The Mad God of the Yucatán

[@DJPeachCobbler]

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[@adrunkenloner]

Gay sex

[@PugofPugs]

but i dont want to save money

[@JackWse]

You're wrong, January is objectively the worst month... It never stops pissing.. and there's only 4 hours of daylight. Also Raycon are garbage you can get for about 3.50 on AliExpress... Somehow managing to be even worse than boes.

[@Samm815]

How much money do I give you to play and review Expeditions Rome and Conquistador?

[@mrmrpersonman7274]

Thank you for your service

[@wojak-sensei6424]

In all seriousness Cobbler, in all my years casually studying history, you're the first out of many KZbinrs that made it interesting to talk about again. You facilitate an environment where biases and flawed retellings are not only accepted, but dissected and given proper analysis. Because when most would skip straight to the facts, you highlight the more human elements of these moments. It's one thing to disregard flawed works of historical evidence, but I think it's high time we got to question why those flaws exist in the first place, to paint a picture about the people behind these events. And isn't that what history is all about? The story of human beings, not simply what they do and have affected. And for that, I have immense respect for you. Keep up the good work, femboy.

[@thisismysuperawesomeusername]

Thank you for this relatively concise comment that puts such thoughts and feelings into words. Helps my dumbass understand how i feel about this mad fucker. Thanks, femboy. :3

[@uchiigtana]

a comment soaked in absolute pretentious cringe. i would expect nothing less from an acct named "wojak-sensei"

[@NukeSiliconValley]

@@uchiigtana just say you feel attacked when you see someone smarter than you. or that you're insecure. either works.

[@NationalLiberty24]

@@uchiigtana tha fuck does that even mean lmao

[@gooddoggo3547]

@@uchiigtana wasn't even pretentious. I have read pretentious. As nuke said, You wish you could formulate a thought like OP, and bless you because there is not a single thought in your mind that is worth telling anyone about.

[@2Trundle]

peach cobbler really stretching for that 10 minute mark huh

[@gavinvannest2021]

Ya, it’s sad to see a KZbin of such integrity and academic standards sell out

[@rmw9420]

bro think we wouldn't notice him going for that 10 minute ad revenue 💀

[@belablanck]

He could've done twelve ten minute videos instead of this one

[@bad1080]

with the intro?

[@Fritz-co4pb]

Why is he so buff. Please I thought he was scrawny but the idea if this slightly above average man strangling me while wearing a dress makes me certain I could not fight him off

[@markzoide]

TWO HOURS??? HOLY, THE INMATES ARE RUNNING THE ASYLUM

[@Sr.Pirulito]

He became a bread tuber!

[@baz5042]

He’s always has

[@screwstatists7324]

Giftedness sure is special

[@kourtneyr.scruggs0988]

It’s like Arkham during Christmas time and the entire Batfamily is sick with Covid under quarantine. Pure chaos will ensue for literal hours.

[@sunsinger970]

Yeah me I'm running arykam get in line for hehe gehenna bitches

[@AncientAmericas]

This was amazing! I didn't even realize that a two hour treatment of de Landa was even possible but you nailed it. You definitely know more about de Landa than I ever will but there is one little detail that I want to add that I think you'd appreciate. In de Landa's writings, there an act of Maya resistance hidden in the text. When de Landa was trying to get a Maya scribe to teach him Maya writing, he asked the scribe to write down the Spanish alphabet in Maya (which can't work because the Maya never used an alphabet, they used a syllabary with logograms and that approach doomed de Landa's efforts at ever understanding or using the script). De Landa meticulously recorded his process, what he asked the scribe and what the scribe wrote. (The dude may have been a fanatical monster but he took good notes on this occasion.) At one point during this process, he asked the scribe to write a Maya sentence, whatever he wanted. Since the decipherment of Maya script, we can read the scribe's words but de Landa never could and I suspect the scribe knew that his master would never understand it or he just didn't care. The scribe responded to the prompt by writing the words "I don't want to" and that single sentence speaks volumes about what this educated Maya man thought about de Landa. (For the record, I have no clue if this event happened before or after his auto de fe.)

[@DBxSnowman]

And in the tradition of Europeans "discovering" places and things where there are already people, de Landa had unknowingly discovered the Americas' first sigma male.

[@gurpreetbajwa4490]

You and Cobbler should do a Colab

[@HavanaSyndrome69]

@@DBxSnowman No matter where you are in the Americas, Indians have a really good sense of humor. They're really funny. He may have hated de Landa. He could also have been making a great joke.

[@Serpillard]

The idea that Diego de Landa's own notes ended up as a smoking pile of ash is peak irony. It won't bring back the books he burned, but it still brings a smile to my face.

[@goroakechi6126]

His notes being burned is even more ironic given that it led modern historians to assume he was the raving, insane zealot that he was. Same thing he tried to do to the Maya was done to him.

[@OnTheFlipSideShow]

"I am gay and I am racist, I've gotta go measure my boyfriends skull" Fucking wild

[@ulizez89]

Indeed, and I wonder how many people didn't catch the joke! (You got to be into that OG racist stuff to get it!)

[@OnTheFlipSideShow]

@@ulizez89 phrenology is objectively hilarious

[@gonzalocampos7875]

Hi, are you new here?

[@OnTheFlipSideShow]

@@gonzalocampos7875 been following along since 3k subscribers.

[@spawel1]

@@ulizez89 phrenology is relatively popular on tiktok iirc

[@darkem93]

55:57 “the ends can never justify the means, nothing ever ends” goes way harder than it should

[@stevecooper7883]

It's also not true but still a good intention. Utilitarianism is weaponized autism to the worst degree.

