Epic Rap Battles of History (Part 5) | History Teacher Reacts

[@hedgehogsonic11]

Vampires can't see their reflections in mirrors because most mirrors at the time of the writings of Bram Stoker, mirrors had silver in them, which was a holy metal, which is why mirrors could not cast their reflections. This is an outdated trope now, obviously, as mirrors have long since stopped using silver

[@Thgrimreaper]

Cool, good to know

[@lonmania9249]

I’ve heard it was because mirrors reflect light and vampires are creatures of pure darkness idk where I heard that and I know that it wasn’t the original but I like that

[@DWolf2k2]

Was just about to say that. The Purity of Silver wouldn't reflect the evil of a Vampire's visage.

[@TheAngryXenite]

For the same reason, they didn't show up on film, as old cameras used silver mirrors to reflect light. So an old camera wouldn't pick up a vampire, but a digital one would.

[@nickangrick]

I've heard interesting parallels between vampires and disease as things like garlic and silver have natural antimicrobial properties as well. It causes me to wonder if some aspect of the vampirism legends were related to a pre medical understanding of viruses and infections.

[@philipmorse-fortier5499]

Terry: "One time Vlad stabbed a bunch of Ottoman's through their turbans" A few minutes later Vlad: "Vlad the hat nailer" I expected a victory lap about that, it would have been deserved.

[@PROVOCATEURSK]

Vlad was the good guy protecting Europe, not like modern criminals/politicians.

[@alphashaitan65]

@@PROVOCATEURSK Thank God for Vlad the Impaler, a man needed for his time!

[@TheGoauldApophis]

I know, right?!

[@CataciousAmogusevic]

@@PROVOCATEURSK haha he got his ass bea. His head is in the bosphorus :)

[@delanovanraalte3646]

​@@PROVOCATEURSK depends on who you ask now we would say he's bad but people generally feared that the ottomans might go and try to conquer all of Europe

[@InfinateAnswers]

You missed a line from dracula, he said "you're keen to neck washes," "wash your neck" is an idiom that means to get it ready for beheading because vlad the impaler got beheaded after being captured.

[@MKDumas1981]

What, may the wound get infected?

[@Kage-pm6qi]

MKDumas1981 Actually because the Dirt/Grime/ect. can knick/chip the blade, having a clean neck lowers that chance.

[@Bugginsmama]

Glad to see someone posted this! Was goin to myself but had to make sure first haha.

[@txaggievet]

For a History expert... He missed LOTS of lines, I mean he just sits and has no reaction to some of the best lines, they just go right past him

[@crackpiperson]

@@txaggievet I dont think he misses them, he probably just doesnt see them as being as good. Most people without vast knowledge on the battlers would be proud to understand certain lines because it's out of the ordinary, but when you understand almost everything then not everything is going to impress you

[@KelsaRavenlock]

Worth mentioning that Thor says "Valhalla at me boy and we'll flyte it out" Flyting was a Vikinger era form of rhyming insult poetry where 2 people would take turns poetically insulting each other and responding to those insults. Basically the exact same thing as a rap battle except no one had a turntable.

[@kaseywoods6533]

and people say Shakespeare was the grandfather of rap

[@Zikar]

Fun fact on Thor vs Odin: Thor says they will "flyte it out." Flyting was essentially Norse battle raps, where two opponents would insult each other via poetry with the winner being declared by those watching.

[@charlottewalnut3118]

Zikar Zeus

[@Karen-pk3uv]

Careful now, someone is going to read that and accuse you of being a racist. 😉 The amount of hatred I got the last time I brought up flyting was insane and a little scary. Lol The Norse considered poetry to be a gift from the gods, and their main form of entertainment was listening to poetry while music played (aka rap music). Flyting was one of the ways you could prove your intelligence. Two people got in front of a crowd started throwing lines at each other and the audience picked the winner (aka modern format for battle raps). One of the British kings (I want to say James, but I'm not sure) loved it so much, he refused to enforce obscenity laws, so the competitors didn't have restrictions. The Spartans had similar entertainment. Part of their training involved "battle rap (I can't remember what they called it)." Whatever was said, had to use the least amount of words and they had to be Smart asses. In order to prove their intelligence. When you get the chance you really need to read some of them, because they are intense. Most of the lines Gerard Butler said were either real quotes or based off the real quote.

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

Loki was the master of flyting if Loki had written Thor's lines the rap battle would've been a massacre 😁

[@kennythemasseuse]

I found the word flyting through magnus chase

[@tiberiushartzos8666]

@@kennythemasseuse me too lol

[@xtremej2575]

You missed "Shape shifting rapist". That's pretty much the BEST possible summary of Greek Mythology

[@LinardsZ]

Zeus being Shapeshifting Rapist is half of the myths.

[@ryuhitsuya21]

Hey. Poseidon helps out as much as he can

[@dragonslibrary9207]

Top 5 sources of conflict in all mythology: 5: The gods having petty arguments. 4: "Hey! These guys worship someone else!" 3: giant creature that looks like 3 normal animals did a fusion dance 2: Hubris 1: Horny bastards

[@panospanagopoulos2894]

Stop xtreme j

[@akaoniryuu4564]

@Rudrajeet Chaudhuri fuuuuusssion haaaaa

[@jammrock9286]

"blah, blah, blah" is a play on Hotel Transylvania's Dracula. "Check one, two.. ah ah ah" is from The Count on Sesame Street. Two brilliant Dracula references.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

It's a reference to 2 characters based off of Dracula, but they're both cringe worthy characters from children entertainment. It's like he decided to mock himself before Vlad had a chance to use another line like the Count Chocula one, only it didn't help him as it just made him look even cornier than Vlad did.

[@theirishpenguin2553]

I mean Dracula took a more comical take

[@RoyceCCG]

"Blah, blah, blah" was referenced in Hotel Transylvania, but it's a reference to Bela Lugosi's Dracula character from 1931. The funny thing is, he never actually said that line, but it somehow became associated with him, likely as a product of impressions and parodies or a misunderstanding of the word "blood".

[@dweetsauce8513]

R I O T Um, yes it was. It wasn’t a roast, but it was a great reference line. The way they made “blah blah blah” rhyme with “ha ha ha” is very smooth. I’m not saying he won because of that, but the line is great.

[@AntiNubDevice]

@@dweetsauce8513 Agree.. I actually overall liked Drac's flow better, as well as really liking that reference line, among a few others. That said, Vlad had way better slams, and I think he takes the battle.

[@dwaekkisinsanity5233]

Just the "shapeshifting rapist" is enough to declare Thor's victory.

[@delinkwent7375]

Its a good line but not that good its a very obvious line that anyone even a little bit familiar with greek myths knew was coming

[@breezingby2611]

@@delinkwent7375 still, just because it’s common knowledge doesn’t mean it’s not a good insult There’s not much lower than a rapist

[@delinkwent7375]

@@breezingby2611 when it comes too a rap battle it does creativity is a big part of it and if you spit a line that every other dude in the room us already thinking its not going to hit hard, never said it wasn't good but its not even close too a victory line

[@Nameless-gc2dg]

@@delinkwent7375 yeah but “I will drop you like Greece’s GDP” definitely won it

[@delinkwent7375]

@@Nameless-gc2dg oh hell yeah clever af

[@danielpurdom9141]

Overlooked line from Dracula: "I am Universally known." Notice how Universally is capitalized; because Dracula is part of the "monster-verse" owned by Universal Studios.

[@TylerLL2112]

Interesting.

[@geo7803]

as dracula is public domain it is only the speific deptiction of him that Universal owns.

[@YaBoyJoyy]

I don't think anyone cares about that though

[@danielpurdom9141]

@@geo7803 doesn't change my point or the genius of that line

[@danielpurdom9141]

@@YaBoyJoyy I DoNt ThInK aNyOnE cArEs.....

[@zaizia]

Imagine talking to your friends about ERB battles and all the sudden your teacher explains the backstory behind every bar in the rap

[@ryanrobbins2535]

that would be dope and I can think of three or four of my teachers that would do that

[@BeautifulyCool]

I would've loved that in class. Going over an ERB video a day woulda helped me actually do even decent in any of my history classes 🤣

[@kixxenwalla167]

That's what my history teacher did when we were on a subject. If there was a song or cartoon, my high school teacher tried to open a new chapter that way. He would say it was because it made it easier to remember the information for the tests. When students introduced him to ERB he was so excited that he made a playlist by the next week in the order we were shown to use for the finals. He played it on low while we did class work.

[@dietsoap3539]

"Is it socially acceptable for me to play with legos still'" There is an entire wall of classic video games behind you......

