Marvin Heemeyer: Mastermind Behind the "Killdozer

Marvin Heemeyer: Mastermind Behind the "Killdozer

Marvin Heemeyer: Architect of the "Killdozer" 16 Jan 2024 --- On the morning of June 4th, 2004, Granby, Colorado was no different from hundreds of other small towns all across the United States. It was the kind of idyllic little mountain town you moved to in order to get away from the crime and chaos of big cities like neighboring Denver. By by the end of the day on June 4th, Granby looked like it had been through a warzone, with buildings destroyed, trees ripped up, streetlights and fire hydrants knocked down. You might be forgiven for thinking the cause of this municipal carnage was some sort of natural disaster, but the truth was so much more bizarre: a bulldozer, modified with armor plating to make it impervious to gunfire, had spent the afternoon driving around deliberately smashing into things. The man at the controls of the machine nicknamed the “Killdozer” was well known to the townspeople of Granby. Marvin Heemeyer was one of their neighbors, a local business owner who had a lot of friends but was also infamous for his well publicized disputes with the local town government. Few people had recognized the simmering anger under Heemeyer’s skin, that he’d apparently been holding onto for years, until finally he emerged with a suicidal plan to get revenge on anyone who he’d ever felt had wronged him. Many people, even his victims, were in awe at the sheer audacity of his attack, including the time, effort, and resources that went into building such an infernal machine in the first place. Marvin has been held up as a hero in the years since his rampage by many, particularly among anti-government types who view him as a good person who finally snapped after being pushed too far by “The Man.” The truth, however, is far more sad: that Heemeyer was a successful man who became consumed with perceived slights and petty grievances made against him, until he became so consumed with rage that he threw away everything that he’d ever worked for in a rampage that was just as much about self-destruction as it was about, well, regular destruction. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Killdozer: The True Story of the Colorado Bulldozer Rampage by Patrick Brower, Wilcox Swanson 2017 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Stanley Kubrick: The Visual Genius

Stanley Kubrick: The Cinematic Genius 19 Mar 2024 --- Check out Squarespace: http://squarespace.com/biographics for 10% off on your first purchase of a website/domain using the code BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://kubrick.life/timeline/ https://archive.org/details/stanleykubrickbi0000lobr/page/32/mode/2up https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/51890 https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/414107/spartacus/#overview https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1961 https://archive.org/details/stanleykubrickvi0000dunc/page/73/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/stanleykubrickbi00baxt/page/191/mode/2up? https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stanley-Kubrick https://amp.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/mar/31/most-difficult-scenes-ever-filmed-cinema-history https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt0081505/ https://archive.org/details/stanleykubrickvi0000dunc/page/175/mode/2up https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/archive-fever-stanley-kubrick-and-the-aryan-papers Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Friedrich Paulus: Capitulating at Stalingrad #sponsored

Friedrich Paulus: Surrender at Stalingrad #sponsored 13 Aug 2025 --- Check out http://squarespace.com/biographics to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code. BIOGRAPHICS. Thanks to Squarespace for the sponsorship. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Links: Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@storyrant OEI Analog Horror Experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@officeofextradimensionalint Grimdark Magazine #39: GdM's catalogue page for the issue is here: https://www.grimdarkmagazine.com/product/grimdark-magazine-39/ Subscriptions available here: https://www.patreon.com/GrimdarkMagazine Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://archive.org/details/nemesisofpowerge0000whee/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/operation-barbarossa https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20210908-an-unprecedented-humanitarian-catastrophe-the-siege-of-leningrad-80-years-on https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-battle-of-stalingrad https://www.npr.org/2022/08/23/1119139781/stalingrad-germans-soviets-hitler-stalin-wwii-world-war-ii https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/stunning-victories-ultimate-defeat/ https://jmvh.org/article/stalingrad-the-hinge-of-history-how-hitlers-hubris-led-to-the-defeat-of-the-sixth-army/ https://en.nuremberg.media/cross-examination/20210211/112113/Five-minutes-to-Paulus.html https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/friedrich-paulus-9843.php Sponsor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Norman Schwarzkopf: America's Final Military Hero