[@olahisawsome]

Slap it on a t shirt

[@bamaha24]

They can make a religion out of this

[@shartsmcginty8056]

@@bamaha24 No, don't.

[@parashkevdraganov2395]

Goes hard? What?

[@treyperkins3841]

My schizophrenia pills can wait dj posted

[@georgeorwell8501]

All the voices in my head are hyped for this one.

[@treyperkins3841]

@@georgeorwell8501fbi agent vibing with me rn

[@treyperkins3841]

@@georgeorwell8501certified psych ward classic

[@solutionless123]

He started singing reading rainbow as I read this comment and I momentarily became extremely concerned about my own mental health

[@artpkaful]

My pills make every emotion the same. Now I can watch DJ cobbler.

[@Dreg-dd4nq]

4:19 “the textbooks will give you the names of all the dead men. But they never tell you how they slept” is such a raw fucking bar.

[@nomisunrider6472]

The story of De Landa wandering into a Maya religious ceremony, smashing the idols, and then preaching so fervently and perfectly that everyone immediately converted and begged him to stay and teach them more is the most “and then everyone clapped” bullshit I’ve ever heard. You missed one of my favorite details of the inquisition: having no actual people to point to as victims of human sacrifice, De Landa declared that one lost person had been sacrificed since there was no body to contradict him. The guy later turned up alive.

[@void-creature]

5:32 "I'm not saying the Romans were simple-minded barbarous monsters - I'm saying *_humans_* are barbarous monsters, and we are not simple." That line goes INSANELY hard, holy shit.

[@tylershadlow5792]

cool saying was cool. ftfy

[@memeboi6017]

Man discovered the doctrine of total depravity

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

It's incorrect though. Romans(as a society as a whole) fit that description, but humanity as a whole does not.

[@memeboi6017]

@@casteanpreswyn7528 yes it definitley true, we are barbarous monsters that need to be pacified

[@trololopez2437]

Doesn't that mean that, being Inhumane is ironically humane?

[@KimKhan]

I once had a conversation with an ex-military man. He was American, and he was the one ranging in and aiming the bombs from bomb planes in the Vietnam War. Something he said about religion reminds me of one or two of the Spanish fellas in this video. "If someone hates you, there are limits to how far he would go to kill you. But if he wants to save you, he will have no limits."

[@thtb]

But that has never been true? Imagine for example, people want to save themselves or there loved one. It clearly always had a limit. Do a reality check

[@lmaolol9357]

​@@thtb Nuh-uh, old man say cool thing >:(

[@rancorious7785]

@@thtbokay, FUN POLICE

[@sanguineregis5354]

​@thtb and yet that limit is very different from the limit people will go to to simply kill you because they hate you.

[@retaineddawn7590]

@@thtb I guess the idea is “I hate this guys kid, however I would like to punish him while still being alive myself” Vs “I love my kid, I would die to keep him safe”

[@reginorodriguez7904]

I'm sure DJ peach cobbler will never see this. But my greatest regret was to receive a better perspective on my people than I could ever imagine ... from a gringo.

[@nomms]

I am sorry about your loss

[@biggiecheez6879]

It's gonna be okay we all suffer sometimes

[@declineofthewest.]

Gringos are life

[@MonerLaine]

@@declineofthewest.they are death incarnated if anything

[@himl994]

It’s almost like what the Mayan’s must’ve felt from their encounter with Diego de Landa when they were trying to sacrifice that little boy, huh?

[@charlieterry8506]

Here's to either pay back for the books you have already bought, or to the books you will soon buy. Your methods of explaining history and through the lens of your perspective, has reignited my love of history like breath on the embers of a cooling fire. Thank you.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Thank you! Libgen is down so I’ll definitely find a book for this lol

[@VolumeCheese]

@@DJPeachCobbler Not sure if libgen is still down but there is always anna's archive.

[@drpoppyseed]

@@VolumeCheeseor zlibrary

[@VolumeCheese]

@@drpoppyseed True

[@seamussmyth1928]

You know he's just going to spend it on chalk...

[@swiffersweatjet7815]

'Historian' is not a protected term, you teach history to hundreds of thousands of people, you're a historian.

[@Enzo_honey]

While the label can definitely be falsely given to people who twist history to fit their own narrative my favourite tatctical femboyis is definitely not one of them. He really is a historian

[@charlieterry8506]

@@Enzo_honey Can it even be argued that those who twist history are still historians, just horrible ones?

[@Romapolitan]

​@@charlieterry8506Pretty sure it's not defined by being 100% correct, but just doing research and compiling it. That's why you get historians just making stuff up, avoiding responsibility by saying "it is said" and cherry picking information for convenient narratives. Ancient records are made by "historians", but they are often most likely pretty unreliable, because of political bias, personal grudges, just including myths (making it hard to differentiate between what are real events and people and what not) or just having 3rd hand accounts of some people even existing. Don't remember which vountry but I think Korea had pretty reliable historians because nobody was allowed to mess or look at what was written down by the scribes. And the scriptures were actually kept at 4 different locations so they wouldn't be destroyed and rewritten.

[@chiefnastygaming8485]

I second this statement.

[@CyberLou]

By that definition. Is a history teacher a historian?

[@Yani_Ya]

this guy's documented descent into madness gotta be one of the most entertaining things on youtube

[@josecarlosmoreno9731]

One man's descent into madness is another's ascent into enlightenment.

