Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "thehistorysquad" channel.

  1. This “family” was pure evil. Beyond evil. This is of the most sickening stories I’ve ever heard. The lodger, the neighbors, the apprentices, etc. also deserve condemnation as well for doing absolutely nothing.
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  2. Kevin, the man the legend, Hicks. Love this guy. That’s some beautiful country.
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  3. Horses are wildly intelligent. So, yes, the horse 🐎 grave memorial is extremely sad too. That bronze sculpture is quite beautiful.
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  4.  @grahamhill676 You, sir, seem to have just ignored every successful guerrilla insurgency since not just 2000, but ever. Take your brain out of neutral. BTW, the A10 sounds cool, but it’s garbage at its job.
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  5. Kevin immediately challenged its maker to a duel. Afterward, he dusted off his hands and told the gift shop, “That’s him done. So, you’ll be needing a new model maker. Name’s Kev: trained soldier, copper, long bowman, model maker, historical reenactor + much more.”
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  6. BTW, I appreciate how you never glorify war. You pay homage the bravery, camaraderie and sacrifice of those who served while providing vivid insight into the horror of pitched warfare was/is from medieval to modern times. ps - It’s never a bad time to share stories of likely the most respected army of WWI: 🇨🇦.
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  7. Been racing since the ‘90s and I, along w/fellow racers in the SoCal area, used to run driving courses for the CHP. They had their own training track off the I-5. It was hilarious to train cops in these huge Detroit boats loaded with thousands of pounds of gear. They felt more like powerboats than care. They were always most excited about learning the J-Turns, which was fairly easy in those cars. But teaching them how to maintain pace in cars of that size, which were generally underpowered for their weight, was a lot harder and many vehicles got smashed in the process, a number completely totaled. US Cops, are generally overly macho and a bit arrogant. “I’m already fast. No little racing driver has anything to teach me” was a common, but unspoken attitude. So, in order to get them to actually listen and respect the process, you had to show them how much faster you were than them. We usually did this by either scaring the sh*t out of them in a ride along or if that didn’t work, we’d put them alone in a car behind us and tell them to keep up. Often we could end up lapping them within 5 laps (the circuit was fairly short). Humbled, the learning could begin. Not always smoothly, dozens of cars were totaled.
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  8.  @fangslaughter1198  He is arrogant. WWII has endless stories to tell and that’s what he does. People act as if this is some astounding feat. The only thing unique he’s doing is focusing on telling this history on YT rather than focusing on traditional academic research output.
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  9. They don’t call him Kevin “the headman” Hicks just cause of his strong axe 🪓 hand. And like most proper Brits, Kevin looks like he could deliver a punishing headbutt. NEVER put your face close to an angry, drunk Englishman. You’re liable to get your nose split. 😅
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  10.  @ericbooth3393 Felton? A genius?
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  11. We need a History Squad drinking game and I’ve got a model would definitely make the list.
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  12. A shout out to Mrs. Hicks. Excellent work behind the camera as usual, madam. No one can do this all without some brilliant help.
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  13.  @shamoy1000  🤐
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  14. TV is shlock. The best YT history channels are far, far better.
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  15. Their timing was great. They got to avoid dealing w/the Comanche + Spanish. Even the Spanish were utterly terrified of the Comanche (the Texans & Mexicans (too). I think you’d love the channel HOKC, Kev. They recount the most glorious and epic stories and battles of the tribes, the tribes and the Texas Ranges, the Spanish, US Army, mountain men, etc.
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  16. For Saint Crispin and John Cornewaille! The 🇫🇷 attacks down in the Welsh miners’ tunnels are the most terrifying part of the battle. Battling in suffocating heat and dark and often being buried alive.
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  17. Rumor has it he’s here to start high density burial sights. He plans to make a killing. (he hasn’t noticed all the space yet)
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  18. Kevin can’t even demonstrate how his razor sharp lance point could cleave through flesh like a hot knife through butter. What happened to our freedom?!
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  19.  @apolloperez8706  It’s amazing when you see the shadow of a massive storm front moving across the plateau before the actual clouds isn’t it?
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  20. Aberfan is basically the first thing anyone who lives in England or knows about English mining towns during 20th would think of when they hear about a landslide.
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  21. Maybe they should have called him Saint Headmund instead.
