Rudy talks about keto like it's chemotherapy

@lentilreflection2676

2 ай бұрын

LOL

@ethank.3201

18 күн бұрын

Ketotherapy

I actually like this better than the main channel for listening to while I work/workout, since I don't have to come running to screenshot a map or a graphic as much.

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

@UriahVoltaire

2 ай бұрын

Fucking classic

@notsocrates9529

2 ай бұрын

Really? >THIS IS JUST LIKE MY CAPEHERO GOYSLOP MOVIEARINOS AND HECKIN COMIC BOOKS!!!11!!

@tzar9395

2 ай бұрын

Just like the simulation!

@grabowski5348

2 ай бұрын

​@@notsocrates9529wrong website

@KingofScrapMetal

2 ай бұрын

Watch out for those wrist rockets! Damn, time to play that shit again

Erik, respectfully, what’s the point of being on the podcast if you just say “so what happened next” whenever Rudyard pauses? Do some prep or just let him solo it

@Smile4theKillCam456

2 ай бұрын

Brought this up in another comment. It’s so disorganized and ramble-y. It’s essentially just another WhatIfAltHist video on a separate channel, if you have an interviewer who doesn’t interview. Each of these is like the Vaush debate all over again. No structure, haphazard transitions, no overarching question or theme (other than a very, very general one). It’s just poor quality.

@LightningDoesStrikeThrice

20 күн бұрын

Was thinking the exact same. These "podcasts" are just Erik interviewing Rudy & provides no knowledge of his own so he's just useless 😂

@lopnezk1320

20 күн бұрын

It kind of creates a more relaxing atmosphere

Hannibal: "May you live in interesting times." Romans: "nuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Oh my god the awkward cuts had me laughing to tears.

@TheodoreRooseveltFighter

2 ай бұрын

Man needs his tea.

Rome is honestly a testament to importance of willpower in humanity. People who say willpower and determination aren’t factors in history just need to look at Rome. Rome often had so much stacked against them, and just didn’t give up. Their incessant determination and grit is truly remarkable, and almost unparalleled in history. It’s absolutely badass they didn’t surrender to Hannibal after Cannae. Any modern day country would’ve fallen in complete despair after losses like that. Rome’s determination is the best of the human spirit in that sense. Hard-nosed people like the Romans are the humans who survived the younger dryas, and gave rise to humanity when so many of our relatives went extinct. It reminds me of when I was reading the Silmarillion, which is the prequel to Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, where the High Elves of the Noldor are at war with Morgoth/Melkor (who is LOTR’s Lucifer). They win at the start and siege Angband for 400 years. In that whole time, they do nothing to finish the war or change the balance of power, and just grow comfortable in their realms and decadent. Meanwhile, Morgoth never gives up. He stays determined even after centuries of losses. And, after all that time, Morgoth crushes the Elves in just 2 battles. 1-The Dagor Bragollach, where he breaks the siege of Angband. And 2-The Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Battle of Innumerable Tears, where the Noldor counterattack. And after that, the Elves basically give up. They present no unified force against Morgoth, and stop fighting him, choosing instead to kill each other for the Silmarils. And Morgoth just picks them off 1 at a time until he conquers them all. In the Silmarillion, unlike in Lord of the Rings, the bad guys win. Morgoth crushes the Elves. And he’s only vanquished when the Elves cry enough to the Valar (the gods of middle earth), that the Valar literally invade and conquer Morgoth’s realm of Dor Daedaelos themselves, banishing him to the void. The Elves just gave up. I don’t think Rome would have. Frankly, it’s fun to imagine what Morgoth would’ve done if he had to deal with Rome. Rome would’ve never surrendered, and just kept hammering him forever. Rome was just on another level, and they could’ve stared Morgoth down with their determination. Insane. I guess that’s actually a key difference between LOTR and the Silmarillion. The Silmarillion was a battle between Morgoth and the Elves, while LOTR was one between Sauron and Men. And Men, unlike the Elves high and mighty as they were, had an inherent fire and will with their gift of mortality that the Elves didn’t have, and they won without having to literally having to ask the gods to bail them out. Rome is the furthest extension of that human spirit. And, if I were forced to choose a society to defend Earth from either an Alien invasion or AI invasion to wipe us out, I’d choose Rome.

