This week starts with Taylor taking us through the craziest year in English history - 1066. It started with King Edward the Confessor yelling ‘It was meeeeee’ - just kidding - he died (and probably confessed to a Priest right before). Anyway! Now lots of people think they are the heir to the throne and they start to fight for it from all shores of the British Isles. There are Vikings, there are Normans, there’s Haley’s Comet! It’s wild, and by Christmas, a new King will be crowned starting a whole new era. Photos via the Creative Commons & Midjourney Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomedtofailpod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/doomedtofailpod Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@doomedtofailpod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomed.to.fail.pod Email: doomedtofailpod@gmail.com
This week starts with Taylor taking us through the craziest year in English history - 1066. It started with King Edward the Confessor yelling ‘It was meeeeee’ - just kidding - he died (and probably confessed to a Priest right before). Anyway! Now lots of people think they are the heir to the throne and they start to fight for it from all shores of the British Isles.
There are Vikings, there are Normans, there’s Haley’s Comet! It’s wild, and by Christmas, a new King will be crowned starting a whole new era.
Photos via the Creative Commons & Midjourney
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Sources:
Battle of Hastings | History Hit
The British History Podcast - episode 391 - https://www.thebritishhistorypodcast.com/the-main-show/
The entire Bayeux Tapestry -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry#/media/File:Tapisserie_de_Bayeux_31109.jpg
Hi Friends! Our transcripts aren't perfect, but I wanted to make sure you had something - if you'd like an edited transcript, I'd be happy to prioritize one for you - please email doomedtofailpod@gmail.com - Thanks! - Taylor
there we go we are formerly officially recording um Taylor it's Sunday how's your weekend
been great we got to spend the day in Big Bear yesterday
um which was super super fun we went to the Big Bear Zoo we went to the lake the
kids went swimming in the lake they loved it um yeah it was super fun I I saw the I don't even know if it was
Instagram or Facebook or what it was but I saw the pictures and it did look really really fun is that like Arrowhead or is that a different Lake
okay I confuse it Big Bear Lake yeah I don't know what their head is but it's only like an hour and 20 minutes from
here and it's just like a totally different environment it was like kind of cool weather-wise and there's pine
trees and yeah it was fun yeah it's good to be out in nature I went to a concert on Friday
Slender Bodies
um and it just reminded me of how old I am like I was there and like I my my hairline is
about to touch the back of my neck and my beard is white and every there was
just like so young and just like jumping up and down I was like does your back hurt when
you do that what concert did you go to what was it it's called Slender bodies it's two guys
who I think are siblings and it was very very fun you should watch some of their
music videos because I mean I'm not trying to shame anyone but one of the guys is like not great looking and one
of the other guys is like a very good looking dude and watching them perform live I was like oh so you're literally
here because like your mom told you you have to let the good bookie One play with you because all the talent is
anyone that's not that good looking the guy can sing like a incredible came up
with lyrics all this is the Beats everything the brother is just sitting there like just like trying to look hot
and like doing like the you know smooch kiss lips I don't know I guess I have I we've
talked about this I have white man with a beard face blindness um they look the same to me
they're just too bad guys with a beard look exactly the same uh
okay yeah okay so the images that I'm finding I get it yes uh the guy with the
glasses was like he looks very different in person like he was probably about 100 pounds heavier than
he shows here with like a really gritty looking beer like he's like he's clearly been on the road and enjoying himself
you know yeah good for him so anyways went to that realized that I'm too old and I
should just I mean um it's also like we were in Austin like 12 years ago maybe and like so a long
time ago and we were at a bar and my sister and I were hanging out and then like Juan went to get us drinks and he
was waiting behind the bar or behind someone at the bar and the girl in front of him turned around looked at one
and then turned back to her friend and said that guy is so old he was like 29. yeah well there yeah I can't even
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imagine what people were thinking when seeing me there like trying to like I was doing the robot I was doing the
robot I was crushing I was doing the robot side to side left to left up down Grease the motor
is available can you believe it amazing so anyways yeah that was good and then
uh made some smoke some meat yesterday and just chilled so it was uh it was nice it was nice nice very cool but
let's go ahead and kick things off welcome to Doom to fail I'm farz this is Taylor we are covering a historical
thing today today yeah and we'll do the true prime one on
Wednesday so we I guess we'll start with me uh describing what I'm gonna be drinking so my story is going to take us
to India oh it's cool I know I know impressive right and because of that and
because I tried it for the first time this morning I'm gonna go with a dirty chai latte oh how was it it was really
