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* EmbarrassingNickname: After seeing that Simon Bolivar could, impossibly, outride all of them, the rough-spoken llaneros cowboys bestowed on him the high honor of nicknaming him "Iron Ass." Whenever Bolivar engages in some feat of riding long distances really fast, Duncan will joke that "They don't call him Iron Ass for nothing!"
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* EmbarrassingNickname: After seeing that Simon Bolivar could, impossibly, outride all of them, the rough-spoken llaneros cowboys bestowed on him the high honor of nicknaming him "Iron ''culo de hierro''--"Iron Ass." Whenever Bolivar engages in some feat of riding long distances really fast, Duncan will joke that "They don't call him Iron Ass for nothing!"
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The tenth season episode "Anarchy in Ukraine" is a rare ''triple''-meaning title: it refers to both the look at the Anarchist movement in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution under Nestor Makhno but also the general societal upheaval and conflicts brought upon Ukraine during the First World War and Russian Civil War. It's also a reference to the famous Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the UK."
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The tenth season episode "Anarchy in Ukraine" is a rare ''triple''-meaning title: it refers to both the look at the Anarchist movement in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution under Nestor Makhno but also the general societal upheaval and conflicts brought upon Ukraine during the First World War and Russian Civil War. It's also a reference to the famous Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the UK." It borders on quadruple meaning, having been released on 21 February 2022--literally three days before the Russian invasion (that everyone could see coming from a mile away by that point; Duncan makes it clear the significance wasn't lost on him).
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* Season 8 (April-June 2018; 8 episodes): The collapse of the Second French Empire as a result of the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar and then the Paris Commune. Another "mini-season", Duncan notes that while his original intent was to look at just the Commune, the overthrow of the Second Empire and establishment of the Third Republic also counts, making this the highest revolution-to-episode-count density of the lot.
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* Season 8 (April-June 2018; 8 episodes): The collapse of the Second French Empire as a result of the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar and then the Paris Commune. Another "mini-season", Duncan notes in Season 11 that while his original intent for Season 8 was to look at just the Commune, the overthrow of the Second Empire and establishment of the Third Republic also counts, making this the highest revolution-to-episode-count density of the lot.
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* Season 8 (April-June 2018; 8 episodes): The Paris Commune. Another "mini-season", but with a lot of buildup -- the actual Commune doesn't show up until the fifth episode.
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* Season 11 (Fall 2022): A planned epilogue season that will compare and contrast all the Revolutions from the 10 seasons while trying to give his own answer to the historical question of "what makes a Revolution?".
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* Season 11 (Fall 2022): A planned (September 2022-present): An epilogue season that will compare comparing and contrast contrasting all the Revolutions from the 10 seasons while trying to give his Duncan's own answer to the historical question of "what makes a Revolution?".
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** In the case of the French Revolution, Duncan openly hates Jean-Paul Marat and describes him as the PsychoPartyMember of the Revolution, which was indeed the common view of Marat by 19th and early 20th Century historians. He was and indeed remains more controversial than even [[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Robespierre]]. More recent historians and writers have emphasized Marat's instances of moderation, such as when he opposed the Anglophobia common among Revolutions, defending English culture and arguing against narrow nationalism[[note]]A view credited to him by Norman Hampson, no Marat fan, in ''The Perfidy of Albion''[[/note]], the fact that he was the only Revolution who advocated colonial independence during the events[[note]]as noted by Aime Cesaire, the Mauritanian poet[[/note]], that he often intervened to save political opponents from attacks[[note]]such as when he rescued Theroigne de Mericourt, a Girondin, from attacks by Revolutionary Women's groups[[/note]] and that most of his wild accusations in his papers (about Mirabeau's corruption, Dumouriez's defection, the war being a mistake) [[TheExtremistWasRight turned out to be accurate]].
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** In the case of the French Revolution, Duncan openly hates Jean-Paul Marat and describes him as the PsychoPartyMember of the Revolution, which was indeed the common view of Marat by 19th and early 20th Century historians. He was and indeed remains more controversial than even [[UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre Robespierre]]. More recent historians and writers have emphasized Marat's instances of moderation, such as when he opposed the Anglophobia common among Revolutions, Revolutionaries, defending English culture and arguing against narrow nationalism[[note]]A view credited to him by Norman Hampson, no Marat fan, in ''The Perfidy of Albion''[[/note]], the fact that he was the only Revolution who advocated colonial independence during the events[[note]]as noted by Aime Cesaire, the Mauritanian poet[[/note]], that he often intervened to save political opponents from attacks[[note]]such as when he rescued Theroigne de Mericourt, a Girondin, from attacks by Revolutionary Women's groups[[/note]] and that most of his wild accusations in his papers (about Mirabeau's corruption, Dumouriez's defection, the war being a mistake) [[TheExtremistWasRight turned out to be accurate]].
