EARLY EPISODE: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham
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Quinn, one of the hosts of Failure to Launch, takes us on a journey to one of the most important battles in Canadian history.
Comments
Alberta born but lived some formative years in Letterkenny kind of rural Ontario, kudos to Quin for recognizing and explaining the different kinds of history Canadian children are taught. It's so deeply engrained it's difficult to articulate sometimes. Great episode Quin! Hoping for more Canadian content with you!
K (not short for karen)
2024-08-28 05:41:17 +0000 UTCOne can only hope. I miss hearing Nick saying “Don’t Need It” at any important time a group of people need that exact thing 😂
William Shackelford
2024-08-25 22:18:14 +0000 UTCCook seems to be the 17th century Kadaffi.
Peace Among Worlds
2024-08-25 04:56:46 +0000 UTCAs a half-Canadian (but only ever lived in the U.S.), I do enjoy learning about Canadian history. I'm actually half Quebecois; my grandparents crossed the divide, so to speak (my grandmother was from a French-speaking family, my grandfather English). They got married in the 1950s, so it was less of a thing than it might have been, but my limited understanding is that it was still mildly scandalous.
SirHumphrey
2024-08-25 01:56:55 +0000 UTCI need it in meme format.
Songbird
2024-08-23 17:39:15 +0000 UTCBring Quinn back for more guest episodes! He did a great job of keeping us informed of the timeline and the individuals / forces involved.
Ben Piche
2024-08-22 13:11:06 +0000 UTCSo if he decides to get out then there’s a solid chance we’ll have him back on possibly?
Zach
2024-08-21 23:26:07 +0000 UTCI rather enjoyed the books I read from that series.
Jon Ownbey
2024-08-20 16:01:01 +0000 UTCAs an English-speaking Ontarian, I remember learning about this, but it's been too long to remember if anyone was treated like a hero. I can confirm that we didn't learn about how incompetent Montcalm was though.
Markus D
2024-08-20 14:34:09 +0000 UTCThe battlefield is now a really cool national park where every year a huge summer festival is held.
Watergeniu
2024-08-20 04:18:35 +0000 UTCNanaimo bars are from Vancouver Island where Nanaimo is
Rebel Girl
2024-08-19 23:09:39 +0000 UTC“Why are you eating my fuck baguette” would make for a killer tee shirt
Rick Carter
2024-08-19 22:08:26 +0000 UTCTom's Dutch accent sounds like Sean Connery
Jeffrey Epstein's Assassin
2024-08-19 21:35:48 +0000 UTCI’m losing it at the idea of a Québecazi attack
Ben Yardley
2024-08-19 17:25:05 +0000 UTCI like this idea. Think we can continue this expansion into Kentucky?
david reid
2024-08-19 14:21:33 +0000 UTCAs an Ohioan I was gonna say they could have it as part of the treaty to team up against Indiana
Marjorie Zeager
2024-08-19 14:09:32 +0000 UTCNordiques, don’t you mean the Colorado Avalanche?
Lucas Molina
2024-08-19 13:44:30 +0000 UTCReally enjoyed the episode, great job Quinn! I'm a Franco-Ontarian, and while I don't entirely remember what I was taught, the vague idea/vibes of what I do remember learning are along the lines of "those dastardly anglos beat us and we fought honourably and then they murdered/expelled the acadians." I don't believe we ever learned about the atrocities Wolf had committed along the St Laurence or the sheer incompetence on the French side
Apollo Potato
2024-08-19 13:42:09 +0000 UTCFor some reason I'm imagining someone wearing a Perry the platypus hat taking well taking a dump because shit just got serious
Grumpy Bowlart
2024-08-19 13:26:08 +0000 UTCI just knew you weren’t gonna say anything bad about Temeraire 😂 Naomi Novik does actually have a series of what if Napoleon had dragons
Jamie Knocke
2024-08-19 13:10:40 +0000 UTCAs someone who lives in Ohio: Midwest showdown for Toledo. The game; battleship. Stakes: high. Mood: somber. Bathrooms: Unisex.
david reid
2024-08-19 12:46:06 +0000 UTCThanks for the clarification bud
William Shackelford
2024-08-19 12:14:43 +0000 UTCQuinn is a great guest host. 👍
TwirlinCurtis
2024-08-19 11:51:07 +0000 UTCJust here to say that Quinn is a wonderful addition to this extended universe.
Thomas Layton
2024-08-19 09:32:08 +0000 UTCThey're solid reads
Alex Varrus
2024-08-19 09:08:35 +0000 UTCUnfortunately, you are correct.
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2024-08-19 07:58:03 +0000 UTCIve heard that series was good. The one I was thinking of had Dinosaurs in it and it sucks.
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2024-08-19 07:57:40 +0000 UTCIt was created for us by DJ Danarchy
Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast
2024-08-19 07:57:04 +0000 UTCToo bad the pirates of the Bahamas and Jamaica couldn't achieve solidarity.
