EARLY EPISODE: The Shimabara Rebellion: Part 3
Added 2025-01-12 11:51:36 +0000 UTCThe conclusion to our series on the Shimabara Rebellion!
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I’m pretty sure he tweeted almost exactly that at least once.
Matt
2025-02-10 00:29:44 +0000 UTCGreat listen. Pretty fun to learn about the events that inspired Ninja Resurrection. A masterpiece of whadafuckery in which ninjas with bazookas break the siege. Also that Jerome kid rides a dragon made of roof tiles and resurrects as Satan and holyshitthegore.
Georges Fecteau
2025-01-26 02:24:47 +0000 UTCAfter part 2 I was like...this is gonna turn into Japanese Waco. And in part 3 I was like yup. Japanese Waco.
Matt S
2025-01-22 20:57:11 +0000 UTCSo enjoyed Joe and Tom talk art and literature. The pod is frequently in my ears when I'm wandering around bookstores myself. :)
Mags
2025-01-20 12:54:28 +0000 UTCSeriously who is getting getting their cooking knowledge from this podcast though
BreadLord
2025-01-19 19:36:21 +0000 UTCThe fact that Tom knew the work Maillard is outstanding!
Christina E Dresser-Henley
2025-01-17 15:10:16 +0000 UTCI'm very confused by what Tom thought the Maillard Reaction was.
Markus D
2025-01-16 00:17:16 +0000 UTCUm. The Maillard reaction 100% happens in deep frying. It’s literally why things are crispy and brown when they come out of the fryer. I’m glad you know the word, but what it actually refers to is the crystalization and caramalization of the carbohydrates and proteins due to heat. In a pan, this only occurs where the surface of the food is touching, because the air can’t hold enough heat to cause the reaction. In oil, this can happen over the entire surface as long as the oil is over about 250 degrees F. Not trying to be shitty here, but providing “knowledge” even in jest and fun without looking it up, just normalizes being confidently wrong and encourages the Alex Joneses of the world. Just my 2c. You guys are still awesome.
Sean MacLeod
2025-01-14 12:23:48 +0000 UTCDutch Tom ❤️
Mourning Run
2025-01-14 09:58:36 +0000 UTCAnime dubs have gotten pretty consistently good in recent years. Hell, I started watching Solo Levelling specifically because I knew I liked Aleks Le, the English VA for the main character.
Markus D
2025-01-13 20:45:43 +0000 UTCThe helms deep approach😂
I miss the rb19
2025-01-13 19:30:42 +0000 UTCGetting dissed by traditional Japanese theater, "Noh bitches?"
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-13 14:39:05 +0000 UTCThe rebels just keep spawning ulcerated tree spirits and the samurai are done with that shit
Noblesse Oblahaj
2025-01-13 14:19:03 +0000 UTCGreat series and super interesting question from the legion too
trashdo
2025-01-13 12:34:48 +0000 UTCI suggest a 4 part series on the Anglo-Zanzibar war. each episode can cover 9.5 minutes of the conflict.
Jason Machacek
2025-01-13 11:37:25 +0000 UTCNot doing your job as a captain of the Dutch East India Company is probably the best you can do in that position.
Jan
2025-01-13 07:38:20 +0000 UTCI feel a competent government would have been "let's make him rule this province; we can exile all the Christians here & punish the idiot that made this all go sideways" but I forget myself that governments typically are not pursuant of competence as in "the people are happy" but competence as "the system is stable, self replicating, & the rich remain rich" therefore why bureaucrats & agoraphobic emperors abound in history.
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-13 05:28:13 +0000 UTCProbably thinks all cops should be Judges...
LeobaL
2025-01-13 03:29:45 +0000 UTCHe clearly thinks Judge Dredd is the unproblematic good guy.
Matt
2025-01-13 03:17:43 +0000 UTCRegarding Tom's point at the end about reading old stuff to improve your understanding of literature, I highly recommend the book "How to Read Literature Like a Professor" by Thomas C. Foster. Definitely helped me in that respect. Quick cheat, though: In western literature, if it isn't based on Greek or Roman myths, it's probably based on the Bible.
TwoRavens
2025-01-13 02:52:28 +0000 UTCDiglet is the antithesis to samurai and now no one can tell me different. While you ride around in your horse, in your fancy armor, diglet is in the trenches, waiting to hit you with that super effective l.
William Shackelford
2025-01-13 02:13:08 +0000 UTCBillionaire techbros have clearly read and watched a lot of nerd media. It's equally clear they completely missed the point. Like Joe, I just laugh when I realise Apartheid Emerald Boy thinks he's the Good Guy.
LeobaL
2025-01-13 01:10:38 +0000 UTCJoe… I love your work but PLEASE look up how to pronounce Japanese. Its phonemic so once you get the basics down its pretty easy to remember.
Sadie
2025-01-13 00:43:19 +0000 UTCShimabara peasants just hurling an insult like “Yo Mama so big she got her own gravitational pulls and it dictates the fates of the heavens.”
William Shackelford
2025-01-12 22:13:52 +0000 UTCThe art conversation has me tapping the sign "Read Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote" Borges has interesting ideas
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-12 20:39:53 +0000 UTCThe New Yorker has an article about Mishima, and of course I thought of Tom.
Charlie Lawton
2025-01-12 20:11:10 +0000 UTCTom the Irish weeb justifies a lot of people’s RPG characters from the ‘90s.
Matt
2025-01-12 19:55:08 +0000 UTCIn fighting off a siege one can pre-heat the rocks (you want basalt for this) to sear the assailants; this is like Korean hotpot
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-12 19:47:58 +0000 UTCEverything I know about the crusades leads me to disagree with Joe. There is nothing more Holy War than starving to death in a rundown castle
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-12 19:29:27 +0000 UTCAlso unemployed samurai get titles for the same reason unemployed unemployed sons of lords get titles... & they also have swords
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-12 19:27:35 +0000 UTCYesterday I learned that TRex had big lips
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-01-12 19:25:18 +0000 UTCSpeaking of 40k and satire, have you guys seen the Space King videos on youtube?
Nicholas Kidd
2025-01-12 17:16:01 +0000 UTCGreat segment on art and media at the end
Watergeniu
2025-01-12 17:04:06 +0000 UTCI can’t get over the samurai military command standing around the letter, going “not an Amakusa fan but this is class”
Ben Yardley
2025-01-12 16:20:33 +0000 UTCWe need to invent time travel just so Tom and Joe can go back to this battle to join in the shit talking.
Thomas Layton
2025-01-12 15:49:38 +0000 UTCGood for you Joe! And Tom! Keep it up! 👏 👏 👏
Alistair SM J
2025-01-12 15:49:37 +0000 UTC