good was it I kind of feel like why why am I drinking this potpourri
whenever I'm drinking chai but but it's like spice it's like this Indian spicy I
thought it was great and uh great awesome good for you
congratulations on expanding your horizons as far as what are you drinking Taylor well I'm
gonna I think I've done it before I'm physically drinking coffee but I I do very much I had some Mead because I'm going back
I'm going medieval again so we're going to go further back and I just I know that they had wine but I really I feel
like meat is the medieval drink and like a goblet yeah meat meat sounds um meat sounds like something it's Hardy it's
very Hardy it's something you have when it's cold outside there's groups at the
gate the drawbridge is up and you're drinking Mead yeah I definitely drink meat in London
um we bought it at the Tower of London and drank it on a boat on the times so it was like so much very very fun when I
did like a two-week study abroad in London and grad school so that's where I am right now that's my vibe I remember you remember
that um that place in um oh my God it had to be it had to be Hollywood right the German place the only German place
that there was was like a like a brewery type thing we ever go there together I
don't think so yeah ping pong tables they just go there and play ping pong well anyways winter times were always
fun to go there because they always had that like warm wine muddle wine or whatever yeah I love mulled wines I have
like a big um like a big strainer that you fill with spices then you put it in the pot with the wine and then the sugar and the
juice and then I'm the only one who drinks it so then all of a sudden everyone else is like oh I'm sipping on
this wine and I'm like I've had seven bottles of wine like what's going on everyone this is just delicious juice what is wrong with you so you got to
share that with me whenever it gets cold because I I would love to be the household that just always smells like warm one
I love it and actually for Florence's birthday oh I did um cider with the mulled wine ball and I
just filled it with spices like extra spices and apples and oranges and then I had Honey whiskey let me mixed Honey whiskey with the cider and it was
delicious I think that's just a hot toddy oh I know hot daddy is whiskey and tea
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anyway it was cider well well I'll absorb that they probably drank that in this in
these times as well as well so um did you look at my timeline yet that I shared yeah it's incredible thank you
isn't it fun so there's like the big space in the Middle where it's interactive it's on our link tree if everyone wants to see it you can click
on it and kind of hover over the bubbles to see it goes in order of um the the newest or at the top or
oldest episodes are at the bottom but then it does like the timeline of the years and so there's a big gap in the
middle obviously that I can see so I wanted to bring us back to the year 1066
and talk about the Battle of Hastings okay um so if you are British
which you're not even though you were born in the UK right I identify as
British because women like British men more than non-british men 100 True
um so if you are a British person and you hear the word the number 1066 I
imagine they're like oh my God that's the year like that is the year British history it so much happened in 1066
people [ __ ] love it I listened to for this episode I listened to some podcasts
um one called the British History Podcast it's just called British history it's by an American dude who does not I
was surprised that he did not have an English accent but his episodes are all different lengths I
don't I mean this was like episode 300 of his but it was three and a half hours long about the Battle of Hastings and he
had like it was really well produced but he had like the same song that would play over and over again when stuff forget like really tense and so you'd
like he was the same song over and over again and then he'd have other music that was like in the different times and
then at the very end I was driving in Joshua Tree National Park to pick up my kids from Camp so I'm by myself in this
like big beautiful Park and I'm looking at the like the monitor in the car and I'm like
there's only two minutes left of this podcast like I know what's gonna happen but it hasn't happened yet you know and
I'm like what is gonna happen so I'm listening I'm like do I have it wrong is it like a part two that I don't know about and it ends with a slash and it
sounds like blood splatter and then it goes into the song The hello darkness my
old friend and that's it I was like I yelled I screamed and like put my hand in my mouth and gasped because it was
such a good ending of like uh the guy died so it was super good I'll
link to it um I also uh purchased a subscription to history hit which we follow on Instagram
and is you know um I think mostly British history but a lot of like medieval history
documentaries that kind of thing so I watched some of those um so those were all those are all great
um there was some stuff on History hit about um just Medieval Times like living in
this time so talking about how you know people are religious but they're not necessarily
like prudes like you think that they are people are always having sex you know it's just like not what you write down right for the most part
um there also was a fun not fun with the church
um this is a Catholic time so the churches obviously has like their dumb roles and one of the rules was like you can never be naked because like being
naked it can like lead to sinful things so I imagine that like