[@richardsnyder5901]

Legos see no age, play away. And who gives a shit about social acceptability? If someone has an issue with an aspect of your being, that's their issue, not yours.

[@dietsoap3539]

@@richardsnyder5901 dude what? I never said anything about having an issue.

[@richardsnyder5901]

@@dietsoap3539 Technically, you did. Questions of social acceptability are questions of personal issue. If someone does not "accept" what you are doing, they have an "issue" with what you are doing. I was merely pointing out that, in general, people should not be concerned with social acceptability.

[@dietsoap3539]

@@richardsnyder5901 once again, never said anything about having an issue with whatever this man does. If you're going off the first line I simply quoted what he said as being ironic for playing with Legos but having an entire wall of classic games.

[@richardsnyder5901]

@@dietsoap3539 ...?... I never said anything about you having an issue with anyone doing anything, nor did I say anything about you at all. I was responding to the quote you commented. I'm not sure if you're trolling or just need to take a bit more time when you read. Either way, I'm not explaining my response again... happy trolling.

[@assassinsblade1463]

I’d say sigmund Freud won as he dropped a lot of things about mother Teresa that you didn’t seem to catch as it is believed that mother Teresa embezzled a lot of the funds she received to help people and that she used them for herself.

[@TuxKamen]

I'd read that she viewed suffering as holy, so the money she was given for her charges' care was funneled into the church itself instead of going to help them

[@Tunkkis]

@@TuxKamen A friend of poverty, not off the poor, as it's been said.

[@brigidtheirish]

Funny how people only started claiming she embezzled funds, tossed out perfectly good mattresses, and all this other stuff *after* she died. I'm always a little suspicious of such accusations made when the accused can no longer defend themselves. Where's the proof? The context? Who's making these claims and what do they have to gain?

[@assassinsblade1463]

brigidtheirish it’s prior employees or people inheriting the charity finding out what really happened why destroy the reputation of a woman that would have been a saint rather than an evil woman

[@brigidtheirish]

@@assassinsblade1463 You might want to proof read your sentence. And maybe check *who's* making the accusations and how many there are, because I looked it up and found a grand total of *one* former associate who made claims about sketchy financial practices which lead to someone else writing a book based solely on that one person's claims. Again, the book was published *after* Mother Teresa died.

[@Solitude_Guard_]

Zeus: "I'll put your cross dressing neck in a noose." - That's a reference to the story when Thor's hammer was stolen and he had to cross dress as Freya to get it back.

[@ExtrovertED]

True, there's also a story of Thor dressing as a woman to fool a giant (might have been a troll, been a long time since I cracked my norse storybook) hellbent on ruining a wedding.

[@Rozwarty]

@@ExtrovertED I seriously recommend for anyone reading this comment to read the Norse mythos. Either indirectly, through the internet, or directly from the _Eddas_ . It's so weird and cool simultaneously.

[@maximillian7001]

Extrovert, thats the same tale. Jotunns stole the hammer, and they demanded Frøya to become the kings wife.. Long story short, he dressed up as her and Loki dressed up as his handmaiden

[@maximillian7001]

I grew up with those stories being norwegian with a grandma very focused on lore and history.

[@micahwheelchair2899]

Is someone there!

[@alicewilloughby4318]

11:06 - I like "Call a doctor - not Seward" For anyone who doesn't know, Dr. Seward was part of the team who were hunting Dracula in the book (and at least some of the many movies.)

[@cheyannetucker9289]

I just found it endlessly amusing the way he says it

[@RikFTK]

Dr Seward is the doctor treating Renfield in the mental institution.

[@rinoaleonhart939]

Yes, Freud was nominated for a Nobel prize thirteen times, once for literature, the rest for medicine, and won none of them.

[@Fontan_]

Honestly with that many nominations you can consider him an honorary winner lol

[@Zanta100]

33 times

[@bemotivated8443]

That’s got to hurt someones ego

[@edgj2010]

random thing to note, Albert Einstein actually refused to endorse one of his medical Nobel prize and years later, gave him a very.. ambiguous almost insulting compliment "In May 1939, after reading Freud's last book "Moses and Monotheism", the man behind the theory of relativity gave him an ambiguous compliment: "I quite especially admire your achievements, as I do with all your writings," he wrote before adding: "From the literary point of view."" which can be seen a insult to him as well as a compliment.

[@christianlorre]

@@Fontan_ yeah but it's not like the Oscars. Anyone can be nominated for any reason to the Nobel committee, its just not a guarantee they take the request seriously.

[@CreepinCreeper145]

"Check one, two, ah ah ah." Reference to Sesame Street's The Count lol

[@BirdRaiserE]

Which is itself a reference to the ancient myth that vampires would be forced to count every grain of rice you spilled on a floor in front of them

[@ShwappaJ]

I think that Dracula won that rap battle when he told Vlad to join team Jacob

[@robinmichaelrath]

@@ShwappaJ I think u also smoking some crackula up here

[@ShwappaJ]

@@robinmichaelrath Affirmative, Sir Boom-A-Lot

[@darthenoh]

The connection between Freud and Theresa boils down to a devout atheist vs a woman of god, also _Mother_ Theresa vs freuds Oedipus complex.

[@Zer0SumGame]

Freud's last line also re-contextualizes the whole battle as a therapy session for Theresa

[@SidVirtuous]

I think it's also "mother" Teresa vs the "father" of psychoanalysis. At least that's what I gather from it.

[@romansochacki7678]

Mother Teresa was a secret atheist who doubted the existence of God. "Devout atheist" is almost an oxymoron lol.

[@erikjohnson3859]

You can't be a "devout Atheist" whatever the fuck that means. There is no tenet or claim or belief of any kind.

[@turboraton]

The connection is that both were a hoax

[@metalgear24]

God: I will get rid of all evil. Odin: I will get rid of all ice giants. Zeus: I will get rid of all fire. We still got evil we still got fire but do we have ice Giants

[@bigboibubba5528]

Norse pantheon confirmed

[@carlpowell2917]

technically we do since the father of the ice giants is ymir who became the ice continent we call Antarctica and he will one day awake and birth more ice giants sooo

[@dsantiago1000]

Chad Powell you just defeated one of the most powerful religion memes.

[@unblorbosyourshows9635]

The chad Odin vs The virgin Zeus.

[@beater4742]

@@carlpowell2917 soooooo somebody pays attention to Mr. Teacher

[@KurNorock]

You missed the line "we'll flyte it out" Flyte was literally a rap battle that the vikings used to do. They would hold competitions, doing freestyle rhyming insult battles.

[@VencedorGamer]

Roasts?

[@KurNorock]

@@VencedorGamer yeah sure. but they have to be rhyming and freestyle. Roasts are typically insults that are written beforehand and don't rhyme.

[@Val.Kyrie.]

The scots did the same thing, we have written accounts of their raps, and some of the rhymes, from around the 1500s.

[@michaelrodriguez8345]

Did you just make that up?!! Cause that would be awesome. 😂

[@luckyrabbit5168]

Just goes to shop how rap has been growing in the shadows to over take the music genre😎😈👹

[@BloodyBay]

26:39 You're _very_ close, Mr. Terry! The titan who fathered Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and various other gods of the Greek pantheon was Kronos, the de facto God of Time. Kronos believed that one of his children would rise up and slay him one day, so he would eat all of his children as babies. Rhea (Kronos' wife) got tired of him devouring all their children, so she hid Baby Zeus, wrapped a bunch of rocks in a blanket to make them look like a baby, then fed _that_ to Kronos instead. Zeus grew to an adult god and heard about what had befallen all of his siblings, so he came out of hiding and split Kronos' belly open with an axe or a sickle (I forget which), and all of the god-children whom Kronos had ever eaten came bursting out of the wound, apparently alive and well. Then Zeus finished cutting Kronos to pieces and threw the pieces into Tartarus (which is basically Greek Hell; read the tale of Sisyphus to see how bad Tartarus could get). So anyway, Thor telling Zeus to "Make like your Daddy and swallow my babies" is a fellatio joke, to put none too fine a point on it. ;-)

[@thesky2346]

A another Greek lover

[@heathledgersjoker6262]

Actually Kronos puked up Zeus' brothers and sisters.

