How to be a Pirate Quartermaster. 📈 💎 📈

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  • @ognitron8191
    @ognitron8191 4 роки тому +19174

    Legend has it he's still making the captain and the quartermaster retell their sides over and over and over again.

    • @siquir6669
      @siquir6669 3 роки тому +115

      Woah so true

    • @skiller5034
      @skiller5034 3 роки тому +570

      Not that the Captain would mind, he gets to talk about *BRANDING* a whole lot.

    • @genalynnesanjuan5788
      @genalynnesanjuan5788 3 роки тому +410

      Plot Twist: He is Hired By The Empire To Stall Time So They can be arrested

    • @logosimian
      @logosimian 3 роки тому +35

      Just checked.
      Still true.

    • @patrickanderson62
      @patrickanderson62 3 роки тому +65

      The captain and quartermaster have been trapped in an infinite time loop

  • @CGPGrey
    @CGPGrey  3 роки тому +8762

  • @glumbortango7182
    @glumbortango7182 4 роки тому +4157

    This might be the calmest pirate I've ever seen, I feel soothed listening to this

    • @TainakaRicchan
      @TainakaRicchan 4 роки тому +301

      The quartermaster is well versed in the secret and brutal arts of accounting...

    • @Oscar-vv6dn
      @Oscar-vv6dn 4 роки тому +73

      Yeah, other than battle pirate ships were pretty chill, there was even a strict bedtime at 8 pm

    • @douglasfels9789
      @douglasfels9789 4 роки тому +12

      ASMR pirates for the win

    • @williamtench2047
      @williamtench2047 4 роки тому +6

      Honestly, I was a bit put off by the bored tone of voice. Normally love Grey but I struggled to connect with this one because of the voice over.

    • @ReksNuadiah
      @ReksNuadiah 4 роки тому +55

      @@williamtench2047 I think it's how he's acting here
      Quartermaster has a much "tougher" job than the rest and likely puts up with a lot of bullshit, hence the no nonsense deadpan tone.
      ... But yeah I get you. It definitely gives it a different personality than the Captain video.

  • @KildroneInfinite
    @KildroneInfinite 4 роки тому +7821

    When a teacher talks in dull monotone it is hard to focus and stay awake. Somehow when Grey does it I am paying attention to every word.

    • @Mat860000
      @Mat860000 3 роки тому +757

      Rythm. The rythm is careful made.

    • @skullman-us7wn
      @skullman-us7wn 3 роки тому +213

      @@Mat860000 and the topic

    • @ruaridhusher4373
      @ruaridhusher4373 3 роки тому +653

      Because he's talking as a calm, reserved character, not as a guy who's bored. You're more invested here because the monotone indicates careful thought instead of pained repetition, and your brain likes one a lot more than the other (is my guess based off media classes)

    • @robertg3260
      @robertg3260 3 роки тому +130

      He's not talking in a dull monotone. He's just speaking clearly. These are not the same.

    • @d.zuhdis.3275
      @d.zuhdis.3275 3 роки тому +94

      Well, grey has time to script the video and can retake the audio over and over again until it's perfect. Teachers on the otherhand had to impovise on the spot, one chance to talk about a certain topic, for a limited amount of time about a topic that is not very fun at it's nature. Dont blame teachers for all of your life's problem, they're just working for their families.

  • @sineadthomas2024
    @sineadthomas2024 4 роки тому +18837

    “I’d like to talk to that guy”
    “I’d like to talk to the captain”
    Oh god! It’s an infinite loop!

    • @charnel8435
      @charnel8435 4 роки тому +707

      feels like player going around bugging npcs

    • @MatthewChenIsAwesome
      @MatthewChenIsAwesome 4 роки тому +554

      Pretty soon, Grey will have a video on the UA-camr business model, explaining this as a way of maximizing viewer time and profit in the same cold-hearted accountant tone.

    • @marmaje69
      @marmaje69 4 роки тому +21

      Yep

    • @savvivixen8490
      @savvivixen8490 4 роки тому +61

      @@MatthewChenIsAwesome That'd be amusing. I know others have done it, I just enjoy watching each "you" in UA-cam do their thing. People are fascinating.

    • @nathanaschmann7522
      @nathanaschmann7522 4 роки тому +39

      so does he join or not!?!?!?!?!?

  • @vanikestewart8578
    @vanikestewart8578 4 роки тому +23171

    Kids : Let’s play pirates
    One Kid : I’ll be the Captain
    Young Grey: I’ll be the Quartermaster

    • @jogailejurkonyte4746
      @jogailejurkonyte4746 4 роки тому +2871

      Young Grey: * Whips out Excel spreadsheets *

    • @phillippeng1368
      @phillippeng1368 4 роки тому +1194

      @Boris I'm carpenter! My multi-purpose saw is very multi-purpose!

    • @docrofreborn7497
      @docrofreborn7497 4 роки тому +261

      Guess Imma be a gunner or a cook.

    • @sagazinemtew1851
      @sagazinemtew1851 4 роки тому +77

      Docrof Reborn gunner? I didn’t hear that in the vid

    • @vanikestewart8578
      @vanikestewart8578 4 роки тому +184

      I like this comment section became a pirate crew

  • @sakthisd5565
    @sakthisd5565 4 роки тому +15883

    Ah yes, the 8 traits : strength, cruelty, aggression, loyalty, intellect, saw skills, seasickness and YAARRR

    • @jozefdubois1535
      @jozefdubois1535 4 роки тому +530

      That is what you get asked about, when you apply for a job.

    • @Terrazon
      @Terrazon 3 роки тому +590

      @Józef Dubois
      "Judging by your appearance, you seem very YARR"

    • @michasengotta2295
      @michasengotta2295 3 роки тому +186

      @@jozefdubois1535 Imagine going to an interview with one of those graphs lol

    • @andrewbary
      @andrewbary 3 роки тому +200

      “Okay, we’ve analyzed your skills for the job as a surgeon and we have decided to not hire you as while yours smarts are very high, your YAAARRRR is not high enough for you to be hired. Have a nice day, dear YAR HAR FIDDLE DEE DEE”

    • @TheLegonaut
      @TheLegonaut 3 роки тому +71

      YAAARRRR!! tis be a trait most desirable

  • @billyweed835
    @billyweed835 3 роки тому +3351

    I love the contrast of these characters, with the Captain being emotional, flashy and upbeat even when talking about torturing people to death while their crewmates watch, and clearly a man in love with his job, while the Quartermaster is monotone, matter-of-fact, and seems to have no love for the job, denying that he ever had a choice in becoming a pirate and referring to acts of torture as "punishment for contract violations". The "just-following-orders" bad guy.

    • @Taib-Atte
      @Taib-Atte 2 роки тому +369

      Right but at 5:36 when the quartermaster talks about money he smiles and his eyes go wide (only time in the video) which makes me think he actually is there by choice because he loves seeing money. While the captain is a people-person, the quartermaster is a more reserved, pensive person. But at the end of the day they’re both pirates.

    • @billyweed835
      @billyweed835 2 роки тому +181

      @@Taib-Atte Indeed. The Quartermaster may have convinced himself he had no choice in becoming a pirate, but, really, it's just an excuse.

    • @Nancy-jc4bv
      @Nancy-jc4bv 2 роки тому +170

      I think he isn't saying that he has had no choice in a bad way; he is saying he ALSO has the personality type that doesn't want to work for the empire. Him working for greedy monarchs and officers wouldn't fit his priorities either, so he's as natural a fit for the pirating life as the other social misfit pirates. His personality happens to be organized, logical, and monotone, but doesn't mean he doesn't fit the lifestyle! Especially with how much he likes the profit!

    • @desadograisedrobot515
      @desadograisedrobot515 2 роки тому +27

      @@Nancy-jc4bv He just works better as a pirate than an officer is that it?

    • @medical-cyanide1526
      @medical-cyanide1526 2 роки тому +44

      I personally love that bad guy type, it’s nothing personal, it’s just how things are

  • @Freekymoho
    @Freekymoho 4 роки тому +2658

    there's a dark undercurrent of absolute determinism in a lot of what the quartermaster says. The captain is a more jolly fellow. You know, except when he's talking about torture

    • @ElCapitanDeLaNoche
      @ElCapitanDeLaNoche 4 роки тому +288

      boop!

    • @HxH2011DRA
      @HxH2011DRA 4 роки тому +64

      Now you're getting it

    • @anderskorsback4104
      @anderskorsback4104 4 роки тому +179

      Not surprising. The captain is a leader of men. The quartermaster is a bean counter.

