I honestly thought someone took stomach culture's from a frozen arctic mammoth and used it to inoculate cheese . Now that I know this is a possibility I definitely want some mammoth cheese
Thomas Jefferson didn't just think there were mammoths in the West, he thought there were all kinds of crazy and goofy things like blue-eyed giant humans. Also funnily enough this isn't going to be the last time a giant wheel of cheese ends up in the white house go ahead and make a video about Andrew Jackson's cheese wheel now.
@@ChadAF_YTname definitely checks out. Let me guess, that’s what all the ladies tell you? Such a handsome blue eyed giant, down to earth and humble too
Comte de Buffon was so frustrated at receiving a moose from Jefferson that he randomly threw a needle at the floor (which happened to be made of parallel wooden strips whose widths were all equal to the length of his needle) and then again and again until he realized that the probability that his needle would lie entirely within one strip allowed him to calculate pi.
I wonder if that cheese was big enough to start its own ecosystem at the bottom of that river. Does cheese even float or sink? either way amazing video as always!
_How do I like twice?_ Seriously, I always forget how _insanely great content_ your videos are, a beautiful mash of hilarious editing, perfect comedic timing, incredibly interesting and entertaining niche educational content, and just a funny, genuine lad with their well-written presentation. Please, never change! This is the closest anyone can get to perfection. Once again, you've made my and many other people's day, Oliver. And with mammoth fossils and French+American history no less haha! Hope you're having a nice day too.
The Wallace and Grommet bit set me smiling with a smile I have as of yet been unable to shake. Edit: And I'm American, but couldn't imagine my upbringing without a great many British things, from the aforementioned Grommit and Britcoms, to sipping and munching heaping pots of hot tea and scones on the porch to ward away the drizzly Pennsylvania spring, while reading Lord of the Rings. 🧀🍵🧝♂️ All that to say, thanks cousin; you're pretty swell too! 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇬🇧
I’d love to see a video where you talk about something unrelated and slowly descend into madness describing the wacky antics of mathematicians. Perhaps that time when the French government was full of mathematicians for some reason?
Actually, it seems this was/is a more regular occurrence than I previously thought. The time I’m thinking about was between world wars and the cabinet was often full of people working in analysis and measure theory. Supposedly it was a cabinet of mathematicians who devised the Maginot line as well.
One detail I didn't hear (though I didn't listen carefully to the whole thing) is Leland stamped the words "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God" on the side of the cheese.
This was a fantastic illumination. You could have hit the point a bit harder, but the juxtaposition of Haiti's fate in a cruel and biased world with Jefferson's direct attempts to counter a similar anti American bias definitely makes my country make more sense to me now.
Yet I read in a book (browsing in a library -- diaries, etc. from history) the British ambassador to France writing home that in just a few moments in Bonaparte's presence you forgot he was short ... and the ambassador felt awkwardly too tall.
Thomas Jefferson was not the only President to be sent a mammoth cheese while president. Andrew Jackson, perhaps his ideological successor in some ways, was also sent a large cheese during his presidency. Martin Van Buren was sent a large cheese as well, though it it unkown if it was sent to him while he was president or vice president.
Wait... wait... wait.... You're telling me, that Thomas Jefferson did the Louisana Purchase ***FROM NAPOLEON**** Because he wanted to prove that American stuff wasn't small. THE DUDE HAD A NAPOLEON COMPLEX AND GAVE IT TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY FOR OVER 200 YEARS!!! And you failed to make that observation once in the video. Son, I am disappoint.
Haiti's problem wasn't how racist the neighbors were. It was always that their only viable economic activity is sugar cane farming, and that's what they were doing as slaves, and it sucks. You more or less need slavery or machinery (iron, steam-powered slaves). The country see-sawed between anarchy (nobody is growing sugar cane but we're poor) and dictatorship (you will grow sugar cane and at least my supporters are rich). Then because its a see-saw between these two unstable political states, no foreign investor can expect to keep possession of their machinery or a for a dictator to remain in power long enough to pay off his loan. Now it is firmly in the foreign aid poverty trap. Having come here from your trolley problem FTL video, I can only presume everyone thinks it is morally objectionable to pull the lever, send in the Marines, and make it the next Puerto Rico.
Your American accent is atrocious. We take ourselves far too seriously to recount such slanderous nonsense as a mammoth cheese wheel possibly effecting our president's decision making. *Randomly shoots ceiling then leaves*
my phone notification just showed me "Jefferson's Mammoth C..." and i really wasn't sure what sort of video i should be expecting
I honestly thought someone took stomach culture's from a frozen arctic mammoth and used it to inoculate cheese .
Now that I know this is a possibility I definitely want some mammoth cheese
@@alanomofo Same
Thomas Jefferson didn't just think there were mammoths in the West, he thought there were all kinds of crazy and goofy things like blue-eyed giant humans. Also funnily enough this isn't going to be the last time a giant wheel of cheese ends up in the white house go ahead and make a video about Andrew Jackson's cheese wheel now.
