Another great episode! I've noticed that a lot of your videos are about things that happened in Albania, Chile and southeast Asia. Is there are specific reason for that? Or is it just cos you find them interesting places. I'm just wondering.
@@barateza16 Or maybe this comment will be in the history books because somehow you manage to grab power and become an actual Dictator ;). That would be a plot twist 😲❗
Dude, your stuff just keeps getting better. I've honestly learned a lot about some of the smaller countries. I knew they existed but I never went deep into their history and so on. Your videos really help fill some of those gaps in a really badass way. I think I've watched every one of your videos and I stop whatever I'm doing when the notice says a new one arrived, and I watch it. You guys rock.
idk what people say about your narrative, but the combination between that and your unique stories made me come back time and time again. I have promote to my colleague this channel and I will again. Thanks for the work! You guys rock!
Rare Earth I know I know, I wasn't going to send that because I knew it sounded really mean. But it doesn't speak to the actual quality of your videos (which is always high) just a personal preference. I sent it anyways because i thought *maybe* there was a chance another commenter thought the same and could tell me why.
I disagree that the recent videos have been falling short and I don't think you can meaningfully expect anybody to break down why they feel the same way about the videos unless you specify which videos you specifically think aren't up to the usual form. Personally I could only speculate that you're right leaning and because the more recent videos have been critical of the right in America you take issue with that.
Jeremiah Jensen no, not necessarily, I've left dumb comments like this before and others have somehow actually waded through the mess of my comment and seemingly correctly analyzed them. Though, from what I've thought about this in the past 22 hours, it's been more about some arbitrary sense of grandeur/scale/cinematography/writing(style not content) than the politics.
I first became aware of Enver Hoxha in the movie ‘Inside Man’. It was a recording of him rambling on played to the police to make the robbery look different than what was actually happening. Excellent movie, btw, I highly recommend it.
There are so many fun facts about communist albania its actually a crime that most famous journalists or documentary makers dont do news reports about it. Enver Hoxha always had Stalin as a figure he would always follow in terms of leading a country but Enver Hoxha was even more extreme then Stalin in terms of isolation and stuff.
_"It was the first Albanian film to be selected to screen on the Director's Fortnight at Cannes Filmfestival 2001 and has gone on to win many other festival awards."_ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogans_(film)
Your work is amazing and combines my love of history with my obsession of travel! I went to Berat in 2010 and knew none of this! Guess I better go back. P.S if you haven't been to Transnistria I highly recommend it! Some bizarre history there for sure!
I like the stories you bring about, forgotten stories I might add,even to locals. People are interrelated, we might repeat things as if they never done before. This might teach a thing or two people going through at this moment. I might add the stories you bring most cases they are very complicated. You just highlight as summery. The sugar on the top cake kinda way. Thanks.
You should do story on Cyprus. The only divide capital of the world. Still the flag of Turkish occupied Cyprus is painted. Every occasion it's lighten up.
I'm a relatively new viewer of this channel. Honestly, at first I expected substance-less video's that provide information no one needs. This was quickly proven wrong. I love the way arguments are build up while maintaining a steady pace. Keep it up. The work done is fantastic and both entertaining and thought provoking.
@@EntryLevelLuxury I think it's a kinda hard to crack down organized crime if it doesn't take place in the country where it's organized. If anything, countries that have drug issues should have better drug regulations/laws, because lets be honest, "bad people" will always exist if there is a niche they can fill in the society. Developing countries are easy targets for bad people to start their career, it has everything a bad guy needs: cheap resources, cheap poor people to do stuff, weak law enforcement(corrupt governments), I mean, it's like the perfect place for remote drug production. Anyway, the main culprit in both countries would be corruption, there is only one corrupt agent needed at the border for allowing drugs to enter a country(let alone bad border control).
Nelson3300 I’m Albanian American . I have lived on both countries. Trust me Albania is one million times safer than any Us city . The whole organ story was made up by Serbs and was never proven . Just sayin
@@emermbiemer302 I have the same story as you and I agree that the US has more dangerous cities than Albania and you would get in trouble in Albania if you did something involving the goverment or the mafia but the black market is very much real and it wasn't proven because the albanian goverment is part of it why would they want to prove it. And the US and other countries don't care enough to cover it
I wish everyone trying to destroy images that remind us of slavery can understand that the problem facing us isn't in the past but in the present time. The thing we need to focus on is how to keep it from happening in the future.