@redwolf915

2 ай бұрын

Lol keep smoking that weed

@jamesanderson3633

2 ай бұрын

I can't believe I just read through all of that

@kingarthur1217

2 ай бұрын

Russia survived the worst atrocities due to the same reason

@karolswieboda1781

2 ай бұрын

I think it's a bad comparison, Morgoth was also a god, Hannibal was not.

@FallingPicturesProductions

Ай бұрын

When I'm in a 'sucking off Rome' match and my opponent is DarthHoosier3038

The tea chugging brakes are amazing. Love the mug my man

obligatory comment to fight the algorithm that is suppressing this channels subscriber growth

Rudyard randomly swinging his sword around as he is speaking is the funniest stuff ever.

Don’t feel like you guys need to speed through these. I would love to hear this episode go twice as long

I really like these series, but I would like for the host to put more effort into keeping some sort of chronological order.

been waiting for another one of these

Great video as always Eduardo

Amazing mind , everything make sense . French being from latin , can you relate how the language evolved after the Roman Empire . I'm french and I love history . Thank you for all you do ❤

Whatifalthist youre wrong! I caught you making a mistake! Hannibal wasnt captured in Syria in the Seleucid Empire as you said and showed on the map in 51:22 but in the kingdom of Bithynia, the brown right above it near the northern western egde of Anatolia. In the town of Libyssa to be precise. He was betrayed by king Prusias the 1rst of Bithynia who offered him sanctuary and allegiance in the beginning but later handed him over to the Romans. This king with the coordination and help of Hannibal also founded the city of Prusa (modern day Bursa in Turkey) which was named after him and which served as a significant stronghold of the Byzantines and later the Ottomans as one of their first capitals. About 8k greek bithynians remained in the city up until the end of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922 and it is the birth place of the most popular street food of both countries (greek gyro and turkish doner, which is the same thing but the greeks use pork meat while turks use beef meat... and even the words gyro and doner have the same meaning).

Father: "Son I need you to kill the Romans." 6 Month year old son: *Accepting baby noises*

If you're interested there's a beautiful channel called Schwerpunkt that deals pretty much in-depth especially with the rise of Rome and Romano-Italic warfare. I'd love to see you two cooperate

I think an underrated facet in the Rise of Rome is the demographics of Europe. A large part in why the Greeks expanded so much and had their golden age was because they had a population boom during their golden age. By the time of the rise of Rome, Italy had around 7 million people while all of europe had around 26 million at around the 1st Century BC.

Very helpful. Thanks.

The Greeks are to Romans, that which the Romans are to the Byzantines.. They kinda evolved and took off from each other

These are great videos! I hope you guys do an ancient Egyptian history video. Or kushites?? Or Sumeria Mesopotamia.

Good to see the birth of the small kingdom that facilitated the growth of the Catholic church

I have some skepticism that ancient peoples would salt the Earth on a large scale. Salt was very expensive in ancient times; it would be much cheaper to a run religious ceremony where a symbolic and modestly-size plot of land is salted. The remaining land is now forbidden to settlement by association.

10:06 Damn, we really are quite similar to the Roman Republic

Where can I find the Dan Carlin podcast about the Punic wars?

@tonyfriendly4409

2 ай бұрын

A Hardcore History following Hannibal Barca would be really cool!

@eloybox

2 ай бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the Punin Wars episodes on Carlin's channel?