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** The 10th season, dedicated to the Russian Revolution, however deserves special mention and begins with kind of a staggering amount. The season starts with an eight-episode “prologue” focusing on Marx and Engels and, to a lesser extent, Bakunin, (Bakunin being important because he was the intellectual forefather of the Socialist Revolutionaries, the Left faction of whom were the junior-but-still-important partners in the merger of socialist parties that led to the establishment of the one, the only Communist Party of the Soviet Union) then launches into essentially a complete history of Russia (this being the first season where Russia is really in focus). It takes more than 20 episodes to even get to the year 1900. Duncan is not above lampshading this.
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** The 10th season, dedicated to the Russian Revolution, however deserves special mention and begins with kind of a staggering amount. The season starts with an eight-episode “prologue” focusing on Marx and Engels and, to a lesser extent, Bakunin, (Bakunin being important because he was the intellectual forefather of the Socialist Revolutionaries, the Left faction of whom were the junior-but-still-important partners in the merger of socialist parties that led to the establishment of the one, the only Communist Party of the Soviet Union) then launches into essentially a complete history of Russia (this being the first season where Russia is really in focus). It takes more than 20 episodes to even get to the year 1900. Duncan is not above lampshading this. The earliest "event" in history Duncan (jokingly) invokes also happens in this season, namely when he invokes "Aliens teaching humans agriculture" in his explanation of Marxist theory of modes of production.
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* GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath: While a major theme throughout, the biggest example is definitely the Haitian Revolution, where the slavery and death in question are entirely literal and non-metaphorical.
** During the initial uprising, the rebels take heart in the folk religious belief that if they die, their spirits will return to Africa and be free. Besides, it's not like they won't be killed anyway, and probably a lot more messily than a bullet, if they give up, so they have nothing to lose, especially once the panicking establishment starts cracking down on ''all'' the blacks.
** When it becomes clear that Napoleon's regime plans to reinstate slavery on Saint-Domingue, all the bickering factions on the island put aside their differences to throw them out. Unarmed volunteers literally throw themselves in human waves at French soldiers to serve as bullet-sponges for the native soldiers behind them, knowing they'll die and willing to do it rather than go back to being slaves.
** During the initial uprising, the rebels take heart in the folk religious belief that if they die, their spirits will return to Africa and be free. Besides, it's not like they won't be killed anyway, and probably a lot more messily than a bullet, if they give up, so they have nothing to lose, especially once the panicking establishment starts cracking down on ''all'' the blacks.
** When it becomes clear that Napoleon's regime plans to reinstate slavery on Saint-Domingue, all the bickering factions on the island put aside their differences to throw them out. Unarmed volunteers literally throw themselves in human waves at French soldiers to serve as bullet-sponges for the native soldiers behind them, knowing they'll die and willing to do it rather than go back to being slaves.
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* VillainousBreakdown: General Leclerc of the ill-fated namesake expedition to retake Saint-Domingue goes, over the course of his military occupation of Haiti from an idealistic young army officer horrified by Toussaint Louverture's harsh labor laws and repulsed by the idea of going back on the revolution's ideals of liberty and equality, to a bungler incapable of securing the loyalties of the native population or retaining the affiliation of the American and British forces supplying him, to an embittered officer tacitly admitting that his replacement is going to reinstate slavery and that it was his job to prepare the colony for that, to a paranoiac shut up in his home base in primitive quarantine alternately begging Napoleon for reinforcements and to relieve him of command before the yellow fever ravaging his troops kills him too, to a dying man, wasting away from yellow fever himself, drafting plans to suppress the insurrection so genocidal that even his successor the vicomte de Rochambeau, himself a racist and twisted sadist, balked at implementing them after his death.
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* VillainousBreakdown: General Leclerc of the ill-fated namesake expedition to retake Saint-Domingue goes, over the course of his military occupation of Haiti from an idealistic young army officer horrified by Toussaint Louverture's harsh labor laws and repulsed by the idea of going back on the revolution's ideals of liberty and equality, equality and putting the blacks in chains, to a bungler incapable of securing the loyalties of the native population or retaining the affiliation of the American and British forces supplying him, to an embittered officer man fighting a mass insurrection tacitly admitting that his replacement is going to reinstate slavery and that it was his job to prepare the colony for that, to a paranoiac shut up in his home base in primitive quarantine alternately begging Napoleon for reinforcements and to relieve him of command before the yellow fever ravaging his troops kills him too, to a dying man, wasting away from yellow fever himself, drafting plans to suppress the insurrection so genocidal that even his successor the vicomte de Rochambeau, himself a racist and twisted sadist, balked at implementing them after his death.
