Part One: Arminius and the Battle of Teutoburg Forest: How the Barbarians Broke the Roman Legions

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🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Margaret talks with Hazel about how the Romans were stopped from conquering Germania and how a bunch of terrible people are excited about it.

Sources:

https://www.thecollector.com/teutonic-meaning/

https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/world-population-by-year/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-ambush-that-changed-history-72636736/?c=y&page=3

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-excavation-will-examine-germanys-legendary-founding-battle-180964235/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sculpted-horse-head-complicates-legendary-roman-conquest-german-barbarians-180970077/

https://archaeology.org/issues/online/collection/germany-roman-town-waldgirmes/

https://web.archive.org/web/20110714211343/http://www.nujournal.com/page/content.detail/id/509454.html

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/havoc-in-the-teutoburger-forest/

https://web.archive.org/web/20140428164647/http://www.livius.org/q/quinctilius/varus.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3567880

https://the-past.com/feature/arminius-hitlers-barbarian-hero/

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Annals_(Tacitus)/Book_2#88

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0:00.0	This is an I-Heart podcast.
0:02.5	Guaranteed Human.
0:05.9	CoolZone Media.
0:09.2	Hello, and welcome to cool people who did cool stuff.
0:11.8	Your weekly reminder that I have a podcast that comes out twice a week.
0:16.5	And I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy.
0:18.6	And this week, my guest, you might have heard them before.
0:25.3	You might have heard them feeding soup to people or killing random things, like in a murder
0:32.7	hobo way.
0:33.8	If you don't know what we're talking about, that makes no sense.
0:36.8	My guest is Hazel Acacia, better known, of course, to people who listen to Cool Zone Media Book Club,
0:42.9	as Meredagana.
0:44.3	How do you pronounce your character's name?
0:47.0	Hi, Margaret.
0:48.1	Hi.
0:48.4	My name is Hazel, and on the Pathfinder, let's play that we're doing, I play Sister Merdragana.
0:55.6	Mergeragana.
0:57.2	Merdy for short.
0:58.7	Yeah.
0:59.5	Well, welcome Merdy, Hazel, Merdy, to cool people who did cool stuff.
1:05.6	So it's just the two of us.
1:08.4	Sophie isn't here.
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