Pilot Episode - Europe and the Great Gunpowder Race
Today on our very first special episode of The Contemplation Deck on the Stern Ship Log I spend some time reflecting with a real life friend and fellow small time Substacker
. Fish and Jish is an arts major who writes a lot of excellent pieces on history, political intrigue, geography and even James Bond.The stimulus for today’s first episode is the video Why was Europe better with guns? by History Clarified on Youtube which inspired a deep reflection in me when I first saw it last year. It answered the question as to how Europe became the dominant continental power on the world stage through the use of handheld firepower and artillery, when gunpowder was first invented and put into wide use in Ancient China.
Missing from today’s episode was my friend
who I intend to bring on promptly for another episode for his excellent podcast episodes and articles on history in Asia, America and his in depth knowledge of all history and politics Antipodean (Australia and NZ) for someone born in the states and living a lot of his life in mother’s country of Korea.I first discovered him commenting on some of my first episodes I did with
which I will bury in the comments for more interested viewers on the background trivia of this broadcast. Him and Sunshine did some great episodes on living in Asia, foreign policy and related geographical, historical and political topics.
As in usual Walt Bismarck provocative outrageous fashion, there’s a couple other episodes I can’t feature. Still, I feel like as I have written about online Gen Z humour and online millennial humour when it comes to the edginess and provocation it’s all a layer of different experiences and insights which sometimes prove to be genuinely interesting. I wouldn’t otherwise point to his publication if I didn’t feel it gave me some solid entertainment and thought on some of these topics. Even if I do on oft occasion find myself thinking Mr Bismarck can be a little too stupid and outrageous for his own good.
Another person mentioned into the episode was
, before a big segway into the topics of life in rural Australia and the inspiration for a lot of Australian humour and its online presence in animated series. He also appeared with me once on a Walt Bismarck episode which I will hide from the direct description here purely because it did get quite hot and spicy in some sections in usual Sasquatch style, as both Fish and I know with close amicability with him in real life.Nevertheless, it goes into some honest takes on Australian founding history, how rough it genuinely got and how these events which really formed our perspectives on life and what we had to struggle through as a country really forged a general publican’s world view which you might find at just about any pub.
Otherwise mentioned in the later meandering to this topic was:
Sassy the Sasquatch and their origins as a character in The Big Lez Show staple late millennial and early Gen Z online animated Australian entertainment.
Australian animator Michael Cussack’s Damo and Darren and its reflection on outrageous inconceivable eccentricity in rural, coastal and economically disenfranchised regions of Australia which will probably still exist after the nukes drop.
Fellow Australian construction design and project development industry professional
who works as an urban designer. He writes in a highly accessible humorous form express how their excellent pragmatically visionary pieces seek to solve some of Australia’s most persistent socioeconomic and asset equity issues.
Until next time. Remember, all discretionary reflections are your own even if you hold your opinion for five seconds.
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