    • @jg4902
      @jg4902 4 роки тому +154

      the captain MUST be charismatic and succesful or be replaced

    • @seafoam6119
      @seafoam6119 4 роки тому +91

      Anders Korsbäck Captain leads, Quartermaster feeds.

  • @safe-keeper1042
    @safe-keeper1042 4 роки тому +3698

    This is Grey as a pirate.
    "Ship sighted, captain! Do we attack?"
    "Hang on, let me consult my Excel spreadsheet..."

    • @Sorcerers_Apprentice
      @Sorcerers_Apprentice 4 роки тому +133

      CGP Grey didn't choose the pirate life, the pirate life chose him.

    • @whoknows7968
      @whoknows7968 4 роки тому +99

      @@Sorcerers_Apprentice CGP Grey: Actually Excel chose for me, always obey the spreadsheets.

    • @neijrr
      @neijrr 4 роки тому +12

      "Excel? But we have no computers!"

    • @IIAOPSW
      @IIAOPSW 4 роки тому +10

      That's got to be the best pirate I've ever seen. So it would seem.

    • @TheNorthie
      @TheNorthie 4 роки тому +6

      This sounds like Eve Online

  • @jchang1999
    @jchang1999 4 роки тому +7299

    The captain is Grey with coffee,
    and the quartermaster is Grey without it.

  • @alexandero9936
    @alexandero9936 3 роки тому +1547

    You should make a "surgeon" version where he talks about the diseases, spoilt food, lack of hygiene and premature death that await most pirates.

    • @JarmamStuff
      @JarmamStuff 2 роки тому +201

      To be fair, those factors would apply to most imperial ships as well

    • @andressotil4671
      @andressotil4671 Рік тому +90

      Also, Surgeon was most likely kidnapped and forced to operate under threat of death

  • @Gboy86ify
    @Gboy86ify 4 роки тому +1856

    The monotone really sells the “this is just a business like any other” theme

  • @JakeTheGenealogist
    @JakeTheGenealogist 4 роки тому +6141

    Pirates are so overdramatized in books and movies, yet their real story is just as interesting!

    •  4 роки тому +143

      There isn’t exactly a lot of historians who would waste time trying to do an anthropological study on theives that just happen to known how to sail.
      It would be like finding a serious study on black crime gangs instead of just lie the low effort and easy access rap music to fans we’d all questions.

    • @scyfrix
      @scyfrix 4 роки тому +386

      @ Popular culture would seem to indicate otherwise. I'm sure a lot of people are interested in the inner machinations and workings of crime gangs.

    • @Fakechilada
      @Fakechilada 4 роки тому +180

      If not more so!
      I would much rather watch a movie with these pirates instead of Pirates of the Carribean.

    • @PotatoesGottaPotate
      @PotatoesGottaPotate 4 роки тому +10

      When this comment has 2000 likes, remember I was the 12th

    • @Phoenix_The_HeroHater
      @Phoenix_The_HeroHater 4 роки тому +13

      It’s only been 16 minutes and you have almost 300 likes like wtf man show me your ways

  • @kayraaa2646
    @kayraaa2646 4 роки тому +2548

    IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT “PIRATE PORTS”!
    6:03 It should be noted that “Pirate-friendly ports” were a product of the same economy as... pirates. You’ll find good examples not in the Caribbean but in the poor, underdeveloped and *shallow* ports of North Africa, where legal trade was... unviable. Some ports were just doomed to being “pirate friendly” because of their geography. Such ports were frequented by Ottoman pirates and the pirates’ booty (which includes vital supplies that are much harder to buy legally) fed the ports.
    P.S. Do note that I’m just paraphrasing Turkish historian Emrah Safa Gürkan.

    • @honorarymancunian7433
      @honorarymancunian7433 4 роки тому +89

      Heh... 'booty'

    • @eggeggedict5847
      @eggeggedict5847 4 роки тому +3

      Honorary Mancunian i was gonna day that

    • @ddis29
      @ddis29 4 роки тому +1

      +

    • @TV-8-301
      @TV-8-301 4 роки тому +68

      It seems like such an insane amount of human history is determined by geography. Grey should do a video on it

    • @LoLontheBoard
      @LoLontheBoard 4 роки тому +7

      coğrafya kaderdir

  • @crumblingcookie6437
    @crumblingcookie6437 3 роки тому +316

    6:22 “I became a pirate as the gold in this grail chose its form” is BEAUTIFUL

  • @Glace1221
    @Glace1221 4 роки тому +1899

    "Wow, what great guys you pirates are! Such comradery!"
    Quarter Master: ** breaths in **

    • @Darthwgamer
      @Darthwgamer 4 роки тому +29

      Yar Boii!

    • @fleefie
      @fleefie 4 роки тому +97

      i mean, what he says next makes sense. I'm not gonna go arround advocating for muh cooperation because of my heart, but because economics and logic say that its the best thing to do.

    • @hellothere5843
      @hellothere5843 4 роки тому +14

      Camaraderie

    • @maxplaysgamez-sharesgaming1756
      @maxplaysgamez-sharesgaming1756 4 роки тому +13

      As The Old Saying Goes "The Job Of Being The One Who Manages The Rest Is Harder Than The Ones Being Managed".

    • @Himawari-v6l
      @Himawari-v6l 4 роки тому +1

      Hello There da comrade

  • @sirrliv
    @sirrliv 4 роки тому +1523

    As mentioned before, "treasure" does not always mean "gold and jewels". While lovely to have and to pay the crew with, it can often be more helpful to seize a "customer's" food or tools or repair supplies; why pay for such things in port, which may be days or weeks away, when you can take them for free right now when you need them? In extreme cases, such as if your ship is badly damaged and perhaps one big storm away from not making it to a friendly port, and/or if the "customer" you've "serviced" has a particularly nice and able ship of their own, the crew may even vote to either abandon their old ship in favor of the new or appoint one of their own as captain of their new second ship, and thus a pirate fleet is born.
    In short, the rule is thus: On the high seas, you cannot fill bellies with gold, you cannot patch holes with jewels. So take what you need the most, be it bullion or boards, silver or salt pork, gemstones or gunpowder.

    • @hearing4267
      @hearing4267 4 роки тому +91

      Take what you want (and what you need), because a pirate is free! You are a pirate???

    • @wierdalien1
      @wierdalien1 4 роки тому +19

      @@hearing4267 give nothing back

    • @joshuakevinserdan9331
      @joshuakevinserdan9331 4 роки тому +62

      Because this has not been mentioned, I'm just imagining your words being said by CGP. lol

    • @joratto2833
      @joratto2833 4 роки тому +17

      Great pastiche of CGP

    • @creapyalbinofish
      @creapyalbinofish 4 роки тому +12

      @@OwOstrich gonna have a pimped out ship when this is over.

  • @fqidz
    @fqidz 4 роки тому +3541

    Quartermaster: We need to properly plan and attack so as to not lose income
    Captain: *BRANDING*

    • @usaball9190
      @usaball9190 4 роки тому +171

      Marketers Vs Financier

    • @MikeyLikey95
      @MikeyLikey95 4 роки тому +50

      s t o n k s

    • @RavemastaJ
      @RavemastaJ 4 роки тому +68

      Hey, the captain understands fighting is the opposite of what you want if you want money.

    • @Anonymized-name
      @Anonymized-name 4 роки тому +13

      MY BRAND ! ! !

    • @red__guy
      @red__guy 4 роки тому +13

      BOOP

  • @starsilverinfinity
    @starsilverinfinity 3 роки тому +484

    No one:
    Quartermaster: Casually breaks out a personality matrix and bespeaks of science centuriess ahead of him

  • @bananya6020
    @bananya6020 4 роки тому +3997

    I love how the quartermaster has a completely different voice than the pirate. CGP Grey is a voice actor confirmed

    • @-haclong2366
      @-haclong2366 4 роки тому +64

      They're both pirates.

    • @JogeloAy
      @JogeloAy 4 роки тому +28

      How many voices can he do? Lol

    • @ShaggyRax
      @ShaggyRax 4 роки тому +8

      😂😂😂

    • @locoben400
      @locoben400 4 роки тому +137

      The quartermaster is what I assume to be Grey's impersonation of an accountant

    • @quinn7935
      @quinn7935 4 роки тому +59

      He sounds so dead, it’s hilarious

  • @Mathster-el4ci
    @Mathster-el4ci 4 роки тому +16090

    “I’d like to speak with The Empire.”

