sword
how to get killed in the middle ages
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Two years on and people are still throwing you money and going back in time to see what you had to say way back when. Bonus! I am alive because my roommate had a sword and the presence of mind to use it during a break in. Damn near cut a dude's hand off.
I fully want to be a sword lesbian, but my heart yearns for the pike.
That's not very Gideon the Ninth of you.
I don't own any swords, but I have re-enacted sword combat with the SCA
And just to be comprehensive (not like this will be noticed down here, under 200+ comments) but I've got my own, not remotely funny podcast you can follow for $3 USD: patreon.com/dr_violence And thank WTYP pod for making that possible (but don't thank the current employment environment for academics)
Imagining Medieval Joe Rogan like: “wow that’s crazy! Ever tried eating rye bread with ergot in it?”
It’s 2023 and Andrew Tate is in deep shit in Romania.
Was this recorded in a vehicle with a turbo diesel?
turbine engine repair facility (or laptop fan)
Give Liam the Miata he needs, cowards.
Love having Anno Domini/Common Era split goysplained to us. Anyone who insists on continuing to use AD instead of CE ought to get used to reading years written 5783.
Hearing Roz say “we will never listen to comments” briefly awoke something terrible in me. I normally try to be very courteous and helpful when I comment, but for just a moment, I felt called to the dark side to comment something absurdly rude for no reason.
@Katie use NewPipe. not a good workaround but oh well
Any chance of an RSS feed for the patreon?
Can we get an rss? I only listen to audio and it really sucks that I have to have YouTube open (bad) or buy YouTube premium (worse) if I want to listen to these on my phone :/
I also own a few swords, Alice. An Albion Talhoffer and a Valiant Armoury Bristol, plus a Regenyei Federschwert. I intended to start practicing some longwsword with a couple of schools in the southeast US around the start of 2020, but then the pandemic happened. They mostly hang on the wall now.
Would be nice if there was an rss
yes
You know, l pulled The Great Race out of the Library after it got name checked in... the Le Mains episode(?). Kinda weird how Rocz's favorite movie is a piece of pro-car propaganda
I recently reread "A Distant Mirror", and I'm pretty sure the troubadour is Bertrand de Born.
yes
"We should do the MOVE bombing." ~Liam Anderson
Spears remained active battle field usage until we finally? stopped equipping all soldiers with bayonets.
Nice episode on an interesting topic. Histotical polearms when? Swords are for the bourgeoisie, putting a sharp bit of metal on a stick has much more proletarian character. I've recently had a dumb idea of trying to make a wakizashi (japanian short sword), just to see if i could and also i reckon it would propably be a semi-decent machete type thing. Got as far as researching tool steels (expensive and hard to get for non business buyers) and comparing local heat treat options (not as expensive, but no one wants non business clients). Quess i'll just get some hardox or some other through hard plate, wire edm the blade and call it good. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea please tell me.
You don't need to go full metallurgy nerd to make a decently workable sword/machete. You also don't really need that much stuff to do your own heat treating but it does help to have a forge big enough to get the whole blade in and an oven big enough for the blade too. I'd recommend starting with profiling and grinding a smaller knife and working up from there. You can find 1080 or higher carbon steel in convenient sizes for this stuff from diy knife supply places. You also definitely don't need to use anything fancy like wire EDM because you don't need to harden until after you've profiled and rough ground your bevels. The tool you really need for this project is a good grinder setup, I love the 2x72 belt grinder; so versatile. But just watch a shitload of youtube videos about how to grind and heat treat a sword and you can probably make that happen. Here's a place that'll ship you reasonable sizes of good steel for the project: https://popsknife.supplies/collections/steel/products/1084?variant=31476525432866
I also do not have an accountant
I own two swords!
AFAIK Goetz von Berlichingen is also credited with inventing the phrase "kiss my ass" - although in a more filthy German style "...kann er mich am Arschloch lecken".... Dunno if he also did the finger with his metal hand, but it would have rocked!
Allegedly it is "im Arsch", so even better.
I'm walkin on crab meat - woah oh woah!
