Simon just needs to make a tangent only channel, so he can get it out of his system. Just pay writers to make introductions, and away he goes. The editing alone would be hysterical!
Don’t ever, ever stop your tangents. They just make my day hearing your tangents. Nice to hear about you and your family and stories from your past. Your videos with tangents make me SO happy! Keep up the great work!
When Simon's daughter is all grown-up and is, like, about to get married or something, someone should make a compilation of all the tangents Simon has done about her in videos across his channels and play that at the party. You can literally hear this kid grow up. It seems only a few weeks ago that he was saying she was always so happy when he got home, now she's punishing him for being away by not talking to him XD
Aaaawwwww that is such a great idea. I would love to see Jen’s edit of this, it would the greatest, most rambling story ever to be cut together; spun from the literal million filmed tangents Simon will have racked up by them.
Nadine idk if you read the comments but, the xhange in background music every time Simon goes on a tangent is great. I know that can be a lot of work, especially when he goes on them randomly for no reason, they're a nice touch and they let you know that you can tune out of continue to listen.
First, Columbus never arrived in NA, that is a misconception. Second, Viking is an occupation, not a culture, so it's more accurate to say Scandinavians rather than Vikings.
@@jasjasbinks4900Viking is absolutely not a culture. Norse is the culture. The Norse culture is Scandinavian. They were farmers and fishermen. When a group of Norse went raiding, they went a viking. It comes from the Norse word Vik, which means inlet or bay. Vikings were the bands of raiders, NOT the whole culture, hence Vikings were an occupation.
@@garymaidman625They actually started vikinging... If you will for trade... Then it quickly came to looting and pillaging... You can also look that up... Since you want to try to put people in they're place and all... Painting a half picture
My favourite theory is still that they didn't have any physical treasure in the form of gold and artefacts. The templars used to give out loans, meaning most of their treasure was in the form of people owing them with interest. It would be interesting to see who took out how much credit from them, but hardly what most people would recognise as "treasure".
The treasure is hidden on Oak Island. Guarded by King Arthur and his knights. It's where Santa Claus get the cash keep them elves busy. Feed them reindeer and rent a place to the Easter Bunny... It's just up the coast from the Fountain of Youth. Some claim the Holy Grail is there...
Just want to point out that the Viking in north america is proven although doesn't prove the Templar story at all. The archeological site of L'anse-aux-meadows is dated to about a thousand years old.
The geneticists (i.e. real evidence science) studying Maine Coon cats in New England also showed that they were related to (and diverged from) Norwegion Timber Cats from a thousand years ago. The cats came over with the vikings, some went feral and flourished, and they were still there in the forests of the new world when europeans returned. Genetics puts a nice hard data stamp on a lot of debates like that.
I saw something that explained some Templar knights came from Gotland, a large Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. Though Crusader's came from all over Europe. 1021 AD some vikings settled in Vineland. 1095 to 1291 were the Crusades. The Templars would have known about the New World.
@@joshjones6072 For completely different and complicated reasons, another Medieval order called the Navigators may have learned of the New World from sources in Egypt. There had once been trade between South America and Egypt, ca. 1200 bc or so, resulting in chocolate and tobacco residues in Egyptian mummies. The Templars in the Holy Land may have come across this information. Later, Colombus sailed under the Navigator flag, possibly following this same information. As for the existence of Newfoundland, yes, the knowlege of it was extant in Scandinavia by the time of the Templars. Lief Ericson was actually the second one to go there, having bought the ship of the first guy who discovered it in the 900's. Obviously, the full size of the North America had not yet been charted. Curiously, the Aztecs had a myth/story of a red-haired, pale-skinned god-hero figure in their cosmology. It's possible that one of those Newfoundland norse actually took off to explore and made it as far as Mexico with his knowlege of European arts/metallurgy or something like that.
Didn't Columbus write in his captins log about how he encountered Chinese looking Indians already established and living on the Pacific side of america? It wasn't native Americans either as he describes them separately to the short dark skinned Chinese people. I cannot remember where I read/Heard/watched this information
I have relatives buried at st Michael's church in Garway which is built on the ruins of a Knights Templar site. My brother and I used to play sword fights in the ruins and hunt for treasure.