what the Catholic Church okay but in this like everyone's really
stinky as well so I know we talked about that a lot before but you know it's a real gross time if history like never naked I
would for sure be a prude if I wasn't during that time like who even just yourself the smell of yourself how do
you how would you even get turned on like it's yeah everyone's doing it I mean if everyone
smells that way then like how do you even know that it's not bad you probably get used to it that's true sometimes I walk into my house after I've been away
for a while I'm like I should really start leaving the windows open okay [Laughter]
um but you know we talked about um this time as well I think I don't know when we talked about it but like no
one's ever really clean no one's ever really healthy you know it's just like a whole a time where it's like it's rough being
alive is rough during this time it's also like technically the medieval period which is technically like some of
the Dark Ages but as as we've also talked about before you don't say Dark Ages anymore because like [ __ ] was
happening this wasn't nothing you know and stuff was happening all over the world um but 1066 is a big year for Britain so
we're in Britain and um how do we know what happened a thousand years ago so that's something I also
freak out about a lot is like oh it's on this piece of pottery or whatever so there are some records
um some like Municipal records from different towns um the invading armies in this time were
taking like censuses because they were planning to tax people so there's some things like that um William the Conqueror he's the one
who ended up winning he wrote a book or he had someone write a book for him like 20 years later called the Doomsday
Book which is super cool that has like the history of of his conquest of of the
the area but mostly it's from a tapestry so there's a tapestry called The Bayou
tapestry spelled b-a-y-e-u-x to like French word it is
it's 20 inches tall so like
and it's 230 feet long so it's like super short like so long so it on
Wikipedia you can like click on it and it'll show you the whole thing and it's like a tiny little line on your screen
and you can like zoom in and go all the way through it but that's how we know what happened in this battle it's literally like a hand embroidered
step-by-step of what happened and that's what we're using which is cool people spend their whole lives again studying
this they're like obsessed with it like oh what does this stitch mean or like there's one where one guy is next to a
boat and he's like touching the boat they're like is he touching the boat or is he not touching the boat I don't know
and you're like oh my God how are we ever gonna find out but that was um when I was in um when I was
in Dublin there's this thing called The Book of Kells which I didn't have I'd never heard of before but it was at Trinity College which I went to visit
I saw it yeah wait you went you actually saw it at Trinity College yeah
oh yeah okay so it sounds like that because you look at that thing and it's like ever there's like these people that
just stare at this thing and wonder like why does why did this thing like why did this letter look this way it must have
Edward the Confessor
been a different scholar that did it was that scholar related to this it's like wormhole
no exactly so like we don't [ __ ] know anything I don't know how we know anything but like yes a lot of this is from this tapestry and like from these
old like these old documents that you're saying these like that's exactly what you think all those beautiful like illuminated documents
that are like you know painted really pretty and all that so the bio tapestry shows the conquest of
England by the Normans that's where we get a lot of this it all happens in the one year 1066. I was actually typing
this earlier and Miles who's just learning how to read he's six he he was like you keep writing 1066 over and over
again and I was like yep that's the year so all happens in this one year in the very beginning of the year on
January 6th the king of England Edward the Confessor dies with no air
so he was the he was an Anglo-Saxon King so you know like English you hear
English ankle Saxons they ruled England post the Roman Empire from the year 450
until 1066. so he's like the second to last Anglo-Saxon King and Edward the
Confessor had a wife but no kids and everybody's name in this is like super fun so like Edward the Confessor
obviously that's like saying that he's very religious like very Pious that's what it means but I also hope
it's a little bit where he's like I did it it was me and you're like oh my God you couldn't have done everything Edward you know I know he seems like a Meek
like sad guy he's just like can you blame me like who's who spilled the juice oh it was me
The Confessor
there's one that was like someone like the undecided or something and I feel
like I wish that like that was just because you like didn't want to go out to dinner with him you know you'd be
like where do you want to be like oh and you'd be like oh my God like you're I can't you're so annoying so
it was a Confessor he spent some of his life in Normandy Normandy is in is in
France and he was exiled there but then came back to England and became king he was King for about 30 years he built he
built Westminster Abbey where I'm sure you've been there until have I so like
um he built that he was obviously very religious there were some people who took some like pilgrimages to Jerusalem
for him um and he was married to a woman named Edith but they did not have any children although that's because for whatever