Don't forget government cheese wheels
Americans liked cheese so much they made Wisconsin
@@mofo78536a few billion lbs of it.
@@CircsC he was right. I am a blue-eyed giant human that lives in the west!
@@ChadAF_YTname definitely checks out. Let me guess, that’s what all the ladies tell you?
Such a handsome blue eyed giant, down to earth and humble too
"At least you're not the French"
That is the most kind thing anyone has said about my country in years without an obvious ulterior motive. Thank you.
Comte de Buffon was so frustrated at receiving a moose from Jefferson that he randomly threw a needle at the floor (which happened to be made of parallel wooden strips whose widths were all equal to the length of his needle) and then again and again until he realized that the probability that his needle would lie entirely within one strip allowed him to calculate pi.
Loved this, and would like to state early and often that I am all here for a Fourier spin-off video
I am also looking forward to this.
Same here!
This channel is like a modern take on VSauce's video style and I love it
More like CGP grey's video
I wonder if that cheese was big enough to start its own ecosystem at the bottom of that river. Does cheese even float or sink? either way amazing video as always!
IIRC most cheese float. It's the fat content.
_How do I like twice?_ Seriously, I always forget how _insanely great content_ your videos are, a beautiful mash of hilarious editing, perfect comedic timing, incredibly interesting and entertaining niche educational content, and just a funny, genuine lad with their well-written presentation. Please, never change! This is the closest anyone can get to perfection. Once again, you've made my and many other people's day, Oliver. And with mammoth fossils and French+American history no less haha! Hope you're having a nice day too.
That *sure* is an elephant at 3:39 lmao
EDIT: Sorry, *mammoth
Mammouth*
Should we bring Mammoths back from extinction simply to make a more accurate depiction of the play "Hamilton"?
*_YES!_*
No, do it for the cheese bro!
This is real life, not some fluffy play about dudes in wigs or whatever that play is about. It is about wigs, right?
Great story on so many levels. Great video on even more levels. Thank you for the content!
“Napoleon’s wholly in need of Simoleons”
Get my man a golden wreath
The American accent bit, I love it!
The Wallace and Grommet bit set me smiling with a smile I have as of yet been unable to shake.
Edit: And I'm American, but couldn't imagine my upbringing without a great many British things, from the aforementioned Grommit and Britcoms, to sipping and munching heaping pots of hot tea and scones on the porch to ward away the drizzly Pennsylvania spring, while reading Lord of the Rings. 🧀🍵🧝♂️
All that to say, thanks cousin; you're pretty swell too! 🇺🇸 ❤ 🇬🇧
Ode to Mastodon Cheese could have been funnier name - but I guess Jefferson had a mammoth obsession about mammoth bones
10/10 video Oliver
7:55 I guess curiosity sometimes is rewarded?
I'm sure Lin Manuel can find plenty of rhymes for "Mammoth" and "Mastodon"
That Wallace and Gromit reference was perfectly placed.
This video is great, would love to see more fun/dumb history from you!
What do you know? I did, indeed, see an old-ass cheese wheel.
I’d love to see a video where you talk about something unrelated and slowly descend into madness describing the wacky antics of mathematicians. Perhaps that time when the French government was full of mathematicians for some reason?
Actually, it seems this was/is a more regular occurrence than I previously thought. The time I’m thinking about was between world wars and the cabinet was often full of people working in analysis and measure theory. Supposedly it was a cabinet of mathematicians who devised the Maginot line as well.
Etymology is a funny thing, huh? We now know the story behind mammoth being used as an adjective to mean "big"!
One detail I didn't hear (though I didn't listen carefully to the whole thing) is Leland stamped the words "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God" on the side of the cheese.
If I had a nickel for every US president that had a massive cheese I would have two nickles
7:44 strong Sam O'Nella vibes
Every time someone mentions the Louisiana purchase, the song "Wally World" starts playing in my head.
SHE GOT HER BASKET, BASKET, B-B-B-B-BASKET
Your presenting style is a really nice! Loved how you couldn't avoid going into Fourier :)
11:05 is funy
"Dammit, I mention buying huge amounts of land, didn't I?"
I laughed my ass off. I'm Mexican, that hit too close to home.
*Sighs in halved Mexico*
This is a truly resplendent tale.
This was a fantastic illumination. You could have hit the point a bit harder, but the juxtaposition of Haiti's fate in a cruel and biased world with Jefferson's direct attempts to counter a similar anti American bias definitely makes my country make more sense to me now.
Yet I read in a book (browsing in a library -- diaries, etc. from history) the British ambassador to France writing home that in just a few moments in Bonaparte's presence you forgot he was short ... and the ambassador felt awkwardly too tall.
Fair and balanced.
Fourier transform be OP af! Also, widely applicable. Lots of stuff is waves, but interpreted by brain as frequency spectrum.