Great show fella’s. Never miss an episode. A couple points of observation: Rudyard, not sure what the hell is growing out of shirt but found it super distracting lol! Either wax that shit or go button up and tie. Could be a good look for you anyway. Also, go get yourself one of those ol timey big chalkboards or something for you to interact with during the lecture since Eric isn’t much of a sparring partner. Which brings me to Eric. Definitely need some more from you. Maybe try bouncing alternative versions of events back at rudyard or just ask more questions. Even if you know the answer, ask them anyway because the viewer may not. Anyway, sorry for the harsh critique. Just love the show and want see you all succeed 😅

Please talk about the Celtic civilization next.

@phillipmcgarry

2 ай бұрын

That's less history and more archeology.

Rome is eternal

11:16 good info

I love this guy

I lost a lot of respect for WhatIfAltHist’s opinion after watching this video. I understand this was an impromptu monologue but there were so many errors. Here are just 3 glaring obvious ones. The Etruscans DNA isn’t linked to Asia Minor. Hannibal didn’t just turn one of Rome’s Allies. He turned the entire Po Valley, Capua, almost all of southern Italy and even Syracuse. His statements about Greek democracies being a thing of the past before they contacted Rome is just plain wrong.

18:47. Depends on what what "Hollywood" you are talking about. The early east coast or the later west coast industry.

Who up Risin they Rome rn

Respectfully but these videos need more of a centralized thesis/talking point because these videos tend to be all over the place also I would say research more into those topics because a lot of times in this video and others your glossing over very important details and sometimes are completely wrong in your analysis when your telling history. Even when your right it lacks structure that it makes no sense almost. I don’t mean to be rude or disrespectful I completely love your videos on sociology and anthropology as well as political theory and even philosophy and religion but history isn’t your strong suite which is why I say this. Again my intent isn’t to be negative for negatives sake but to hopefully make your videos better in terms of historical analysis, structure in relating history correctly, and being more cohesive in your narrative for the video. Much love no hate

is this reupload?

Um, The Roman Military after the Samnite wars was so overpowered, with only the armies of the Germanic tribes, Dacian tribes, Nomadic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe, the Arabic tribes, and the Sassanid Persian Empire being able to face the Romans in battle pretty equally.

The longer you listen, the more you can’t help but notice the massive intellectual gap between these two

No sound, or is it just me

@theredknight9314

2 ай бұрын

Just you

@weird_life

2 ай бұрын

How is it that some people have sound and others don't

@deanrobb9220

2 ай бұрын

Force shut the app and come back.

@ihk2421

2 ай бұрын

Not me.

@minutemanchan7232

2 ай бұрын

that's just youtube adblock for you. reload the page

Good stuff, but poor organization.

I love how he's just an enthusiastic Spergertist in Little Kid Mode. Life should be more like that.

What happened to the old guy

How do you feel about the Gracchi bros?

I'm looking forward to the Spanish Empire!

You skipped the sack of Rome by the Gauls, which was vital for giving Rome its teeth.

I wish you didn't have such a short time limit for these videos. I don't mind the rambling format, but it's hard to hit every point in such a short form

Re-read Polybius Book 6 - Polybius argued that Rome's political system was key to its rise because it was a 'mixed constitution' with monarchical, aristocratic, and democratic elements, preventing/delaying the instability of the anacyclosis. Some scholars argued the Republic was a democracy (e.g. Millar) Polybius definitely did not. Hope this isn't seen as nitpicking/well akshually bad faith criticism as I do like some of your videos and get the usefulness of a macro/breadth focus. But these types of errors (some mentioned in other comments) create concern about rigour/Gell-Amnesia effect in the building blocks of these macro points.

0:44 Knew it

hot take: the romans were the closest thing to the ubbermench ever. the only rules they followed (at their peak) were the ones that mantained the vigor and strength of theis character and nothig more

43:31 It was also incredibly common in ancient warfare that after a total battle like Cannea, the losers'd sue for peace. sieges were horrible for both sides and if Hannibal succedeed it surely meant rape and slavery for the entire population of Rome. But like you mentioned, Rome didn't believe in losing. So like a mythical hydra dragon you keep chopping off heads and it doesn't stop fighting. It makes sense that Hannibal aimed to turn the allies against Rome or atleast capture some ports for contact with Carthage. In my reading experience it felt like Hannibals failure to capture a port like Neopolis or Carthage's lack of support was more to blame. Mainly the identity of Carthage being a trading company, and the barca family the only succesfull military branch is what caused failure in the end. also the fact that he wasnt able to join forces with his brother.. I do really enjoy your view on what makes empires like Rome or Macedon great is that they bordered Giants and therefore were forced to adapt and overcome. the celts and carthage almost destroyed Rome, but they also made it, and without them Rome might have collpased without strenght (teeth) like someone else commented. great video!