The pastor at my church once said to us that no one should give any church money unless we knew where that money was being used. They had a transparent and easily accessed system that showed where all the donations were going, but most don't. I don't go to church anymore for other reasons, but i DID respect that about the one i went too.
that’s my biggest problem with a lot of catholic churches, it seems like it’s more show-boat-y and overly fancy like is this really the best use of funds. maybe they help their people too but you wouldn’t know because of the lack of transparency.
The Knights Templar were several thousand people. The top guys lost their heads and the rest of them, the thousands, walked away with a share of the treasure. Packed up and left town, disappeared into the countryside. It's a viable theory considering how many of them there were and how secretive they were.
Actually the treasure (and power) they had accumulated was the whole point of taking them down. I believe that the French king (if I remember correctly) was jealous and paranoid about their power and treasure, so sought to grab both.
many came to Portugal, the king of Portugal change their name( To knights of Christ) for them to not be harresed by the church. There is a city here - Tomar- that has a lot of history with them.
@@denniseldridge2936 the French King also owed them a lot of money. Easiest way to make a debt disappear is to get rid of the person you owe the debt to. They Knights also had a lot of land that he seized and sold off to the highest bidder to fill his coffers.
I also like the Switzerland option. Their banners are the color inversion of the templars symbol and a bunch of warrior bankers just kind of showed up riding out of Switzerland without much martial history to secure the first Swiss confederation.
Isn’t it about time we have another round of Kevin vs TangentBoy true or false stories? I want to see TangentBoy getting his arse handed to him again lol
I’ve been to the Roslyn chapel, it’s a real wonder of medieval art! it is pretty small, it’s a single room large enough to hold a mass for maybe 20 people, but every single inch of it is carved with intricate unique patterns. from floor to ceiling, the stone is cut into lace thin organic patterns, representations of plants, animals, people, abstract shapes, and mythical beasts. it’s no work that could’ve been done quickly by a lot of cheap “unskilled” labour, every stone is a work of art in and of itself. and while the stone is white today, it was once painted too. keeping in mind they didn’t have modern power tools like drills, the 40 years it took to complete isn’t outlandish. it’s kind of sad to see such a marvel be obscured by conspiracies, because the art of the Roslyn chapel really is shrouded in mystery. from the representation of pagan gods, the esoteric takes on classic biblical scenes, to strange fruits that don’t exist, and a whole bestiary’s worth of monsters and demons, it raises a lot of questions about the people who commissioned it and the culture of the time. but I guess culture and open questions aren’t as interesting as conspiracies about a global elite hoarding secret gold. smh.
Almost 5 minutes in and another tangent, Inner monologue- “dang simons on a roll with these tangents.” Literally 1 second later, Simon- “SO MANY TANGENTS!”
Simon's tale about Israel reminds me of *every* time i go to see the eye doctor. I happen to have an eye condition where the average age of patients is probably over 80. I'm about half that and have had this condition (glaucoma if anyone cares) since I was 8.
Maybe you can do one for the idea of the Templar curse. Apparently when the Templar grand master was burned at the stake by King Phillipe he cursed him and family and the king and all his sons died one after another which opened a path for the 100 years war to start.
I find it funny how many people are like "where is the treasure, they must have hidden it" when in reality they were a mercenary force running from nearly every government, they probably melted down every bit of their treasures (as ancient peoples nearly always did) if they even had much left to begin with and spent it all to survive, fight and flee.
I read something the other day I liked: "Hypocrisy is the church asking you for money for church problems but telling you to pray for your problems" or something like that.
Simon should look into the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce. If you haven't read it, The Devil's Dictionary is devilishly funny. For example: Hostility, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth’s overpopulation.
Just for interest: The images of Oak Island at 27:08 are of Oak Island, North Carolina in the US - not of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada where the purported fabled treasure is. Although there are pirate legends from the whole of the North Carolina coasts, so who knows? (And before anyone else in the comments wants to contradict me - I'm from the Outer Banks of NC and easily recognized the lighthouse.) That said, fantastic video and I love when Simon and his writers eviscerate the ludicrous notions of the History Channel.
I did wonder if I had missed an episode, felt like it had been ages. On another note - 5 minutes in and the tangents are heading into Brain Blaze territory. Can we create a GoFundMe for a Grand Exploration for Geriatric Pilgrims tour company? I think Whistle Boy is on to something.