You know, my Accounting Professor is always talking about wanting new clients for his accounting business. Wonder if I could refer him to you guys and get a commission $$$
Loved the talk about surviving all the edged weapons of the medieval world. I wonder if Liam ever went to Higgins Armory in Worcester Mass before it closed. Cool museum in a cool building.
Loved the episode, sad it’s over
Five minutes in, I am beginning to get mad on behalf of Historical Polearm Sickos.
at 11:15: okay here we go.
Regarding the bit at the end about the camel charge into Tahrir Square: I know a gay Egyptian (now married to a friend) who was there on that day and was very lucky not to lose an eye because the camel guy's blade was glancing off the frontal bone above his eye.
So glad y'all are back. Great topic 8D
Liam fumbling his Press pass and Secret Police badge until he gets into the museum.
Great episode, here's another Sword Guy https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/hartford-sword-homicide-trnd/index.html
Wait, there's a Tractor Museum?!?
Why does it sound like someone has a jet engine spinning up and down in the background? lol
probably a washing machine
This poor guest.
I'm reminded of this exchange from "The Lion in Winter": John: A knife! He's got a knife! Eleanor of Aquitaine: Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!
Do you need someone to transcribe the show?
Should add drachinifel's latest show to wtyp playlist as honorable mention https://youtu.be/VzCk7lc0ooQ
it makes money cause podcast go brrrrrrr
The mid ep reveal that Mark was not an invited guest expert wading through the jokes and crosstalk but a guest expert who knowingly threw his hat into the ring…💀
"this is a wound man" pffft lucky the pod got an expert on. Alice the NAME is "soldier" not "wound man"
Regarding calendrication: I’m surprised Alice didn’t suggest that the episode was about swords prior to roughly 1,000 ***AH***.
Stabby-stabby, bleedy-bleedy; fun for all the family!
HEMA practitioner here. Can't wait to share this episode to amuse/annoy people who take swords too seriously. Great work!
Sword expert is above reacting to a Highlander joke.
You and mates Vs armour dude. Get your billhooks and coppice that bitch.
Billhooks are the way to go for the discerning defencer
Slightly dissapointed that no Warhammer 40K chainswords were discussed as potential evolution of the sword
exactly! And what about the power swords?
I love episodes of boANUS 🙃
What swordcery is this?
Well, I'm here now. You got me with sword episode. well done
Yay Academic ambiguity!
soard boanous
Sword bad. Spear good
to answer Rozz's usual socratic question of what is sword, it is a pointy stick except made of metal, and you hit people with it like a regular pointy stick, only its sharp
But what about the wooden sword staff of the people of Crete during Byzantine Empire? When metal is too expensive, people have to adapt.
I lived in Skane the province of Sweden where Visby is , the place is so Danish that their dialect of Swedish is basically Danish . So yeh fully the same people .
vafan dillar du om
Being in unbearable heat is a mood.
For transcriptions, I'm happy to help out; I'm hearing disabled so I'm well aware of what's good to include in a podcast transcription specifically, and I've transcribed stuff for a few jobs in the past as well. I'd be glad to do a couple episode transcriptions so you can see my work, figure out if you're OK with me doing it or not. Where can I send you my email or something?
Sword sherp, sword cut.
Sword Trains.
Starting out wondering why people throw money at this podcast when the obvious answer is cause the podcast costs 2 bucks a month despite inflation.
The perfect Bonus episode to listen to with my HEMA gf
The podcast gods smile upon us this day.
I started a new job with a local government public works department and my goal while I learn how to be a cip pm is to never be worthy of an episode.
And I'm sorry your transcriptionist and accountant ran off together.
Thank God, I'm just about to time travel and needed a quick way out.
Aw sweet! I love getting killed
I was more than happy to see this as a bonus episode. I'm pretty sure I know who's episode this is lmao.
Do you need someone to transcribe? I've transcribed interviews for work so I could help you out with that.
Fuck yes
There was four minutes of the first 20 seconds? Release the liam cut!
real
sword
:D Yay
Damn I just now finished the regular ep yall spoiling us this week thanks its been a weird one