Did Bluejay make an Archer reference? "George I swear to god if you touch my wine I will force feed you rose thorns.....I also need you pick up rose thorns."
33:30 Somali pirates sometimes have sponsors in their country that fund the attacks in exchange for a cut of the loot. Kinda like privateers back in the age of sail. History doesn't repeat itself, but often rhymes.
It's the running joke of "never nuke a country twice, because look at what it gives you...". Usually referring to tentacle stuff (not the deep sea creature going after ships type), but this works as well.
@@jeffslote9671 No it's not, AC2 is far superior as an AC game when it comes to story and following the framework that was a AC games. AC4 just came with more gameplay options such as sea combat, but it's quite weak in my opinion as a follow up of being an AC game. Ubisoft should just have called it Pirates not AC4
Finally get to use my trivial facts for good!: Madeira isn't actually one wine, but a family of wine that was made on the Portuguese-controlled Madeira Islands. During the early 16th century especially, Madeira was a very popular port of call for travel between both the new world and the East Indies. It has a unique flavor that was SUPPOSEDLY discovered when a bottle was sent on a round trip and exposed to constant heat. By the time the shipment returned to Madeira, the flavor had wholly changed and heating the wine during production has become standard since then. It was also notable for being incredibly long-lasting, meaning it would stay safe to drink for long voyages and could be extended by muddling it with grape spirits. This helped the wine propagate into Portuguese-controlled South America and eventually it became important to us Americans during the colonial period because at the time, none of the 13 colonies actually grew wine-quality grape crops. And yeah, while I like BlueJay's videos, I think he falls prey to the folly of constantly slipping in references to his own political beliefs which, to put it nicely, aren't always incontrovertible truth lol.
This is what I love about UA-cam. Between all of us there’s always someone who knows this stuff about a given topic. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge!
Great explanation. Hat tip from Portugal. I also want to add that despite the joke of how it's pronounced in the video, BlueJay still pronounces it wrong. I found that really amusing.
9:05 to answer some of the question, the skit with the argument at the Breakfast table was structured after a spy parody TV show called Archer. I would guess he scripts some of it.
@@MrTRich i was pretty surprised how little it looks like they did make up on the show after watching this. I never finished watching it but thinking maybe i should now.
9:12 blue jay has a second channel Redjay where he goes over a lot of behind the scenes stuff on his videos (he also streams it) not sure if one is out for this video yet but they are very inciteful
11:41-11:43 Hahahaha! Good one! That’s not only a great joke, but also a good call back to the time you reacted to Blue Jay’s “Dumbest Russian Voyage” video.
15:55 Slight correction. The Santissima Trinidad was a late 18th century warship, while Stede Bonnet lived in the early 18th century, when ships tended to carry fewer guns. Think more along the lines of 90 guns for a first rate. Still far too large for a schooner, which typically carried fewer than 10 guns. Also, a Man of War carried heavier guns, up to 36 lbs shot weight. A schooner most likely had 8 pounders as its heaviest guns, so it's even more outgunned than you initially think. Also Santissima Trinidad had a freakishly large armament, even for it's time. This armament came at the cost of its sailing characteristics, even being nicknamed El Ponderoso by her crew.
The bigger they are, the easier they are to target. At battle of saint vincent (1797) she was badly damaged and lost half its crew engaging a more smaller and manuverable british ships under nelson. The british managed to demasted all but one of its masted sail. It managed to limp back to cadiz for repair. And the apanish never used this ship again until the battle of trafalgar where it meet its fate, captured by the british, got caught in a freakish storm. Due to its size, no ship can hold it in a storm, so the british scuttle it somewhere in north west of cadiz.
A man o' war in this context often meant any warship. It is unlikely there were any first rate warships in the caribean during this period. Pirate ships were often small and lightly armed, with blackbeards queen Anne's revenge being exceptionally large with about 40 Guns. For most pirates any man o' war was way out of their league, even the smallest ones.
Interestingly enough, the idea of pirates having parrots originated, like a lot of stuff we associate with pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 book Treasure Island, and the typical accent we associate with pirates comes from Robert Newton's accent of choice when playing Long John Silver in Disney's 1950 adaptation of the book.
Glad you’re getting over Covid and I just got the flu. It’s allowing me to catch up on your content over the past couple weeks. I love your bluejay reactions. Thank you
I will be happy to explain why the wrong turn in Sarajevo led to catgirls. Everyone knows about the sequence from the wrong turn to WWII but what is less know is the fact that the post war aid that American provided japan after the war led to their technological advancement during the mid to late 20th century. During this time period, the development of Japanese animation or ‘anime’ became japans equivalent of normal animated tv shows for us in the west. However, there are a lot of cultural differences between japan and the west and so about 20 years after anime really started becoming mainstream, Japanese animators started merging women and animals for whatever reason. The most popular of which even outside of japan being cat girls. Long story short: wrong turn led to assassination which led to WWI which led to WWII which led to catgirls
The reason for the seemingly weird merging is based in Shinto mythology with minor kami (gods or spirits) and tricksters being animal-based and taking the form of beautiful women when interacting with mortals, these quasi-animal kami being usually based on foxes, spiders, and of course, cats. So, while Western audiences don't get it or just chalk it up to Japan being weird again, it's actually a deeply *religious* reference.
The woman in that scene in "Captain Phillips" that you refer to is actually a Navy corpsman who was basically told to treat him as she would an actual patient. It's one of my favorite scenes as well.