[@BloodyBay]

@@heathledgersjoker6262 Maybe I'm thinking of Kronos and _his_ Daddy, Uranus...similar story with them, except Kronos grabbed a sickle, hid up inside his mother Gaea's uterus and/or vagina, castrated Uranus when Uranus came to bang Gaea again, and freed all of _his_ siblings from Uranus' body _that_ way. (And what's with all this baby-eating? Did the Titans have a vore fetish or something?) (And why did Zeus and his siblings need a _cyclops_ or three to help him rebel against Kronos and the rest of the titans when they already had a hekatonkhires? A hundred-armed giant is _plenty_ useful. A one-eyed giant? Not so much. Unless that one big eye can shoot energy beams like the X-Men's namesake does. :-p )

[@goldenwarrior1186]

Heath Ledger's Joker There are many different versions of Greek mythology (just like any mythology), so that might be the case in one story but it could have been different in another, which is what OP remembers.

[@BloodyBay]

​@@goldenwarrior1186 That's another good point. One example of murky Greek myth is that one crucial detail of Medusa's backstory: Poseidon and Medusa in Athena's temple. Did Poseidon rape Medusa, or was their coitus consensual? I've heard it both ways. If it was consensual, then _maybe_ Athena would have had grounds to curse Medusa (though turning her into a gorgon may have been excessive, and "gorgonifying" her sisters Euryale and Stheno as well was outright horrible). But if it was rape, then Athena's curse was the worst form of victim-blaming...not at all a wise move for the Goddess of Wisdom. I can understand Athena not being able to punish her uncle Poseidon, but come on, Athena! After three or four millenia, it's expected that we might lose some of the details in Old World mythologies. Imagine how people living 5,000 years from now might recall the whole Abrahamic mythos! I wish I could be around to see it.

[@poserdisposer6460]

“Vlad the hat nailer” is most definitely a reference to that turban thing right?

[@yourmomcallsmedaddy7274]

yup

[@lelice01]

some sources say french ambassadors though , some state these are legends put on the back of the vlad the impaler, they havent been proven as far as i know. Edit. My grammar needed to be corrected.

[@ktkane644]

Yep

[@danish2.012]

Reference to ottoman’s turban got nailed because getting caught by dracula

[@mennograafmans1595]

@@lelice01 Many of these legends were either true or started by Vlad himself. He wanted to be feared, because he didn't have the numbers or resources to stop the Ottomans, so he used psychological warfare and it was very effective, to the point that even nowadays he's mostly known as a monster, even though he was very beloved by his own people.

[@Emofreezer]

"You call it a nightmare I call it a Tuesday" is a reference to a movie quote that influenced Street Fighter character M. Bison's characterization indefinitely. Chun-Li: My father saved his village at the cost of his own life. You had him shot as you ran away. A hero at a thousand paces. Bison: I'm sorry. I don't remember any of it. Chun-Li: You don't remember?! Bison: For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.

[@shelbyherring92]

Raul Julia, RIP, was the only one who could deliver that line with such sincerity and cheese simultaneously.

[@SortenRavn]

That movie was SO bad.. but had A few good lines ..

[@patricks.4491]

Jeah Erb are some big Fans of Streetfighter. There have many lines. Like Yoga Fire from Ghandi.

[@BloodyBay]

@@SortenRavn "Quick! Change the channel!" Zangief was a friggin' legend in that movie! :-D

[@Moribax85]

@@SortenRavn yeah, that movie was way over awful, except for Raul Julia, he's the only saving grace of that movie

[@hedgehogsonic11]

The battle of the Draculas was over after the first bar

[@samuel_goopster6600]

hedgehogsonic11 I guess more over the first stake at this point

[@БорБориска-ц5в]

PLZ TRY HITLER VS VADER WE HAVE ALL BEEN ASKING

[@whiterabbitrambo7666]

How could alucard loose tho

[@mannymartinez7995]

@@samuel_goopster6600 lol😂

[@wolvenheart5035]

@@whiterabbitrambo7666 this version is not Alucard... if we did a Vlad vs Alucard (Hellsing) it would be total distruction

[@SteakAndMusic]

"At the end of day your bat, but thats only half a battle" How do you miss that line

[@bushidomayfield5784]

What did it mean

[@MDYEDITS]

Bushido Mayfield Dracula can transform himself into a bat, a battle has 6 letters, a bat has 3 letters. So a bat is only half a Battle.

[@bushidomayfield5784]

@@MDYEDITS ohhh straight burns

[@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595]

@@MDYEDITS Plus Bat is the first half of Battle, further adding to the burn

[@NovaHDPvP]

Another overlooked like when he said “forest of corpses”. the famous Forest of the Dead. The number is mentioned by Vlad himself in a letter to Matthias Corvinus. The Sultan and his troops then sailed to Brăila and burned it to the ground before retreating to Adrianople. Left 24,000 impales Turks along the road into a forest.

[@freyrds8870]

Impaled Turks are the best kind of Turks. Jk

[@markokrstic8795]

@@freyrds8870 True though.

[@HellStr82]

@@freyrds8870 i agree

[@reneekhsoj]

This is my favorite real pife horror story Could you fucking imagine

[@GeekVFood]

"a Freudian slip is where you say one thing, but mean your mother"

[@eansba88-]

Careful with that joke, its an antique. ; )

[@SkeleMuffin]

“I love Freudian slips as much as the next gay”

[@jasminvasquez4098]

you mean joe

[@beastrare4700]

Jasmin Vasquez joe momma

[@beeks4life811]

Wrong video

[@yaboimandalor2853]

Also. Silver is viewed as a "pure" metal. Old mirrors back then were silver backed, so something as pure as silver was viewed as incapable of showing something as unholy as a vampire

[@edoardoprevelato6577]

This. Also Stoker's Dracula is meek as a kitten when compared to certain vampires from the Masquerade continuity.

[@RubberyCat]

Never heard that explanation before. NOT EVER.

[@yaboimandalor2853]

Then look it up?

[@yaboimandalor2853]

RubberyCat if you don't believe me you can easily search all over the internet. Instead of being a doubting thomas. Look it up yourself lmao

[@RubberyCat]

@@yaboimandalor2853 I looked things up .... 25 years ago, i think? No trace of that reference then? As for "Doubting Thomas" .... heh, he never "doubted", when the other male disciples told him of Jesus' resurrection, he simply thought they were wrong, and possibly pulling a prank on him, knowing how close he had been to Jesus. The other disciples, however, THEY doubted _the two women_ that first told THEM that Jesus was alive.

[@cosminm.bumbacea3569]

Hey, so I’ve been following you lately and watch your commentaries. I’m actually from Romania and quite passionate about history. Vlad the Impaler is of the most famous (or infamous) rulers in our history. He was quite cruel, possibly sadistic as he really enjoyed making people suffer. But we’re fond of his memory because despite his bloodthirst he created a pretty safe environment for the Romanians (Even though Wallachia is the widely used name, the name of the state he ruled was actually Tara Romaneasca - Terra Romanorum, or The Romanian Realm). He was raised in the Ottoman court (as the custom was, his father was a vassal of the sultan) and it was there that he actually learned impaling could be used as an intimidation tactic, because impaling was something turks have done for a while by his time. So when he got to be a ruler (a voivode) he stopped paying Ottoman tribute, which it was pretty much a war declaration and he started impaling Turkish soldiers as a sort of mindgame. This brutal tactic used against their own creators was quite scary. But he extended the state’s territory, he lowered taxes for the citizens and made the country a pretty safe environment for the regular Romanian people. There’s even this legend that says public wells had golden cups and people figured he was dead when the gold cups started being stolen. He even inspired the name Dracula. His dad was member of the Dragon Knights and he was known as Vlad The Drake (Vlad Dracul) and when Vlad the Impaler came to power he was known as The Little Drake (Drăculea - Druh-ku-leah). The blood sucking was the result of Stoker’s rich imagination. The 20k people impaled, that was just once, before a battle. He greeted the Ottomans in a forrest of their own soldiers. His total rounds about 300k. Also, Vlad was quite the general. During the Night Attack, he and a handful of soldiers dressed up as turkish soldiers, went to the Ottoman camp, started a couple of fires, then climbed the trees and yelled ”The Romanians are attacking” which prompted turks to kill eachother in the middle of the night. So, you know, as with any historical figure there’s more to him than just the famous stories.

[@ZaZi-Zeta01]

Holy damn, now that's a ruler I can certainly respect.

[@newfan4280]

I’ve also heard that he used his ennemies’ torture techniques against themselves, and also that he wasn’t more cruel than his neighbours, I like History but I’m not well gifted concerning Romanian culture, if you have any recommendations of books or documentaries about Vlad Druh-ku-leah (did I spell it right ?) I would gladly take these recommandations and thanks for giving us more information about Vlad Have a nice day/afternoon/night (I don’t know when you’ll be watching this) :)

[@100nitrog]

In Romanian, -ea is pronounced more or less like a plain a.

