Production Costly! The costs of vising the wreck twelve times for research and footage, not to mention the cost of the film production overall. The extreme profitability of this film and James Cameron in general. Classism First, second, and third class on the same ship. Titans of industry. Runaway capitalism. The class divide and point of view before The Great War. The modern “royalty” by virtue of their wealth. Technology The pace of technological development in industries, especially intercontinental travel by steamship. Comparing the early 1900s to other periods of technological progress like the 1980s and 1990. Noting the nature of the automobiles in the film: literally the design of a “horseless carriage.” The cutting-edge wireless technology aboard the ship. The ship Three engines! Of two varieties. Steam-driven piston engines and steam-driven a turbine. Note: you cannot reverse a turbine. Peak power: 46,000 horsepower. 600 tons of coal daily. An anecdote about Mr. Diesel. A collection of small problems The nature of many disasters, probably including Titanic: a series of small problems, adding up to a catastrophic failure under the rigt (wrong) circumstances. Rich people hogging the Marconi wireless. Out of date lifeboat regulations. Loading lifeboats (badly). The reality of “women and children first.” Avoiding chaos until it’s too late. Judgements The inquiries from shortly after the event, and the great surprise you may experience when realizing that the company men consistently pushed blame back up the chain of command. Modern evidence changing our conception over time. Actually ultimately coming to the consensus that this particular ship on this particular voyage was mostly operated in a way that was totally normal in almost all respects and simply got very unlucky. All told, it does seem that Titanic was really really well-engineered and did remarkably well under the circumstances. [4K,60Fps,Colorized] Titanic, First and Last Voyage, April 1912 AI Recovery, added sound: YouTube RMS Titanic Survivors True Accounts of The Sinking: YouTube RMS Titanic: Fascinating Engineering Facts by the Engingeering Guy: YouTube Titanic - Alternate Ending: YouTube Support the show!

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Titanic: rich people, bad luck, and ever-increasing hugenes w/ Joe

The movie It was really good! One-shot gimmicks of the past and appreciating the technical complexity of what was done here. People The demographic makeup of the British military. Young average infantryman age. “Pals battalions” and serving alongside your friends. The Great War The scale of WWI versus what came before. Rising contemporary appreciation for the study of this conflict. How much was the war a “modern war” and how much did it help usher in the modern world? Horses and tanks. Trench warfare The shovel as a tool of war for millenia. How do we wind up with stalemate trench warfare? A hint of trench warfare in the American Civil War. Really impressive trench engineering. Tanks, tech, strategy, and the eventual end of trench warfare. Rats - yuck! Rats in the trenches. Technology Barbed wire. Mechanized warfare. Horses in WWI and WWII. Tanks! Really slow and not very great tanks. Radio reliability. Hard-line comms. Sending messages by foot, radio, or… dropping it out of a plane? Medical infrastructure and what modern medicine owes to WWI. A Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout, WWI: Reddit Josh's show's on LSG Media: The X-Files Podcast (always)Science Fiction Film Podcast (sometimes) Gallipoli: Prime VideoiTunes They Shall Not Grow Old: iTunesAmazonYouTube They Shall Not Grow Old: film restoration, persistance of vision, and vfx: Decipher SciFi Support the show!

1917: trenches, trench rats, and modern war w/ Josh

Meta Versions! So many versions. The best version of the film: The Ultimate Cut. Setting the scene Ancient Greece after 300. The Peloponnesian War (which Ryan is in the middle of on his show!). The rise of Philip. Olympias. Philip Putting Macedon at center stage in ancient Greece. Technical and logistical innovations. Planning the invasion of Persia right before his suspiciously untimely death. The purge Alexander and Olypmias. Purging royal competition in the ancient world. Plutarch and gossip about “powerful women” in antiquity. Sources The loss of contemporary sources and the reliability of what remains. Plutarch’s gossip column. “The Great” What makes an historical figure “The Great,” instead of “The Terrible” or just forgotten? So many Alexandrias! Conquest, culture, and Hellenization. Manly love “Homosexuality” in the ancient world and different norms of power and masulinity. Alexander and Hephaestion. Achilles and Patroclas. Death Heavy Macedonian drinking and Alexander’s downward spiral. Conflicting reports and also modern interpretations of possible causes of death. Indeterminate succession. Alexander’s body floating around for centuries. Ryan's Show!: The History of Ancient Greece Podcast Support the show!

Alexander: succession, 'The Great,' and sooo many Alexandrias w/ Ryan Stitt

Mel Gibson history movies. The invention of the rocking chair. Smooth-bore and rifled firearms. Militias. The "swamp fox." Gambling away your inheritance. War crimes. Slavery.

The Patriot: heroism, invisible slavery, and cutting-edge chair technology

Crime in 19th century New York. Building the Five Points. Irish influx. The real Bill the Butcher. Period dialects. Surprising living conditions. Draft Riots!

Gangs of New York: history of The Five Points, immigration, and archaic criminal lingo

Japan emerging from isolation and integrating the west. Saigo Takamori. Seppuku and Bushido code. Bad samurai poetry. And samurai with guns!

The Last Samurai: Bushido, European influence, and howizters w/ Isaac Meyer

From first flight to a moon landing in only a few decades. Apollo TV signal encoding. Moon rocks. Lunar laser ranging and confirming relativity.

First Man: moon rocks, moon lasers, and the edge of space

Base myths of western civilization. The spartan state. Ancient warfare. The "spikey steamroller" of the phalanx. Taking apart the Spartan mirage. Etc.

300: professional soldiers, the Spartan Mirage, and expert poking w/ Josh

Criticisms & controversy. Mel Gibson. Working from limited written history. The height & decline of Mayan civilization. Mayan science, math, and calendars.

Apocalypto: sacrificial practices, temples, and Mayan writing and math

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