I'm so glad that you introduced me to Blue Jay when you first reacted to him. Without you, I wouldn't have known he existed and that would be a complete shame
Madeira was a port of call for ships heading to the new world. Madeira is fortified wine so it doesn't spoil. Kind of like IPAs for beer take longer to go bad.
Fun fact! One reason why Blackbeard acted the way he did was possibly due to contracting syphilis. If one got syphilis back then, that was seen as being screwed over major time. Due to the fact that as your syphilis got worse and worse, it’d affect your mental faculties and etc., this resulting in erratic behavior and etc., best depicted by Blackbeard, who literally had his beard lit on fire to scare his victims s--lesss! Possibly with his beard having gunpowder and soaked in alcohol!
Also, highly doubtful Johnny Depp will ever go back to Disney to play Jack Sparrow, considering how they blacklisted him after Amber Heard lied about him abusing her
I don't really know much about wine myself, but when I was in Madeira, they said that because the wine is fortified, it lasted longer for the trek and Caribbean import.
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From what I remember about Madeira wine is that fortified wines like it could be aged in relatively (for wine standards) high temperatures so it could be aged in the holds of trading vessels and not go sour/bad like mainly french style wines would. This made it very easy to transport across say the Atlantic from the Madeira islands to the new world.
Having worked for TWO maritime museums in Canada, my understanding is that many pirates sounded like people in Cornwall, England. Where, at least at the time, but I think still today to a lesser degree, "arrrr" was an affirmative, like the modern-day "OK".
By modern standards, destroyers are quite big warships, only surpassed by cruisers and aircraft carriers. Many navies don't even have one, limiting themselves to frigates at most.
Not always. For political reasons, the German F126 Saarland class will be 10,500 ton frigates making them heavier than the US Arleigh Burke class destroyers and Ticonderoga class cruisers. Then again, they will also be comically under armed with 1/6th the missile tubes of US destroyers because Germany politically doesn't want to give them offensive capabilities. Smh.
@@ronmaximilian6953 Yeah, countries sometimes downrank or uprank their ships compared to where they should reasonably be classified. Still, in most cases, within a single country, the hierarchy is that destroyers are generally bigger than frigates of the same era, when they possess both.
Due to Madeira being an important stop for European ships making long voyages, Madeira wine became very popular among people living in colonies as ships would load up large barrels of Madeira wine for transport. Moreover, the heat in the cargo holds of ships transformed the taste of Madeira wine. This new taste was appreciated, which contributed to its popularity.
I think the cat girl is a reference to the fact that anime was developed in Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, witch in turn was a part of WW2
Huh I never thought of the eyepatch keeping one eye adjusted for the dark hulls of the ship.. I immediately thought "oh, it's for the spyglass to have one eye focused to look at a moments notice. I love how human brains can interoperate things differently
at 29:36 if you don't get what the cat girls meant after ww2. it meant japan being a strong nation to a anime land and all the other anime stuff that japan has created after ww2
In AC4 he's actually persuaded to pursue piracy by the protagonists a more traditional pirate Edward Kenway who is good friends most of the legendary pirates including Blackbeard who demonstrates his ferocity by making Bonnet piss himself
Best fictional pirate show was Black Sails, a prequel to Robert Lewis Stevensons Treasure Island. It combined the characters of Stevenson Treasure Island, Capt. Flint, John Silver, Billy Bones, along side real pirates of history. Yes the show made changes to actual historical events but was a great show.
34:52 another thing many people don't realize is how _fast_ those large destroyers are. The US Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are 505'(154m) long, with a displacement of over 8000 tons. They can tear through the water at over 30 knots(34mph, 55kph), and with the amount of fuel on board they can do so for a long while. You aren't outrunning them in a fouled, rusty little fishing boat, that's for damn sure.
Pirates show up three separate times in my family history. One of my 9th great-grandmothers had a first cousin Cornelius Quick who testified in court that he transported some of Captain Kidd’s booty around New York Harbor. One of my 12th great-grandfathers was Dutch privateer turned Barbary Coast Corsair Jan Janszoon, who was a nasty piece of work, raiding communities as far apart as Iceland and Venice and taking captives to be sold into slavery. Two of his sons settled in New Amsterdam in the 1630s. One of my 8th great-grandfathers, John Frost, was the captain of the merchant vessel the Bonetta Pinck that was boarded by pirates from the pirate vessel Le Grande on July 4, 1717 on its voyage from Barbados to Boston. The pirates helped themselves to his cargo, including sugar and rum.
UA-camr Catherine Warr is a Yorkshire England historian and Pirate, but she is a friendly Pirate sharing a Treasure of local history. She recently set sail along the Leeds Canal to share some history treasures. So she would not qualify as a Blue Jay "worst" pirates. 😇 As The History Guy says, doesn't every great story involve pirates.
Hope your taking care of yourself with your Covid! Love you videos and always look forward to learning more! My father was a pastor so big respect to you and your family!