[@jdprettynails]

I once heard that the Night Attack is where we get the idea that vampires can turn into bats, because Vlad made it seem like there were more people around him than there were. So the rumour was he turned into several bats to pull it off.

[@NiennaFan1]

that's so cool!

[@chilippr4137]

22:22 The line "Cross dressing neck in a noose" is a reference to how Thor at one point had his hammer Mjölnir stolen and had to pretend to be Freya and marry the king of the Giants, if i remember correctly. Note: The whole "Being worthy" thing is a marvel thing. In actual mythology anyone who was strong enough to lift a hammer could lift mjölnir

[@phichuu1160]

also Loki tricked him into believing he (Thor) gave birth to a rock iirc

[@vaspeter2600]

I love the fact that the one who came up with the crossdressing plan was... Heimdall, of all gods.

[@thatsmuggamer]

Actually, Thor needed the Belt of Strength to use Mjolnir. The giants lifted it using magic.

[@wolfleaderpack5123]

@@thatsmuggamer Thor still had legendary levels of strength, and the belt doubled it. And as it is it was less the belt that allowed him to use the hammer as it was his gloves actually

[@Norwegian-Grey-Cat]

I remember having read somewhere that Vlad would dip his bread in the blood of his victims. That's why he makes the hand gesture at the start like he's dipping some sort of food.

[@VVEmil]

Thats not true though. Due to a smear campaign by his Saxon enemies stories about Vlad boiling people alive, cannibalism and bread dipped in blood were completely made up.

[@VVEmil]

@Ghost Yuki The Russian and Romanian chronicles make no mention of these events. Therefore its been officially DEBUNKED. Onto the next one. Hope they get it.

[@aohu7505]

@@VVEmil to be fair he is confirmed to have impaled a SHIT TON of people though, and it is confirmed a lot of those people weren't exactly dead when he did that, so... it kinda caused people to believe his enemy's when they said that about him. really though the only thing that smear campaign did was insure that his terror tactics worked, and kinda immortalizing him as a symbol of terror, which is far from the worst legacy he could have had to be honest.

[@aohu7505]

@Ghost Yukivery, VERY wise words there.

[@VVEmil]

@@aohu7505 Yeah, that he did. But the fact that he impaled children is pretty much false. That propaganda only portrayed him as a bloodthirsty tyrant when in reality he was a cruel and just ruler. Think Tywin Lannister but with better reasons. Honestly...and I thought Richard the Lionheart had bad PR.

[@onemoment1355]

The relationship between Freud and Mother Teresa was how MT was celibate, while Sigmund is known for sex psychology. Also Sigmund had a "mother" study thing going on, and Teresa literally is called "Mother"

[@pedroguerrero3862]

Well that is true, another connection is that Freud was an atheist while Mother Teresa was religion

[@Punaparta]

@@pedroguerrero3862 Yeah, the point there is that they're two people with essentially completely different worldviews.

[@daniellemhall1358]

For two people who I didn't expect to be in opposition they had a lot of differences.

[@littlekuribohimposte]

Well, Freud was just a sex addict and the strides he made in psychology was a broken clock being right twice a day

[@Alvilos]

@@littlekuribohimposte And Mother Theresa believed pain and suffering would get her closer to god hence why her "hospitals" were little more than windowless shacks and the beds were often a blanket on the floor while refusing any modern medicine because "god will save them" so she could exist longer surrounded by their suffering in hopes she would get close to god. Then the church after her death changed the requirements to be declared saint from being 2 miracles after death to one and mysteriously at that exact point some random woman in the middle of nowhere ran into a lot of money and a story about Mother Theresa. She is one of the best examples of marketing over substance that has ever existed

[@Grizzy6122]

I love how Loki is just dancing the whole time and then his face expression when Zeus says "You're joking, Loki must've written your lies!"

[@missvnuna3623]

Lokis face saying "Snap, busted"

[@darksquirel]

A Freudian slip, definition: When you say one thing and mean your mother.

[@speedygunyke1]

this is so good and such a underated comment

[@ueberraccoon6609]

When the supposed to be definition ends up being the example XD

[@datgangshi]

It's actually when you intend to say one thing and you say a mother thing

[@datgangshi]

*another thing

[@fgg1873]

Omg

[@mordirit8727]

Since I haven't seen anyone commenting this yet: When Thor says "Valhalla-atcha boy, and we'll Flyte it out" he's referring to "Flytes", which were duels between bards or just even regular people; the thing with Flytes tough is that you didn't duel with weapons or strength, it was a duel to see who could come back with the best insults and comebacks. That's right, like six hundred years ago they already had essentially rap battles.

[@randyrodriguez4186]

Dracula:"im universally known" the character Dracula as portrayed here is owned by Universal Studios.

[@MikeRaist]

Ha

[@mjfan8704]

OUCH!!!!! Put some ice on that burn!

[@AgentPedestrian]

One of my favourite sort of urban legends about Vlad Dracula is the story of when the peasants would pay him tax. Many peasants were scared of getting his ire so once a peasant paid wrong he went to vlad and confessed. And was rewarded. Because Vlad apparently liked his people being straightforward. Paints him as cruel only to those who deserve it which is an interesting way to look at it.

[@aaronjaaskelainen9530]

Of course, impaling someone for paying taxes wrong is still a bit extreme, but generally I agree that big part of his cruelty is probably just stories.

[@Morgan_Black]

"Is it socially acceptable for me to play with Legos still? Cause they're pretty awesome!" 😂

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

I graduated from Legos to Mega Construx set's 😊

[@RandomOrdinary_Girl_6123]

I was homeschooled by Mega Blocks :(

[@dirrtydave]

Morgan Black I just built something 5 minutes ago, they are awesome, I play with them all the time!

[@0riginal_zer030]

@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 I love Legos, but they're pretty expensive.

[@spcsongparodycentral4612]

Legos are crazy expensive. I want to london skyline set but its ridiculous for what it is.

[@ShrtStfflp]

"I call that a Tuesday" was a reference to the 90s street fighter movie, a quote from M. Bison, the villain of the movie. "the day M. Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life, but for me? It was a Tuesday."

[@macincko4616]

That's cool, but I feel like that's just a coincidence

[@bigboibubba5528]

Epic line, but I agree with the first reply

[@Sepilein1]

i do think that it comes from there, but might be rather be known nowadays trough the shia la beouf (cant write his name ffs) parody which had a similiar sentence.

[@bigboibubba5528]

I went and looked up the scene you were talking about a week ago, and by god, it's one of my favorite lines ever now

[@silver7215]

The Titans were the “gods” before the Greek Pantheon where Zeus ruled, and Cronos was the leader of the Titans and father to Zeus and some of the others. The reason he ate his children was because the Fates told him he would be overthrown by his children, but Rhea, the mother of Zeus, hid Zeus away and then Zeus came back later to rescue his siblings and defeat the Titans. The story has slight differences depending on the sources you look up, but that’s the kind of general idea most have in common.

[@gamesman0118]

Zeus' mom gave Cronos a stone the size of a baby and hid him until he could kill Cronos.

[@smacket02]

Kronos Titan of time... Chronos Personification/Protogenoi of time.

[@DemonEyeXGamer]

Ironically it also shows that the road to destiny is often on the path to avoid it.

[@Mgl1206]

Demon Eye X || Amac hey I get that reference

[@DemonEyeXGamer]

@@Mgl1206 reference?

[@Alphadog2064]

I love that Dracula said "not Seward" talking about getting a doctor, it just made me laugh

[@SCP_Wandsman13_13]

Seward did kill him...

[@TheAchilles26]

@@SCP_Wandsman13_13, it was Jonathan Harker and Quincy Morris, tho

[@bloodydarkangel936]

He was actually heavily addicted to cocaine and he prescribed it to his patients and he proclaimed it wasn’t addictive on many occasions

[@roems6396]

bloodydarkangel : Your point is? Drugs were experimented with when they were new. CocaCola used to have cocaine in it. It was considered medicinal.

[@Squidfaced]

Hard drugs (cocaine included) were often prescribed in early ages. It's only been maybe the past half century where people decided that drugs like these were too powerful and addictive and had too many negative side effects to be medical

[@cbchansey6866]

@@roems6396 he used it to keep himself alert when working... In other words at least some of his theories were under the influence of that sweet sweet devil's angel

[@roems6396]

Eric Cui So? Some of the best art was done under the influence. I don’t see what your point is. Freud opened up an entire field of study. You can’t hate on him just because he used a substance that was claimed to have medicinal properties at the time.