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* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: The llaneros cowboys in the Venezuelan wars of independence fought gunpowder armies with nothing but machetes, fire-hardened wooden lances, and superb horsemanship, and performed so well that they became the formidable kingmakers during every stage of the conflict.
* BornLucky: Ruefully described as the foremost quality of all "great men," with a special emphasis on Simon Bolivar, who repeatedly survives assassination attempts by pure chance.
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* {{Determinator}}: How Duncan portrays Bolívar in Season 5. It's entirely accurate.
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* {{Determinator}}: How Duncan portrays Bolívar in Season 5.5, never breaking a sworn oath, always getting back up again from every setback no matter how catastrophic. It's entirely accurate.
* EmbarrassingNickname: After seeing that Simon Bolivar could, impossibly, outride all of them, the rough-spoken llaneros cowboys bestowed on him the high honor of nicknaming him "Iron Ass." Whenever Bolivar engages in some feat of riding long distances really fast, Duncan will joke that "They don't call him Iron Ass for nothing!"
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Boves, the caudillo of the Legion of Hell, hated the Spanish almost as much as he hated the native criollos. When he took cities after crushing Bolivar's army, he killed ''everyone'' white, regardless of which side of the conflict they were on.
* IGaveMyWord: Whether out of aristocratic honor or something deeper, Duncan describes Simon Bolivar as considering his oaths SeriousBusiness. When his beloved first wife died young, he swore never to marry again, and though he had many love affairs afterwards and even entered at least one serious relationship with a mistress, who also died young, he never did. When he almost ruined himself at the gambling table in France, and had to borrow money to get it back and repay his creditors, he swore never to gamble again, and while he did some risky things later, he kept to it. When the leader of the Republic of Haiti gave him no-strings-attached supplies and ships to reignite his revolution on the mainland, asking in return only that Bolivar swear he would abolish slavery when he won, Bolivar (whose record on race before was hardly spotless; the Second Republic failed ''because'' he prioritized the white slave-owning class's interests over the common people's) burned political capital for the rest of his career ensuring that liberty and equality would be genuine concerns for every country he liberated, building nationalism without (at least ideologically, if not practically) racial supremacy. And, most famously, during a visit to Rome he and his friends stood on the hill the Plebians had once retreated to to force concessions from the Patricians and swore they would fight to liberate America from Spanish rule or die, and no matter how many times he failed and had to run for his life, Bolivar never stopped coming back to fight again, never considered fleeing and abandoning his dream. Duncan also presents the possibility that Bolivar swore a similar oath never to repeat his mistake after a bunch of royalist prisoners were freed in a plot that helped doom the Republican army, suggesting a later prisoner massacre was the result of attempting to keep it.
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* MagnificentBastard:[[invoked]] Duncan's opinion of Talleyrand (whom he considers highly fascinating), which he highlights both in the main narrative and in the supplemental episode dedicated to him. Duncan points out Talleyrand's rampant corruption (which, Duncan notes, basically started The Quasi War between France and the United States) and his willingness to sell out/betray almost any master he served as well and lists the number of different regimes Talleyrand thrived under.
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* MagnificentBastard:[[invoked]] Duncan's opinion of Talleyrand (whom he considers highly fascinating), which he highlights both in the main narrative and in the supplemental episode dedicated to him. Duncan points out Talleyrand's rampant corruption (which, Duncan notes, basically started The the Quasi War between France and the United States) and his willingness to sell out/betray almost any master he served as well and lists the number of different regimes Talleyrand thrived under.
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* NoSympathy: Mike often tries to take a broad view of even reviled historical figures, trying to assess the good with the bad, no matter how slim, or to understand the historical forces that drove them. A notable and pointed aversion is "Papa Doc" Duvalier, the brutal 20th Century dictator of Haiti, whom he describes as accomplishing absolutely nothing except brutalizing and terrorizing his people with the most corrupt and venal motives imaginable.