To be fair, the USS Cole was tied up to a pier in a nominally friendly, or at least neutral, port. Additionally, per the rules of engagement at the time, the Cole could not fire without being fired upon first. There were 17 sailors killed and 37 injured. The USS Gonzalez was on anti-piracy patrol. She was mostly likely at Condition III, with 1/3rd of weapons manned and 1/2 of sensors manned (actually, once the engaged the pirates with the boarding parties, they probably went to Condition I, AKA General Quarters). The only hope the small pirate boats would have had was to a) not be spotted by visual lookouts or aircraft and b) get lost from radar in the swells. The Gonzalez already knew where the pirates were, and the pirates were moving to engage them. Two entirely different scenarios. Now, to your point about modern destroyers being big ships, yes, they are considerably larger than their contemporaries in WWII. The Arleigh Burke class destroyers weight between 8,300 and 9,700 tons - the WWII era Fletcher class displaced 2,050 to 2,500 tons and was about 130 foot shorter in length. This puts the Arleigh Burke class in the same tonage range as US Light Cruisers in WWII, and more or less equivalent to the Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers.
35:25 As a builder of Arleigh Burke class destroyers (the workhorse of the US Navy), I can confirm that these 510' vessels, armed with a Mk45 5" gun forward, CIWS turret aft, torpedo launchers, various "smaller" arms, and the coup de grace: around 90 cell VLS- launchers for anti-air, sea, or land targets... They're like the angry, underfed pit bull of the seafaring world and will seriously mess up anyone's day. There's a reason they are the escorts for aircraft carriers. Also, while the USS Cole was seriously damaged and a bunch of sailors sadly lost their lives (the explosion happened just outside of crew's mess, where the sailors were lining up for chow); it was able to sail under its own power to port where it was fully repaired and is still in service today.
You know, I’ve been going back and watching one off reactions where you haven’t watched those channels again. I feel like it would be cool if you watched some of them again. My personal favorite of those was possible history. I also think you should watch old Britannia’s videos about the different war goals of the countries in World War One.
29:35 Damn it's been awhile since I've seen this meme! It's a bit of a morbid one (but what isn't morbid humor in the face of History?) It's referencing to an older meme where Pre-War Japan had the older, traditional style of artistry (Kanou-style, Enzan-Shijou style, and Yamato-e Style), and then just about immediately after Post-War (aka, after the nuclear bombs), the style that becomes referenced as anime style starts to be developed. So it goes Wrong Turn -> Assassination -> WW 1 -> German resentment -> WW2 -> Nuclear bombs -> cat girls
You ought to do History Buffs video on Captain Phillips if you want to learn more about the background behind that film and Somalian pirates in general
Hi man, Love your content. My friend recently reminded me about the video „The Unconquered” from IPN (National Rememberance Institute from Poland) about Polish history during WWII. I tried to look if you have a reaction to this video, and couldn’t find any. IPN has quite a few high quality animated videos about different periods of Polish history and I think you would really enjoy them! Keep up the good work 🖤
I've taken a pirate tour in Charleston. Highly recommend it. As for the Cat Girl, my guess is following WWII, the Japanese were introduced to American comic books, which then inspired Anime.
This makes me want you to watch some Gold & Gunpowder videos. Not sure if one on Dampier, Morgan, or maybe the Pacific Expidition, though that one is 3 videos long.
I was in the Infantry battalion attached to the 22nd MEU for the 05-06 deployment. We were on our way back from Iraq when the 2006 incident happened. The ship I was on went down and picked up the ones that were captured.
When ever I wake up in the middle of the night and need to go to the bathroom I have the problem that I have not lamp next to my bed. So I have to cross the room in pitch black darkness. So while on the toilet I always hold one hand across one of my eyes during those nightly visits lol. Works well enough to not stumble in to anything on my way back haha.
On the night vision part, I would fly nights during my deployments. Because of that, I slept during the day and had to make my room pitch black to sleep. But when getting up to use a port-a-john, you would instantly lose your night vision and inevitably crash into something when you got back to your darkened room. So, I took to doing the pirate thing by holding a hand over my left eye for the entire trip, which saved its night vision for when I returned to my room, allowing me to safely find my bed in the dark. Oddly enough, I still catch myself doing it years later.
Fun fact about wine: the signing of the DecIaration of Independence was famously toasted with Madeira wine. However, some historians submit that the wine was actually from the Canary Islands, Spain (where I live). where there's a centuries-old wine industry, particularly from the island of Tenerife. The Canary Islands was a popular stop for merchant ships en route to the Americas (Christopher Colombus stopped there before discovering the continent). Irish merchants, based in Tenerife, were exporting loads of 'Canary Wine' (as it was known) to the 13 colonies ... and, according to some historians, they helped finance the war of independence, through Robert Morris, who sold the wine in the region. So there was an abundance of Canary Wine throughout the colonies... And a lot of it was labeled 'Madeira' wine, as it was a wine in high demand at the time, which led Canarian winemakers to produce similar wine and sell it as such. Therfore, there is an extremely high probability that the wine Benjamin Franklin & co. toasted with that day actually came from my home archipelago of the Canary Islands.
While basically a comedy and made to be socially inclusive with modern times, "Our Flag Means Death" is a NZ made TV show about Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard. Also, Captain Jack Sparrow is by far Johnny Depp's best role and one of the most iconic roles to come out of Hollywood. He plays the role so well and has certainly deserved an Oscar for the character which he unfrotunately hasn't got but at least got a SAG award for leading actor in The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Just FYI, the coast of N.C. was a pirate hot bed not really because of trade with the fledging colonies, but rather beacuse the gulf stream is relatively close to shore and narrow there. Ships heading back to Europe from much of the carribean would actually first head west to get into the gulf stream, which would convey them north and right off the N.C. coast until they get to the higher latitude westerlies, then cut across. The standard travel route was a big clockwise circle. Ships heading from Europe to the carribean would first head south, not only to catch the easterlies near the equator but also to cut across the doldrums as quick as possible. There's an area between the more northern westerlies and the equatorial easterlies where the winds could die down to zero for weeks at a time and could be disasterous for a ship during that time.