The first step is to stop honoring the people who fought to preserve the institution of slavery. This is why the statues honoring Confederate generals and politicians need to be removed.
Romania's Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were not executed in their home. The trial and execution took place in Târgoviște in a military barracks. It's a small detail that doesn't detract from an otherwise great video. Keep them coming!
The final statement at the end of this video is actually great advice, the rest of the disclaimer notwithstanding. "Don't let anyone think for you; most people can barely think for themselves" is why I don't recognize the legitimacy or authority of literally any politcal party or system of government run by such authoritarian and divisive ideologies as politics breed. Only ignorant sheep blindly follow others; most often at their own peril and to the detriment of the "best interest" of the majority they claim to represent.
this was awesome, like the old vsauce videos that ended with a message. Like how you cannot destroy energy, you cannot destroy your past, but you can transform it into something else. Pretty cool!
I truly love that introduction. There are people who don't want to learn for their history. They just keep complaining that " it's time to move on" yet either way they will need to fall back on history
I wrote a letter like that once, but I decided not to put it in her locker at the last minute. I can only imagine how that ended up, I feel your pain, bro.
It seems we have in common that if we ever get a time machine it will be used to erase a mistake involving a girl. Mine was in 1985 and I still think about it every day.
Probably the best video I have watched so far on this channel. Spectacular writing and footage! Might I ask? Which drone did you use to capture this amazing scenery?
My connection to Albania is a chinese sks rifle that was given to Albania as aid. Has the man's name written in it, Artan Tafa. As well as Hoxha written all over it.
No, I would not be flattered! I would be absolutely horrified that someone defaced something as majestic as a mountain in my name. Also that person absolutely must not know anything about me to think that I would harm nature in any way especially for something so selfish.
I don't know if you heard about him when you were there, but the Albanians had a passion for the films of a British comic actor, Norman Wisdom. For some reason (probably because his character was quite Chaplinesque, the poor man who wins out) his were the only Western (possibly only non-Albanian) films allowed and the people loved him. He was given some award, I *think* after the fall, but I'm not sure. He did love the ordinary Albanians, though, and was glad to give them something to laugh at.
Would be nice to see you do an episode on Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Although I've read countless books on it, still can't figure out why they believed in him and what actually motivated him.
Actually he did www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYUCiADFjQG0&ved=2ahUKEwjhx_v9gfPdAhVPh-AKHXZDAU0QtwIwAHoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1pbp_c1CaE6mjQ1DFtFZTr
I can pretty much guarantee you will use a time machine, ever ride in a plane, a train, a car all examples of space-time machines. Time is weird but if you take two atomic clocks one travling and the other stationary there will eventally be a caculatable difference hence why satilites need to be synced to there ground counterparts every oncd in a while.
All you got to do is wait, time will erase all. Even the clockwork that humanity is. We learn with time, and forget with time. As we are replaced by new units we forget.
Don't forget that there is another writing on Vlora in the mountains and it was made of stones. It couldn't be seen because trees had grown but a few years ago there was a mountain fire which burned the trees and the writing could be seen again
We exist because of you: www.patreon.com/rareearth
Another great episode! I've noticed that a lot of your videos are about things that happened in Albania, Chile and southeast Asia. Is there are specific reason for that? Or is it just cos you find them interesting places. I'm just wondering.
@@joewalker4710 I think he just makes videos about the places he visits. And so far he has visited Albania, Chile and southeast Asia
Ogasawara/Japan: 2 months (~20 videos)
Cambodia: 1 month (~10 videos)
Laos: 1 month (~10 videos)
Vietnam: 1 week (~2 videos)
Cuba: 1 week (~5 videos)
Belize: 2 days (1 video)
Rapa Nui: 1 week (~5 videos)
Chile: 1.2 month (~12 videos)
Armenia: 1 month (~10 videos)
Albania: 1 month (~10 videos)
next up
My Cottage: 2 days (1 video)
Newfoundland: 1.2 month (~12 videos)
IT'S MY BIRTDAY GIFT TO ME!
She replied to the amorous letter with Never :)
Never say -never- Enver
i will fight till forENVER
That'd make for a good alt title, lol
This is a better title than the one I chose
+Awsomiihill that could be a campaign slogan
Well played Kaustub.
This is one of the most underrated series on UA-cam. Keep up the great work Evan!
> 600k subs
But yeah this is a great channel
It has better writing and voice-acting than most documentaries (I've seen). And none of the now ubiquitous UA-cam-snark.
Couldn't agree more! They do a great work!
