Zheng He The Giant Eunuch Admiral

History Is Dank

All Things Comedy

Comedy, Education, History

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🗓️ 13 July 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Zheng He commanded the massive Treasure Fleet in early Ming China. He survived a rather burtal childhood, and rose up to the highest position ever for a Eunuch. He sailed all over the Indian Ocean, and if it weren't for a change of Emperor (something that happened often in his time) he might have reached areas of the globe hundreds of years prior to when Explorers of Europe did.

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Sources: history.com, britannica.com, Thoughtco.con, china.org.cn, daily.jstor.org, The Intellectual Devotional by David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim 2010, brainyquote.com, waterford.org, wikipedia.org, livescience.com

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0:00.0	Go for it.
0:01.0	Frigin what up, dude.
0:03.0	Strider Wilson, I'm the host of this podcast.
0:05.0	That's mine.
0:06.0	Gonna be called History is Dank.
0:07.0	Friggin' What Up, Dude, I'm your host. Friggin' what up, dude.
0:22.1	Welcome back to another ep of history is dank.
0:24.4	Dude, I'm your host Strider Wilson, dude.
0:26.4	We got Aaron going beast mode on the sticks, dude.
0:30.2	What up?
0:30.7	What up?
0:31.3	Dude, I freaking cleared my throat when I said that, so that's why it sounded weird.
0:34.6	It also could have sounded like I was coughing at the doctor's office, something like that.
0:39.8	Any case, we're unbelievably fired up today.
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0:49.4	Recording straight out of burb, dank, California.
0:55.7	Where things are calm things are quiet you know
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