[@Projectdarke]

Diego or DJ?😊

[@Yani_Ya]

@@Projectdarke DJ's, but now that you said it I think it's both

[@tempy2440]

¿Desçent?

[@abdimalikelmi729]

Classic euro L

[@sirnonapplicable]

"I gotta measure my boyfriend's skull" dude, its not even been 15 min and I'm already rolling.

[@AC-hj9tv]

😂😂Fr

[@cvanceter]

That quote came 15 minutes and 21 seconds in the video you LIAR

[@85isaboat53]

Am dead

[@benjaminrichey278]

I had to pull over and collect myself after that.eyes waterin!!

[@flubz5457]

Dude is absolutely wild 😂😂 always saying some outta pocket shit that has me dying

[@HandsAreNice]

A big thank you Cobbler for releasing a new video for me to watch while my wife and her boyfriend go out tonight! Keep up the good work!

[@Toxic8arbarian]

You had me in the first half chief im not gonna hold ya.

[@humanperson7411]

I love this comment

[@erebus1134]

Man... 🚩 but I'm glad you enjoy history. Focusing on history makes our current moments seem purposeful. Maybe not right, or just, or fair, but it has a string of causes. Seems like fate. There's a peace in that. To our worlds craziness that seems normal for some reason.

[@kyle9401]

You should share the video with her boyfriend.

[@kamek7361]

yay poly pride!

[@ehnehm]

55:50 "These men fell for it: the idea that 'the ends justify the means', but the ends can never justify the means. Nothing ever ends" goes HARD (feel free to screenshot)

[@Itcouldbebunnies]

Fun fact: The Dutch Republic had no qualms about entering into an alliance with the Ottomans, going sofar as to distribute medaillons enscribed with the words 'liver turcx dan pavs' (rather Turkish than pope). Quoting from Jan Fruytiers' 1577 work on the relief of Leiden (translated as best I can): "For they considered the tiranny of the Pope greater than that of the Turk, who at least left the conscience of the people undisturbed as long as they paid their tribute, and who also is more true to his word than the Pope."

[@lemoydubs9313]

I have been watching your videos for a while now, from well before the time you decided to shift into history as the main focus of your channel, and I have to say this is one of the videos that have somewhat... shifted a gear inside me. I have always held your views upon history and themes with great esteem, since they seem so sincere, specially when combined with the ramblings of a madman. I particularly share your frustration as to being unable of unveiling the secrets of our past and equal fascination of the very way history is told and the underlaying intricacies of said ways history is written. I am mexican, and while I believe this is most likely a universal school experience, I have first handedly experienced the view taught to us from childhood to look at our history as a glory filled epic which we take for granted, and frankly I shared said lens for a good chunk of my life. But as I've learned and accepted the great and infamous sides of history it has become inspiring to look into the very nature of humanity and individuals as they navigate through their times, societies and circumstances without the luxury we have of knowing the full consequences of their actions, which I believe has opened me to a way of understanding, not focusing only on the "how" but also on the "why", specially when referencing to individuals and "smaller scale" groups. As someone who enjoys storytelling, the way that you have described the human and deluded way a monster like de Landa thought of his campaign of terror, made for such an interesting book antagonist I struggle to believe such a morally divided man existed in a moment like this (granted, we still cannot pin-point if that is who he really was as a person). And the way this human was influenced by his world to become like this is indeed a statement of how intermingled is the human psyche with the time and place of the world without really dropping the way we function as evident for how we still have similar ways of acting within different societies and ages. All I have left to say is: Great job. Would deprive myself of sleep and question the fabric of history again 10/10

[@charlieterry8506]

This reply is nearly everything I feel about this video and more. Thank you for putting into words these thoughts.

[@Nodnarbero]

This was beautiful and undoubtedly human, thank you Peach, it helped me a lot as my dad is going through the death of his mother and a recent heart attack. This comforted me immensely.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

I'm sorry you're going through that, and certainly feel pride that my silly little video brought you comfort in this difficult time. While I'm sure that having a random KZbin yahoo talk to you doesn't bring much comfort in such a difficult time, feel free to email me at [e-mail] anytime! I hope you're ok

[@jamesrowe5102]

@@DJPeachCobbler you’re a saint and scholar, sir.

[@JoeMorn-xe1vy]

@@DJPeachCobbleryo chalk eater prime

[@AWEismaschine]

​@@DJPeachCobbler In before the grooming allegations, femboy

[@the_jjabberwock]

@@DJPeachCobblerDon’t get into that… uhhh… Dream thing… what’s it called? Papapapapa… Yeah, I don’t remember, but don’t sacrifice your health.

[@AnimatedStoriesWorldwide]

"Damn DJ Peach cobbler looked rough last time, I hope he's doing ok... Hey look, he's limping towards us.." "I BROUGHT TWO HOURS OF VIDEOS!!!!"

[@Palemagpie]

"careful dear, he has a knife"

[@gordy4924]

He looks handsome like he's getting bigger

[@ElectronFieldPulse]

@@gordy4924- He lost his hair and gained a bunch of weight, but if you’re into bears…

[@ivesbarrera]

“These men fell for it: the idea that the ends can justify the means, but the ends never can justify the means. Nothing ever ends” One of the best pieces of prose I have ever heard.

