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Decipher History

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The history show about how and why!

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September 1, 2020

Titanic: rich people, bad luck, and ever-increasing hugenes w/ Joe

Production Costly! The costs of vising the wreck twelve times for research and footage, not to mention the cost of the film production overall. The extreme profitability of this film and James Cameron in general. Classism First, second, and third class on the same ship. Titans of industry. Runaway capitalism. The class divide and point of view before The Great War. The modern “royalty” by virtue of their wealth. Technology The pace of technological development in industries, especially intercontinental travel by steamship. Comparing the early 1900s to other periods of technological progress like the 1980s and 1990. Noting the nature of the automobiles in the film: literally the design of a “horseless carriage.” The cutting-edge wireless technology aboard the ship. The ship Three engines! Of two varieties. Steam-driven piston engines and steam-driven a turbine. Note: you cannot reverse a turbine. Peak power: 46,000 horsepower. 600 tons of coal daily. An anecdote about Mr. Diesel. A collection of small problems The nature of many disasters, probably including Titanic: a series of small problems, adding up to a catastrophic failure under the rigt (wrong) circumstances. Rich people hogging the Marconi wireless. Out of date lifeboat regulations. Loading lifeboats (badly). The reality of “women and children first.” Avoiding chaos until it’s too late. Judgements The inquiries from shortly after the event, and the great surprise you may experience when realizing that the company men consistently pushed blame back up the chain of command. Modern evidence changing our conception over time. Actually ultimately coming to the consensus that this particular ship on this particular voyage was mostly operated in a way that was totally normal in almost all respects and simply got very unlucky. All told, it does seem that Titanic was really really well-engineered and did remarkably well under the circumstances. <ol> <li> [4K,60Fps,Colorized] Titanic, First and Last Voyage, April 1912 AI Recovery, added sound: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNbfmRbA0c8">YouTube</a> </li> <li> RMS Titanic Survivors True Accounts of The Sinking: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfn1ZQFJcHw">YouTube</a> </li> <li> RMS Titanic: Fascinating Engineering Facts by the Engingeering Guy: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHmgF4ibmuk">YouTube</a> </li> <li> Titanic - Alternate Ending: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uXa1R2e4a8">YouTube</a> </li> </ol> <a href="https://deciphermedia.tv/supporttheshow" rel="payment">Support the show!</a>

March 24, 2020

1917: trenches, trench rats, and modern war w/ Josh

The movie It was really good! One-shot gimmicks of the past and appreciating the technical complexity of what was done here. People The demographic makeup of the British military. Young average infantryman age. “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pals_battalion">Pals battalions</a>” and serving alongside your friends. The Great War The scale of WWI versus what came before. Rising contemporary appreciation for the study of this conflict. How much was the war a “modern war” and how much did it help usher in the modern world? Horses and tanks. Trench warfare The shovel as a tool of war for millenia. How do we wind up with stalemate trench warfare? A hint of trench warfare in the American Civil War. Really impressive trench engineering. Tanks, tech, strategy, and the eventual end of trench warfare. Rats - yuck! Rats in the trenches. Technology Barbed wire. Mechanized warfare. Horses in WWI and WWII. Tanks! Really slow and not very great tanks. Radio reliability. Hard-line comms. Sending messages by foot, radio, or… dropping it out of a plane? Medical infrastructure and what modern medicine owes to WWI. <ol> <li> A Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout, WWI: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedHistory/comments/86t2i2/a_prussian_landwehrmann_tanning_rat_skins_in_a/">Reddit</a> </li> <li> Josh's show's on LSG Media: <a href="https://www.libertystreetgeek.net/subscribe-xfiles/">The X-Files Podcast (always)</a><a href="https://www.libertystreetgeek.net/subscribe-sffp/">Science Fiction Film Podcast (sometimes)</a> </li> <li> Gallipoli: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gallipoli-Mel-Gibson/dp/B07VXTKN88">Prime Video</a><a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/gallipoli/id208510983?mt=6&at=1001l7hP">iTunes</a> </li> <li> They Shall Not Grow Old: <a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/movie/they-shall-not-grow-old/id1443053454?mt=6&at=1001l7hP">iTunes</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/They-Shall-Not-Grow-Old/dp/B07PRZXV9C">Amazon</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSf9eRjR-oA">YouTube</a> </li> <li> They Shall Not Grow Old: film restoration, persistance of vision, and vfx: <a href="https://deciphermedia.tv/decipherscifi/178">Decipher SciFi</a> </li> </ol> <a href="https://deciphermedia.tv/supporttheshow" rel="payment">Support the show!</a>

March 10, 2020

Alexander: succession, 'The Great,' and sooo many Alexandrias w/ Ryan Stitt

Meta Versions! So many versions. The best version of the film: The Ultimate Cut. Setting the scene Ancient Greece after <a href="%%20link%20decipherhistory/_posts/2019-06-11-300-professional-soldiers-the-spartan-mirage-and-expert-poking-w-josh-effengee.md%20%">300</a>. The Peloponnesian War (which Ryan is <a href="http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2019/04/091-attrition-and-plague.html">in the middle of</a> on his show!). The rise of Philip. Olympias. Philip Putting Macedon at center stage in ancient Greece. Technical and logistical innovations. Planning the invasion of Persia right before his suspiciously untimely death. The purge Alexander and Olypmias. Purging royal competition in the ancient world. Plutarch and gossip about “powerful women” in antiquity. Sources The loss of contemporary sources and the reliability of what remains. Plutarch’s gossip column. “The Great” What makes an historical figure “The Great,” instead of “The Terrible” or just forgotten? So many Alexandrias! Conquest, culture, and Hellenization. Manly love “Homosexuality” in the ancient world and different norms of power and masulinity. Alexander and Hephaestion. Achilles and Patroclas. Death Heavy Macedonian drinking and Alexander’s downward spiral. Conflicting reports and also modern interpretations of possible causes of death. Indeterminate succession. Alexander’s body floating around for centuries. <ol> <li> Ryan's Show!: <a href="http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/">The History of Ancient Greece Podcast</a> </li> </ol> <a href="https://deciphermedia.tv/supporttheshow" rel="payment">Support the show!</a>

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