* OddFriendship: Nobody expected the aristocratic Simon Bolivar and the illiterate cowboy Paez to get along, but when they met, Bolivar did manage to impress the llaneros with his [[ModestRoyalty modesty]], willingness to play their cowboy games, and even his ability to excel at several of them, even riding longer and harder than the hardy cowboys. While Paez remained a free-spirit who only ever took Bolivar's orders under advisement for the rest of the wars of independence, he quashed any attempts to get him to overthrow Bolivar and take the title of supreme commander for himself, and did respect Simon Bolivar personally.
* OddFriendship: Nobody expected the aristocratic Simon Bolivar and the illiterate cowboy Paez to get along, but when they met, Bolivar did manage to impress the llaneros with his [[ModestRoyalty modesty]], willingness to play their cowboy games, and even his ability to excel at several of them, even riding longer and harder than the hardy cowboys. While Paez remained a free-spirit who only ever took Bolivar's orders under advisement for the rest of the wars of independence, he quashed any attempts to get him to overthrow Bolivar and take the title of supreme commander for himself, and did respect Simon Bolivar personally.
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* RapePillageAndBurn: While many revolutionary and establishment armies engage in it throughout the series, Boves the Legion of Hell from the wars of the Venezuelan Second Republic take the cake. Drawn from the llaneros, mostly mixed-race cowboys native to the Llanos region, Boves Legion of Hell were nominally royalist, but in practice were mostly interested in plundering all the wealth they could get their mitts on and doing unspeakable things to every civilian that fell into their hands.
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Life as a slave in the sugar cane fields of Haiti was absolutely horrifying, even by the standards of, well, slavery. Part of the reason the slave revolt gained so much steam was that there's only so effective the threat of death can be when one's life is already a living death, and when the voodoo religion promised that death freed one's soul to return to Africa.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A snafu in the third season resulted in Duncan accidentally uploading a garbled version of the previous episode instead of a new episode. Some commenters on the podcast website used the comment thread for that episode to write an intentionally ridiculous story touching on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', some bits of actual history (including, of course, Roman history), and an imagined upbraiding of Duncan himself by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. So Duncan recorded an episode where he just read the story as though it was a standard historical narrative (it was only a couple minutes long, fortunately).
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A snafu in the third season resulted in Duncan accidentally uploading a garbled version of the previous episode instead of a new episode. Some commenters on the podcast website used the comment thread for that episode to write an intentionally ridiculous story touching on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', some bits of actual history (including, of course, Roman history), and an imagined upbraiding of Duncan himself by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. So Duncan recorded an episode where he just read the story as though it was a standard historical narrative (it was only a couple minutes long, fortunately).
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Life as a slave in the sugar cane fields of Haiti was absolutely horrifying, even by the standards of, well, slavery. Part of the reason the slave revolt gained so much steam was that there's only so effective the threat of death can be when one's life is already a living death, and when the voodoo religion promised that death freed one's soul to return to Africa.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A snafu in the third season resulted in Duncan accidentally uploading a garbled version of the previous episode instead of a new episode. Some commenters on the podcast website used the comment thread for that episode to write an intentionally ridiculous story touching on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', some bits of actual history (including, of course, Roman history), and an imagined upbraiding of Duncan himself by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. So Duncan recorded an episode where he just read the story as though it was a standard historical narrative (it was only a couple minutes long, fortunately).
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A snafu in the third season resulted in Duncan accidentally uploading a garbled version of the previous episode instead of a new episode. Some commenters on the podcast website used the comment thread for that episode to write an intentionally ridiculous story touching on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', some bits of actual history (including, of course, Roman history), and an imagined upbraiding of Duncan himself by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. So Duncan recorded an episode where he just read the story as though it was a standard historical narrative (it was only a couple minutes long, fortunately).
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* FateWorseThanDeath: Life as a slave in FullCircleRevolution: Well, obviously, but perhaps the sugar cane fields of Haiti was absolutely horrifying, even by the standards of, well, slavery. Part most tragic and emphasized example is Haiti. Through multiple revolutions that killed huge chunks of the reason population, and even literal genocide, the slave revolt gained so much steam was that there's only so effective the threat of death can be when one's life is already a living death, and when the voodoo religion promised that death freed one's soul to return to Africa.
* FormulaBreakingEpisode: A snafu in the third season resulted in Duncan accidentally uploading a garbled versionlot of the previous episode instead of a new episode. Some commenters on the podcast website used the comment thread for that episode black former slaves who had fought so bravely to write an intentionally ridiculous story touching on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', some bits of actual history (including, of course, Roman history), and an imagined upbraiding of Duncan himself by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. So Duncan recorded an episode where he attain their freedom just read didn't change much. From the story as though it was a standard historical narrative (it was only a couple minutes long, fortunately). whips and drivers of the big whites to the clubs and foremen of the Loverturian Republic and Dessaline's empire, the cultivators were still forced to work on plantations for meager rewards under draconian labor laws.