It's my birthday today and I bought a bottle of wine.
Guess I don't have the aspiration to be a dictator.
Nah, you could still be a dictator, and perhaps set all your countries wineries to make wine just for you :)
Are you telling us that, or yourself ?!
maybe it's a comment to be on the UA-cam's wall so someone in a 1000 yrs will take a look and see how depressed someone can be lol
@@barateza16 Or maybe this comment will be in the history books because somehow you manage to grab power and become an actual Dictator ;).
That would be a plot twist 😲❗
Gilson Leite Siqueira Junior Mine is tomorrow.
Dude, your stuff just keeps getting better.
I've honestly learned a lot about some of the smaller countries.
I knew they existed but I never went deep into their history and so on.
Your videos really help fill some of those gaps in a really badass way.
I think I've watched every one of your videos and I stop whatever I'm doing when the notice says a new one arrived, and I watch it.
You guys rock.
You rock, Eric.
They should’ve just added “JOHN D” to the beginning and made it into a monument to one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters.
Ccountry roads, take me home to place where I BELONG, WEST VIRGINIA MOUNTAIN MAMA, TAKE ME HOME, Country Roads
I was like who's John D Enver? Never heard of him. And then I saw "one of America’s greatest singer-songwriters."
Younger than the mountains, older than the trees
plot twist: he went back in time to send her that letter... its part of what made him into who he is today.
idk what people say about your narrative, but the combination between that and your unique stories made me come back time and time again. I have promote to my colleague this channel and I will again. Thanks for the work! You guys rock!
You're like the David Attenborough of genocide and dictatorships
I don't know why but your recent videos haven't quite been hitting the spot. This one was a return to form - really loved it
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Rare Earth I know I know, I wasn't going to send that because I knew it sounded really mean. But it doesn't speak to the actual quality of your videos (which is always high) just a personal preference. I sent it anyways because i thought *maybe* there was a chance another commenter thought the same and could tell me why.
I disagree that the recent videos have been falling short and I don't think you can meaningfully expect anybody to break down why they feel the same way about the videos unless you specify which videos you specifically think aren't up to the usual form. Personally I could only speculate that you're right leaning and because the more recent videos have been critical of the right in America you take issue with that.
Jeremiah Jensen no, not necessarily, I've left dumb comments like this before and others have somehow actually waded through the mess of my comment and seemingly correctly analyzed them. Though, from what I've thought about this in the past 22 hours, it's been more about some arbitrary sense of grandeur/scale/cinematography/writing(style not content) than the politics.
So you're taking issue with the scale of the videos subject material and prefer smaller stories?
You should have just told her Chris Hadfield was your dad or something. Works every time.
"So what does your dad do?"
"He is up there"
"I'm sorry"
"No literally, he is an astronaut"
its my birthday today. and logged on to just see if there was a new video from you. i was not disappointed. thank you!!!!!!
always look forward to your episodes
You're one of the best storytellers I've ever come across. Keep up the good work!!
I first became aware of Enver Hoxha in the movie ‘Inside Man’. It was a recording of him rambling on played to the police to make the robbery look different than what was actually happening. Excellent movie, btw, I highly recommend it.
A wonderful story and a wonderful commentary.. thanks guys! Always a great video. I look forward to each and everyone of them.
Enver Hoxha may be the most interesting dictator I'd never heard of. Thanks Rare Earth!
The insane always leave behind the most interesting stories.
He also looks nothing like I expected.
Dirge Cry Hoxha was a hero
There are so many fun facts about communist albania its actually a crime that most famous journalists or documentary makers dont do news reports about it. Enver Hoxha always had Stalin as a figure he would always follow in terms of leading a country but Enver Hoxha was even more extreme then Stalin in terms of isolation and stuff.
Thanks to Rare Earth, I am starting to fall in love with Albania.
I love it when you wrap life lessons into these. Just one of the many things I love about this series.
Congratulations you’re really a very talented you tube post!!!! I enjoyed all your episodes. Thanks very much!!!
There is a good Albanian movie about mountain-painting: „Slogans“ (2001)
_"It was the first Albanian film to be selected to screen on the Director's Fortnight at Cannes Filmfestival 2001 and has gone on to win many other festival awards."_
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slogans_(film)
This was beautiful and poetic, like almost all of your videos. Thank you for your great work. You make youtube a better place.