31:38 there was also one incident were a couple of somoli pirate ships ran into a Russian warship, the Russian warship proceeded to absolutely annilelate the somoli pirates, the Russians were throwing everything including the kitchen sink.
During the Cold War British bomber pilots, instead of being issued protective goggles, were just given an eye patch so when they were blinded by the flash of a nuclear weapon they still had the other eye to fly home with. This in intself was basically just morale boosting. They wouldn't have had a home to fly back to if they were ever deployed.
I recommend reacting to wacky war tactics 2 by bluejay. Includes WWI and US Civil War history. Would be right up your alley and is one of my favorite bluejay vidoes.
@@jordananderson2728 I don't think Internet Historian plagiarized anything. And regardless, Chris is an expert in CW American History but he also knows a lot about the American colonial period. Much of what undergoes with the Gentleman Pirate, I feel Chris would add a lot if he reacts to it. Not to mention, I want to see him laugh his ass off (those that have seen the full video will know lol)
Matter of fact, I don't think I've seen him done a single reaction to Internet Historian, and if this is his first reaction, I feel this is THE video he needs to react to. Either gentleman Pirate, or man in a cave one, but the pirate one is just gold
As for the eye patch I have no idea if that was true but when I went through basic we got taught at night if you can you cover one eye and observe using the light from the flare or whatever and the brain does get fooled into still seeing with night vision when you reopen. On tour I used to tone the monocle down to a low brightness and the same effect happened. I could walk around seeing in night vision green with “both” eyes because the brain was ignoring the dark. If a rocket flare was launched I’d cover the night sight to protect it not minding my naked eye losing night vision.
The image of VTH asking his daughter what catgirls are will haunt me until I die.
Great topic to start at the dinner table eh?
@@vehuelbateo5740”So Honey I reacted to this video for a UA-cam video and it said something about “cat girls”?.
Chris’s daughter: “…”
Did Bluejay make an Archer reference?
"George I swear to god if you touch my wine I will force feed you rose thorns.....I also need you pick up rose thorns."
i saw multiple Archer references throughout this video lol
He says in his directors cut that the videos around this time period were riddled with Archer references
33:30 Somali pirates sometimes have sponsors in their country that fund the attacks in exchange for a cut of the loot. Kinda like privateers back in the age of sail. History doesn't repeat itself, but often rhymes.
23:02
If you watch closely at 22:50 you do actually see the lobster reload his pistol!
I think the "Cat Girls" joke means that WWII leads to Japanese anime.
It is odd to see what was a fierce and a proud people the Japanese once were. Now they’re known for the cringiest cartoon animation in existence
and weebs and furries^^
@@steffent.6477 exactly
The first thing that came in my mind in this matter are Vtubers
It's the running joke of "never nuke a country twice, because look at what it gives you...". Usually referring to tentacle stuff (not the deep sea creature going after ships type), but this works as well.
Sounds like AC Black Flag should be the next VTH playthrough 👀
@@jeffslote9671 No it's not, AC2 is far superior as an AC game when it comes to story and following the framework that was a AC games. AC4 just came with more gameplay options such as sea combat, but it's quite weak in my opinion as a follow up of being an AC game.
Ubisoft should just have called it Pirates not AC4
Yea, I didn't really play AC2, but Black Flag felt more like a pirate game than an AC game. Not so good AC game, but an amazing pirate game
Did you play any AC game other than 4?
Assassins Creed Black Flag is an actual Pirate game, and I love it
i just picked up a pirate contract quest in AC Odyssey on the message board
Finally get to use my trivial facts for good!: Madeira isn't actually one wine, but a family of wine that was made on the Portuguese-controlled Madeira Islands. During the early 16th century especially, Madeira was a very popular port of call for travel between both the new world and the East Indies. It has a unique flavor that was SUPPOSEDLY discovered when a bottle was sent on a round trip and exposed to constant heat. By the time the shipment returned to Madeira, the flavor had wholly changed and heating the wine during production has become standard since then. It was also notable for being incredibly long-lasting, meaning it would stay safe to drink for long voyages and could be extended by muddling it with grape spirits. This helped the wine propagate into Portuguese-controlled South America and eventually it became important to us Americans during the colonial period because at the time, none of the 13 colonies actually grew wine-quality grape crops. And yeah, while I like BlueJay's videos, I think he falls prey to the folly of constantly slipping in references to his own political beliefs which, to put it nicely, aren't always incontrovertible truth lol.
This is what I love about UA-cam. Between all of us there’s always someone who knows this stuff about a given topic. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge!
Great explanation. Hat tip from Portugal.
I also want to add that despite the joke of how it's pronounced in the video, BlueJay still pronounces it wrong. I found that really amusing.
My pleasure boss, my pleasure. @@VloggingThroughHistory
@@pedropacheco8805 That made me laugh too, in some ways it made the joke funnier.
9:05 to answer some of the question, the skit with the argument at the Breakfast table was structured after a spy parody TV show called Archer. I would guess he scripts some of it.
The Steed Bonnet story is done (with lots of creative liberties lol) in the show "Our Flag Means Death"
Yup! Came here to say this. It's a lot of fun, and didn't realize how close it was to truth (with the liberties you mention).