reason they didn't have kids no one really knows why um did you I can't remember if you watched House of
the Dragon did you no I never got around to that one okay well there's a part spoiler alert we're like the King dies
and does this deathbed confession that is like [ __ ] at best
you know he like says something to someone that you think I think he thought it was someone else and like
whatever and it like ruins everyone's life because he like said one thing and like his like delirium of being about to
die which is almost exactly what happens now so he Edward the Confessor dies and on his deathbed he says that he wants
Harold Godwin who is his wife's brother to become king so like who knows if that's what he
really wanted but that's what he said allegedly on his Deathbed I don't know Harold himself it sounds
Harold Godwin
like Gladiator where it's like coincidentally the king told the guy that he wants to be Heir completely in
private right before he like you know what I mean exactly that's exactly what happens Game of Thrones it's the exact same thing so it's like either have you
should have no I don't want to go back on this because I know that I like had a different opinion I think well we've
talked about Henry the 8th but he's just like have one son and make a good one like I don't know
or just have witnesses yeah like reach it down or something but whatever
for whatever reason Harold Godwin becomes king of England um he also has he had been an Earl
before there's a lot of like little earldoms around like little tiny things happening um in England he also has um
hisoic he has his sister Edith and he has four brothers nope five brothers this is real hard for me listen to these
names this is like Old English slash potentially Viking there's
tostige God Winston God wins in tostig t-o-s-t-i-g there's Sven it's spelled
s-w-e-y-n there's girth g-y-r-t-h and there's Leo leosfin which is
l-e-o-f-w-i-n-e I have no idea how to pronounce that and then there's a wolf enough which is actually kind of fun
so is ninja girth girth
g-y-r-t-a-h-t-h oh my God it is probably hard to live up to that name it's very
hard so he has all these brothers and then his sister eat it so Edith and Harold get names that are easy to pronounce and
everyone else is difficult um so it's a very you know there's Vikings in the north
um it's Anglo-Saxon they're still kind of have Roman things around obviously because like the Roman cities are still
there um but Harold becomes king and is not as simple as that because there's other
people who think that they have the right to be king of England because there's no successor of course
so there's two big ones there's the Viking king also named Harold who's Harold hardrata and the Norman William
the bastard who lives in France why do you why do they call him the
bastard why do you think I feel like I do wish again I wish it
was like faster you know look at your password I don't know when do you say bastard I don't think I never say that I
absolutely would never say that about a child a fatherless child I think that that word like went out of style is a
reason or the way to insult someone like I I don't think I've ever gone before a holiday bastard no it doesn't even sound
like an insult you bastard it's like nobody like everybody's parents are not
married like it's a little dastardly like maybe I don't know I don't know but
it's it's for the the reason that um he was he was born out of wedlock let's walk I figured I figured that
um so William the bastard and King Harold hardrada um include itself is not very big in the
context of other countries it is about 300 I'm gonna do Miles because I that's how I think because I remember that's
how it should be um it's about 300 miles across and 600 miles up and down
so that's how big it is um you could obviously drive across it pretty quickly like you could drive
across it now but think of this time you know it is 1066 it is very very hard to
get across England um you know there's you're either walking or you have horses but your
horses are going to get tired it's going to take forever to make these like long Journeys across the country so like keep
that in mind um this year is spent trying to figure out how to rule
stop people from rebelling and work with his brothers in the church so that's what that's what Harold godmanson is
doing right now he's just trying to figure out how to get everybody together get everybody behind him as the king so
it's a weird year the king died in January in April Haley's comment goes by
which is exciting and like they probably thought it was magic you
know of course yeah um last night in in Joshua Tree was the
um the persuade meteor shower I had Ambitions of watching it and it just
never happened um it's cool uh we were out we went out maybe a little bit early it was like 12 30 we should if you were out like like 4
a.m it would have been nicer um but it was fun people in town were mad because there was like a line to get in the park even at midnight like of
cars just trying to get there but um we saw a fair amount of them so it was fun but um Haley's comment obviously the big
one even last time it went you know all those people that was a big deal you know it was a big deal so
um some people are like this year something some shit's gonna go down was that Haley's Comet or was that hail Bop
is that the same thing is it different ly was it not Haley's Comet you talk I'll look it up and then I thought it
was but I could be totally wrong could be something else um so
Autumn of 1066
now it's the Autumn of 1066 and shit's about to go down the first thing that
happens is Harold's brother tostig his oldest brother has been exiled he used to be an