Evan, please tell me one day you'll publish all of the Rare Earth end cards in one collection.
the way the first few shots are filmed made me think this was a 360 video
Amazing work --- I really enjoy your syntax
Your work is amazing and combines my love of history with my obsession of travel! I went to Berat in 2010 and knew none of this! Guess I better go back.
P.S if you haven't been to Transnistria I highly recommend it! Some bizarre history there for sure!
My god, this channel is great. You are the best narrator since Sir David Attenborough.
"You can napalm a mountain, but the words are still there" Brilliant! That's something we can all relate to
Quality content as always guys. Keep em coming. :)
One of the greatest series in youtube. Period
Go to Bengal next! That would be a lovely series.
Excellent, excellent videos. I’ve been learning so much.
I like the stories you bring about, forgotten stories I might add,even to locals. People are interrelated, we might repeat things as if they never done before. This might teach a thing or two people going through at this moment. I might add the stories you bring most cases they are very complicated. You just highlight as summery. The sugar on the top cake kinda way. Thanks.
The end screen was particularly on point this time haha
You should do story on Cyprus. The only divide capital of the world. Still the flag of Turkish occupied Cyprus is painted. Every occasion it's lighten up.
Now I want an Enver Hoxha coffee mug.
NO, you don't, they make the coffee taste bitter...
+David Hollenshead So what you're saying is I *really* want an Enver Hoxha coffee mug
I need an odd hobby. Maybe I collect mugs.
Having the biggest collection of distasteful mugs in the world would be something.
@@davidhollenshead4892 off to the gulags with you
A new Rare Earth video!
It’s about time...
Doing what any leader espousing equality would do, demanding his name be written into a mountain.
What a line.
One of the best episodes yet!
i enjoy learning new things like this story. thanks for bringing it to us.
Thanks Evan! I always learn so much! ✨🌍✨
I'm a relatively new viewer of this channel. Honestly, at first I expected substance-less video's that provide information no one needs. This was quickly proven wrong. I love the way arguments are build up while maintaining a steady pace.
Keep it up. The work done is fantastic and both entertaining and thought provoking.
Dude. You got stuck in Albania. 😂
@@EntryLevelLuxury I think it's a kinda hard to crack down organized crime if it doesn't take place in the country where it's organized. If anything, countries that have drug issues should have better drug regulations/laws, because lets be honest, "bad people" will always exist if there is a niche they can fill in the society. Developing countries are easy targets for bad people to start their career, it has everything a bad guy needs: cheap resources, cheap poor people to do stuff, weak law enforcement(corrupt governments), I mean, it's like the perfect place for remote drug production. Anyway, the main culprit in both countries would be corruption, there is only one corrupt agent needed at the border for allowing drugs to enter a country(let alone bad border control).
Nelson3300 I’m Albanian American . I have lived on both countries. Trust me Albania is one million times safer than any Us city . The whole organ story was made up by Serbs and was never proven . Just sayin
@@emermbiemer302 I have the same story as you and I agree that the US has more dangerous cities than Albania and you would get in trouble in Albania if you did something involving the goverment or the mafia but the black market is very much real and it wasn't proven because the albanian goverment is part of it why would they want to prove it. And the US and other countries don't care enough to cover it
Love your story telling style
You can napalm a mountain, but never Enver.
You tell amazing stories thank you
“Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it; those who fail to learn history correctly - why they are simply doomed.”
Nice Pt-br subtitles, great channel
Your relevant and researched insight is a unique and beautiful gem for the global community.
Will you do a series about Kosovo to?
La Baka
He should!
Yes please!
Enough material there to do a feature movie. I can assure you that
0:59 Loved the Calvin and Hobbes reference!
Rare Earth:My Failed Love Life. I am looking foward to it!
Btw awesome show have watched as many as I have time for
This is like emperor’s new groove when kusko creates kuskotopia for himself for his birthday
I wish everyone trying to destroy images that remind us of slavery can understand that the problem facing us isn't in the past but in the present time. The thing we need to focus on is how to keep it from happening in the future.
The first step is to stop honoring the people who fought to preserve the institution of slavery. This is why the statues honoring Confederate generals and politicians need to be removed.
Woot! Thanks for the video!
Your opening statements so pointed.LIKE!
Love your work
I love your videos!
Excellent video!
Wow that was a great one!
Excellent closing statement.
great episode like always ;)
Bravo, great video!
Romania's Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu were not executed in their home. The trial and execution took place in Târgoviște in a military barracks. It's a small detail that doesn't detract from an otherwise great video. Keep them coming!