Norman Schwarzkopf: America’s Last War Hero 14 Jun 2024 --- In the summer of 1990, President George HW Bush found himself confronted with a major international crisis. The dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, had invaded the neighboring country of Kuwait, then turned his guns threateningly towards Saudi Arabia, threatening to destabilize a region whose oil reserves were absolutely critical across the globe. Bush decided that Saddam’s aggression needed to be checked, and sent in the military. The man he entrusted to lead the troops was one of the Army’s most experienced generals. Norman Schwarzkopf [Shwarz-koff] was a military man through and through, having been immersed in Army culture from the time he was a small boy. Highly decorated in Vietnam, Schwarzkopf was one of a cadre of officers that oversaw the rehabilitation of the military from its lowest point at the end of that war, helping to institute new training, technology, hardware, as well as boost morale among the young men and women who made up America’s fighting force. It all culminated in those climatic months in the desert. Schwarzkopf’s decisive victory in the Gulf War not only changed the course of history and the geopolitical map of the entire region, but it also turned him into a war hero, perhaps the last one the country will ever produce. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out our other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric's Link: Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@UC6Sk2h2WsYMxnGERAH_FbGg Free Scifi Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Links to other books and socials: https://linktr.ee/EricMalikyte OEI analog horror experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@UCsz5l0hY67TGoJR0CZiWVnA Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Was SARS the ancestor of COVID?

Was SARS the original COVID? 12 Jul 2024 --- In all of our modern human history, nothing shook us quite like the 2020 COVID lockdowns. It seems like forever ago already, but try to remember just how weird it all was. One day we were going around touching doors and politely coughing on each other, the next you can’t get a sandwich at a deli. Flights were grounded, trailers were shipped to hospitals just to handle the dead bodies, and mandatory quarantines brought out the absolute best and worst in humans. We still haven’t recovered from it. But keep in mind the name of the virus: COVID-19. That’s short for “coronavirus disease 2019”. This was not our first brush with the bug, which is caused by the SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) virus. It was by far the deadliest, with over 7 million deaths and counting, but it was just a strain of a pathogen that the world had been dealing with since around 2002. Much like you download the newest iOS on your phones, the SARS virus has been installing its own updates over the last two decades. The reason you may not have remembered them very well is most likely the passing of time, and the way the news cycles constantly refresh. But make no mistake: these could have very well taken some random bad turns, and thrown the world into chaos just like COVID-19 did. → Subscribe for new videos at least twice a week! https://www.youtube.com/c/biographics?sub_confirmation=1 Love content? Check out Simon's other YouTube Channels: Geographics: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHKRfxkMTqiiv4pF99qGKIw TopTenz: https://www.youtube.com/user/toptenznet Eric Links: Free Cosmic Horror Ebook: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/1cw07o2uyb Storyrant: https://www.youtube.com/@UC6Sk2h2WsYMxnGERAH_FbGg OEI analog horror experiment: https://www.youtube.com/@UCsz5l0hY67TGoJR0CZiWVnA Karl's Socials: Fact Fiend: https://www.youtube.com/ @FactFiend Wiki Weekends: https://www.youtube.com/ @wikiweekends Untitled Side Channel: https://www.youtube.com/ @untitledsidechannel Twitter: https://twitter.com/KarlSmallwood Further Reading: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/asia/china-sars-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/14/hong-kong-hotel-hosted-super-spreader-in-the-2003-sars-outbreak.html https://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/e_records/sars/report/v2-pdf/Vol2Chp3i.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7106206/ https://interestingengineering.com/health/the-2003-sars-outbreak-a-timeline https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1ZL133/ https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2003/04/25/0000203407 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9603420/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92467/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]