The Tudors Didn't Know How It Would End Either
Renaissance English History Podcast: A Show About the Tudors
Heather Teysko
4.6 • 624 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | something a little bit different today, my friends. Yesterday, somebody left a comment on |
| 0:38.1 | my video yesterday, talking about the fact that I use AI generated images in my videos and a little |
| 0:44.4 | discussion ensued. And it was respectful and I don't have any problem with that. It was absolutely |
| 0:47.7 | great. But that comment got me thinking not specifically about AI art, but the bigger question, the bigger kind of themes |
| 0:57.4 | underneath it. The fact that nobody really knows where this is going, not me, not the people |
| 1:05.1 | writing think tank pieces about it, not the person who wrote that viral tweet last week called |
| 1:10.1 | something big is coming that like |
| 1:11.9 | 80 million people saw. Nobody knows. Not that even the people building the tools. We're all just |
| 1:16.8 | kind of living inside this change that we're in the middle of that nobody knows where it's going to |
| 1:23.6 | end. And honestly, that's something that the tutors were experiencing as well. And it's one |
| 1:28.5 | reason why I think this period is so compelling to us, because there is so much that's familiar. |
| 1:34.9 | Between 1485 and 1603, England went through changes that were, by any measure, total changes. |
| 1:42.9 | They weren't incremental. They weren't gradual. They were the |
| 1:46.4 | kinds of changes where the rules that your parents lived by were not the rules that you were going |
| 1:51.9 | to die by. And the rules that you were going to die by might determine whether you died early. |
| 1:58.3 | The printing press had arrived in England in 1476, just nine years before |
| 2:03.4 | Henry the 7th took the throne. Within 50 years, it had broken something that had been fixed for |
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