Napoleon: General, Leader... Shmole?
History Is Dank
All Things Comedy
5.0 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Strider Debates whether or not Napoleon Bonaparte was in fact a shmole. Historians Johnathan Riley and Owen Connelly take differing approaches in their examination of the French Conqueror positing the question, was Napoleon a great military strategist and General or rather the epitome of a charismatic leader and swayer of mind and spirit?
"When speaking on the lives of individuals, there is no real way to determine the headspace one is in when they carry out the decisions that effectively alter history as we know it." Strider relies on the evidence available to determine Napoleon's shmoliness.
Primary Researcher: Jacob Lapinsky
Sources: Blundering to Glory: Napoleon’s Military Campaigns by Owen Connelly, Napoleon as a General: Command from the Battlefield to Grand Strategy by Johnathan Riley , Professor John Roth, San Jose State University, Military History through the Ages
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| 0:00.0 | Friggin' what up, dude. |
| 0:03.5 | Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | That's mine. |
| 0:06.1 | It's going to be called History is Night. |
| 0:09.4 | History is dead with Strider Wilson. |
| 0:17.0 | Dang is from the come. |
| 0:22.9 | Frigan what up, dude. |
| 0:27.1 | Your host, Streider Wilson, just posting up in the studio right now with Aaron on the sticks. |
| 0:27.8 | Dude, what up, Aaron? |
| 0:28.5 | What up? |
| 0:29.6 | She's chilling, dude. |
| 0:35.6 | I've been having a debate with my freaking bros, Jace and Chris, dude, J.T's younger bro, dude. |
| 0:37.1 | And we were talking, dude. |
| 0:58.5 | We were like, you know, when it comes to like dudes, you know, because of my crazy neighbor, Ignacio, right? We were kind of talking and, um, ex- neighbor. Thank you very much, my former neighbor. I'm like, part of the reason we move was one, you know, he was definitely out of his mind, probably on drugs but also if it to fist of cuffs he was jacked and he would definitely pin me and beat me i'm comfortable admitting that okay um even my df my dang fiance will tell me not strider you could do i'm like thank |
| 1:04.8 | you so much that's a sign that you love me but nodded this guy would dominate me um but then we were |
| 1:10.0 | like jace is a crazy neighbor who's like a DJ and has like strange, like, you know, sort of like druggy friends come over. If your personality is the, the main adjective of it is druggy, dude, you know, what are you doing, you know, like that's cool for a hot second maybe in middle school. But let's go, mix it up, dude, get better at better at soccer. If you're a soccer druggie, at least it's a step in the right direction. You know what I mean? Dude, dude. But like, um, he's like, dude's coming over. He's like, I saw this guy who accidentally knocked on my door and he was the most gaunt man. I'm thinking gaunt versus a buff, dude. |
| 1:45.9 | If a dude knocks on your, he's a little bit upset, you know, in the middle of the night, |
| 1:49.3 | knocks come and rap, tap, tapping on your door, dude. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm going, I don't want to see a gaunt man out there, you know, over a buff guy. |
| 1:58.1 | Yeah, because he's going to have endurance. |
| 2:22.8 | Right, yeah. And he's probably been awake for four days. Correct. On who knows probably meth, and he's probably crushing Del Taco and meth. And who knows what he's looking for. The thing is, he's horny. He's horny. He's definitely, there's no question. He's horny, dude. You know, he's going to try to visit a DJ and DJs get people horny it's their job through rhythm and it's like dude Chris made a great point JT Junckerbrill he goes with the buff guy I know what he wants |
| 2:28.7 | he wants he probably wants to bone my GF or DF or whatever if he's a real psychopath or he wants to |
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