# The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005.md RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/11533929c/podcast/rss Official site: http://jeremyryanslate.com/category/podcast/ Author: Jeremy Ryan Slate Episodes: 111 ## Resource The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show is a bi-weekly investigation into how power really works—across history, empires, and the modern world. Each episode draws on two core lenses: Hidden forces behind history —royal murders, lost colonies, financial systems, modern elites, NGOs, propaganda, and the quiet mechanisms that shape events long before they reach the headlines. And the Roman pattern —the idea that today’s crises aren’t new. Currency collapse, political division, border chaos, military overreach—Rome faced them all first. The Roman Empire spent centuries making every mistake a civilization can make, and left behind a playbook we’re following again, page by page. Through expert conversations with historians, researchers, and serious thinkers—and deep dives into primary sources, documents, and records—this show connects ancient history to modern power with evidence, not opinion. You’ll learn to: • Recognize collapse signals before they’re obvious • Understand modern crises through ancient parallels • See how empires actually rise, decay, and fall • Spot the patterns shaping what comes next From medieval conspiracies to modern cover-ups, from Augustus to Constantine, from ancient Rome… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005.md ## Episodes - [Henry VIII: The King Who Turned His Father's Ledger Into a Weapon.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/henry-viii-the-king-who-turned-his-father-s-ledger-into-a-weapon) — 2026-07-29T11:00:00+00:00 - [Money, Borders, Power: The Pattern That Actually Killed Rome](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/money-borders-power-the-pattern-that-actually-killed-rome) — 2026-07-27T11:00:00+00:00 - [Henry VII: The Tax Accountant Who Reinvented the English Monarchy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/henry-vii-the-tax-accountant-who-reinvented-the-english-monarchy) — 2026-07-22T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Real Reason the Catholic Church Still Runs on Roman Rules](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-real-reason-the-catholic-church-still-runs-on-roman-rules) — 2026-07-20T13:13:38+00:00 - [The Habsburg Jaw: Why the Empire That Ruled the World Couldn't Chew](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-habsburg-jaw-why-the-empire-that-ruled-the-world-couldn-t-chew) — 2026-07-15T11:00:00+00:00 - [Britain: What Real Civilizational Collapse Actually Looks Like](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/britain-what-real-civilizational-collapse-actually-looks-like) — 2026-07-13T11:00:00+00:00 - [Napoleon Didn't Take Power. France Voted To Give It To Him.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/napoleon-didn-t-take-power-france-voted-to-give-it-to-him) — 2026-07-08T11:00:00+00:00 - [Justinian's Reconquest Destroyed More of Rome Than the Barbarians](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/justinian-s-reconquest-destroyed-more-of-rome-than-the-barbarians) — 2026-07-06T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Wars of the Roses: How England's Aristocracy Killed Itself in 30 Years](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-wars-of-the-roses-how-england-s-aristocracy-killed-itself-in-30-years) — 2026-07-01T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Kingdom That Tried to Be Roman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-kingdom-that-tried-to-be-roman) — 2026-06-29T11:00:00+00:00 - [476 AD Is Wrong. Here's When Rome Actually Fell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/476-ad-is-wrong-here-s-when-rome-actually-fell) — 2026-06-24T11:00:00+00:00 - [Rome Didn't Fall — Here's What Actually Happened](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/rome-didn-t-fall-here-s-what-actually-happened) — 2026-06-22T11:00:00+00:00 - [Scottish Clan Tartans Aren't Ancient. They Were Invented in 1842 by Two English Con Men.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/scottish-clan-tartans-aren-t-ancient-they-were-invented-in-1842-by-two-english-con-men) — 2026-06-18T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Real Fall of Rome](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-real-fall-of-rome) — 2026-06-15T11:00:00+00:00 - [1066: England Wasn't Conquered at Hastings. It Was Conquered in the 20 Years After.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/1066-england-wasn-t-conquered-at-hastings-it-was-conquered-in-the-20-years-after) — 2026-06-10T11:00:00+00:00 - [Slaves Opened the Gates of Rome (Not Barbarians)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/slaves-opened-the-gates-of-rome-not-barbarians) — 2026-06-08T11:00:00+00:00 - [Yellow Journalism: The Architecture of Modern Manipulation](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/yellow-journalism-the-architecture-of-modern-manipulation) — 2026-06-03T11:00:00+00:00 - [Rome Killed the Man Who Was Saving It](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/rome-killed-the-man-who-was-saving-it) — 2026-06-01T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Okhrana: How Tsarist Russia Invented the Surveillance State the KGB Inherited](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-okhrana-how-tsarist-russia-invented-the-surveillance-state-the-kgb-inherited) — 2026-05-27T11:00:00+00:00 - [How Rome's Last Emperor Gave Up the Border (Theodosius)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/how-rome-s-last-emperor-gave-up-the-border-theodosius) — 2026-05-25T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Reign of Terror: 18 Months From the King's Execution to Robespierre's](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-reign-of-terror-18-months-from-the-king-s-execution-to-robespierre-s) — 2026-05-20T11:00:00+00:00 - [Adrianople: The Day Rome Actually Fell](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/adrianople-the-day-rome-actually-fell) — 2026-05-18T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Pattern: How American Assassinations Reshape Policy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-pattern-how-american-assassinations-reshape-policy) — 2026-05-13T11:00:00+00:00 - [Julian the Apostate: The Reversal That Couldn't Happen](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/julian-the-apostate-the-reversal-that-couldn-t-happen) — 2026-05-11T11:00:00+00:00 - [The Augustus System: How to Replace a Republic Without Anyone Noticing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005/the-augustus-system-how-to-replace-a-republic-without-anyone-noticing) — 2026-05-06T14:21:25+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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