@@MrTRich Same here
You might also notice that BlueJay depicts Bonnet after the show character
@@MrTRich i was pretty surprised how little it looks like they did make up on the show after watching this. I never finished watching it but thinking maybe i should now.
9:12 blue jay has a second channel Redjay where he goes over a lot of behind the scenes stuff on his videos (he also streams it) not sure if one is out for this video yet but they are very inciteful
Steed Bonnet is portrayed on HBO’s comedy “Our Flag Means Death” it’s fantastic.
Came looking for this comment 👍
11:41-11:43 Hahahaha! Good one!
That’s not only a great joke, but also a good call back to the time you reacted to Blue Jay’s “Dumbest Russian Voyage” video.
15:55 Slight correction. The Santissima Trinidad was a late 18th century warship, while Stede Bonnet lived in the early 18th century, when ships tended to carry fewer guns. Think more along the lines of 90 guns for a first rate. Still far too large for a schooner, which typically carried fewer than 10 guns. Also, a Man of War carried heavier guns, up to 36 lbs shot weight. A schooner most likely had 8 pounders as its heaviest guns, so it's even more outgunned than you initially think.
Also Santissima Trinidad had a freakishly large armament, even for it's time. This armament came at the cost of its sailing characteristics, even being nicknamed El Ponderoso by her crew.
The bigger they are, the easier they are to target. At battle of saint vincent (1797) she was badly damaged and lost half its crew engaging a more smaller and manuverable british ships under nelson. The british managed to demasted all but one of its masted sail. It managed to limp back to cadiz for repair. And the apanish never used this ship again until the battle of trafalgar where it meet its fate, captured by the british, got caught in a freakish storm. Due to its size, no ship can hold it in a storm, so the british scuttle it somewhere in north west of cadiz.
A man o' war in this context often meant any warship. It is unlikely there were any first rate warships in the caribean during this period.
Pirate ships were often small and lightly armed, with blackbeards queen Anne's revenge being exceptionally large with about 40 Guns. For most pirates any man o' war was way out of their league, even the smallest ones.
7:45 that is bar none the best back and forth conversation I have ever heard.
Edit: I stand corrected 22:06
I played Sid Meiers Pirates as a kid and fell in love with the time period.
Interestingly enough, the idea of pirates having parrots originated, like a lot of stuff we associate with pirates, from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 book Treasure Island, and the typical accent we associate with pirates comes from Robert Newton's accent of choice when playing Long John Silver in Disney's 1950 adaptation of the book.
Glad you’re getting over Covid and I just got the flu. It’s allowing me to catch up on your content over the past couple weeks. I love your bluejay reactions. Thank you
I will be happy to explain why the wrong turn in Sarajevo led to catgirls.
Everyone knows about the sequence from the wrong turn to WWII but what is less know is the fact that the post war aid that American provided japan after the war led to their technological advancement during the mid to late 20th century. During this time period, the development of Japanese animation or ‘anime’ became japans equivalent of normal animated tv shows for us in the west. However, there are a lot of cultural differences between japan and the west and so about 20 years after anime really started becoming mainstream, Japanese animators started merging women and animals for whatever reason. The most popular of which even outside of japan being cat girls.
Long story short: wrong turn led to assassination which led to WWI which led to WWII which led to catgirls
The reason for the seemingly weird merging is based in Shinto mythology with minor kami (gods or spirits) and tricksters being animal-based and taking the form of beautiful women when interacting with mortals, these quasi-animal kami being usually based on foxes, spiders, and of course, cats.
So, while Western audiences don't get it or just chalk it up to Japan being weird again, it's actually a deeply *religious* reference.
@@prestonjones1653I was about to say: if you know your mythology, the weirdest thing is just that they aren't called Fox Girls.
@@prestonjones1653Deeply religious does not mean not deeply strange. Just respectably strange.
The woman in that scene in "Captain Phillips" that you refer to is actually a Navy corpsman who was basically told to treat him as she would an actual patient. It's one of my favorite scenes as well.
Somali fan here and the movie captain Philip’s really did a good job of showcasing modern piracy
I'm so glad that you introduced me to Blue Jay when you first reacted to him. Without you, I wouldn't have known he existed and that would be a complete shame
Madeira was a port of call for ships heading to the new world. Madeira is fortified wine so it doesn't spoil. Kind of like IPAs for beer take longer to go bad.
“Did it belong to Andrew Jackson”… I laughed a bit too hard at that random quip lol. Way to make history funny, well played.
I really don't think Jonny Depp will return to Pirates of the Caribbean especially after the way Disney treated him.
Johnny said he would rather be in hell than go back to Hollywood
A pay check of 70 mil goos a long way
@@aadpiraat7126 I don't think any amount of money would get him to return.
Fun fact!
One reason why Blackbeard acted the way he did was possibly due to contracting syphilis.
If one got syphilis back then, that was seen as being screwed over major time. Due to the fact that as your syphilis got worse and worse, it’d affect your mental faculties and etc., this resulting in erratic behavior and etc., best depicted by Blackbeard, who literally had his beard lit on fire to scare his victims s--lesss! Possibly with his beard having gunpowder and soaked in alcohol!
Also, highly doubtful Johnny Depp will ever go back to Disney to play Jack Sparrow, considering how they blacklisted him after Amber Heard lied about him abusing her
"That has to be the best pirate I've ever seen"
So it would seem.
@@samuelterry6354 *dramatic music intensifies*
"But you have seen me... Wait, what?"