Earl he's been exiled there's so many little like fights happening all the time and he goes to Norway and he and
King Harold harada of Norway come back and invade England in the north New York
that's the best place for like a viking to invade England obviously like they come on up into the north there's a
bunch of rivers they can like start moving their way into England so they know that they're coming and they come did you look it up it was hell Bob
is it it's different it's different what's Haley's comment why they call that okay don't don't look that up or no no
no well now everybody's everybody's screaming into their cars which one is
witch's witch is Haley's Comet the same as hell Bob no Haley's Comet is not called hail Bob
Comet hail Bop sometimes written as hail Bop comet is completely different comet
what's that called Paula just tells you the difference Haley's comment on the other hand was officially confirmed in 1758 whereas halebop was found in 1995
I don't it doesn't just we can they're comments guys
thank God we got to the end of that though space is huge okay great anyway either way if you don't know what a comment
even if you know what a comma is it's crazy and if you don't know what a comment is it's even crazier because you're like what the [ __ ] was that that
just happened so um that happened in April so now it's now it's Autumn the Vikings are coming
into the north um they end up in the city of York York was founded by the Romans a very very
long time ago um and they come in and they've been there for a few months and they are just
like pillaging and this whole time there's like all these dumb Kings trying
to be like oh I want to be in control of England and there's so many people just trying to [ __ ] not die you know and
you're just like trying to like have your little farm have your like one cow and like not get killed and these
[ __ ] Vikings are coming in trying to take over it I'm sure people are like I don't give a [ __ ] you know or they're
like I do care and I'm gonna fight I mean who knows but like you're just trying to like survive for
most people and so they're coming in they're random they're ransacking they're making deals with local army
armies specifically the northumbrians who are some people in the north of England um so
you know they're doing terrible things um and King Harold hears that they're
doing all this stuff it's his brother it's the Viking king so he's like [ __ ] who gotta go we gotta go up there and
stop these guys so in um September 1066 Harold King Harold and his troops
go out to York which is very hard they're already at the bottom of England
um near Sussex waiting because they know that William the bastard is coming from France so they're waiting for him to
come but in the meantime they have this [ __ ] to deal with in the north and they're like fine we'll go up there and
so they run literally just like as fast as they [ __ ] can they get from south
of England to the north of England so it takes like a couple days for them to get there and think about like it's not like
a car it's not even like a wagon it's like a couple guys and horses most people are walking like 7 000 men dress
like Knights walking across it I had to have taken more than a couple of days but they did it really fast and that's
part of the problem so I'll tell you uh more about it because they're [ __ ] tired you know so they like barely
stopped I'm certain it was raining the entire time you know you're wearing like pounds and pounds of metal
um and there's also like the logistics which I think we've talked about so like what are the who's eating what what are
you drinking are there you know herdsmen are there cows who's making dinner there's just so much stuff going on but
they get up there and now um Harold hardrata and
um the brother tostig have 200 to 300 ships so a lot of ships and
seven thousand to nine thousand men so it's like not clear exactly how much but they have a lot of people there
um oh I actually have a number for the distance the King Herald and his troops
went from um the South to the north it did 185 miles in four days
so they completely surprised no regions yeah it's a lot especially if you're
walking yeah yeah especially the logistics yeah so now it's September 25th 1066. King
Herald brought his forces up from the south they're ready to fight they're in a town called Samford and this is a
battle of Stamford Bridge there's also people from around England some of them are on the king side some of them are on
the Norwegian side the battle starts with a rider coming up to tostig and
King Harold hardrada and saying tastic will give you your Earl dumb back if you
just come and fight on our side and then there were like Vikings you guys can just leave we'll let you go
um and then they said the writer said to King Harold hildrada will give you seven feet of English soil because they're
kind of tall meaning like he that would be his grave
can come back that's cool that's a cool way to say I'm going to kill you yeah you can have seven feet of English soil
um but they say no and that rider was probably King Harold himself so he was like listen we can make the deal real fast and they're like nope so then they
start fighting um it is they're literally bottlenecked on this
bridge like the two competing armies are on different sides of this bridge and the legend is that there was one really big Norwegian guy just on the bridge
with like an ax just like you know like stopping people so he killed like 40 people allegedly until
someone finally went underneath the bridge and speared him from the bottom so like to get everyone which is so fun
and that caused a delay so that each side had time to like get ready and so the English were like had like their