[@zain6008]

@@roems6396 no one is hating on him

[@CrownedFenrir]

Don't know if it's been said already, seen a similar story but I'd heard that Vlad would feast among those he impaled (and who were still alive) and during the time wine was the main drink and given the color it was often speculated as blood among his enemies.

[@StergiosMekras]

It was this, coupled with PR (debatable on which side) to make him appear more menacing.

[@tremor230]

Another "nice" story goes more or less as such... A visitor once asked Vlad how could he eat in the midst of those corpses and withstand the stench...by the end of the day Vladdy impaled the guy as well, but as a favour of sort, on a pick slightly taller than everyone else...as a joking way to not let the poor victim feel the stench... Vlad apparently had a "peculiar" sense of humor as well

[@domagojcapko4152]

@@tremor230 And I thought that I have sick sense of humor

[@autobotskyflame6287]

Vlad has more intimidating presence.

[@marcuspaul4319]

Which vlad I’m assuming the human but still

[@-m-yo3ve]

Dracula had some good lines but Vlad won

[@Babbleplay]

Mother Theresa vs Freud : Both were huge names in their fields years ago, but are mostly considered a bit of an embarrassment by their currently living peers.

[@zumabbar]

why mother theresa is considered as such?

[@medrinkpee123]

In the behind the scenes video, they said that the reason they did the battle because they found it funny that mother Teresa had nothing to do with Freud, and vise versa. They thought it would just be funny

[@OLidartz]

@@medrinkpee123 of i thought it was funny because they put the mother up against the mother f**ker

[@switchblade6]

@@zumabbar Embezzlement and awful treatment of patients

[@abhiramyelkur928]

Freud won that one with this line alone: "I've got the libido to continue to beat ya, but our time is up Theresa" This makes the whole battle just a counselling session where Theresa was the patient, and Freud was her Psychologist. Theresa had the better flow, but Freud had the harder bars and disses.

[@huhulili9021]

@Gaius Wyrden but I do think Freud would get off by Theresa's insults, considering its about himself

[@БорБориска-ц5в]

PLZ TRY HITLER VS VADER WE HAVE ALL BEEN ASKING

[@RubberyCat]

I would like to give the win to Freud ... but after looking at it when only considering the characters and their bars ..... The only reason Freud might have won, is because Theresa's best burns of him was implying that he was obsessed with sex ... but he willingly admit it, and use it against her "continue to "beat" you" instead.

[@vaspeter2600]

@@RubberyCat The start of his second worse, the "hiding other people's money" lines landed in a really painful spot. One of her most controversial aspects was that some of her fundings were shady at best and served to help others evade taxes.

[@Marcel-vz7vp]

no stupid

[@williamhernandez2531]

Dracula saying he’s “Universally” known. As in Universal studios lol

[@RejectHumanityReturn2Monke]

No.

[@cosmonaut4395]

yes, but no.

[@sensekaren2395]

I mean... false

[@Albert-oo1wk]

Sigmund Freud is literally the Psychology's equivalent of Aristotle in Physics. All of his theories are wrong, but he did start the discussion of the topic.

[@FudGnut]

This. Well said.

[@nukalegend]

Can psychology theory even be false? While physics is a hard science that observed, psychology is just what the brain thinks how the brain works. Freudian theories aren't wrong no less then Jungs, Adler, or Erikson.

[@FudGnut]

@@nukalegend Good question. If you want to talk about psychology as a field, it helps to narrow down which subfield you are talking about. Behaviorism is the only hard science of psychology, the rest is subjective. Still, identifying mental illness is based on patterns and symptoms such as subjective distress and culturally abnormal behavior.

[@erikjohnson3859]

@@nukalegend Considering the brain is nothing but chemical reactions then yes it should be objectively quantifiable. Eventually anyway.

[@aggelosvasiliou2687]

Actually Aristotle built the bedrocks of psychology when he talked about feelings and ethics in one pf his paper works. I think its called ethics of Nicomahis. ( I cant translate it from Greek, sorry:)

[@HeroSystemPlus6E]

Time Index 03:20 Count Dracula vs Vlad the Impaler 13:03 Mother Teresa vs Sigmund Freud 21:05 Zeus vs Thor

[@TinyLijah]

Thank you

[@TinyLijah]

Thank you

[@TinyLijah]

Thank you

[@TinyLijah]

Thank you

[@TinyLijah]

Thank you

[@Dunkndosentz]

26:40 Chronos, Zeus’s father, heard a prophesy that he would be overthrown by one of his children, so he ate all of them. His wife then kept one out of spite, Zeus. He grew up without Chronos knowing, then killed him and released his brothers and sisters

[@Ivanom547]

Why won't kronos just stop having sex instead of eating babe?

[@Dunkndosentz]

Ivan Emelianov maybe they tasted good? Idfk

[@kamilnowogrodzki6885]

Kronos =/= Chronos

[@KageNoOnisu]

The Titans, like the Gods, are immortal, and can not die or be killed. Rhea didn't keep Zeus out of spite, she loved her children and was trying to protect one of them. After Zeus grew up, he and Rhea poisoned Kronos to make him vomit up his children. This began the war between the Titans and the Gods, and the Gods won. The Titans, including Kronos, were imprisoned, except for Prometheus and Epimethius. Prometheus could see the future, and saw that the Titans would lose, so he joined the Gods early on, and brought his brother with him.

[@CallistoTheWarriorQueen]

@@KageNoOnisu Mnemosyne, Themis, Oceanus, and Hyperion are also believed to have fought with the Olympians. I wish we could find the Titanomachy, what an interesting read that would be.

[@notsae66]

Vlad, Sigmund, and Thor for winners from me. Vlad won from his first verse, Sigmund was a little shaky, and Thor absolutely dominated Zeus.

[@vaiyt]

Zeus was doing well but "MC Hammer just got struck twice by greased lightning" was his peak.

[@Rozwarty]

Well, I think Zeus is underappreciated. "I'm the father of the gods, put your daddy on the phone! Maybe Odin could beg me for a truce, 'cause when Zeus lets loose, I'll put your cross-dressing neck in a noose." Is a really good punchline, in my opinion. It demeans Thor, as he was second to Odin, his father always got the better things and was revered as the god of wisdom, not just war. Thor, however much he was revered, was known to be really spontaneous and dangerous to his kin at times, like when he threatened to kill Loki if he didn't find a way to grow Sif's (Thor's wife) golden hair back. The "cross-dressing" refers to a myth, where Loki dressed Thor as the goddess Freyja, in order to get mjölnir, his hammer back from the jötnar þrym. This only one line from the first verse. I do think Thor won, but I don't think he dominated.

[@caesargold3695]

Funny thing about ‘mother’ Theresa Though Mother Theresa’s medical centers were meant to heal people, patients were subjected to conditions that often made them even sicker. In the same documentary, an Indian journalist compared Mother Teresa’s flagship location for “Missionaries of Charity” to photographs he had seen of Nazi Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. “Workers washed needles under tap water and then reused them. Medicine and other vital items were stored for months on end, expiring and still applied sporadically to patients,” said Hemley Gonzalez, a noted humanitarian worker in Indoa, when describing the Missionaries of Charity location he briefly volunteered at. “Volunteers with little or no training carried out dangerous work on patients with highly contagious cases of tuberculosis and other life-threatening illnesses. The individuals who operated the charity refused to accept and implement medical equipment and machinery that would have safely automated processes and saved lives.” It wasn’t just a select few cynical journalists who criticized Mother Teresa’s hospice care, either. In her hospice care centers, Mother Teresa practiced her belief that patients only needed to feel wanted and die at peace with God - not receive proper medical care - and medical experts went after her for it. In 1994, the British medical journal The Lancet claimed that medicine was scarce in her hospice centers and that patients received nothing close to what they needed to relieve their pain. Doctors took to calling her locations “homes for the dying,” and such a name was warranted. Mother Teresa’s Calcutta home for the sick had a mortality rate of more than 40 percent. But in her view, this wasn’t a bad thing, as she believed that the suffering of the poor and sick was more of a glory than a burden. “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion,” Mother Teresa said. “The world gains much from their suffering.” When it came to her own suffering, however, Mother Teresa took a different stance. The ailing altruist received care for her failing heart in a modern American hospital.

[@gokbay3057]

Which is why Freud won. She also baptized dying people without their consent iirc.

[@RubberyCat]

@@gokbay3057 Sadly, no. Looking at the bars and the characters, Theresa had better flows and more bars, including enough to counter and win ... if it wasn't for one thing: Freud embraced his shortcomings, and turned them back on her.