I thought he used the mug as a joke but he probably drinks 1liter of coffee and needs a huge cup😅

I seem to remember Livy wrote a decent history of Rome as well.

32:34 Hans-Hermann Hoppe has entered the chat

Do an Africa one next.

@MeanBeanComedy

2 ай бұрын

Which part? 😬😨 That's a *big* topic.

@yux.tn.3641

2 ай бұрын

you mean like Mali Empire or talking about Mansa Musa?

@jon9428

2 ай бұрын

I do an Africa a day right before lunch

@Pattern_Noticer

13 күн бұрын

They "invented" mud and used it to make hovels and never invented the wheel. Should cover around the past 2 millennia.

You’d have to go back a very long ways to find a time when Rome “just a small town by the Tiber.” Going back as far as the late Bronze Age Rome has been the central transportation and trade hub for central Italy. Due to this Rome was likely one of the largest and grandly adorned cities in the Mediterranean by the mid 6th century BC.

two different coffee cups in a short amount of time

My guy drinking milk

No sound

Take the idea that future empires lie on the periphery of existing large strongmen countries, what could the next future empire be after the US is finished it's 4th turning?

He made a stunning and brave joke lol

Honorary comment to fight the algorithm

The dating of the Trojan War is actually 650 BC not 1200 BC. The etruscans came from Phrygia in circa 800 BC. Brutus (who Britain is named after) was like the grandson or great grandson of the king of Troy. In circa 500 BC he left Rome and then went to Troy and Then went to Britain where he became king. (the surviving Trojans fled there to seek refuge with a people who were only separated from them by a couple hundred years and they spoke the same language) this was taught as historical fact until the 1700s in England and until early 1900s i think in wales. Not only does the genetic evidence back this up but the language does as well. You can use welsh to read Etruscan. You can use welsh to read Egyptian hieroglyphics as well. Go to britains hidden history on KZread for the better details.

@YoungChunds

2 ай бұрын

Bro you are brain dead. Homer is likely to have written Iliad in the 9th or 8th century bce, yet he somehow wrote about a Trojan war that hadn’t even happened yet??? Troy fell at the end of Bronze Age 12th century bce my guy. This is the brain rot you receive when everything you know about history comes from fringe youtube videos

18:00 somewhere there you mention that polygamie weakens a society, but the Parthians and the Sasanians where that and they did not weaken that much. They got even stronger in Time.

I love black people

Lore of Explaining the Rise of Rome momentum 100

THE BYZANTINE'S WE'RE BETTER THAN THE WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

Byzantines so underrated.

Guys, improve the sound and the decor. Please. And do something about the back and forth too.

20:29 these historical anachronisms make it hard to take Rudyard's opinions on all this too seriously. You really gotta take everything he's saying with a heaping of salt He's largely very correct but he just can't escape his modernist lens when comparing their political and cultural systems to ours

53:15 When Rome went wrong and stopped being a good country because they committed genocide but more importantly broke its word 😂

@hannibal-rb3go

2 ай бұрын

Julius Caesar: Why not both

I can’t speak for the genetic but the Etruscan language is in no way related to any language in Anatolia that we know of.

16:42 awkward lol

I really hate the intro music on these videos.

It's really hard for me to watch Rudyard anymore since he spent ten minutes of his "incel revolution" video listing all of the ways that he's not an incel and has sex all the time.