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* VillainousBreakdown: General Leclerc of the ill-fated namesake expedition to retake Saint-Domingue goes, over the course of his military occupation of Haiti from an idealistic young army officer horrified by Toussaint Louverture's harsh labor laws and repulsed by the idea of going back on the revolution's ideals of liberty and equality, to a bungler incapable of securing the loyalties of the native population or retaining the affiliation of the American and British forces supplying him, to an embittered officer tacitly admitting that his replacement is going to reinstate slavery and that it was his job to prepare the colony for that, to a paranoiac shut up in his home base in primitive quarantine alternately begging Napoleon for reinforcements and to relieve him of command before the yellow fever ravaging his troops kills him too, to a dying man, wasting away from yellow fever himself, drafting plans to suppress the insurrection so genocidal that even his successor the vicomte de Rochambeau, himself a racist and twisted sadist, balked at implementing them after his death.
* WartsAndAll: Mike generally sums up major figures after their deaths, and attempts to acknowledge their virtues and flaws.
** He's actually somewhat lenient towards the TropeNamer, pointing out that while Oliver Cromwell did reign as an essential military dictator for much of his time in power, he never stopped ''trying'' to call up legislative bodies to serve as co-leaders in a constitutional government and was generally more stymied by venal figures outside his control than his own autocratic impulses.
** He calls Toussaint Louverture nothing less than a political and military genius, one who only hasn't gotten his fair due because of his status as the face of a state formed from a slave insurrection that the other powers didn't like to acknowledge, but also points out that Loverture's first loyalty was always to himself and his own ambitions as much as to Haiti, that he repeatedly gave himself dictatorial powers and used them tyrannically to press the population into a state that barely differed from slavery, and that he lacked the imagination to see an economic future for Haiti beyond the cash crop plantation economy.
* WartsAndAll: Mike generally sums up major figures after their deaths, and attempts to acknowledge their virtues and flaws.
** He's actually somewhat lenient towards the TropeNamer, pointing out that while Oliver Cromwell did reign as an essential military dictator for much of his time in power, he never stopped ''trying'' to call up legislative bodies to serve as co-leaders in a constitutional government and was generally more stymied by venal figures outside his control than his own autocratic impulses.
** He calls Toussaint Louverture nothing less than a political and military genius, one who only hasn't gotten his fair due because of his status as the face of a state formed from a slave insurrection that the other powers didn't like to acknowledge, but also points out that Loverture's first loyalty was always to himself and his own ambitions as much as to Haiti, that he repeatedly gave himself dictatorial powers and used them tyrannically to press the population into a state that barely differed from slavery, and that he lacked the imagination to see an economic future for Haiti beyond the cash crop plantation economy.
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* TakeThat: Duncan makes a couple glancing and critical references to Thomas Carlyle's ''The French Revolution'' during the season on...well, you know. In one of them he calls the book "famously incomprehensible."
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* AlasPoorVillain: While it's clear he thinks Maximillian Robespierre had well and truly gone off the deep end by the end of the Reign of Terror, Duncan still manages to muster some sympathy for him and his fellow members of the Committee of Public Safety as they all manage to horribly (and not always fatally) injure themselves during the Thermidorian Reaction, then get guillotined without even a show trial, often in agonizing pain and denied all dignity.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Talleyrand may be a sleazy, greedy crook whose loyalty to any given master went exactly as far as his own benefit and no further, but he was still a diplomat and believed his job was to ensure peace rather than a favorable position for the next war. When it became obvious that Emperor Napoleon was planning to conquer the world, or at least Europe, and would probably ultimately destroy France in the process of fulfilling his ambitions, Talleyrand started undermining the Emperor behind his back, advising Tsar Alexander II to reject the alliance he was meeting with the tsar to cement and ultimately getting France a seat at the table and surprisingly favorable terms at the Council of Vienna, ''because'' of how many times he'd stabbed Napoleon in the back.
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* {{Plunder}}: When revolutionary France couldn't print its way out of its economic problems, but the levee en masse and a number of clever generals proved very adept at conquering other nations, the Republic started instead patching holes in its leaking economy by extracting every particle of wealth out of other nations, while letting soldiers keep loot and live off the land as an incentive to enlist and fight. This especially ramped up after the Thermidorian Reaction and led directly to the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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** In general, "utopian" political ideologies like the Diggers during the English civil war or Robespierre's attempts to build his "Republic of Virtue" during the Great Terror get nothing but scorn from Duncan.