[@nicolasg7601]

Azura's Cape I assume doctors called her projects homes for the dying because that’s literally what Teresa called them herself (Kalighat Home for the Sick and Dying). Because they were hospices and not hospitals.

[@Winnetou17]

@@gokbay3057 But why did she baptized dying people ? What's there to gain ?

[@Kristian-jk2ww]

Winnetou17 Giving their souls to a flying imaginary man im the sky, Freud legit called her out on it.

[@LordTeaboBaggins]

Yes, the blood thing was attributed to Vlad as well. It’s written that while he’s feast after doing lots of impaling, he dip his bread in the fresh blood of his victims. It’s referenced in the opening verse

[@lakuita5910]

When Freud starts his second verse by analyzing Mother Teresa and says she talks a lot about herself, he's just taking note about how literally out of her 28 lines, 20 involve her referring to herself. For comparison, out of Freud's 26 lines, 13 referenced himself. For further comparison: Freud referenced himself 6 lines in a row during his "subject" segment in his first verse. Teresa's most lines referencing herself in a row is her last 7 lines. In conclusion: Freud is a bit of a hypocrite but he was right.

[@LBrooklyn99]

History Teacher: Is it socially acceptable for me to play with Legos still? Me: Yes. It's like bubble wrap; it's still fun to play with no matter how old (or young) you are.

[@MoostachedSaiyanPrince]

I can confirm this. I'm a 27 year old who was playing with bubble wrap at work earlier today and no one batted an eye.

[@chadfalardeau9162]

The older you get the more you appreciate them.

[@stefanmirica6485]

Not if you're over 99 years old, that's illegal.

[@Nikita-ez4ko]

Stefan Mi Me at 100 yrs old: Plays with legos LEGO: wait, that’s illegal

[@shadowmajor6657]

"Imagine forests of corpses Dripping on a buffet. You call that a nightmare, I call that a Tuesday. "

[@thebeardman7533]

I call that a Friday or was it Saturday

[@Siddiebop01]

Ruby Tuesday

[@Brokenskull666]

@Cristofer Wolz-Romberger OF COURSE!

[@esthercourson610]

I think its more how even dracula wouldnt go that far. Vlad was at least rumored to do heinous acts on a daily basis.

[@BreakfastTea1]

I think it's more about how Vlad used to invite people at dinner, give them a feast and impaled them... after that he used their blood to dip his bread into it. There is also a story about Vlad that he impaled in or near a wood a lot of people and took dinner next to the impaled twitching bodies. And about what he said in a video with Vlad impaling about 20.000 people, as the legend/rumour goes: he did impale 20.000 people, but not over his lifetime but in a single day. Of course, some of them could and might be just legends but inot necessary.

[@ElDiablo123]

as a Greek I found that GDP line hilarious. I laughed so hard. Also love your content and you remind me of my history teacher who was a bit like you. He would bring artifacts from different eras sometimes authentic, like Nazi silver crosses, and other times replicas and tell us the stories and history tied to those artifacts. It was really awesome.

[@researchinbreeder]

When it released, Zeus v Thor was actually heavily panned because of the fact that it used Lego. But over time, people have come to appreciate a lot about it. The lines overall are denser and harder-hitting than most other ERBs, and the fact that its Lego means they can spend more time on background details. My personal favorite is that after Thor kicks the dog off the ship, the unnamed Viking next to him tries to find it. In my personal opinion, it's the best battle on the channel. For me, Thor won. It's close, but the tipping point for me is the wordplay barrage at the start of his first verse. Not only does it flow well and incorporate important Norse elements, but even without the puns each element still makes sense. Valhalla is the home of brave warriors, where they drink and feast and fight for thousands of years, and it calls for the best (hence, "Valhalla-atcha boy", since Thor would definitely be up for that), and Ragnarok is by far the most destructive and climactic event in Norse myth; the End Times. So if he "Ragnaroks the house", it's certainly going to be a sight to see.

[@dreher55597]

researchinbreeder another thing that was in Thor favor was his shape shifting rapist line. It was known that Zeus would find a woman attractive and transform into the form of that woman and have sex with her, consensual or not. He also was able to be the “god of gods” not because he fathered them, but because he set them free. Iirc Gaia gave zues’s titan father a rock instead of Zeus and his father ate it without paying attention, allowing Gaia to hide Zeus and get him strong enough to take on his father. When Zeus hit him in the stomach it burst and allowed the other gods to be set free and help take down the rest of the Titans. That line “make like your dad and swallow my babies” was the hardest hitting punch line to me

[@Kefkaesque13]

@@dreher55597 It was Rhea (Zeus' mother) that tricked Kronos with the rock and hid Zeus away, though IIRC some versions have Gaia as having contributed to the idea (Gaia was still a bit cross that Kronos had re-imprisoned his Hecatoncheire and Cyclopian brothers, when their initial imprisonment had been the whole reason she'd had Kronos kill _his_ father, Uranus)

[@dreher55597]

Kefkaesque13 oh yeah!!! I just thought I remembered gaia having something to do with it but thanks! I didn’t remember it Elias rhea

[@garondupree8165]

Ragnarök is more of a renewal, there were gods who survived. Ragnarök is not the end of times.

[@acidbrns]

HA! I've never noticed Viking Number 452 going off to look for the dog! Thank you for that, that's fantastic.

[@Racing2knifes]

Theres a video called “i am vlad the impaler”. It’s pretty decent video that goes over his life

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

he should also check out Deadliest Warrior's Vlad the Impaler vs Sun Tzu they go over how Vlad impaled his victims

[@SirAdrian87]

As a romanian that video was absolute cringe for me. Besides the thick Budapest accent and the misspronounciation of Wallachia it fails to get a lot of basic facts right.

[@Alexgaby15Channel]

that video has a lot of things wrong

[@ihatewerewolves1832]

@@SirAdrian87 *mispronunciation

[@jeraldlane447]

Historically speaking Vlad was the monster his people needed him to be.

[@chadfalardeau9162]

Because of Prince Vlad Europe was allowed to remain Christian instead of forced to become Muslim. Make of that what you will.

[@zyxluz4645]

He's not the monster they deserved but monster they needed.

[@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447]

why did they need someone who killed so many of his own countrymen?

[@Nobythulhu]

slkjvlkfsvnls dfhgdght Because the countrymen killed were bandits and criminals almost exclusively. One of Vlad’s goals was to cleanse Wallachia of crime and corruption, which he did by punishing all sort of lawbreaking SEVERELY. Unsurprisingly, the common people loved a man who made the roads safe at night, protected the nation’s merchants against unfair practices, and even had the ear of the Pope. Even then, those countrymen were a small percentage of his victims. Most people who ended up on a stake were captured Turks or other enemies of Wallachia, leading to the famous Forest of Stakes in front of the capital city of Targoviste, the sight of which made the sultan Mehmet II turn right around and leave rather than keep battling this monster.

[@TheAchilles26]

@@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447, he overwhelmingly killed Ottomans. And civil wars are messy.

[@CodMer44]

Dracula is calm, misleading, and patient like his verses and Vlad is aggressive and straight forward like his verses

[@mintmyguy940]

I was kinda hoping to see the Jacque Cesteau v Steve Irwin battle

[@fatetinhourglass]

same

[@chrisriley2547]

Didnt he do it already

[@ierbutza21]

Not exactly history figures as of this time, maybe later on in a few decades those 2 will be viewed as such

[@ravenfrancis1476]

@@ierbutza21 I mean, I doubt Count Dracula and the Mario Bros are historical figures.