How come a Channel so professional and interesting has so little following my god
Chausesku wasnt killed in his house, he was very quickly trialed and executed at a yard of a school
"You can napalm a mountain but the words are still there"...I'm going to use this as an expression in my daily life now
The final statement at the end of this video is actually great advice, the rest of the disclaimer notwithstanding.
"Don't let anyone think for you; most people can barely think for themselves" is why I don't recognize the legitimacy or authority of literally any politcal party or system of government run by such authoritarian and divisive ideologies as politics breed.
Only ignorant sheep blindly follow others; most often at their own peril and to the detriment of the "best interest" of the majority they claim to represent.
A Rare Earth video about the "Valley of the fallen" in Spain would be quite interesting.
this was awesome, like the old vsauce videos that ended with a message. Like how you cannot destroy energy, you cannot destroy your past, but you can transform it into something else. Pretty cool!
I truly love that introduction. There are people who don't want to learn for their history. They just keep complaining that " it's time to move on" yet either way they will need to fall back on history
"Few people really want to look back on history, because thet's where the lessons are. And almost none of us really want to learn a lesson."
I wrote a letter like that once, but I decided not to put it in her locker at the last minute. I can only imagine how that ended up, I feel your pain, bro.
It seems we have in common that if we ever get a time machine it will be used to erase a mistake involving a girl. Mine was in 1985 and I still think about it every day.
Probably the best video I have watched so far on this channel. Spectacular writing and footage!
Might I ask? Which drone did you use to capture this amazing scenery?
Love the Calvin and Hobbes references. It was vivid.
It's so hard to see those letters on the mountain
That history channel show that shows a clip of kennedy giving the speech about doing things the hard way it’s on top of the hill in the thumbnail
My connection to Albania is a chinese sks rifle that was given to Albania as aid. Has the man's name written in it, Artan Tafa. As well as Hoxha written all over it.
No, I would not be flattered! I would be absolutely horrified that someone defaced something as majestic as a mountain in my name. Also that person absolutely must not know anything about me to think that I would harm nature in any way especially for something so selfish.
I think its safe to say that we all miss Chris. But I have to say you do make some captivating content.
I don't know if you heard about him when you were there, but the Albanians had a passion for the films of a British comic actor, Norman Wisdom. For some reason (probably because his character was quite Chaplinesque, the poor man who wins out) his were the only Western (possibly only non-Albanian) films allowed and the people loved him. He was given some award, I *think* after the fall, but I'm not sure. He did love the ordinary Albanians, though, and was glad to give them something to laugh at.
Hadfield Day comes again!
"The past may be a lemon, but its there for us to squeeze."
Would be nice to see you do an episode on Pol Pot and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
Although I've read countless books on it, still can't figure out why they believed in him and what actually motivated him.
Actually he did www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DYUCiADFjQG0&ved=2ahUKEwjhx_v9gfPdAhVPh-AKHXZDAU0QtwIwAHoECAYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1pbp_c1CaE6mjQ1DFtFZTr
Jonathan Z
OK!
Thanks for the link.
I'm a new subscriber, so haven't had time to delve into the archives.
The reign of Pol Pot only happened because of extraordinary circumstances that are actually incredibly interesting, if not completely horrible.
This channel should be called Rare Albania, you made tons of Albania vids
I made fewer Albania vids than any other season so far.
Great job!
6:58 why do I see them driving 4 cars next to each other when there are 3 lanes
I can pretty much guarantee you will use a time machine, ever ride in a plane, a train, a car all examples of space-time machines. Time is weird but if you take two atomic clocks one travling and the other stationary there will eventally be a caculatable difference hence why satilites need to be synced to there ground counterparts every oncd in a while.
Beautiful
All you got to do is wait, time will erase all. Even the clockwork that humanity is. We learn with time, and forget with time. As we are replaced by new units we forget.
"You can´t earase the past"
Oh, so you haven´t heard of Yoshikage Kira yet... xD
Don't forget that there is another writing on Vlora in the mountains and it was made of stones. It couldn't be seen because trees had grown but a few years ago there was a mountain fire which burned the trees and the writing could be seen again
Yikes. They'll likely need dynamite or power tools for that one.
Good albeit a little longer than it could be to get the great message across.
You wouldn’t have a time machine because it’s nearly impossible to physically time travel
You should talk about the small village of lazart.
You mean lazarat ? 😁😁
I only just watched last weeks video due to heavy workload, so technically I got a double dose this week
i loved this one. cheers
Nice twist on the wordplay
Beautiful looking country