    • @moosesandmeese969
      @moosesandmeese969 4 роки тому +1772

      We plunder the New World, your montly wage will barely feed you and the captain and the empire take all the profit. Any questions?

    • @mrivera6975
      @mrivera6975 4 роки тому +718

      @@moosesandmeese969 *many* actually. How do I become Captain?

    • @jhfh3112
      @jhfh3112 4 роки тому +1110

      @@mrivera6975 Be born into the right sort of family with landowners and/or connections to nobility, go to the right schools and colleges, make friends with wealthy investors or aristocrats. If you're just john doe off the street, no chance.

    • @cezarjulian0320
      @cezarjulian0320 4 роки тому +352

      M Rivera sadly, in the day and age we live(d) in, its incredibly hard for you (a commoner) to be promoted in any way that matters. Most captains are nobles and aristocrats, government officials and sons of captains. Nepotism is a royal affair and as such his majesty’s ships...are run by his majesty’s friends. Boo boo for you, his majesty is not your friend

    • @mrivera6975
      @mrivera6975 4 роки тому +188

      Piracy it is!

  • @nathanfitzgerald2596
    @nathanfitzgerald2596 4 роки тому +3659

    0:50 Already, Grey is showing his love for the humble hexagon...

    • @henriquetolentino1055
      @henriquetolentino1055 4 роки тому +45

      I thought it was a civ reference

    • @dlibby4979
      @dlibby4979 4 роки тому +177

      Its the bestagon!

    • @muhwyndham
      @muhwyndham 4 роки тому +85

      @@henriquetolentino1055 it is Catan reference, and also Bestagon

    • @LynchtheFinch
      @LynchtheFinch 4 роки тому +42

      hexagons...
      are the bestagons

    • @smartart6841
      @smartart6841 3 роки тому +10

      And triangles and many othr shapes wanna be the bestagon but that woukd be the hexagon

  • @CrimzinEclipse2010
    @CrimzinEclipse2010 4 роки тому +3613

    CGP Grey: Releases dozens of well-researched, highly informative videos covering a broad and diverse array of subjects, in an interesting format.
    Also CGP Grey: Lol...booty.

    • @jaxsonhedberg7515
      @jaxsonhedberg7515 2 роки тому +11

      1k likes and 1, now 2 replies? woah.

    • @Netherdan
      @Netherdan 2 роки тому +2

      @@jaxsonhedberg7515 it's a hidden gem, having only 3 replies that much likes

    • @Unpug
      @Unpug 2 роки тому +3

      Yes

    • @keksitzee1094
      @keksitzee1094 2 роки тому +8

      Why else would you spend so much effort and time on something if it weren't to tell a booty joke?

  • @MatthewChenIsAwesome
    @MatthewChenIsAwesome 4 роки тому +516

    I like how the quartermaster only ever _slightly_ smiles at 5:37, when he's looking at money

    • @ratamacue0320
      @ratamacue0320 4 роки тому +15

      Good eye! Aye.

    • @manictiger
      @manictiger 4 роки тому +99

      You see mere gold, but I see the health of the ship, its company and its crew. I see our reputation. I see bigger cannons and better shot. I see better food that lasts longer, as we venture further and further into new riches to plunder. I see opportunity. I see the seeds of a giant orchard waiting to be planted and grown. I do not just see mere gold.

    • @IrvingIV
      @IrvingIV 4 роки тому +19

      @@manictiger
      Holy shit that's an awesome quote.
      Is it yours to claim, or have you recounted it from elsewhere?
      Either way, thank you.

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 4 роки тому

      @@manictiger Aye, and wenches and booze besides!

  • @Chaosmech
    @Chaosmech 4 роки тому +9504

    The Captain waxes poetic, the Quartermaster waxes philosophical.
    The swabbey waxes the deck.

  • @sprightlyoaf9583
    @sprightlyoaf9583 4 роки тому +1816

    "Saw skills? Why did he put saw skills in the matrix?"
    2 minutes later:
    "Oh. Oh dear."

    • @Sef_Era
      @Sef_Era 4 роки тому +64

      Yea, that’s not a bone saw. That’s a wood saw, using that to cut off a limb is a good way to get dead. You want a lot of fine teeth, not a few big ones.
      But then, this is me it the 21st century, is a 1st world country, saying this. You do what you have to do to survive.

    • @josephdomshy4068
      @josephdomshy4068 4 роки тому +68

      @@Sef_Era any good carpenter will have a rough saw for large cuts and a fine saw for finish joinery (surprisingly important as a shipwright back in the day). The fine-toothed saw, assuming properly cleaned (conveniently, a little soap and brine works pretty well), it would be serviceable as a bone saw.

    • @SaberusTerras
      @SaberusTerras 4 роки тому +36

      It's really only in the past century or so that surgeons didn't immediately jump to amputation for battle-related injury. They were called sawbones for a reason.

    • @peka2478
      @peka2478 4 роки тому +1

      Yeah i at first thought it meant savv skills.
      "Oh. Oh, dear" for me as well :)

    • @pixelnaut6271
      @pixelnaut6271 4 роки тому

      Thanks for pointing that out, now I can't stop laughing lol.

  • @jtbeatty2224
    @jtbeatty2224 2 роки тому +416

    I think it’s interesting that both the Captain and the Quartermaster are very much romanticizing the pirate lifestyle. Whereas the Captain is giving the “Yo ho ho” speech, the Quartermaster gives a look at the practical day-to-day management of freedom aboard a pirate ship.
    Keep in mind that both are simply recruiting the listener. It’s interesting how the Captain and Quartermaster give different images of freedom

  • @l.u.i.s._.8452
    @l.u.i.s._.8452 4 роки тому +3682

    the captain: branding
    the quatermaster: accounting

  • @eatfruitsalad345
    @eatfruitsalad345 4 роки тому +2394

    5:37 love how the quartermaster's sleepy eyes open up when he sees the money hahahaha

  • @PoseidonSon2002
    @PoseidonSon2002 4 роки тому +5412

    Can we get “how to be a pirate: surgeon edition” next

    • @et5216
      @et5216 4 роки тому +305

      Yes Grey can go on a rant about the medical practice of the time.

    • @ragnerschwarzmane3412
      @ragnerschwarzmane3412 4 роки тому +435

      Treatment 1: Saw it off.
      Treatment 2: Pray.

    • @vaclav_fejt
      @vaclav_fejt 4 роки тому +110

      @@ragnerschwarzmane3412 You forgot burning iron or molten alsphalt.

    • @grepgrok8735
      @grepgrok8735 4 роки тому +82

      /carpenter edition

    • @colton8990
      @colton8990 4 роки тому +30

      Then carpenter and an average crew

  • @chrissytheconqueror7049
    @chrissytheconqueror7049 3 роки тому +115

    The Captain and Quartermaster both went to Business School together. Captain ended up doing Marketing, Quartermaster did Accounting&Finance

  • @oaajbs
    @oaajbs 4 роки тому +2818

    It blows my mind thar pirate ships had workmans comp. in an age when most businesses did not.

    • @kojeb
      @kojeb 4 роки тому +688

      It’s just practical. In a business outside the law, the only real way to ensure loyalty and continued employment is generous compensation for service as mob rule could just as easily descend over a pirate ship.

    • @MrIcenice44
      @MrIcenice44 4 роки тому +15

      right?

    • @gabrielnichols6428
      @gabrielnichols6428 4 роки тому +342

      @@kojeb In addition the mob was also an early innovator in areas such as health insurance, old age pensions, and workers comp. When you were in they took care of you. A reasonable precaution when people unhappy with their treatment could go to the cops. The stick was real, but the carrot made its job easier

    • @snowblood74
      @snowblood74 4 роки тому +157

      @@kojeb That shows how much the law is designed to benefit corporations instead of the people.

    • @YourLocalMairaaboo
      @YourLocalMairaaboo 4 роки тому +92

      Hey. Manpower was precious.
      Not like you can just barge into any inn and say "WE NEED 10 PIRATES!"
      No. That was just for the ones in the other side of the law.

  • @MarceauD
    @MarceauD 4 роки тому +1725

    I love how Grey completely changes his voice for the Quartermaster compared to the joyful Captain.

    • @0Raik
      @0Raik 4 роки тому +56

      _"I know right! It's hilarious!"_

    • @questionablekumquat4484
      @questionablekumquat4484 4 роки тому +4

      Raik how did you use italics?

    • @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4
      @gre3nishsinx0Rgold4 4 роки тому +7

      I like the Quartermaster voice better.