@hismajesty6272

2 ай бұрын

Well he was stuck either way really. If he says he isn’t one, then he’s coping, if he says he is one, than nobody would hear him out.

@raymond_sycamore

2 ай бұрын

@@hismajesty6272 yeah, you're right. I just didn't need it rubbed in my face that HE gets a bunch of tail and I can't.

Dude this what if nerd is losing his marbles little By little

Yeah... I don't think the romans knew what socialism was. 😬

@phillipmcgarry

2 ай бұрын

Never heard of the Gracchus brothers?

@Jan-nk5jl

3 күн бұрын

@@phillipmcgarry Socialism was invented in the 18 hundreds.

Good stuff, but shave your chest

It's a fake video

@notsocrates9529

2 ай бұрын

You're a fake video.

@tirididjdjwieidiw1138

2 ай бұрын

care to explain why?

@brycebranch9639

2 ай бұрын

@tirididjdjwieidiw1138 mostly joking because I got here so fast. No sound for me

@jamesleyda365

2 ай бұрын

No! Actually explain it dude🏴‍☠️

@brycebranch9639

2 ай бұрын

@@jamesleyda365 I don't have sound

Very disorganized, without much flow or a central guiding point. It was essentially an unmoderated rant. Please give yourself a central thesis to center all talks around, and if you’re going to have two of you there, make sure the other speaks or moderates. This isn’t to get into the fallacious history either- which I won’t get into, but if you guys wanted to keep us hooked, please stay on task. Even asking like: “Hey you brought up Roman influence on Architecture, why don’t you expand on that a bit?” Then make sure you answer just that point, rather than going off on a tangent. EDIT: 22:08 - 25:05 (roughly), is what I mean when he doesn’t stay on track. It’s not pertinent to the previous question asked, and just comes off as disorganized.

@user-yr6zi3rh4p

2 ай бұрын

Feel free to make the video yourself and show this established, popular content creator how it’s done. Clearly you are the expert.

@ChrisxXxNB

2 ай бұрын

I agree he is great at sociology and anthropology but pretty bad at structuring a retelling of history

@Smile4theKillCam456

2 ай бұрын

@@user-yr6zi3rh4p I’ve worked in video production before, I do know a bit. But regardless, just watch a 5 minute segment: Rudyard dots from the Greeks, back to the Romans, then onto America with tenuous connections to either, at best. It really seems like a stream of consciousness ramble better suited for one of his videos than a separate, interview for un-established channel with a moderater to keep him on track. This isn’t WhatIf I’m commenting on, this isn’t exactly “established”, nor does it seem like Rudyard is running this channel (Rather, the other gentleman). As for the historicity, that’s an altogether separate argument that I won’t get into, but I will say the arguments for Roman Slavery are vastly oversimplified and inaccurate. Now, I will totally admit that my doctorate isn’t in this: ask me anything about Early Modern New England and I can assure you I have the academic and professional background to answer, but I do have colleagues who study the Classics and I’d gladly show them this to discuss things a bit further.

@user-yr6zi3rh4p

2 ай бұрын

@@Smile4theKillCam456 implying that you have authority to speak on content creation because you’ve “worked in video production before” is the equivalent of saying you’d make a competitive NFL quarterback because you once sold peanuts in the stands at a stadium. This is one of the first few episodes of a show that is meant to come off as unscripted, conversational, and casual. Something to have on while you’re cleaning around the house, working outside, or driving. It’ll be clunky and scattered at first, sure… but that will bake into the charm of what this show will be when it finds its bearings, without ending up feeling overproduced or try-hard. I don’t think anyone is tuning in to these little episodes expecting to witness a symposium of professors and credentialed historians. Not everything is going to be Ph.D level accurate when a host is just speaking from raw recollection. Far different from a researched and edited video-essay format. Anyone who puts this type of content out can only strive to be as true to the facts as possible, provide an adequate introduction to certain subjects, spark interest, and inspire viewers to dig deeper into the events/eras/figures themselves. I think this series does just that.