Not sure where you got the idea that the templars fought to the last. Their rules of combat allowed them to retreat or ask for quarter/surrender when outnumber 4 to 1 or more. They were also required to give quarter when asked.
On a historical note: The Templars fled to two supportive Kings in the Iberian peninsula. The Crown of Aragon created the Order of Montesa in 1317 which consolidated all Templar holdings in Aragon and welcomed Templars from other places. The Kingdom of Portugal created the Order of Christ in 1319. They were a big supporter of the Templars and many found their way to Portugal. This became a powerful order. So, where did their "treasure" go? Portugal and Aragon are two spots.
6:30 "I'm a conscientious objector on the ground I don't believe in any of this nonsense..." Simon, you are aware that saying something like that during the time of the Knights Templar (or any era previous to our own for that matter) would absolutely get you killed for heresy. So, if you want to get out fighting a war, you would have to scavenge for literally any other excuse. Never forget; the past was the worst.
The writers must work really hard to write these fantastic 15 minute episodes. Then Simon reads it and a dozen tangents later we have the final hour long episode 🤦♂️
I love how the editor for this show has just surrendered to Simon’s tangents to the point that he has his own tangent music 🎶 when he goes off script 😂
Sorry, never thot that the relic of the head of Jesus (AS) was a thing-just like the Desi joke about the relic of the “skull of Guru Nanak as a child” 🤣! I think that Simon really meant the relic of the head of John the Baptist (AS), of which a number are still out there. But no harm done.
Which, thanks to modern particle physics, is a thing people can actually do! It will cost you a million dollars to run the particle accelerator for long enough, and you'll get about 5 atoms' worth, but still, SUCK IT ALCHEMISTS.
First you need to rent the Spallation Neutron Source. Then you need a shit load of liquid mercury. Then you need to accept that it's completely unprofitable.
A couple of additional nuggets; the Pope sitting in 1307, was a relative of Philip Le Belle, there after the assassination of two previous popes. Phillip was broke because his grandfather, Louis XVI, AKA St. Louis, lost his army to the Saracens on entering the Holy Land- and then "borrowing and loosing another Prince's army", which put the French treasury in a tough spot. The treasure? Between them the Templars and the Cistercian Monasteries controlled two thirds of Europe wool trade by the late 13th century; but their cash flow for war houses that died after about two years in the Holy Land, weapons for their Commanders and Enrolled Knights and lots more weapons for the men at arms, trained fighters ,not of noble birth, horses, wagons, food - they started a fleet to ease their transportation problems, which led right into the applying fees to pilgrims thing you mentioned. The majority of that fleet- maybe 60 vessels, reports differ, were in the French Port of Le Harve on the night of Oct 12th, 1307- when Robert de Norgerey, then AG of Philp's bankrupt kingdom, sent sheriffs with warrants secretly to arrest Templars "when and where they were found"'; on the morning of Friday, Oct 13, 1307, Le Harve harbor held no Templar ships. that is all we know, After that speculation reigns. And yes, that is the date and incident that installed the story of Friday the 13th, way before Freddy Kruger had anything to do with it. You should read up on it, Simon! It's the greatest detective story!
yes, they were christian knights, that fought in the crusades, and guarded the road to the holy land they invented the modern banking system, where travelers would give them gold for a voucher, and when they got to the holy land, they'd turn in the voucher for their gold back because of that and other stuff, they accumulated a lot of wealth, the kings of france and england got jealous, and convinced the pope to turn against them, then the kings raided them, imprisoned them, and executed the leaders..but the gold they wanted, was gone
The Sinclair journey to modern day Canada is well known and actually documented in Canada. The Portuguese templars didn't walk to Goa or Brazil either. They definitely had naval capabilities.
Simon's worst nightmare is waking and finding that he actually lives in a MagAmerican, Evangelical, backwater community and he is a Religious Studies teacher.
One interesting theory is that the King of France turned on the Templars because he had borrowed money from them and couldn’t pay it back. So, he decided to destroy the Templars and keep the money.
Ah yes, the lost treasure of the knights tangent
Seems the real treasure were the tangets we went on along the way.
Haha love this
Noice
Don’t make fun of Factboi
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Simon just needs to make a tangent only channel, so he can get it out of his system.
Just pay writers to make introductions, and away he goes.
The editing alone would be hysterical!
