there's a few that are like interesting but I do not think there is anyone alive who could even write that script

right like it's so coincidental that you can't even make it out George R.R. Martin would be like come on there's just no way like it's just a crazy coincidence that two guys

who were murdered while in office people started noticing these things. So you would say fun coincidence only is all that. Yeah, yeah. Unfortunate coincidences probably. True. Now, Professor Bob, a question.

Yes, Colin. What recent, mysterious, or unsolved deaths do you think will be confirmed as political assassinations in the next 20 to 30 years? I would say Jeffrey Epstein is surely one. You have to be a fool to think that that man killed himself. I'd be very interested to learn about the Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, stuff. Do you know about that? There's something there. There's something there. I think this video will probably get like buried if we

mentioned what they were both investigating at that time. Oh, I don't know. It has to do with Jeffrey Epstein stuff. Ah. And they both. It's text-crafing. Yeah. Yeah. A specific kind. So there's-

Of something that rhymes with. With biners? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. They were both involved in, like, organizations to, like, help and save people, blah, blah, blah. And they both committed suicide and, like, kind of... And then...

And then, like, a year later... Yeah. And they were like... And now Chris haunts the MGM Grand Detroit. God. Lord knows he does. Haunting my winnings. So I think that'll be something...

I think whatever's going on, which is Lane, like, we don't... What's up with her? She died too, right? No, she's in jail. Yeah. Is that trial ongoing, or is she just, she's got her charges and that's it? Great question. I don't know.

I also think, like, the Vegas thing, Stephen Paddock, I think there's something up with that. I think even this, the recent assassination attempt on Trump is looking. Weird. His ear is looking fine. His ear looks great. Better than my. Yeah. And I, you know, I just don't, I don't know.

So I think maybe whatever happened to that kid might be questionable. I just think we never get the full story. Right. So I don't always jump to like, oh, it's, it was the FBI. They did this. They planned this. They did that. I just think like whatever we're shown can never be exactly.

Can never be the real thing. Never, ever. Right. And it's so easy now to feed whatever to us. Dude. You can go online and say anything. I just, right before we started, was on Twitter. and saw an AI video of Melania speaking out about the assassination attempt being set up by Trump.

But it was AI. Could you tell it was a? It took me a second. So the Facebook aunts, it would take a lot more than a second. Dude. Oh, my God. I'm seeing people who I thought were intelligent repost a thing that is like so, so visibly fake that it hurts me.

I like really don't fuck with Elon. I really don't fuck with like that whole mindset, that side of like whatever. One of the best things since he took over Twitter that has been implemented is the community note because. Oh, the community note is good, but a lot of, yeah, a lot of the time it's. Dude, can I disclose something to you? Yeah. During the head kick controversy, I applied to be a community note at.

editor to add a community note to anything and be like, Colin did kickbo, you know, like to fuck with it. But it's still pending. It's that. Really? Yeah, it's that backlogged. That my application is still pending because I met all the requirements. I was like, holy shit, I'm going to get this.

It's going to be so fucking good. I tried so hard. But then you would lie on the community now. Yeah, yeah. I'd get banned. I don't care. It's worth it. That's, I think is that liable?

I one slander is written I think so I think it's slander I think print is liable oh okay you're right you're right yeah so that would be libelous it's libelous you're so labellious dude my last question and I feel like this is something you'll have a lot of fun with okay what is a historical event a major historical event that most people today would have no idea completely changed their lives Wow. Other than COVID. COVID aside. Yeah. So I would normally jump straight to World War I, but I'll pick something else just for this, for redundancy sake. I don't know a whole lot about this,

but something that I do think is incredible. Living in Illinois, which has been a blue state my entire life and was a blue state long before, you know, up until the polarity switch when Democrat was kind of more Republican and blah, blah, blah. Which, when did that happen? I mean, it kind of happened in the 1800s, like a little bit, and then it really happened by Nixon. Because it really sucks. The whole, like, you know, Lincoln was Republican.

Yeah, Lincoln, and it's like, yeah, because they were liberals. It was just different, you know. Right. Yeah, people really don't know that. But truly, it was by Nixon is where the polls really switched. So that's when you'll start seeing Illinois going from Republican always to being Democrat always, until when I'm about to talk about, which was when Reagan first got elected, there were two blue states in the country. He won by a fucking landslide.

What were the blue states? I won. It was like West Virginia or something and Oregon or something. Okay. So they weren't rocking with Reagan. They were not rocking with Reagan. I think that's because they had people running who were from West Virginia or something. Something like that, you know.

A Bernie Sanders type situation. Yeah, yeah, precisely. It was so overwhelmingly like he's our guy, our Ronnie. And I don't think our, us and then our parents' generations have ever recovered from that. From Reagan being president. From Reagan taking over and being the first kind of like popularity winner. Right. Being a movie star.

Right. not really being a lawyer or a diplomat in any way, just kind of being like, ha-ha, you know. Because that's politics to this day. Yeah. Exactly. And we're paying for it, both literally with financial debt. Because also most things that we would complain about economically now,

you can kind of trace back to Reagan as well, right? 100%. Trickle-down economics, putting, taking tax breaks off the ultra-rich. or I'm sorry, taking taxes off of the ultra rich, giving breaks. Like, the other day, this is dark, but I had a couple insomnia nights the other day, the other week. The first night was like, wow, I am, I'm for sure going to rent every single day until I die. I'm never going to own a home. And then the next night was like, yeah, that means I'm going to work every single, in some form or another.

You and I are fortunate enough to work. This is our work. So I'm not, you know, I'm very thankful for what we do, but we'll have to do something. Yeah. Until the day I die. There's no retirement for 1099 guys. No, there's no 401K. There's nothing.

And Social Security will not exist either way by that time. Probably. And that is, Social Security is something that a Democrat made, by the way. That was FDR. But yeah. So I don't think, I think the, those of you who are listening who are like, yeah, I want buy a house either. Has a lot to do with some of the stuff that Reagan put into practice.

Not 100%, but a lot. And now, you know, we're seeing, you know, I wonder what the elections are going to be like in 20 years. Yeah. Will we have people who went to Harvard, whatever that means? You know what I'm saying? Or will it just be people who know how to do the renegade? Yeah, exactly.

And will it be the Rock versus Ted Nugent? You know, like what is it going to be kind of dark? A dark thought Dork Unversely dark thought Wow what a bummer to go out on Fuck Ronald Reagan This has been

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