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* PregnantBadass: Episode 16 of season 5 is devoted to Simon Bolivar's grueling trek through the mountains in the middle of winter. Duncan halts the narrative to bring up a woman who accompanied the army despite being nine months' pregnant, [[UpToEleven gave birth in the middle of the trek]], and then kept up the pace baby-in-tow like it was nothing. In a show full of examples of daring revolutionary bravado, Duncan names it the single most badass moment he ever heard of.
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* PregnantBadass: Episode 16 of season 5 is devoted to Simon Bolivar's grueling trek through the mountains in the middle of winter. Duncan halts the narrative to bring up a woman who accompanied the army despite being nine months' pregnant, [[UpToEleven gave birth in the middle of the trek]], trek, and then kept up the pace baby-in-tow like it was nothing. In a show full of examples of daring revolutionary bravado, Duncan names it the single most badass moment he ever heard of.
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* Season 6 (March-May 2017; 7 episodes plus 5 supplementals): The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem July Revolution of 1830]]. Because of the lightning-quick pace of events, Duncan took the opportunity to give a minute-by-minute blow-by-blow account of the revolution in the core four episodes (6.04 through 6.07) on the narrative of the "Three Glorious Days".[[note]]It is therefore the season that most gets into the nitty-gritty of how a revolution actually works to overthrow an entrenched regime.[[/note]] Duncan also took the opportunity here to add some additional supplements on the Belgian Revolution, the June Rebellion of 1832[[note]]Which Duncan himself says nobody would know or care about today if not for ''Literature/LesMiserables''[[/note]], the Carbonari, and Metternich.
* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): The UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes. That said, that's 32 episodes--of which fully 20 were actual narrative rather than setting the table or summing up--for a revolution that was over and done with within the space of 18 months (from the Sicilian revolt in January 1848 to the surrender of Venice to Marshal Radetzky in August 1849). Outside of Season 6 and Season 8 (which devotes 4 narrative episodes to the 2 months of the Paris Commune), this is the highest ratio of real time to episodes of any of the revolutions.[[/note]]
* Season 8 (April-June 2018; 8 episodes): The Paris Commune. Another "mini-season", but with a lot of buildup. [[note]] The first episode dealt with the history of the Second Empire up until the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar, and the next three were about the war itself (particularly the Siege of Paris); the actual Commune doesn’t get started until the fifth episode.[[/note]]
* Season 9 (August 2018-March 2019, 27 episodes): The [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexican Revolution]].[[note]] This one was also open-ended, due to its complexity and length, as well as needing several episodes to set the table. (Also, Duncan was producing from Paris, where he lived from July 2018 through April 2021 while writing a biography of the UsefulNotes/MarquisDeLaFayette; the irony that he moved there ''after'' finishing the last and most Paris-centric French revolution was not lost on him.)[[/note]]
* Season 10 (May 2019-July 2022, 103 episodes): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of a hiatus Duncan had to take in 2020 (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[[/note]]
* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): The UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes. That said, that's 32 episodes--of which fully 20 were actual narrative rather than setting the table or summing up--for a revolution that was over and done with within the space of 18 months (from the Sicilian revolt in January 1848 to the surrender of Venice to Marshal Radetzky in August 1849). Outside of Season 6 and Season 8 (which devotes 4 narrative episodes to the 2 months of the Paris Commune), this is the highest ratio of real time to episodes of any of the revolutions.[[/note]]
* Season 8 (April-June 2018; 8 episodes): The Paris Commune. Another "mini-season", but with a lot of buildup. [[note]] The first episode dealt with the history of the Second Empire up until the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar, and the next three were about the war itself (particularly the Siege of Paris); the actual Commune doesn’t get started until the fifth episode.[[/note]]
* Season 9 (August 2018-March 2019, 27 episodes): The [[UsefulNotes/TheMexicanRevolution Mexican Revolution]].[[note]] This one was also open-ended, due to its complexity and length, as well as needing several episodes to set the table. (Also, Duncan was producing from Paris, where he lived from July 2018 through April 2021 while writing a biography of the UsefulNotes/MarquisDeLaFayette; the irony that he moved there ''after'' finishing the last and most Paris-centric French revolution was not lost on him.)[[/note]]
* Season 10 (May 2019-July 2022, 103 episodes): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of a hiatus Duncan had to take in 2020 (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[[/note]]
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* Season 6 (March-May 2017; 7 episodes plus 5 supplementals): The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem July Revolution of 1830]]. Because of the lightning-quick pace of events, Duncan took the opportunity to give a minute-by-minute blow-by-blow account of the revolution in the core four episodes (6.04 through 6.07) on the narrative of the "Three Glorious Days".[[note]]It is therefore the season that most gets into the nitty-gritty of how a revolution actually works to overthrow an entrenched regime.[[/note]] Duncan also took the opportunity here to add some additional supplements on the Belgian Revolution, the June Rebellion of 1832[[note]]Which Duncan himself says nobody would know or care about today if not for ''Literature/LesMiserables''[[/note]], 1832 (made famous by ''Literature/LesMiserables''), the Carbonari, and Metternich.
* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): TheUsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes. That said, that's 32 episodes--of which fully 20 were actual narrative rather than setting the table or summing up--for a revolution that was over and done with within the space of 18 months (from the Sicilian revolt in January 1848 to the surrender of Venice to Marshal Radetzky in August 1849). Outside of Season 6 and Season 8 (which devotes 4 narrative episodes to the 2 months of the Paris Commune), this is the highest ratio of real time to episodes of any of the revolutions.[[/note]]
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* Season 8 (April-June 2018; 8 episodes): The Paris Commune. Another "mini-season", but with a lot ofbuildup. [[note]] The first episode dealt with the history of the Second Empire up until the UsefulNotes/FrancoPrussianWar, and the next three were about the war itself (particularly the Siege of Paris); buildup -- the actual Commune doesn’t get started doesn't show up until the fifth episode.[[/note]]
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* Season 6 (March-May 2017; 7 episodes plus 5 supplementals): The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem July Revolution of 1830]]. Because of the lightning-quick pace of events, Duncan took the opportunity to give a minute-by-minute blow-by-blow account of the revolution in the core four episodes (6.04 through 6.07) on the narrative of the "Three Glorious Days".[[note]]It is therefore the season that most gets into the nitty-gritty of how a revolution actually works to overthrow an entrenched regime.[[/note] [[/note]] Duncan also took the opportunity here to add some additional supplements on the Belgian Revolution, the June Rebellion of 1832[[note]]Which Duncan himself says nobody would know or care about today if not for ''Literature/LesMiserables''[[/note]], the Carbonari, and Metternich.
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* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): The UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes.[[/note]]
* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): The UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes.[[/note]]
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* Season 6 (March-May 2017; 7 episodes plus 5 supplementals): The [[UsefulNotes/FrenchPoliticalSystem July Revolution of 1830]], with 1830]]. Because of the lightning-quick pace of events, Duncan took the opportunity to give a minute-by-minute blow-by-blow account of the revolution in the core four episodes (6.04 through 6.07) giving the narrative of the "Three Glorious Days". Duncan also took the opportunity here to add some additional supplements on the Belgian Revolution, the June Rebellion of 1832[[note]]Which Duncan himself says nobody would know or care about today if not for ''Literature/LesMiserables''[[/note]], the Carbonari, and Metternich.
* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): The UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes. That said, that's 32 episodes--of which fully 20 were actual narrative rather than setting the table or summing up--for a revolution that was over and done with within the space of 18 months (from the Sicilian revolt in January 1848 to the surrender of Venice to Marshal Radetzky in August 1849). Outside of Season 6 and Season 8 (which devotes 4 narrative episodes to the 2 months of the Paris Commune), this is the highest ratio of real time to episodes of any of the revolutions.[[/note]]
* Season 7 (July 2017-March 2018; 32 episodes): The UsefulNotes/RevolutionsOf1848.[[note]]Because of this revolution's "insanity", Duncan declared that Season 7 would be an open-ended one that would end when it ends (much like the French Revolution); this did happen somewhat more quickly than he expected, wrapping up at 32 episodes. That said, that's 32 episodes--of which fully 20 were actual narrative rather than setting the table or summing up--for a revolution that was over and done with within the space of 18 months (from the Sicilian revolt in January 1848 to the surrender of Venice to Marshal Radetzky in August 1849). Outside of Season 6 and Season 8 (which devotes 4 narrative episodes to the 2 months of the Paris Commune), this is the highest ratio of real time to episodes of any of the revolutions.[[/note]]
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* OldSoldier: Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Field Marshal of the Austrian Empire: Duncan takes pains to note that Radetzky really was an ''81-year-old'' veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution the French Revolutionary Wars]] and the UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars when the First War of Italian Independence started in 1848--and that Radetzky was one of the sharpest commanders and shrewdest political strategists the Austrians had in any theater of 1848.