But that will ruin his plan to start Whistlecast, an entire streaming platform dedicated to content hosted by Simon Whistler
Thats just OGBB
He already has one. It’s called brain blaze
Is Tangentially taken? Eh? 😉 @SimonWhistler @DecodingTheUnknown
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I appreciate these DTU episodes so much. They always drop in the middle of a slow afternoon at work like some kind of magic.
Don’t ever, ever stop your tangents. They just make my day hearing your tangents. Nice to hear about you and your family and stories from your past. Your videos with tangents make me SO happy! Keep up the great work!
I simply love the fact that Simon's tangents have a different soundtrack. Absolute perfection. Keep up the good work Simon, and never stop tangenting!
I hadn’t known that! Thanks for pointing it out!!
When Simon's daughter is all grown-up and is, like, about to get married or something, someone should make a compilation of all the tangents Simon has done about her in videos across his channels and play that at the party.
You can literally hear this kid grow up. It seems only a few weeks ago that he was saying she was always so happy when he got home, now she's punishing him for being away by not talking to him XD
This would be awesome for a kid to have! Honestly that makes a really great idea for any parents
Aaaawwwww that is such a great idea. I would love to see Jen’s edit of this, it would the greatest, most rambling story ever to be cut together; spun from the literal million filmed tangents Simon will have racked up by them.
I was remembering that too! (Above him talking about her being happy when he got home).
We need to start now as the tangents on brain blaze is going to take years.
@@missyoreilly4815 Oh!!! How well you know our Fact Boi!!! 🤣😭🤣 By than the kids will have finished uni!!! 😉🤗😉 (Her kids) edited for clarity.
"Did I finish my story about old people?"
The irony in that sentence made me acutely laugh out loud 🤣
Nadine idk if you read the comments but, the xhange in background music every time Simon goes on a tangent is great. I know that can be a lot of work, especially when he goes on them randomly for no reason, they're a nice touch and they let you know that you can tune out of continue to listen.
I too love the "Simon's Rant" theme.
Theres something so wholesome about Simon's kid related tangents, they never bother me.
Ahh Simon "Did I finish my story about the old people?" Epic senior citizen sentence 🤣🌈❤️
Meta moment! The irony!😂
Viking DID arrive in NA before Columbus - It has been pretty definitively proven at this point.
Hell there's evidence that some Portuguese sailors ended up here if im not mistaken
First, Columbus never arrived in NA, that is a misconception. Second, Viking is an occupation, not a culture, so it's more accurate to say Scandinavians rather than Vikings.
@@garymaidman625viking is a culture
google that is you don’t believe me
@@jasjasbinks4900Viking is absolutely not a culture. Norse is the culture. The Norse culture is Scandinavian. They were farmers and fishermen. When a group of Norse went raiding, they went a viking. It comes from the Norse word Vik, which means inlet or bay. Vikings were the bands of raiders, NOT the whole culture, hence Vikings were an occupation.
@@garymaidman625They actually started vikinging... If you will for trade... Then it quickly came to looting and pillaging... You can also look that up... Since you want to try to put people in they're place and all... Painting a half picture
All i know about the Knights Templars is that they seen to hate people in hooded capes with knifes on their forearms
Who have this thing for jumping off tall buildings into haystacks.
Ignorance and pop culture refrences are FUNNY! 🤪🙄
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One place no one has searched. The.Blazement.
Hello, my name is Ezio Auditore da Firenze. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Who else is imagining 5 year older Simon lost in a lift, stuck in a tangent? Or the other way around..
13:59 Simon, Simon, Simon. These aren't "topics of conversation." It's just you and the camera, Fact Boy, and the camera ain't talking.
I love these.
"I'm aware that I'm going to become old and weird..."
Don't worry, you can't become old and weird if you're already old and weird.
My favourite theory is still that they didn't have any physical treasure in the form of gold and artefacts.
The templars used to give out loans, meaning most of their treasure was in the form of people owing them with interest. It would be interesting to see who took out how much credit from them, but hardly what most people would recognise as "treasure".
I actually wrote a short story a while ago about a time heist to grab the treasure. The "treasure" the time traveller found was based on this theory
From what I understand The Crown owed most of the largest debts.
The King was in deep to them.
Exactly
They were the people that got screwed over by the racist German (Frankish) kings. Do you understand history now?
@@maximiliand2544 the king can just choose not to pay it though
@@bobdagamer640 did you listen to the man's story?
