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Why does the host start the episode talking about Spain’s World Cup win and Viking hype?
Radio Mano, Papachango.
What's up, ladies and gentlemen? First thing I wanna say is Viva Spania. Spain won their uh World Cup match today against Belgium. It was a wonder to behold, very happy. They're probably gonna get their asses handed to them by France, but uh I'm rooting for 'em anyway. Rootin' for Norway and their friendly Viking vibe. Isn't it amazing how time heals historical wounds? I remember uh I think it was um hardcore history. I forget Right now the host's name. I've had him on my podcast. Really nice Dan Carlin. Dan Carlin. Um He he started a a podcast, I think it was about the Mongols. He did a series on the Genghis Khan and and the other Khans. Khan Jr. and Khan the Third and Kublai and whatever they were. Um, he did um this series and he started off by
saying if you want to sell a lot of books but make everybody hate you, Write a book about the positive aspects of the Nazis, uh, in the thirties and forties, right? Germany. And um Because there were positive aspects, but whatever the positive achievements of Nazi Germany were are so overshadowed by the horror of the concentration camps and the war and the death and destruction and all that, that it's not um permissible to talk about them. But with the passage of time and Who knows how much time? I guess it's proportional to the intensity of the horrors inflicted. Um and also how many people are alive who have some personal memory of those horrors, right?
How does Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore History” example illustrate the fading memory of historic horrors?
I guess there are some people alive now who still remember uh World War Two to some extent. Let's see if it was let's say the early forties, that's eighty six years. So So if you're in your late nineties, you were maybe ten, so maybe you can remember. But the very last of the people who have any personal memory of World War Two are on their way out. At the moment. Anyway, Dan Carlin's point was That when nobody can remember How horrible it really was, the then it kind of opens up the space for conversation in a way that it isn't when there are enough people alive who remember it and who just don't want to hear any sort of um You know. On the other hand, you know, the trains ran on time or that kind of thing.
Anyway, the reason I mention all this is the Vikings. You know, the they're doing all these Viking rowing and they're wearing their horned helmets and It's all just kind of a cute, disnified, oh, aren't they funny thing whereas I don't know, when were the Vikings on the rampage and 1200, something like that. Man, if the fucking Vikings were coming ashore, th it was a bad, bad day when the fucking Vikings landed on your shores. Nothing cute or funny about it. But I guess we've got enough distance that we can talk about it now. But um yeah, I I read a totally incidentally. I read a a paper to this morning about genetic analysis of the people of Iceland and it turns out that there was a very um strong Gaelic component.
I think I think they said up to fifty percent and because of various population bottlenecks and population bottleneck is a very polite geneticist way of saying massacres and massive starvation. Um it decreased to around twenty five percent in the contemporary Icelandic population. Um but a lot of Gaelic Irish DNA in Iceland. Well why do you think that is?
What does the discussion about Viking raids reveal about modern perceptions versus historical reality?
You think it's because Irish fishermen were getting swept away and washing up on the shores of Iceland? No, it's because the Vikings Stopped in Ireland, raided the villages, killed all the men, and grabbed the women, threw 'em on the boats as slaves and or wives. I'm not sure what the difference between those concepts was in Viking culture. But um anyway they Absconded with lots of Irish women to Iceland. to the point where half the DNA was Gaelic at one point. Yeah. That's one way of Thinking about marriage and uh here's another way. Okay, I Somebody sent me a friend of mine sent me um This guy, he's he's some kind of Instagram influencer, grifter dude. Um, I just try to go to his website to see if he has any qualifications at all other than his certainty.
Um, but his website I keep getting an error message that it's
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Why does the host start the episode talking about Spain’s World Cup win and Viking hype?
0:00–2:37
2
How does Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore History” example illustrate the fading memory of historic horrors?
2:37–5:09
3
What does the discussion about Viking raids reveal about modern perceptions versus historical reality?
5:09–7:17
4
Why does Iceland’s genetic makeup show a strong Gaelic component and what does it tell us about Viking‑Irish interactions?
7:17–8:49
5
Who is Taylor Love and why does the host criticize his “male brain” dating advice?
8:49–9:22