[@ElectronFieldPulse]

I don’t know, that is a rather complicated ethical question which can’t really be generalized as “always wrong”. Life is so complicated, simple catch phrases and pithy comments can never really be explanatory

[@vedsingh-bp2ke]

​@@ElectronFieldPulse I agree, but I indulge in some of them nonetheless

[@TheDudeWithEmpathy19473]

55:53 “The ends can never justify the means; nothing ever ends”. Holy shit that is really, really profound

[@vowgallant4049]

"I can't help but notice you are eating corn on the cob. Would you like to discuss the flayed god?" He's just like me fr.

[@rancorious7785]

He’s actually a pretty nice guy!

[@fan_of_fans]

He is the god of harvest, seeds, metalugie and spring, that's why he is flayed to mimick the corn leaf that peals away in the corn, that why in the video he says that corn remind him of Xipe Totec

[@togiielectricboogaloo6875]

As a european, i hate the fact that you uploaded this at 4 AM, right as i was going to bed. Now i will have to go to bed at 6 AM.

[@jimmyjohnjohnson9803]

Punished for your sins

[@screwstatists7324]

This is the price you pay for the profound fecundity of your race overseas. And they could have gotten South America too without slavery (Indian and African).

[@savvas_1367]

7am gang represent

[@h2doctorwildcat933]

Just become a real human. European is curable.

[@TheRKelly0216]

He hates europeans, as everyone should, so he timed it just right

[@jainkans5794]

The parallel between the almost alien cruelty of crucifying dogs, and the passage about the dogs tombstone is just.... I legitimately teared up at that.

[@indigocircled7139]

Excellent work as always. Beating the shit out of your chalkboard as a slide transition is an amazing touch, I hope the trend sticks around.

[@DJPeachCobbler]

Thank you Indigo! If it wasn't so expensive I'd punch a whole through it, just for the bit

[@jacobwiens659]

The great thing about this channel is that it’s not just about the history, but the story of how the history was written.

[@Godzeller3143]

I firmly believe that my 4 years of undergraduate theological training coupled with my 3 years of graduate theological training were all so I could heavily nerd out at Cobbler intentionally, carefully, and informatively weaving the religious context of history into the narratives he tells.

[@psychosytheXmediaXco]

Same but about my 2 years of trade school I never used properly and my half of an associate's from my local community college.

[@imnot16]

I can finally use my two days of highschool human geology

[@TheThinKing]

Byzantine fan here. My Arab Christian forefathers in Banu Ghassan were patrikioi in Eastern Rome so I will admit my bias. I have no dog, so suck eggs instead. I look forward to the rest of the video. Thank you for doing what you do.

[@screwstatists7324]

We're bringing it back Assyrian bro.

[@TheThinKing]

@@screwstatists7324 I am not Assyrian but they're cool people, thanks?

[@traxpork80]

God damn 😂 πατρίκιοι is fucking crazy

[@AC-hj9tv]

What does this mean in NFL terms

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

Hey! YOU don't bring the Byzantines into this. HE brings the Byzantines into this. Later. If you bring the Byzantines into this now, you're gonna scare the b--ches away.

[@Bogglevvonk]

THE COBBLER IS OFF HIS MEDS AND WE'RE GETTING THE GOOD SHIT

[@necroticneurons9555]

OH YEAH PASS THE FUCKING CHALK

[@jirim727]

HE NEVER TOOK THOSE DAMN CIA PILLS IN THE FIRST PLACE

[@Manic-Main]

I am an avid History KZbin enjoyer and this was like a non-stop fever dream of a video. I have never laughed and learned so much at the same time. Take some of my money 😊

[@ismailaly3528]

0:04 Sean Strickland

[@bofa722]

Here's the thing about the mad god of the Yucatán you guys

[@4V3N1]

Chester Bennington

[@BigSexyWGlasses]

Hbomberguy

[@comradeshadles4967]

As a history teacher I really felt that bit with the textbooks You can’t just hand out primary resources or focused specific books to and it’s maddening at times. There is a chasm of difference between why do we have to learn about this old stuff and why does it matter to the modern world. And none of them will tell you how the dead men slept at night. Thank you for this unique madness. I look forward to the time when you make a helldivers video putting in the actual citations to how it’s a mockery of the late Cold War and Bush-era intervention mindset, as most glue eaters today can only communicate in pop culture references and just think it’s Starship Troopers with less sex.

[@Para2normal]

I don't know about the language but it crosses my mind these would make much better history videos than PragerU

[@robloxmania627]

That idea at the end is actually a good topic I’d love to see as well

[@negative6442]

To be honest you should make that video, it sounds like an interesting subject and I would 100% watch it.

[@xIQ188x]

Buddy, you are not gonna believe what Starship Troopers is actually supposed to be a mockery of.

[@comradeshadles4967]

@@xIQ188x book was R H having a wet dream over a military pseudo-fascist dictatorship that was so super tough that it spanked all the kids and beat up the hippy scientists. Then went to war to fight the skinny big slaves and when they bombed the skinny aliens with nukes in a disciplined and controlled manner that avoided casualties because it’s special property damage only nuclear grenades, it clearly communicated that they should defect from the communist bugs now and side with them because that’s how bombing people into submission works. (He later goes to say any civil crevice gets you your franchise so it’s not just a thin facade of military dictatorship, but that was never brought up in the original book.) The movie was a parody of the nazi propaganda film “triumph of the will” that people saw as a fun sci fi schlock movie because the space nazis were made sexy and said cool one liners in the movie so people liked them and Paul Verhoven got butthurt people enjoyed his movie the wrong way. Helldivers is a European made game that has all its lore based around the tongue and cheek parody of the U.S. policy of justifying violent intervention through the Cold War and 2000’s. Down to the propaganda of protecting your way of life and the fighting style of dumping a few hyped up drop outs in enemy territory and giving them the air support needed to level several small countries and calling them hero’s for out killing whatever mod of mindless bugs or robots threatens democracy.