[@solaryams7516]

@@ravenfrancis1476 yea but they battle against historical figures

[@VVEmil]

Honestly, here's my Romanian perspective over Vlad's reputation. Brutality, even excessive, during medieval times wasn't exactly uncommon. You can tell by the insane number of torture devices and punishments imposed back then. Heck back in that era you could lose a hand for stealing an apple or loaf of bread while today you can get out after a few years with just a slap on the wrist for stealing the same thing cuz "justice". But while it is true that Vlad did what he had to do to protect Wallachia, and had to be cruel but fair, in a period of very short interchangeable reigns, constant backstabbings (eat your heart out Poland), nepotism, extreme corruption (that only got worse during the Phanariote Period) and endless political turmoils over the Wallachian (and Moldavian) throne, the tales of his brutality were even more exaggerrated by his Saxon enemies (as payment for Vlad razing their towns and stripping their merchants of their privileges...which tbh were one-sided type of BS dealings) through a very successful smear campaign in order to coerce Mathias Corvinus...although thats still debatable...and to make him look inhuman and on the Ottoman's side. Its pretty much like what happened with Oda Nobunaga imo. And those fake stories were the ones which became popular in the West to this very day. But if it wasn't for Vlad and his even more badass cousin Stephen III The Great, not to mention their ancestors and descendants to the Wallachian/Moldavian throne we would've been speaking Turkish nowadays. They were the ones who kept the Ottomans at bay every time the latter mobilized to conquer the West. Whats even better is that corruption ceased to exist during Vlad's reign while nowadays we're strangled by it every passing minute. Also here's a fun little known fact about the 2nd siege of Vienna: Despite being allies on paper with the Turks, the Wallachians under Șerban Cantacuzino were the true underdogs of that great event. They were the ones who heavily sabotaged the Turks from the very beginning and were never suspected. Warning the Austrians very early of the invasion before the Ottomans mobilized; putting hay and cannonballs of weak material in the Turkish cannons to minimize damage on the walls; communicating with the Austrians and keeping tabs on the Turks, all done beneath a tunnel during the night; stalling repairs of a bridge over Danube by delaying the wood cutting progress; planting a cross with a double meaning, in plain sight, where we secretly offered support to the Austrian emperor but the Turks thought we were talking about the Sultan....we did all of that. The Poles were the ones that gave the coup d'grace tho. And honestly...they deserved it. We just watched the events from our camps and cheered them on internally. Șerban was praised as a hero by the Austrian figures and almost got the title of Count of Holy Roman Empire and wanted to start a new crusade against the Ottomans. I say almost because he was dead by poison back home by none other than the martyr ruler Constantin Brâncoveanu and a relative of Șerban. Wasn't kidding about those backstabbings. Also for a better perspective of the past dont judge all of this by your own standards and instead try putting yourself in the shoes of someone who lived during those times and try to imagine how life was back then. Cuz what we find squeamish or even gross today was pretty normal and even honorable back in the day. Like having the "honorable" duty of cleaning the King's butt (Yes, that existed!). Make of that what you wish. Also Vlad won this rap battle.

[@TheZombielayer]

Til: Transylvanian Saxons exist.

[@VVEmil]

@@TheZombielayer Dont forget about the newly invented printing press.

[@keremtekdemir9360]

Dude can u please tell me the difference between Vlad and Hitler

[@Spitfirethedragon]

Still brutal. But they did find bones of children impaled from his time period. The ranges of ages are from 11 to 18. Back then, when you turned 13, you were treated like adults. When you get caught stealing food? Vlad impaled you even if you were a child in our sense. So, if you were 13, hungry, steal food and got caught? Your sentence is death by being impaled on a spike. Don't think those things were made up by the Saxons, but something that was actually witnessed.

[@VVEmil]

@@keremtekdemir9360 In order for us to understand that lets looked at the context for both cases. Let's start with Hitler. Because of the Weimar Republic there were many issues the Germans, including Hitler had to get rid of like poverty, inflation, a weak ineffective government and huge amounts of debt. Then he turned megalomaniac. Vlad grew up in a treacherous enviroment being a hostage to the Turks and technically in his home country. Not so different from what Ivan the Terrible went through. Both Hitler and Vlad took the throne/chancellor role legitimately. Vlad was a tactical genius and could hold his own, even going so far as attacking an Ottoman camp in disguise as a Turk, while Hitler had to rely on his generals (some of them rather inept) and army and was mostly on the sidelines...WW1 doesnt count. Vlad did brutality out of necessity for survival since his principality was surrounded by major powers with whom swapping allegiances was a common practice while Hitler was brutal out of spite and hatred and to find a scapegoat in the Jews and further his sinister agenda. He did the Night of the Long Knives only to seize complete power and further his ambitions. To that Vlad seems like a saint (and funny cuz Stephen the Great of Moldavia, his cousin, is a saint but I digress) and during his reign, criminality was an an all-time low, corruption was non-existent and you could easily leave a bag of gold in the middle of the street and no one would dare touch it. He treated everyone undiscriminately and equally. And he never impaled children like this rap battle says. While during Hitler's reign there was discriminations, repression, brutality, even corruption and before Vlad's reign there was corruption and the backstabbings I mentioned before which were replaced by order, justice no discrimination and, if you were a two-faced boyar, fear. To us, Romanians Vlad was a cruel but fair and incorruptible figure and brave to the point of suicidal. He's basically our George Washington while Vlad's brother Radu the Handsome is our Benedict Arnold. He made Wallachia be truly independent, even if it was for a short while. It was the golden age of medieval times during his reign. Not to mention in wars, Hitler's Germany was the aggressor while Vlad's Wallachia was on the defensive. Vlad's legacy is an independent Wallachia while Hitler's was the Holocaust. And we did switch sides against the Nazis during WW2 so that means something.

[@lexsmithee652]

Who won: Vlad the impaler won without question. Dracula hurt himself way more than he hurt Vlad. Also Vlad was ruthless. I believe Sigmund Freud won, and here's why: the jabs theresa took at Freud's work kinda fell apart when he embraced it. Sigmund did cocaine, but cocaine was in coca cola at that point, so it's not that weird (cocaine was removed from coca cola in 1929). Sigmund however, hit theresa hard in three spots: 1 - the church didn't do much healing, which you mentioned in the video 2 - the holy water thing is a double meaning, referring to the fact that theresa and her nuns would baptize patients on their deathbed without their knowledge 3 - he mentioned her taking others money, which refers to the fact that she spent a lot of the money donated to her charity work on missionary work. Thor won IMO, as he had more ammo against zeus. Zeus was all about "I've got all this power", but Thor had all this shit on Zeus being a rapist and just a horrible guy all around.

[@TheZombielayer]

Important to note: Cocaine was never in Coca Cola as we know cocaine, it was actually the Coca leaves which have a much lower alkaloid content, which is why it's called "Coca" cola.

[@Son-Goku_Kakarot]

Lex Smithee wouldn’t it be good that’s she’s spending the money on missionary work? Like wasn’t that what the money would be for? It’s not like she was spending it for personal gain

[@lexsmithee652]

@@Son-Goku_Kakarot The money was given to her to run the hospitals and to help heal people, so sadly it turned out she was misusing the donation funds. They collected money in the name of helping the sick and poor, but spent it on converting people.

[@aezzil3536]

Aww someone listened to the history teacher and did their homework

[@hightidekraken]

Thing is Mother T did all those to help others

[@olzhassamatov5776]

Great reactions! Thanks for reviewing this content. One thing though. As you may have noticed the ERB team puts a lot of effort into these details and create incredible detailed battles. In the battle between Mother Teresa and Sigmund Freud when the battle started and characters were introduced Freud has actually checked his clock "timing the start of their therapy session with Mother Teresa" and at the end of his 2nd round he stopped the timer. Just how well-thought and staged these battles are.

[@graphictmedia8042]

I feel like Mother Teresa said more, but Sigmund Freud had more to say.

[@arewhyinoh8595]

Christopher Hitchens goes in depth as to why Teresa was a terrible person.

[@rainofkhandaq6678]

The "Vlad the Hat Nailer" line was what you talked about earlier in the video. Great history lesson, didn't know the meaning.

[@EditDeath]

Fun fact, when Thor mentions a "flyte," that's actually the Norse equivalent of a rap battle. Loki was said to be a master at it, which explains "Loki must've written your lines."

[@brothersgt.grauwolff6716]

if Loki had actually written Thor's lines it would've been a rap massacre 😁

[@zachariahkindle8926]

@@brothersgt.grauwolff6716 loki's look: am I a joke to you?

[@danepher]

About the shpae shifting line: In the myth, the god Zeus turned into a swan and raped Leda, Queen of Sparta. That event had huge consequences, according to classical mythology: Leda's intercourse with the swan and then with her husband, King Tyndareus, resulted in two eggs, from which hatched Helen, Clytemnestra and the twins Castor and Pollux. That's of course not the first time Zeus has turned in to a swan or other animal to have intercourse with women.

[@apossiblyhereticalalphaleg3595]

And neither was it the last time

[@chriselyea2545]

Vlad won but Dracula's lines made me laugh more.

[@TheQuilava96]

That was exactly my mood the entire time. Dracula was funnier imo, but Vlad’s bars were clever and brutal

[@blakecurry3880]

I like how he talks about the hat nailing story early on as an interesting tidbit, and then when they actually bring it up for real in the rap....crickets. :D

[@tricktrade6767]

Ooo, I know this one, vampires traditionally dont have reflections cause in the past mirrors were made with silver, which is considered a holy metal. And vampires are normally considered unholy

[@dragon4518]

(just off the top of my head, so take with a grain of salt, it's been ages since I researched any of this) So, random fun things about the reflections and vamps in general, Some of the old mirrors used silver backing on glass for the reflection, which is why it didn't show. Silver was the purest metal, and vampires (plus other supernatural evil baddies) were weak to it. its also the same reason vamps didn't show in pictures, old old cameras used silver nitrate in the film process.