their big um Shields maybe like a wall of shields um and
a lot of people because it was like a real marshy land you know on a bridge a lot a lot of um a lot of like you know
England mushy um so a lot of people just drowned um many people thousands thousands of
people died um the Vikings thought it would be super easy
um but after some confusion it kind of went back and forth the English are able to push them back and they run back to
their ships like they literally run back to their ships um both Harold hardrada and tostig the
brother are killed and only 24 ships make it back to Norway
so out of like 200 to 300 only 24 make it back um and King Harold makes a truce with
Harold hardrana's brother Olaf and they're able to like go back go back to Norway
um so this is also kind of the end of like the traditional Viking era because they were
stopped from invading England um so
King Herald Gardens in and his people are in the north and they're [ __ ] exhausted they
just lost a ton of people there's like bodies everywhere like both of these
battles that I'm talking about like the you know for for 100 years you could see bones on these fields you know it was
just like that totally um so much Carnage also like as soon as people battle was over everyone else
would go in and take everything off the bodies so like now it's just a bunch of like naked bodies everywhere because
they took their armor they took their clothes and took their shoes you know they took everything from them and just like left them there I mean it's better
to better than at least when they're naked they can decompose faster because animals will eat them quick I mean I'd
rather totally I'd rather a bunch of naked dead bodies my front yard than closed ones yeah but like what a what a
job you know that's what I think about like ripping his shoes off of a dead guy did you ever see the postman the Kevin
Costner movie no so like he like made all those
obviously like Water World and Dances with Wolves and all those like big epic movies but he
made one called The Postman and it was like a post-apocalyptic world where he
became a he like wanted to like go from place to place so he pretended to be a mailman
and ended up actually like setting letters or whatever it's like a real dumb there's a part where Tom Petty's in
it and Kevin Costner goes weren't you somebody once man and Tom Petty is like it doesn't matter now man anyway but
this is a Long Point to get to this he becomes a postman because he steals a postman like a USPS workers
um if you know you know why I'm laughing um like uniform off of someone who's like
dead in like a and like a a male car but the body he takes it off of is like
a full skeleton it's like from a [ __ ] doctor's office it's so funny it's like
is it supposed to be a comedy no it's supposed to be like Oh I'm taking this uniform off of this dead
body but the dead body is like no Deb I would look like that with a nice uniform on it it's just really really funny
um I think laugh out loud and the end of it is terrible so anyway watch don't watch that I I don't I don't
recognize recommendation counter recommendation from Taylor yes that's both
um so okay everyone's [ __ ] exhausted um but they have to go back they have to
go back south because now um the Duke of Normandy William the bastard is coming as expected
he um William the Duke of Normandy William the bastard
all the same person was actually blood related to Edward the Confessor like via
an ant so this is like everyone's lives are being destroyed because these guys like can't figure out who's gonna be in charge now
um so he says that Edward the Confessor said that he could be
um could be king so that's why he's invading from the south make sense
William the bastard also is rumored to have the support of the Pope so he's applying the Pope's
Banner so to show people that like he's on the side of God which I also feel like you could just make up you know
yeah I feel like you could totally make that up but whatever um but William the bastard becomes
in this year of 1066 William the Conqueror so that's who he's going to be for the rest of the time spoiler alert
oh wait she's playing oh the bastards oh wow okay the same guy yeah same guy
so when William to conqueror and his people start conquering from France
um it takes them a while to get there
um I also feel like like how I feel England isn't very big I also feel like it's easy to cross the English Channel because I know people have swam it but I
know that like I couldn't submit it so I don't really know how hard it is to get across it but you can now you can just like get across the real fast but it was
really hard at this time and the weather was [ __ ] terrible because it was the autumn in England so
blooming the Conqueror left Normandy on September 12th and
you'll remember the Battle of Stamford Bridge was like September 25th so they thought that he was coming but he didn't
come when he was supposed to because he got stuck he had to like kind of it was there was terrible a couple of ships sank so it took him a while to actually
get there but when he did get there um he got there on September 27th which
is uh two days after the Stanford Bridge um battle up in the north
um he arrived in Sussex with about 7 000 men and they started destroying [ __ ] like
immediately they were like burning Villages coming through being like we're gonna be in charge now you know like
everyone needs to like be on my side so they're just like destroying [ __ ] in Sussex in the Southern and Southern England so Harold King Harold has to run
there from the north from York where he just finished a battle everyone's