@@jdotoz actually it's "but you have heard of me"
@@oliversherman2414 🤦
I don't really know much about wine myself, but when I was in Madeira, they said that because the wine is fortified, it lasted longer for the trek and Caribbean import.
I do not understand how you do not have more subscribers. You truly defy the stereotypical "reaction" channel. Even on things you do not understand or have knowledge of, you strive to find information or interesting related information. Thank you for your contributions to the platform!
29:28 I believe is a reference to the "Brief History of Japan" meme
From what I remember about Madeira wine is that fortified wines like it could be aged in relatively (for wine standards) high temperatures so it could be aged in the holds of trading vessels and not go sour/bad like mainly french style wines would. This made it very easy to transport across say the Atlantic from the Madeira islands to the new world.
Having worked for TWO maritime museums in Canada, my understanding is that many pirates sounded like people in Cornwall, England. Where, at least at the time, but I think still today to a lesser degree, "arrrr" was an affirmative, like the modern-day "OK".
One of the best scenes in Black Sails is when two pirate ships try to take on a man o' war and get absolutely annihilated.
By modern standards, destroyers are quite big warships, only surpassed by cruisers and aircraft carriers. Many navies don't even have one, limiting themselves to frigates at most.
Not always. For political reasons, the German F126 Saarland class will be 10,500 ton frigates making them heavier than the US Arleigh Burke class destroyers and Ticonderoga class cruisers. Then again, they will also be comically under armed with 1/6th the missile tubes of US destroyers because Germany politically doesn't want to give them offensive capabilities. Smh.
@@ronmaximilian6953 Yeah, countries sometimes downrank or uprank their ships compared to where they should reasonably be classified. Still, in most cases, within a single country, the hierarchy is that destroyers are generally bigger than frigates of the same era, when they possess both.
Due to Madeira being an important stop for European ships making long voyages, Madeira wine became very popular among people living in colonies as ships would load up large barrels of Madeira wine for transport. Moreover, the heat in the cargo holds of ships transformed the taste of Madeira wine. This new taste was appreciated, which contributed to its popularity.
I think the cat girl is a reference to the fact that anime was developed in Japan after Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, witch in turn was a part of WW2
Japan had tame us after World War 2. They realized they pissed us off. Which leads to dropping two bombs on them which leads to us getting anime lmafo
japan canot conquer world military but conquer world culturaly by anime.
Huh I never thought of the eyepatch keeping one eye adjusted for the dark hulls of the ship.. I immediately thought "oh, it's for the spyglass to have one eye focused to look at a moments notice. I love how human brains can interoperate things differently
23:00 he did reload it while talking about the pardon in action.
And thank you for providing great content! Happy to support the channel!
Hilarious vid. I still recommend his video about the 1904 Olympics though. That, and the Russian Navy vid are easily his two funniest in my opinion.
Just like Mr. Terry’s reaction video, I was waiting for this the moment Blue Jay uploaded his video.
at 29:36 if you don't get what the cat girls meant after ww2. it meant japan being a strong nation to a anime land and all the other anime stuff that japan has created after ww2
Running away to be a pirate would seem preferable to divorce court.
If you haven't reacted already, Fat Electrician has a great video on the Barbary Pirate wars
In AC4 he's actually persuaded to pursue piracy by the protagonists a more traditional pirate Edward Kenway who is good friends most of the legendary pirates including Blackbeard who demonstrates his ferocity by making Bonnet piss himself
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I definitely believe that is the reason.
Yes Chris!! The Golden Age of Pirates is such a cool and interesting topic; would love to see you do more vids on them!!
Best fictional pirate show was Black Sails, a prequel to Robert Lewis Stevensons Treasure Island. It combined the characters of Stevenson Treasure Island, Capt. Flint, John Silver, Billy Bones, along side real pirates of history.
Yes the show made changes to actual historical events but was a great show.
I like how the video uses frames from Black Sails, especially when the Manowar annihilates Charles Town. One of the greatest scenes in the show.
34:52 another thing many people don't realize is how _fast_ those large destroyers are. The US Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are 505'(154m) long, with a displacement of over 8000 tons. They can tear through the water at over 30 knots(34mph, 55kph), and with the amount of fuel on board they can do so for a long while. You aren't outrunning them in a fouled, rusty little fishing boat, that's for damn sure.
Pirates show up three separate times in my family history. One of my 9th great-grandmothers had a first cousin Cornelius Quick who testified in court that he transported some of Captain Kidd’s booty around New York Harbor. One of my 12th great-grandfathers was Dutch privateer turned Barbary Coast Corsair Jan Janszoon, who was a nasty piece of work, raiding communities as far apart as Iceland and Venice and taking captives to be sold into slavery. Two of his sons settled in New Amsterdam in the 1630s. One of my 8th great-grandfathers, John Frost, was the captain of the merchant vessel the Bonetta Pinck that was boarded by pirates from the pirate vessel Le Grande on July 4, 1717 on its voyage from Barbados to Boston. The pirates helped themselves to his cargo, including sugar and rum.
Lil comment for engagement, and a lil wink for the 2 weeks wait to support the original creator
UA-camr Catherine Warr is a Yorkshire England historian and Pirate, but she is a friendly Pirate sharing a Treasure of local history. She recently set sail along the Leeds Canal to share some history treasures. So she would not qualify as a Blue Jay "worst" pirates. 😇
As The History Guy says, doesn't every great story involve pirates.