19ZXB Donkey brains
2024-08-19 04:11:18 +0000 UTCCassowaries are fucking terrifying. I walked past one just standing in the middle of a creek it made full eye contact with me, I have never felt more like I was about to die.
mumbles march
2024-08-19 03:45:59 +0000 UTCMy enemy is also Cook. In my city Melbourne they literally have something called Cooks Cottage. They dismantled his parents place in Yorkshire shipped it here and rebuilt it brick by brick in a public park. He never even lived there. Our cultural reckoning with Cook and colonialism is a massive fascy dog whistle issue here.
mumbles march
2024-08-19 03:37:01 +0000 UTCHe just snuck a bite of my second to last one, so he's not completely deprived
Loquin Britton-Herndon
2024-08-19 01:21:33 +0000 UTCI'm from the far north living in the deep South, so nanaimo bars are very difficult to acquire. When you mentioned them my husband said "Oh, those are the things I'm not allowed to eat because I value our relationship"
Loquin Britton-Herndon
2024-08-19 01:18:36 +0000 UTCAs an Anglo Ontarian in French immersion at an English high school in the 2000s I was taught Montcalm was a tragic hero, Wolfe an idiot who got lucky/took an outrageous risk that payed off, and Vaudreuil an incompetent busybody civilian who should have stopped interfering in military decisions. Very interesting to hear a wildly different account.
200 Rats in a Trench Coat
2024-08-19 00:09:29 +0000 UTCIf I'm not mistaken, Nick can't be on the show as it's gotten much more popular since the early episodes and he's still in the military
Ayudame97
2024-08-18 23:12:53 +0000 UTCGood job Quinn. Like the new variety. What ever happened to Nick, question for Joe. Been listening for a year and half so far but kind of lost on where nick went.
William Shackelford
2024-08-18 22:05:00 +0000 UTCBoy does looting and pillaging keep soldiers busy!
Matt Schubert
2024-08-18 20:23:46 +0000 UTCDragons in Napoleonic warfare is just the Temeraire book series by Naomi Novik
Alex Varrus
2024-08-18 18:39:15 +0000 UTChaha no way, about to go to my job right underneath the plains, can't wait listening to this eating my mcdonalds beside the plains!
Messire
2024-08-18 18:17:41 +0000 UTCGreat job Quinn! However, the last battle of the Seven Years War in North America was the Battle of Signal Hill in Newfoundland on September 15, 1762.
Shamus Hewitt
2024-08-18 18:15:24 +0000 UTCHecc yea, they are ridiculously good!
Loonity
2024-08-18 17:49:00 +0000 UTCAlso, Nanaimo bars are awesome!
Shamus Hewitt
2024-08-18 17:08:32 +0000 UTCFor anyone who's wondering, it's Nanaimo, British Columbia
Shamus Hewitt
2024-08-18 17:07:42 +0000 UTCNanaimo bars are from Nanaimo lmfao
Loonity
2024-08-18 16:21:59 +0000 UTCMy grandfather was at the Battle of the Bulge and thought he got hit with a bullet only to discover it was actually a frozen piece of cow dung that got kicked up by a passing vehicle. I imagine that felt similar to getting hit by those very out of range musket balls.
Rosemary S Callahan Gray
2024-08-18 15:57:29 +0000 UTCThat was it! I read a german translation of that many years ago, thank you!
Anggg
2024-08-18 15:29:49 +0000 UTChttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temeraire_(series)
Ben Schwabe
2024-08-18 15:06:51 +0000 UTCGreat episode!
Donald Potter
2024-08-18 13:47:14 +0000 UTCAND NOW HE STARTS TALKING ABOUT AVRIL LAVIGNE WHEN I’VE BEEN LISTENING TO HER ALL DAY, I’M NOT BULLSHITTING I’LL SHOW YOU MY YOUTUBE HISTORY, GET OUT MY BRAIN JOE
H
2024-08-18 10:40:18 +0000 UTCJust sent a photo to my friend of a building near me in Bangkok that has an exterior design that makes it look like peeled layers, with the caption ‘buildings are like onions, they have layers’, then 10 minutes later Joe re-quotes it 🧐
H
2024-08-18 10:09:54 +0000 UTCThere is an awful movie that came out in 2023 about it. Just a satire. And Jim Jeffries and John Cleese were working on another movie about it too. Apparently this one is from the Emu's perspective.
Michael Davies
2024-08-18 09:35:28 +0000 UTCYo dude the new intro music SLAPS. Who is it?
Zach
2024-08-18 08:47:48 +0000 UTCDon't forget we still have cassowaries and emus. After all, the emus WON the Great Emu War.
LeobaL
2024-08-18 08:47:11 +0000 UTCI actually once read a book in german about napoleonic era dragon warfare, but sadly I forgot the name
Anggg
2024-08-18 08:16:18 +0000 UTCTwo things. While a weaponized T-Rex against grapeshot would be amazing. There’s a line in Jurassic World talking about having Velociraptors in Tora Bora, and I’ve thought a Raptor vs Bin Laden movie was needed from that. Second, if the Australian Aboriginals hadn’t killed off all the Megafauna in Australian tens of thousands of years ago, and instead bred and trained them, we could’ve seen British cavalry charges at Waterloo with some epic animals.
Michael Davies
2024-08-18 07:58:09 +0000 UTC