[@diegolarrea7932]

This is one of the best perspectives on Mexican history I’ve heard from a non-Mexican. I highly recommend engaging with contemporary Mexican authors to explore the post-colonial legacy from an indigenous perspective. The Broken Spears (Miguel León-Portilla) The Human Body and Ideology (Alfredo López Austin) Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico (Enrique Florescano)

[@letmedie4524]

He won't, he can't read Spanish.

[@Quetzalito-i8k]

@@letmedie4524there’s English translations…

[@chrisporter9397]

“explore the post-colonial legacy from an indigenous perspective” 🤓

[@spawel1]

@@chrisporter9397actual nerd behaviour

[@Ossian-dr1vr]

@@chrisporter9397 Why do you mock this? Should things only be seen from a spanish perspective?

[@kakizakichannel]

Snacks: available $400 gamer chair: reclined Me: locked in Yep, it's Cobbler history time

[@AC-hj9tv]

In my $401 gamer chair rn

[@LateNightHam]

​@@AC-hj9tv in my $420 gaming chair 😎

[@Palemagpie]

It's cobblin time baby!

[@kylegonewild]

@@AC-hj9tv rolled out the $800 home office chair for this one

[@AC-hj9tv]

@@kylegonewild yoo let's get it my fellow pimps

[@ScadrianGhostblood]

Your commentary about how textbooks don't teach about how dead people slept, made me finally realize why schools fail to actually teach history. It's not only the fact that people on KZbin actually want to learn something or entertaining presentation from youtubers. It's also how people are put into the perspective of those dead people. We can better imagine what they experienced and how they lived without some teaching program that dictates only pure facts decided by some guy we never hear about or how much we can even learn about certain topic. I can't wait for your future history videos. They are something very special on youtube to the point that when ai overtakes the world I wish you will be one of the few people whose consciousness will duplicated and spread to different countries to teach about their history. Thanks for the video!

[@tonystark8757]

Great video, although I do have a small nitpick. On the subject of the Spanish Inquisition back in Europe, they actually had strong limits on the use of torture, namely it couldn't be used to get a confession, could not maim or draw blood, and could only be done a limited amount of times for smaller times. Meaning: They waterboarded the shit out of Conversos. They called it "tortura del agua," but they didn't kill or maim people. Not to say "It was all fine because no blood" or that these rules weren't broken a fair bit, just adding context.

[@Epsilonsama]

His primary sources are Black Legend books written by Anglos and Jews. Not one of his sources was Spanish.

[@brendanmoran57]

This is why I psychotically binge watch your videos every time you disappear to make something worthy of my feedback loop

[@Fritz-co4pb]

So true. Just another video to watch while playing songs of syx and trying to recreate the events told. I'm struggling with too many serial killers in this one

[@MaddestRaven]

It is honestly great to see you sink your teeth into these sorts of documents and accounts. Of course there is a time and place to say, "Hey, this isn't relevant, this isn't of a high enough quality to contribute to the study / research / accounting of events." But there's also a time and place to really dig in to even those documents and not only ask ourselves what they say but WHY they say it. An imperfect retelling of events isn't just dismissed out of hand, but instead dug into and examined and assessed. Your videos are honestly so refreshing to see because you have a very - for lack of a more apt term - 'real' and grounded way of addressing the materials you reference and discuss. Incredible stuff.

[@ilikefrogs4291]

watching cobbler pick up the cats and having his mood immediately improve and get a big goofy grin was adorable

[@rafaelrodrigues7971]

You could have walked away with just calling him an unrepentant monster, but this effort on making him human and showing his atrocity was motivated by good intentions is an important lesson.

[@ndlmous]

2:00:54 as a rather glass half empty musician I gotta say that is a f****** great title for a song

[@nectimusmaximus]

Can you do a video about Ethiopia? The "Jews, Japan, and Ethiopia are always the exception" line is very very interesting.

[@charlieterry8506]

I mean its true though. Ethiopia is so fucking fascinating in the way it differs from the rest of the histories of cultures and countries in Africa and yet is nonetheless shaped by them.

[@AbdiHassan-jq2ln]

⁠@ Ethiopian civilization is fascinating & unique it wasn’t wholly unique in Africa It was culturally similar to it’s neighbours in the Horn of Africa And it wasn’t the only christian African polity surrounded by non christians medieval Nubia was like that as well

[@CiceroFNiche]

Ah, another psychoanalysis of dead men. I appreciate how much context is given to the anxieties and fears that guided the Spanish worldview. History classes never suggest to students that the fall of Constantinople might convince a Spaniard that European Christendom is all but lost, so the Indians of the New World must become Christian, so there will at least be some Christians left, and the fear that these new converts may just be playing along before betraying them. That said, I also enjoy Cobbler's reassurance that the acts these fears led to were nonetheless monstrous, and should not be excused because of those fears.

[@spittle8]

They never suggest it because it's an asinine take. These people weren't simple and wouldn't have seen the end of the world with the fall of Constantinople--an event hundreds of years in the making by that point. The Mayans and Aztecs really WERE doing fucked up shit. The Aztecs were so hated, a few hundred Spaniards were able to unite their subjects against them and conquer Mexico. This video is just an elaborate example of white guilt and cope.