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  22. The fact hangings conducted by the world’s leading powers in the 20th century were botched shows that execution by hanging essentially became a lost art. Only about ten years ago we also saw the botched hangings in Iraq. People wrongly assume hanging is a simple affair. Hangmen weren’t well paid for nothing.
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  23. Love the intro music. These obviously made for great natural fortifications. The Spanish found extracting the Hopi, Anasazi, etc. incredibly difficult. It required bringing out huge canons. I’d recommend visiting Taos if you want to see some of the world’s most gorgeous country paired with impressive ancient NA architecture that still stands and is inhabited to this day. They also had and have the most delicious food.
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  24.  @thehistorysquad It’s about 40 mins from Santa Fe. World class skiing there too if you partake. Cheers.
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  25.  @bostonrailfan2427  “What a guy” is one of my favorites. That and a “yeah?” sprinkled in liberally at the end of many statements.
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  26. How did Kev get the L-Man to actually show up for an in-person interview? Bit weird how he always refers to himself in the third person though.
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  27.  @LouisLandry-by6nu Someone obviously fell asleep watching YouTube. “PP” as the sleeping bladder said.
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  28. $20 in 1903 is the equivalent of $715 today if anyone was curious about his reward.
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  29. The birth of Agincourt. People need to read Bernard Cromwell’s Agincourt, which is an incredibly historically accurate fictional account of the campaign beginning from the launch to Harfleur and then Agincourt (actually begins even earlier with bowman Nick Hook participating in the Burgundian war in France.
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  30. Again? At 17, you’ve barely had time to begin enjoying let alone losing the joy and beginning again.
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  31.  @thehistorysquad  Empire of the Summer Moon. An utter classic. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is another mandatory reading. The man spent five years living in the wilds of Northern Mexico and the Southwest before writing it. What a legend.
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  32. Kevin is a one-man history all himself and real life badass. I hope the Met PD gets to cleaning up their horrible level of corruptions. Anyway, as usual, your stories are fantastic. From Berlin to Cyprus to Bobby on the beat, you’ve lived a fascinating, awesome life.
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  33. I always cringe when American tourists appear in Kevin’s stories. I always know they’ll be doing something to make us look ridiculous. The Mall of America being located in Minneapolis is no coincidence. It’s so cold in winter, it’s literally deadly, especially for older folks. So, it’s basically a way for people to get out without getting out.
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  34. More famous than Bobby Knight?!
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  35. And let’s be real. I doubt the perv was doing it for that reason.
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  36. It’s Kev’s Tower now. Kevin, maybe you didn’t know, but you’ve got Excalibur.
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  37. A great ad for cremation. Anytime I hear about Victorian London, I have no idea how people stayed. No idea why I decided to eat while watching this. 😂
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  38. Is my name not sexy enough for the Patreon list? 😉 😂
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  39.  @thehistorysquad  Not a big deal. I was kidding. I messaged you as Nick T.
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  40. I need that hoodie, Kev. In black preferably. BTW, 395k subs! You’ve got some of the fastest growth I’ve seen in a channel since the likes of Mr. Ballen. The difference is your content has actual value.
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  41.  @thehistorysquad  Oh, I'm still interested Brigadier Cox.
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  42.  @2serveand2protect  New Mexico is another big sky state. The light, the shadows, etc. are just amazing. Why can’t you travel out West yourself?
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  43.  @apolloperez8706  Amazing. Are you in the concrete jungle now?
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  44. While a distasteful business, it helped advance medicine, train doctors to care for the actual living, etc. I’d rather have my useless corpse utilized for some good. Even if it was just soap. You have to respect John Loftis’ hustle. He made use of all the leftovers. As long as they could be discreet and the family was none the wiser, no one was really hurt.
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  45. It’s always been a choice between the lesser of two evils. But one party is far more evil right now. Reveling in abuse and abandoning our allies.
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  46.  @Iz_Logan  Which comment? OP’s? This is the first time you’ve heard of politicians and/or law enforcement being corrupt?
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  47. Check out History Civilis’ “Tyranny of the Clock,” Kev: https://youtu.be/hvk_XylEmLo?si=QE5sdd6SnENZx1mW You’ll absolutely love it + learn A LOT about how horribly life changed for the poor working class w/the invention of the clock and it compares an average day of a medieval peasant vs an early industrial age worker (on the clock). The one correction I’d make is there’s no such thing as “it only weighs a couple kilograms” for a man on campaign today or 500 years ago. Anyone who’s ever had to march or hike for days on end learns to get rid of absolutely every last thing that isn’t absolutely necessary.
