September 23, 2026

BONUS EPISODE: The French Wars of Religion: Part 5

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Part 5 brings us a very important and horrible question: What outbreak of mass violence could be so bad that even Ivan The Terrible thinks you've gone too far?

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Jesse Gilman · September 28, 2026

Every time Nate talks about Ranger School in winter I have flashbacks

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Lea Hyvönen · September 28, 2026

Joe saying "I got to go to the brothel" very excitedly around 2.35 needs to be clipped

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Noah Bruckner · September 27, 2026

Man I wish Nate didn’t stop them because I’m sure somebody would have started free styling

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Brittney With An E · September 27, 2026

I cant speak for everyone but re: Nate's comments at the end, you have *some* younger fans lol I am in my late 20s and thus younger than Tom.

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Harry Evans · September 26, 2026

The closest thing in existence to the Barry Lyndon Wu-Tang Clan is the Viz comic strip "The Diary of Samuel L. Pepys"

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Benergy · September 25, 2026

He is an American Soldier.

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I P Freely · September 25, 2026

Joe out here straight jorking it in a volcanic sense

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Zesty · September 25, 2026

Yep. I can still remember the sailors creed from the Navy. I don't think it'll ever leave my head

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Zesty · September 25, 2026

And when I worked at Dominos beforehand. WOW thank you for coosing Dominos pizza, where we LOVE our customers. My name is X, how may I help you? I haven't worked there in 15 years

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Alisha Downs · September 25, 2026

I had HFM last year too—it was awwwwful! My kiddo was fine too, tho 🙏 Am also an insufferable history nerd so I’m gunna go check out the discord after this!!

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NowhereMan661 · September 24, 2026

I'm surprised that the Soldiers Creed doesn't rhyme, that just makes it more difficult to remember. Another win for the PVA and their poetry orders!

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Al · September 23, 2026

It's never good when Joe goes, "Mm hmm."

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Luke Connelly · September 23, 2026

Once again, it was the Borgias, Lucretia and her brothers who were known for incest. The Medicis were bankers.

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Gil the Gilded Dragon · September 24, 2026

AND Kings-in-all-but-name of florence AND popes. thy have 3 (checked they have between 2 and 4) Hyuge Bridgemakers and a couple handfuls of cardinals. as to the incest... like the Borgia get slandered overmuch because the papacy had been passed around the preeminent families of Rome, so tis Valencian taking the blessed bench gets him and especially his daughter gets treated way more cattily than is warranted. Lu seems to not liking noxious Zar being near herself

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Gil the Gilded Dragon · September 23, 2026

That dude in NYC's soul went "oh shit not again. Previously he'd been a Huguenot getting railed by a bell ringing friar in notredame. Hung like a horse & he was saved because the mob thought he was getting stabbed. Before that was a handy in Pompey, & before that the 1610 BCE Santorini caldera