exhausted they traveled 240 miles in three days to get there it was like
lightning feed speed speed running marching through England so the English Channel at its narrowest
The Battle Begins
is only 21 miles I bet you could swim that I don't think I could I can build some across the pool
I'm just giving giving you hope that's all I appreciate I appreciate you sure
[Laughter] so Harold's King Harold and his his men get
there there's other men coming from kind of all over but the king Heralds Army is mostly like infantry people who like
have to leave their Villages you know it's like a deal where it's like this month this this percentage of our male
population has to be in the Army you know yeah it always is so as those those
people there's people called the Ferd f-y-r-d they're like and people who are like ride horses and like can like come
in and help so there's a lot of people who like aren't that organized but they're all coming together to support King Harold
so now it's October 14th 1066. it's um this is the Battle of Hastings so they
got back down to Sussex spent a couple days figuring things out now this is the
battle itself and this is a day so it starts off the Normans had archers the
English didn't so that actually made it harder for the Normans because the first after they did their first like Arrow
attack they didn't really get arrows back you know they kind of like just kind of went out and they never got them
back so they didn't have a ton to do there's also a rumor in the very beginning that William the Conqueror is
dead um so his Men start to retreat because they're because like also like I don't
know how you would know [ __ ] anything on this battle when it's loud and like
the the the counselor like all you heard was like you hear like you see in a movie you know people are yelling you hear
um swords hitting each other like metal on metal like I don't know how you would hear anything
I can't even follow those scenes in movies whenever I watch those scenes like okay how do I know the camera angle
just pans real quick like who do I like why not like it's I can't imagine being in the middle of that yeah everyone
looks the same you're just kind of swinging like I don't know but um but William has to ride with his helmet off
past his men going I'm alive so that that's fun
yeah okay guys I'm alive keep going um King Herald Brothers um girth and
leafwood are there um with him as well um they both die early in the day but
they have their own like little armies that are kind of going around and doing different strategies their poor mother is still alive so all of her kids died
this month like her son tosdig died up north on the other side um now her two other boys are are dead
and Harold's gonna die so it sucks to be their poor mom um they probably also stop for some
breaks you know you don't really know what's going on but like it's all day long um there's no records of prisoners so it
seems like everyone was killed you know like they just you know they didn't take anyone um there's a lot of Shield walls some
fights where they would like pretend to leave but like not leave and like trick each other there's like little things
happening all around it's like a field where all it's like a field where you know 20 000 men are fighting so it's all
this stuff happening um so it's pretty awful the whole day there's tons of blood everyone's super
injured um eventually so King Harold is killed and we don't really know how this is
where the tapestry it shows King Harold potentially with an arrow through his
eye so they're like maybe that happened but then like people can't agree if it's really him or not so it's just like we
were saying before like no one really knows how he died but he definitely did die during this battle
um after he dies everyone then Retreats on
his side which I again I don't know how you would know that because there was like that rumor in the morning about William like why would you believe
someone's saying that Harold was that I mean let's just Retreat anyways like what are they gonna do to me I just like
start going the other direction like yeah run away just do that trick it's like
that trick the thumb trick your uncle always he does when you're in Phoenix if you do that with an arrow in the eye you just like hold the arrow really close
you're like oh my God and you're like I'm I'm gonna have some meat and chill out that's hilarious
um so yeah so the king is dead so everybody starts to retreat and the Normans have one William becomes William
the Conqueror um the next day um King Harold's body is is officially found his poor mother offers William
um the body's weight in gold to have him back and he says no and no one knows what happened to his body they probably threw it in the ocean or like burned it
or something um and then William and his troops go North to to London and it's like
not perfect because there's battles all around and poor regular people are trying to live their [ __ ] lives like
all right you're in charge now I don't care you know whatever I just don't want to die I want my men back that went out
to this war so William the Conqueror is crowned King of England on Christmas Day 1066 in
Westminster Abbey so the year went from January 6 to the king dying new king
tons of battles Haley's Comet tons and tons of battles Vikings of North Norman's down south the Normans come in
and Conquer and there's a new King on Christmas Day 1066. so that's so wait how many years is that
one it's on one year wow it all happens in 1066. yeah
so um this ends Anglo-Saxon rule in England um and I mean I'm so sorry any English
Transition to Middle English
Scholars listening to this but essentially you know the medieval period um is now with William conqueror Henry