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  48. Roman soldiers had dog tags too called signaculum made of lead and carried in a leather pouch around the neck. Apropos, we’re sorely in need of a hero to advocate for better UXO mapping tech + shared databases.
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  49. Cannock Chase also has many of the best supernatural stories of anywhere in the world. All types, from your standard ghost stories to aliens to time slips to cryptids. Whether or not they’re BS, they’re very unique and colorful stories rather than being anodyne.
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  50. Did you mention how Charles thought he was made of glass or has that been proven apocryphal? Meanwhile, the Duke of Clarence had a 🧠 of glass. U don’t even go into political fight w/zero ISR let alone a battle.
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  51.  @paulmanson253 The word is “pepper.” Pepper the offending adults.
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  52. BTW, I’d guess the child was more along the lines of 7-10. A five year old isn’t going to be a effective grenadier.
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  53. That’s just a coincidence, my man.
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  54. Your demo tools take this from great to amazing. I find it funny that many modern people think people in the middle ages went around caked in mud and feces or that medicine in antiquity was all superstition and no trial and error or using scientific observation of the world around them.
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  55. I’d give so much just to be able to go back in time and attend just one party when this castle was in its fully glory and listen to the men talking politics, business and war, the women’s gossip and the staff arguing and making jokes about all the pompous aristocrats.
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  56. Wow, the first British soldier to ever see a T-72. Wild. Awesome.
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  57. Can’t imagine the expense of building, but even more expensive, maintaining that beast and paying all the servants. And this is less than half of the original house.
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  58. You’re a modern mix of Nick Hook and John Cornewaille. It was endlessly amusing that any Englishman or Frenchman thought a ruler based in one or the other could ever rule both.
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  59. Hotspur has to be one the coolest medieval nicknames ever. By the by, a crazy aunt did a family tree all the way back to the Battle of Hastings. The most notable ancestor found was the Earl/Earls of Shrewsbury. My father actually had the same name, by pure coincidence, as “Old Talbot,” the first EOS John.
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  60. Major head/brain injuries almost always result in major character changes, which are almost marked by massive increases in aggression and paranoia. Seems to explain a lot about of Henry VIII.
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  61. I’m so happy for once, the wife was prosecuted too. In most similar stories from the time, only the man is arrested. Edit: just got to the lenient sentences for the husband and son were even more infuriating.
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  62. American tourists are continually embarrassing the country.
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  63. Poor Suleiman. I hope he was later to rebuild his life and a new family.
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  64. I really pray that no one who got covered by the rubble was still alive after it stopped. That’d be the most horrific fate imaginable. The worst part is that I know some almost certainly were.
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  65. The church begged the nobility not to joust or participate in competitive melees. They even made it illegal for a while with the threat of excommunication.
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  66. When I cross the River Styx, I expect to see Mr. Hix still aboard demonstrating medieval surgery on a dummy to entertain Mistress Styx herself.
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  67. I loved reading about King Edmund and the leftover Roman infrastructure they still used in Bernard Cornwell’s books. Fantastic books. BTW, your costume wardrobe must be absolutely MASSIVE.
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  68. During antiquity and even as recently as the middle ages, doctors used by commoners were often better than high status doctors as the elite doctors tended to be handed their position hereditarily rather than merit and were often dismissive of new discoveries.
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  69. Your Patreon community is thriving. Fantastic! More content for all us history fans.
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  70.  @thehistorysquad  Don’t scream at me, Mr. Hicks.
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  71. You look right smart in that uniform, Kev. It’s good to see mil medical personnel getting more recognition in recent years. They often faced greater danger and definitely more horror than your average GI.
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  72. BTW, I have to register my disapproval of your cannibalism, Kevin.
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  73. Ah, a good distraction from our slide into autocracy. Wood won’t necessarily result in an infection. So, I’d rather risk leaving in the snapped off bit of a sailor.