He had them killed.
The treasure is hidden on Oak Island. Guarded by King Arthur and his knights. It's where Santa Claus get the cash keep them elves busy. Feed them reindeer and rent a place to the Easter Bunny...
It's just up the coast from the Fountain of Youth.
Some claim the Holy Grail is there...
Yes!! Yes!! Thank you!
@@xionmemoria I think that’s why the OP was so clearly being sarcastic. 😉
Still somehow less ridiculous than Ancient Aliens!
Just want to point out that the Viking in north america is proven although doesn't prove the Templar story at all. The archeological site of L'anse-aux-meadows is dated to about a thousand years old.
Yep
The geneticists (i.e. real evidence science) studying Maine Coon cats in New England also showed that they were related to (and diverged from) Norwegion Timber Cats from a thousand years ago. The cats came over with the vikings, some went feral and flourished, and they were still there in the forests of the new world when europeans returned. Genetics puts a nice hard data stamp on a lot of debates like that.
I saw something that explained some Templar knights came from Gotland, a large Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. Though Crusader's came from all over Europe. 1021 AD some vikings settled in Vineland. 1095 to 1291 were the Crusades. The Templars would have known about the New World.
@@joshjones6072 For completely different and complicated reasons, another Medieval order called the Navigators may have learned of the New World from sources in Egypt. There had once been trade between South America and Egypt, ca. 1200 bc or so, resulting in chocolate and tobacco residues in Egyptian mummies. The Templars in the Holy Land may have come across this information.
Later, Colombus sailed under the Navigator flag, possibly following this same information.
As for the existence of Newfoundland, yes, the knowlege of it was extant in Scandinavia by the time of the Templars. Lief Ericson was actually the second one to go there, having bought the ship of the first guy who discovered it in the 900's. Obviously, the full size of the North America had not yet been charted.
Curiously, the Aztecs had a myth/story of a red-haired, pale-skinned god-hero figure in their cosmology. It's possible that one of those Newfoundland norse actually took off to explore and made it as far as Mexico with his knowlege of European arts/metallurgy or something like that.
Didn't Columbus write in his captins log about how he encountered Chinese looking Indians already established and living on the Pacific side of america? It wasn't native Americans either as he describes them separately to the short dark skinned Chinese people. I cannot remember where I read/Heard/watched this information
Ilze is honestly a writing maniac.
I have relatives buried at st Michael's church in Garway which is built on the ruins of a Knights Templar site. My brother and I used to play sword fights in the ruins and hunt for treasure.
Looking into the Knights Hospitallers is fascinating as well!
It's always so much fun watching your content, all your channels are the best.
The pastor at my church once said to us that no one should give any church money unless we knew where that money was being used. They had a transparent and easily accessed system that showed where all the donations were going, but most don't.
I don't go to church anymore for other reasons, but i DID respect that about the one i went too.
that’s my biggest problem with a lot of catholic churches, it seems like it’s more show-boat-y and overly fancy like is this really the best use of funds. maybe they help their people too but you wouldn’t know because of the lack of transparency.
The Knights Templar were several thousand people. The top guys lost their heads and the rest of them, the thousands, walked away with a share of the treasure. Packed up and left town, disappeared into the countryside. It's a viable theory considering how many of them there were and how secretive they were.
Actually the treasure (and power) they had accumulated was the whole point of taking them down. I believe that the French king (if I remember correctly) was jealous and paranoid about their power and treasure, so sought to grab both.
They were not secretive though. they were a monastic knightly order. And pretty open in how they operated.
many came to Portugal, the king of Portugal change their name( To knights of Christ) for them to not be harresed by the church. There is a city here - Tomar- that has a lot of history with them.
@@denniseldridge2936 the French King also owed them a lot of money. Easiest way to make a debt disappear is to get rid of the person you owe the debt to. They Knights also had a lot of land that he seized and sold off to the highest bidder to fill his coffers.
@trumpisthemessiah7017 No it doesn't. It honors them. They are remembered and revered. The ones that walked out are not.
2:35 - Chapter 1 - Meet the knights templar
11:30 - Chapter 2 - What is the templar treasure ?
19:50 - Chapter 3 - Rosslyn chapel
25:20 - Chapter 4 - Somewhere in North America
31:00 - Chapter 5 - Rennes le chateaux (France)
34:50 - Chapter 6 - Sinai house
39:10 - Chapter 7 - Is the treasure even real ?
