The Jeremy Ryan Slate Show

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, lost colonies, financial systems, modern elites, NGOs, propaganda, and the quiet mechanisms that shape events long before they reach the headlines.

And 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. The Roman Empire spent centuries making every mistake a civilization can make, and left behind a playbook we’re following again, page by page.

Through expert 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 medieval conspiracies to modern cover-ups, from Augustus to Constantine, from ancient

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

No spin. No narratives. Just receipts.

New episodes twice a week.