    • @0Raik
      @0Raik 4 роки тому +21

      *_"It's the voice I was given just like the gold of this cup chose its form."_*

    • @0Raik
      @0Raik 4 роки тому +37

      @@questionablekumquat4484 You don't 'use' _italics,_ they use you. You need to go to _Italy,_ where all the _italics_ are created and ask the goddess for her blessing...
      Then add '_' at the beginning of a word and the end. It can be the whole phrase as long as the 'underscore' is touching a word (one at the beginning and one at the end).
      * for *bold*
      _ for _italics_
      - for -not really lol-

  • @AMNG1994
    @AMNG1994 4 роки тому +1630

    Why is CGP Grey suddenly interested in the logic and business model of pirates? And also is there a Google Form to fill up? Asking for a friend.

    • @Archflip
      @Archflip 4 роки тому +178

      He read a book about it and adapted it to this format. The Invisible Hook. He recommends it in the description. Same thing with Rules and Rulers, which was adapted from The Dictator's Handbook. As for why those books caught his eye, because they explore the pragmatic side of very broadly chaotic concepts (such as piracy or dictatorship) which appeals to him personally?

    • @evergreen6702
      @evergreen6702 4 роки тому +59

      He's convincing his subs to join up, I for one would love to be part of Grey Beard's crew

    • @anothergermanmapper7754
      @anothergermanmapper7754 4 роки тому +12

      Evergreen Where can I sign up?

    • @liberty.b.r
      @liberty.b.r 4 роки тому +10

      @@anothergermanmapper7754 Here on the dotted line. .................

    • @grilledflatbread4692
      @grilledflatbread4692 4 роки тому +5

      He must be playing Eve Online, that's why there's fewer videos.

  • @brycem4493
    @brycem4493 2 роки тому +265

    Somehow he makes being a pirate sound better than a lot of modern day jobs

  • @GhostBombGames
    @GhostBombGames 4 роки тому +2721

    "9-5 for minimum wage" is supposed to sound bad but in reality colonial sailors of the empire probably worked much longer hours for much less pay.

    • @misterZalli
      @misterZalli 4 роки тому +199

      No wonder they joined pirates. Cruel debasement like that does things to a man.

    • @multiplyx100
      @multiplyx100 4 роки тому +170

      No matter what the average conditions of a time, they will seem normal, depending on the conditions experienced growing up. We are often fed up with our current conditions and yet arguably they are far better than at any previous time for our species, or for any species.

    • @misterZalli
      @misterZalli 4 роки тому +116

      @@multiplyx100 If you take into account even the history of human civilization, which is over 10,000 years old, you could say that in a sense the few hundred years in the past are still basically a part of our current time.
      And they do share a lot of similarities with the present, such as the horrible treatment of the very people who make the civilization work, and the tyranny of leaders and bosses.
      While many things are better, the advancements have never been shared this unequally in human history (many places are still living in the past of 100 years ago, and some are even worse), and we have still a lot of work to do, which needs fundamental change and cannot be done with just better technology.

    • @Dayvit78
      @Dayvit78 4 роки тому +48

      They worked watches. There were 3 watches. So, yes they did have about 8 hours of work/day. Excepting battle or storms. The hard part was simply the work itself. Have you ever tried to furl or unfurl a sail?

    • @misterZalli
      @misterZalli 4 роки тому +24

      @@Dayvit78 They could've also been paid properly, and given comnfortable living conditions, if the social order had been more equitable.
      Same for now, except almost everyone could work for much less hours with the help of all of our technology.

  • @Polaris5664
    @Polaris5664 4 роки тому +985

    Quartermaster: *facts and logic*
    Captain: YARR HARR PIRATE SPEAK AND ALLITERATION AHOY!

    • @mr.boomguy
      @mr.boomguy 4 роки тому +32

      BRANDING🌈!!!

    • @hermannbose2125
      @hermannbose2125 4 роки тому +2

      @Mycel I think this is a Monkey Island joke right ?

    • @SEJIBAQUI475
      @SEJIBAQUI475 4 роки тому +4

      @Mycel My BRAND

    • @Valery0p5
      @Valery0p5 4 роки тому

      Lol, limewire

    • @OlleLindestad
      @OlleLindestad 4 роки тому

      Snowflake quartermaster DESTROYED with YAR HARRS and ALLITERATION

  • @guentherhunter
    @guentherhunter 4 роки тому +3168

    The customers of piracy aren’t the victims, the customers are the fences willing to buy discounted stolen goods.
    The victims are “suppliers” subject to “intensive negotiating tactics”

    • @Mista_Sista
      @Mista_Sista 4 роки тому +159

      You sound like you have a degree in marketing (from the PR expertise, not the economics).

    • @ratamacue0320
      @ratamacue0320 4 роки тому +83

      I thought that initially, too. But then, these "customers" give the servicers money.

    • @maxmichalik4938
      @maxmichalik4938 4 роки тому +21

      @Ragnar Some ships just carried/carry around a lot of money, but for most the transport of value was something else.

    • @jasonschuler2256
      @jasonschuler2256 4 роки тому +63

      @Ragnar It's a myth that pirates buried their treasure. It may have happened very rarely, but pirates didn't expect to live very long, so they pretty much spent their -booty- treasure on alcohol and women as quickly as possible.

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 4 роки тому +49

      The victims are treated as a passive resource to be harvested, like ore, livestock, or grain. Like mining, pirating can be dangerous work. Unlike mining, it doesn't actually produce anything of value - it just changes value's possession - and is actually destructive of value when you factor in the damage to target vessels and crew along with waste like the extra security that is needed to confront piracy.

  • @TheWagonroast
    @TheWagonroast Рік тому +93

    Imagine if after rewatching this after like 20 times, he randomly says “yeah, ok” instead of “i’d like to speak with the captain” in a loop.

  • @Drekromancer
    @Drekromancer 4 роки тому +1153

    "So what'd you get your degree in?"
    "Pirate Economics"

    • @enkryptron
      @enkryptron 4 роки тому +30

      Welcome aboard matey!

    • @pro-ductionspelis2455
      @pro-ductionspelis2455 4 роки тому +27

      During my Econ degree my professor liked to spend a lot of time discussing Pirate contracts and their relevance in Game Theory lol

    • @vladtepes5244
      @vladtepes5244 4 роки тому +1

      YwarI was the ikdeAcn
      Wiob

    • @RobbieStacks90
      @RobbieStacks90 4 роки тому +5

      I got my BA in English, but pirate economics have always come naturally to me. That's how I got a free PS4 and half of my PS4 games at Best Buy. Just gotta know where the blind spots are 😈

    • @0Arcoverde
      @0Arcoverde 4 роки тому +2

      @@pro-ductionspelis2455 where could a simpleton find such contracts?

  • @sylvereon
    @sylvereon 4 роки тому +2617

    First rule: WE MUST CHOOE A VOTING SYSTEM

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 4 роки тому +9

      lol

    • @mishlimon98
      @mishlimon98 4 роки тому +233

      Grey: *bursts though the wall* did someone say VOTING SYSTEM

    • @penumbra0182
      @penumbra0182 4 роки тому +43

      Who’s OK with Burger Barn?

    • @LeoStaley
      @LeoStaley 4 роки тому +41

      One vote per person, and the person with the most votes wins. Simple, Fair, Logical. Right?

    • @MannyXVIII
      @MannyXVIII 4 роки тому +31

      Single Transferable Vote is the only true voting system! And almost nobody uses it ...

  • @letrat7021
    @letrat7021 4 роки тому +8587

    "i'd like to hear from the surgeon"

    • @Conservative4
      @Conservative4 4 роки тому +619

      I kinda want a small side from the EMPIRE.

    • @wppb50
      @wppb50 4 роки тому +562

      "We're out of whiskey, so you're gonna want to bite down on something, this is gonna hurt like hell."

    • @SunokJung1004
      @SunokJung1004 4 роки тому +171

      I want the normal pirates perspective

    • @maglax
      @maglax 4 роки тому +143

      Dr. Carpenter

    • @Gisiebob
      @Gisiebob 4 роки тому +111

      "I'd like to hear from the monarch"

  • @yutianfeng
    @yutianfeng 3 роки тому +216

    The captain is so cute "ask me about branding" WITH HIS BIG SMILE AWWW

  • @scarletkoon
    @scarletkoon 4 роки тому +882

    I like how when the quartermaster starts talking about costs and accounting of pirating, the captain just looks out of the porthole because he's more interested in "branding"
    These details make me love grey's videos so so much

    • @milx7210
      @milx7210 3 роки тому +14

      Time stamp?