42:05 - Chapter 8 - Conclusion
I also like the Switzerland option. Their banners are the color inversion of the templars symbol and a bunch of warrior bankers just kind of showed up riding out of Switzerland without much martial history to secure the first Swiss confederation.
I'm from a Scottish town called Kilwinning and the story is the Templers fled here and buried the Holy Grail under the Abbey the town grow around
For a humorous take on this topic, I highly recommend the satirical mystery novel "Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco.
Isn’t it about time we have another round of Kevin vs TangentBoy true or false stories? I want to see TangentBoy getting his arse handed to him again lol
If you cover the Templars again, checking out their connections to the mushroom cult is a fun one!
Another blue sweater episode! These are always the best.
I’ve been to the Roslyn chapel, it’s a real wonder of medieval art! it is pretty small, it’s a single room large enough to hold a mass for maybe 20 people, but every single inch of it is carved with intricate unique patterns. from floor to ceiling, the stone is cut into lace thin organic patterns, representations of plants, animals, people, abstract shapes, and mythical beasts. it’s no work that could’ve been done quickly by a lot of cheap “unskilled” labour, every stone is a work of art in and of itself. and while the stone is white today, it was once painted too. keeping in mind they didn’t have modern power tools like drills, the 40 years it took to complete isn’t outlandish.
it’s kind of sad to see such a marvel be obscured by conspiracies, because the art of the Roslyn chapel really is shrouded in mystery. from the representation of pagan gods, the esoteric takes on classic biblical scenes, to strange fruits that don’t exist, and a whole bestiary’s worth of monsters and demons, it raises a lot of questions about the people who commissioned it and the culture of the time. but I guess culture and open questions aren’t as interesting as conspiracies about a global elite hoarding secret gold. smh.
It's identical to pretty much every parish church in the UK, nothing particularly special about it other than the myths around it.
I for one never doubted that Simon has seen a movie
Almost 5 minutes in and another tangent,
Inner monologue- “dang simons on a roll with these tangents.”
Literally 1 second later, Simon- “SO MANY TANGENTS!”
Simon's tale about Israel reminds me of *every* time i go to see the eye doctor. I happen to have an eye condition where the average age of patients is probably over 80. I'm about half that and have had this condition (glaucoma if anyone cares) since I was 8.
Sweet, another Decoding the Unknown!
I love this show. Thanks for showing the other side of these "mysteries" factboy someone needs to!
Maybe you can do one for the idea of the Templar curse. Apparently when the Templar grand master was burned at the stake by King Phillipe he cursed him and family and the king and all his sons died one after another which opened a path for the 100 years war to start.
I find it funny how many people are like "where is the treasure, they must have hidden it" when in reality they were a mercenary force running from nearly every government, they probably melted down every bit of their treasures (as ancient peoples nearly always did) if they even had much left to begin with and spent it all to survive, fight and flee.
Simon: "Sorry, this is an unrelated tangent....."
Everyone Watching: 'Here we go.....'
I read something the other day I liked: "Hypocrisy is the church asking you for money for church problems but telling you to pray for your problems" or something like that.
This DTU episode could be put on Brain Blaze for how many tangents it goes on and it would fit perfectly and I'm not even on half way through.
Simon should look into the disappearance of Ambrose Bierce. If you haven't read it, The Devil's Dictionary is devilishly funny. For example:
Hostility, n. A peculiarly sharp and specially applied sense of the earth’s overpopulation.
Simon, the cheeky bugger has blessed us this week with above normal upload rate🔥
Love all your channels but this is the best one the tangents are the best
New Channel idea:
Take completely innocent and well known facts and turn them into conspiracies. Call it Encoding the Known
Could you do an episode covering Sam Cooke's death? I would love to hear that one with the writers you have
That would be interesting. 👍👍
So you want Simon to write it and the writers do the reading?
"Found it. Pinched it. Spent it."
-- Edmund Blackadder
I understand Simon's rage at the mention of Oak Island hahaha
Another great episode. Well done everyone
Love the Ducktales references!
Who could forget about the Money Bin?
Would love a famous paternity conspiracy Decoding the Unknown.
This might not count, but Ronan Farrow is 357900% Sinatra's son
Simon’s imitation of an American televangelist absolutely sent me 😂
Vikings were in North America before Columbus. That isn't speculation.
