{"podcast":{"title":"The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show","slug":"the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005","podcast_index_feed_id":1102005,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11533929c/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://jeremyryanslate.com/category/podcast/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/46406687/44069af3de507738.png","author":"Jeremy Ryan Slate","episode_count":111,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T22:20:23.824724+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005"},"episode":{"title":"1066: England Wasn't Conquered at Hastings. It Was Conquered in the 20 Years After.","slug":"1066-england-wasn-t-conquered-at-hastings-it-was-conquered-in-the-20-years-after","published_at":"2026-06-10T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-jeremy-ryan-slate-show-1102005","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jeremyryanslateshow/episodes/1066-England-Wasnt-Conquered-at-Hastings--It-Was-Conquered-in-the-20-Years-After-e3mdg1n","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/11533929c/podcast/play/123174391/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-6-22%2F428418344-48000-2-730a03d3e22c41fd.mp3","summary":"History tells us England was conquered at Hastings. That's the cover story. What happened on October 14, 1066 was a single afternoon of fighting that ended with Harold Godwinson dead in the dirt and William the Conqueror in possession of a battlefield. But conquest is not what happens on a battlefield. It's what happens in the 20 years afterward. In those 20 years, roughly 10,000 Normans replaced the ruling class of an entire kingdom of 2 million people. The old aristocracy. The old church hierarchy. The old landowners. All of them gone — not gradually over centuries, but in a single generation. By 1086, only 8% of England was still in Anglo-Saxon hands. The Domesday Book documented the new order in 800 pages and 2 million words, in a single year of administrative work that has no parallel in pre-industrial European history. This isn't conspiracy. It isn't ideology. It's architecture — and the architecture the Normans installed underneath the battle became the blueprint every successful conquering elite has read since. In this conversation with David Mainayar of the @Empire-Builders podcast: → Anglo-Saxon England in 1065: the most centralized, monetized state in northwestern Europe — and why three rulers genuinely believed they had a claim to it → The three weeks in September and October 1066 that contained the most jam-packed military sequence in medieval history — Stamford Bridge, the forced march south, then Hastings → The Harrying of the North (1069-1070): William's near-genocidal three-month campaign that depopulated up to 75% of the region and ended Anglo-Saxon resistance → The 500 castles built by the end of William's reign — and why the castle-and-knight system was the actual mechanism of the conquest → The Domesday Book: William's 800-page survey of England, w…","meta_description":"History tells us England was conquered at Hastings. That's the cover story. 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