    • @soundofez
      @soundofez 3 роки тому +12

      @@milx7210 5:46

    • @milx7210
      @milx7210 3 роки тому +2

      @@soundofez thx

    • @Unpug
      @Unpug 2 роки тому

      The entire video, there are so many details that showed the captain doing things that show his very unique personality

  • @SerpentStare
    @SerpentStare 4 роки тому +794

    I love the way you've set up the classic tonal difference between Marketing side and Accounting side within the popular, memetic, and terrifyingly cruel (in reality) world of piracy. Including a fair bit of the stereotypical difference in attitude.
    Accountants and their ilk are joked to be dull, humorless, over-reliant on rules and without initiative or creativity.
    Conversely, salesmen and their ilk are joked to be unscrupulous, immoral and manipulative, without regard for truth and honesty.
    I heard it said in business school that generally students either loved Marketing and hated Accounting or the reverse, and there's a mote of truth to that; Many students I knew found the rules of accounting confusing and exceedingly dull... Whereas I found the "right answers" in marketing to be infuriatingly arbitrary.
    Of course, business demands some success of both sides to function well.

    • @ZoeCalico
      @ZoeCalico 2 роки тому +23

      I'm definitely never joking when I say that marketers are unscrupulous, immoral, and manipulative, without regard for truth and honesty.

  • @DozyBinsh
    @DozyBinsh 4 роки тому +1549

    Lots of commenters seem pretty sold on the pirating life as presented here, but just remember that the quartermaster is speaking from survivorship bias.

    • @yahyachothia
      @yahyachothia 4 роки тому +37

      What do you mean? And yes. I know what the survivorship bias is.

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 4 роки тому +235

      Yahya Chothia only a good quartermaster that keeps his head down and gets on with the work and who’s crew does their jobs well will live to tell the tale and a good quartermaster has quite a boring lifestyle

    • @DozyBinsh
      @DozyBinsh 4 роки тому +257

      @@yahyachothia I mostly mean it in the literal sense. Some crews were quite successful, but pirating is risky business and many crews died on the job, starved at sea, or returned unsuccessful with nothing to show for their efforts but warrants for their arrest. QM doesn't hide this, after all, but he does glide to other topics rather quickly.

    • @eavyeavy2864
      @eavyeavy2864 4 роки тому +2

      @@DozyBinsh which is what reality is

    • @MontageLegacy
      @MontageLegacy 4 роки тому +12

      @@DozyBinsh but like...he doesn't glorify it?

  • @victoria8801
    @victoria8801 2 роки тому +55

    “Our customers don’t necessarily like to be serviced “
    I love this line so much 😂😂😂😂

  • @Lucas-qx3fo
    @Lucas-qx3fo 4 роки тому +813

    'We must act, even though our customers don't want to be serviced'
    *Modern problems require modern solutions*

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 4 роки тому

      -CPG GREY

    • @beckettthirion3147
      @beckettthirion3147 4 роки тому +7

      Telemarketers in a shellnut (unless the customers call you then that doesn't count as not wanting to be serviced)

    • @Jakub777J
      @Jakub777J 4 роки тому

      @@beckettthirion3147 at least telemarketers don't torture their clients to death

    • @bawicz0
      @bawicz0 4 роки тому

      Poo poo pee pee 😤😤😤😤😤😤😡😡😡😡😡😡😠😠😠😠😠😠😠👿👿👿👿👿

    • @andrewzhang8512
      @andrewzhang8512 4 роки тому +2

      @@bawicz0 wtf

  • @BrokenEyes00
    @BrokenEyes00 4 роки тому +280

    “ what’s genetics?”
    “ doesn’t matter.”
    Best

  • @gmbirb5319
    @gmbirb5319 4 роки тому +1087

    Pirates: Looting and Killing
    Also Pirates: B R A N D I N G

    • @jaiparwani4279
      @jaiparwani4279 4 роки тому +3

      Who owns the pirate ship?

    •  4 роки тому +17

      Technically they all do.
      Shareholders all.

    • @simon_the_dank_boi4449
      @simon_the_dank_boi4449 4 роки тому +1

      well so wad du u do ohhh i do B R A N D I N G = 0

    • @jaiparwani4279
      @jaiparwani4279 4 роки тому +1

      @ they are all poor someone had to bring it

    • @KikomochiMendoza
      @KikomochiMendoza 4 роки тому +2

      Also also Pirates: Economic Equilibrium of Supply and Demand... for Booty

  • @nPhlames
    @nPhlames 3 роки тому +943

    "If there is no surgeon, the carpenter will be surgeon."
    Me: omg
    "Shocking I know, such flat and equal compensation..."
    THAT'S NOT THE SHOCKING PART

    • @TheAlps36
      @TheAlps36 2 роки тому +94

      I guess if you can saw through wood, you can saw through flesh and bone

    • @TribuneAquila
      @TribuneAquila 2 роки тому +72

      Or the cook. Filleting a fish, amputation. What's the difference really?

    • @Momolulu1994
      @Momolulu1994 2 роки тому +61

      Well, leaving at the time, it was shocking.
      Imagine entering in a company and the HR start by "the CEO earn 600K a year. The HRD 450K, the common employee 300K".

    • @Resi1ience
      @Resi1ience 2 роки тому +41

      @@Momolulu1994 It's a jarringly _fair_ level of compensation that makes confusing levels of sense, given that we're talking about high seas pillagers and rapists. But it makes sense. Their business worked - it had to.

    • @evanjohnson1299
      @evanjohnson1299 2 роки тому +38

      frankly speaking with the state of the medical field at the time your odds of survival might go up with the carpenter.

  • @arcisle5162
    @arcisle5162 4 роки тому +1120

    I feel like the justification that "if we don't do it someone else will" is the beginning of a lot of really questionable decisions.

    • @maxmichalik4938
      @maxmichalik4938 4 роки тому +138

      Also known as capitalism.

    • @Veylon
      @Veylon 4 роки тому +81

      Yes. But also consider that if you want to make the thing being done stop, no amount of blaming/removing the person currently doing it is enough. Hanging lots of pirates doesn't stop piracy all by itself.

    • @zainiikhwan9405
      @zainiikhwan9405 4 роки тому +13

      This two video is really dark albeit the cheerful presentation.....

    • @TheInsomniaddict
      @TheInsomniaddict 4 роки тому +26

      The whole point of entrepreneurship is to find or create niches that haven't been exploited yet. Piracy was a pretty big niche.

    • @VidyaGamingOfficial
      @VidyaGamingOfficial 4 роки тому +16

      @@maxmichalik4938 So you're saying Pirates are the pinnacle of libertarian right? Sign me the fuck up..

  • @frederik7338
    @frederik7338 4 роки тому +253

    I clicked for pirate fun facts. Ended up watching an explenation of the difference bewtween a Workers cooperative and and regular capitalist owned business. Well played Sir, Well played.

  • @aetu35
    @aetu35 4 роки тому +669

    "I'd like to talk to the captain first."
    He dies like that. He gets stuck in a loop of asking the captain and the quartermaster until the heat death of the universe.

    • @ancientswordrage
      @ancientswordrage 4 роки тому +5

      Perfect analogy for Grey's occasional indecision

    • @googiegress
      @googiegress 4 роки тому +5

      But by doing so he locks the two and their ship and crew in the same loop, preventing them from raiding. For which the applicant is paid under the table by the Empire.

  • @Yossus
    @Yossus 3 роки тому +187

    I really like the legally distinct pirates theme playing in the background

  • @dornald7103
    @dornald7103 4 роки тому +754

    The last video was good as hell.

    • @IshanJain
      @IshanJain 4 роки тому +33

      but hell isnt good at all

    • @IshanJain
      @IshanJain 4 роки тому

      @Biskit Kitty kewl

    • @poedameron8057
      @poedameron8057 4 роки тому +1

      THE EARTH ID REACHING THE TEMPERATURE OF HELL AND GREY NEEDS TO MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT

    • @roguishpaladin
      @roguishpaladin 4 роки тому +4

      *boop*

    • @mikemikel654
      @mikemikel654 4 роки тому +1

      @@poedameron8057 grey doesn't have to do anything except wait of the cold embrace of death

  • @JTKatz07
    @JTKatz07 4 роки тому +345

    5:36 the only time the Quartermaster smiles is when looking at the profits.

    • @drone_better7757
      @drone_better7757 4 роки тому +19

      It's also the only time the applicant whistles.