Thanks for the extra fuel for hating Kant and Hegel.
Napoleon’s wholly in need of Simoleons. Pat yourself on the back for that one lad
Mammoth rocks, Mammoth cheese, Mammoth meatballs.. what's next?
Mammoth butter for the mammoth meatball sub
You did a wonderful job with our great history. Thank you for shedding light on Mammoth Cheese, and the true reason behind our expansionism. 😂
The stone for the death of Buffon is legendary
Mostly because most people won't understand it
Fun fact for math nerds, you may have already heard Comte de Buffon's name, in the context of "Buffon's needle". Same guy!
Great video
Hi Oliver!
I need more insanity in my life.
"American degeneracy" enthusiasts get real quiet when confronted by a hungry grizzly bear and a bull moose in rut.
I've been on a binge of some of your content, have you ever watched No Boilerplate? You sound extremely similar to him and it's tripping me up
Thomas Jefferson was not the only President to be sent a mammoth cheese while president. Andrew Jackson, perhaps his ideological successor in some ways, was also sent a large cheese during his presidency. Martin Van Buren was sent a large cheese as well, though it it unkown if it was sent to him while he was president or vice president.
13:21 is soo good
So is this why america has such a "world's biggest gumball" obsession.
Tossed the cheese because it putrified? Or because it developed mold?
Great video!!!
My mom wrote a book called The Mammoth Cheese!
oliver is it allowd to show videos of the thrive ost
But Jefferson would never attain the scope of Canada's poet of mammoth cheeses, James McIntyre!!!!! 🧀
If jefferson knew there were frozen ones in siberia, we would own that shiz
Yea really sad how that whole hati thing turned out
Please tell me this has *some* connection to mammoth cheese in Skyrim. Surely they were inspired by the actual mammoth cheese wheel
Wait... wait... wait....
You're telling me, that Thomas Jefferson did the Louisana Purchase ***FROM NAPOLEON**** Because he wanted to prove that American stuff wasn't small.
THE DUDE HAD A NAPOLEON COMPLEX AND GAVE IT TO THE WHOLE COUNTRY FOR OVER 200 YEARS!!!
And you failed to make that observation once in the video. Son, I am disappoint.
Absolutely brilliant, lol!
Thomas Jefferson, Miku binder aficionado
nice video m8
surprise Fourier!
You ess eh!!! You ess eh!!! You ess eh!!!
jeffersimp!! 🤣i spit my damn drink out lol
Lin Manuel Miranda better listen
This video kinda reminds me of the Timotament parody about the American flag, except the it is a true story
Hey, the Coq Gaulois isn’t about the French being chickens, it’s actually an elaborate pun!
7:23 Your American accent is slightly cursed, ngl 😂
For gods' sake! Why ddnt youtube recommend me this or announce it?
Americans and brits always agree on one thing , we despise the french 😂
NICE
"REALISTIC!!! TOP 9 Water Splash Green Screen - Sound Effect Included !! By Green Pedia"
is that its literal name? lol
Mammoth Kraft Cheese Slices
Lugg??!
I suppose America would try to be less exceptional if people would stop assuming its exceptionally bad
RAHHHH 🦅
Hey, so does anyone remember mammoth cheese?
Calling them "Annoying Frenchmen" is redundant.
I love this guy making fun of the USA, I live here and make the same jokes!
Napoleon was 5 foot 6. That's pretty short
Haiti's problem wasn't how racist the neighbors were. It was always that their only viable economic activity is sugar cane farming, and that's what they were doing as slaves, and it sucks. You more or less need slavery or machinery (iron, steam-powered slaves). The country see-sawed between anarchy (nobody is growing sugar cane but we're poor) and dictatorship (you will grow sugar cane and at least my supporters are rich). Then because its a see-saw between these two unstable political states, no foreign investor can expect to keep possession of their machinery or a for a dictator to remain in power long enough to pay off his loan.
Now it is firmly in the foreign aid poverty trap. Having come here from your trolley problem FTL video, I can only presume everyone thinks it is morally objectionable to pull the lever, send in the Marines, and make it the next Puerto Rico.
I was going to downvote but you then said America was big and important so I gave you an upvote instead.
also CHEESE!!!!!!!!~
But nepolean was short.... compared to the average amarican man.
You should do OMORI.
the start: does anyone remember Yume Nikki? Because Yume Nikki is the spiritual predecessor of OMORI.
Bro opened the video by saying 5’6 isn’t short
USA #1🇺🇸
Perhaps with this sort of history we could get the republicans not to outlaw it.
Your American accent is atrocious. We take ourselves far too seriously to recount such slanderous nonsense as a mammoth cheese wheel possibly effecting our president's decision making. *Randomly shoots ceiling then leaves*
America is a continent, not a country. You constantly equivocate between the two in this video.
Rascism is not the reason Hati failed, cut the BS
what was the reason?
"Napoleon's wholly in need of simoleons." Fucking brilliant 🤌