DTU is currently the only thing i can find entertaining. Simon is goated frfr
"How much money can we get selling Jesus's severed head." That's why I love this channel 😂😂😂
I really feel like they’re aren’t enough comments about this particular tangent lol!!!
4:35
Old Simon goes on a physical tangent
That story about your daughters is adorable.
Simon when you step out of your reading voice and start looking inwards… you sir are the best 😂😂
"I'd definitely sell Jesus' head"
~Simon Whistler 2023
We definitely need a compilation video of "Whistler Out of Context," consisting entirely of isolated off-the-wall quotes like this one.
Crack it open and sell it for a billy 😅
I think he meant the head of John the Baptist
Just for interest: The images of Oak Island at 27:08 are of Oak Island, North Carolina in the US - not of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, Canada where the purported fabled treasure is. Although there are pirate legends from the whole of the North Carolina coasts, so who knows? (And before anyone else in the comments wants to contradict me - I'm from the Outer Banks of NC and easily recognized the lighthouse.) That said, fantastic video and I love when Simon and his writers eviscerate the ludicrous notions of the History Channel.
I did wonder if I had missed an episode, felt like it had been ages.
On another note - 5 minutes in and the tangents are heading into Brain Blaze territory.
Can we create a GoFundMe for a Grand Exploration for Geriatric Pilgrims tour company? I think Whistle Boy is on to something.
I think the evangelical Americans have that covered already
@@MissMentats 😂😂🤌 you have a valid point...
1:27 the real treasure were the friends they met along the way.
Are you going to do a "real or fake " competition against one of your writers? I really enjoyed the ones you did previously
HOW MANY CHANNELS SIMON, I SWEAR I FIND A NEW ONE EVERY WEEK
If you see Simon wearing something other than a blue sweater, them, it's one of his many, many clones.
Geezus Simon, I just got off work. Let me settle in and thank you for having this ready for me.
It is buried on Oak island. Well that is what the history channel wants you to believe.
Just came on here to say the same, that show is really silly, some of the theories they come out with are crazy. 🤪
Nice callback.
Highly unlikely…..unless it was moved there after the 1600’s….around the time us white folks invaded the non-Christian land.
“Didn’t they wear big white cloaks with a cross on it”
Me: *Checking the name of the episode again*
I heard Nic Cage found the Templar treasure underneath Trinity Church in New York City back in '04.
Fascinating tangent Simon
If it's real, I believe that the treasure is spread all over the world.
I love the irony that Simon of all people is preaching against the tithing false doctrine. GOD bless this man...
I love how Simon said 2003 was 10 years ago.. close. But no cigar.
If Simon even gets into Patreon, one of the tiers needs to be "The Actual Proven Head of Jesus"
Oh god. My parents were said Pilgrims on buses. 😂 💀
Getting old IS tough, and it happens when you are not looking! BAM! One day the oldies are YOUR music 🎶 🎵
Amen!
Not sure where you got the idea that the templars fought to the last. Their rules of combat allowed them to retreat or ask for quarter/surrender when outnumber 4 to 1 or more. They were also required to give quarter when asked.
On a historical note: The Templars fled to two supportive Kings in the Iberian peninsula.
The Crown of Aragon created the Order of Montesa in 1317 which consolidated all Templar holdings in Aragon and welcomed Templars from other places.
The Kingdom of Portugal created the Order of Christ in 1319. They were a big supporter of the Templars and many found their way to Portugal. This became a powerful order.
So, where did their "treasure" go? Portugal and Aragon are two spots.
European knights Templar: ⛪️🛐🕊
Mexican knights Templar: 👹💀
The wild tangents Simon goes off on are why I enjoy watching these. Selling the head of Jesus cracked me up. 😂😂😂
The real treasure are the friends we made along the way.
6:30 "I'm a conscientious objector on the ground I don't believe in any of this nonsense..." Simon, you are aware that saying something like that during the time of the Knights Templar (or any era previous to our own for that matter) would absolutely get you killed for heresy. So, if you want to get out fighting a war, you would have to scavenge for literally any other excuse. Never forget; the past was the worst.
The writers must work really hard to write these fantastic 15 minute episodes. Then Simon reads it and a dozen tangents later we have the final hour long episode 🤦♂️
It's a real shame. The writers choose some really interesting content.