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  74. I always cringe when American tourists appear in Kevin’s stories. I know they’ll be doing something to make us look ridiculous. The MoA being located in Minneapolis is no coincidence. It’s so cold in winter, it’s literally deadly, especially for older folks. So, it’s a great captive audience and a way for people to get out without getting out. BTW Kev, you should know better than to ask for one let alone “one little one” of anything in America. Bulk servings, bulk groceries, pickups the size of lorries to carry 600 pounds of ham + a family of land bound blimps. I was proud of how many Americans risked their lives for each other in and around the WTC on 9/11. All colors, class, creed + profession performing heroic acts that often saved lives at the cost of their own. Recently watched new, totally raw video of that day, including a doc crew that, by chance, was embedded w/ the NYFD brigade chief that day. It was haunting to see the firefighters keep jumping as bodies kept crashing into the overhang not by ones or twos but dozens and the moment they realized it was bodies. Worse was to see the crew in the second tower start up the stairs knowing there a high likelihood the building was going to collapse on them. Sadly, Americans also easily fall into jingoism, lack the nous to see when a bad cause is being wrapped in the flag or tune to the fact that the more someone claims a monopoly on patriotism, the more suspicious one should be.
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  75. The actual number executed during Henry VIII’s reign was actually just a hair below 24,000, but the majority were not on Henry’s orders. The 70k+ figure came from William Harrison, but it turned out his source for the figure was essentially continental gossip fed to him by Gerolamo Cardano. An Italian who had actually never been to England. The average number of execution per annum neither increased upon Henry’s ascension nor increased after his death beyond the normal margin of error. Still, he was an awful guy after the head injury which turned into him an utter monster.
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  76. A 125cc?! Those cheap b*stards. But wow you’ve saved a life. I’ve been around horses a lot. I’m happy none of the horses got hit. I bet the family would’ve been even more grateful had they know what a struggle you dealt with that.
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  77. I think 50 people in there on a regular basis is likely a significant, even massive, underestimation. You don’t that many kitchens let alone ones of that size for just 50 people. I’d estimate there were hundreds of people when the full entourage was there. If they were preparing for a siege, I’m sure it would have been around a thousand.
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  78. This wasn’t one of the king’s primary residences at the time though was it? If it was, times must have been tight if he couldn’t afford to construct chambers with greater privacy.
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  79. Wish I had gotten to experience the 1970s West Berlin nightlife and explored all the living history.
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  80. I’d tape rocks over my knee. 😂
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  81. Nick Hook (the protagonist of Cornwell’s “Azincourt” - I forget why he spelled it liked that instead of Agincourt). A hero for the everyman and a Nick myself. Thank you, Mrs. Hicks, for the camerawork.
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  82. Still going until 1983?! I remember how disappointed I was to find out what Al really was: pure evil. BTW, Kevin, you’re looking smart as a carrot! 🥕
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  83. Oh thank god you didn’t use actual Swedes, Kevin. This was one of my favorite episodes.
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  84. Love your real life stories (all the rest too). Binging on my new main man. You, Hicks!
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  85. Mr. Hicks was/is an “‘ard man” (as he likes to say), which is why I love that he still gets into the full get up. It really enriches the video.
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  86. All the stories and nonsense gotten up to around Cuthbert’s bones in Cornwell’s stories never fail to make me smile. Oh, father Beocca, what will we do about our Uhtred?!
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  87.  @insaaanestuff  Seriously, no one watches anything on TV anymore, unless it’s a Netflix or premium channel prestige show.
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  88. 11:00 - puts a whole new meaning on the term poll tax. Disgusting yet hilarious as a pun. No matter how many times I read or hear this story, I feel myself getting inspired. Especially when they decide not to loot.
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  89.  @thehistorysquad in case you missed since I edited it in after posting: I think you’d love the channel HOKC, Kev. They recount the most glorious and epic stories and battles of the tribes, the tribes and the Texas Ranges, the Spanish, US Army, mountain men, etc.
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  90.  @thehistorysquad  Kev on it even before me. He nailed it.
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  91. If the funds were available, I wish they’d reproduce just one of or two the rooms’ interiors so people could see what they looked like at the time as too many people actually think they just lived in cold castles with bare stone walls.
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  92. Hamon of Chigwell is a classic name (conjures a not so handsome face). I’m impressed the court looked into it so it so closely rather than adopting a “good riddance to bad rubbish” attitude as it seems Ralph intentionally avoided trying to kill Roger by only using the flat of his sword to avoid. Maybe an early trial for excessive use of force? That or going alone, which allowed this situation to develop in the first place.
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  93. You liked Latimer because of his bow sermon. You love a good Castle Warwick bow. 😉 (edit: I wrote that even before I got to your conclusion)
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  94. Wow, sounds like an amazing time. Wish I had been around for the horn sounding. I’d love it on a misty day. Anyway, it always amazes me how little common sense people have.
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