[@dry9005]

i just got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled and i'm geeking off of opioids, what a perfect time for dj peach cobbler to drop a feature length film

[@joshualin5476]

My god the sheer scope of the comedy you mix with genuinely insightful historical analysis is mindblowing

[@garrettgoss2691]

"The Olmec were black, that's why Mexicans get to say it." Unexpectedly amazing and immediately subbed

[@SklLLLY]

So glad I didn’t skip intro 😂

[@limo4607]

De Landa, spending his life burning mayan thoughts and souls, had his thoughts and soul burnt. What survived was the same amount that he burned, flawed and incomplete and warped to fit other's needs. God had seen his work and delivered his judgment onto De Landa's soul.

[@drachenfeIs]

God told me hes in heaven actually, read your bible

[@ulizez89]

I do like the sense of Karma in that story.

[@rancorious7785]

“Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.”

[@-Zakhiel-]

God has nothing to do with it.

[@testingtoseeifthisworks10101]

@drachenfels well MY god told me he reincarnated into a badger, and has slowly worked his way back into human form in 1972. He now lives in Oklahoma as a schoolteacher

[@alexpopovici2371]

Real talk: I am not surprised by the atrocities mankind has committed for thousands of years, including up to present times. They do leave a bitter taste in my mouth but I've seen enough vile things to be jaded at this point. What I can't shake off is the tremendous feeling of loss and sadness when it comes to writings, paintings, records, administrative logs and the like that will forever remain a mistery to us. At this point we only get glimpses of lives and cultures that were permanently erased just a few hundred years ago. I do appreciate you doing research and bringing it forward trying to pierce this unknown veil and piece together events that had and might've happened. Shit talk: Yeeeees, DaddyCobbler. Split forth thy skull and let us slurp the wisdom straight from thine gelatinous grey matter.

[@pminko7296]

I usually agree with your first point. But I had never heard of a water torture method like the one used by the Spanish... that viscerally surprised and mortified me.

[@dyppityjoop5912]

the only thing about the internet I am grateful for is how it is a repository of so much history and knowledge of art, people and culture. Of course there is also a fuckton of random bullshit spouted by arseholes and dumbasses, but underneath all that, you can find the true beating hearts of so many peoples art, history and culture.

[@ElectronFieldPulse]

I’m not surprised at all. Hunter gatherer skeletons show a full 10 percent of them died a violent death. We split from chimpanzees only 6 million years ago, aggression is a very deep part of being human. It is why we have soared to unimaginable heights and why we have suffered horrendous lows. I think going back in history is fine, but you really need to go all the way back to have the full picture. We have been around for 300k years, only had agriculture for 10k, and civilization less than that. The fact that we work together in large groups at all is a miracle. We evolved to be in small tribes and to be suspicious of everyone outside the tribe. We actually domesticated ourselves and our brains shrank after the invention of agriculture. So much of humanity is thought to be the result of men thinking logically and advancing our interests, when in reality it all comes back to biology. We can’t escape our genes, and that is a very important part of understanding who we are

[@Eking-su3tr]

He’s back The mad king has returned

[@alek1766]

He’s black? No, he’s gay and racist

[@stevecooper7883]

And at 35:15 he had a Book of Mormon moment 😅

[@Projectdarke]

Returned from Carcosa

[@spartan2867]

ALL HAIL ALL HAIL

[@NickdeVera]

53:14 "we are here to feast upon the madness of a dead man" poetry

[@Perniciles]

This is genuinely my favorite channel at this point.

[@TemplarBlack.]

When you listed the crucifixion of dogs in the list of horror, i thought "them too ?" for a whole second before thinking " oh no, i see where he's going with that". awesome work as always.

[@Modern_Diogenes]

47:25 The knowledge that DJ Peach Cobbler owns a firearm is the most bone chilling fact that has ever cursed my mind. I don’t feel safe while that maniac has a gun.

[@Foogi9000]

Honestly i trust his mental faculties far more than that of your average Houston driver who on a whim can cause a severe car crash.

[@liamobrien9451]

Sadly not a real gun 😔 The barrel is an Airsoft one, even the sound when he cocks it is airsoft

[@Modern_Diogenes]

@liamobrien9451 phew that’s a relief

[@carsonshaw8]

​@@Foogi9000why must I read this as I'm about to drive across Houston?

[@Foogi9000]

@@carsonshaw8 Lmao, good luck my friend. Houston drivers treat road rules as road suggestions more often than not.

[@poundcakeboi3104]

You know it’s really a shame people with your enthusiasm and creativity aren’t currently teaching in public institutions. I know you can’t be within 500ft of a school for legal reasons, but it would have a massive impact on general knowledge and people’s passions for learning.

[@MrKingHyena]

Revisiting this video and a gotta say I think your series on the Aztec empire and the Maya might just be my favorite videos on this entire site, it kindles my love of history in such a profound way

[@ggwp638BC]

1:13:00 - It's always funny to me when I'm reading some historical text and halfway through I realize I'm just reading a centuries old gooner's fantasies that are being given any credibility at all only because he was one of the only few who could read and write, and his texts actually survived time. My first realization of this phenomena was when I was reading Hagakure. All fun and games about how a samurai thought samurai of his time should act.... until you get to his long and extensive defense of having sex with young boys. That book gave me a lot of insight, in particularly, to never accredit a dead author any more respect than what I'd give to a random 4chan poster. They are, more often than not, on a similar wavelength.

[@dyppityjoop5912]

just read and dude, what the actual hell 😂😂. one moment he was talking bout compassion the next he talks about how a kid should look a older man and test date a older man for 5 years and if he ever wants to break up just leave without a word.... this book is wild!