Hope your taking care of yourself with your Covid! Love you videos and always look forward to learning more! My father was a pastor so big respect to you and your family!
To be fair, the USS Cole was tied up to a pier in a nominally friendly, or at least neutral, port. Additionally, per the rules of engagement at the time, the Cole could not fire without being fired upon first. There were 17 sailors killed and 37 injured.
The USS Gonzalez was on anti-piracy patrol. She was mostly likely at Condition III, with 1/3rd of weapons manned and 1/2 of sensors manned (actually, once the engaged the pirates with the boarding parties, they probably went to Condition I, AKA General Quarters). The only hope the small pirate boats would have had was to a) not be spotted by visual lookouts or aircraft and b) get lost from radar in the swells. The Gonzalez already knew where the pirates were, and the pirates were moving to engage them.
Two entirely different scenarios.
Now, to your point about modern destroyers being big ships, yes, they are considerably larger than their contemporaries in WWII. The Arleigh Burke class destroyers weight between 8,300 and 9,700 tons - the WWII era Fletcher class displaced 2,050 to 2,500 tons and was about 130 foot shorter in length. This puts the Arleigh Burke class in the same tonage range as US Light Cruisers in WWII, and more or less equivalent to the Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers.
35:25 As a builder of Arleigh Burke class destroyers (the workhorse of the US Navy), I can confirm that these 510' vessels, armed with a Mk45 5" gun forward, CIWS turret aft, torpedo launchers, various "smaller" arms, and the coup de grace: around 90 cell VLS- launchers for anti-air, sea, or land targets...
They're like the angry, underfed pit bull of the seafaring world and will seriously mess up anyone's day. There's a reason they are the escorts for aircraft carriers.
Also, while the USS Cole was seriously damaged and a bunch of sailors sadly lost their lives (the explosion happened just outside of crew's mess, where the sailors were lining up for chow); it was able to sail under its own power to port where it was fully repaired and is still in service today.
Madeira was very popular - so were burgundy, claret, champagne, port, etc
Claret was also very popular. It's a name for Bordeaux wines.
Been binging this channel recently and am learning so much! I would love to see a video about Oppenheimer/reaction to the movie
The splashing sea send sparkling salty spray showering sun soaked smiling sailor. Thats some alliteration right there
You know, I’ve been going back and watching one off reactions where you haven’t watched those channels again. I feel like it would be cool if you watched some of them again. My personal favorite of those was possible history. I also think you should watch old Britannia’s videos about the different war goals of the countries in World War One.
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Damn it's been awhile since I've seen this meme! It's a bit of a morbid one (but what isn't morbid humor in the face of History?)
It's referencing to an older meme where Pre-War Japan had the older, traditional style of artistry (Kanou-style, Enzan-Shijou style, and Yamato-e Style), and then just about immediately after Post-War (aka, after the nuclear bombs), the style that becomes referenced as anime style starts to be developed.
So it goes Wrong Turn -> Assassination -> WW 1 -> German resentment -> WW2 -> Nuclear bombs -> cat girls
Not sure if there’s much you can add but Blue Jays video on the Olympics is really hilarious
The first bit of music in Bluejay's video is from Sea of Thieves, and that's how you absolutely know everything is going to get crazy 🤣
I love that the music Bluejay starts this video with is from the videogame Sea of Thieves ♥
You ought to do History Buffs video on Captain Phillips if you want to learn more about the background behind that film and Somalian pirates in general
Hi man,
Love your content.
My friend recently reminded me about the video „The Unconquered” from IPN (National Rememberance Institute from Poland) about Polish history during WWII.
I tried to look if you have a reaction to this video, and couldn’t find any.
IPN has quite a few high quality animated videos about different periods of Polish history and I think you would really enjoy them!
Keep up the good work 🖤
"'Tis fine viewin' fer landlubbers 'n ye shall learn plenty 'n shall impress many a fine lass."--A pirate probably.
I've taken a pirate tour in Charleston. Highly recommend it.
As for the Cat Girl, my guess is following WWII, the Japanese were introduced to American comic books, which then inspired Anime.
You made a good point about the size of destroyers. You can easily compare their size as far as volume to men of war in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Odysseus of Homer was a pirate in his youth! Ravaging the Ionian and Adriatic sea
23:05 If you look back, Blue Jay actually did put a quick animation of the guy reloading.
This makes me want you to watch some Gold & Gunpowder videos. Not sure if one on Dampier, Morgan, or maybe the Pacific Expidition, though that one is 3 videos long.
This first one is the premise of Our Flag Means Death (Taika Waititi & Rhys Darby).
During the man of war thing, I'm kinda sad Bluejay didn't make a reference to the band Manowar.
We think a Destroyer is tiny likely thanks to the game Battleship where the destroyer can only take two hits and is the smallest target in the game.😂
That's how the class started, small ships set to protect the fleet from torpedo boats. In World War II they called them "tin cans."
I was in the Infantry battalion attached to the 22nd MEU for the 05-06 deployment. We were on our way back from Iraq when the 2006 incident happened. The ship I was on went down and picked up the ones that were captured.
There were definitely lots of wine varietals back then. The English especially loved a Bordeaux wine called Claret.
Been waiting for this!
Interesting video! - a little of topic, but I was wondering if you will be reacting or have reacted to the Franklin trailer from Apple TV?
When ever I wake up in the middle of the night and need to go to the bathroom I have the problem that I have not lamp next to my bed.
So I have to cross the room in pitch black darkness.