    • @fish9468
      @fish9468 4 роки тому +5

      Drone_Better nope! 3:32

    • @maxmichalik4938
      @maxmichalik4938 4 роки тому +2

      Well, the quartermaster inevitably must be someone who wants big riches and is willing to risk his life for it and break all laws as well.

  • @CGPGrey
    @CGPGrey  4 роки тому +8323

    The Captain's Version: ua-cam.com/video/3YFeE1eDlD0/v-deo.html

    • @locomotivefaox
      @locomotivefaox 4 роки тому +385

      And now I’m in an infinite loop of watching each of these.

    • @TheBluePhoenix008
      @TheBluePhoenix008 4 роки тому +55

      First reply!
      Edit: nope, beaten by 6 seconds. BTW I love your videos

    • @mikemikel654
      @mikemikel654 4 роки тому +10

      No

    • @alienworm1999
      @alienworm1999 4 роки тому +98

      Will there be a crew's edition? I'm sure the actual guys living in complete squalor may have something to say about all this talk of piracy being a hunky dory profitable opportunity

    • @globalwarrior16
      @globalwarrior16 4 роки тому +29

      0:37 I dont know if its a hidden joke but
      BLACKBEARD

  • @sasy_cupcake
    @sasy_cupcake 3 роки тому +187

    i would totally watch this episodic-comedy where no one changes, with the captain and quartermaster being the leads. a left-brain-right-brain dynamic (with some others in there, A.K.A carpenter/surgeon, the lancer crewmate, and disgruntled loyalist prisoner)

  • @tenebraskull1818
    @tenebraskull1818 4 роки тому +380

    1:56 the flags in order: First one is a standard flag used by several captains like Edward England,
    2nd Jacquotte Delahaye (might have never existed)
    3rd Edward Teach aka Blackbeard
    4th Jean Thomas Dulaien
    5th Bartholomew Roberts aka Black Bart
    the two last ones were used by Edward Low (the green one for calling the other captains of his fleet for meeting in his own ship)

    • @mazzalnx
      @mazzalnx 4 роки тому +4

      Thank you!

    • @MatthewChenIsAwesome
      @MatthewChenIsAwesome 4 роки тому +18

      Thanks. I was wondering why anyone would fly that last green one; doesn't seem like very good branding.

    • @uknownada
      @uknownada 4 роки тому +7

      I always thought the standard skull & crossbones jolly roger was a myth, like Viking horns.

    • @GreRe9
      @GreRe9 4 роки тому

      +

    • @a.h.s.3006
      @a.h.s.3006 4 роки тому +16

      @@uknownada oh no it's very real, just not Pirates of the Caribbean standard, it was more like quote of arms used for branding each pirate, and everyone liked a style of their own, for branding, you may surrender immediately if you find a flag known to flown by Blackbeard, and Blackbeard so happens to be branded as extremely torture happy.

  • @dikko7010
    @dikko7010 4 роки тому +604

    "Thus after the..."
    Captain and recruit : *Looks and smirks at each other*
    "Treasure is seized"
    Captain and recruit : *Looks in disappointment*

  • @bluecocacola
    @bluecocacola 4 роки тому +1445

    CGP GREY: makes intelligent comments and gives insightful knowledge
    Also him : *giggles while saying biggest booty*

    • @lhistorienchipoteur9968
      @lhistorienchipoteur9968 4 роки тому +26

      Not him. The captain and the recruit.

    • @archdruidbookwalter951
      @archdruidbookwalter951 4 роки тому +37

      "That is the law of equivalent exchange!"

    • @DanC8111_
      @DanC8111_ 4 роки тому +9

      Coolman1938 Yes who voices the captain and recruit?

    • @user-nk8zx1yw8s
      @user-nk8zx1yw8s 4 роки тому +7

      Dan C The captain and recruit dummy

    • @Reczack
      @Reczack 4 роки тому +30

      It's not just any booty, it's the biggest booty.

  • @captncutlass4050
    @captncutlass4050 2 роки тому +24

    I love all of the historical flags you recreated at 1:54 in your stick figure style, really neat.

  • @7000_Skeletons
    @7000_Skeletons 4 роки тому +149

    I love how the Captain is so enthusiastic while the Quarter Master just takes him to one side and explains his job in the same way that he would be explaining tax returns.

    • @Julian-re2ey
      @Julian-re2ey 4 роки тому +3

      Like in the video said, the captain is mostly there to entertain the crew, otherwise the crew will elect another captain, except in battle. So a good captain has probably a very enthusiastic character. A quartermaster to check the books, the rations etc. So there personalities in the video are very fitting for there job.

    • @ShroudedWolf51
      @ShroudedWolf51 4 роки тому

      @@AlvarVraal Except, things always go wrong in battle. And, the captain needs to secure his position so that the wrongs of the battle don't get assigned to him. Therefore, the captain entertains and has to be charismatic and endlessly enthusiastic to keep the public opinion of the crew on his side.

  • @MartinLeong25
    @MartinLeong25 4 роки тому +269

    From robots to tumbleweed to missile facility to pirates.
    God damn grey

    • @warhead811
      @warhead811 4 роки тому +14

      ...gotta love this amazing shift in career fields every week or so

    • @Aereto
      @Aereto 4 роки тому

      K.K. Slider is that one other cool dog who has been places.

    • @xanpenguin754
      @xanpenguin754 4 роки тому +1

      Gotta say 24 hours of death was my favourite though.

    • @hexa3389
      @hexa3389 4 роки тому +2

      And the forgotten 1st episode of the series on American Indians. I want the rest of that series so bad.

    • @Void-cn6rn
      @Void-cn6rn 4 роки тому +3

      Jack of all trades, master of... also all trades.

  • @Junosensei
    @Junosensei 4 роки тому +643

    CGP Grey: "These videos show us that pirates aren't like the movies."
    Also CGP Grey: "I wonder what BGM I should use for these videos..."

    • @CaptainBill22
      @CaptainBill22 4 роки тому +48

      Not only are they different from what we see in the movies, they often worked FOR the Empire and not against it. Britain was well known for issuing Letters of Marque that gave permission to people to be privateers. To their enemies, they were pirates. Sir Francis Drake was very famous pirate/privateer and war hero.

    • @wppb50
      @wppb50 4 роки тому +7

      ​@@CaptainBill22 The Spanish all despise him!
      But to the British
      He's a hero
      And they idolize him!
      It's how you look at buccaneers
      That makes us bad or good,
      And I see us as members of a noble brotherhood!

    • @garrettjensen5035
      @garrettjensen5035 4 роки тому +1

      @@wppb50 10/10 movie quote

  • @Asmallcorneroftheinternet
    @Asmallcorneroftheinternet 4 роки тому +63

    The captain is the one you'd want to talk too. And the Quartermaster is the one you need to talk too.

  • @z0orb
    @z0orb 4 роки тому +1035

    1:05 i would kill for this design of pirate ship management rpg style game

    • @anon2034
      @anon2034 4 роки тому +19

      Me too!

    • @z0orb
      @z0orb 4 роки тому +12

      @@daanstrik4293 thanks! i'll check it out!

    • @redacted4901
      @redacted4901 4 роки тому +8

      Glad to see I'm not the only one

    • @larilaa
      @larilaa 4 роки тому +8

      Pixel Piracy is a buggy minigame but yeah it was interesting to me too.

    • @leiffitzsimmonsfrey4923
      @leiffitzsimmonsfrey4923 3 роки тому +48

      SSTL: Significantly Slower Than Light.

  • @scottmUTCS
    @scottmUTCS 4 роки тому +133

    I love at 5:33, the most emotional the Quartermaster gets: "To make money. [beat] A lot of money, for all of us." And even a hint of a smile on the stoic, all business Quartermaster.

  • @hiparthparth
    @hiparthparth 4 роки тому +308

    "Working 9-5 on a ship of the empire for minimum wage.... ....as banal days pass eroding the dreams and aspirations of your younger self. Leaving you at the end to wonder how it all slipped away."
    Eerily real

    • @Gamesaucer
      @Gamesaucer 4 роки тому +16

      That's a relatable fear in all ages, I imagine.

    • @edparker1143
      @edparker1143 4 роки тому +13

      It's a really interesting idea that the only thing standing between the average man and total lawlessness, is economic incentive.

    • @PsychoticusRex
      @PsychoticusRex 4 роки тому

      Someone just walked over my grave real.

    • @Gregory_Swan
      @Gregory_Swan 4 роки тому +10

      @kie Nice bait.

    • @Merlincat007
      @Merlincat007 4 роки тому +9

      @kie This is pasta, right?