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* OldSoldier: Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Field Marshal of the Austrian Empire: Duncan takes pains to note that Radetzky really was an ''81-year-old'' veteran of [[UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution the French Revolutionary Wars]] and the UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars when the First War of Italian Independence started in March 1848--and that Radetzky was one of the sharpest commanders and shrewdest political strategists the Austrians had in any theater of 1848.
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** In the American Revolution season, he referred to a British admiral as being 86 years old. A few episodes later he issued a correction, acknowledging that the admiral was actually 68 years old, not 86, which he admitted made much more sense. In that same episode the admiral made another appearance, and Duncan straight-facedly referred to him as "the 137-year-old" admiral. When in a much later season there really was an octogenarian figure, Duncan felt it necessary to point out that this time he made no mistake and the man really was that old.
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** In the American Revolution season, he referred to a British admiral as being 86 years old. A few episodes later he issued a correction, acknowledging that the admiral was actually 68 years old, not 86, which he admitted made much more sense. In that same episode the admiral made another appearance, and Duncan straight-facedly referred to him as "the 137-year-old" admiral. When This led to a humorous callback in a much later season there really was an octogenarian figure, Season 7, when Duncan felt it necessary to point out when introducing Marshal Radetzky that this time he made no mistake and the man really was that old. 81 in 1848 and he was not making a mistake this time.
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* Season 10 (May 2019-June 2022): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of a hiatus Duncan had to take in 2020 (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[[/note]]
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* Season 10 (May 2019-June 2022): 2019-July 2022, 103 episodes): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of a hiatus Duncan had to take in 2020 (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[[/note]]
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* Season 10 (May 2019-June 2022): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of a hiatus Duncan had to take in 2020 (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[/note]]Russia)[[/note]]
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* Season 10 (May 2019-June 2022): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of the a hiatus Duncan had to take in 2020 (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[/note]]
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* Season 10 (May 2019-June 2022): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of the hiatus (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[/note]]
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* Season 10 (May 2019-June 2022): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last "proper" season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of the hiatus (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[/note]]
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* Season 10 (May 2019-?): The [[UsefulNotes/RomanovsAndRevolutions Russian]] [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Revolution]]. Officially surpassed The French Revolution as the podcast's longest season in July 2021. Planned as the last season of the show. [[note]] A doozy of a season, based on the length of the hiatus (which he described as less a break and more a "short sabbatical") and the amount of background information needed to set the table for it (as for the Russian Revolution to make sense, you have to explain the various ideologies of the late Imperial Russian Left, which meant Duncan had to spend the first several episodes explaining the International Workingmen's Association, which required an explanation of the tensions between Marxist historical-materialist socialism and Bakunin's collectivist anarchism, which in turn required crash courses on both theories, which in turn required summaries of the lives and times of Creator/KarlMarx and Creator/MikhailBakunin--all before even starting to lay out the pre-revolutionary situation in Russia)[/note]]
The podcast's final season will be season 10, as Duncan has indicated he will most likely finish it sometime in 2022, though a precise date is still up in the air.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The tenth season episode "Anarchy in Ukraine" is a rare ''triple''-meaning title: it refers to both the look at the Anarchist movement in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution under Nestor Makhno but also the general societal upheaval and conflicts brought upon Ukraine during the First World War and Russian Civil War. It's also a reference to the famous Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the UK."
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: A snafu in the third season resulted in Duncan accidentally uploading a garbled version of the previous episode instead of a new episode. Some commenters on the podcast website used the comment thread for that episode to write an intentionally ridiculous story touching on ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'', ''Series/BabylonFive'', ''Literature/{{Dune}}'', ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'', ''Film/DrStrangelove'', some bits of actual history (including, of course, Roman history), and an imagined upbraiding of Duncan himself by none other than Napoleon Bonaparte. So Duncan recorded an episode where he just read the story as though it was a standard historical narrative (it was only a couple minutes long, fortunately).
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The tenth season episode "Anarchy in Ukraine" refers to both the look at the Anarchist movement in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution under Nestor Makhno but also the general societal upheaval and conflicts brought upon Ukraine during the First World War and Russian Civil War.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: The tenth season episode "Anarchy in Ukraine" is a rare ''triple''-meaning title: it refers to both the look at the Anarchist movement in Ukraine during the Russian Revolution under Nestor Makhno but also the general societal upheaval and conflicts brought upon Ukraine during the First World War and Russian Civil War. It's also a reference the famous Sex Pistols song "Anarchy in the UK."
