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History Is Dank

Misunderstood Medieval Executioners

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

5.0584 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

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When you're posted up watching a dank movie like Braveheart or Kingdom Of Heaven the director's roadshow or any period piece really... the executioner is always a dude who looks like a former offensive lineman who maybe played D-2 college ball wearing a hood with a huge axe. In this episode Strider searches for a better understanding of the person not the position by removing the veil to find out a little more about the men behind the mask. If they even wore them at all...

Sources:

Livescience.com ‘What was It Like to Be an Executioner in the Middle Ages?’ by Emma Bryce, ‘A Hangman’s Diary: The Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg. 1573-1617’ by Franz Schmidt, Wikipedia.org, Berlinbooks.org ‘God’s Executioner’ by Joel Harrington, History.co.uk Execution in the Middle Ages

Transcript

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0:00.0

Frigin what up, dude.

0:01.2

Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast, that's mine.

0:04.2

It's going to be called History is Nank.

0:07.0

Hittner Wilsson.

0:15.0

Dakin' what up, dude. Welcome back to another episode of History is is dank. Dude, I'm your host Strider Wilson, dude. Today we got freaking Dante on the sticks. What up, Dante? What up? Chilling, dude. Dude, I'm feeling freaking cozy, bro. I've been stoked on getting cozy right now, dude. I got a, me, my Jeff, we got a damn dog, dude.

0:38.2

We went out and got a little pup, dude.

0:40.4

Rescue it, dude.

0:41.0

I look at it, dude, when I'm taking it on walks,

0:43.6

freaking walking it around, dude.

0:44.7

Someone comes up with another dog, he goes, oh, he's so cute.

0:47.2

I look at them in the eye immediately and I go, rescue.

0:50.9

What's his name?

0:51.6

I go, rescue.

0:55.5

What up?

0:58.8

Power move, dude, in L.A.

1:00.4

Huge power move, dude.

1:02.0

Oh, cool.

1:02.5

What is he mainly?

1:05.5

I don't know, dude, it's a mystery, but I love him for that mystery, dude.

1:06.1

What up?

1:10.5

So do you, like, judge people that don't rescue dogs now? Nah, I mean, dude, I wish I could, but, you know, my mom's got a golden retriever, dude, and a little frigging, like, some dog called, like, a Catan de Couture or something like that that's, like, from Morocco or something, I don't know. And they're just dank. Look, dude, all dogs need homes, and all dogs need freaking pets and love. And sometimes I just like to have that power move flex. Basically, me flexing like that is just letting people know that are haters, you know? And I understand there's, you know, I don't want to go on this dog. People freaking, you know, don't mall me, dude, because they got hard set opinions on this,

1:45.0

but I'm of the schooling of, dude, go out and find yourself a dank dog and freaking pet it and get cozy with it, dude, you know? That's what I like, dude. I found out I love when my dog's sleeping, dude. That's my favorite time, dude. It's not even about playing fetch, dude. He's just snuggling, dude.

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