Power doesn’t announce itself.

It operates quietly—behind institutions, behind wars, and behind the stories you’re told.

The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show is a bi-weekly investigation into how power really works—across history, empires, and the modern world.

Each episode draws on two core lenses:

Hidden forces behind history—royal murders, financial systems, lost colonies, modern elites, propaganda, and the quiet mechanisms shaping events long before they reach the headlines.

The Roman Pattern—the idea that today’s crises aren’t new. Currency collapse. Political division. Border chaos. Military overreach. Rome faced them all first—and left behind a playbook we’re following again, page by page.

Through conversations with historians, researchers, and serious thinkers—and deep dives into primary sources, documents, and records—this show connects ancient history to modern power with evidence, not opinion.

You’ll learn to:

• Recognize collapse signals before they’re obvious

• Understand modern crises through ancient parallels

• See how empires actually rise, decay, and fall

• Spot the patterns shaping what comes next

From ancient Rome to today’s global order—this is history as investigation.

No spin. No narratives. Just receipts.

New episodes twice a week.

The Medici are remembered as enlightened patrons of art—the family behind Michelangelo, Botticelli, and the Renaissance itself.

That version of history is incomplete.

In this episode of Hidden Forces in History, we strip away the marble and mythology to examine Medici family as they actually were: a private banking dynasty that embedded itself inside moral authority, captured a republic without abolishing it, and rewrote its legacy through art, architecture, and storytelling.

We follow the money—from Florentine ledgers to the Vatican—showing how the Medici:

• Plugged into Church finance to gain leverage across Europe

• Used patronage as a form of long-term propaganda

• Helped trigger the Reformation through indulgence financing

• Lost their bank—but preserved their legend

This isn’t just a Renaissance story.

It’s a repeatable playbook—one still used by modern elites, foundations, and institutions today.

Same system.

Different century.

👇 If modern power feels familiar, you’re seeing an old script.

In a single year, Rome went through six emperors.

Not candidates. Not dynasties.

Six men who actually wore the purple—and by the end of 238 AD, four were dead.

This wasn’t just a bad year. It was the moment Rome learned a terrifying truth:

Once an army learns it can make and unmake emperors, the empire belongs to whoever holds the swords—not the laws.

In this episode of The Roman Pattern, we break down the Year of Six Emperors:

The assassination that turned succession into an auction

Maximinus Thrax: the military strongman who squeezed the provinces

The African tax revolt that lit the match

The Senate’s desperate gamble (and why it failed fast)

The Praetorian Guard’s palace coup in the capital

Gordian III: the teenage “compromise” emperor—aka a puppet

And the real takeaway: 238 didn’t destroy Rome overnight… it normalized chaos.

After this, succession wasn’t law, tradition, or dynasty. It was speed, violence, and who could move troops first.

Rome is falling right now—you’re just watching the replay.

👇 Comment: What’s the real tipping point—when rules break, or when everyone starts acting like they’ll never return?