[@ggwp638BC]

@@dyppityjoop5912 It's one hell of a ride, but it's by no means the outlier, if anything, it's a good representation of what was being discussed at the time (yknow, a bunch of soldiers with suicidal tendencies deprived of real wars for 200 or so years). And it actually came to be very influential during 1900s, being an ideological cornerstone of the Japanese Imperial Army, and to this day it still is held in high regard by nationalists (which includes the ruling party).

[@paulmarchano7238]

“I don’t know what happened. I want to argue about what happened.” Very good quote in my humble.

[@Day100]

Peach I have joined the extended forhead club starting today. A dozen docs dont know whats wrong with me but my body is full of giant blisters and bleeding bumps and they told me to shave my face just in case it spreads and I got carried away. I am watching this in my quarantine bubble.

[@JGSM_JuvenileGeryon]

Damn, that sucks. Hope you get better

[@negative6442]

Praying for you, hope it's not contagious 🙏

[@mariusknappe1562]

hey, physically ill person, i am glad we can both watch the mentally ill talk history. One of you I wish to get well soon, the other is too much entertainment.

[@cvanceter]

Bro is turning into a ghoul

[@andrewbowen2837]

Sounds like herpes

[@KazuDiabolis]

i really appreciate your consistent & quality coverage of the Mesoamericas. it's rare to see people talking about their extensive mythologies & history

[@red_nikolai]

"Things we all find comforting... like the Apocalypse." You jest, but if you think about it, there's gotta be a reason people are so perpetually obsessed with it.

[@Thisisaworkofrat]

The answer is nihilism

[@bmocbruhistotle339]

Look up "what is the frenzied flame" by ratatoskr

[@druggeddragon420]

I am basing an antagonist for my novel based on Diego De Landa and I would like to say that I have watched this video on repeat for a week straight and you are fenomenal. Cheers and thank you for the free knowledge and ideas. edit: yes i know it’s with a ph

[@breakinggood3601]

sick pfp

[@antonivsfortis]

"I will drag you into Heaven or send you to hell myself" 🔥🔥🔥 that goes so fkn hard

[@TheManiac220]

It definetly fucks me up knowning how one man can erase so much history in such a short amount of time.

[@LateNightHam]

As a history nerd im always excited as fuck when cobbler uploads. Homie has kept me as his target demographic for years now. He stops taking pills, and i start smoking that za and it all comes together.

[@heckcheck1022]

lmao so real

[@LateNightHam]

@@heckcheck1022 I came got the game's stayed for this

[@apotatofarmer2871]

The second use of your chalkboard also being a green screen is fucking genius. I’m an hour and a half in, I don’t even know if this is the first time you’ve done that, but it just hit me. Incredible.

[@Frog_Man_]

When i grow up, i know that i will look upon you alongside the other pillars of my fondness for history, of which i have no doubt you shall stand the tallest amongst them, and i hope that you read this so you may know just how much that means to me, you are responsible for my love of history and have almost certainly shaped my life because of it, thank you so much for this incredible gift.

[@herrxandman8740]

I love that Matthew Restall has foiled Djs plans twice now without even trying. He is the real villain in this story lol

[@josiahjones3756]

When your absolute favourite niche KZbinr get enough traction to upload 2 hour long videos: THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, THIS IS WHAT ITS ALL ABOUT!

[@endertwelve]

It's insane how your videos seem to get better and better each time. I really hope you got your money and time back with this, because it shows how much you dedicated to it. Cheers, dude.

[@charlenetweaver2557]

Honestly one of the best KZbin videos I have ever watched

[@truthhertz10]

I love how you tell history. You personalise it, add humour and most importantly you're seeking actual truth from what happened and why it happened. It's one thing to read a book about a historical period or even a quote from a historical figure, it's another to interpret it with evidence and to think "why did he say this?".

[@gold_leaf0702]

That Diego De Landa painting looks like a fucking disney villain

[@miladeskandari7]

I would've not watched a video on this topic for 2 hours if it wasn't a djcobbler video. I trusted you and yet again you delivered. Thank you for both the historical information and the funny presentation.

[@blacktecno]

This was top tier. As a Spaniard myself I can tell you you'll find a good deal of people praising the Spanish colonization of the Americas contrasting it against the Anglo-Saxon colonization of north America. Whereas it's true the British and later the United States brought the then inhabitants of north America close to extinction, the Spanish committed their fair share of atrocities. They tend to blame anyone criticising what happened then to the black legend or "leyenda negra", quickly dismissing events such as these or just not bothering to do any further research. It is quite a complex subject because even though it seems the Spaniards then focused more on integration than extermination, the means they sometimes used were just horrible, for today's standards and even for the standards back then. I do personally feel that the black legend impregnates the perception we have of what happened and distorts it to the perception the outside world has of the events that played during the colonization but it does no good to ignore the horrible events that did indeed happen. Anyway, thank you for the marvel of a video, keep it up!

[@d-boi9785]

The Anglo Saxons didn’t colonise America.. wtf?

[@JamesNeasala]

Man, Peach (or do you prefer Peachy?), I gotta say, the amount of effort that you put in these videos is mindblowing, and you present it all in a way that make a topic that I already find infinitely fascinating, even more fascinating. Hats off to you, sir.

[@Jinkani]

When old world journalism (I.E. going through Journals of other peoples accounts), meet modern day video journalist who fell victim to brain rot. You get the account of "DJ Peach Cobbler" with full Reading Rainbow intro. I pray our culture can persist meaningfully to all those who come after us. Thank you for your efforts to reveal other perspectives to old accounts.