  • @dallasrover5515
    @dallasrover5515 4 роки тому +24

    These two videos might be my favorites that Grey has ever done. Not only do you learn about pirates, but about branding and economics, too. :)

    • @daca8395
      @daca8395 3 роки тому +3

      And organised labour and workplace democracy...

  • @MunchKING
    @MunchKING 4 роки тому +970

    Oh yes, the Empire's famous willingness to "hire" low paying sailors...
    And by that I mean a lot of people weren't desperate enough for that low of pay, so the Empires would just press gang whomever they could kidnap and force into working. Or get drunk enough/tricked enough to be duped into signing a contract.

    • @shaftoe195
      @shaftoe195 4 роки тому +137

      Turns out, Empires _were_ the bad guys! Who could have thought?

    • @NyalBurns
      @NyalBurns 4 роки тому +13

      Where do you get this information?

    • @josephmoore4764
      @josephmoore4764 4 роки тому +46

      Only marginally worse than the army recruiters of our day

    • @shadoeboi212
      @shadoeboi212 4 роки тому +48

      @@josephmoore4764 that margin being army recruiters cant conscript you

    • @monkey80148
      @monkey80148 4 роки тому +55

      @@NyalBurns the cause for the war of 1812 was the impressment of American Soldiers, and piracy took place almost 150 years before that. It's safe to say the british empire wasn't exactly good to "its" sailors

  • @Devedrus
    @Devedrus 4 роки тому +184

    Some say he's still putting off his decision to this day.

    • @AndyZach
      @AndyZach 4 роки тому +3

      Bouncing from the captain to the quartermaster. Myself, I'd like to be quartermaster, but not on a pirate ship.

  • @JorgeL721
    @JorgeL721 4 роки тому +532

    I really hope to hear other Editions: Cook's Edition, Crew's Edition etc I love these

    • @jutensai
      @jutensai 4 роки тому +68

      Empire edition as well!

    • @center4nerds
      @center4nerds 4 роки тому +3

      You said cook edition and I was thinking of modern day restaurants...

    • @gokbay3057
      @gokbay3057 4 роки тому +18

      Empire edition: the law is the law and you will be hung if you go against it. So take your minimal pay or stay on land.

    • @infinickel7423
      @infinickel7423 4 роки тому +7

      Gokbay I think it'll be interesting to listen how Empire used to fight with pirates.

    • @rickycushing1
      @rickycushing1 4 роки тому +4

      Black Sails shows pirate economy super well. Grey should show how the stolen goods are sold to the fences of pirate ports.

  • @MiserableJosephson
    @MiserableJosephson Рік тому +30

    Not only an excellent overview of piracy, but also an excellent general overview of a oft overlooked economic system: the economics of crime. Bravo!

  • @Alcatrax_
    @Alcatrax_ 4 роки тому +35

    I love how happy the captain looks holding up his sign “ask me about branding”

  • @NaNA-cb4vz
    @NaNA-cb4vz 4 роки тому +418

    “What’s genetics?”
    “Doesn’t matter”

    • @TheOnyomiMaster
      @TheOnyomiMaster 4 роки тому +11

      The econ 101 graph is just as much an anachronism.

    • @lhistorienchipoteur9968
      @lhistorienchipoteur9968 4 роки тому +7

      @@TheOnyomiMaster Sometimes, you just have to let anachronisms through to make your audience understand, especially when it's a quick clear simplified video about a special topic.

    • @ToastyMozart
      @ToastyMozart 4 роки тому +3

      @@TheOnyomiMaster I suspect the basics of "sell things for as much as people will pay you for" has been around a great bit longer than the pirate days, if not in the same exact terms.

    • @Bloodlyshiva
      @Bloodlyshiva 4 роки тому

      They know genetics/breeding as it relates to animals.

  • @HeadOfNothing
    @HeadOfNothing 4 роки тому +1419

    "if there is no surgeon, carpenter will be surgeon"
    Well at that time, what was the difference?

    • @bananya6020
      @bananya6020 4 роки тому +56

      surgeons were able to operate on dead bodies more :P

    • @Anastas1786
      @Anastas1786 4 роки тому +114

      At no point is a _real_ surgeon, even drunk, going to stop in the middle of a delicate operation to try and remember where your topsail's supposed to go.

    • @ОлегКозлов-ю9т
      @ОлегКозлов-ю9т 4 роки тому +113

      A quality surgeon would give you some booze to ease the pain, while a carpenter would have to drink aforementioned booze himself

    • @davidshi451
      @davidshi451 4 роки тому +4

      Watch/read Master and Commander, and you'll see!

    • @scotttaylor7146
      @scotttaylor7146 4 роки тому +60

      The surgeon would theoretically know where to saw to minimize the infected/shredded tissue remaining and maximizing the amount of healthy tissue remaining.

  • @Unpug
    @Unpug 2 роки тому +14

    Love the captain's personality being showed throughout the entire video, looking down and checking on them when they were in the BOOTY room, looking out the canon window because the sea was more interesting, giggling at the quartermaster saying booty, always being so cheeky and excited about
    treasure and battle, not seeming to care much about anything else and just leaving it to the quartermaster, and more!

  • @TheIllusiveMan11
    @TheIllusiveMan11 4 роки тому +1143

    "How to be a Pirate: Crewmen Edition"

  • @tyrannostrike46
    @tyrannostrike46 4 роки тому +395

    The world: falling apart
    Grey: P I R A T E S

    • @vasilivros4166
      @vasilivros4166 4 роки тому +10

      More like "america falling apart" you close minded fool.

    • @osmium3691
      @osmium3691 4 роки тому +32

      @@vasilivros4166 Mmmmm I don't know about that. The pandemic still isn't over, brexit threatens the stability of the EU, and there's a rather concerning number of fascist dictators cropping up all over the place

    • @maritime9297
      @maritime9297 4 роки тому +10

      @@vasilivros4166 nah fam. That too, but also e rest of e world

    • @theapexsurvivor9538
      @theapexsurvivor9538 4 роки тому +7

      @@osmium3691 there's been approximately two or three "fascist" political leaders I can think of cropping up in recent years, and a lot of centre leaning politicians who get described as being fascist by the media and the opposing party's supporters.
      There have been a lot of dictators cropping up, but they're mostly just replacing other dictators due to CIA or SVR RF backed coups.
      And the fourth reich falling apart isn't really brexit's problem, brexit was just the first sign of the superstate starting to rot that most people noticed, Eastern Europe has been on disenfranchised and looking for an out for a while.
      But yes, the world is rotting at the moment, but that's fine: fruit rots to become fertilizer for its seeds, as do trees in their time. Those who survive the rot may yet grow into a fine orchard of strong trees, much like those who weathered the dark ages and gave birth to the Renaissance once did.

    • @Marinealver
      @Marinealver 4 роки тому +1

      Yarr

  • @delancyj67
    @delancyj67 4 роки тому +191

    5:42 "Our customers, occasionally!" I laughed so hard at this. CGP, you sir, are an internet treasure.

  • @possiblename6957
    @possiblename6957 3 роки тому +33

    One interesting observation I've made is that at the end of each video, the recruit points to the other video, but in the captain video, he refers to the quartermaster as 'that guy', whereas in this video he refers to the captain as the captain, representing the symbolism that the captain holds and the ambiguous yet important role the quartermaster plays.

  • @not_terra_firma
    @not_terra_firma 4 роки тому +615

    So early I’m being taught how to keep track of computer cables

  • @ChakraX2
    @ChakraX2 4 роки тому +1467

    "I'd like to hear from that guy"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the captain"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the quarter master"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the captain"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the quarter master"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the captain"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the quarter master"
    *watches video*
    "I'd like to hear from the captain"
    *watches video*

    • @Guztav1337
      @Guztav1337 4 роки тому +2

      k

    • @jaredleroy9876
      @jaredleroy9876 4 роки тому +50

      Grey Knew what he was doing

    • @multiplyx100
      @multiplyx100 4 роки тому +40

      But did he decide to be a pirate in the end?

    • @mrgreenbean5933
      @mrgreenbean5933 4 роки тому +1

      Looking for this comment

    • @themurmeli88
      @themurmeli88 4 роки тому +8

      Oh no, they are going to use this concept to make movies next. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?

  • @ashfreywar9862
    @ashfreywar9862 4 роки тому +237

    I love how both the captain and the MC both appreciate the “seize the booty” joke, but the quartermaster refuses

    • @TheBelrick
      @TheBelrick 4 роки тому +3

      In this video , grey calls Governments Pirates and taxation piracy. For sure as they are not voluntary.