So while on the toilet I always hold one hand across one of my eyes during those nightly visits lol.
Works well enough to not stumble in to anything on my way back haha.
Lol the box is of course Metal Gear Solid reference
On the night vision part, I would fly nights during my deployments. Because of that, I slept during the day and had to make my room pitch black to sleep. But when getting up to use a port-a-john, you would instantly lose your night vision and inevitably crash into something when you got back to your darkened room. So, I took to doing the pirate thing by holding a hand over my left eye for the entire trip, which saved its night vision for when I returned to my room, allowing me to safely find my bed in the dark. Oddly enough, I still catch myself doing it years later.
29:31 Because of WWI leading to WWII and the US occupation of Japan, Japan became westernised and we have that sort of thing now
23:06 .... he did reload, if you watch him after he fires he realms the gun, loads it and then points it to the crowd.
Why cant the 11 year old see a pirate movie?
It was rated ARRRRRRRRR
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Greatest Squidward Joke😅
@@evannationarmy7769I thought it sounded like a bad dad joke🤣🤣
Fun fact about wine: the signing of the DecIaration of Independence was famously toasted with Madeira wine. However, some historians submit that the wine was actually from the Canary Islands, Spain (where I live). where there's a centuries-old wine industry, particularly from the island of Tenerife.
The Canary Islands was a popular stop for merchant ships en route to the Americas (Christopher Colombus stopped there before discovering the continent).
Irish merchants, based in Tenerife, were exporting loads of 'Canary Wine' (as it was known) to the 13 colonies ... and, according to some historians, they helped finance the war of independence, through Robert Morris, who sold the wine in the region.
So there was an abundance of Canary Wine throughout the colonies... And a lot of it was labeled 'Madeira' wine, as it was a wine in high demand at the time, which led Canarian winemakers to produce similar wine and sell it as such.
Therfore, there is an extremely high probability that the wine Benjamin Franklin & co. toasted with that day actually came from my home archipelago of the Canary Islands.
Glad you finally did a pirate video haha
While basically a comedy and made to be socially inclusive with modern times, "Our Flag Means Death" is a NZ made TV show about Stede Bonnet and Blackbeard.
Also, Captain Jack Sparrow is by far Johnny Depp's best role and one of the most iconic roles to come out of Hollywood. He plays the role so well and has certainly deserved an Oscar for the character which he unfrotunately hasn't got but at least got a SAG award for leading actor in The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Just FYI, the coast of N.C. was a pirate hot bed not really because of trade with the fledging colonies, but rather beacuse the gulf stream is relatively close to shore and narrow there. Ships heading back to Europe from much of the carribean would actually first head west to get into the gulf stream, which would convey them north and right off the N.C. coast until they get to the higher latitude westerlies, then cut across. The standard travel route was a big clockwise circle. Ships heading from Europe to the carribean would first head south, not only to catch the easterlies near the equator but also to cut across the doldrums as quick as possible. There's an area between the more northern westerlies and the equatorial easterlies where the winds could die down to zero for weeks at a time and could be disasterous for a ship during that time.
We used to wear eye patches on the sub in the control room when on watch at night.
31:38 there was also one incident were a couple of somoli pirate ships ran into a Russian warship, the Russian warship proceeded to absolutely annilelate the somoli pirates, the Russians were throwing everything including the kitchen sink.
There's a comedy series called 'Our Flag Means Death' that tells the story of Stede Bonnet.
During the Cold War British bomber pilots, instead of being issued protective goggles, were just given an eye patch so when they were blinded by the flash of a nuclear weapon they still had the other eye to fly home with.
This in intself was basically just morale boosting. They wouldn't have had a home to fly back to if they were ever deployed.
I recommend reacting to wacky war tactics 2 by bluejay. Includes WWI and US Civil War history. Would be right up your alley and is one of my favorite bluejay vidoes.
chris, begging you, you need to do a reaction video for Internet Historian's pirate video, the gentleman pirate. you will not regret it i promise
I'm just curious how much of that one he plagiarized
I 2nd this request, no objections heard, the motion carries
@@jordananderson2728 the internet historian? he hasnt plagarized anything. Stop spreading bs.
@@jordananderson2728 I don't think Internet Historian plagiarized anything. And regardless, Chris is an expert in CW American History but he also knows a lot about the American colonial period. Much of what undergoes with the Gentleman Pirate, I feel Chris would add a lot if he reacts to it. Not to mention, I want to see him laugh his ass off (those that have seen the full video will know lol)
Matter of fact, I don't think I've seen him done a single reaction to Internet Historian, and if this is his first reaction, I feel this is THE video he needs to react to. Either gentleman Pirate, or man in a cave one, but the pirate one is just gold
Definitely noticing an "Archer" vibe with the dialog in this.
i never new about that in assassins black flag, pretty cool!
As for the eye patch I have no idea if that was true but when I went through basic we got taught at night if you can you cover one eye and observe using the light from the flare or whatever and the brain does get fooled into still seeing with night vision when you reopen.
On tour I used to tone the monocle down to a low brightness and the same effect happened. I could walk around seeing in night vision green with “both” eyes because the brain was ignoring the dark. If a rocket flare was launched I’d cover the night sight to protect it not minding my naked eye losing night vision.
23:50-24:06 This reminds me of one particular line from Suicide Squad.
“We’re bad guys, it’s what we do.”
Madeira was a common location for vessels to stop at before their journeys across the Atlantic. And they just so happened to make good Booze