[@Quetzalito-i8k]

Bro I like the new format and intensity

[@peamut547]

I like the intensity but I miss the dumb “animation” bits a lot that took up the grand majority of his own videos. They still appear here and now in these new format videos but they’ve sadly been slowly being phased out

[@Quetzalito-i8k]

@@peamut547 family guy is better when it has less cutaways. That does not mean that the cutaways are bad.

[@gelbutethl1934]

"Facts are for cowards. I don't wanna know what happened. I wanna argue about what happened." - bruh don't drop that in the first minute i wasn't even sitting down yet

[@shayneweyker]

I was having flashbacks to the Colbert Report's truthiness manifesto where he says "anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news 'at' you." Though DJPC's host character is much smarter and more intellectually honest than the host character on The Colbert Report.

[@OldSlimJolo]

Cobbler, just droppin' this to say, your work just continues to grow more and more impressive in both scope and quality. Well done with this video and thank you for it.

[@biglargefish4130]

I genuinely think that the introduction section of this video where you talk about why you love primary sources and why you care about history is one of my favorite things on the internet. I couldn’t tell you in any fancy words why but it’s certainly very very good.

[@Borilla95467]

cobbler and his ramblings of the histories of central/south america has taught me more about that part of history than everything else combined, thanks cob

[@Datan1234]

He sleeps like you or me, frustrated for others not being better, and convinced he was right . Unrelated side note, started reading Hitler biographies at 14…and learning how many traits you share with such an insane person is so much fun .-. Ain’t it?

[@DirtyHippy420]

Yea i couldnt believe hitler loved morphine as much as i do

[@Datan1234]

@@DirtyHippy420xD damn that one was unexpected here I was being real and then bam comes the plot twist

[@thatoneguyyouthinkshouldbe2431]

My god have mercy on you🙏

[@potappotapov1815]

​@@DirtyHippy420 "meth"

[@kyle9401]

​@@potappotapov1815why not both?

[@hunterolson2729]

Thanks!

[@davidiscool26]

It’s genuinely amazing how much quality work, research, and attention to the topic DJ Peach Cobbler has brought to this field. Like I don’t even know how to put it into words how astounding it is that in this day and age, some guy with no degrees can create absolute masterpieces in historical work armed with nothing but a camera, a knack for presentation, and an insane obsession of the topic. DJ I hope you see this comment because dude your work is so praise worthy, and I hope you get the recognition you deserve for it.

[@Palemagpie]

A fascinating and nuanced reading of history. Often times, motivation can be ridiculous and nonsensical. If the acts it inspire already align with the greed or malice of the perpetrators. "No, no slavery is actually fine, because black people are the children of Cain dont you know?" "What? Why?.....what does that have to do with anything? Why would that mean its ok to keep them as slaves?" "Sorry i can't hear you over the collective inhumanity im inflicting! You know, with my morally kosher slaves!" "Wait...your morally *what* slaves!?"

[@Nemoknowsnothing]

"This sounds like Rome" I think with nostalgia as DJ try to throw a red herring

[@ethanjennings7235]

Going from feuding with Matthew Restall to prominently citing him. Glad you guys worked it out.

[@goobermenschoktoberfest]

I don’t know if you ever read these- but I really love your history videos. The last KZbinr I actually get excited about when you post. Love watching you while I’m working

[@thecactusman17]

DJPC, your stories about the Spanish exploration of the New World are some of the most fascinating and thought-provoking storytelling I've ever had the pleasure of listening to. By highlighting the frustrating gaps in our knowledge, you really highlight just how much influence these men had in their own time by essentially denying the broader knowledge of the precolonial American civilizations both to us far in the future and their own contemporaries who might have objected at the time.

[@sevensins3584]

I discovered this guy yesterday. Loved every video. Today he dropped a 2 hour long video. 🎉

[@Seyweld98]

3:28 I feel very much the same when reading about the Apalachee, being a native of their region. I actually just wrote my final essay for a class on their extinction during the 18th century. Your video on the Narváez expedition is what lead me to all this, thank you. Reading about how a conquistador attempted to charge across a local river, which I have boated down with friends for years, only to drown with his horse is surreal, such things seem so far and removed from normality.

[@ryeaye2278]

As a Jew I can confirm all these theory’s to be correct

[@mauricesberjia7736]

Its 7 million actually

[@oxybrodone6995]

pffffft conservative estimate

[@screwstatists7324]

Where's the ash? Cookie monster math, and other fun questions with Alex stein in auswitz

[@eatdabutt]

​@@screwstatists7324it's obvious the nazis made them snort all of the ash.

[@tennicksalvarez9079]

7 mil what?

[@eatdabutt]

@@screwstatists7324 I'm just trying to figure out how they bent shotgun barrels into a U shape 🤦‍♂️

[@Super-Skrull]

My dad put his belt away when I told him you posted, so thank you Mr. Peach Cobbler.

[@joeyj6808]

I grew up wanting to be a Historian. Teach, write, tesearch, make great breakthroughs in human thought... Then i went to college and learned what history truly was, who really wrote it, its subjectivity...and it was like a spell was broken. I still love to tead, learn and research. To fall in a Great War rabnit hole and end up knee deep in the Ottoman Empire still makes me happy. But i became a cook and a baker. I wish i could have seen your video in my college days! Maybe my life would have been very different. All that, i guess, to say thank you for this video.