II Richard the lionheart is happening now um in 1215 the Magna Carta kind of
limits the power of the Monarch um later you know then there's the the first
um Tudor Kings in 1485 it's Henry the seventh and we have Henry the eighth and then so on it just kind of like keeps
going but this ends Anglo-Saxon period moves us over to the um the Norman and the plantagenet dynasties ruling England
and then later there'll be the tutors and the stewards and whatever we have now um another fun thing one fun thing that
happened during this as well and because of this is it began the transition from
Old English to Middle English like the language so old English is like for me impossible to decipher Middle English
gets a little bit easier um but because the French were the conquerors they were became the ruling
class so French words became the words we use for in English for more fancy
things so like the English the French word for how
and like is like beef that's like what you call it the food so that week we
took that word from France you know what I mean so we use like cow for the animal because that's what the poor people were doing and then beef for
the food because there's people who are actually eating it so like we did get some fun um like French words moving to the
English language that kind of clarifies some things and starting to have like one language around around England
um but yeah that's it that's the crazy 1066 year where thousands of people died
so that whatever one dude could be in charge of England
um I had several thoughts while you were talking so one of one of them was
one day just to really confuse everyone I'm gonna drive by I'm gonna spend the
entire day driving by all my friends houses and just shouting I'm alive and then they start texting each other
like did bars just drive by shouting he's alive like there's no context whatsoever
um and the other thing was man you look like King Charles right now and it's like
that guy that guy probably like she couldn't hold a sword of his life depended on and you
get these no you what was one of the The Lion Heart yeah whatever and it's like
these guys were like they weren't like politicians or freaking Savages I know and they and some of them were like like
not young you know like blame the Conqueror was like out of shape and like like a big guy and like just did it he
just was out there with them um my dad always regrets not giving us the middle name the lionheart
yeah that was a big mess yeah uh sweet awesome cool story yeah I uh
yeah again like again that's something that people spend their whole entire lives doing the history hit um documentary you know there's several
dudes who spend their whole lives just walking around those fields trying to imagine the the um the formations and
find the bones and all of that so lots of history but a crazy year that we know we know about because of art which is
cool so I thought that you were doing a seven part series on volcanoes I am but I'm
not doing them in order because some of those would be a volcano podcast and who would want to listen to that well volcanologists
Volcano Podcasts
how many volcanologists are there seven okay if you're a volcanologist can you please write to Doom defelpod gmail.com
please and let us know Taylor's again for the silent portion of
the podcast Taylor's researching how many volcanologists there are in the world there's two thousand
and one of them is Pierce Brosnan can you believe it our our volcanologist in demand
it's gonna grow 70 in the next 10 years which is higher than the average profession
um yeah speaking of that of volcanoes no I do want I mean I'm gonna do volcanoes I've I plan to finish the series by the
end of the year but I don't want to do them like back to back because then it would be like I feel like that would be a lot um got it but since we were talking
about volcanoes last week and um in talk about volcanoes we did mention
in Hawaii I did make a donation um to the Ayana momana fund um I'll put it in um in our
stuff but I did it on our behalf to help people with Maui this week who are um yeah I thought that we should since we
were talking about natural disasters and um [ __ ] is very very very bad in Maui
right now so I made a donation from Taylor and vars um so we can hope you know get some help
to those those poor people who've lost everything and I think as of now there's like a thousands a thousand people
missing um yeah real bad well thank you for doing that and thank you for sharing your
story and are there any acknowledgments or shall we cut this off that's it cut
it off but I um again we're on Tic Tac now everything is doomed to fill pod um I'm getting the transcripts up on um
on our simplecast site um we're on YouTube you can definitely find us there if you want to I'm adding
some fun um mid-journey AI stuff to our YouTube videos and the ones from last week were
really funny because it was like I was like dude like a Neanderthal man and one of them had like three arms and like you
can't really tell originally but then so I put like little comments in the video um that made me laugh so hopefully made
people laugh too they they had like the Neanderthals with like Spears that kind of looked like guns they're like Spears
where they have like a gun also on it and so I was like this is probably actually from the future when like
everything goes back and we're like the planet of apes sing it um that's how we're devolving we're gonna go backwards
yeah so I'm putting I'm trying to you know make those a little more interesting so just putting a bunch of images in those but yeah find us there
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