[@candymanhates]

The next one you should do Jack the Ripper vs Hannibal Lecter.

[@shaggyplays5210]

He did that in a previous video I believe

[@artsysabs]

@@shaggyplays5210 nope I dont think he has yet 🤔

[@shaggyplays5210]

@@artsysabs My mistake it was Teddy vs Churchill I was thinking of.

[@artsysabs]

@@shaggyplays5210 it's all good. I just had to check cuz I love that battle and I was like did I somehow miss it?? I forget he reacted to it?! :P

[@hugmonger]

"The whole drinking blood thing actually a vlad thing" So kind of. You mentioned the boiling a man and eating him thing, and he was also characterized as literally bathing in blood and drinking blood. Of course the accuracy of that is.... unknown to me.

[@Desdemona-XI]

Some theorized that a disease causing severe anemia is part of it. But if nothung else drinking the blood of your ememies is a powerfully intimidating display. And has been used by figures in many cultures with a degree of variation

[@cherrydragon3120]

Not sure if thats a vlad thing. Vampire tales go back till ancient greece as far i know. Dracula is just another one that got a bit more famous trough the years

[@KaitouKaiju]

@@cherrydragon3120 Vampires didn't suck blood in the oldest myths

[@burakmazi8245]

That bathing in and drinking blood thing is actually attributed to Countess Elisabeth Báthory also kown as Camilla the blood Countess

[@amayesing1612]

I love it when he explains the simple jokes not the history ones

[@94killerkid]

Dracula's blood drinking came from vladd when he dipped his bread into the blood of his enemies. Sigmund won, hands down. Kronos, King Titan before the gods. Thor wins it for me

[@johngrace1312]

Yea Terry, it is 100% acceptable to still play with Legos as a grown man

[@flzubuduuz]

Freud did indeed get nominated 13 times for Nobel Prizes, 12 for medicine/physiology and one for literature if I'm not mistaken. Didn't win a single one though.

[@frickoffmem8494]

Lol I love that laugh Mr. Terry does when thor talks about Greece’s GDP

[@rosereggie5901]

The word bat literally half of the world battle... god the dedication that ERB goes through.

[@moomoomachines7193]

I love that he goes over the battles because he does a history analysis of the battle that I would’ve never figured out.

[@GriseWeisshark]

The ERB wiki has a meaning of the lyrics tho

[@logon900]

This guy seems like the perfect history teacher. I wish he was my history teacher.

[@Galactic-Ghost77]

Logan 900 you should meet Mr Penzatk

[@joakim482]

Sorry dude, but no. Neither me or my girlfriend has any more mythology education than high school, but we still knew more about the Zeus VS Thor part than this guy. I explained a lot of what this guy missed to her when we watched this, only to NOT hear the guy say anything about it, but we did find it in the comments instead... So no, bad history teacher. Yes, he might be a HISTORY teacher and not a mythology teacher, but if he's watching a video about a subject, he SHOULD look up information about it in advance. I would.

[@bildo3978]

Joakim West he wants the videos to be a surprise i think

[@joakim482]

@@bildo3978 I don't mean watch the video before, I mean looking up information about the people/characters. It just makes sense, at least to me.

[@bildo3978]

Joakim West fair enough

[@hugmonger]

"You can just dress like he did there and carry a big pike" I can imagine it now "Are you supposed to be evil mario?

[@joeysmith5086]

Isn't that Wario? lol

[@yoranger7735]

im amazed that he has historical knowledge in so many fields and so many timelines that it is kinda insane, while also managing to keep up to time(games and music and sports)

[@ChainxBlaze]

Idk why i watch these so much. Every time he asks who won and why i feel like im getting homework. My anxiety goes through the roof.

[@morris2408]

Stockholm syndrome

[@METALLICTWISTER]

term: goddess mr terry: god women

[@DannL18]

Metallic Twister it the technical term for historians

[@JohnBainbridge0]

Freud's mom thing and his sex thing weren't "conflated." That was his jam. He coined the term, "Oedipus complex."

[@macenanoro826]

Mother/Son is Elektra Complex. Oedipus is actually the Father/Daughter variant.

[@JohnBainbridge0]

@@macenanoro826 You know that the name is taken from the story of Oedipus Rex, wherein an adopted boy ends up marrying his own mother... right? I'm afraid you have those terms backward.

[@cbchansey6866]

@@macenanoro826 other way around friend

[@malysyforethought1195]

@@macenanoro826 Mother -son is a Jocasta Complex, Electra Complex is a young girl for an older man.

[@WakeOG]

@@JohnBainbridge0 was oedipus rex not the story of him killing his father and marrying his mother?

[@Evelyn-grace9841]

9:37 it's actually silver! The metal has purifying properties that were adapted into anti-monster powers in pop culture (Silver bullets for werewolves), so since early mirrors and cameras used Silver they were said to reject the vampire's presence!

[@Dejy-subscribegoal200]

React to these: Thanos vs Oppenheimer Vader vs Hitler 1-3

[@The5thSaints]

23:37 "and we'll flyte it out" there were competitions back in the middle ages called flytings and they were basically freestyle rap battles no joke.

[@spawnfreak75]

I could be wrong but I recall reading that Vlad was a man that made himself into a monster to fight a vastly more powerful enemy.

[@mondaysinsanity8193]

Essentially but ironically the Turks are who made him a monster in a way. he was trained as a Janissary making a prince into a monster(also part of the order of the dragon so pretty beast lineage as is) when the ottomans came at wallachia he found a target

[@mennograafmans1595]

Indeed. Most things he did was to scare the Ottomans out of Wallachia, maybe even Europe. Therefor, the cannibalism part is probably just made up, since his own people supported Vlad throughout his live.

[@MrAuthor3DS]

10:41 Ah, yes - in the original story of Dracula, sunlight doesn't kill him, but rather just hinders his superhuman power. It was the story of Nosferatu that built up the modern belief that the sun is lethal to vampires.

[@frozenuruguayball6436]

I finally get the nosier achoo line thanks

[@connorthompson66]

Lets use democracy to put Zeus in his place. All in favor of Thor?

[@giannisk.916]

No

[@jacksonangley8163]

Aye

[@caesargold3695]

You know Hades deserves a better chance

[@researchinbreeder]

Write in candidate: The Viking who had his dog kicked into the sea by Thor.

[@sin978]

Aye

[@topmodelbaby100]

"how is dracula gonna counter that" was that an intended pun or just a happy accident?

[@Kryojenix]

_Everything is intentional!_

[@CatGamer-wc2ij]

He destroyed her as a thief and charlatan, and that’s why he can’t be hit on things like the Nobel prize etc

[@JeckHades]

Fun fact: Neck washing is something they did before beheading.

[@charlesgriffith6068]

You missed "The Count" from Sesame street. Also the reference that led to the blood stuff. Actually got connected to Vlad Tepes by way of his cousin(removed) Elisabeth Bathory.

[@Catani99]

Neck washes is also a reference to Vlad’s death, where he was decapitated by an Ottoman ambush. His head was then sent to Constantinople. The more you know.

[@SplitCell202]

I remember reading somewhere that Vlad used to have his dinner in the field of impaled corpses, I always believed that's where the whole blood drinking and cannibalism came from.

[@g-ratedhistory8233]

Willian Couso that’s the first line and yes that is mostly where the blood drinking comes from, but he did kill prisoners at his court and drink their blood when there was not any spare corpses

[@tonyhancock5467]

The whole "Dipping my bread, in a weeping blood vessel." is a referance to that

[@SplitCell202]

@@g-ratedhistory8233 thank you, yeah I was looking around and I found an old german painting of him in a table eating in front of an impaled Turk.

[@SplitCell202]

@@tonyhancock5467 I see, well thank you for that. Should have gotten that on the first catch hahaha

[@christophermark6090]

The line Freud made about "my favorite subject, me!" was reference to his theory on "the Ego (and Superego) vs. the Id" (which essentially boils down to inner conflict between a person's higher moral character and reality vs. their more basic primitive instincts). It's a thought process on how one should be more self-aware considering their surroundings (societal context for behavior). I don't think it had anything to do with him being narcissistic (although he may well have been that too). Freud also wasn't "lewd." He developed the psycho-sexual model of child development theory which has its merits and demerits, but it isn't "lewd." Just thought I'd clear that up.