Then it's Simon waffle waffle waffle tangent time 🤨
That’s the point
Point'less
4:20 if you want to see the most old people in the UK, head to Whitby, North Yorkshire in the UK
I love how the editor for this show has just surrendered to Simon’s tangents to the point that he has his own tangent music 🎶 when he goes off script 😂
As an American who lives in the southeast, I believe Simon could make lots of money using his southern preacher voice. Especially with the Baptists.
Getting old is rough, but it's okay since we're all going to die and nothing really matters anyway.
It wouldn't be a casual channel Simon video without a tangent or two
I'm really enjoying Simon's very random fixation with the monetization of the head of Jesus Christ.
Sorry, never thot that the relic of the head of Jesus (AS) was a thing-just like the Desi joke about the relic of the “skull of Guru Nanak as a child” 🤣! I think that Simon really meant the relic of the head of John the Baptist (AS), of which a number are still out there. But no harm done.
Simon's "i dont know anything about one of the best selling movies of all time", has real strong "i dont know what drugs are mr officer" energy.
We still need a video about the philosophers stone (talking about turning lead to gold)
Which, thanks to modern particle physics, is a thing people can actually do! It will cost you a million dollars to run the particle accelerator for long enough, and you'll get about 5 atoms' worth, but still, SUCK IT ALCHEMISTS.
First you need to rent the Spallation Neutron Source. Then you need a shit load of liquid mercury. Then you need to accept that it's completely unprofitable.
Check out the Why Files ep on it
Lol 0all tha0t mercury th0at just w0as a lucky gold contamination of like 01 to 010000 r0atio
Lol 0all tha0t mercury th0at just w0as a lucky gold contamination of like 01 to 010000 r0atio
A couple of additional nuggets; the Pope sitting in 1307, was a relative of Philip Le Belle, there after the assassination of two previous popes. Phillip was broke because his grandfather, Louis XVI, AKA St. Louis, lost his army to the Saracens on entering the Holy Land- and then "borrowing and loosing another Prince's army", which put the French treasury in a tough spot. The treasure? Between them the Templars and the Cistercian Monasteries controlled two thirds of Europe wool trade by the late 13th century; but their cash flow for war houses that died after about two years in the Holy Land, weapons for their Commanders and Enrolled Knights and lots more weapons for the men at arms, trained fighters ,not of noble birth, horses, wagons, food - they started a fleet to ease their transportation problems, which led right into the applying fees to pilgrims thing you mentioned. The majority of that fleet- maybe 60 vessels, reports differ, were in the French Port of Le Harve on the night of Oct 12th, 1307- when Robert de Norgerey, then AG of Philp's bankrupt kingdom, sent sheriffs with warrants secretly to arrest Templars "when and where they were found"'; on the morning of Friday, Oct 13, 1307, Le Harve harbor held no Templar ships. that is all we know, After that speculation reigns. And yes, that is the date and incident that installed the story of Friday the 13th, way before Freddy Kruger had anything to do with it. You should read up on it, Simon! It's the greatest detective story!
yes, they were christian knights, that fought in the crusades, and guarded the road to the holy land
they invented the modern banking system, where travelers would give them gold for a voucher, and when they got to the holy land, they'd turn in the voucher for their gold back
because of that and other stuff, they accumulated a lot of wealth, the kings of france and england got jealous, and convinced the pope to turn against them, then the kings raided them, imprisoned them, and executed the leaders..but the gold they wanted, was gone
Simon: Going to GET weird
Anyone familiar with Decoding, CasCrim, and Brain Blaze: going to get weird, Simon? GET weird😂
Please just make a channel called Simon 24/7 with everything on it ❤ my thumbs thank you in advance for less clicks😂
The Sinclair journey to modern day Canada is well known and actually documented in Canada. The Portuguese templars didn't walk to Goa or Brazil either. They definitely had naval capabilities.
Simon's worst nightmare is waking and finding that he actually lives in a MagAmerican, Evangelical, backwater community and he is a Religious Studies teacher.
Under an hour long? What's with the short video? Did we upset you?
It's because it wasn't written by Kevin or Danny. That pair just love to write long intros that cover a third of the video.
One interesting theory is that the King of France turned on the Templars because he had borrowed money from them and couldn’t pay it back. So, he decided to destroy the Templars and keep the money.