135 - Vikings!

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2019

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Vikings! We take a deep dive today into the history of Scandinavia, focusing in particular on the age of the Vikings! We look into what they wore, how their society was structured, why they became associated with barbaric raping and pillaging, and so much more. Viking culture is fascinating, complex, and honestly - pretty weird. And strange people make for a fun Suck. Hail Nimrod! Donate to our charity of the month! Cameron Owens National Fallen Firefighter’s Foundation Stair Climb http://events.firehero.org/site/TR?px=1053239&fr_id=2061&pg=personal THE GATHERING 2019 - Tickets go on sale HERE April 29th, Noon PST Only 55 tickets total! Happy Murder Tour Standup dates: April 26th Dallas, Texas The Texas Theatre CLICK HERE for tix! April 27th Houston, Texas The Secret Group CLICK HERE for tix! Second show added! May 1-4 San Francisco, CA Punchline Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 9-11 Boston, MA Laugh Boston Comedy Club CLICK HERE for tix! May 19th Spokane, WA Spokane Comedy Club LIVE ANT HILL KIDS TIMESUCK Click HERE for tix! Listen to the best of my standup on Spotify! (for free!) https://spoti.fi/2Dyy41d Timesuck is brought to you by the following sponsors: Life Gets Hairy podcast! Subscribe on iTunes or listen anywhere you listen to podcasts. https://www.lifegetshairy.com/podcast Hims! Get started for just $10 right now at ForHims.com/CUMMINS Watch the Suck on Youtube: https://youtu.be/bgNrLeMAUjY Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact Please rate and subscribe on iTunes and elsewhere and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and http://www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Wanna be a Space Lizard? We're over 4500 strong! Click here: https://www.patreon.com/timesuckpodcast Sign up through Patreon and for $5 a month you get to listen to the Secret Suck, which will drop Thursdays at Noon, PST. You'll also get 20% off of all regular Timesuck merch PLUS access to exclusive Space Lizard merch. You get to vote on two Monday topics each month via the app. And you get the download link for my new comedy album, Feel the Heat. Check the Patreon posts to find out how to download the new album and take advantage of other benefits

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0:00.0	Despite what watching too much mainstream news may lead you to believe, if you look around the globe,
0:04.8	a lot of nations, although certainly not the majority, have managed to create thriving,
0:09.0	modern societies where most of their citizens aren't doing too bad. They're at least doing
0:13.0	quite a bit better than most of humankind was doing as recently as a hundred years ago,
0:17.6	and doing way better than we all were a thousand plus years ago.
0:22.0	Most of the world's people have longer lifespans than we did just a few decades prior.
0:26.4	Most of us enjoy heightened individual liberties and a laundry list of modern amenities that would
0:30.9	make any king just two centuries back get pretty damn jealous. Maybe make him want to throw his
0:36.4	little king hat down and disgust. I'd bet any ancient Pharaoh would happily trade his pyramid or
0:41.8	the relatively's probably having sex with as many of those incestuous pharaohs did for a microwave
0:47.5	pizza and some Netflix. And out of all the cultures currently crushing the past on the standard
0:52.7	of living scale, there is one cold and wet part of the earth that seems to somehow always be
0:57.3	among the leaders of the pack, Scandinavia, land of the Vikings. When it comes to a quality of
1:02.7	opportunity, education, basic human happiness, and even economic freedom, Scandinavian nations seem
1:08.3	to lead the rest of the world. Today, the citizens of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are considered
1:13.2	among the kindest societies, the most fair and the happiest people in the world. Why?
1:18.6	There are the descendants of who we call the Vikings, history's most infamous rapers and pillagers.
1:25.0	North societies that populated northern Europe weren't exactly known for their gentle touch.
1:29.6	History often refers to Vikings as dirty, bloodthirsty mannimals that left their weak babies for
1:34.6	dead and rapes and pillages shed of any land they found people alive on. And some of that reputation
1:39.6	is earned. Some. The Vikings were raiders and they did revel in battle. They did take slaves and
1:46.0	there was a lot of violence, but there are also, you know, there are culture mired and myth.
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