    • @mkd2839
      @mkd2839 4 роки тому +8

      @@TheBelrick what the hell are you on about

    • @andrewesther4705
      @andrewesther4705 4 роки тому +1

      That’s very quartermaster of him.

    • @jessalalacross239
      @jessalalacross239 4 роки тому +6

      @@TheBelrick I would love to see just ONE person who cries "taxation is theft" live a week without the services and subsidies that the so-called "theft" pays for

    • @josh5291
      @josh5291 4 роки тому +1

      @ 6.38 they're getting ready to laugh but he re-words the sentence 😁

  • @lil__shmeat
    @lil__shmeat 2 роки тому +117

    Captain Grey: "Pirate life is amazing if you've got the guts!!"
    Quartermaster Grey: "Yeah let me tell you the reality, kid"

  • @matthewcruz1709
    @matthewcruz1709 4 роки тому +298

    "Battle is no time for democracy" - Pirates

    • @angrymonkey9925
      @angrymonkey9925 4 роки тому +9

      tell that to Liberty Prime

    • @gato_feliz605
      @gato_feliz605 4 роки тому

      That has bad ramifications ._.

    • @maximelepage7664
      @maximelepage7664 4 роки тому +2

      Words of wisdom

    • @nikkilee3840
      @nikkilee3840 4 роки тому +5

      Lol. I was literally imagining a pirate captain keeping his ship in eternal battle just so that he could be captain for life.
      But I don't think that would work as practically on a boat as it does with a country.

    • @violet-trash
      @violet-trash 4 роки тому

      No time for marriage either.

  • @ApothecaryDasago
    @ApothecaryDasago 4 роки тому +629

    “Working 9 to 5 on a ship of the Empire, for minimum wage. Staying out of Trouble and saving for retirement, as Banal days pass eroding the dreams and aspirations of your younger self leaving you at the end to wonder how it all slipped away...”

    • @じゅげむ-s6b
      @じゅげむ-s6b 4 роки тому +92

      idk sounds like real life to me.

    • @alynames7171
      @alynames7171 4 роки тому +61

      Ugh, remind me how capitalism set us free from this tyrannny? 😭

    • @youtubeisawebsite7484
      @youtubeisawebsite7484 4 роки тому +35

      @@alynames7171 liberal democracy cut down on a lot of the edges of feudalism and monarchism/constitutional monarchism, though one has to wonder what aspects relevant to this video a post-capitalist society would cut down on, and which aspects are just inherent to a reliable, cohesive society

    • @moosesandmeese969
      @moosesandmeese969 4 роки тому +89

      @@youtubeisawebsite7484 Essentially, fuedal lords were replaced by CEO's and corporations. Sure, it's better than before, but there's still a long way to go, and we've been slipping backwards in recent times

    • @looinrims
      @looinrims 4 роки тому +37

      Alyn Ames because he’s wrong, it wasn’t 9-5 it was wake to sleep with the quality of life level being in the negative and your life expectancy below 40-50 years old at best
      Take a look at your air conditioning, internet, electronic device (that you can totally use to figure this out yourself but that’s too hard I guess), and always having access to food and medicine rather than the days of “I wonder if we get to eat or if we go hungry for the kids” and the best medicine was leeches

  • @nbraccoon72
    @nbraccoon72 4 роки тому +328

    4:59 - I will enforce the rules of this vessel with my stand: Great Britain!

  • @captainremington5109
    @captainremington5109 4 роки тому +20

    Fun fact: The Pirate's Code or rather the Captain's or Ship's Code, was a legitimate form of contract, the most popular by far was Captain Henry Morgan's. In which crew was vastly compensated for pillaging, plundering, and even compensated for losing a limb or an eye. It's no wonder he was the richest man in the world.

  • @pixelknight163
    @pixelknight163 4 роки тому +385

    Do note that the empire's noose is more of a danger to a pirate than you think.
    Each pirate ship is moderately unique, having an outline that can be attributed to that particular brand of pirates.
    As such, if your ship gets famous enough, The empire will hunt you down ruthlessly. And the punishment they give won't just be the noose.
    Expect ambushes where a "merchant" ship turns out to have far FAR more guns than you thought.
    Or to get chased down by Privateers who's crew are willing and able to fight you because you've a big great bounty on your head.
    Or to "retire" and find that your riches are questioned by the empire, ending in you dying for your past crimes.
    There's really a lot of bad things that can happen to a pirate. Being a sailor is is pretty bad, but if you do survive and retire, you've atleast managed to amass a small fortune.
    (If you don't spend it all on drinking and women.)
    As a pirate, there's no retiring. The only way you can do so is if you get a pardon from the empire. And the empire is unlikely to give you one. So either you force the empire to the negotiation table, or you pray and hope they never find you.

    • @jdotoz
      @jdotoz 4 роки тому +49

      And don't forget: "The guilty flee when no one pursues."

    • @MrJonathanoscar
      @MrJonathanoscar 4 роки тому +26

      i mean you have a whole new world and a carpenter on your ship ever a dull moment you can up your carpentry skills and plan a retirement in the new world. if elected a captain though good luck breaking the empires gaze

    • @talongreenlee7704
      @talongreenlee7704 4 роки тому +46

      Or you get hired by one empire to continue to act as a pirate and plunder ships from another empire

    • @lipscomb3632
      @lipscomb3632 4 роки тому +50

      This is where Letters of Marque and Reprisal come into play. If you had good timing and the smart sense to not attack everyone you could make a deal with one of the powers to freely attack the others at least while they were at war. During the Age of Sail period it was rare for one of the Powers to not be at war with at least one of the other major powers. The key to everything is knowing when (and where) to retire.

    • @Marinealver
      @Marinealver 4 роки тому +1

      there was also gibling, basicly an iorn cage to hold your rotting corpse (asuming they even bothered to kill you first)

  • @Dowser39x
    @Dowser39x 4 роки тому +30

    The only time I notice the quartermaster looking happy is when they have all the treasure on the table toward the end. I love it

  • @eightbait06
    @eightbait06 4 роки тому +516

    I want more of these pirate videos, but I want to listen to Grey's monotone accountant voice even more.
    Please, I am starved for your apathy.

    • @WillStrong7
      @WillStrong7 4 роки тому +9

      Listen to his podcast?

    • @JakeFromStatefarm703
      @JakeFromStatefarm703 4 роки тому +1

      @@lolmatterVODS A podcast 👀 Two actually: Hello Internet and Cortex (though Hello Internet hasn't been updated in a while, its still relatively timeless)

    • @senatorcatotheelder7530
      @senatorcatotheelder7530 4 роки тому

      @@JakeFromStatefarm703 ooooolllllllla mkkkok.?9 0

  • @stevedaguy9639
    @stevedaguy9639 3 роки тому +51

    It took me a while to realize that this was just a super simplified version of how worker coops work but dressed as pirate business.

  • @gunslingerspartan
    @gunslingerspartan 4 роки тому +589

    hippity hoppity, hand over the property

  • @glenngriffon8032
    @glenngriffon8032 4 роки тому +83

    This is actually extremely helpful for a crew of pirates that I'm writing.
    Thank you. I had looked into the matter but nothing really broke it down and explained it so well as this.

    • @deismaccountant
      @deismaccountant 4 роки тому

      I’d love to see it when it’s done.

    • @ОлегКозлов-ю9т
      @ОлегКозлов-ю9т 4 роки тому

      I recommend you "The history of maritime piracy" by Yatzek Machowski if you can get your hands on it

  • @mistertwister2000
    @mistertwister2000 4 роки тому +680

    The Captain describing piracy: :D
    The Quartermaster describing piracy: :I

    • @MatthewChenIsAwesome
      @MatthewChenIsAwesome 4 роки тому +44

      The pirate describing piracy: :c
      (at least according to Sam o'nella)

    • @rodrikforrester6989
      @rodrikforrester6989 4 роки тому +40

      The Empire describing piracy: D:

    • @skyscall
      @skyscall 4 роки тому +22

      The viewer describing piracy: :D

    • @The360MlgNoscoper
      @The360MlgNoscoper 4 роки тому +12

      The Empire sailor describing piracy: ;(

    • @LIETUVIS10STUDIO1
      @LIETUVIS10STUDIO1 4 роки тому +13

      I don't know, large profits, ability to leave at any time, good benefits and having input sounds like a damn good deal.

  • @MrJeeba
    @MrJeeba 3 роки тому +1

    ¡Gracias!